Whenever you cure with a -herb-, you get afflicted. Anything else works fine.

Can't go for Absolve if you use Inquisition, at least, not without refreshing power. And without Inquisition, you need a beast to use sleepcloud to strip kafe after aura heals insomnia.

Also, are you certain of Quickening lasting that short? I seem to recall reading a few logs containing quickening timers, and while I don't recall the exact number, I could swear it lasted more than ten seconds. From initiated to dropped. I also recall an argument that you could get in four amissio chants in one quickening.

In most cases (with average lag) i can get about 3 eq abilities in the time of a quickening. 4 seems possible if you have a speedy connection.

Hrm. That was before the racial balances were cut in half, but it might still be doable with racial eq bonus. You can't use much else in addition to the quickening though. Perhaps an aurawarp, some hindering with ice wall building and such while you regain one power, and sipping hindering until you can quicken enough amissio to bring the target below half.

But then again, that'll require an eq bonus, so you should probably disregard that.