Newsgroups: alt.pub.dragons-inn
From: kring@efes.physik.uni-kl.de (Thomas Kettenring)
Subject: [Magic Shop, East Gate] Bakr searches for the bear
Message-ID: <1992Jul3.135049.16503@rhrk.uni-kl.de>
Date: Fri, 3 Jul 1992 13:50:49 GMT

ADMIN:  This is before Shakura Delena entered the inn.

  Bakr left the inn, walked to the East, looking around cautiously
for bears and giants, and reached Miggung's Magic Shop.  He hadn't
had enough money yet to buy any magic items, but he knew the shop.
Many times he had rummaged through it with shining eyes.  His father
had a shop like this in the city of Meknesh, and he himself had often
helped out in the shop and delivered goods when he was a small boy.

  Miggung greeted him when he entered.  "Hello Bakr!  You want to
look at my stock again?"

  "No, I'll actually buy something.  Do you have potions which help
against exhaustion?"

  "Sure.  How many do you want?  One?  That'll be forty-nine gold
and nine silver.  Plus nine coppers for the bottle, but you'll
get that back when you return it."

  The fat mage haggled him down to thirty-eight, then he paid
and got a small flask with an orange-brown liquid.  He decided
to use it when he actually encountered the bear.  After all one
wouldn't want to waste the money.

  "How did you manage to be spared by the mob?" he asked.

  Miggung smiled broadly.  "I raised a magic wall of fire around
the shop.  They thought it had been burned down by others already."

  "Nice trick.  Bye Miggung."  -  "Bye Bakr."

  Then he searched the city for the bear.  Some citizens had seen
it,  but when he reached the East gate, which was guarded now,
the guards and every inhabitant of nearby houses didn't know
of any stray bear.

  One of the guards scolded him for bringing wild beasts into
the city.  "Surely you rode it in here, like that moose you
brought yesterday.  I turned a blind eye on you up to now but
if that bear does any harm to citizens of Generica, you'll
be held responsible!  Surely you took advantage of the short
moment when we had to take care of the mob!  If I had been
at the gate, you wouldn't have entered with this bear!"

  The other guard gaped.  "Take care of the mob??  But all
we did was run away!  Besides, a bear is not as unusual as
all the monsters people take in here..."

  "Shut up, Langmuir!  You're damaging the reputation of
the City Guard!  And you, Rameshander, go fetch that bear!"

"I'm not from Rameshan but from Eschar.  Rameshanders
have another sort of scarf."

"Anyway, FETCH THAT BEAR!"

Bakr turned to the West and continued the search.

Bakr ibn Ja'far ibn Musa al Mekneshi, apprentice mage.
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