Oh good. That did get both Blai and Seldan very temporarily up to “full” life-force.

:So it turns out Van has six channels a day: she informs Blai. :I don’t have the faintest idea how that squares with his having fewer of the first-circle spells than anyone else, but - we need it. We’ve sent Joshel to the border for relief work.:

:Spell number is based on Wisdom, channel number based on Splendor. It just means he's more Splendid than Wise. Quite unusually Splendid:

If Shavri were in any mood to find humor in the situation, “Vanyel is more Splendid than Wise” would be a truly hilarious description of him.

:I can see it: she sends tiredly, and gives him a mug of sweet-and-salty tea; he’s the only human patient still capable of holding a cup unaided. :You should drink this and try to get some more sleep. It’s about five candlemarks to go until dawn, we’ll need to wake you again for the second channel in three candlemarks or so.:

Seldan feels like he had a question for Shavri, something to sort out before Blai prays for his spells? He can’t remember what the question was, though.

Sip. Did Seldan think he should prepare different spells today? It seems premature to try the thing with the inevitable even if a lot of diamonds land on their laps. Did he maybe have an opinion about what Vanyel should be praying for, or Joshel?

No, that’s not it, he agrees it’s premature, it was a question for Shavri specifically about a spell slot priority thing, about the Healers - he had it mentally stored behind “follow up on seeing if Lady Teresa can sew Vanyel a prettier bird for his holy symbol”, which he should in fact check, but he doesn’t think that was the thing…

Something about whether the Healers... need healing? Should be trying to become clerics?

No - that’s a good idea too but it wasn’t—

Nap Stack! That was it! He wanted to ask Shavri if she thought the Healers could use a Nap Stack - they would presumably want Blai to cast it on a different room than the one where someone is throwing up at least once a candlemark on average, and it would mean only four Lesser Restorations so he’d wanted to ask Shavri if she thought it was safe to skip him for the day. He finds he doesn’t like the idea at all, because he feels absolutely disgusting and he might only get ten minutes of Remove Sickness unless they recall Karis and Joshel for it…

Oh, right. :Healer Shavri, do you think we and you could benefit from a Nap Stack, if there is another elaborate pillow to hand?:

...The Healers can use it, and Shavri is certain there's some way to get a pillow in the next day, maybe not by dawn but before the spell will be wasted. 

She peers at Seldan with Healing-Sight. 

:Seldan will lose some ground. And probably won't make it up, we can't afford two Lesser Restorations for him the next morning unless one of our new clerics somehow gets second-circle spells.: Which seems very unlikely. :But - I think he can afford it in the near-term.: 

In the long term, Shavri is increasingly sure that none of these patients are going to recover. More Lesser Restorations would make a temporary difference, but she's not sure even that would hold off the damage, just - buy time. For them to figure something else out. 

:I think it's worth it: Seldan tells Blai. It's - helping everyone at a cost he only pays himself, and even then, if not everyone makes, he doesn't think he's going to be the first to die.

 ...It might, possibly, maybe, make the difference between Seldan surviving as long as Blai is still alive versus dying first, if this goes on for a long time. So he thinks Blai should get input into whether that's worth it. 

It was so dumb of Blai to get a Companion without a Breath of Life scroll ALREADY IN HAND except how Seldan is very good and if he tries to re-imagine the last few days without him this does not mentally complete at all.

:Nap Stack's usual field use is partly to let arcane casters prepare spells on less sleep but it does also accelerate any natural healing that would normally take place during sleep. Are we... doing that... at all?:

:...Well, you're deteriorating all the time even when you're asleep: Shavri admits. :But it can't be helping any of you how often we’re interrupting your rest.: No one is critically dehydrated yet, but it’s because Shavri has been waking everyone at least every two candlemarks to get more tea down, and Stef and Nayoki in particular haven’t had more than forty-minute minutes at a stretch for the last twelve candlemarks. :If two candlemarks counts like eight uninterrupted - well, at the very least you might feel at all rested for a little while.:

Feeling like he’s actually slept sounds pretty amazing, even if it doesn’t help with anything else. Seldan is in favor if they can get the pillow. …They might want to prepare a room for it specially this time, it’s probably not as bad at the last emergency but the Heralds might be able to use some naptime too.

Shavri’s in favor if they are.

(She really hopes they’re not gambling wrong.)

:That does not answer my question. Is sleeping better for us than being awake, in terms of the progression of the symptoms? Nap Stack should accelerate any improvements, let us make up four times as much ground, without making us get worse any faster at the same time:

…It seems entirely plausible and even likely to Shavri that the progression is a little slower when they’re asleep once you factor out that sleeping people can’t drink tea. She hadn’t really been tracking that aspect because there’s a lot to track right now.

:Then I think I am tentatively in favor of preparing one. - did anyone get an exact timing on how long my Remove Sicknesses lasted, yesterday? If it's very close to a full hour and in particular if ones cast later in the day were longer than the first one, I might have another spell soon:

Shavri kept a ledger of everything that happened yesterday!

Blai’s spells were very close to a full candlemark, which she thinks is the same as an “hour” in Golarion reckoning even though now that she’s considering it properly that’s kind of a weird coincidence. Whether the later ones were longer is…hard to be sure given the limitations of timekeeping with sandglasses (which are a lot more accurate than literal marked candles if you remember to flip the fifteen-minute ones right away) but she wrote down a slightly larger number on the last two.

…Groveborn Companions theoretically have eidetic memory and perfect time sense but Seldan is not functioning at his full capacity right now. All he can say is that 57 and then 58 minutes seems about right to him.

:Maybe not fast enough. When it's a full hour, then I would expect another third circle slot:

That could end up being really useful even if it’s not for another day or two, if - well, Seldan isn’t sure he fully understands how spellcasters in Golarion get stronger, it’s not a thing here, but it the conditions are “using magic with life-or-death stakes” then THIS SHOULD REALLY COUNT.

(They absolutely need a better long term plan than they have right now but Seldan is putting that off for after a Lesser Restoration and a Nap Stack.)

If Shavri has no further questions he will tentatively plan to prep a Nap Stack and just four Lesser Restorations unless the new slot comes in this morning.

That sounds good. He should get some more sleep, she’s going to need him again in three candlemarks.

The rest of the night passes. Nobody dies.

Good morning beloved <3

I spoke to the Star-Eyed and She wanted me to convey on Her behalf that she's been doing a lot of reflection recently and wants to say that She's sorry about Her part in Tylendel's death.