Spellcasters hate this fact but if you just stick your fingers in their mouth while they're casting a spell with a verbal component it's literally more effective than a counter spell. This also works with pinning their hands against the wall when they're trying to use somatic components.
Basically if you make out sloppy style while pressed against a wall the spellcasters can't do anything -- Anon Guest
[AN: And I have to keep this story PG. Thanks Nonny. Not]
Adventurers don't have to do advanced magic to counter a wizard. All they need is enough proximity and a blatant disregard for personal boundaries. The Bard, Rickard Cagodor was just one of those Adventurers.
It was a winning strategy, but not the most heroic. The best words to describe it is "problematic at best". In brief, if there's a wicked wizard trying to kill them all, Rickard would get within grappling range and suck face. With an option for aggressive hand-holding as well. None of this with any permission.
It's bad manners to make out with anyone without their permission. It's worse manners to do that with a plan to literally stab them in the back. It makes a lot of vengeful ghosts, to say the least of it.
In the end, Rickard got a certain amount of kharmic realignment.
Faced against a necromancer, who recruited willing souls to hir cause, Rickard attempted his 'winning' strategy once more. He expected the Enemies-to-Lovers speedrun, followed by the usual "curse your sudden and inevitable betrayal" when he killed hir.
He did not expect Fatic the Necromancer to have the spell Soul Suck.
All that one required was direct mouth-to-mouth contact.
Fatic let Rickard's dried-out husk of a corpse fall, and blew his spirit into a prepared bottle. Sealing it with part of an Orc tusk and special twine. "You will harm no more hearts." Ze would give the soul bottle to Wraithvine, to put where he could do the most good.
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