[profoundly backdated]

[10_20_15_5_50]

[private to Rathan]

Hello.

[That Sam isn't opening with her usual 'hey' isn't insignificant; given that she's not yet met this Guardian---she knows he's a recommended resource for magical information, and a dragon, and that's all---to be respectful is only appropriate.]

I'm sorry to bother you, but if you've the time to, I'd like to meet up to talk. I've got a couple of questions, and Irja suggested I take them to you.

[private to Wing]

Hey, man. Suppose you'd be free sometime this evening? Got a conversation I want to have with you, and I'd rather have it in person, but don't worry, it's not bad news or anything.

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[do_not_meddle]

[Rathan's brow quirks higher, but he listens in silence. The dragon has traveled enough to know that rituals can be strange . . . though even he has to admit that this is probably one of the weirder ones, especially if it actually does work (as opposed to being a haze inflicted on new guild or coven members, which he's seen or heard of some REALLY bizarre and sometimes absurdly demanding "rituals"). At the end, he just nods.]

Is the first stirring clockwise, then? Does the three minutes have to be taken with all different disease names, or can there be repetitions, and are they restricted to human-susceptible diseases? Lastly, must all the coins be used at once, or does this ritual then yield twenty-one uses, and are any single coins reusable without another ritual if the one using them can retrieve them from the machine?

[It might surprise Sam that he's taking it seriously, but hey - for one, again, for all he knows, it /is/ a serious, real ritual, and for two, not like he /needs/ it to return with what the human has requested.]