Newsgroups: alt.pub.dragons-inn From: HADCDJAM@admin.uh.edu (MILLER, JIMMY A) Subject: Colin [in] Inn [to] Banner and others at table Message-ID: <1992Jun1.170008.20297@menudo.uh.edu> References: <4898@ucsbcsl.ucsb.edu> Date: Mon, 1 Jun 1992 17:00:08 GMT In <4898@ucsbcsl.ucsb.edu> srnix@citron.ucsb.edu writes: Characters involved: Colin Silvertree, Azzar, THK, Tharmak, Shrouded One, Banner and his Party. > "Colin Silvertree has assured me of your character." Banner addresses those > at the table, "I must tell you that we are all in danger." He waits for his > words to draw complete attention before going on, "Secluded in the Ice > Mountains, northeast of magnificent Silverymoon, was a school of higher > learning. The brightest students of the North would be invited to study at > the Scholia. Bards, philosophers, mages, and the wisest of holy men taught > these young minds the ways of their world and beyond. I was asked to escort > the young elven girl at my table to the Scholia for her induction into the > bard college. We left Silverymoon for the Scholia, that was five months ago." > > Banner pauses, his hands closing into fists, "In route, I took her to a > waystop that my men maintained for Silverymoon. The cave shelter held the > twelve skinned remains of my unit. Their flesh had be removed by a scourge, > most of them would have lived through the entire ordeal to then die from blood > loss. My men ... all of my men." Banner tails off, his fists slowly rising and > falling upon the table. > Colin takes a healthier than usual swig from his glass of brandy. He refills the glass from his bottle. His eyes flicker towards Azzar, then back at Banner. "Banner," he begins carefully, "This is very disturbing. But what, besides the scourge leads you to belive the followers of the Mistress of Pain did this thing? And indeed," he continues, "What leads you feel that Silverymoon, mush less the entire Realms, lie in danger?" "*What*have*you*not*told*us*?" Colin Silvertree Jim Miller