Newsgroups: alt.pub.dragons-inn
From: cvl@athena.mit.edu (Craig V Lewis)
Subject: What this place needs is a ... professional ... ummm ... professional!
Message-ID: <1992May12.123202.6192@athena.mit.edu>
Date: Tue, 12 May 1992 12:32:02 GMT

After so many dramatic entrances, hardly anyone takes any notice as the door 
slowly creeps open and a little man, barely more than three feet tall, slides
through the opening thus created, puffing from the exertion of opening the
door.  He looks around the room at waist level, his eyes scannind the pouches
and then the eyes of the other patrons.  Seeing the Drow and mage at their 
table, he shudders and his eyes move on quickly.  

At last he looks vaguely disappointed, for there are far too many weapons in 
readiness for this halfling.  He wanders dejectedly to a corner table, 
stopping on the way to request a cushion and a glass of ale from the 
innkeep.  He then hops onto the chair and, standing on the bottom, rests his
head on his hands.  He begins to watch the crowd with inquisitive eyes, waiting
for the real drinking to start.  "Someone will leave this inn with a lighter
purse, or I shall be forced into dungeon slogging again."

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 Craig Lewis                            cvl@athena.mit.edu                   
 Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution   (508)457-2000x4814                   
 Nobody but me has any idea what I'm doing; and I don't know either.