no he really thought he got it that time why didn't it work

The Sarenrite has Deathwatch up.

And Breath of Life prepared.

He casts it.

GASP

BLAI NEVER DO THAT AGAIN THAT WAS HORRIBLE 

Shavri was only very distantly aware of things happening, because she spent the entire twenty-ish seconds between screaming at Vanyel to cast Stabilize NOW and...that...heads-down trying to chase after Blai's life-force even though by the time Vanyel's second attempt failed it was really, really clear this wasn't going to work. 

- she doesn't waste time on being confused. She has no idea if that fixed any of the many other problems so she had better get a Healing-link up again right now. 

Oh this is going to be a great song. 

Between all the clerics here they've got enough Remove Diseases to hit all four patients.

Oh. 

They're...okay now? They're not home safe but the various damage wasn't what was imminently killing Blai it was the having way too many diseases. She...can drop the Healing-link for a minute, probably. Her head hurts an astounding amount and it’s not going to be so difficult now, a trainee could get one.

She should probably try to coordinate with the rescuers and explain the problem so they can correctly prioritize what spells to use, but instead she is apparently going to burst into tears like she’s twelve or something.

Vanyel is also going to burst into tears! 

BLAI ARE YOU OKAY SELDAN IS REALLY FREAKED OUT RIGHT NOW!!!!

He's - okay is relative - he's alive and likely to stay that way?? Gulping air pretty urgently.

That's great. That's wonderful. Everything is fine. Seldan's standards here have perhaps just been substantially lowered. 

(Seldan is also doing some passive poking to try to determine how much of the last five or six candlemarks Blai remembers anything from.) 

Shavri seems to need a minute so Gemma can step in and fill in the context for these...fourteen??? clerics??? and their entourage who are thoroughly blocking the entire hallway of the House of Healing. 

:We've been keeping everyone alive for almost a week but we think the underlying injuries are lethal and we don't really understand what they are. Everyone's losing life-force continuously, we can patch it temporarily with channels - Van has six a day somehow - but Shavri moved them really often so it wasn't doing much anymore. We had four Lesser Restorations a day and that was - not enough to keep them from getting worse, obviously - and Shavri said it barely did anything this morning. We've been using Remove Sickness so they can eat a little at least for one candlemark a day. And obviously we're doing everything we can with Healing-Gift, which I think your world doesn't have, but it's not adequate to actually fix anything. Blai thought the stronger Restoration might help and we have diamond dust for it–: 

Joshel finally manages to get a word in edgewise. :The High Priest of Nethys told me that there's a fourth-level spell that will fix it but that nobody would have it prepared today.: 

Huh. Okay. 

:So I guess we need to figure out what keeps them alive until tomorrow. ...Oh, and I don't know if we've had much chance to explore whether your healing can fix mage-backlash, but I am getting the sense that they rushed the Gate back for you before they had an efficient route: given the THREE ADDITIONAL PATIENTS she was NOT WARNED TO EXPECT, :and if we can get them back on their feet sooner I imagine that will speed up getting a Gate-routing that doesn't result in anyone being unconscious on the floor afterward.: 

"Would another channel now be beneficial?" asks Raad. "I have one left, presumably my colleagues have more. If that doesn't help with 'backlash' I'm not sure what is likeliest to work. I have Restoration prepared once, and the Lesser twice."

"I have a Restoration," says the Nethysian.

"I have a Lesser Restoration," says the third-circle Abadaran.

"Me too," says one of the fifth-circle Abadarans.

One second does anyone know if Savil is in fact in Haven, Jisa needs to ask her something -

:Savil says that she thinks Lesser Restoration helps with backlash. She thinks a channel might help get them conscious again but not in any shape to do Gate-research today.:

:We might as well include them in Van’s last one, he’s not actually out yet.: And unlike these people he’s not portable. They might want some of their channels on the Iftel border before dawn tomorrow.

Gemma tallies up spells in her head. :Four Lesser Restoration, two Restoration, that’s it until tomorrow? …I need to go ask Shavri.:

it’s not fair that help is here and she still has to do triage. they were supposed to just fix it now

:Are we out of Remove Disease until tomorrow?: she checks.

"He has one left and so does she," Raad says, pointing out two of the other Abadarans.

:…Okay. I think we can manage until tomorrow if we expect to use a Remove Disease tonight on the two that only get a Lesser Restoration. And we need channels every three candlemarks. And I guess that leaves two for - Jisa, your call, whichever people are most useful to the Gate-research.: 

:...Brightstar and the senior Adept.: Brightstar is actually conscious again at this point, just - indeed not in any condition to do anything with his mage-gift, and his lack of any formal math education means that he's more or less useless if he can't demonstrate what he's thinking. :The others will recover just fine on their own, they just need a day or two of rest.: 

The next question is who the fuck gets the stronger Restorations. It's afternoon, it's actually not much longer to sunset, but it's a long, long night ahead. Van and Stef are definitely weakest, but - after this morning she cannot, actually, bring herself to deprioritize Blai again. 

:Blai and Stef get Restoration. Van and Seldan get Lesser Restoration and we save a Remove Disease for the middle of the night. We'll make it.: 

Joshel glances at Cicerone Raad. :I think we can get Yfandes back today. If that would help for Van.: 

:...That would definitely help.: Vanyel is still sobbing and trying to hug Stef while not really strong enough to accomplish this and it's mostly the stress of the last candlemark or two but Van will surely have a much more restful night if he's not fighting off being suicidal about the broken Companion-bond.