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From: kring@efes.physik.uni-kl.de (Thomas Kettenring)
Subject: [L] Bakr: Waiting for Lathan, Sal, and Murell
Message-ID: <1992Jul19.192016.24801@rhrk.uni-kl.de>
Date: Sun, 19 Jul 1992 19:20:16 GMT

ADMIN:  I didn't see any [L] postings after J.M. Craig's "Re: Lathan and Sal
  Speed Through the Woods", from the 17th.  Were there any?  I don't know
what
  to do now until they are back, so I let Bakr dream a bit.

  Persons mentioned apart from the Luthor Questors:
    'Raelf, Felchek (NPC), Maleiu, Shakura Delena, Felix


  Luthor and Brycur just finished searching the bodies.  Bakr leant at the
wagon dreaming, and Brycur thought, "Seems this mage is a bit on the lazy
side..."

  The Scharidian mage (people from Eschar are called Scharidrim) thought
about the peculiar ways of Providence.  He had been wandering along with
his companions on his home world Midgard, in the land of Chryseia, and
suddenly he had been displaced to another world, this world.  He had walked
a few steps, then he had noticed that he was not on the road but on a
clearing, with a geometrical figure on the ground, and that his companions
were missing.  He had jumped around in excitement, shouting their names.
He had finally found a road, and when, after following it for a while, he had
met a peasant whose language he didn't understand, it had dawned on him that
he wasn't in Chryseia anymore.

  And much later, in Generica, he had met someone not only from Midgard, but
from Meknesh, Bakr's native place, and was somehow related to his teacher,
Machbar the Incredible.  Arouk was his name, and he was an alchemist by
profession.  He had left Meknesh eight years ago because he had accidentally
blown up a house containing a famous adventurer's family.  He had had to flee
the revenge, so he had changed worlds with his wife and settled in Generica,
where Bakr had recognized him.  He had to promise he wouldn't tell anyone
Arouk's real name, as he was known as "Felchek of the Foul Odors" around
here.

  And on Bakr's last day in the Dragons Inn, a stranger ['Raelf] had asked
where he could find an alchemist and an astrologer.  Bakr had been able to
tell
him, and the reminicences of the evening when he were a guest in Felchek's
house had inspired him to rise to unexpected heights of eloquence.  And he
had
been far too talkative... Felchek was posing as a Rameshander, and Bakr had
told the stranger that he was related to his master.  He hoped that nobody
had
noticed the discrepancy.  But no... one would have to know Felchek as well as
Bakr's origin to get suspicious... The mage decided not to spread his history
too wide in Generica.  He couldn't remember whom he had told already that he
was from Midgard:  Maleiu, the Luthor Questors, but who else?  Felix and
Shakura had been at the table then... If that adventurer would come to this
world, and to Generica, he would surely go to Dragons Inn... and ask for an
alchemist and an astrologer.  But then he'd find Felchek anyway, and it
wasn't
Bakr's fault... And that he would come was too unlikely in any case...
or was it?  Hey!  That stranger had asked exactly what the revenging
adventurer
would have asked...

He was teared out of his thoughts by someone speaking nearby.

(ADMIN: Some time or other this *will* happen.)


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