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Annie is on her trike on her way to school.
This van labeled HAZARDOUS MATERIALS is also on its way to school.
The van hits a patch of black ice. It goes spinning, it turns over, it slices itself open on a wrought-iron fence with spikes, and it disgorges boxes which smash open on the pavement. Some of them skitter clear into the slush.
Some of them - along with most of the van - land on Annie.
There is a whirl of bewildering pain and confusion -
- and she falls to the ground, injured and in more kinds of discomfort beyond that and moaning.
She slowly starts to heal before the eyes of her sole witness.
six artifact pileup annie in thedas
keep_busy
The quality is very good for a first try! Here is how to make it into an amulet. If she gives it to the Legion, someone will get some use out of it.
keep_busy
So she amulets it and makes more to get more familiar and precise with the tools and crafting process, because they can use a bunch of them anyway.
keep_busy
When she has one amulet for every affected Legionnaire she takes a break to go deliver them.
They visit the Legion headquarters and distribute amulets.
There are also more Legionnaires present, who were in the Deep Roads last time she came by. Many of them would like to be able to disintegrate darkspawn. A few would also like the healing thing, but not nearly so many, it being much less convenient overall what with the music problem.
There are also more Legionnaires present, who were in the Deep Roads last time she came by. Many of them would like to be able to disintegrate darkspawn. A few would also like the healing thing, but not nearly so many, it being much less convenient overall what with the music problem.
keep_busy
She will poke anyone who'd like to be poked, counts the pokings, and promises more frost amulets.
keep_busy
And back to Caridin's house. She will try doing a different rune before making another batch of frosts though.
time-goes-on
Caridin recommends flame if she wants something very close to frost in manufacturing process, and barrier if she wants something very different.
Then she can learn how to make a barrier rune, which is useful in armor enchantment, although she can't personally enchant armor with it because she is neither a dwarf nor Tranquil and therefore working directly with lyrium that way is a bad idea.
time-goes-on
"A human with their connection to the Fade severed. I'm afraid I know little about the practice, but what little I know, I admit to finding unsettling. They gain the ability to safely work with lyrium, but lose the ability to feel emotion."
time-goes-on
"Something else I know little about. It has to do with the ability to dream, which humans and elves can do but dwarves cannot, and to be mages, likewise."
keep_busy
"I haven't noticed anything different about how my dreams work since coming here... but we don't have mages or anything in particular understood to be related to dreaming in my world."
time-goes-on
"Perhaps you should find another human to speak to about it, or someone more knowledgeable than I."
keep_busy
"I'll make a note of it." She does. And then back to trying each of the runes. She will do frosts to bring to legionnaires tomorrow.
first-and-final
"Well done." Hug. "The person who sang at the Proving has been fined and banned, no one is contesting the results, there's a rumour going around that I'm the Paragon Aeducan returned to life which I find intensely flattering, and I'm pleased by how well I'm working with Bhelen so far."
keep_busy
Annie giggles. "Do Paragons occasionally return to life or reincarnate or is that as silly as it sounds?"
first-and-final
"As silly as it sounds, although I can forgive them for going there since dwarves also don't habitually glow or crush axe blades in their bare hands. Something very far out of the ordinary is definitely going on with me, it just doesn't happen to be that."