Standing up took four attempts.
The first two I have already described. The third got me fully vertical for approximately three seconds before my movement speed deficit expressed itself as a coordination problem and I caught the shrine's stone altar with both hands and stayed there, using it as a structural support while my body ran its inventory of what was working and what was running at reduced capacity.
Everything was running at reduced capacity.
The fourth attempt I kept one hand on the altar until I was certain the floor was going to remain cooperative, then let go and stood in the blue light of the Meadowbrook shrine and took stock.
My body was whole. The system had returned it to full HP, no wounds, no bleeding, no acid damage accruing in the status panel. From the outside I lo
