Chapter 14: Promote Synergy!
Cloak of Misty Escape (Torso)
Provides a passive resistance to high temperature environments as wisps of vapor cool the wearer.
1 Charge: The cloak explodes into a 30-ft cloud of fog, concealing the user’s movements. Takes 30 minutes for the cloak to reform.
“This one’s good for the third floor.” Leon said. “Fifteen gold.”
“Next.” Will said. He only had fifty gold, and he wanted to see everything Leon had available before he made a decision.
“Before you move on, I’ve got something right here,” Leon said, pulling out a blackened pair of boots that seemed to have magpie wings stitched along the sides.
“Boots of Outflanking. During a combat situation, if you break line of sight with all enemies, you get a five-second triple boost to your movement speed. Fifteen gold.”
“Now right here, you’ve got a guaranteed way to break line of sight, and here you’ve got a guaranteed benefit from doing so.”
“You sound like a Setter,” Will said. Setters were con-men who sold ‘sets’ of two or more items that they claimed had synergistic effects that would provide explosive power. That begged the question: If it was such a good synergy, why didn’t they use it themselves?