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He nods commiseratingly. "I'm terrible with scrolls, unless they're spells I can cast."

Taps his cheek. "If any of the spells are new to Korvosa's wizards, you could almost certainly sell one of them a scroll for more than it'd cost to buy back a scroll of the same spell once it's been copied into a book. In terms of magic items you'd benefit from - Cloaks of Resistance are great if you can afford them, and you can. A Mind-Sentinel Medallion is cheaper than a cloak of the same power and helps against enchantments, but it's less general than the cloak. A Wisdom headband will enhance your will, and more - I know people who swear by them. When I think about other items you'd benefit from, what comes to my mind is an Amulet of Mighty Fists - my hippogriff wears one. Or you could commission custom barding for your fox-form. Headbands and belts are very useful, and they might be able to meld with your body when you shapeshift - it'll depends on how your power works, I think. Otherwise you might need them fitted to either the fox form or the humanoid one."

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"I'll probably see about the scrolls later. I have a few. Sinnah's Fly, and blizzard, and solar beam- That's divine- And mind purge and sterilize and iron footing. Those are the strongest ones I can cast most of the time and aren't redundant with something else I can do. Sinnah makes them. She, uh, would have yelled at the hippogriffs to not pester her and given them a rude gesture and I'm really not sure how it would go from there, though." She snickers. "Sounds like I have a lot of shopping to do. Barding- I'm not sure armor would help? I'm already pretty tough and it might slow me down. And it sounds kind of stuffy and miserable? This amulet sounds interesting."

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"If your fly spell is better than ours in some dimension - lower circle, or faster, or longer duration - it'll be a big hit. I've never heard of Blizzard, what's it do? And Solar Beam isn't translating as something that I know, but we have one we call Searing Light which might be the same thing."

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"-Circle? Sinnah's Fly is distinct from other wizards' fly by being faster, harder to control (it won't stop you from plowing yourself into a wall), not needing concentration, and shorter duration at just ten minutes. She also managed to squeeze in a feather fall at the end. Blizzard creates a huge cone of extremely frigid snow and sleet. Blasts things away, puts out fires, knocks things over and freezes them to the ground. Solar beam is a massive beam of sunlight, with the magical properties of sunlight, it's really good against certain specific things."

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"Circle" is a measure of how much magic went into a spell, and is used as a roundabout measure of how powerful a spell is - but if you can get the same spell at a lower circle, that's obviously better. Wizards are always trying to reduce the circles of their spells, sometimes by cutting corners.

Sinnah's Fly sounds like it'd be useful in many applications! Blizzard seems similar to the less excitingly named "Cone of Cold" - Solar Beam might be a new spell to them, although you'd have to ask someone with more Spellcraft to learn for sure, and it's a shame that it's divine and probably can't be learned.

Barding - might be uncomfortably stuffy if she's not used to it, yeah. Marcus Endrin's never worn clothing over fur, but animals seem to dislike it. Barding would make her more durable, though, even if she's already very durable and even if it's light enough as not to slow her down - enchanted cloth or leather can be stronger than steel. 

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"I don't think we have that as a formal thing? I'm not a wizard or a witch though. Or a sorcerer for that matter... I'm imagining running around in armor and I'm imagining that it's awful. I heal really fast as long as I have extra energy stored up already. A cloak would be fine. I've worn them in fox form before and even a saddle a few times. I kind of hate to do that unless it's important though. And armor, I might need less. Mind protection, mobility, maybe something to enhance teeth and claws, though..."

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He doesn't think that spell circles are extremely rarefied knowledge in Korvosa but they might be out in the country or in other nations; Korvosa is a city of wizards and he's never specifically interrogated people about it. He's thinking that it'd be beyond weird if Weiss's world had things which translate to "wizard" and "witch" and "sorcerer," and if it had arcane and divine magic, and yet was so different as not to have spell circles as a formal thing... but then again, Weiss's type of fox creature translated as "kitsune" so maybe he shouldn't make assumptions just from the language.

Fast healing is amazing and he's glad that she has it, and it doesn't make armor less useful, and also she could relatively-cheaply test how uncomfortable armor is before making the decision to pay for its enchantment - if she doesn't want to, though, and she's been doing fine without, he won't push her.

She doesn't strictly need to Enhance her teeth and claws, because Amulets of Mighty Fists are cool like that - she could jump right to making them Merciful or Bane or - if she heals quickly - maybe Vicious? Or maybe she wants a Vicious bow... if she knows how or wants to learn to use one. Or maybe, since she can't cast Greater Magic Fang, she would be better off with a simple Enhancement bonus? There's a temptation to spend people's money for them which he's trying to resist.

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"So, I don't need a bow, I have fire. There's gonna be a hundred cool things I want and I can have - quite a few of them with this much money, but not all of them. I might try armor after all, but enh. Merciful sounds promising, what's a Merciful?"

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"Merciful weapons are more incapacitating than unenchanted ones, and at the same time it's much harder to kill someone by accident with a Merciful weapon - but it's still possible, so if you're trying hard to avoid it you shouldn't attack at full power or shoot arrows at their eyes."

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"...I want merciful fists!"

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Marcus Endrin can't not smile, at that. "They do make it much harder to hurt undead, and constructs," he warns. "The enchantment doesn't work right on things without biology."

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"I can always take it off." She shrugs.

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"Some undead are hard to hurt with non-magic weapons, or impossible to - but then, you do also have fire."

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She holds up one index finger.

An inch-long claw is on the tip, glowing faintly with angry blue light.

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"And also have innately magic claws." He's all smiles - it makes him happy when people choose to carry merciful weapons.

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"I'm probably the best kitsune I know for fighting and taking a hit. I know one who has more raw skill and about the same toughness and attack, but less utility- No illusions, no invisibility, no tail of holding, and no ability to escape to the Woods Between."

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"I'm the best human I know for fighting and taking a hit - if you pretend that wizards don't exist. I wonder which of us would win in a fight."

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"That sounds fun to try... Some other time, when I'm fresh."

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"Hmm... Do you know anywhere to stay aside from 'outside the walls' that would have a clear and ideally private view of the moon? Shit, wait, is there a moon? It might not work the same here..."

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Golarion might have fewer moons than back in the day, but it does at least have one.

As far as a clear and private view of the moon goes... out-of-doors privacy is hard to come by inside the walls of the city, unless you own a manor. (Even then, there's the occasional hippogriff overhead in the air.) Although, he does own a manor, if she needs to borrow its grounds for magic purposes?

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"Iiiit's probably best if I go out of the city instead. Unless that's an abysmally dangerous idea. Or make do without moonlight."

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His best guess is, "Do you intend to sacrifice an animal, and if so, how sure are you that you're not sacrificing it to the benefit of some dark power?"

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"Wh- No! It's just- It's embarrassing," she hisses quietly, ears folded down. "There's some things I really like about my species and some I don't, okay?"

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...He doesn't have the slightest idea what she means by that and doesn't intend to pry. 

"I'd be a hypocrite if I said not to walk alone in the woods at night, but... is whatever you need the moon for something you can do while invisible, or at sea?" 

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"Invisible, no. With illusions surrounding me on all sides, I've done that sometimes. At sea, I've never tried... I need a fairly large space. Ten by ten at least."

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