Blai can go back to kneeling properly! Thank goodness!!

Oh excellent. Shavri had meant to actually tell Blai that she's no longer worried about him getting out of bed on his own, and she forgot because - well, honestly she's in no state to be here at all, obviously she's forgetting things left and right - but he just went ahead, perfect. 

...She should sleep. But she wants to be here to see them get fully healed. It feels like she's earned that and also she might learn something by watching with Healing-Sight. And she kind of wants to be there to see Leareth come back, that...also feels like it might fix something in her that's been broken for the last ten days. 

She'll lie down in an unused room for the candlemark of prayers, though, after extracting a promise from Gemma to definitely actually wake her when they're ready. 

Gemma can do that. (She wishes Shavri would get some proper rest, but - she gets it, why Shavri needs to see this to through to the end.) 

An hour later, Khayr comes back. "I have three of the new spell, and presumably there's some plan to bring someone back from the border with a fourth and the spares for the people we mean to Raise today?"

Oh right that! :Joshel was supposed to send some people back this morning but I don't actually know when. I'll find that out. I'd mentioned to Joshel that we wanted some Restorations too, in case the spell undoes the cause of the damage but doesn't get all of the damage itself - though I did say it wasn't urgent once they're not dying anymore and I'm not sure what else is competing for fourth-circle spells.: 

Also, Gemma has what might be an incredibly stupid question: for the purpose of Raising someone, does it matter at all if their body is frozen solid? Do they need to...thaw...them first? The bodies of the dead humans were stored in an unheated shed around the back of the House of Healing, because they don't have unlimited stillroom space and keeping them somewhere cold seemed preferable for the obvious reasons, and. It turns out. They are now frozen solid. Because it's winter.

"I... suspect... that doesn't matter... but I have never tried it, having adventured only in places that never get that cold. Which three patients should get the new spell first?"

....Everyone except Blai. :Sorry, Blai, it's just that Van and Stef are - more fragile - and we've deprioritized Seldan pretty hard on healing a lot of times, he's worse off than you right now.: 

(Seldan can get his diseases removed now, right?? He has not been complaining at any point but he's really extremely tired of feeling like he's being slowly eaten on the inside by very small but very hungry rats or something. And nonetheless telling the night Healer that Vanyel should get the last Remove Disease instead of him because one of "having trouble breathing" and "intense abdominal pain" is clearly worse than the other and Vanyel is so talented at getting pneumonia even in a room with continuously sterilized air.) 

It's pretty remarkable how long you can leave a Groveborn with an infection gradually spreading in their gut and not have them die of blood-poisoning about it but yes they should handle that. 

Blai is already on Removing Seldan's Disease! He assumed he didn't need to know what Khayr was saying because he was saying it to Gemma and in Osirian. There you go.

:We should get to you within half a candlemark: Gemma assures Blai. 

Shavri is back! She's going to stare so closely at each patient as Khayr casts the mysterious obscure healing spell on them. It's kind of frustrating that most Golarion healing is instantaneous, it doesn't give her a lot of time to assess with her Sight what's happening, but she can focus on different areas for each of the patients and maybe learn something. 

Vanyel gets it first and the most obvious effect from a high level is that he's immediately no longer leaking life-force out of mysterious cracks! It didn't instantly put all of it back, like a Cure would, and it had some of the Restoration effect but not as strong as the one on Stef, he still looks like he's missing some Endurance and a decent chunk of Strength. 

He's not nauseous anymore! It's so good to not be nauseous anymore! 

For Seldan Shavri pays attention specifically to the horrific-destruction-of-their-entire-digestive-tract problem, and it's mostly fixing that! In a way that's actually almost the exact opposite of what a channel or Cure would do – it's not, quite, getting the surface-level sores and raw spots, the parts that are the most acute-injury-like – but the more important deeper layer of tissue looks perfectly healthy again!

On Stef, Shavri is able to focus on the bone marrow, and - yep, that's back. Everything is back. No one is going to be catching any more diseases for no reason whatsoever today! 

Oh. That's so much better! Seldan is so impatient for the Heralds to figure out their Gate logistics and get someone back here for Blai's turn. 

Shavri just beams at everyone for a few seconds, and then collects herself and conveys a status update to Khayr and Aziza on what she just saw. 

:We might need a lot of Restorations to get everyone all the way back to normal, if the - stickier - progressive damage doesn't recover on its own, which I kind of suspect it won't. The spell seems to do - something like a weaker Restoration, targeting both of Strength and Endurance but only getting some of the problem? And it fixed the underlying source of the damage, no one's leaking life-force anymore, I'm a bit inclined to say it's not a huge rush and we should wait to allocate however many Restorations we've got today until after we Raise people and find out how many of the problems come back along with them. ...Do you by any chance know how that usually goes, if someone dies and is Raised after very significant damage to Endurance or Strength and it's the glued-in-there kind that a Lesser Restoration can't get at?: 

"They will have at least enough to live, but not necessarily more than that. A Restoration is especially called for after a Raise in those cases."

Nod. :In that case I want to decide who gets how many of what after we can line up everyone and judge who's worst-off.: 

(At least it sounds like the spell definitely won't hand them a living Leareth who immediately fucking dies again. That would be so stupid. Shavri is less worried about the others - the Healers and Nayoki didn't die mainly of accumulated damage to Endurance. For the Healers it was just going too long between top-ups of life-force, and in the specific they mainly died of internal bleeding and the kind of injury-prompted brain swelling that the channels and Cures were managing to reset, they just didn't get one soon enough. And it had been well under a day at that point, it might still be the case that none of the damage to Endurance was stuck-on deep enough yet to need a Restoration targeted at that specifically. Nayoki...had probably accumulated some amount of sticky damage to Endurance and Strength by the time she died, but she hadn't had that horrific an accumulation of nonsticky damage. She hadn't wanted to wait twelve or twenty-four candlemarks for that to catch up with her. Leareth is the one where Shavri doesn't have the slightest idea what his condition was when he died, because she never actually got a proper Healing-Sight look at him while he was still alive. They'll just have to see.)

On the bright side it's only going to be twenty minutes for the Gate! Joshel had just wanted to hang onto people long enough to get a lot of Endure Elements castings on the circuit Heralds he had lined up for that purpose, and to request exactly two Gentle Reposes on the bodies of people who they didn't manage to retrieve in time for the wand-taps last night, but who had died eight days ago yesterday and so are at exactly the nine-day time limit today.

Joshel would ideally quite like to hang onto everyone not powerful enough to help out with the healing they need, but he's happy to send back Raad and the two fifth-circle Abadarans and the fifth-circle cleric of Nethys.  

While they're waiting for everyone to get cured of their underlying progressive-damage-causing-injury-or-disease-or-poison-or-whatever, Gemma starts setting up for the people they're Raising first thing. It occurred to her that "the bare dirt ground of a back shed" is, like, a pretty terrible place for someone to wake up? Especially if they might wake up still pretty sick! 

She has never specifically had reason to line up three stiff frozen dead bodies in cots and tuck them in nicely with blankets but there's a first time for everything. 

...She's not actually sure of how to thaw them without either taking all day or risking breaking parts off. Probably if it was a problem it would have come up at the Worldwound, which is cold, at least judging by Blai owning cold-weather-appropriate clothing, and Blai would have heard? 

She'll ask Blai if he's ever heard of a Raise Dead not working on a body that was frozen. Since that's what they've got right now. 

:I... haven't heard either way, and it's probably happened at least once that someone fell in combat and was important enough to Raise and froze before that could be arranged?: