Holly...!

Xander as Raistlin! WoW! Just.. WoW!
It's been a long time since I've been so happy after reading a story.

Lake of Tears - Raistlin and the Rose was playing while I was reading it :)

I for one can't wait to read more of this!

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Thanks for the music suggestion. I'll have to look into them more.

I really wanted to do something different than just your average Xander-gets-superpowers story, so I though I'd mix it up a bit. So I figured, if I'm going to give him superpowers, I had to take something away. Raistlin fit perfectly.

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In an answer to an earlier review, you mentioned that a side effect of his curse-sight is that reflected it is True Sight. If that's the case, would rigging up "thick glasses" that actually reflect light twice before it reaches his eyes basically act as *Glasses of True Seeing* for Xander?

No, I don't think so. That seems like too much of a cop out. Or maybe it could, and he just wouldn't realize it. I'll have to think about it.

And there's a lot more to Glasses of True Seeing than just not seeing corpses. Those are major magic items. If I recall, True Seeing is like a 5th level priest spell or there abouts. I can't remember if it's on the Magic User list. That's a tough one to enchant. I'll have to see about that.

Come to think of it, I don't know if Raistlin ever got to try Tass' Glasses of True Seeing in the books. I'll have to read Winter Night again. I don't think he did.

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Interesting start to the story. I do have two questions though that I'm a little confused about.
1. The mages of Krynn gain their magic from their alignment moon. Since the red moon doesn't exist how would Xander have any magic at all? Its not a big problem but it might need to be explained.

2. If Jesse dressed as Caramon to get Cordy's attention why would he dress Willow as that character's wife? Wouldn't it have made a little more sense to have him dress her as one of the other female characters, maybe like Caramon and Raistlins half-sister Kitiara?

EDIT: It wasn't Cordy knowing that I was questioning it was more along the lines of what was Jesse thinking. You have to question a persons thinking when he dresses one of his friends as his characters wife when he's trying to hook up with someone else. Also I just used Kitiara as an example, it could have also been Laurana or some other female character. I just question him choosing his chacters wife as her costume.

1. That will be explained. There were also some big hints in the first section. I could look up in my Spelljammer books about the actual rules on this, or I could just fudge it.

2. This is more because both Tika and Willow have bright red hair, though Tika's tends to have more volume. And the chances of early series Cordy knowing about DragonLance are slim to nil. Unless Jesse actually TELLS Cordy that, it won't be an issue. And there is the fact that he didn't think it through.

Also, Willow as Kitiara scares me. Not going to lie.

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interesting

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Was that Fizban dropping off the costumes, and if so how could he do this cruel thing to them.

If you might recall, Fizban is the jerk who sicked the guard on Tanis et al in the In of the Last Home, setting up the entire thing. He also specifically caused trouble by using a fireball in an enclosed space later on. Then he tried to get featherfall, but only got the feathers, not the fall. Fizban is kind of a douche at times. He's a manipulator that makes Lex Luthor and SPECTOR look like a bunch of rank amatures. Sure, he's also Paladine, the great god of goodness, but he's still a jerk at times.

Actually, Fizban was only really liked by Tass, a kender who liked pretty much everybody who didn't actively try to kill him or stink. Not exactly a stellar recommendation.

As for who it was, I'll let people guess.

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Oh, Oh WOW. I've never seen this crossover, and just... Xander as RAISTLIN?! Freaking fantastic! Not to mention, both Willow and Jessie aren't unaffected either. Keep up the incredible work, this story is a keeper!

Yeah, I wanted to do a different crossover that I hadn't seen before. And he's not just Raistlin, he's a reluctant Raistlin who has someone else to blame for his condition as he didn't choose the power and had it forced on him.

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Poor Xander. The universe truly is out to get him. On the plus side, Xander's usual goofiness combined with Raistlin's dry, bitterbwit ( from what I remember of having read the dragon lance novels a bajillion years ago) should equal epic level snark.

Those eyes though... they pretty much kill his crush on Buffy. It would be interesting to see how he reacts to vampires. Are they the only ones to show up in his vision as non-rotted because they are theoretically immortal, barring tragic sunbathing accidents?

And somethng else I always wandered about Raistlin's eyes, do they work on pictures? If Xander watched a movie, would he see all the actors just withering away? Or would he see them whole and healthy, thus developing an addiction to the cinema and becoming a huge movie geek? I can imagine him walking around with one of those instant development cameras, taking pictures of people he meets so he knows what they really look like...

Anyway, I look forward to reading more.

The way I'm doing it is pretty simple. Xander will see everything in decay. However, if he looks at a photo, or an image of some kind, he will see a decaying photo or image, not that the people in the image are decaying. I'm also going with the idea that he can see what people truly look like in mirrors or reflections.

When Xander sees vampires, he sees the demon always, no matter if they're vamped out or not. He can never mistake a vampire for a human. He basically sees them as Master or Kakistos clones, as that is the evolution of the vampire over time as the demon becomes older and stronger.

And yes, Xander is going to be quite snarky.

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interesting

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Well, this is certainly a different idea. Rather eager to see how Xander turns out with a bit of Raistlin mixed in. And dear god, the mage who came so close to godhood in the BTVS verse. Looking forward to the next chapter.

I'll be honest, Xander isn't going to go exactly the same path as Raistlin, especially since this is Raistlin from just after Autumn Twilight or there abouts. Xander is going to have a struggle against his normal tendencies and those he inherits from Raistlin, so it will be a more complex situation.

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Wow. Got to feel sorry for Xander - constant seeing death and decay has a sky high suck factor. It would drive a lot of people insane or to commit suicide.

Yeah, quite a suck factor. He isn't going to be totally happy with what's happened. It'll be fun, I think.

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