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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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Back to Caridin's place they go!
"And now you know what my next few problems to solve are. I'll go see about your runecrafting books."
"And now you know what my next few problems to solve are. I'll go see about your runecrafting books."
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"Thanks! I'll get Caridin's opinion on how to approach the runelight. ...Should I not mention what I'm going to do with them?"
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"He seems reasonable, I don't think you need to keep this a secret from him."
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"Ooh, bikes, nice. Can you do that and talk to me about full spectrum rune lights at the same time? It turns out it might be really good to have them done soon."
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So Annie explains the plan to give them to the casteless so they can farm and how she'd like to have them tested before she has to leave to go to the surface so she can hire elf food runners.
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Caridin approves of this idea! He discusses runecrafting theory over his bicycle parts.
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Annie takes notes and attempts to formulate a first draft of a full spectrum rune light.
Unfortunately, the state of the art is not super great. Apparently rune lights don't even come in different colors; she's going to have her work cut out for her and probably can't get them completely sussed out in the next week. Maybe the books will help; maybe Caridin's not up to date? He was in a cave for, what, a thousand years?
Unfortunately, the state of the art is not super great. Apparently rune lights don't even come in different colors; she's going to have her work cut out for her and probably can't get them completely sussed out in the next week. Maybe the books will help; maybe Caridin's not up to date? He was in a cave for, what, a thousand years?
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Caridin does actually already have the one book about lamps Stalas was reading to him from that one time, but it's not super helpful.
Stalas comes back!
He approaches the house carrying a small bag of books in one hand and an enormous sack of lamps slung over his shoulder.
Stalas comes back!
He approaches the house carrying a small bag of books in one hand and an enormous sack of lamps slung over his shoulder.
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"I remembered that you asked me if they came in colours, and it looks like they don't come in colours on purpose, but every smith has off days, right? So here are all the most weirdly-coloured lamps I could find. And! I also remembered what you said about 'sunburn', so when somebody saw me buying faulty lamps and asked if I could take one off their hands that they had to stick in a cupboard because it kept giving them a funny rash, I said absolutely."
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"Oh you're brilliant. Is there a good way to figure out who made a specific one?"
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"That is exactly the sort of thing where if you were Bhelen you would tell me to go solve it. Shall I go track down the creator of the suspiciously sunny lamp?"
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"...Are they likely to make some kind of problem about our copying the design if they find out it's good for something?"
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"I don't know. Which do you prefer: getting the smith's help and owing them a cut of the profits from sunlamp sales, getting the smith's help and buying them out before they realize how much it'll be worth, getting the smith's help and dropping Caridin's name to intimidate them into not asking you for money—"
Caridin gives Stalas a look. Stalas shrugs.
"It's not an option I'm going to advocate for, but it's an option. Or not getting the smith's help and seeing how far you can get on your own?"
Caridin gives Stalas a look. Stalas shrugs.
"It's not an option I'm going to advocate for, but it's an option. Or not getting the smith's help and seeing how far you can get on your own?"
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"Well - which one is it, let me look at it and see if it's something really obvious..."
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He opens the bag and pulls out the lamp in question. It's pretty noticeably distinct from the rest, but Annie doesn't yet have the knowledge to derive how it was made in detail just from examining the textural differences between it and other lamps.
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"I can tell it's different but I don't know how to make more of them be different... It's a texture thing, probably not the shape of the rune or anything like that. Maybe it was made with weird lyrium, or a different kind of underlying rock..." She inspects the other lamps to see if any of them are similar along any axis.