Newsgroups: alt.pub.dragons-inn
From: djb6@ellis.uchicago.edu (Dennis Brennan)
Subject: Karl: [slave chase] Siege III
Message-ID: <1992May28.154946.18933@midway.uchicago.edu>
Keywords: slave chase,Dougl
References: <1992May28.060227.25377@cheshire.oxy.edu> <1992May28.173510.1@economics.adelaide.edu.au>
Date: Thu, 28 May 1992 15:49:46 GMT

CM: All those involved in the slave chase (very numerous)

Karl stares dumbly at ...sage's amulet, not knowing how to respond.  "Huh?
That was him, wasn't it?"  The servant nods, answering "He made a choice.
It is your responsibility to deserve his sacrifice."  Already the servant
is growing less tangible.

Karl swallows dryly and wonders how he will be able to enter the fray 
already in progress on the _Broadmarch_.  To the servant he asks, "Can you
still carry me over there?"  The servant replies, "Yes, but that may be 
my final act."  Karl lowers his eyes, responding, "Make it so."

"Wait!" calls the captain.  "Take these:" He presents Karl with a plain but
sturdy looking short sword and a tarnished helmet.  Karl accepts the arms 
and, as an afterthought, takes off his useless right boot, revealing his
pegleg.  He nudges the boot overboard with his false leg and tells the
servant, "I am ready."

With a stomach-wrenching lurch Karl is pulled skyward, then, at his direction
the servant deposits him in the very rear of the ship, still on the side
closest to the _Morning's_Breeze_.  He pants there for a minute, wondering
what he should do next.  He stands behind the aft-castle, the small deck
structure separating him from the battle on the main deck.  He glances
for a moment into the aft-castle's porthole and spies a woman in a red and
grey cloak rummaging through a sack, finally producing a scroll.

"Oh, gods!"  Karl despairs.  Spellcraft!  The woman could cast a fireball
or warpwood on the _Narwhal_, or a web over Rhoan and Tvarne, or literally
any of thousands of malevolent enchantments.  Karl had to find some way
of preventing the spell from being cast.

 


-- 
Dennis Brennan
djb6@midway.uchicago.edu