Blai won the battle to keep down his tea. He curls up. He closes his eyes. Seldan is very good.

Seldan is thinking, with something between warm sparkly smugness and deep trepidation, that this is really only going to add to the thing where everyone in Valdemar seems to be concluding that Blai is a brilliantly Wise advice-giver. 

....Zzzzz. 

Shavri spends almost four and a half hours asleep in the Nap Stack. 

She wakes up - well, mostly she wakes up too ravenous to think about anything except finding something to eat and cramming it into her face as fast as she can, but after she's eaten the equivalent of three lunches or so, she has a mildly terrifying amount of energy. 

Van and Stef and Nayoki are all still asleep. It's been five hours, and the report she gets is that they all seemed to be benefiting a lot, especially earlier on - not just on fatigue in the normal sense, but some degree of active recovery on the problem that Lesser Restoration treats, not just the aspect they've been calling "Endurance" but also some other things wrong that she thinks a slightly differently-targeted Lesser Restoration could hit as well, if only they had unlimited castings a day, which they don't. 

They seem to have kind of reached the peak benefit, though, and any remaining deficit has had a chance to sink in deeper than natural recovery, even absurdly accelerated, can touch. And they're getting dehydrated. Shavri's going to call it there, though she'll have them carried out of the room and back to their own beds in the other room before poking them awake just in case someone wakes up disoriented and makes a noise that risks disturbing the sleeping Healing-staff. 

Mrrghhhwhat oh it's Shavri. ...Wow. Shavri is looking very. Rested. Seldan is glad that worked out even if he's feeling pretty bitter that neither himself nor his Herald got to benefit from the spell, it was kind of his fault anyway for forgetting about the constraint until after Blai prepared it. 

It's mostly Blai's fault since Blai is responsible for knowing what his spells do.

Well, they're a team, so it's also on Seldan to keep track of things like that when Blai is distracted. He's not going to beat himself up about it, he was also distracted for good reason and they're new to being a team and he doesn't yet have a perfect handle on what kinds of things matter for Golarion magic, there's no Velgarth technique he can think of that only works exactly once a week on a given person. Anyway, they can consider it both their fault, and Seldan would like to do better next time. (Implementing any ideas to actually do better might not be doable when he feels like this, and maybe he's going to mostly feel like this until they both slowly die, but maybe not! Maybe Brightstar will get them a Gate! Seldan is focusing on the positive thoughts right now.) 

Shavri putters around waking the people removed from the Nap Stack and harassing them with tea. 

Mrghhhnnoowhat go away Medren five more minutes wait where is he. Oh. Oh no right they're here. ...Stef feels bizarrely not like he's dying though! He still wouldn't want to attempt to get up and make a fool of himself faceplanting on the floor, but he's incredibly thirsty and it only feels like a little bit of a bad idea to put fluids into his body. 

Wow. That was a nap in Blai’s spell? Vanyel was really missing out. 

Nayoki has been failing to think ahead, or at all, about so many extremely important elements of the situation! She’s just been lying around in a funk being sad about Leareth and throwing up a lot. What was wrong with her! Oh, right, the slowly dying of mysterious invisible wounds inflicted by a literal god, but that’s still no excuse!

She demands paper. She can sip tea after each line she writes, there, is the Healer happy now?

Urghh so unfair. They’re practically chipper. 

Seldan drags himself more fully alert and pokes everyone including Shavri with a Mindspeech reminder that they were going to have a strategy-meeting tonight, and it seems to be tonight now.) At least he was right that this was going to be the best possible time for everyone else. 

About that. Shavri actually wanted to -

Oh. Right. :Van, do your channel, you’re overdue.: Blai and Seldan can still hold enough life-force that they’re not in serious trouble after five-and-some candlemarks, but they’re probably feeling it a bit.

Oooh all right that is a little better. 

- Blai and Seldan should get painblocking for this. The Healers must have capacity for it now that everyone’s had the equivalent of a ridiculously good night’s sleep. It’ll put them on slightly more even footing with all the chipper people who just got uninterrupted sleep. 

…Shavri should have thought of that. Yes, of course, they’ve got capacity for it right now.

It’s not as good as Remove Sickness but Seldan thinks he feels about 20% less stupid.

Blai doesn't find himself all that impaired by pain but he's not going to turn it down if that little edge might help. He's sitting up. ...kind of up. Up enough to drink tea.

Seldan thinks that most people are a little impaired by pain even well within their tolerance, though Blai admittedly seems less so than average.

Aaaaaaaand time for the serious conversation.

Shavri looks around the room, trying to meet each patient’s eyes for at least a moment.

:I think this isn’t fixable with the resources we have to treat you: she tells them. :We can buy time, and we are. I can get you - another week, I think. I hope longer but I’m not sure of it. There’s damage to your - ability to defend against illness or infection, roughly - and the Lesser Restorations are delaying it but not keeping pace. You’re getting weaker every day. We don’t have enough spells to cover all the ways your bodies are being damaged. So…unless there’s a miracle, in the next week, I think this is the best you’re going to feel, and it’s downhill from here and - I’m sorry. I wanted to be sure before I said anything but I think maybe I owed it to you to say it sooner.:

:Can we save some of us if we concentrate the Lesser Restorations more?: If Vanyel requires Stef to live and Blai is essential for anyone to live and needs Seldan that leaves... Nayoki, who can as an individual be written off? Shelyn seems - optimistic - about Vanyel? - but Blai might be reading too much into his empowerment; maybe She just wanted this last week of his life. Maybe it's cheaper than clericing someone who's going to live, though Blai has not actually heard about lots of old or dying people getting empowered for a few days of casting and then keeling over.

:…Maybe. The issue is the spell doesn’t always hit as strong, it seems to be random, and I think it has to land perfectly to catch up on just the Endurance damage, and when it doesn’t, that damage gets…sunk in deeper? By the next day it takes more to combat it. The Nap Stack helped a lot, if we could do that every day - but we can’t.:

Shrug. :Do you have a spell to fight infection? That’s what will make the biggest difference in a few more days.:

:Infection is a very serious problem on Golarion too. Remove Disease is third circle. We're very sure of the water we're drinking? I can Create some if we're not, that's always safe:

Nod. :The well for the House of Healing should be all right, and most of what we're giving you to drink was boiled first for the tea, but I started having a mage sterilize it this morning just in case. Create Water would save time. I would consider putting you in separate rooms so you're not breathing the same air all the time, but we would need to recombine everyone for channels anyway and we can't separate Van and Stef or you and Seldan–: 

:Mages can sterilize air as well as water: Nayoki contributes. (Mindspeech is tiring but speaking aloud is painful at this point and she's more motivated to avoid that.) 

Nod. :We can do that, then. But - the problem is really that everyone has harmless little critters living on them - in your skin, your nose, inside your gut. Harmless when you're healthy, that is, but once the body's defenses are gone, not so much. And - the inside of your gut is slowly dying, that's why you feel sick all the time. The channels undo some of it - the parts most like an injury, I suppose, no one's been bleeding inside - but it's intermittent and it's not perfect and eventually something will get into your bloodstream. That's the part I really can't see how to stop.: 

That's one of the most horrifyingly disgusting things Vanyel has ever heard and he really wishes it wasn't in his head now.