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Prison guard Carl once tried and failed to save from the god Ogun by casting Black Nimbus.
As he curses Mork, Carl recalls the only other time he ever cast Black Nimbus. On the last floor he tried to save the prison guard Anton from the god Ogun by casting it on him, hoping to sever the connection.
It hadn't worked. The memory is a quick, sour beat in the middle of a plan that is otherwise going better than expected — and a reminder that stripping a god's grace saves nobody.
Not described in this chapter; recalled only in memory.
A past failure Carl remembers while succeeding at the same spell for a very different reason.
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