Practice.

Yes, well, thank you very much, then.  Sorry for the interrupt, hope it wasn't too bothersome.

Keltham shows himself out.

The girls have mostly finished lunch and are preparing spells or in Carissa's case copying new ones out of a Security's spellbook.

He shall obtain a bit more lunch for himself, and remind all of them that he's asking for Fox's Cunnings to spread around, and going forwards, let him know if there's something he can do with his own spell slots to make up for that.

They're preparing Fox's Cunning and will ...count on him for incidental healing? They mostly only get a couple second-circle spells but are used to those being non-personal-discretion, they're not displacing anything.

Keltham is under the impression that one should not engage wizards in conversation while they are preparing spells!  Thus, he should not resume conversation with for example Meritxell.  This will probably take a while?

He'll gawk for a bit with Detect Magic, and then maybe see what policy is about engaging Securities in conversation while they're on-duty.

"We can answer questions but should call backup if you seem to want more than a simple question answered."

"I'm actually wondering a bit about - some books mentioned scrolls, which sound like single-use casts, I've been keeping some of my own slots full with various emergency or contingency spells.  Like an Early Judgment for an emergency emotional stability restoration, or Sending in case I get successfully lost somehow, or kidnapped without being spellblocked."

"If I'm loading as many Owl's Wisdoms as possible tomorrow, it'd be useful to have, for example, an Early Judgment single-use and Sending single-use, so that my emergency contingencies aren't occupying my actual spellslots.  Probably also requires something to carry them in, if they aren't quite small."

"Scrolls take skill to use, and can backfire if you're not experienced using them. They're harder to use the higher-circle the spell they imitate. I can put in a requisition if you want to plan on spending some time learning how to read them."

This does seem like a good emergency capability for Keltham to have, and will free up his spellslots and so occupy fewer Security spellslots with his requests.

Keltham should maybe practice his own magic, trying to hang his first 1st-circle wizard spell.  Can someone with an illusion and arcane sight help him bulldoze the early stages again?

Then Security will put in a requisition for some training scrolls for him and then scrolls of emergency backup spells one he's mastered those, and help with an illusion while he attempts to hang a first-circle spell.

Keltham attempts to BE A WIZARD.  Well.  More of one.  Apparently if it's just the cantrips you are not a proper wizard.

It takes fresh wizard students at least a year to learn first-circle spells, but they are typically significantly younger, and don't often have an Arcane-Sight aided illusion so they can see exactly what they're doing, and ones as smart as him are awfully rare. He doesn't have it quite down by the time the girls are done preparing their spells but he's getting tantalizingly close. 

Being a wizard is pretty tantalizing, yes.  What if he tries for an additional eight minutes?

Okay at this point it feels like it should be working but somehow even when he's holding the magic in what looks like the exact right place it doesn't.

Does the Very Experienced Expert helping him have any advice to say about that?

"- might be a limitation of barreling at it from the illusion-visual angle as hard as one possibly can? Close your eyes, feel the magic, or plausibly take a break and go do something completely different for six hours and then try closing your eyes and feeling the magic."

He'll close his eyes and try feeling the magic.

If that doesn't work, yeah, he'll come back in six hours.

It maybe makes it feel perceptually clearer what's not quite in the right place for the spell to hang yet? It doesn't make the spell magically behave itself.

Eh.  If he's not still in the same place as yesterday, he's making progress, and that's good enough given the standard speed of such things.  It seems Keltham isn't above comparing himself to Golarion about wizardry.

So since experience has suggested that people will not just tell Keltham things he might want to know, without him asking:

Is there such a thing as a one-use item of Sending which doesn't need scroll-reading to work?

Is there a way to take an Owl's Wisdom that would hit one person, and pay a reasonable amount of resources, and make it hit twelve people?  Or two people?

Is there a way Keltham can store a cleric spell and make it go off later without it still occupying a slot?

Is there anything people do to get more spell slots?

1) No one has heard of such a magic item and they wouldn't expect it to exist, Sending's the kind of spell that's hard to make into a magic item.

2) Mass Owl's Wisdom is sixth circle but it does exist and would get all the girls at once. The High Priestess can have it tomorrow.

3) No, short of building a magic item that casts that cleric spell, which does among other steps involve casting the spell into the item.

4) Over time wizards notice efficiencies and can eke out more spells. Clerics tend to get more spells from their god as they rise in their god's service. That's about it. 

(Keltham is not authorized to know about Pearls of Power because more spell slots for Keltham makes their lives harder.)

Does it happen to be the case that - possibly only after his relationship with Carissa deepens enough - he can collaborate with her in a way where she makes most of the Sending or Early Judgment item and Keltham casts the spell into it?

(It's been repeatedly mentioned how good Carissa is at enchanting items, this should play a role in the eroLARP somehow. </trope-thinking>)