"Huh. How many people?"

"They don't advertise their numbers but hundreds, maybe a thousand."

"Huh."

"Not in the game?"

"Osirion's not in the game. I don't have the raise dead rules memorized, none of my characters have reached high enough level for a rez to make sense."

Nod. And they can go through the rest of Mahdi's spells too, at least until Tongues cuts out.

Sounds good to him.

I guess resurrection's on the map now, if it wasn't before. Not sure if anything else game-changing is. They can probably heal a bunch of stuff we can't.

The scrying's - probably not impossible with our magic but more accurate and straightforward than anything we knew how to do.

Yeah. One hour of effort.

It's possible that Dennis could learn some of this stuff. We'd probably have to pay them for the instruction.

Paying them isn't actually a problem. I don't want to just give them huge sums of money on their sayso but we're not short of it.

Yeah. I guess if it can actually be taught we should possibly rope in, like, actual responsible people. But it's high-effort, it's supposed to take years of study to get to first level. I imagine it doesn't take that long to be able to cast any spells at all.

I'm honestly really curious how his temple will work out, whether people will start getting spells that way.

Well, we can't stop him. It's a free country.

You don't think it's a good thing?

Wary of the worship of strange deities on principle. I admit to being curious what happens.

I guess I'll drive them home.

Sounds good. On for normal training again tomorrow?

Definitely.

He drives them back to their motel.

"Well, that sure is a lot of terrible people hanging around the vampire slayer. We should have asked what a vampire slayer is exactly."

"Maybe we can ask Faith tomorrow."

"I'm really worried for all of them! Maybe after a few more scrys they'll take their futures at all seriously."

"Might be kind of hard to. If your religion teaches something different."

"I guess."

She shows up to the motel bright and early and knocks on the door.