Newsgroups: alt.pub.dragons-inn
Subject: Re: The Book of Halflings
Message-ID: <1992Oct15.174218.4133@athena.mit.edu>
From: scott@athena.mit.edu (Scott D Bradburn)
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 17:42:18 GMT

ADMIN:
This is a little out of time frame, and should actually take place before
E'Karam's flashback.  For one reason or another it failed to be posted
in its proper place.  All complaints should go to the maintainer of the
apdi time stream.

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>Back inside, Firgun takes a drink of his cider, and then pours a little
>on the tiny notepad.  After it gets wet, it swells up to become a notepad
>about one foot square.  "Another of my great inventions," says Firgun.
>"Much more portable then your average notebook."  He then opens it up
>and prepares to write on it.  "Now, excepting the purple, prehesile
>moustache, do you look like the average halfling?"

"Oh most certainly.  Most Halflings have sandy blond hair, blue eyes, stand
about three to three and a half feet tall, and weigh about 90 pounds.  I
fit that description almost exactly.  Well, I will admit that I am slightly
lighter than most Halflings my size, but I attribute that to my lack of
funds as of late.  It seems that not too many people are interested in hiring
a Halfling with a purple moustache who gets followed around by a purple
monster everywhere he goes.....Hmm, I wonder if there is a coincidence there.."
for a moment, his eyes go blank.

I am a Halfling,
I have a purple moustache,
A monster follows me everywhere,
The monster has nothing to do with my moustache,

Therefore the monster must not be purple.

E'Karam's eyes refocused.  "Sorry about that.  Now what were we talking about?
Oh yes, I remember, it was about the monster.  I just remembered that I have
never actually SEEN the monster.  People just tell me that it's purple and I'm
color-blind, they may actually be telling me that it's blue.  I wouldn't be
able to tell you see..."  E'Karam didn't understand himself, but he didn't
mind.  Halflings were never known for their brilliant thinking.

"Maybe I can't see the creature BECAUSE I'm color-blind," he said impressing
himself with an illogical leap of reasoning.  Part of his mind was satisfied
with this, and another part considered this subject a threat, so it decided to
switch the subject.

"Hey, you have some really interesting gadgets there.  What kind of mage are
you?"

     Love and Peace and Curiosity,
            -The Dreamer-