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Message: <blockquote data-quote="spyscribe" data-source="post: 1928593" data-attributes="member: 5808">The Sidebar that had to be posted on Christmas: Loot!The next day, Annika does prepare and cast identify.  Lira watches, dumbfounded, as Annika spends hours tracing arcane symbols on the ground, sprinkling gold dust over the lines, and chanting constantly.There is a good reason, she thinks, why I have never met a sorcerer who knows this spell… Why doesn’t she just do it already?Although Annika began her preparations almost as soon as she arose that morning, it is late afternoon when she settles herself in the center of the diagram she has prepared, and picks up the first of the magic items the party uncovered in their search of Sheesak’s hoard.The symbol she has traced on the ground begins to give off a golden glow, then, the glow rises off the ground and with an almost audible >snap< coalesces around her eyes.  Annika stops chanting, and slowly picks up the hunting horn Sheesak wore at her belt.  She speaks, almost as though she were in a trance.  “summon nature’s ally 4 once per day, sound the horn to activate.”She picks up the next object, a withered and desiccated hand.  “mage hand, at will…” She repeats the process with the big not-evil rock, (no reading), and one of several seemingly magical sticks the party found, (“Barkskin, cast as scroll.”)The golden glow fades from her eyes, and Annika blinks rapidly, refocusing back to the more mundane realm.“What about the other items?” Lira asks her.Annika shakes her head.  “I can only identify four things off one casting.  I’ll have to do it again tomorrow.”Lira just nods and walks away without saying anything.  To Euro she thinks: There is a very good reason I don’t know any sorcerers who can cast that spell.Got that right, Boss.The following day Annika casts identify two more times, and is able to discover the purposes and properties of the remaining eight magical sticks in Sheesak’s hoard.  She finds three more of barkskin, four of bull’s strength, and one of dominate animal.</blockquote>

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