That's entirely plausible! Seldan is really hoping that his supposedly perfect Groveborn memory comes back once he's properly recovered. 

Maybe Yfandes is for the moment caught up? And he can take a nap now?

Leareth's staff have produced a list of people in order of priority to Raise! The man in interim command while Nayoki and Leareth are both absent - at least of the "coordination with Valdemar and interworld contact" aspect of things, the organization is currently running in a somewhat fragmented state - can meet with Raad as soon as the immediate healing-and-Yfandes-related matters have been dealt with. 

They have 89 intact (human) bodies, at this point. Leareth, Nayoki, the three Healers who didn't make it, and 84 other intact bodies, a mix of people who died in the various earthquake-collapses and were carried out at the time or successfully extracted later on, and people who died later but before they could get to a channel. (5 of the 84, all from one group in a mountain lookout-post with only one onsite mage who was, very unluckily, killed instantly before he could get a Gate up; their station only partially collapsed, but in all the chaos and given their inability to get a message out, they weren't tracked down for almost 36 candlemarks and about half of them didn't quite make it; they died between 8 and 9 days ago so can be gotten by the clerics with the shorter time limits?) 

If it’s relevant to anything: five of those died of the progressive damage syndrome progressing to its conclusion. The rest were just normal injuries that a channel would have fixed fine if one were available, which it wasn’t. 

They also have seven intact kyree bodies, in total, making 96. Based on Yfandes' successful return to life, it seems like it works fine on non-humanoid sentients. ...The complication there is that only one of the kyree casualties received a Gentle Repose before Iftel exploded, and they died thirteen days ago. It's probably worth getting the remaining six with a Gentle Repose today, if more powerful clerics could stretch Raise Dead to cover that long, but they don't have anyone who can do it now and it might be simplest to transport them to Golarion later where they can take advantage of the cheaper Resurrections. 

They are unlikely to extract any more bodies from the northern base that collapsed; it was basically turned into magma within ten minutes of the evacuation. They...are probably not in the near term going to attempt to get anyone else back from that base. Nayoki was the only organization-critical person, other than Leareth, who was on site at that time. 

They do want to know if the Resurrection spell works on partial bodies, because it's likely that quite a lot of those could be retrieved for the kyree casualties if it were worth an expensive digging-up-the-rubble operation that would still be a lot less expensive than the Resurrections, and it sounds like the cost could be spread out over a longer period, if it's not as time-sensitive as Raise Dead. (The kyree were killed as a direct result of being among the first vaguely-allied-with-Valdemar people to step in and help, when they were trying to de-escalate the situation, and they paid a very high price for that help. Leareth thought it was important to repair the damage eventually, though "eventually" may be multiple years.) 

They currently have roughly 40 diamonds large enough for Raise Dead, counting the ones they sent with Joshel to negotiate with and others that were held back. The timeline to get the remaining 60-ish, plus a handful more if they negotiate with Valdemar to lend some for their people, is - weeks, but probably not many months. 

(Things not said aloud: this is absolutely not a sustainable rate of diamond procurement, and just because they can obtain a hundred Raise Dead diamonds in three weeks doesn’t mean that’s repeatable next month. It's a huge operation. They're spending down financial resources and various favors that took Leareth and his various side projects centuries to amass. They're taking significant advantage of the fact that they still have over two hundred mages and can do simultaneous Gates to every major city on the continent, and that no one else knows, yet, that diamonds are about to be a whole lot more useful. 

They also lost well over a hundred people in total. Still vastly lower casualties than in Iftel; they were a military operation with very paranoid security requirements, most of the locations had a few seconds of warning from various wards and alarms, and all of the bases affected were shielded and the shields generally held long enough to get a Gate up. But they had forty thousand people north of the Ice Wall Mountains, once you tally up all the troops and mercenaries and support staff. They don't have the true final total yet. Less than a thousand, but probably more than five hundred. 84 is the number of bodies they retrieved, but it wasn't a random set of 84 people; the triage was earlier, in who it was worth evacuating despite injuries too severe to run for a Gate, and which bodies they risked trying to retrieve from half-collapsed rooms and halls afterward. It's the number of people whose presence they expect to matter significantly in...whatever comes after this. 

Mage-Commander Ovada is very much hoping that his decisions of the last week were reasonable and is both frantic to have Leareth and Nayoki back as soon as possible, and also feeling quite a lot of trepidation about what they might say.) 

Resurrection works on even extremely partial remains and anyone who can cast it at all can do it more than a century on. (Completely rotted away soft tissue does not count as remains any more, but ashes and bones do if they want to process what they've got.) If Archmage Naima in particular does it, she does not need a diamond (up to twice a day); she still needs to be paid but can be paid in other negotiable currency.

