Newsgroups: alt.pub.dragons-inn
From: gujn@uniwa.uwa.edu.au (Jeremy Nelson)
Subject: The Crowd:  Reactions to defense...
Message-ID: <1992Jun26.050356.26437@uniwa.uwa.edu.au>
Date: Fri, 26 Jun 1992 05:03:56 GMT

ADMIN:  If no one objects, I'll play the part of the crowd, and react to
        some of the defense...  I am assuming the crowd is being urged
        on by other forces.... :)


The heady roar of the crowd is punctuated by the chime of weapons, and
the background surf of flames makes a deafening concuction of noise..

The fighting is not, however, enough to prevent the crowd surging past
the knots of violence... they rush onward toward the inn, until a great
shadow swoops out of the sky, lit only by flames, and belches fire at
the crowd...

Even as the crowd wavers in it's tracks a fog rolls in and their cries
become muted.  The thick fog obscures all, and the crowd finds itself
fractured to small groups.  Every man is an island in the dark.  Sounds
recede into the fog.

One man, stumbling through the darkness, finds himself face to face with
a large woman, standing with an entranced look on her face... he screams
from shock and stumbles back into the dark...

Another trips in the darkness and finds himself lying across the bloody
body of a friend...

And the tide turns.  Screams puncture the night, and terror posses the
pack.  Everyone for themselves as they scramble from the inn, purpose
and anger subsumed in terror, and a sudden realization of mortality.



Then there is silence.

The thick fog gradually dampens even the fires of the nearby buildings.
Forlorn voices call... and the defenders gradually make their way to the
inn doors, and back to the protection of the fire.

But despite the victory... many look guilty and haunted... these
were no monsters... these were normal people.

The fog seems to seep into an oddly subdued inn.

Above light begins to burn of the fog...

ADMIN:  Hope that was OK.  Needless to say, what happened to any one
character is entirely up to you.  Sorry it was so prosey, but there was
an opportunity for drama... :/

-- 
Jem.  Jeremy Nelson.  gujn@uniwa.uwa.edu.au       :\  =>  :) 
I fear two things: 
That I am not one of the most interesting people in the world... and that I am.