Newsgroups: alt.pub.dragons-inn
From: aaron@space.ualberta.ca (Aaron Humphrey)
Subject: [KQ] Maleiu[Th' Ram]: This should do it
Message-ID: <1992Jul24.203022.13369@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca>
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 20:30:22 GMT

The fight is certainly winding down.  Sambul is facing off the Beer Elemental,
Kron and Colin the thing Moriarty conjured up, Fenris and HighFlyer are
polishing off the rest of the recalcitrant patrons, and the remaining Bannery
Brother is looking uncertain about the whole thing.  And Gillian the Gnome-cum-
Lizard Man?

He gashes Thk's arm, turns into a copper dragon, and flies off through a hole
in the roof.  And suddenly the Beer Elemental turns on its master, tossing him
through the air towards the mirror.  Maleiu barely dodges out of the way in
time--the Elemental seemed to have been throwing the lizard man right at him.
It then turns its attention to Sambul, however.

He sees the mage out of the corner of his eye conjuring something else, until
an unseen being(...sage's servant again)tears his conjuring brazier from his
grasp, only to flee before more insubstantial beings.  The magician leaps out
instinctively after his brazier, suddenly realizing that this has placed him in
the middle of combat.

Maleiu throws his bola once more...snaring the magician in his moment of
immobility.  As Kron disperses the one-eyed being, Maleiu walks over to the
mage and says, "I'll offer you the same choice I offered the thief over there.
You can surrender quietly, or you can get knocked out like he did.  Or, if you
give us some information, perhaps we'll even let you go like Queriche. The
choice is yours."

Moriarty looks around at the battle.  Fenris and HighFlyer are double-teaming
the last Bannery Brother; Fenris distracts the bruiser's attention and
HighFlyer, from ten feet away, makes a pushing motion.  The Bannery Brother
steps back into a puddle of oil, slips, and cracks his head on one of the few
intact tables.  The mage suddenly realizes that he's the only representative of
Verdigren's forces awake to tell what happened.  Nobody will know...he can
claim to have fulfilled his debt to Verdigren, to the best of his ability.

"Sure," he says.  "What do you want to know?"

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