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')
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