Put it under pressure
Scene test: a miracle worker racing toward a grand rescue must first understand what ordinary petitioners actually need. A wish that is easy to satisfy literally may be hard to satisfy honestly.
A miracle begins with somebody else’s small wish.
A powerful endgame ability can still send the protagonist back into ordinary lives.
What the rule allows
The reference guide describes fulfilling other people’s wishes and building up from small wishes before realizing greater miracles and the user’s own wishes.
Where it stops
The ability requires accumulated fulfillment; it is not permission to grant any desire immediately. Similar wishes from the same person cannot simply be repeated in a short time.
Design the response
Avoid treating people as interchangeable charging stations. Let a petitioner’s request create an obligation that survives the reward.
Your next design decision
Independent rule: a healer earns one restoration miracle by keeping five freely accepted promises; each must meet the recipient's stated need. Four are complete. Before a collapsed mine is reopened, the fifth petitioner asks her to testify that the mine's patron concealed an unsafe support. That patron is paying for the pumps needed to reach the injured and threatens to withdraw them. The petitioner wants the concealment on record to protect future workers, not merely to help the healer gain power. She can testify and seek replacement pumps, negotiate continued funding without changing the testimony, or decline this promise and find another person she can help in time.
Write the petitioner's request in their own words. What help must the healer arrange so keeping the promise does not abandon the rescue?
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Source & optional English reading
Lord of Mysteries · Cuttlefish That Loves Diving
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Publisher reference guide, Fool pathway, Sequence 2: Miracle Invoker.
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