Newsgroups: alt.pub.dragons-inn From: djb6@quads.uchicago.edu (Dennis Brennan) Subject: Karl welcomes Zort to the .Inn Message-ID: <1992May22.014416.4992@midway.uchicago.edu> Keywords: introduction, mage, Zortus, weird as all get out References: Date: Fri, 22 May 1992 01:44:16 GMT In article cri@acsu.buffalo.edu (Whoopee Buttlord) writes: "Good evening. I am Zortus Arcanus Arcanum, better known as >Zort the Arcane. Might I enquier of one of you gentle beings just where in the >bloody pan-dimensional struture of things as a whole I might have just thrust >myself?" When he finishes speaking, the lid of his hat flips back and a small >tailless cat leans out and mews. The cat is wearing an odd little metal tag >reading "Stumpy" in Elvish. Karl the quartermaster furrows his brow at the bizarre and unexpected mode of arrival of the Arcane. "Well met, strange one. Me Karl. Me friend." He grins mischievously. "Welcome to the city of Generica, on the west coast of the continent of ______, on the World, in the Prime Material Plane. Mind you, I have visited an Outer Plane or two in my day. What are ye, Zort? A visiting tourist from Limbo? A modron on vacation from Nirvana? An archon of the Heavens on business?" He laughs at his own sublime (?) wit until he begins to cough and choke on the whipped cream in his cocoa. -- Dennis Brennan djb6@midway.uchicago.edu