Date: Thursday, 25 Jun 1992 12:14:08 EDT
From: Mike Sander <344LWKC@CMUVM.CSV.CMICH.EDU>
Message-ID: <92177.121408344LWKC@CMUVM.CSV.CMICH.EDU>
Newsgroups: alt.pub.dragons-inn
Subject: Lancos [Inn]: Tale, Part I
References:  <1992Jun24.192948.18096@cheshire.oxy.edu>

    Lancos begins, "Before I get too involved, I shall have to tell you that
my memory is a little fuzzy on this tale -- mainly due to time, but I believe
partially due to outside forces. And, some of the events do not make total
sense to me, let alone someone else. With that disclaimer, I shall begin the
tale as I remember it.
    "I remember that it was when I was a fairly young adventurer. I had just
returned from my first sojourn outside my native realm of Greyhawk, and was
investigating a rarely-used part of a forest that had been the site of recent
troubles, along with a young half-elf skilled at both fighting and thievery.
That in itself is strange, since 1) he was not my usual adventuring partner,
2) I somehow cannot remember his name, and 3) I KNOW that I never saw him
again -- but I digress. We were brash enough to figure that we had a better
chance at finding the cause of the trouble than the patrol set up expressly
for that purpose.
    "After a period of time, we happened upon the house of a well-respected
but nomadic member of the local community. When we saw that his door was
unusually ajar, we rushed in. I was probably lucky to be young, in order to
survive two nearly simultaneous shocks: the sight of the nomad's bloody body
lying on the floor, and the sound of the patrol's horses coming closer. We
fled, feeling that despite not being known as troublemakers, the nomad's death
would be wrongly pinned on us. The patrol followed us deeper into the woods --
not even stopping at the house -- but fortunately never got close enough to
identify us. This was mainly due to us finding a hidden passage leading
underground -- undoubtedly caused by a combination of fate and the thief's
skills.
    "Initially, just hiding by the entrance was enough. However, as the patrol
began to search more diligently, we decided to follow the passage further for
our own safety." Lancos pauses to take a drink, and to further refresh his
memory.

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