"I have Raise Dead prepared and there are certainly plenty of diamonds if someone will show me to her body," says Raad.

"I have something which might help everyone in the room a little with the nausea and weariness... if you want to tie me up in this room concentrating on it indefinitely, which you may not. Alternately I can grant the ability to cast the spell to someone else, if they're powerful enough to hold it - about the equivalent of a third circle, but if you've got intelligent horses around it's possible one of them could hold it."

:What else do you have that we're giving up on using elsewhere if we tie you up in this room?: Shavri has not at all been trying to keep of these people as individuals or remember which of them are particularly powerful. :Seldan - he's Select Blai's - is a Groveborn, they're stronger than other Companions, but I don't know if the fact that he's also dying matters.: 

(Joshel is going to slip off to find the contact person from Leareth's organization who can help him arrange paying all of these people. He is mildly freaking out about how much he's committed to paying them! Leareth's organization can almost certainly afford it but Valdemar really can't!) 

"Do you want... a complete list of what I have prepared? I get Heal as a domain spell though I don't know if we're holding that in reserve in case of emergency... Being dying would usually not matter for ability to receive the spell but would probably matter for ability to concentrate on it. If Raad is going to Raise another horse who will be useful here anyway that one might do?"

:I don't know what that one does or if it would help, though we should probably save something in case of an emergency. Is there a way to...check...if Yfandes can do it, that doesn't involve trying and wasting it if she can't?: 

Shavri is so tired. She's trying to be patient and thoughtful and consider everything carefully but her mindvoice is flat and toneless. 

"Heal does most things, though we are told it will not actually address this underlying cause," says Khayr, glancing at the contingent's Nethysian. "If I try to cast it on her and she can't hold it it just won't work."

Okay but does that mean he just has to stay himself or do they not get it at all if they bet wrong. Shavri is way too tired for this. 

:I'm not sure exactly what the thing is that makes someone as powerful as a third-circle cleric but if you can make a lineup of yourselves in order of less to more powerful I can see if it correlates with the thing I can see.: If it's purely the life-force thing then Seldan isn't quite at Blai's level and Yfandes definitely isn't. 

...sure, they can do that. Khayr and Raad are tied, and then there's two Abadarans and a Nethysian, then another Abadaran, then some of the rest... "My friend in the hall is not a caster but is on par with Raad and I."

Okay. Something definitely seems to correlate strongly. Shavri doesn't really feel that she has a good handle on it. 

:I'm guessing Yfandes is not strong enough. Maybe worth trying if it won't waste the opportunity entirely, otherwise I guess it's either worth trapping you in here all night or it isn't and we don't get it at all.:

Which, well, they've gotten through this so far without it, but everyone is having an absolutely miserable time and Shavri hates that even if turns out fine in the end. She feels like she owes Blai some kind of apology over this morning but she doesn't know if he remembers it and if he doesn't then bringing it up would just be awkward and in any case she is way, way too tired to think about it at all. 

:Joshel knows what we need on the border which affects how costly it is to trap you here instead. Joshel can you– where did he go - nevermind. I do want to get the Restorations and Lesser Restorations as soon as possible. Gemma do you have diamond dust for it, I thought Joshel had it -: She really wants to...sit down, or something...she's so incredibly tired... 

"Where do you want the Lesser Restorations? We don't know these people's names, please point."

Lesser Restoration for the one who’s a horse and the silver-haired man holding the Shelyn holy symbol. Shavri can point and make sure there’s no ambiguity. Full Restorations, once Gemma turns up diamond dust, will go on this man wearing Iomedae’s holy symbol, and this scrawny redhaired barely-adult who despite his exhaustion is watching all of the proceedings with a thoughtful, almost calculating expression. 

Oh they must not have enough Restorations to hit everyone today. Seldan is so incredibly on board with the plan where Blai gets one of them. BLAI NO MORE DYING THAT WAS REALLY STRESSFUL AND BAD. 

"For Endurance?" And when this is confirmed Raad can do the both of them.

For Endurance is right yeah.

…Shavri really needs to sit down now. Can Gemma handle this. Please.

:She’s been awake for almost thirty-six candlemarks and could honestly use a Lesser Restoration herself but I don’t have the impression we have any going spare today: Gemma tells Raad. :Jisa, where do we need the objects?:

Brightstar is in this room over here down the hall. The other mages are, uh, wherever Gemma told someone to put them? Jisa was distracted and missed exactly when they stopped being on the floor.

Oh right. That room. Jisa can point out which one they need the Lesser Restoration on. 

Gemma does not think she actually personally has any of the diamond dust so they’ll have to get it from Joshel when he’s back from wherever he went.

He’s back, he’s back! He has brought a Mindspeaker from Leareth’s organization who can talk to Raad about payment. Also here is the diamond dust, the Abadaran acolytes are guarding the box of bigger diamonds but the diamond dust was in his—

—pocket. 

It’s really fortunate it was in a bag but the outside of the bag is covered in something gooey and brown and now so is Joshel’s hand.

:Um: says Joshel faintly. :The High Priest of Nethys gave me a, a “Snickers” dessert-bar. I didn’t realize it would do that.:

"She's like that," says Raad.

"She's brilliant," says the Nethysian defensively.

"The dust should still work." He holds out his hand. "Wizard, I've forgotten your name, can you get the, uh -"

"Uh-huh," says the wizard, who's also standing in the hall but can see. The melted chocolate disappears from the bag. Raad would ask "who first" but it would probably take longer to have that interaction than to get both Restorations cast. He sprinkles diamond dust on Stef, chanting.

Stef beams at him with as much charm as he can muster, which is substantially more once the Restoration hits. People are still going to be singing his song in FIVE HUNDRED YEARS if he has anything to say about it, it’s going to be AMAZING…

Once he’s somewhat more able to move, he hugs Vanyel, who is still crying. 

he screwed up at the worst possible moment and that’s going to have to go in the song too

Seldan is telling himself very firmly that Blai is NOT imminently dying and it’s OKAY to go second it’ll barely be a wait at all.

Sprinkle sprinkle chant chant.

WOW that's a LOT better but nobody is acting like that's it? He does not derive from the body language around him that he's supposed to get up and leave the sickroom - is that just because Seldan hasn't had one - he's still nauseous, why is he still nauseous -