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"Okay! For the very first test I'll cast Freedom of the Soul, then you'll know if any magic affects you at all.

Then Iulia will hit you with the Pride anointing when you get fed up of that, and that'll tell us if spiritual effects land on you.

We should also probably just take you into the chapel, that's got a Wisdom consecration room and that'll tell us if area spiritual effects hit you - and I guess we can test which parts of you they hit, if that turns out to be a thing?

Then we can decide whether you want to see if you can be item targeted - that's probably the important one to be honest because that means someone could target you with Words of Ending and that could be, bad. Or area targeted, but that just gives some general information stuff so it's probably not so threatening?

Oh, uh, did you want us to try to find a... we probably don't have one of the swords but the sentinels might have some of the armour, that lets you resist, like, this kind of complicated effect on you, first? And see if we can bond you to it? If you're just borrowing it that's basically free."

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"If Words of Ending does what it sounds like we should check that as soon as possible, I don't want to take risks that would hurt the people who depend on me at home if they go badly so that might make the rest of it moot. And I do have some secrets that I'd want to be prepared for if they got out, so I'll want to check the area targeting as well. Beyond that I'll defer to your expertise."

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"Okay, so if you really mean as soon as possible, Adolphus and I should do Bright Lantern right now, three mana, see if you count as a magic item. It might not be possible to target all of you with Words of Ending, it's only items and you're also a place, I'm not sure how to test whether Rising Roots That Rend Stone would do anything but if you're confident about physical damage that is basically physical damage, just a load of it sped up?"

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"The question I'd have about that one is whether it's localized, I'd hate for someone to lose an axle over it if it affects me in the other world. But if it's just here, or if we wait until everyone's made camp for the night, sure, I have no trouble repairing root damage. As to Words of Ending, it doesn't need to happen today, necessarily - I'll want to know before I make any more claims here but I have no specific plans to do that - but if it turns out badly there's not very much point in doing any other tests, since I'll need to abandon any claims as soon as someone seems to be casting in a potentially hostile way on them at all."

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"Well, let's not borrow trouble then; let's do the test we first thought of and see if you're targetable as a person.

If you'll hold still for a couple of minutes, I just need to pop some candles down and bend some Night magic Janon-wards - I might call on you for responses a couple of times, the point is to say whatever you feel like, as long as you don't loudly revoke your consent or run out of the circle or something then it'll be fine."

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"Sure. Just here?"

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"Just here should do fine." He reaches into a large pocket hidden in his voluminous robes and pulls out some little stubby black candles, and starts setting them up in a circle around Kiraavi's obvious person shaped body. Ke whispers "Zorech", which appears to be some kind of magic technical term encompassing emotion and passion, to each of them as he lights them with a flick of the fingers. They burn with a slightly eerie greenish light.

Then he straightens up and faces Kiraavi, with quite intense eye contact (which previously he'd been kind of avoiding a bit), from within the circle. "How are you feeling?" he asks.

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He watches the candle-lighting procedure with clear interest, but doesn't hesitate to make eye contact when it's called for. "Fine. Excited to be here, to put it mildly; a little worried about that other spell."

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