After the Ghouls

Continued from Backtracking

The DM: What does the party wish to do now?

Lexent: Do I need a night's rest before being able to commit my new spells to memory, or merely the time to pray for them?

The DM: Committing new spells to memory IS praying for them. Yes, you will need 15 minutes per spell per level of spell. You will need to sleep six hours before you can relearn spells you’ve used today, but you can pray for the new spells right now.

Lexent: I'm somewhat keen to take the time necessary to gain access to those new spells, but I also don't want any loose ghouls to be able to sneak up on us, so we should probably see what the situation is down that hallway first.

Lexent: The good roll on Medicine was a welcome consolation prize for not making it up to amatuer in Dweomercraft. I was really hoping to improve my turning.

The DM: Effectively, a cleric doesn’t “memorize” ... the cleric meditates, prays, then becomes aware of when the power of the spell has been bestowed onto them from the outside. Lexent will be aware now that his spells are coming from the Plane of Ysgard, or Asgard, an assembly of floating continents including the Den of Olidammara, Jotunheim, Valiant Hall and the Plain of Ida; these float over a huge land called Muspelheim, with an subterranean realm below that called Nidavellir. I’ll go ahead and steal from the Forgotten Realms and say that the Gnomish gods dwell on a small floating continent called “The Golden Hills,” whereat your gods come from.