Newsgroups: alt.pub.dragons-inn From: jcarl@jabba.ess.harris.com (Mathew Dawnstrider) Subject: [Ga] There's more behind you!!!! Message-ID: Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1993 19:17:33 GMT Mathew was growing more unsettled the closer they got to Hawksholme. The force of evil was getting stronger with every mile they crossed. His mind was preoccupied a bit at the absence of any animals too. He was up ahead of the rest of the group as the point man. If any danger was to be found, Mathew wanted to be there first to protect the others. That's why he was very surprised when he heard a high pitched hissing growl coming from behind him in the direction of his party. He reined Judge, his horse, to a halt. He turned around just in time to see Khisanth throwing a dagger at a dwarf with the markings of Illmater on his forehead. There were four others besides the dwarf arrayed in front of the party. "How the Hell, could I miss that!" he berated himself. He turned Judge around and pulled out his long sword, his shield left strapped to his horse. Garriot was on the ground with one of the red-headed tiger-creatures. Mardan was a whirling flash of blades driving another tiger-creature back. Alaric too was just finishing off the third tiger-creatures, when Khisanth fell. Zebron was down and covered by some kind of magical shield. Phillippe and Simon had prodded their horse to turn and run and were fast disappearing back the way the party had come. Where Brent and Kyleen were, Mathew couldn't quite figure out. Things were happening so fast, Mathew felt like he was in slow motion as he charged towards the wizard. Then he felt a small dart hit him in his neck. He reach up with his rein hand and pulled it out. There was a bit of black substance along the tip. He felt dizzy and was about to loose consciousness when his fathers locket around his neck began to glow a soft red. His dizziness faded. "Poison!" he gasped, thats when he noticed more brigands on the other side of the party opposite of the initial five. Six men-at-arms had just become visible with blowguns and darts in their hands. They were wearing leather and short swords. "Behind you!!! They're using poison darts!" he shouted to his friends, as he closed on the wizard. -- Joe Carl Jr. "It ain't what a man don't know that makes him a jcarl@jabba.ess.harris.com fool, but what he does know that ain't so." -- Josh Billings