"There were several excellent ideas in there.  It hadn't occured to me to use the tidal bore itself as our means of swift movement along the channel, with a [Locate Object] running."

"The difficulty is that if [Planetary Adaptation] is like [Planar Adaptation], it is just that, adaptation, not actually protection.  I would think it would let you breathe acid air and drink acid seas, but not breathe beneath an acid sea; for if you were a native humanoid of that planet you could not do that.  Maybe with clever targeting I could make the [spell] to treat a volcano as the relevant part of the planet to adapt to, and then swim in lava -- but I would not trust my [Spellcraft] to attain that on my first try."

"There is also the point that I was not given [Locate Object].  And yet, if I am truly connected to my [god] and It saw me truly, the [spells] I was [granted], suggest I should be able to solve this problem today, without [praying] again."

"As for the matter of whether I can work at a sustained pace -- you have seen me do it, Merrin.  But in addition to all your memories of our actual profession seeming to have been erased, you would also no longer have the concept of a [Belt] of +4 [Constitution]."

"If I was certain you were still the Merrin I remember, I would have no hesitation about offering to let you try on my [Belt] for a minute to reacquaint yourself with the concept.  As it stands, I must ask you explicitly if you will [swear] to return my [Belt] to me after a minute.  People are sometimes reluctant to give [ability] [enhancement] [items] back, the first time they try one on."

(The word [Belt] conveys that it is a [magic item] filling the [Belt] [slot], rather than any particular sort of clothing, but it does have a connotation of usually going about the waist.)

([Constitution] is an [ability score] that governs over [vitality], [Fortitude] [saves], and of course general healthfulness is the medical sense.)

(Esta has not neglected to notice the point where Merrin is now addressing him as if he were not of the 'dath ilan' that she remembers.  She is of course correct in this, but it still reflects a possible gulf opening wider.  Esta is in fact extremely reluctant to take off his Belt of Constitution, even temporarily and even with his no longer being injured -- but that's exactly what makes it a huge impressive token of trust, that might keep 'Merrin' trusting him as she trusted her Estha.)

"There were several excellent ideas in there.  It hadn't occured to me to use the tidal bore itself as our means of swift movement along the channel, with a [Locate Object] running."

"The difficulty is that if [Planetary Adaptation] is like [Planar Adaptation], it is just that, adaptation, not actually protection.  I would think it would let you breathe acid air and drink acid seas, but not breathe beneath an acid sea; for if you were a native humanoid of that planet you could not do that.  Maybe with clever targeting I could make the [spell] to treat a volcano as the relevant part of the planet to adapt to, and then swim in lava -- but I would not trust my [Spellcraft] to attain that on my first try."

"There is also the point that I was not given [Locate Object].  And yet, if I am truly connected to my [god] and It saw me truly, the [spells] I was [granted], suggest I should be able to solve this problem today, without [praying] again."

"As for the matter of whether I can work at a sustained pace -- you have seen me do it, Merrin.  But in addition to all your memories of our actual profession seeming to have been erased, you would also no longer have the concept of a [Belt] of +4 [Constitution]."

"If I was certain you were still the Merrin I remember, I would have no hesitation about offering to let you try on my [Belt] for a minute to reacquaint yourself with the concept.  As it stands, I must ask you explicitly if you will [swear] to return my [Belt] to me after a minute.  People are sometimes reluctant to give [ability] [enhancement] [items] back, the first time they try one on."

(The word [Belt] conveys that it is a [magic item] filling the [Belt] [slot], rather than any particular sort of clothing, but it does have a connotation of usually going about the waist.)

([Constitution] is an [ability score] that governs over [vitality], [Fortitude] [saves], and of course general healthfulness in the medical sense.)

(Esta has not neglected to notice the point where Merrin is now addressing him as if he were not of the 'dath ilan' that she remembers.  She is of course correct in this, but it still reflects a possible gulf opening wider.  Esta is in fact extremely reluctant to take off his Belt of Constitution, even temporarily and even with his no longer being injured -- but that's exactly what makes it a huge impressive token of trust, that might keep 'Merrin' trusting him as she trusted her Estha.)