Newsgroups: alt.pub.dragons-inn
From: hibschmn@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Johann Allen Hibschman)
Subject: [JOI] Quaeros enters the fray...
Message-ID: <1993Apr7.154912.21777@Princeton.EDU>
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1993 15:49:12 GMT


	Following close behind Laurenth, Quaeros emerged onto the deck
into the sounds of a pitched battle.  What he saw burned through the
mental haze still weighting him down from his ?vision?.  The dead,
recklessly desecrated, doing battle with his fellows.  Any doubt in him
evaporated, leaving only a cold rage, which only grew fiercer when he
saw the robed figure commanding the dead.  Who was that creature, to
mock and violate death in such a way?
	He drew his daggers and, holding one in either hand, began to
walk towards the conflict.  His voice was raised in an eerie, melodic
chant which seemed to rise and fall in time with the combat around him.
He gestured, and three wraiths encircling Aleric exploded into dust.
Aleric quickly moved to help Darkin force a wraith into the roiling sea
below.
	Quaeros saw that the dead were still avoiding him, so he began
his chant once more.  Hearing the elf's voice raised once more over the
fray, the robed figure on the deck of the black ship turned to watch
Quaeros.  Two wraiths detached themselves from the general melee and
stumbled towards the chanting cleric.
	The wraiths lashed out at Quaeros, striking him in the arms and
chest and leaving burning wounds behind.  He staggered back, gravely
wounded, but his voice did not falter.  The wraiths exploded into shards
of bone and scraps of flesh.
	He lowered himself into a defensive crouch and began to chant
again, while fending off the assault of another wraith with his daggers.
The wraith before him stumbled and fell, and the wounds across Quaeros's
body faded away.  Quaeros smiled and pushed the weakened undead thing
over the side of the vessel, then lifted his voice in supplication to
his god yet again.  The tide of battle was turning, but the robed
pretender on the other ship had not yet interfered.


[ADMIN: The dreaded net.lag rides again!  Undead.  I hate these guys.
Funny how those clerics of gods of death turn out to be gosh darn
effective agains undead. :)]