Newsgroups: alt.pub.dragons-inn From: dmcdulin@cs1.uct.ac.za (DB MCDULING) Subject: New character appears [Inn] Message-ID: Keywords: New PC Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 12:41:41 GMT Night had fallen, as it usually does at the end of any normal working day. The everyday hustle and bustle of daily life in Generica had died down as the honest (?) people went home to their husbands/ wives/children/pets respectively. Night-time however is not the time in which nothing happens, it is the time when very note-worthy, sometimes Earth-shattering (or should that be Generica-shattering?) events take place. Tonight was going to prove no different. In the Inn, the usual patrons were being served their usual ale, and the unusual patrons were being served unusual drinks, drinks which fizzled and bubbled in sometimes quite disturbing ways. It has been recomended that no human should ever try to drink any of these drinks, because nobody really wants to have to clean the resulting mess off the ceiling, walls and floor. (And this had usually been the result in the past. The human body was just not ready for something akin to Nitro being mixed with Glycerine. The result was always gooey and very messy.) In the empty space above a conveniently unoccupied table (very strange night tonight if a table is unoccupied...) a small blueish spark appears. At first it is hardly visible, but slowly, it starts to expand, and stops resembling a spark, more readily taking the form of a blueish tinted light. Almost everyone in the Inn had seen this strange apperition starting to appear, and nobody was going to try and do anything about it right at the moment. The light was looking more humanoid in shape as the seconds passed, until finally it formed the shape of a man. Suddenly, there is an expansion, followed quickly by a small thunderclap as a solid body took up the place where nothing had been before. The man fell down on the table, rolled off, and landed with a heavy thud on the floor. There was another, smaller thunderclap as a staff materialised next to the man. "Grrffffnnk." he mumbled. "Brnnk" he tried again. "Fffnnnnrrrk" he croaked, slowly getting to his feet. "Great. First he does'nt tell me where he's sending me, and then he sends me to a space somewhat ABOVE the floor." he said as he righted the fallen table. Looking around him, he saw that the whole Inn was looking at him with interest, as they had never seen a man quite like him yet. He stands 5'10" tall, and has slightly translucent skin, almost like frozen, crystal-clear water. A faint blue nimbus surrounds his entire body, as well as his staff. "My name is Kraska. Can someone please tell me where I am?" he called out to the expectand crowd in the Inn. "You're in Generica, in the very famous Dragons Inn too." one of the usual patrons piped up. "Thanks. At least now I know where I am. If it isn't obvious already, I'm new to this place. I offer my services to anyone going on a quest. I have the ability to control the temperature of things which I touch, from a minimum of fifty degrees below freezing point, to twenty degrees above boiling point. I have no need for food, only requiring pure water for sustenance. However, I have a moral code which prevents me from killing anyone or anything. As of yet, I cannot use magic, but I am a swift learner. Are there any offers?" Kraska said loudly to all gathered in the Inn. ADMIN So a new character appears. (My first posting to this group. Wish to join in somewhere please...) /------------------------------------------------------------------------\ | BuzMack says: Do Unto Others, Then Split! | | Flames, greetings and any email to: dmcdulin@cs1.uct.ac.za | \------------------------------------------------------------------------/ See ya BuzMack The Terrible.