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Spell: Following
You can make people first-level clerics of you.
To learn this spell, take the hand of someone eligible to be your cleric. Say, goloptywimple. Give them a valuable gift.
Spell: Resistance
You have some ability to ignore magical effects directed at you.
To learn this spell, cast another spell on yourself. As you do so, say, Jempi. Katsafgha.
Spell: Hold Person
You can cast the spell Hold Person at will.
To learn this spell, touch someone. Say, Enefti. Freb.
"I'm not sure what's best. I'd - like to figure out how the powers work, I guess."
"Well, if we go home, the Valar can try to help you figure that out, but if we stay here I guess you can try things with less risk to uninvolved parties?"
"Um. I haven't actually tried just - intentionally trying to make people do things. I guess I should probably - test them on a willing person and see if we can determine how to voluntarily activate them. Which will probably give us some more information on what other tests we should be running."
"I don't - should I just try to make you do something innocuous right now, or - "
"Huh. I wonder if it would if it was something weirder. You knew it was coming, even."
He does that.
He frowns.
"That - I mean, I could've guessed that it was you, by reviewing how often I've spontaneously decided to do that, but it felt like there was an internal logic about it."
"I wanted to exercise my arms a little because I'd been holding them very tensely."
"Huh.
"My next immediate thought is to try to make you do something you can't do, but - I am not sure how worried I should be about accidentally triggering awful things, here."
"Yeah, plausibly we should try that with someone on hand who can kill me, if it turns out to do something distressing we can't fix."
Nodnod.
"I - guess I am also curious whether I can alter people's - beliefs and stuff."
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