Britomart shook her head with a frown.<span style="color: #ff0000">"he was over sixty years old when he taught me so it was probably old age that killed him... and i got killed by a stray arrow from a Satyr because i didnt wear my armor, so maybe i am an idiot. it doesnt work that way, making say, an apple the size of a Gnome doesnt mean there is more food. sure, everyone can have a big slice but it doesnt satisfy you, youll only get as much energy as you would from a regular slice of apple... and it tastes thin and stretched out, like having a quarter of a beer left and refilling your glass with water."</span>she laughed bitterly and shook her head.<span style="color: #ff0000">"i tried it back in Lordareon, food was so scarce and i thought i was so brilliant but my instructor just laughed and called me an idiot again. the shrink ray doesnt take anything away and it doesnt create anything its more..."</span>she stood up and set up a small log next to a large one before she got two branches, one far longer then the other and set them up as levers to move the larger log.<span style="color: #ff0000">"which lever is better for moving that log? the bigger one of course, thats the basic principle of how the shrink ray weakens my foes. an Ogres arem is four feet long so he can handle his oversized clubs, shrink him to the size of a child and suddenly the club has all the leverage and his arms dont have enough swing to hurt anything. but he actually still has all his strength, he just isnt big enough to do anything with it..."</span><div class="messageTextEndMarker"> </div>