mad investor chaos Carissa lands on Elie
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She's planning to prepare spells with the aim of escaping a city in wartime. Disguise Self, Mount, Expeditious Retreat, Illusion of Calm, Unseen Servant, Mage Armor, Alter Self, Invisibility, Rope Trick, Raven's Flight, Knock, Fly, Gaseous Form, Fireball, Dimension Door, Greater Invisibility. 

That doesn't take long, obviously, so then she'll work on - repurposing some of her tiny glibness swords? She might want one but she isn't going to need three, and they're made of spellsilver that can be used for something else.  A Ring of Invisibility seems like a good thing to have in this situation. She's not trained in rings, but, well, how hard can it be?

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This gives Élie plenty of time to wake up and prepare his own relatively pathetic set of spells and find "Gisela" and cast a few Detect Magics and mention, at a moment when it seems like it won't break her concentration – 

"You know, we've found limiting the number of uses to three per day more than halves the work time if you're making Rings of Invisibility in a hurry."

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- identifying the item in progress is better Spellcraft that she expected from a first-circle wizard student. She glances up at him. "That'd make it harder to sneak out of the country while invisible the whole time, though. If I only needed three I could cast it."

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"Doesn't trade off against other spell slots, and it's silent – and, actually, we've being doing threes because that's usually easy but invisibility lasts, what, three minutes worst-case, that's something like 500 castings in a day, which a ring can cover, so even a tenfold reduction probably gets most of the benefit and it's still more than you can cast in a day – I wonder what the relationship between uses and crafting time is, if it drops off smoothly or if there's just a big drop after 'arbitrarily many', that seems more likely – 

– sorry. We don't have a lot of time to experiment, what with the overthrowing the government. I get distracted." 

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"I'm only trained in arms and armor but there the limiting factor is - well, the competence of the enchanter, that limits everything - and the spellsilver, you need to have more of it and fold it better if you want continuous casting. Probably once you're up to, I don't know, ten a day, you are at the same cost and intricacy, and then you might as well just make it continuous."

Despite being only trained in arms and armor she's definitely making a ring. "And enchanting's more interesting than overthrowing the government, don't apologize."

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"I'm only trained in wondrous items, but I could try to help – if it was a good use of our time. Which it probably isn't, unless you think you can get it done in the next few hours." 

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"Nope, it's going to take me a couple of days. I might stay in the sewers for a couple of days until I have it, though. It'll make escape a lot easier."

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"I guess I'm supposed to be hiding here anyway."  

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"Great. Have you done rings before? I haven't, and it seems like the main challenge is just that you need the framework to be stable when it's touching at both ends..."

 

 

This is so much easier than thinking about Asmodeanism or about Keltham or about Hell!

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"Not myself, but I've seen other people do it. It can't be too hard, lots of spell structures want to be round anyway." 

This is also much easier than thinking about how all his friends are probably dying and he should be out there with them! 

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Then they won't have to confront their emotional issues until they've done all the enchanting the metal can hold for today!

 

 

 

"I don't suppose you have a mirror. I want to try a scry."

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Scrying mirrors cost 1,000 gold pieces and are typically several feet across. "If I find one you'll be the first person to know." 

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"If there's one in the palace I'd be willing to deliver you to your friends before I leave."

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"I'm sure there is, and I'm equally sure that without teleportation you can't get me in and certainly won't want to try to get out." 

 

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"Dim Door. I'm assuming the palace itself is Forbiddanced but if you know a place that's safe to teleport into, and can vouch for me to your friends once we're in, we just have to get within 800 feet and I can do it."

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"They thought of that, it was the first thing they thought of, the palace is in a park and they've set up a 1000-foot perimeter – or they did yesterday, my intelligence might be out of date. They had to pull guards from the treasury and the courts and I think I saw some of my former classmates and a whole lot of grunts with pikes, but there are hundreds of them and they kill on sight."  

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"In the air as well?"

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"I don't know what their air defenses look like. It was pretty – chaotic, when I left." 

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"Probably not worth it, then. ...I give good odds I could bluff my way in but I don't think that's worth it either, it does fail in a very ugly fashion if it fails."

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It's stupid for him to feel disappointed. He was the one who said it was a bad idea, which it would be, because he sincerely does not want to die. 

"Who do you need to scry so badly?"

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"Uh. Person who I condemned to eternal torture for betraying us for, in hindsight, the side that was just objectively correct."

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"Lots of those. We'll get them all one day."

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"I mean if it's really 4699 then she's a small child. I just wanted to check."

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"What for? She's going to Hell anyway, just like everyone else you've ever met. You made it to fourth circle before defecting, so she can't be the only person you've personally reported." 

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" - right but no one else is going to get eternally tortured!"

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