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    • "Thanks again for getting all that stuff for me. It's been such a pain without..." Dawn said as we made our way across Thunder Bluff from the market with the packs of herbs.

    I quickly interrupted her however, "I'll make due without the details, Thank you very much."

    The plan was for me to help her with the brewing. Not only would I learn stuff, very useful stuff, but we should be able to finish more potions in less time working together.

    Never mind that if it turned out it was actually physical properties that did it, not magic... I could make a dead fortune on getting a potion analyzed if I get it to a civilized world. That would be one kind of tech I wouldn't mind selling to pretty much any civilization I would run across.

    I was carrying several large packs of potion ingredients, mostly for healing potions.

    Dawn rolled her eyes playfully, "Men."

    I simply shook my head as we moved past a group of Orcs, "By the way, I was meaning to speak to you about this war thing."

    "Oh?" Dawn asked as she stopped to look at me, "Not going to try to talk me out of it, will you? Because I promised Master Cloudsong."

    I nodded as I stopped and turned to face her, "Yes, I know that and it is not it. We need to get you some proper armor."

    Dawn blinked and looked down at her chest, "What's wrong with this?"

    "Well, for one thing I have seen swimsuits that are more covering." I said, shifting my heavy bags to my left hand before poking her bare stomach with my right index finger, "Face it, You are arrow bait like this. Not to mention sword, axe, spell, fire and hammer bait as well."

    She rolled her eyes, "Oh come on! You're wearing a normal cloth shirt!"

    I nodded, "Yes and I intend to find me something more protective before we roll out."

    Dawn shook her head with a frown, "My current armor is perfectly functional."

    "The hell it is." I said, giving her another poke, causing her to step back, "You would be dead in ten minutes and then I need to deal with your sister for not keeping you safe. She would have my head for it, so you need some proper armor, no matter how good you think what you have looks."

    Dawn smiled at me and then put put her own package of herbs down, "Ok then. Hit me."

    "What?" I asked, frowning back.

    She nodded "Hit me. In the stomach. Go on."

    "I'm not going to hit you!" I exclaimed. What the hell was she thinking?

    "My armor is perfectly functional! I'll prove it. Hit me."

    Now I was curious. Dawn was not stupid... but her stomach was completely uncovered by her so called armor.


    I gave her a curious look and then quickly made a fist and jabbed her in the stomach.

    And just as quickly I regretted doing so as it felt like I just punched a tree trunk.

    "Ow! Son of a bi..." I started, shaking my hand as she giggled at me.

    Yeah, I should have known better than that. She looked way to sure of herself, but I just had to go try it.


    I channeled a bit of white mana into my hand to make it stop hurting, "Ok, how did you do that?" I asked, dropping the rest of the herbs so I could rub my hand.


    She grinned, "My armor is enchanted, dofus! Anything dangerous, it tries to stop. Anything not dangerous, such as a simple touch like your poke, it lets through."

    "You know, that kind of thing would have been nice to know." I grumbled, picking my packs of herbs back up, causing her to grin.

    "Almost all but the most basic armor around here is enchanted. Cloth, leather, chain and even plate. All of it." Dawn said as she took my hand, looking it over.

    "I'm fine." I said, taking my hand back. Even without healing it, it would have barely been bruised. Not like I actually put much force into the punch.

    Dawn nodded, "I asked my master about it back when he wanted me to pick out a set. As for heavier armor like plate... well, what kind of material depend on what kind of enchantments it can handle. Plate is good for protection and strength, cloth is the best when you handle magic. Leather is a good middle ground."

    I raised my eyebrow at that, "Wouldn't it be better with more material to enchant?" I asked.

    Ok, that explained exactly how it could protect her, but wouldn't it be stronger with... well, more of it?

    She shook her head, "How much actual material there is don't matter that much. Actually, the better quality enchantment, the less material is needed."

    I just sighed and shrugged, "I withdraw my objection?"

    Damn. I need to get my hands on that kind of armor. Well... not exactly that kind, I doubt it would fit me very well.

    Dawn shook her head and picked her stuff back up with a smile, "Besides, the material matters less than the enchantment. This leather has enchantments that give not only better protection than a full set of plate armor would at home, but it also makes it easier to contact and channel the elements."

    "How expensive is a set of armor?" I asked as we continued our walk back to her teachers place.

    She shrugged, "Quite a bit and mine are hardly the best quality around. You should see the best ones available. They are amazing."

    "Well, I guess I have a week or so to try to afford one. I have some gold coins left from Westeros." I said as I shook my head, trying to forget that they have a snowflake on one side of them. I think that that was Rob Stark's revenge against me for making him King, "Perhaps they will be enough."

    Dawn nodded, "If you help me with the potions, I might be able to talk Master Cloudsong into paying you a bit for the work. But as you see, I do not require new armor. Besides, as you said... This looks really good." she said as she grinned back at me over her shoulder.

    "That's not what I said!"




    AN// Many thanks to Avalon Aurora for betaing this part :)
     
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    • TakamachiFeito said:
    I'd guess permanent enchantments are more resistant than temporary buffs.

    Also, good idea staying in Azeroth.
    The combat experience probably won't give him much after his time in Mass Effect, but it's the ideal place get ranks in ranger / survival skills.
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    and some of the enchantments in azeroth are ridiculous, will probably be a good place for him to learn some.. useful tricks

    not to mention professions :p i wonder if he will try to learn any (such as alchemy (WoW variant) so he can create the potions)
     
    Goat said:
    Guess Dawn has not hit lvl 40 in Shamanism yet (mail speciality - bonus to stats if wearing all mail). At least I assume that is still at lvl 40, been a while since I levelled a character.
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    still 40, and theyre just when the BC xpac is about to come out, so think about it back then.
     