If every one of the visiting clerics who can do so prepares Gentle Repose in all their second circle slots in the morning, they have nearly thirty of them, and they can push that up by using third circle slots too, plus they've got the wand for another 34, plus there are the clerics who were already here if they're helping, plus the handful of Raises they will have ready that day to start clearing the backlog. If everything is correctly organized and labeled, they can do this, but they will need to locate someone seventh circle or above for anyone who's been dead longer than eleven days, or kick them into the Resurrection queue. Archbanker Kalit Maron lives in Alexandria, not Sothis, but she's a ninth circle Abadaran who works for money and it's well within her range. (Or they can roll the dice on Clepati.) Khayr would know more than Raad about whether they should be bothering e.g. somebody in Qadira to check if their price is more competitive.

A Raise should fix whatever is wrong with someone (though ability damage is only fixed a little bit and having someone up and running at full capacity after they have been brought back wants a full Restoration), but just in case they might want to prepare some extra Progressive Damage Repair in addition to however many of those Restorations the dust can be provided for. They can convert it to Cures at the disaster relief border if it turns out to be unnecessary.

Have Velgarth mages considered mining in the Elemental Plane of Earth? It's infinite and possibly they have some tricks that Golarionites don't for locating pockets of diamonds and propitiating the local elementals about taking them away. Just as a long term thing, it's probably not the best use of their diamond-finding powers at this time.

Oh, that could be a very good idea, actually! Brightstar and Jisa, who are two of the allied mages involved in the Gate-research (Ovada does not need to get into the various complications around Brightstar’s allied-ness), trained in an obscure secret mage-school with an unusual tradition of working collaboratively with elementals. His recollection is that Brightstar invested mostly in alliances in the Elemental Plane of Fire, but Jisa definitely has some quite intelligent Earth elementals reporting to her in exchange for regular gifts of mage-energy, and they might even be able to help find diamonds there. 

(Velgarth magic would not until recently have offered them a particularly safe way to get physical objects transported out of the Elemental Plane of Earth, but Brightstar just did some groundbreaking research on what sorts of wild direct-interplanar Gates are possible if you’re willing to get yourself badly injured in the process, and Earth is deeply annoying to Gate to but strictly speaking not as dangerous as the Elemental Plane of Fire.)

- it’s very important that they get Leareth and Nayoki back to full capacity as soon as possible and Ovada would be very grateful if they could prepare spells accordingly. 

The bodies are currently being stored mostly in several supply caches that survived the Vkandis attack, south of the mountains but a long way north from here. It may be simplest to bring everyone over by Gate, since they’re currently well-organized and labeled but would inevitably become less so in the process of moving them to Haven. The bodies of Nayoki, Leareth, and the three Healers are of course all in Haven. Ovada would recommend that they do Nayoki and a specific senior Healer first, to somewhat reduce the chances that Leareth comes back disoriented and tries to Gate somewhere random AGAIN. 

They'll do these in whatever order they are asked; that's what they're here to do.

Meanwhile, Khayr checks and Yfandes is not a valid recipient of a spell imbuing. "I can drop it on one of our contingent, or the Iomedaean. But I have a Ring of Sustenance and you're going to want the Heal before dawn anyway, so perhaps it makes the most sense for me to be the one directly concentrating on the spell which will make everyone feel less sick and tired. It will make a noise - not too loud to speak over, but a noise, very low, people can sometimes feel it more than hear it - and it will work on anyone who stays in the room, up to five people." (He's guessing ideally the four patients and whichever healer is taking night shift).

…Yeah Shavri was not really expecting it would turn out to work with Yfandes. They would be very grateful if Khayr can be on overnight duty. It’ll incidentally hit the Healers on overnight duty - even now they’re keeping one Healer per patient, because that’s still necessary to slow the ongoing life-force drain enough to stretch the channel frequency. Stef and especially Blai are much better off, almost back to where they were on day one before the damage had a chance to build up, but Restoration didn’t seem to touch whatever deeper underlying thing is wrong. Shavri really, really hopes the spell tomorrow works.

(Maybe the spell will also work on Shavri’s tiredness? She - is on some level aware that she really should just leave and get some sleep tonight, but somehow that isn’t working. It doesn’t feel like a decision, just like repeatedly noticing that apparently she’s still here.)

…It feels like a selfish request, but Shavri’s going to make it anyway. :If we don’t end up needing the Heal for an emergency here, and - given that we expect it won’t solve the underlying problem for them, it may be worth seeing if it helps our King. He has a wasting illness — he’s not imminently dying, Select Artigas was able to cast some Lesser Restorations before all of this happened, but if it gets him all the way back to good health, Valdemar would be in a better position to handle - all of this.: 

"Recentering Drone can target one healer on top of the four patients, unfortunately, I'm not strong enough to stretch it to more. As for the Heal - of course. And if there is an emergency I'll get another tomorrow, and another the day after; my other choice for the slot is a combat spell and we're not expecting that."

