"Detect Magic lasts a bit more than five minutes, and lets me see magic things within sixty feet. At first you just notice they're magic, the way you might notice something is a light source; when you study it you can pick up more than that, like how powerfully magic it is, whether it has multiple enchantments on it, and what schools of magic they are. People with a lot of experience looking at magic can sometimes identify the specific spell."

She takes notes on this and then on Fazil's other spells until either the scry is ready or Alex shows up, whatever happens first.

He shows up first, with Dennis and a lot of books. "Gonna go get Faith, too, and Angel if the sun's down by the time I get her."

"Oh cool! Thanks Alex!"

" - wow, they look like D&D characters."

"I know, isn't it weird?"

"Do they literally have classes. Do they literally have class levels. - uh, do you, sorry for talking like you're not here or something - "

"Nice to meet you. People specialize in learning different kinds of magic, or different nonmagical schools of combat. People get better at arcane magic over time, and while getting better at magic is pretty linear, people talk about reaching the level where you get good enough to cast more advanced spells, so that you can compare one wizard to another."

"This is so weird."

"I know, right? They're like a video game or something."

He starts unpacking his books and notebooks. "What do you have so far - do you know if you can teach your magic stuff to anyone, does it have to be someone from your plane or anything - "

"We haven't tried teaching it to people here but Abadar can reach me here so I can't think why he wouldn't pick clerics here, if he had worshippers here, and Mahdi's spells work fine so one imagines they'd work for anyone else with the aptitude too."

"How do you tell if someone has the aptitude, is that like a specific thing or is it just, like, raw intelligence - you're probably not even going to be here long enough but if any of this is real we could learn so much - "

"I think it's very rare for people who test smart enough to be a wizard to have a hard time learning any magic, though some can never learn more than a couple easy spells."

"Even that would be super cool! And useful! Okay - you guys are going over what their spells are, right, we should finish taking notes on that - "

The highest level of spell he can cast is third, and he usually prepares Channel Vigor, Bestow Curse, Prayer and in his domain slot Protection from Energy. Sometimes instead of Prayer he'll get Locate Object or Daylight depending what they're expecting to run into. He explains all of these.

They take lots of notes. Occasionally one or the other of them flips through one of the books and says 'that's so weird' and then the other one agrees that it is very weird.

"What's weird?"

"The spell lists have overlap, but a bunch of things have been changed in ways that don't even especially make it a better game or make it more plausible with existing narratives? But they're close enough that it's clear it's talking about the same spell? They're just - really puzzling changes, sometimes."

"We should see if the other stuff about the world matches. Like - oh, Hagan, could you draw us, like, a map or something? Regional or world or whatever you can do, if you know how anything's shaped - "

He can sketch a world map and then a more detailed map of the region he's from!

Cool! They can examine these.

"It's not Greyhawk."

"No. It's like he took a bunch of mechanics and organizational stuff that their world uses, and then, like, transplanted it onto a different world and then radically reworked the spells for some reason?"

" - that's not that weird, we do that with D&D all the time. Like, we don't rework the spells, but kind of because it'd be effort to balance the game if we did."

"I guess this is technically true."