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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Joshua Randall" data-source="post: 9556728" data-attributes="member: 7737">136The class for the Light spell meets in the basement. (Of course.) We and our fellow novices take the staircase behind our father's statue down to an area "hollowed from solid basalt", either by years of digging, or by something that "sliced through rock as if it were black butter."The young adept teaching the class has already cast the Light spell on himself, or more precisely, on the area just above his head where a bright globe of yellow hangs suspended.We ask why the adept emphasizes the pronunciation of the second vowel in the "spellword" when he explains it. The other novices gasp at our audacity: no one interrupts "the red-robed cadre".But have we mentioned that we are THE Carr Delling? Descendant of an ARCHMAGE whose power filled the GODS THEMSELVES with fear and whose statue we JUST PASSED on our way down here!The adept counters with that age-old teacher's trick: "You tell me, Delling. Why IS the second vowel so important?" He asks us to demonstrate by casting the spell.The other novices, enjoying the confrontation, watch with interest as we step forward, raise our arms above our head, and clap three times in rapid succession.We make an INT test.(154) if 22 or more(195) if lessWe roll 6 & 2, add it to our base INT 16, and get a 24. Success!</blockquote>