    Avalon Aurora said:
    If Hiver does want to step into another verse to get gold, Stargate would indeed probably be safer than Mass Effect, given the issue of timelines and Reaper invasion, and given tech levels and other issues, he could probably get quite a bit of gold easily, or even just free from the Asgard if they are convinced to do this to help pay him back for the help he gave them, but I'm guessing other materials would be more valuable by mass than gold, he'd just have to find out what before leaving the Warcraft verse.
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    That depends on how the Ancient mind screwing went; the Ancients might have left a suggestion in his mind to stop him from going back. Now if they did then he might start thinking about places to go get stuff, and he dismisses Stargate out of hand. At which point he then realises that he just did so, and discovers that the Ancients screwed with his mind.

    Or at least that's how I'd do it.
     
    Endymion said:
    Random Demon Mook: Lastly Sir, there is a report from the Outlands about a pair of mages summoning large numbers of creatures and banishing Fel Reavers with bursts of White light.

    Kil'jaeden: Crap. Evacuate our forces from Outland and tell Illidan that he is not prepared to face Planeswalkers. Sageras would be ill suited to fight them. Leave a minimal force to tell us when they leave. Azeroth will still be there to conquer after they leave.
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    ... Illidan would jump onto them and rip of their heads...

    "... I am seriously disappointed here you know, Its like he has been lazing around like a retard and she was a fucking noob shaman, why were they here in Outland!!??"
    "No Idea boss, they were supposed to be almost godlike?"
    "Yup, must have stumbled upon the most underpowered ones ever, and look what a pretty soulstone they made!"
    "Ooh, shiny"

    Thats how it will work out.
     
    Ahra said:
    ... Illidan would jump onto them and rip of their heads...

    "... I am seriously disappointed here you know, Its like he has been lazing around like a retard and she was a fucking noob shaman, why were they here in Outland!!??"
    "No Idea boss, they were supposed to be almost godlike?"
    "Yup, must have stumbled upon the most underpowered ones ever, and look what a pretty soulstone they made!"
    "Ooh, shiny"

    Thats how it will work out.
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    But it won't because there wouldn't be a story otherwise.
     
    Ardion Prosili said:
    But it won't because there wouldn't be a story otherwise.
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    Of course the Title of this story does imply there won't be Winter conquering all things, he and Dawn are both small fish in the infinite sea.
     
    SemiSaneAuthor said:
    Of course the Title of this story does imply there won't be Winter conquering all things, he and Dawn are both small fish in the infinite sea.
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    Yeah but they aren't going to die in the first arc of the new story, no matter how long it is. Its rather obvious that they'll end up changing things, the demons will change it right back and ultimately, nothing really changes in the end.
     
    Ardion Prosili said:
    Yeah but they aren't going to die in the first arc of the new story, no matter how long it is. Its rather obvious that they'll end up changing things, the demons will change it right back and ultimately, nothing really changes in the end.
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    We can roughly theorise that Winter won't die, but Dawn? Also with the existence of the Buffy 'verse we know there is an afterlife. Death doesn't necessarily mean the end of the story line, it just means that if Winter wants to keep his promise that he'd have to smash open the gates of whatever afterlife Dawn ends up in and bring her back.
     
    SemiSaneAuthor said:
    We can roughly theorise that Winter won't die, but Dawn? Also with the existence of the Buffy 'verse we know there is an afterlife. Death doesn't necessarily mean the end of the story line, it just means that if Winter wants to keep his promise that he'd have to smash open the gates of whatever afterlife Dawn ends up in and bring her back.
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    I doubt it, but we'll just have to see. And that's ultimately what we all have to do. Wait. and see.
     

    Tal Shiar said:
    Big bad planeswalker hear me roar. You start to enter that mind set and the Universe WILL slap you down HARD, possibly fatally. There is ALWAYS something bigger out there and it will usually show up when you start to get full of yourself.
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    "There is always a greater power."
     
    Zebrian ODell said:
    Did the lot of you ever consider, that maybe Lands that he gathers must be "unique"?
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    Any land can be "tapped." That's the whole point of "basic lands." Non-basics, the so called "unique lands" grant additional passive or activated abilities or multiple types of mana. Then you have Legendary Lands, which are a whole other kettle of fish. I suspect that the Hellmouth for example is either non-basic or legendary, but it doesn't seem to have the extra ability needed to make it "legendary," despite its uniqueness.
     
    Zebrian ODell said:
    This is not a Mary Sue fic. The last Mary Sue we ran into, took a bullet to the head.
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    Huh. She was, wasn't she? I completely missed that.

    Anyway, in my headcanon there actually is a soft limit on lands, regarding variety. You notice how in each set, there is always three different varieties of land art, for each colour? That's 15 extra pieces of art, all for cards that are by definition uninteresting background cards. You could fill up a mono-colour EDH deck with all different basic lands, and still only use about half of the available lands. Thus it makes sense to me that there could be a reason for having so many different lands, like you have to be able to recall a land in order to tap it, and having too many identical lands can confuse you.
     
    No, I knew she got shot in the head. I don't forget major plot points like that. The thought just never occured to me to call the other planeswalker a Mary-Sue.
     
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