Better Cities:A Sad Story but a Happy Ending

Book Information
ID	xx179356
	1		1.0
Locations
Found in the following locations: On a bookshelf in Selvia Pevengius' private quarters On a bookshelf in Urjabhi the Barkeep's bedroom in The Arboretum Hotel
Note
This Elder Scrolls Book Club selection was written by Green My Eyes

A Sad Story but a Happy Ending

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'Ombre sur L'Eau sat on the side of the bed, staring disconsolately at her mage's shoes. Failed again! She had been trying to kill those vampires for a very long time. She'd managed to shock one to death, but then she ran into the huge orc with the heavy armor. L'Ombre admired strong females, and she wished this orc weren't an enemy vampire, so perhaps they could be friends ... but that could never happen.

The problem was, L'ombre thought, that she herself was far too weak. Her magicka was so low that she had trouble killing almost anyone; but if she leveled up to get more magicka, her enemies would just get stronger as well. And, since her pockets were almost always empty, she couldn't buy very much to make herself stronger. Rockmilk Cave and Robber's Glen had helped her out a lot, but since her level was so low, the armor she was able to collect and sell didn't bring in much gold.

She'd had great hopes when she managed to buy a Corrode Armor spell, but it didn't do enough – she still wasn't able to do much damage to the orc before being killed.

She'd enchanted some of her possessions to raise her magicka – Fortify Intelligence on her shoes, gloves, and a ring – but she didn't have any more Soul Gems, and those items, plus a Fortify Magicka spell, were still not enough to let her take out the orc.

She'd tried to create her own spells, but with limited money and limited magicka, she couldn't manage anything very powerful. She'd managed to scrape together enough money to create a fire spell (8 damage for 10 seconds), but when she tested it on the orc, she could see the vampire covered in flames, but she was still felled almost instantly.

This last time, she had visited the Gutted Mine with a Fire Atronach familiar, thinking that surely it would be able to take out that huge orc in the heavy armor, but no – she saw the atronach tossed aside like a rag doll, as the orc killed her one more time.

Well, she thought reluctantly, the time had come to violate all her principles. She stood and s-l-o-w-l-y ... tk ... tk ... tk ... tk ... tk ... tk ... pushed the Difficulty Slider to the left. Then she swaggered a bit as she departed to whup some vampire butt!