The next morning was...Interesting, to say the least.
The first noise that reached Seth's ears in the morning was the cry of an angry nord woman.
"SEEEEEEEEEETH!" Shani shouted, shoving past the barely waking soldiers to approach the wizard who was just now waking up.
"Did you do this?" the werewolf asked, bringing a hand down to smack what was once a well-toned abdomen, but now was the resting place of a rather soft paunch. The entirety of Shani appeared a few shades thicker, in fact, though she didn't seem to have lost any weight. "They told me all wizards were twisted, but I didn't quite believe them." she said, her bad mood giving way into good humour as she recalled the numerous times this has happened before. "It's always a fuller frame or plumper breasts, isn't it when you wizards cast spells on women?"
"I assure this was not at all intentional." Seth said, getting to his feet. "Though I must say you look rather lovely with the extra curve to your form. But you know how my magic works, and that it won't hinder you.
"I don't know how it works, so could you care to enlighten me?" asked Ser Athen, who walked up with a full beard that reached down to his belt.
Seth stifled a chuckle and proceeded to explain. "Well, you should understand that mathematically, addition and subtraction are opposites. You can't do one and the other at the same time. If you try to add a negative number, you are in fact subtracting and not adding. You cannot work your way around this fact. The same is true of magic. Magic that adds things and magic that removes things are completely different sects. And while I can see that my spells have certainly 'added' things to dear Shani." he said this with another quick look at her frame. "I can see it hasn't subtracted anything at all. So while she does have a bit of extra girth, underneath it all is still the same hard-earned, toned musculature she has always had. She will still be able to perform at the same level, and at the rate we've been going, she'll likely have lost all of that extra weight within a week."
"I see. So is this permanent? I'm debating whether to go shave."
"Well, that depends. Certain effects are, certain ones aren't. While I'm fairly certain Shani is stuck with her curves until she works them off, and you will need to shave that beard, other people will be more than likely afflicted with less permanent maladies. Such as--"
"AAAAAAAAAAHHH!!!!!!! GIANT PURPLE SPIDER!!!! Oh and look, a cute tiny pink elephant."
"Hallucinations of oddly-sized, strangely-coloured animals and plants..." Seth finished, moving off to go see to the hallucinating person in question.
"Right, well, it doesn't seem like everybody was bothered." Athen said, watching Axel emerge from his tent completely unaffected. "Guess I'd better count myself lucky and go shave this off." with that he went to his tent to rectify his facial hair.
Sir walter appeared out of nowhere it seemed, completely unphased and unaffected by the happenings around him, and apprehended Seth.
"What happened, Seth? This is the first time this has happened in months."
"I'm...not quite sure, sir. It may have been the lack of sleep getting to me, but that feels unlikely. It seems more that there is something out there, deliberately interfering with my magic." the wizard responded as he pressed his hands to a delirious soldier's temples, his soothing magic doing its job correctly this time and alleviating him of his hallucinations.
"Hmm...Perhaps this is a sign we're getting closer to our objective." Walter said, stepping outside to survey the damage.
