Newsgroups: alt.pub.dragons-inn From: dementia@cheshire.oxy.edu (Daniel Steven Reinker) Subject: Meshtak gets bushwhacked Message-ID: <1992May25.081500.5509@cheshire.oxy.edu> Date: Mon, 25 May 1992 08:15:00 GMT Involved: all those involved in Dougl's kidnapping Meshtak, with his long powerful legs, quickly takes off after the slave cart. At this time, someone in the cart notices that he is following, and tells the man who is driving the cart. Fortunately for the slavers, they come to the top of a long hill, and start their way down toward the docks at a furious speed. Nevertheless, Meshtak is a Draga and a damn fast one too. He is still gaining on the cart. Abruptly, the cart turns a corner, almost turning itself with the speed it has achieved. Meshtak tears after it, but upon turning the corner, his foot gets pulled out from under him, and he finds himself pulled up, hanging in the air by his one foot. Stunned, Meshtak looks up to find himself caught in a foot snare, his whip useless on the ground out of his reach. As he is struggling in the air, he notices that the slave cart has pulled far ahead of him, and he now finds himself surrounded by a hungry disheveled band of low-city urchins armed with knives and stilletos. A bald man with a scorpion tatooed onto his head walks up to the dangling Draga. It is apparent that the man has been well fed, unlike the urchins he employs, and also that the man is not a stranger to killing. The bald man smirks. "Well, well well." He says, as Meshtak struggles. "Zortain the Beast-Collector will pay much for a true to life demon." And he laughs. Rescue, anyone? Meshtak the Draga -- "You can't help that. We're all mad here."-The cheshire cat, Alice in WL "A mass hysteria/a megalomania/reveal Dementia/reveal"-Metallica