Runecaster Davos of the Veil

Runecaster Davos of the Veil was returning from his visit to the Yellow Wizard Haven. He had safely passed Goblin Town, generally considered the most dangerous part of any trip, and was rapidly heading towards the last stop before his house in the Infinity Veil. Taking the short cut through Carnival Pass seemed like the quickest route to the Blue Wizard he was staying with overnight and travelling fast took on an increasing importance as the skies darkened with a heavy storm moving overhead.

At the Yellow Wizard Haven he had marvelled at seeing how they had constructed their society around time travel. He had long heard the stories about how time travelled at different rates as you moved closer to the centre of Yellow Wizard Haven but experiencing it in person was something else. The wizard he had travelled to see lived right at the centre where the oldest yellow wizard families gathered. The speed of time there was so fast that for every day spent inside only minutes passed in the real world. 

To even the outer parts of the yellow wizard city the core where the oldest families lived looked like a complete blur. The oldest families maintained this difference partly because it allowed them to be more productive but it was mostly because the elderly families liked showing off the strength of their time travel magic. Even though they were living one thousand times faster than the other yellow wizards, and using a thousand times as much magic, they still looked just as young. 

As he moved through Carnival Pass other sets of greedy eyes, that had first noticed him in Goblin Town, watched and plotted their move. As an elderly wizard, with only a simple wooden peace staff and no familiar, he looked like an easy target. 

Cutting down a tree further up the path he was following they readied their planned assault on the wizard and drank goblin beer. Tragically they did not spend their time instead reading the last surviving copy of ‘Memes, Heuristics and Complexity Theory’ left in the entire Runiverse, currently residing in the library of the White Wizards. If they had done that instead they may have learnt all about survivorship bias and tried to apply that to the reason why an elderly wizard holding only a wooden staff might still be alive and travelling between two of the major cities while in possession of a large amount of gold.

The initial part of their plan worked, we know this from a wizard in the blue wizard city who happened to train his telescope on the part of the Carnival Pass where the incident occured. The tree blocked the wizards path who then promptly stopped, the band of robbers jumped out from behind the trees and made their threats, probably demanding the gold in return for his life as is traditional. It appears at this point the elderly wizard laughed and replied. Whatever the response was is not clear but it caused all but one of the bandits to wave their swords around in the air even harder. The robber at the back however dropped his sword and just sat down on the ground. 

As the robbers closed in Runecaster Davos of the Veil held his right hand palm up towards the sky and said something. The giant cumulus cloud above his head glowed for a fraction of a second before dropping like a stone.

The cloud was a particularly large one at 2km cubed and started roughly two thousand metres above ground level so the impact of one thousand tonnes of water travelling at 200 metres per second exactly 20 seconds later certainly created an impression on the band of robbers. 

As the air cleared after impact the blue wizard could see a completely flattened and empty circle of destruction except for one small untouched circle around the wizard and a smaller circle around the robber that had dropped their weapon. 

The elderly wizard then slowly continued on his way towards his appointment with his Blue Wizard friend while the goblin robber just sat in his small circle of surviving greenery staring at the destruction around him. 

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