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Old 01-February-2008, 07:52 AM
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Originally Posted by Noclevername View Post
You mean that's not the real name?

The sun goes Red Giant, then contracts into a white dwarf. It never really will act like it does in The Dying Earth books, ready to "go out" at a moment's notice. They're fantasy, and they play fast and loose with things like laws of physics and stellar astronomy.
You mean you can't gather magic ioun stones, which render you imperviuos to all hostile magic, from below the surface of neutron stars by waiting at the edge of the universe for one to strike the edge a glancing blow, thereby shearing off a section the only known way how and exposing the gem pockets?

I'm crushed.
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