Newsgroups: alt.pub.dragons-inn From: andsol@arcadien.owlnet.rice.edu (Andrew J. Solberg) Subject: Natter: [Low City]: Watching, Waiting, Rising, Falling.... Message-ID: <1992Jun14.180756.4879@rice.edu> Keywords: Natter, Kron, Creft, murder Date: Sun, 14 Jun 1992 18:07:56 GMT "Stupid...dead....guts.....NO!....gotta move.....SHIT!......mmmphh..." That's Natter, muttering to himself again, as always. "....whuzzat.....eh?suppose so.....nnrgggh.....cut 'im......stupid!" Always muttering. Never stops. Well, when he's sleeping, okay..... "....wizards......GOT 'IM! UNHH!.....'shhhhrk'--like so......blood....." ....but awake, he's mouthing off every moment. Who knows who he's talking to? Devils? Space aliens? His mother? His commentary usually has no coherency -- it's a kind of babbled, stream- of-consciousness replay of Natter's sordid, dingy life. It typically has no chronological (or other types of -logical) ordering. It's just Natter, nattering away. Nobody notices, nobody cares. "....FUCK YOU!!!....grab 'im......Oi! whu?......'s shiny.......thing....." Unfortunately, right now his train of thought is stuck in a very coherent replay, like a skipping phonograph record. And there are a great many people in the Low City who, if they noticed, would care a great deal. He's retraced his steps to his resting place of a week ago. He peers fearfully at the spot behind the seedy tavern, just next to the rotting rainbarrel. There's nothing there now, except maybe a few spots of blood that the rain missed. But in Natter's mind, there's something going on there right now. And he's seeing it all. "....sleepin'.....who?......oh, hell......GEDDUP! GEDDUP, BASTARD!....Ewwww..." Natter shivers and stares fixedly at The Spot. He's seen many murders in his time, but this one has stuck in his poor cracked brain. Once again, Natter has seen too much. And this time he's going to regret it. ".....so messy.....Hey! Whayadoin?....'s so shiny.....silver.....locket....." -- Andrew Solberg |"Moving faster than a speeding bullet isn't andsol@owlnet.rice.edu | much use if you and it are headed straight Phone:713-529-8627 | for each other." John Brunner bridge-sleep-eat-sex-bridge-sleep-eat-sex-bridge-sleep-I'M STUCK!!!!