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Ilanthas

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One day I was working in the shop (I'm a silversmith, if you've all forgotten.) and was wailing away on some Satin and hammered flats, as they're our bulk sellers at the shows we do, when I got a catch in my side. I had not been drinking a lot of water the past week, due to a massive sale on doctor pepper at the Big M, which led my muscles to cramp in the extraordinarily odd early spring heat. Due to my muscle spasm, I missed the silver piece I was working and ended up taking a huge section of a shaped lane in our more 'precious' anvil with the rounded end of a ball-peen. Now, the basic idea of these lanes is to streamline the operation of creating the jewelry. Every design we do can be done with any anvil, but we have tailored ours to have certain "lanes" or "guides" that we can just lay a piece in (after it's reached a certain step in it's process of completion) and just give it a once over with the hammer and anvil. However, what I had just done is duffed a sharper edge on one of the more intricate design's guides... not fun. But not a total bummer, just means a time increase in each bracelet that would have followed in that guide.

So, I was pretty much screwed, having a big show coming up at the end of the month and no way to really fix this at the shop that day. Sure, I could just fix it later (when I can get access to the right tools) or buy a new one, but I had a schedule to keep and wanted to finish all of the bracelets that would go through that particular line after I had finished the current project I was working on. Bummer, right?

That's when it hit me! Thardoran once told Raktanger, "Your actions, Raktanger, are to no avail... I still don't understand why you allow all these Savants to tower over your body without any repercussions..." and it dawned on me. Our foot rest is our spare anvil... which, just happens to have an extra groove of the same type I just ruined!

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