Date: Wed, 15 Jul 1992 12:07:30 EDT
From: The Dreamer <ASG102@psuvm.psu.edu>
Message-ID: <92197.120730ASG102@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.pub.dragons-inn
Subject: [L] Bakr And The Horse

ADMIN: this was from Bakr sent to me for editing and posting :-)

  Bakr lay in the moss, controlling the horse.  He could see and hear what
happened around him as well as around the animal, but he couldn't move.
Everything was quiet now in his closer vicinity - he had heard some fighting
and breaking branches in the wood when he was still on horseback, but that
had stopped soon (Luthor and the two bowmen) - so he sometimes closed his
eyes for a while.  It was then when he heard Luthor's voice:
     "Stay put my friend, I must make sure that Brycur is alright."
He stayed put.

  The brigand's horse he controlled reached the street now. It looked around
and saw the fighting place lying twenty paces to the left.  It got there
and found the ground littered with dead bandits.  Nobody else was there so
it examined the bodies more closely.  One of them was Brycur, but he was not
at all dead.

  Bakr stood up.  Luthor just came over to him.  "Where are the others?
I only saw Brycur lying on the ground."

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

     As Luthor walked back down the road toward Bakr, he saw the apprentice
mage get up.  He asked where the others were.
     "I saw them go into the woods.  I think that they were chasing the rest
of the bandits.
     "Do me a fovor, watch over Brycur while I get the wagon.  I think he hurt
his ribs again," Luthor said starting to walk down the road.

     When Luthor met up with Bakr and Brycur at the scene of the battle, they
were talking and having some water.
     "Well, don't just sit there, lets find out what these bandits were
REALLY after," said Luthor as he knelt near the now-decapitated body of
the leader of the bandits.  After a short search, he found a blood stained
piece of paper.
     Luthor unfolded it carefully.  The blood had begun to clot making the
folds of the paper stick together.  The handwriting was neat.  Obviously
that of someone who writes often, like a sage or magician.

"Traenu,

     For reasons that you need not know, I need you to kill a man named
Brycur.  I will reward you 500 pieces of gold, but be warned, Brycur is
a descent warrior and he is travelling with a group of people from the
Dragons Inn!  To help you, I have managed to obtain a wand of magic and
have hired a not-too-scrupulous mage to use it.

                                    Derek the Black."

     "Looks like someone is out to get you Brycur," said Luthor handing the
note to Brycur.

     Love and Peace and Ambushes,
            -The Dreamer-