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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 guess so.
"M'really tired. I haven't even done anything yet and I'm already tired of it."
She wanders back over to Korva and Hagan and sighs.
"We should figure out what we need to know to know if she can stay here safely."
" - yeah. Uh, despite feeling like someone super ought to marry the poor girl immediately I notice no impulse to abandon Korva and do that."
Nodnod. "I'm inclined to think she's not accidentally mind controlling people. She's getting a lot of hugs from her friend but that seems - warranted, under the circumstances. I don't know whether that's enough to declare her safe, though."
"Wouldn't wanna bring the fairy back, on the strength of that assessment."
"I don't know how to test subconscious or unintentional manipulation if we don't know what she wants."
"Maybe we could, like, make strategic use of detect magic, or something? If she only reads magic when she's manipulating someone and usually doesn't, then - well it wouldn't completely prove it if she can change what we believe, but - it'd be a start - "
"Hey. New one. I'm sorry to ask this, I know you're really stressed right now, but - can you do your mind control thing where I can see it. I'm trying to test whether I can sense you doing it."
She makes him wave.
She's not doing anything that looks like casting but whatever she's doing is overwhelmingly powerful magic.
" - okay. - have you checked whether you can alter people's sensory perceptions - "
"Okay! Good news, then, whatever you're doing can be sensed with techniques for sensing magic, and unless something incredibly weird is going on, you're mostly not doing it. So if you're mind controlling people by accident you're at least not doing that all the time."
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