:They will probably have more than me. Three is average. They'll be weaker than mine though.: Did that constitute an instruction to channel now or an instruction to Lesser Restore Vanyel and Stef now, does "shouldn't wait" mean "shouldn't wait twelve seconds" -

Oh no she was probably unclear to the foggy-headed nauseous person. In fairness Shavri has now been awake for well over 24 candlemarks and she has a headache too.

:Lesser Restoration on Van and Stef before a channel, which shouldn’t wait more than five minutes, but we can discuss whose channel to use.: While she has the trainees help move Nayoki back and being Vanyel and Stef over. :My guess is that everyone except you and Seldan benefits plenty even from a weak one. If you’re - having trouble thinking - it might be worth the Lesser Restoration now, or Remove Sickness if the nausea is the worst part. Since we do want your advice if possible on making the best use of the new clerics.:

Blai Lesser Restores Vanyel and then Stef. :Did the new clerics also get Remove Sickness, is there going to be enough to go around for everyone to eat today?: At this juncture he notices some people missing. He presumes them dead though of course Shavri can correct him if they are not.

:I told Vanyel to ask for it but I’m not sure if he was in any condition to request spells, or - what happens if you don’t - the channels seem to fill up more automatically so I’m more confident he has those. I don’t know if Joshel had any instructions for what to ask for. Is there a way to confirm how many channels someone has other than - running out?:

Shavri’s mindvoice is very flat. She’s going to go on awkwardly not acknowledging the dead people because she…just can’t.

:I don't think so, though you can guess by how Splendid someone seems, it goes by Splendor though most cleric magic runs on Wisdom instead.: He will go on presuming them dead. Three of five Lesser Restorations down, two in pocket.

Shavri isn't really following what 'Splendid' is but it does sound like something that Vanyel could have a lot more of than Blai. 

…Vanyel is abruptly more aware of his surroundings. He tries to sit up, decides better, and rolls over toward Blai instead.

:I, um, I'm pretty sure I have spells related to healing and they're - not Cure spells, I tried to ask for healing magic and apparently the god thought that was silly.: Vanyel is STILL MORTIFIED about that interaction. :I don't know what they are. Is there a way to, uh, ch...eck? I also don't know who the god is. They seem to approve of music and, um. Snuggling.: 

:...Shelyn,: Blai ventures. :Neutral Good goddess of love and art. The way to check would be trying to cast from a symbol of a - colorful bird, looks like so - and you can turn any spell except a domain spell into a Cure spell on the spot, because you and your goddess are Good:

...Shavri can Mindspeak someone outside the room right now to make up something for Vanyel that looks like this colorful bird in Blai's thoughts. Since apparently that's important to cast spells. She hadn't really followed before what the relevance of Blai's sword-sun necklace thing was. Oh, while she's at it, someone needs to find out for her immediately if Joshel asked for specific spells and if so what they were.

Vanyel rubs his eyes. :What's a domain spell? Am I supposed to be able to tell which of my spells is which by how they feel - I, er, I think I can feel that I have some stronger and some weaker...? Um. What...else...does Shelyn want Her clerics to - do, or be like, or -?: 

:You'll have orisons, or zeroth-circle spells, and also first circle spells. Gods have - spell lists from one to nine, that are loosely on theme with their areas of concern, and grant minor powers accompanying each. A cleric has two domains, and if you can prepare spells of a given circle then you can get one from one of your two lists. It'll be the one that you can't drop for a Cure, if you can feel that:

Poke poke. 

:...I think I can feel that. I - think I can tell that one doesn't feel Healing-y, and the other does? Hopefully it's Remove Sickness, I think Shelyn was - trying to be helpful, but if it's healing-y I should maybe just cast it and hope that it's something else helpful if it's not that.: Pause. :I have two of the bigger ones - the first circle? - and three of the small ones, which - I can't tell from the feel what they do, but those can be used an unlimited amount, right? So I can cast them to find out?: 

:Yes. As for what She wants of you, I... have not met a lot of Shelynites, they do not tend martial in a way that would have them appearing in large numbers at the Worldwound. I assume She likes Her clerics... loving and artistic:

....Well. That's - probably more in line with Vanyel's natural strengths as a person. It definitely sounds incredibly tempting. 

Shavri has an update! There might even be a flicker of emotion visible as she conveys it. 

