Newsgroups: alt.pub.dragons-inn
From: taz@athena.mit.edu (Brian P Shea)
Subject: [G] Roger Relaxes, Reloads, and Rambles
Message-ID: <1992Oct10.021711.7124@athena.mit.edu>
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 02:17:11 GMT


Roger watches as Glysten commits his delirious attack, and is dealt with by
Traveler.  Roger listens as orders are given, and seeing that they are
reasonable, decides to follow them.  At least this time...

Roger scans the clearing, checking out the situation.  Traveler has left.
Galland, in its new appearance, is caring for the unconcious Glysten with
the help of Wanderer.  Bran Pathseeker has started a fire and is sitting
and waiting.  Kordane is standing near by, and Thorr-kan has finished tying 
up the remaining lizardman.  

Thorr-kan turns towards Roger at this point, and speaks. "What happened before 
my arrival in battle?"  

Roger looks at the minotaur, and wonders at this creature.  He has never seen
a creature such as this before.  Roger just chalks it up to being thrown
into a different world, and responds.  "Not a whole hell of a lot.  Just a few
hours of riding our horses in more or less complete silence.  Typical pre-run
jitters, if ya ask me.  Which ya did..."  The Jolly Roger then looks around
the clearing and shrugs to himself.  He walks over to Bones, his steed, and
takes his saddlebags and an item rolled in black cloth and tied at each end 
with red cord.  Sitting down on a convenient stump, he speaks to no one in 
particular. 

"Guess I'm on guard duty."

He then removes his coat and speads it upon the ground before him.  As he 
does so, he reveals an item that until now has remained concealed.  Attached
to the small of his back, with a series of straps designed to allow quick 
retrieval and reduce restriction of movement, is a matte black machine pistol.  
Anyone knowing their firearms would recognize it as an Ingram Smartgun with 
some minor modifications.   Roger begins to disassemble and clean the weapon, 
mumbling to himself.  "Damn.  Don't s'pose I'll find anywhere to buy more 
ammo... better conserve."

As Thorr-kan watches, Roger disassembles, cleans, and reassembles the pistol
in under a minute.  Roger looks at the minotaur, smiles, and says, "I've had a 
lot of practice doing this.  It pays to keep your weapons in good condition.  
But I guess you'd know that.  You look like the street samurai type, though I 
guess that title doesn't really fit here, seeing as there ain't no streets.  
So, what manner of creature are you?  Never seen nothin' quite like ya."

Roger then proceeds to untie the cords on the package, unrolling what is
revealed to be an simple yet elegant katana.  The hilt is black, as is the 
scabbard.  The hilt is adorned by an ivory skull and cross-bones, matching
both Roger's eyes and the insignia on the pin he wears.  Ivory runes decorate the
scabbard, and give a sense of power.  As Roger draws the blade, Thorr-kan notes
the flicker of energy along the single razor sharp edge.  Roger notices this,
and just shrugs his shoulders with a half-smile upon his face, as if to say, 
"Hey, it gets the job done..."


Brian Shea
taz@athena.mit.edu
aka The Jolly Roger

"It's only fun and games until someone gets geeked. Then it's biz..."
	-Street Proverb