Date: Tuesday, 28 Jul 1992 21:15:07 EDT From: Mike Sander <344LWKC@CMUVM.CSV.CMICH.EDU> Message-ID: <92210.211507344LWKC@CMUVM.CSV.CMICH.EDU> Newsgroups: alt.pub.dragons-inn Subject: [DQ]: Week 2, part three ====================================================================== ADMIN: INCLUDE HERE ANYTHING NEW YOUR PC MIGHT HAVE "DISCOVERED". - - - CUT TO: After all other discussion is finished ShockWave: (suddenly shouting ) "Wait! Can't you HEAR?" Nearby people at other tables suddenly fall silent and turn their attention to the DragonQuestors' table. SunStorm (and some others): "What?" ShockWave: "What, what? You mean you don't hear him?" SunStorm: "Him who?" ShockWave: "TrueSilver! Who else?" SunStorm: "WHAT? You hear him? What does he say?" Shockwave: "Shut up!!! I'm trying to ... gone!" A moment of silence fell upon the whole group. SunStorm: "Gone? Well, what DID he say?" ShockWave: "Not much. He repeated three words over and over." SunStorm (apparently not succeeding very well at keeping his nervosity in check: "*WHAT* words???" ShockWave: "'My Dark Master', over and over... I'm sure it was his voice. It seemed to go nearer and nearer, until it finally -and abruptly- stopped completely just when I was sure the 'voice' was going to 'feel' so near I could have touched it!" SunStorm: "How come only you heard it?" 'Raelf: "May something be magic!" Shockwave: "Yes, that's what I thought it was like: a magical vibration." And suddenly EVERYBODY heard it... "my dark master... My Dark Master..." SunStorm: "TrueSilver! It's *YOU*!?! Where are you?" The voice was beginning to become louder and louder (or maybe nearer and nearer), and it seemed to come from just outside the inn!!! "...My Dark Master... MY DARK MASTER... *MY* *DARK* *MASTER* !!!" SunStorm got up and ran towards the outside of the inn, completely oblivious to the other DragonQuestors. SUnStorm: "TrueSilver?!? *WHO* are you, you who use his voice???" A sudden gust of wind scrambled SunStorm's hair just as he was getting outside. SunStorm damned himself for forgetting to put on his helm *again*. Strange lights were making the Plaza of Glittering Steel glimmer with an eerie glow. Something was really going on there. .....whoooooosh SunStorm: "*WHAT* is that???" A white sphere of light came instantly into existence just at the center of the plaza, causing the strange clapping sound. Just as the light receded, a geometrical shape appeared in its center, still floating, just above the ground, at head level. It was pitch black, with a purple glow all over it. The shape was very strange looking. Light around the object seemed to bend as if to go around it, making the image of objects behind it seem completely distorted and multiples. SunStorm stepped forward toward the incongruity in the very fabric of space, looking at it. SunStorm: "WHAT is that? It seems like a cube or something... no, it's diamond shaped... or maybe a pyramid.. it's... very....... s-t-r-a...n...g.........e....." To any onlooker, the object seems like a paradox, a shape that can't exist. Think about a cube that has as many sides as a pyramid, and that looks like a diamond, then reverts it inside-out, and maybe you'll get the idea...One thing is certain: it is quite a fascinating thing, as can be plainly seen when one looks at SunStorm's reactions... Shcokwave (still inside): "What's going on? WHAT is going ON? Someone, bring me OUTSIDE, NOW!" Other DragonQuesters, surely, were also outside at that time. Even some other patrons of the dragons-inn went outside to see the lightshow. Some of them, like SunStorm, looked at the thing. They all felt the same thing: Incredible Inexplicable Absolute and Total Fascination. Nothing else in the World mattered, even though things were seeming to speed up fast, only the pyracubic diamond shaped object seemed to matter, like the center of the world or something even more important... A discontinuity in thought, an object upon which one can only get lost into. Shockwave: "This looks like major trouble!!! SUNSTORM! WHATEVER IT IS, SNAP OUT OF IT!!! THINK ABOUT SOMETHING ELSE! *ANYTHING*!!!" SunStorm: "W...........h...............a.......................t ...............................a................................ .......................................s........................ .......................t...............................r........ ..........a..............................................n...... .....................................g.......................... ...................................................e..........." ADMIN: INCLUDE HERE (or before that) YOUR PC'S ACTIONS... - - - And somewhere else, far far away, the Dark Master muttered to himself: "Damn, failed!" And his shadow on the wall replied: "Well, not everything is lost." And the Dark Master seemed pleased. "Yes. They will come. Then we will use the Pentagram." ADMIN: Obviously, nobody except me can use the Dark Master (the guy who make the character list can add him up as a "new" villian...). - - - - - - ADMIN: Depending on what your characters do here, MANY things can happen. If that post didn't catch you off-guard , then nothing will ... :-) Also, don't think that the first part (information gathering) isn't important. Whatever your PC succeeds at "scraping up"" may affect the rest of the quest in a major way (or not!)>. Be there or be square (or is it pyracubic diamond?). - - - - - - QotD: "What do you mean, slow of mind?" (Groo, in just about every issue) /---------------------------› | Patrick "Paradak" Rannou. | | Rannou@info.polymtl.ca | ›---------------------------/ ======================================================================= Michael Sander 344lwkc@cmuvm.csv.cmich.edu AKA Lancos Erredan SAQ: "Would you please explain/ why you're so strange?"-Bad Company]