Newsgroups: alt.pub.dragons-inn
From: dementia@cheshire.oxy.edu (Daniel Steven Reinker)
Subject: [blade] Brawl at the Spitting Cobra
Message-ID: <1992Oct20.182623.8763@cheshire.oxy.edu>
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1992 18:26:23 GMT

Meshtak did not know what to make of the advancing creatures. They looked
like they were made out of cheese, and they were eerily quiet, though Meshtak
knew in his mind this was because they had no mouths. Nevertheless it was
disquieting. The creatures (Meshtak was now unconsciously thinking of them as
snail-men, since by the way they walked it appeared they were completely
boneless) were surrounding the inn and closing in. Their objective was not
apparent, but four of them abruptly charged Meshtak, and so he assumed their
objective did not bode well for him.
Meshtak still held his shiftsword, and it abruptly became a crossbow, and he
launched off five arrows at his attackers. The arrows stuck into their skin,
but did not appear to damage them or slow them down in any way. They rushed in
and thrust at the draga with their sword-arms.
Meshtak changed his bow into a battleaxe, ready for a melee battle. As the
creatures thrust at him with their sword arms, Meshtak ducked under the blows
and hacked at the creatures legs. His axe found very little resistence, and he
succeeded in slicing off four legs, leaving two creatures wriggling on the
ground. One of the other two dropped its blade, nicking Meshtak's shoulder,
while the last one did a remarkable boneless-backflip and stood just out of
reach of meshtak's axe. Meshtak chuckled as he transformed the axe into a 
longer reaching sword, and chopped off the snail-man's head. He put his body
into the momentum, and spun in a circle, cleaving the fourth and final snail-
man on the upswing.
Meshtak then watched in horror, as the first two grew new legs, and third
grew a new head...and the fourth, well, both parts grew new snail-men, and 
very soon he would find himself against five.
And behind him, he heard the noises of the other sixteen snail-men making
their impact on the crowd of The Spitting Cobra...

Meshtak the Draga
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