Newsgroups: alt.pub.dragons-inn
From: aaron@space.ualberta.ca (Aaron Humphrey)
Subject: Death & Destiny IV
Message-ID: <1992Aug3.225500.15491@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca>
Date: Mon, 3 Aug 1992 22:55:00 GMT

Death sat and curled her eyebrows as she waited for Destiny to move.  Her
opponent's left hand was chained to a massive book, which he kept closed for
added fairness in their game.

He turned over a card, and almost instantly Death slapped down her own black
card on top of it, saying, "I found Waldo!"  Destiny spread his hands in 
concession, and motioned for her to take her own turn.  She drew two cards, a
red three and a Wild Draw Four card.  She put down the red three and drew
another card--Puncture Proof.  Let Destiny try to play any Flat Tires on her
now...  She contemplated the board, and said, "Alasir attacks Vascondy."  She
and Destiny rolled dice, and slowly the armies of Vascondy were whittled away
and Death moved in her own black ones.  She drew another card for her victory.
The Savannah.  Well, that might come in handy for later, although Destiny had
the Dark Continent pretty much wrapped up.  Anyway, she played the Wild Draw
Four card, hoping Destiny wouldn't challenge it.

He didn't, drawing the cards silently.  Then he grinned and lay them all
down.  Child, Woman, Man and Sage of Crystals.  A perfect plerd.  Death cursed
as Destiny reached for the 8-Ball and rolled it across the floor.  He bent down
to read the result, and his face fell.  Death grinned and picked out a card
and read the orange question.  "What minor goddess, extant in Roth and the
Known Lands, has the silken whip as her symbol?"

Destiny sat and fidgeted, obviously wishing he could open his book to check the
answer.  He was >horrible< at trivia questions without it.  "Loviatar?" he
guessed finally, in a hoarse whisper.

Death shook her head.  "Aditi," she said.  "My turn."  She took Destiny's
discarded Vascondian armies and tried to build them into a stack without
toppling them.  She managed to get 10 of them piled before the stack fell.  "A
new record," she said, noting it down in her book.

Destiny didn't respond, except to spin the spinner.  "Right foot blue," he
whispered.

ADMIN:  Whee!  This is silly, but fun...

--
---Alfvaen(a.k.a. Aaron V. Humphrey, Page of Newts)
Canadian Network For Space Research, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
"John Wayne in a slip?  Now _that_ would be silly."  Axel Fusco
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