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You take a moment to refresh yourself on some stuff to make sure you remember everything. You trust Lisa, and [Remind] is a pretty simple spell, but it's always a good idea to check.
Curses are a form of spell that function by forcing the user to continuously recast it until it's solved or otherwise removed. Curses aren't necessarily bad things, although they often are. They're recursive. Some of the earliest offensive mana-burn spells were simple curses that didn't do anything at all, but repeated themselves infinitely fast until the target ran dry and was unable to recast the spell. Modern monster slayers have defenses against simple infinite loops, but actually detecting an obfuscated infinite loop isn't exactly easy to do automagically.
[God's Curse] is easiest to understand when you look at its intended use. Gods are born formless, and [God's Curse] is an Oath intended to define what sort of deity they are. Gods like Joy and Linus cast their first spell in order to choose a physical form. It's just that you already had a form and were unaware of your bloodline as a child and spent it on something stupid. [God's Curse] is named because it suits the curse taxonomy, but it's older than humanity.
Breaking [God's Curse] isn't interesting just as a means to enable you to hurt things, but rather because many problems are equivalent to [God's Curse]. Solving it would make a lot of proofs trivial and open up a lot of doors. That being said, you've spent your whole life with it and you don't see it being solved any time in the near future. You put it in your abandoned quests a long time ago. Still, whenever Harmy needs to test something that he thinks might work, you're happy to help. Usually. At any rate, you trust him. And as he says, if he ever does manage to hurt you that would mean he's found a new super weapon.
[Soft Touch] is much simpler with the modern version writable in only 8 lines. The original version you cast as a child required 40 lines but doesn't require any external libraries. [Soft Touch] is cheap. It's not free so it doesn't qualify as a Cantrip, but it's still cheap enough that even civilians can cast it. The constant casting and recasting affected you quite a lot as a child, but today you don't even feel it.
PUR is short for purity. There's also a common backronym which is Patch-Up Restore. PUR is a proprietary stat used by Evangate White Mages that serves much of the same functions as INT, MAT, GHE, and PHE. The main difference between PUR and other standard stats is that Evangate spells are written to work only with PUR, not anything to do with the underlying stat itself. High PUR comes with the ability to heal stronger targets, as well as boost your passive HP and MP regen. Yours regenerates at a rate so absurdly high that you instantly come back from being reduced to ashes. Encyclonet users like to make a game out of trying to come up with convoluted plots to kill you, usually involving Lores and Jinxes. So far the best guess is throwing you into the sun, although you're not entirely sure if that'd be enough.
People from Moncrefe view gender a little strangely to you, having grown up in a traditional small town with not very many people, but it works for them and their large city. Basically "Gender" means "The combination of style, orientation, and aesthetic a person carries to help visually identify themselves to potential mates and help exclude themselves from the pool of potential mates of undesirables." As for "Woman" that is just the gender that seemed to suit you best after you looked at a long list of them. Most of the White Mages identity as Lass, which is basically shorthand for single and not looking. Some of them also go by Tomboy or Lipstick Lesbian. Lisa selected Cute Witch and while you don't think it's particularly fitting you've found that it's best to keep those thoughts to yourself concerning Lisa.
Gap Closer is White Mage slang for a person who makes stuff up to fill in the gaps in their memory when they're hit with amnesia. Lisa determined you were one when you insisted your name was Rudy. Gap Closers are pretty common, making up about 12% of people. White magic spells usually don't have side effects and whenever they do it usually makes the caster a little uncomfortable.
As for your talents being better spent elsewhere, there is no shortage of White Mages. Evangate has hospitals in every city and blue cities have an Evangate RestBed® in every home. You're much better utilized here in R&D, even if at this moment you might as well be unassigned for all the progress you've made in the last two seasons.
Finally, that banner ad is there because you didn't feel like paying for the full version of your stats screen on your PDA. Luckily it doesn't show up on your quest log, which is what you mostly use the app for now that you and your sister don't adventure much anymore.
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