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				 Re: Massive fatigue spells 
 Twan,
 I just checked, and the hypothesis turns out to be false. Some casters can overuse gems by more than 100%. I had a D6 caster scripted to do Shadow Blast x6, and his number of gems went like this:
 
 Pre-battle: 20
 Round 1 complete: 17
 Round 2: 14
 Round 3: 11
 Round 4: 5
 Round 5: 0
 
 Some weird things going on with usage there (at the beginning he's almost conservative), but at one point he's blowing 6 gems on a 100 fatigue spell when he's already +4 on levels.
 
 -Max
 
				__________________Bauchelain - "Qwik Ben iz uzin wallhax! HAX!"
 Quick Ben - "lol pwned"
 
 ["Memories of Ice", by Steven Erikson. Retranslated into l33t.]
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