<blockquote class="uncited"><div>Reizu stood up carefully as she spoke these words. "I am with you all the way!"<br/><br/>OOC:Let's assume Ptricia and Reizu had a private talk. (*cough* PMs *cough*)</div></blockquote><br/><br/>OOC: Let's not. That was me OOC asking your permission. Theree was no chance for her to have a private talk IC. I know you might want to get it over with, but trust me, half the fun is in the anticipation.<br/><br/><blockquote class="uncited"><div>As the image fades, Chris sags and drops out of his trance, blinking as his eyes return to their normal colour. Running over to her he says "Ptricia! Are you alright? What happened? What's gonna happen now? What do we do? Again, just generally what?"</div></blockquote><br/><br/><blockquote class="uncited"><div>Edit: I just got it. Hu, Ra and Upshe rises? I could kill you. &gt;_&gt;</div></blockquote><br/><br/>OOC: Then my work here is done!<img alt=":-D" src="./images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif" title="Very Happy"/><br/><br/>"You may not be so eager when you hear what I have to say, Reizu." Ptricia moves back and lies down, making a steeple of her lower forelegs and forepaws to rest her head on.<br/><br/>"I've got good news and bad news. The good news is I know exactly how that spell is put together, what it's doing, how it's doing it, and how to fix things. The bad news is also that I know exactly how that spell is put together, what it's doing, how it's doing it, and how to fix things."<br/><br/>"The first spell worked without a hitch. I got a detailed read on the collar, and it's not nice. It's tied into your morphic field, the spiritual representation of your body. The snakes are the attack element, and the seal binds the whole into it, with a nasty secondary effect. It's so tightly bound to your morphiic field that any damage to the seal causes equal damage to the body. Though I didn't find that out for sure until later." She brought her paw up to the purpling bruise on the side of her face.<br/><br/>"It was only triggering attacks when you reached certain emotional states, but something's happened. It's now continually attacking your body, and you don't have that long left. I did what I could to defend you, but it's feeding off your own life energy. It'll be relentless until there's nothing left. The only way to stop it from destroying your body is removing the seal, and that is a complex job, not beyond me if I had days to work up what we needed, but we only have hours.<br/><br/>"That's why I tried the brute force approach. I hoped the binding wasn't as closely coupled as it turns out it is. Just be glad I wasn't calling on the amplifying power of the philosophers stone just then. It would have been like attacking it with a broadsword rather than a scalpel. It would certainly destroyed the seal, but there wouldn't have been enough of you left to mummify. The reason I had to take the damage myself was that I'd promised you you'd be safe. If I'd left the hurt I'd done you unhealed, it would have weakened my other spells."<br/><br/>She sighed, "Don't worry, there is a way to use the very nature of the seal against it. Since it's tied so closely to your existing body, I could use my reformation spell to create a duplicate, and transfer your spirit into it. The collar can then destroy your old body without it harming you. The only problem is, the reformation spell only works on people I just ate. It appears the only way out of your predicament is through my alimentary canal. I can use the power of the philosophers stone to safely tweak things so you shouldn't feel any pain, but with the best will in the world, you aren't going to be comfortable."<br/><br/>OOC: Now you can be gung ho. I'll be back on in an hour or so, after I have dinner.