:Joshel apparently has Virtue and Guidance and Stabilize and two Remove Sickness and a...Floating Disk...? Can he turn that one into a Cure, or no because Abadar is Neutral not Good?: It sounds incredibly useful from her perspective. :Also - Karis? Thinks she was picked as a cleric by Someone? She wants to talk to you urgently, Blai, she doesn't know what god or what They're like and is - feeling a bit spooked right now about following gods that turn out to be terrible.: 

:The floating disk will be a domain spell, clerics don't get it normally, so he will not be able to trade it in. Abadaran clerics can channel positive, which goes with turning spells into Cures, but if he's not sure that he is himself Good and does not remember deciding to channel positive - Neutral clerics of Neutral gods can decide, when first empowered - he might want to test a spontaneous cure on an animal to be certain, it will cost one of his Remove Sickness but his will only last about ten minutes: It's like trying to pass a seminary exam the morning after the thing with all the joints in his body, but hey, he did that when it came up. :Virtue is a good idea, I hadn't thought of it but for this kind of progressive damage we might just want him in here casting it on all of us constantly. Of course I can speak to Karis:

...Oh if Remove Sickness only lasts ten minutes for new clerics that's less useful, though it's not nothing, it would let them space it out throughout the day, not to mention actually covering everyone. :I'll have him and Karis come over and we can find out what Karis has.: 

Seldan thinks that someone should offer Blai some painblocking already, Blai will literally never complain but they're asking him to answer important questions in a high stakes situation while in bad shape, it's not at all unreasonable. That line of thought is visible to Blai but Seldan is not asking Blai for permission, he's just going to poke one of the senior Healers outside the room who's coming on-shift. He thinks it's also a good idea for Blai to use a Remove Sickness for the conversation - they'll need Mindspeech translation anyway, Blai can eat and think at them at the same time. 

...They haven't actually had anyone do a channel yet and it wasn't urgent on the scale of seconds but Shavri is getting antsy. Should they have Vanyel attempt it? 

Vanyel is definitely Good because Blai checked the other day so it's definitely safe even if Blai is somehow wrong about it being Shelyn, yeah. He does not object particularly to Seldan doing this very Seldan thing. It is good when Seldan does Seldan things even if they are things on Blai's behalf that as Seldan correctly surmised Blai would never do. Blai's Remove Sickness should stick for nearly an hour but while that's enough to digest some food it is not enough that he doesn't want to wait to cast it till there is food literally right in front of him and a spoon in his non-casting hand, so as to eke out the maximum nourishment from whatever he can get and keep down.

Seldan can harass some more trainees in the hallway to make that happen. ...Does Blai think he can feed himself without this being tiring? He seems significantly better off on retaining the ability to move his limbs than either Vanyel or Stef, and Seldan realizes that having a Healing-trainee spoon-feed you is undignified and unfun, but if turns out eating is tiring then Blai should simply not be doing any things that are tiring unless they're critical to the strategic situation. 

...Seldan miiiight be getting an actual Foresight/blue place poke about the importance of the situation? In particular the - talking to Karis and to Joshel about their new cleric status - for whatever reason Vanyel doesn't feel as delicate, but it seems like this is - it makes sense that those gods are going to make a first impression in Velgarth based solely on Their new clerics, who know very little about the gods that just chose them or about Their churches. And it seems important for that to go well, not just for the immediate emergency but much longer term than that? And Seldan suspects that, in addition to this being pretty damn self-evident, Someone is also making sure he's paying attention? 

Oh boy. Blai knows very slightly more about... some possible gods, they don't know who Karis has... and lots more about Abadar, which might be a reason for Vanyel to not as urgently need his extremely limited Shelyn-related advice?? He... thinks he can probably feed himself once he's done the Remove Sickness, he's been up and fighting on less remaining blood than this, but is open to being corrected about this once he's tried it.

That makes sense. Seldan will be paying attention to whether he can notice it being effortful in a way that Blai has (for obvious reasons! Seldan isn't judging here!) learned to tune out and consider irrelevant. It might be fine, Blai was a lot physically stronger to begin with so it would take more deterioration for him to reach the point that he can't easily lift his arms. 

...A trainee has just ducked in and handed Vanyel a rather makeshift attempt at a colorful bird, mostly made of paper twists with some string to help the whole thing stay together. It looks very fragile and also, just, like a fourteen-year-old made it in less than five minutes, which is probably what just happened. Vanyel feels like a more...artistic...bird would be better? Maybe this is another case where Lady Treesa and her beading and needlepoint could be surprisingly useful. It would make her so happy and Vanyel...is feeling like he maybe owes it to his parents, who love him, to - like, interact, at all. It would make them happy, and Shelyn is probably approving about family love too? 

All right. Vanyel will attempt this. He...thinks it's this mental motion? Here goes!

Nayoki is now properly awake again so that definitely did something!

(It's indeed weaker than Blai's channels and won't get Blai or Seldan anywhere close to "full health" such as that is right now, but Stef and Van and Nayoki are maxed out.)