From: st1pn@jane.uh.edu (R@) Newsgroups: alt.pub.dragons-inn Subject: Re: Fizzle returns Date: 29 Dec 1992 19:22 CST Message-ID: <29DEC199219223263@jane.uh.edu> References: In article , silk@mcl.ucsb.edu (ken mencher) writes... >As thunder booms outside the Inn, a few patrons look out into the cloudless >sky, shrug, and return to their drinks, thinking, "showy mages." > >After a minute or two, a very scorched looking old man walks into the Inn. >Flapping behind him is a small bronze dragon (very small). He waves to a >waitress, and asks for a large mug of elven wine, and a comfy chair by the >fire. Fleck, having been standing around outside lost in thought for eight times longer than was good for him, realized that someone had just entered the Inn proper, and, wonder of wonders, left the door ajar. Which was interesting. So Fleck stared at the door. A little. Before he threw all his negligible weight against the door and shoved it open a few more inches. He squeezed in, maneuvering his little bug wings through the narrow opening scant seconds before someone poked the door shut. He narrowly avoided a good squishing. >After having brought the items, Fizzle settles himself down, and turns to >the sleeping patrons around him. "Darn....No-one is willing to listen to >my old war stories...hmmm...anyone interested, or should i just talk to the >wall??" Fleck peered out from inside his parka. The inside of the Inn was rather more interesting the outside. A roaring inferno in a cavernous fireplace, chairs and table legs like a forest, and a lack of anyone any smaller than twice his height. He caught the old man's question, thought a moment, then said blankly: "What?" >Fizzle [Note: Fleck is a bit distracted, and rightly so. He's been struck with the 'stremely sobering thought that his time here, or anywhere, is limited. This not being his fault, but the universities', or, rather, actually, mine....] R@: "I'll be eligible for readmission whe WHAT freezes over--?" -- "I simply ignored an axiom." --Albert Einstein, on relativity