From: jgreene@dorm.rutgers.edu (Jeffrey Greene) Newsgroups: alt.pub.dragons-inn Subject: Re: Brighter lights and Louder sounds!! Message-ID: Date: 17 Oct 92 17:36:52 GMT References: <1992Oct13.080258.3106@wkuvx1.bitnet> <1992Oct13.153738.3132@wkuvx1.bitnet> <1992Oct16.213736.3260@wkuvx1.bitnet> [ADMIN: I'm assuming that the drow has already returned from the Spitting Cobra. If I'm worng, it won't be the first time.] > "To one who truly wishes to learn from a mistake, I cannot refuse the >learning, but I inform you now that you do not have the heritage to use >greater rune magic as I do, it is an ability found in a very few people, >and one which needs to be trained and controlled as quickly as possible. >And I cannot say these things unless I submit to Your teaching, such an act >would be very dishonorable and would not lend conviction to my own words. >After all, who can I expect to believe me when I don't believe myself?" "Why me?" thought the merman, "First the phu (never capitalized) and now her. Can't anyone speak modern common without archaic phrases?" He addressed the dark elf, "Well, RuneCaster, I'm afraid you misunderstood my intent. I do not want to learn more 'advanced' magics, but instead to refine my understanding of what I already know. "But, after that, I do not understand the rest of your explanation. Is it dishonorable for you to teach, or to learn? And why, pray tell, don't you believe yourself, RuneCaster?" The use of the name he had given her was vital. Her true name, her secret, Indigo had discovered within her mind. He had locked her name, indeed the very fact that he knew her name, deep within his subconscious. If the merman did not call her _something_, he would begin to search for a name, to think of one. Then he would surely have found the secret, and then, he knew, doom ensue. But every great warrior, psionic or otherwise, has a flaw. Indigo was curious. He wanted to know the dark elf's history, to know why her name was stripped from her. He prepared another mind probe. He wanted to be subtle, for although he was pretty confident that he wouldn't be caught (he thought back to a mind flayer whose mind he had invaded a few years ago; he wasn't caught then, so he really had nothing to fear from the inexperienced drow), but on the slim chance he was, he did not know what the powerful dark elf was capable of. His best chance was to have her distracted. The next time someone talked to her, he could strike. -jak