Carelza Magispark stood in her workshop, which was basically just a tent with a lot of tools stuffed in it. Tweaking on her latest experiment, a small machine next her her gives a beep, signalling that the power alignment was now at the desired values. Carelza smiles, hops down from her stool, and admired her work. The machine, a piece of artifice designed to deliver powerful, directed blasts of electricity, was her finest work yet. integrated with a mechanism to harness excess unstable enegry and focus it into a shield, the gun could fire and defend at the same time. She had to find ways to upgrade the power reserve, she knew that, but it was a minor snag that could be countered with ingenuity and skill. He grabbed her engraving pen and gave the machine its designation, TED mk. 2. Finishing her work, she smiled happily, took the machine off its pedestal, and swung it across her back. She headed out of her workshop, taking her savings with her, and headed out into the streets.<br/><br/>The streets of the town were croweded this time of day, making travel by foot a positively lethal task for a girl as short as she was. Therefore, she announced her every step with loud curses and bellowed commands to "make bloody way", sometimes accompanied by a crackling of her new invention - a threat display, as she never actually fired it. Finding her way between a number of 'tallies', as she called all non-gnome sapients, she dodges through a back alley, crashing into Tycho the Mercenary Apparent just as she left the back alley.<br/><br/>"Ow! Watch where you're going, asshole!"