(Shavri considers asking if they can switch which Healer it’s affecting partway, and concludes that she should really be taking this as an indication to LEAVE and GO TO BED. She’s, just, she’s - not even sure what unfinished business is lurking in the back of her mind and making it feel impossible. Maybe in a few candlemarks her emotions will start to really believe that the worst is over and she’ll abruptly be desperate for her bed.)

Khayr should include…Nuvia, then, she’s just coming on to replace Katteen and should be here all night.

Shavri is really curious to find out if she can see what the spell does with Healing-Sight. It would be incredibly useful if they could invent a painblocking-like technique but for nausea; she was never able to figure it out by watching patients with Remove Sicknesses in effect.

He reminds them that it will last only as long as he can concentrate, and he can do that for a long time including through substantial distractions but not with perfect reliability and not if he judges that whatever has distracted him in fact means he needs to drop concentration and react to something. He will sit over there, crosslegged with dismayingly good posture, and close his eyes and cast from his angel symbol and -

- there's a low warm humming noise that vibrates up through the floor, and the four patients and also Nuvia are abruptly less nauseated and less tired. Not not those things, but so much less.

Well, Nuvia wasn’t nauseated to begin with, but everyone is tired, it’s been days since the Nap Stack she made in into. That’s…very nice.

Oh that is better. 

Stef requests paper (“demands” might be more accurate). He might actually be able to get a start on the song draft, now, his hands are too sore to want to play anything and his throat is way too sore to feel like singing, but he can play bits in his head and get some notes down.

Ohhhhhhhhh. It’s not as good at, you know, not being sick anymore, but being less nauseous is going to free up a lot of attentional capacity, and Seldan no longer feels too tired for Mindspeech. He’ll start trying to retrieve his mental notes of who he’d been vaguely planning to bother next.

Did they in fact ever get an exact list of who has how many channels? Joshel has been bothering her about authorizing a bunch of the lower-circle clerics to be Gated to the border, but - in an abundance of caution - she would like a total of six channels available here to get their patients through the night.

The first-circle Shelynite whose brother does not really want her to go to the border has four, and Luminary Khayr who is staying overnight has three but used one before being hired and can't use the remainder without interrupting the drone, so they can keep the first-circle Abadaran who has two here.

Great! Gemma is feeling adequately reassured that even if they've massively misjudged something about how long Restoration will continue helping for, or a junior Healer manages to somehow screw up really badly, there will still absolutely definitely be no repeats of this morning. 

...Who has Stabilize prepared. She should check that. Stabilize is pretty much the favorite spell of everyone at the House of Healing now, because of the part where it's unlimited – they're not used to Healing being limited on anything other than fatigue, which in an emergency you can push through quite far – but it was really really bad this morning that the only person available to cast it was, himself, dying, it was honestly a completely unreasonable thing to ask of Vanyel and probably a lot of why he's having such a breakdown now is because the fucking Tayledras stimulant Shavri gave him is wearing of, and probably Blai can handle it now and will not be the person most likely to have problems tonight but it was REALLY A VERY BAD MORNING and Gemma would at least like to know her options if it comes up. 

Well, Blai has it and should be able to cast it as needed.

(The Shelynite has it too.)

But what if they're wrong that the improvement from a Restoration will stick until tomorrow and Blai crashes a candlemark before dawn when they've already gone through all the Remove Diseases that will almost certainly not happen, Shavri thought it had actually reversed all of the Lesser Restoration-able damage and some of the stickier damage to Endurance specifically, and if Shavri is wrong - Shavri won't be wrong - they still have the Heal as a backup. Gemma genuinely would like to keep it as an emergency backup until, like, five minutes before dawn, Randi can show up for it then if it's gone unused.

- ah okay great someone else has it and Blai can sleep. Which is what he should be doing tonight, not being on call for healing. 

...Somewhat grudgingly, Gemma will concede that Joshel is now free to coordinate with everyone other than Luminary Khayr and the designated two first-circle clerics on what they're doing on the Iftel border tonight. 

Perfect! 

If Joshel's notes are correct, he should be getting: Raad, the two fifth-circle Abadarans, the fifth-circle Nethysian, the third-circle Abadaran, six out of eight of the second circle or lower clerics including the Pharasmin one, and...are the wizard and sword guy coming? 

Here is his map of the Valdemaran side of the border. These six...he would say "towns" but they aren't really, anymore, they're refugee camps some distance out from where a border town used to be and isn't – have all reported in via the circuit Heralds that they have enough injured people to fill a channel-radius-sized barn. None of those injuries are life-threatening tonight, it's been ten days, the really bad injuries were either healed in the first day or two or didn't make it, but there's a critical shortage of Gifted Healers, or even un-Gifted trained assistants, and an awful lot of those people will be permanently disabled or disfigured unless they get a channel at some point. 

