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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.
"Okay. I can - try altering something innocuous and asking you about it?"
She wills him to believe that the grass here is red and the sky here is purple.
"Notice anything?"
"Okay. I can't alter beliefs if they're about easily verifiable facts, then."
"That's good to know. We should also check beliefs about memories or less verifiable facts, I think, but that seems trickier to set up a test for."
"That sounds good. Maybe things that've happened since we met, so you can correct it later if it's hard to put back?"
Nod.
She wills him to forget the last test. And their discussion of this test.
"Do you remember what we tested last?"
"You asked about the color of the grass; I assume you were testing whether you could change how I perceived it."
Hug.
"It's good knowing that there are some things I can't do. It's - given that I activate it by thinking I am still not actually sure how to tell whether I'm doing it without meaning to. Especially if people might not notice that something else is controlling them."
"Yeah. I don't have a good guess about that either. I'm curious whether it has people preferentially do the thing you wanted them to do in a way that feels plausible or internally motivated to them."
Nod.
"I keep worrying about - I should ask if - do your people or do you think the people here have - maybe I should have said something to someone earlier but I didn't want it to interfere with petitioning Eru - "
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