Newsgroups: alt.pub.dragons-inn From: abb6731@ritvax.isc.rit.edu (Mister Sinister) Subject: [JOI][Storm] The ship of death... Message-ID: <1993Apr6.144633.4789@ultb.isc.rit.edu> Date: Tue, 6 Apr 1993 14:46:33 GMT "Kyar!" at the sight of the lightning striking him, Segoi almost left the wheel to run to his fallen comrade. However on seeing him rise up again, he remained fast to the wheel and the helms man who was by now stuck between him and the wheel without hope of going anywhere. As Kyar rose and saw the balck ship from the port bow he pointed, and following his point Segoi turned and looked. Not being able to make out much from the waves and the wind blowing in his face, Segoi strained to see. His hood was almost blown back, but he quickly steadied it with a hand that was replaced on the wheel as speedily. "I must see that ship," he muttered to himself. And so saying he turned his full attention on the ship. His eyes began to glow blue from beneath the dark hood, yet in the storm no one noticed with all the chaos that was going on anyway. The ship then appeared to him clear as on a smooth lake, and what he saw on it displeased him greatly. Scampering over the riggings were skeletons of sailors long since dead, their tattered cloths still clung here and there. A baleful yellow lantern hung on the bow of the ship, casting an eeire light over the waves. The crew, if one could call them that, seemed to be reading weapons, and canons for attack, he could see now the muzzles of the dire things protruding from the hull of the Black ship. The hull itself was riddled with holes and by all rights should not be afloat. But most terrifying of all was the figure on the bridge that caught Segoi's full attention. A black robed figure tall as himself, yet much thinner, with white hands, and carrying a... sythe. Segoi's eyes abruptly stopped glowing. He turned to Kyar, who was holding fast to the rigging. "We _must_ out run that ship!" he shouted to Kyar,"It is the Black Ship of Death!" Mr. Sinister...