All that said, I have no problem with you suffering for unwise timing of commands. If you start a Plant Growth ritual and someone jumps you, more power to them. IC, it presumably involves great concentration (hence the time involved), and it's logical that if someone did surprise you then, they'd get in some licks.

It's similar to why we let people die if they clog their command buffer with goofy commands. ("Lash! Lash! Lash!", or the guy bashing 10 rounds after being disarmed.)

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