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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.
Snuggle.
"You were nice to Verita. Answered her questions. I figured it was probably to make her more cooperative but I figured you could have picked worse ways. And later you asked what I wanted a lot. I was kind of divided on whether that was - trying to make me uncomfortable or trying to actually be a decent person or mostly trying to look out for your alignment."
He wiggles happily about the part about Verita.
"Trying to make you uncomfortable?"
"You're not supposed to - if you ask someone what they prefer and they give you the information and you already have the power to decide whether they get it, then you have more power over them than you did, right, because you know what they care about and you can deny them it later."
Cling.
"I think you did a good job. It was a bad situation but you were trying your best."
"it seems like it'd be hard to even have preferences, if you're thinking of them as weaknesses."
"Maybe? I guess I don't know how many preferences normal people have."
"I prefer places where you can wander forever and food that you made yourself and beds that are kind of scratchy and not at all like the palace and hot weather and animals and my friends not disapproving of my choices and you being happy and you being safe and you being mine - which isn't mostly about whether you're allowed to leave, it's about, like, when I touch you, which of the ways humans touch each other am I doing - and Asmodeus being dead and slaveowners all being allergic suddenly to their favorite foods and Abadar picking some other poor soul to be pharaoh and my brother getting to be himself again without that destroying Osirion somehow. And the other yous being okay."
Snuggle. "I guess most of that sounds okay. Pass on the hot weather."
"Ah.
"I think I like snow. It doesn't snow much where I live - lived - but I wish it did."
"We could visit some place where it snows. Palace wasn't that cool."
"That sounds all right.
"I guess at some point we're probably gonna have to make collaborative decisions about what beds should be like."
"There are probably nice beds that don't feel like the one I had growing up."
"Yeah. I don't think I'd want one that - didn't feel like it ought to be mine."
"Most Osirians who can afford it do have separate rooms for the husband and the wife."
" - why? That sounds miserable. I - guess if you got tired being around your spouse and wanted a place to be alone - ?"
"I think it's meant to be - if you get along you can barely use it but that way it's not very marked if you need some distance. And you're not supposed to go into your wife's rooms, which is probably to, like, make sure bad situations don't get worse for lack of space to be apart and calm down -"
"I guess that makes sense. We could - have an extra room but not have it be a bedroom. Or call it a guest bedroom.
"Beds should be good for sleeping and be covered in blankets and have you in them."
"Yeah. Good job.
" - this is actually kind of hard. Preferences. I'm not sure I'm doing them right. I'm thinking about things that I have - positive associations with? But I don't know a lot of what I like better in practice."
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