From: mcutter@gacvx2.gac.edu
Newsgroups: alt.pub.dragons-inn
Subject: Thorr-kan  Re: Karl's Response
Message-ID: <1992May18.190028.1450@gacvx2.gac.edu>
Date: 19 May 92 01:00:28 GMT

>Karl is overcome with grief upon rembering his last mission.  It
>obviously caused him a great deal of pain.  He has been left
>permanently scarred and lost someone very close to him.

The White Minotaur looks upon the quartermaster with what could be
called sadness.  Gently, he rises and guides Karl to a seat.  "Poor
human," he mutters.  He looks about for Serene (sp?).  "Inn-maid,
something _light_ for my friend here.  It seems I have forgotten the
effects of dwarf-spirits on smaller creatures."

Glancing back at Karl, Thorr-kan lowers his voice.  "I succeeded, my
human friend.  But only at great cost.  I am an exile from my land, upon
pain of death.  To escape, I fought and killed much of my family. That I
had no choice matters little; it still ways upon my heart."

Sighing, he leans even closer and says, "And I did not succeed in
founding a new homeland.  No place on Ansalon would take us permanently. 
Only in the Hammer-hand lands are we completely welcome.  But 2000
minotaurs would qickly ruin these good people.  So we have scattered to
the winds, some here, some there.  I lead approxiamately 500 of my
bretheren in the Grey Company, a mercenary band.  We fight for
Kiri-Jolith, wherever he needs our aid."

"But, now I am invovled on a greater mission.  A great evil threatens
my land and the powerful have asked my help in determining its threat. 
That is why I walk between the worlds now.  A great mage, Fizban the
Fabulous has need of the Nightstalker's advice.  And I am the one he
chose to get it.  But rest assured, Karl.  When my mission is done, I
and my friends shall return to aid in the avenging of your beloved and
yourself.  It is the least I can do for one who has shown me such
hospitality and honor in such a short time."

This said, Thorr-kan settles the human gently in his seat.

-Thorr-kan, the White Minotaur, and Gleep, the pseudo dragon. 

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