Boots in Osirion
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There are, like, incentive problems there, but if you're going for Good then charity's useful and it'd certainly be an inappropriate overreach to make it illegal. 

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That is an interesting perspective.

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Any other questions?

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Nope.

The next day she goes to see about putting her ad in, starting the day the address therein will become accurate.

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The people running the newspapers are perfectly happy to run her ad in exchange for money. Not even that much of it.

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Oh good.

She kills time and attends classes till she can move into her apartment and see if anybody shows up.

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Some people show up!

- a magical researcher who has never heard of subtle artists and would like to know about them 

- an adventurer cursed not to remember his past who would like to remember his past

- a man who wants to know if women can be treated, he'll pay for it

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She will teach the researcher about subtle artists if he'll pay her hourly rate.

She can try to work around the curse, but she isn't a cursebreaker per se, so it will depend on the exact mechanics of the curse whether it will work or not; she should be able to tell pretty quickly.

Women can certainly be treated, they have minds.

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The researcher will totally pay her hourly rate. 

She can access the adventurer's past and tell him things about it which he can remember but not straightforwardly give him the memories back. 

The man brings his wife. She almost died giving birth to their last child and doesn't want to do it again and they are both hoping that therapy will help.

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Up to the adventurer if this service is worth it in this limited form.

Have they done all the commonsense things already, like making sure there's a competent midwife with healing ability lined up? The anxiety can just kind of grow back if the grounds for it are still there.

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Yes, they can have someone on hand (they meant to this time, but she had an emergency elsewhere).

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Okay, then she can work on this if the wife wants. The husband should leave though.

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Sure, fine.

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Double checking that the wife would actually like this addressed qua anxiety? Bella can be like "nope, intractable case, sorry" to the husband if she does not.

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She is kind of surprised to be asked this. " - honestly I hate everything about being pregnant but I don't want him to marry someone else. I think you'd better, if you can."

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...okay, if that's what you prefer all things considered... I can also try to make whatever else you hate about being pregnant less of a big deal but it'll take more sessions. Maybe some boosters once you're actually pregnant if I'm still in town then.

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"That'd be great. He's willing to spend money on it."

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Okay. Then let's see how far we can get today.

She works pretty slowly, this not being something she addressed before. Miriel didn't have this problem quite.

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This person honestly has a pretty unhappy life but this particular thing is addressable.

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Bella avoids upselling her on the various unhappinesses of her life. She does not plan to be around that long and "has unhappy life" is not best treated with subtle arts.

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Word spreads, a bit, and she gets more customers. Head injury causing forgetfulness? Terrible anxiety about going to Hell that has resulted in this person repeatedly spending their savings on castings of Detect Evil? This person would like to be more loyal to the government because it will help their career advancement. 

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She cannot fix the head injury but she can route around it for partial improvements. She can work on Hell-anxiety though she will be less effective if this person has ever actually turned up Evil. What is preventing this person from being non-artfully as loyal to the government as they might desire?

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He just kind of has a very skeptical temperament so he can't truthfully say he never thinks about who'd be a better ruler than the pharaoh or never doubts his divine origins or whatever. But it's not like - like, to be clear he also doubts whether Rovagug really existed and whether the evil afterlives are bad and stuff, it's not specific to loyalty, it's just like that about everything.

 

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I'm not judging your temperament, it just might be relevant to how much I can do. Do they check that sort of thing somehow?

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For really high-trust government jobs you answer a lot of personal loyalty questions under a truth spell and he hasn't dared to apply. 

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