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MALVASIAN:
Naturally. An experienced battlemage always knows a few
minor but highly effective spells for just such a trial.
I take it you, too, have a few tricks up your sleeve?
INZOLIAH: Of course, like you said.
They pause for a moment before continuing as a fearful
wail pierces the air. When it dies away, they slowly trudge
on.
INZOLIAH: Just as an intellectual exercise, I wonder what
spell you would cast at me if we made it out of here without
any more combat.
MALVASIAN: I hope you're not implying that I would dream
of killing you so I would keep the treasure all to myself.
INZOLIAH: Of course not, nor would I do that to you. It
is merely an intellectual exercise.
MALVASIAN: Well, in that case, purely as an intellectual
exercise, I would probably cast a leech spell on you,
to take away your life force and heal myself. After all,
there are brigands on the road between here and Silvenar,
and a wounded battlemage with a valuable artifact would
make a tempting target. I'd hate to survive Eldengrove
merely to die in the open.
INZOLIAH: That's a well-reasoned response. As for myself,
again, not saying I would ever do this, but I think a
simple, sudden electrical bolt would serve my purposes
admirably. I agree about the danger of brigands, but don't
forget, we also have a potion of healing. I could easily
slay you and heal myself to full capacity.
MALVASIAN: Very true. It would end up a question then
of whose spell was more effective at that instant. If
our spells counteracted one another and I leeched your
life energy only to be crippled by your lightning bolt,
then we could both be killed. Or so near death that a
mere potion of healing would scarcely help either one
of us, let alone both. How ironic it would be if two scheming
battlemages, not saying we are scheming but for the purpose
of this intellectual exercise, were left on the brink
of death, completely drained of magicka, with one healing
potion to choose from. Who would get it then?
INZOLIAH: Logically, whoever drank it first, which in
this case would be you since you're holding it. Now, what
if one of us were injured, but not killed?
MALVASIAN: Logic would dictate that a scheming battlemage
would take the potion, leaving the injured party to the
mercy of the elements, I suppose.
INZOLIAH: That does seem most sensible. But suppose that
the battlemages, while certainly scheming types, had a
certain respect for one another. Perhaps in that case,
the victorious one might, for instance, put the potion
up a tree near his or her gravely wounded victim. Then
when the wounded party had enough magicka replenished,
he or she would be able to levitate to the tree branches
and recover the potion. By that time, the victorious battlemage
would have already collected the reward.
They pause for a moment at the sound of something in
the bushes nearby. Carefully, they climb across the branches
of a tree to bypass it.
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