One round, Naima is very, very bored, tapping baby after baby in Katheer with her awesome magical powers.

The next round, several things happen. One of the women with babies pricks her with something sharp - a ring, of some kind - and draws blood, before slipping back into the crowd. She recognizes almost immediately that it's some kind of fast-acting poison, probably magically enhanced, and that it's killing her.

Now, for a normal person - well, a normal adventurer of her level and wealth profile - dying wouldn't be such a big deal. She can easily afford a resurrection. Unfortunately, she doesn't think she's very resurrectable, because she's pretty sure that she's a centuries-old witch whose soul will be fairly immediately reincarnated into the body of a newborn baby after she dies, and that is, actually, a big deal. Kind of a life-ruining sort of deal.

She could dispel magic on herself. It won't work to stop the poison, she doesn't think, even if the poison is also magical. She didn't prep neutralize poison today; she hadn't been expecting to need it. She could easily cure the poison if she had minutes, but from the way her vision is already fading at the edges, she suspects that she has more like a round or two.

Instead of trying to dispel the effect, then, she reaches for the bracelet that Élie gave her on her wedding day. It's by far the most valuable piece of wedding jewelry he gave her, and he'd spent quite a lot of time designing the item himself. More importantly, the bracelet has the ability to call him to her side, instantly, from anywhere, up to four times in total before being used up. It had come with the promise that wherever she was, no matter what happened, if she ever needed him, then he would be there for her, instantly. It had come on the heels of the incident where she'd gotten stuck in the Arthfell forest, alone, and been subsequently attacked by fairies - a promise that nothing like that would happen to her again, ever, because next time she would be able to summon him to help her. She'd felt that it was probably one of the most romantic gifts that anyone had ever given anybody else.

Someone attacked me and I think I might be dying, she sends, along with the image of her assailant, and then rips off one beautiful magic charm to summon her husband.

One round, Naima is very, very bored, tapping baby after baby in Katheer with her awesome magical powers.

The next round, several things happen. One of the women with babies pricks her with something sharp - a ring, of some kind - and draws blood, before slipping back into the crowd. She recognizes almost immediately that it's some kind of fast-acting poison, probably magically enhanced, and that it's killing her.

Now, for a normal person - well, a normal adventurer of her circle and wealth profile - dying wouldn't be such a big deal. She can easily afford a resurrection. Unfortunately, she doesn't think she's very resurrectable, because she's pretty sure that she's a centuries-old witch whose soul will be fairly immediately reincarnated into the body of a newborn baby after she dies, and that is, actually, a big deal. Kind of a life-ruining sort of deal.

She could dispel magic on herself. It won't work to stop the poison, she doesn't think, even if the poison is also magical. She didn't prep neutralize poison today; she hadn't been expecting to need it. She could easily cure the poison if she had minutes, but from the way her vision is already fading at the edges, she suspects that she has more like a round or two.

Instead of trying to dispel the effect, then, she reaches for the bracelet that Élie gave her on her wedding day. It's by far the most valuable piece of wedding jewelry he gave her, and he'd spent quite a lot of time designing the item himself. More importantly, the bracelet has the ability to call him to her side, instantly, from anywhere, up to four times in total before being used up. It had come with the promise that wherever she was, no matter what happened, if she ever needed him, then he would be there for her, instantly. It had come on the heels of the incident where she'd gotten stuck in the Arthfell forest, alone, and been subsequently attacked by fairies - a promise that nothing like that would happen to her again, ever, because next time she would be able to summon him to help her. She'd felt that it was probably one of the most romantic gifts that anyone had ever given anybody else.

Someone attacked me and I think I might be dying, she sends, along with the image of her assailant, and then rips off one beautiful magic charm to summon her husband.