Thanks! Will give it a shot and will duly update with results. Not sure whether I feel glad that at least part of my suffering isn't from laziness on my part, or worried that I seem to be living in the magical equivalent of Chernobyl. Oh well, that's how life goes. At least this explains some stuff that otherwise would be hard to explain.

Now I only wonder how it is that things got this bad. Any suggestions on understanding what caused this level of toxicity? I tried divination but I'm still hopelessly bad at interpreting the tarot, so it wasn't much help.

- furnax