Almost certainly a huge number of the people with not-immediately-life-threatening horrible burns have by now contracted horrible infections that will kill them eventually, but Remove Disease is so bizarrely limited relative to injury-healing, and hopefully a lot of those people will recover just fine with rest and a bit of attention from a Healer once the horrible-burns part is fixed. There's of course also a significant shortage of food, safe drinking water, and shelter from the elements.

Joshel has enough mages from their Leareth-organization allies to do a Gate to each of the refugee camps affected, if they have at least six channels available from this group. He...is not entirely sure what else makes the most sense here? He's not even sure what spells exist at first circle, let alone what kinds of spells more powerful clerics (or wizards!) would have available. He would very much value their advice. 

A cleric is necessary to cast Gentle Repose with the wand if they want to use up the wand today, but the clerics who are on channeling at the patients in Haven duty can do that in between channels.

The sword guy is Khayr's party member but he's willing to be deployed elsewhere while Khayr is doing the boring thing. The wizard is sticking to his fifth-circle Abadaran (the male one) even if they don't need him for anything but, like, a fifth circle wizard is often a useful thing to have, and during downtime (which is what he and his cleric were having when they got hired suddenly) he often leaves lots of slots open so he can do midday prep for whatever. Nobody has Create Food prepared today - it doesn't normally make sense in a city. There's a couple Endure Elements to spare, and the Pharasmin has a Read Weather if they want that. Somebody's got a Communal Ant Haul? The Nethysian has a Neutralize Poison. Raad has a Speak with Soul, though that's language-dependent so he'd need the wizard to cast Tongues on him if they want to Speak with any local Souls.

These eleven clerics have way more than six channels between them, come on.

What information exactly does Read Weather give them? They are having quite a lot of weather-related problems and the extra Gates will cause more of them! They have mages on loan to do weather-working about it, but they don't have a good solution for the fact that Iftel, previously, was surrounded by a giant magical barrier which was apparently giving them a lovely temperature climate completely at odds with their northern latitude. And does not have the barrier anymore. Because it exploded and killed Leareth. 

They can absolutely find people who would be more effective with an Endure Elements, and a lot more tomorrow if they have spell slots going spare. It's spectacularly unpleasant for the Heralds riding up and down the border acting as Mindspeech relays to be out in this weather, a lot of them are literally sixteen and probably not making wise choices at all times about how long they spend out in the elements, and channels fix frostbite if they come back for them right away but someone is inevitably going to get pneumonia at some point if they keep this up. 

They could probably make good use of a Communal Ant Haul to get way more supplies from Haven through a Gate than would otherwise be doable, assuming he's intuiting correctly what the spell does from the Mindspeech-concept and it'll let people carry absurd quantities of weight while moving at a normal speed; he's been able to use his floating disk for it every day but only goes so far. 

He can't specifically think of a high value use for a Neutralize Poison, or anyone's soul who they need to– actually, would that let them talk to Leareth or Nayoki's soul? Joshel has been getting the impression that Mage-commander Ovada is rather desperate to have someone to check his decisions with. Nayoki might be better if they can only do one of them, she survived long enough that she's read in on the situation. 

Read Weather only works on predicting the nonmagical weather, but if the thing causing the weather is an abrupt cessation of magic it... might work fine? It has to be cast on location.

They can prep lots of Endures tomorrow without trading off against much else since it's first circle but only have a few spare today (some were already sold, it's popular in Sothis).

He has the right idea about Ant Haul, yes.

There is no reason Raad is aware of why it would prevent talking to Nayoki's or Leareth's soul.

They cannot really cast Read Weather in a location not affected by magic, since the only way to go to any locations in a timely manner is by Gate. Currently everyone is operating on the assumption that there might be a surprise blizzard in their location at any moment and if Read Weather doesn't predict weather-affected-by-magic they won't be able to stop doing that, but they might as well use it in Sumpost late tonight or something and then calibrate how thrown-off it is by Gates if the Gates happened before it was cast and not after. 

:And if we're using Speak with Soul to talk to Nayoki, that should be here before we leave, she died in the House of Healing. So did Leareth, come to think of it, if Mage-commander Ovada prefers– hmm, er, actually that's a maybe? It was confusing, I - have any of you ever seen someone who was by some indication not-dead but wasn't targetable by healing spells? One of our people has Mindhealing and it comes with Sight that lets you see - if there's a person's mind there - and she claims she still saw something there for a solid minute after we retrieved him. I don't know if that counts as him dying here or not, from the point of view of your magic, though I was told that we think grabbing him prevented Vkandis from getting his soul, which I think implies his soul was at least briefly here?: