It's kind of neat! He doesn't want to face his father again but he mentions it to Michael, who thinks it doesn't work.

Spell: Novice healer

Using a healing ritual, you can improve someone's health when they are sick or injured.

You have learned this spell.

"Huh! The new spell says I've already learned it this time. I can improve the  health of sick or injured people, but only if I use a ritual."

" - well that's kind of annoying. So doing the rituals works, but it only works at making the rituals work?"

"Seems that way. - I wonder if we can just make up our own rituals that are supposed to have different effects, though, that would be pretty awesome."

"Ooooh. How would it know what they were meant to do?"

"Ummm, hm. Well, the crystals have associations, we could come up with a grid that makes sense with what we're trying to do, and then, uh, we could write an incantation that mentions and explains what the spell is supposed to accomplish? - we could use Dungeons and Dragons spells for templates and fill in the parts we don't have with stuff that kind of makes sense, and, uh, see if we can suddenly cast ninth-level wizard spells?"

"- oooh."

Bounce bounce. "Probably not true resurrection yet because you need, like, an extremely huge diamond, or something, but maybe we could pull off mass healing or teleportation or scrying or a gate or - I'd have to look at the spell lists again for ideas - "

"Do we have one in the house -"

"I think we have the Pathfinder one?"

They do. She flips to the ends of the spell lists. "Okay, true resurrection takes an extremely expensive diamond, gate seems doable but we would need to actually construct a gate large enough to travel through to other dimensions and also if we tried it right now we would totally die even if we did end up anywhere else, mass healing people should be possible, discern location is not obviously impossible, there's shape changing, there's making people do whatever you say, there's immobilizing people, there's entombing people in the ground, there's shooting fire out of your hands, there's, uh, immobilizing people with pleasure so intense that they're unable to take any actions for like a minute, there's talking to animals, there's talking to plants, there's being able to speak any language - there's a spell for giving limited amounts of magic to other people and the limits are pretty strict but maybe we could change them - "

"Well the fire one sounds like more trouble than it's worth and the entombing one too probably but all the rest of those are great -"

"Yeah, but it takes me more than a week to learn a spell, we shouldn't just pick random ones. We should have, like, an order to go in."

"Mass healing probably first? Since the people in the hospital probably need it more than I need magic or than you need any of the other things you mentioned - read them back again?"

"Uh, there's lots, I was just picking stuff that stood out - talking to animals, talking to plants, speaking all languages, gifting spells to others, immobilizing people via any of pure magic, chains made out of light, or pleasure so intense they can't move, magically commanding people to do stuff, changing your appearance or form, discerning the location of any person or object, opening portals to other dimensions, and various forms of raising the dead that all require really expensive diamonds. But, like, also a ton more, if you want me to read you the entire spell list."

"We gotta get talking to animals so we can ask Dog if she needs anything she couldn't tell us about. Do you - do you want to have the power to immobilize people with pleasure -"

Blushing. "Um. I'm not, uh, long term opposed to it but I am slightly worried about what would end up happening if I had it right this second - "

" - why -"

"Beeecause I might be tempted to use it? And that could be. Uh. Weird."

" - oh, I mean, I definitely thought that was why you wanted it."

"Yeah. I mean. That is probably why I read that one. Just. Not all of the ideas I have are good ones. And, uh, I don't really know whether it would be good, to habitually do that. Although I guess I'm also not sure there's anything technically wrong with it, it's just, uh. Kind of way beyond kissing."

"There's not, like, a spectrum, you know, there's just lots of stuff people like doing.  - I agree it would be a sort of thing from a region of things we are not doing."

"It sounds - interesting. I guess. I'm just not sure whether it'll have, like, good effects, on other stuff. ...we should probably at least be minimally responsible first and save all the people with cancer and talk to Dog and stuff."

"Yes, we should."

"Okay. And - possibly after we do all of that we can, uh, talk about whether we want to also eventually use magic for potentially irresponsible recreational activities. If grabbing D&D spells even works at all."