…He’s keeping the same orisons and he wants Remove Sickness and...the other one...he still has the other one, Shelyn should perhaps be aware that he has no idea what the other one is for and isn't going to try to cast it at random to find out, but he can keep having it and not-casting it. It's going to be so upsetting if he can't even cast Remove Sickness because his hands don't work, it kind of feels like his hands might not work, but he can at least try...

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Shavri spent the night— well, mostly asleep, actually, and not even a room over, Gemma pointed out that there were unlikely to be surprises at this point and they can be nearly certain tonight is not when anyone will start dying. 

They’ve done the spells Brightstar needs. He did say hopefully, as he was leaving this morning, that maybe they could do a different plane elemental summoning today, but in a sort of wheedling 'well, if there happens to be space since he has the extra spell...' way that did not leave Shavri feeling like he has a solid plan to make the maximum possible use out of whatever information it gives him. 

She wishes if she knew whether there were other useful spells at third circle. It's too early for anyone to benefit from a Nap Stack, though she really does want to try to squeeze it in tomorrow - even if it's only Blai and Seldan who can benefit, they can incidentally get the rest of the Senior Circle too - unless both Van and Stef both manage to get pneumonia by then and won't make it another day without a Remove Disease each. The air-cleaning precautions won't protect them from everything that lives normally-harmlessly in their own mouths, and that's often what gets the elderly and infirm in the end, even if they meticulously avoid colds and flus, they're too weak to cough and keep their chest clear and something migrates down and moves into their lungs. Continuous monitoring by a Healer to burn out incipient infections before they get too deeply-rooted, but it helps a lot when the patient’s body retains any natural defenses. Randi did, until nearly the end, or a pneumonia would have taken him out years ago. Her patients are already worse off than that and it’s only going to keep getting worse.

But a Remove Disease doesn’t work by boosting the native defenses, it just…removes the disease. No one in fact has an infection yet, won’t help with an illness that someone is predictably going to come down with tomorrow.

She ends up asking Blai to prepare six Lesser Restorations, all of his second circle and both of his third circle spots. They can double them up on Van and Stef, try to hit Strength as well as Endurance. It won’t save them from an infection in the gut but at least they’ll have the strength to cough properly and a better chance of toughing out a night with pneumonia while they wait for a Remove Disease spot. She leaves Blai an opening to mention if there are other third circle spells for healing - other than Remove Disease which they don't actually need yet - but she’s happy with the plan.

Remove Disease and Remove Blindness/Deafness which they already know about are the third circle healing gamechangers. He'll prep Lesser Restoration a lot. While lying down. This is WEIRD lying down while he prays. WEIRDDDDD.

It's weird for Seldan too! You wouldn't think that he would have as many associations with the correct way to pray, given how new it is, but apparently a week was long enough to get very used to a certain way.

He'll be there in rapport the whole time, offering his own fragmentary prayers of information that might be of interest to Iomedae. 

Brightstar does not explode himself in the Elemental Plane of Fire!

Leareth's mages want to spend half a candlemark running tests on the Protection from Energy shield - not ones that will use up the spell, just trying to get a sense of what it's doing. It's actually very different from the standard Velgarth shielding you would choose if you expected to be blasted with fire! They can't replicate it exactly but the fundamental concept doesn't seem to rely on it being specifically a divine spell provided by a god. 

Then Brightstar tries to open what more or less amounts to a one-sided Gate directly to the Elemental Plane of Fire (from a very very well-shielded Work Room) and drop a test scry-focus artifact through. It won't survive there, and in any case it's the 'closest' spot he can reach and not attempting to get it to where Blai's summons came from, but how long it remains scryable and what fails first will apparently be helpful to Leareth's mages. 

Jisa and several of the mages carry him over to the House of Healing. He's pretty badly burned - the problem wasn't the time needed to fling a mage-artifact, it was that it turns out to be pretty hard to close a Gate to the Elemental Plane of Fire - but Shavri ducks out into the hall to glance at him and declares that he's not going to die in the next twenty minutes and he can wait until everyone is done praying and the patients have had their Lesser Restorations in order to benefit fully from Van's first channel of the day. ...She will somewhat grudgingly agree that he can have painblocking for the wait. 

Blai almost falls asleep again as soon as he feels Iomedae's presence back off at the end of the hour. Is there... a thing he needs to be awake for... does he need to cast some of these right away...

Yes Shavri is right there to nudge him about casting Lesser Restorations. Two each on Van and Stef, please, targeted to Endurance as usual and then Strength, and the usual one each for himself and Seldan, and then Vanyel can channel for everyone. "Everyone" includes Brightstar and also three random House of Healing patients who came in with broken bones and have been carefully checked over and confirmed not to be ill with anything contagious. It shouldn't be that high a risk, given the mage in the corner continuously circulating the room's air through a bizarre hoop-shaped artifact that Leareth's organization apparently possessed and murdering anything alive in it. But Shavri is inclined to be cautious. 

If that gets Blai feeling perky enough to want to use his Remove Sickness right away and eat something, that's great, but if he's still sleepy then Shavri will let him nap for a candlemark or two first. 

He's up, he's up. Lesser Restorations six in a row. That does feel a little better. He might as well eat now if there's a bowl of porridge ready.

Vanyel is capable of rolling over in bed again! It turns out that it's possible to feel a really shocking amount of gratitude for the small things, in a situation like this. He's still shaky and clumsy and having trouble doing anything precise with his fingers, but the spell gestures at at least somewhat forgiving of shakiness and it's easier to compensate for it by focusing really hard on precision when it's not already taking every ounce of willpower he can muster just to lift his hand a few inches off the bedspread. 

Bowl of porridge! Starting tomorrow they may have to go to clear liquids only, the patients' guts are dying and the channels are patching it just barely enough to keep them from being one giant open wound on the inside but they're not, really, enough to keep the tissue able to digest, and they're going to want to start minimizing how much is in there before it gets to the point that it's feeding the gut bacteria that will eventually kill her patients more than the patients themselves. But for today she thinks there's still more good than harm in a properly nutritious meal. 

She doesn't need anything from them after that, not until Vanyel runs out of channels sometime around midnight. Blai can cast Virtue on himself and Seldan if he wants, if there are periods when he feels able to stay awake for a few minutes at a stretch to give the Healers a break, but they're not relying on it, and he needs to be up for ten minutes or so of keeping it up continuously before it's even worth the Healer taking a break, given how much effort it takes to get a stable Healing-link up in the first place versus maintaining the existing one. 

Brightstar shows up twice more for channels. They're testing the prototype shield-artifacts and a prototype miniature Gate-threshold with a set-spell that makes it easier to shut it down when he's done. Brightstar is coming in with third-degree burns on most of his body but he's not, actually, being reckless enough that he's in any real danger of dying before Jisa can haul him back into the House of Healing, and Jisa is making sure that he's timing it for around when Vanyel is due to channel anyway. 

Seldan is only slightly following at this point but it sounds like one really can make faster progress at dangerous research, if anything that definitely won't kill you inside of five minutes is more or less safe. He doesn't know their current time estimate on a successful Gate. Maybe they'll be in time. 

If Brightstar weren't taken Blai would expect him to wind up belonging to Nethys any minute.