Motif · Book 8, A Parade of Horribles
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The ninth floor's spell for pressing the unaffiliated into an army — service until the end of the floor, a no-healing debuff for those who refuse to fight — which Mind Balance resists, which Carl will not use on a friend ('Never like that'), and which the war mages get in a hell-kissed potion from Krakaren Prime that works on most deities and is likely suicide for a caster of too low a level: Harpocrates at level 250 on the Princess Posse's roster, and a girl who cannot be ordered to understand. Potions of it work only on floors 9, 12, 15, 17 and 18.
Segment appearances
Progression
Lucia's hotlist from when she was conscripted turns up in a box (ch. 10).