Newsgroups: alt.pub.dragons-inn From: clay@austin.ibm.com (Clay Colwell) Subject: [TW] Eski joins Amachiak Message-ID: Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1993 14:48:45 GMT In article , jpesonen@viikki.Helsinki.FI (JORMA JUHANI PESONEN (EKT)) writes: [Amachiak:] > "Oh, nothing, thank you. Err, Actually, I'm looking for some > adventurers from the lots of the Big People, for our own folk cannot venture > into the mounds of the Drag...The Swamp Monster. Nor the Lizard Things, > because they are so much bigger than our humble selves. Would you be > interrested in saving our Queen from the hands of the Swamp Monster, which > hsa kidnapped our Beloved One?" > Amachiak took a sip of the juice and looked Eski, seeking somekind > of an answer from the Gnome's face... > Eski's ruddy face was lit by a gleeful grin. "Could it be?" Eski thought. "Already the chance for adventure!" His grin widened as he remembered the thrills he'd encountered in his travels: the mine shafts of crystal that he'd explored upon his first travel, the efforts he helped put in deposing the tyrant CanCan and his evil escort the Lady Roak (he thanked GGOT(aa) for the gift of the travelling machine he'd received in spoils from that adventure), the unusual red-haired folk with powerful minds from the plane of Little Copper, the delicious fear that washed over him in the struggle against Takhis and the bipedal draconians... Eski faltered. His voice quavered a little as he spoke, "Lizard Things? As in dragon-people?" Amachiak looked at Eski oddly, his demeanor betraying a little uneasiness at the gnome's change of attitude. "No," Eski thought. "I will not let this possibility get in the way of a marvelous adventure. And a queen to rescue! Surely this squirrel-rider has spirit and courage and love driving him; I won't let the chance of dragons dissuade me from this calling." Eski shuddered, shaking off the transient doubt. "Forget I asked, sir Amachiak. I've never considered myself one of the Big People," glancing mischievously at the other patrons of the Inn, most of them twice Eski's height, "but I've mingled with them, helped them on many occasions, and have shown some little value in their struggles. If you'll have me, then gladly would I help you rescue your queen." The gleeful grin once again splitting the thick black fur of his beard, Eski asked, "What do I need to know, and when do we start?"