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Narangerel takes on the Setebre Empire
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"Yes. You have interesting magic and politics."

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"I'd trade either for more pleasant ones.  Hopefully soon we'll have better politics.  The magic, well, at least we can stop the nobility from hurting people with it."

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She nods. "Regulating magic use is important. We generally don't manage that too well ourselves..."

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"It was never this bad around here before charge-stones were invented.  Though it sounds like your form of magic is much more powerful than ours."

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"Ours varies. Many are weaker, many are unskilled, and many do not survive long."

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"What causes most of the deaths?"

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"Losing control of their emotions, or running out of the thing that powers magic, which in our case is quite the same thing. Sometimes getting into a fight they can't handle against a monster, though even our spread-out civilization has mechanics in place to handle that."

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"That reminds me - she said her power causes mood problems too, though I don't think it works exactly the way ours does," Nomo'Lessa says to Shi'Melaki.  "We should probably check to see if Ras'Ezza's chargestones work on her."

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She nods.  "I have some with me.  Do you have a noticeable amount of..." she waves her hand in a vague gesture, not sure what form the overcasting-equivalent takes in Narangerel's magic system.

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"Grief. And I've accumulated some, yes."

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She nods, pulling out a cabochon diamond.  It's ordinary looking to normal vision, but brimming with magic.  "I'll activate it for a test, if you'll touch my hand to begin it."  She offers one hand, the charge-stone in the other.

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She does as instructed.

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The effect is subtle, but easy enough to detect when warned beforehand.  A gentle increase in mood and gem brightness.

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Interesting.

She reports the effect.

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