Knock Knock

[Demon of Fides]

"Milord?" Nicholas' secretary poked his head in from the next room.
"Yes?"
"A Micron envoy has come to see you."
A look of concentration crossed Nicholas face as he tried to work out what to do.
"Send him in."
The doors opened slowly and a tall figure strode in, cloak billowing around his armour with a set of panpipes across his chest.
"My lord, Emperor."
"Welcome, envoy."
"My name is Carson Beckett, TRIPLE CHANNEL NULL, Demon of Fides."
Nicholas slumped forward as he was released from Al'Margoths mind control. He picked himself up and stared at the Micron, "Fides? Y-you Traitor!"
"I had to, I remembered it happening. When you start remembering the future, you can have a go at not paradoxically assassinating yourself."
"Baal, and Lilith?"
"Dead, they died in each others arms. They knew it would happen, and when."
"I'm sorry,"
"It had to happen."
"And this? You remember freeing me?"
"No, I'm as surprised as you are, we must find Kane."
"Why?"
"I'll explain later, I remember bits and pieces of what happens next."
"So what does happen next?"
"I cant tell you, I just have to go along with it and try to look surprised."
"Can you heal me of Al'Margoths control completely?"
"It'll take a few seconds, then we can go."

Summary: Fides is back... As a Micron Medic. He frees Nicholas from the mind control and they go after Kane.

[Demon of Fides]

Andreas has brought it to my attention that I cant heal him, so I'm keeping him nulled until we can find Kane.

[Nicholas the Mad]

Err, not that I'm not happy that you freed me, but... I was heal mind-controlled, which means null does nothing except stop me casting, right? And you wouldn't have known I was heal-mind controlled to fix it.

[Demon of Fides]

I know everything Lilith Knew, and Andreas said that null would keep it at bay, otherwise Lachlan would still be controlled.

[Graham Lot]

No. I specified the three types of enchantments used. Nicholas, Gerk and Liam have the hardest one to detect; but the second easiest to stop. The other's (apart from Casa's men) have the easiest to detect, easy to delay, but hard to stop. Null works on Lachlan. It doesn't affect Nicholas.

However, IC, Lilith is the only one who'd know about the heals, so it makes perfect sense for a Fides to seek out and stop them.

[Demon of Fides]

Well, I've worked out I can so the spell in 21 seconds (RANK 21 FTW!) So if I may doctor my move (As Andreas said, Lilith would have known this and not done something as stupid as what I just did), I'd like to make that null a binding and gagging spell, whereapon I used the healing spell at maximum speed. 22 seconds later Nicholas is free.

[Graham Lot]

NO NO NO. Heal takes 1 hour. 1 hour. Even a rank 21 is only allowed to cast spells at DC 15, and so will take something like 59 minutes, 40 seconds or the like.

And this is out of SCOWL (it's not in the SCOWL forum) so you didn't make a 'move' as such.

[Demon of Fides]

My mistake, I though it was 1 min, not 1 hour. But, rules say I can decrease the spell 3seconds for every DC I increase.

[Graham Lot]

Yes. And the rules also say you can only (and I repeat) cast spells up to DC 15. No more. Why do you think so many people are rank 15? Beyond that is only useful for multiple Armageddon's in a day, and casting 7 spells at once. You can still only cast spells up to DC 15.

[Demon of Fides]

Oh well, I've just fixed up the inconsistencies in my new deployment, so I hope that fixes the problem.

[Demon of Fides]

Well, I've worked out I can so the spell in 21 seconds (RANK 21 FTW!) So if I may doctor my move (As Andreas said, Lilith would have known this and not done something as stupid as what I just did), I'd like to make that null a binding and gagging spell, whereapon I used the healing spell at maximum speed. 22 seconds later Nicholas is free.

So can I doctor my move? Obviously the time above is wrong, but can I change that move to something on the lines above?

[Graham Lot]

You can say that you'll cast Heal on him for an hour, yes.

[Demon of Fides]

Good, so one hour later, Nicholas is free, and in the presence of a rank 21 mage. Where to now, milord?

[Nicholas the Mad]

Can you make the move in the SCOWL forum just so its official?

[Gerk]

how 'bout me next?

[Demon of Fides]

It might be a good idea to have the judge onside... Or the same trick might not work twice.