Newsgroups: alt.pub.dragons-inn From: rigler@galileo.ifa.hawaii.edu (Michael Rigler) Subject: THK (encased in ice): Re to Karl: The ice and what Karl sees Message-ID: <1992May22.203549.21661@news.Hawaii.Edu> Keywords: ice,Karl References: <1992May22.013008.4558@midway.uchicago.edu> Date: Fri, 22 May 1992 20:35:49 GMT In article <1992May22.013008.4558@midway.uchicago.edu> djb6@midway.uchicago.edu writes: > >Removing a small hardwood-chisel from one of his belt pouches, Karl gently >taps on the block of ice, collecting several chunks and putting them in his >drink. "And thank you," he regards the humanoid (?) imprisoned within >the ice. As Karl leans over to tap at the ice, he gets a better glimpse of the greenish humanoid: It is a large, bipedal lizard, clad in leather, metal, bone and shell, and bearing a large trident. The figure stands in an action pose, as though frozen suddenly in mid-lunge. It makes no acknowledgement to your words of thanks. The ice fizzes in your drink. You sip...** BLECH!!! ** That ice is frozen swamp water. It contains rotting carboniferous plant tissues, dead crustaceans and fish parts, and trapped bubbles of noxious marsh-gas. Unless your character Karl relishes the taste of these substances, he is likely to spew his first mouthful... -- Rigler (aka 'Thk') --