[@Terminal] Hm.  I will admit I'm surprised in your choice of challenge accolade.  I suspect my taste differs greatly from yours, which explains a lot about where our opinions have run counter to each other in the past.  But for all that the hero wound up being more or less invulnerable, I'm surprised that it was permitted to have a character use gear to be invulnerable.  It's not that the char is invulnerable, it's that they acquired nice gear.  I hadn't thought that would be acceptable.  Not a bad story, and certainly a clever way of ending it, but on the whole I felt like it was missing something, and I can't quite figure out what.  *fidgets*

I did very much like the character, though.  <3