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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.
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"All right, time for you to sleep and me to have the world's most laborious and ineffective bath."
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"Uh, maybe not simultaneously, in case something attacks while one of those things is happening. I'm not exhausted, I can stand around being ready to disintegrate darkspawn for a while."
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"It'll take long enough to draw my bath that you could probably get a good solid nap in before I'm done with it. Alternately, you could lend me the disintegration power before you go to sleep, which will also make me less unhappy about water temperatures."
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"Fair enough. I'd offer to help haul the water but I'd probably spill half of it." She holds out her hand to offer the disintegration power.
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And now he is REALLY WAY TOO WARM. THE ARMOR IS NOT HELPING.
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"Wow, that is kind of uncomfortable. Whatever, I'm about to be hauling water from an underground river, I'll be glad of it in a minute."
Relevant information: the spiders are stirring outside Ruck's cave.
Relevant information: the spiders are stirring outside Ruck's cave.
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"Let's go find out if the darkspawn disintegration power does indeed filet them," says Stalas.
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"Okay." Since spiders don't carry weapons, especially not ranged ones, Annie feels reasonably safe just strolling up to them.
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Stalas strolls up to and prods a spider. Filet of spider ensues. The other spiders attempt to bite them both and are likewise dealt with.
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"It's conceivable that they might be improved by cooking and that we might be able to find a functioning stove around here," says Stalas.
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"A big metal box in somebody's kitchen, ideally with some form of fuel still in it and a cooking pot on top."
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Stroll stroll.
That house over there totally has a big metal box in the kitchen with some lumps inside and a cooking pot on top!
That house over there totally has a big metal box in the kitchen with some lumps inside and a cooking pot on top!
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"I'll see what I can do."
Stalas successfully causes fire. And hauls a potful of water up from the river so Annie can make spider stew.
With the disintegration power active, he is no longer personally encrusted in weeks-old darkspawn blood, but all of his clothing and equipment still is, and all forms of grime that aren't direly toxic remain in place. He silently revises his bathing plan to include laundry and armour maintenance beforehand.
Stalas successfully causes fire. And hauls a potful of water up from the river so Annie can make spider stew.
With the disintegration power active, he is no longer personally encrusted in weeks-old darkspawn blood, but all of his clothing and equipment still is, and all forms of grime that aren't direly toxic remain in place. He silently revises his bathing plan to include laundry and armour maintenance beforehand.
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Annie rummages in the kitchen to see if there are any spices or flour or anything like that which might still be edible and make the spider more tolerable.
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The kitchen has been abandoned for a thousand years. The only food items still recognizable are a small jar of anonymous seeds and a much larger jar of honey.
Meanwhile, Stalas hauls water. Haul haul haul.
Meanwhile, Stalas hauls water. Haul haul haul.
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Oh god honey. She is not going to taint the honey with spider. She is going to hug that jar of honey and put it in her coat pocket to carry with her.
Do the seeds seem like they might be a spice? Which might improve spider?
Do the seeds seem like they might be a spice? Which might improve spider?
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The seeds are really strongly flavoured, something in the anise/liquorice genre.
(Haul haul haul.)
(Haul haul haul.)
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Well, anise is better than spider. She eats a seed on its own to make sure it tastes okay while the pot of spider is boiling. Then she puts a handful in with the boiling spider. What the fuck do these spiders even eat.
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No spider meals come parading along to answer her question.
(Haul haul haul.)
(Haul haul haul.)