Newsgroups: alt.pub.dragons-inn
From: asgds@aurora.alaska.edu
Subject: [Mikar]
Message-ID: <1993Apr22.115733.1@aurora.alaska.edu>
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1993 19:57:33 GMT



	Nikola ate his meal in the Happy Mage's main room.  He got more than a
few looks from the staff and a few of the guests.  I should probably learn to
be a little ... QUITER in my passions, he thought.  He had been approached by
five different women and three men, all inquiring if he "would like to share a
drink?"  It's nice to be wanted, he thought, but I am fond of Mikar.
	The warrior thought about his relationship with the young theif, and
about his increasing fondness for him.  I am physically and emotionally
attracted to women, and yet the lust spell which has forced me to take up with
Mikar, isn't making me feel emotionally attracted to him.  Perhaps it is
something within me, or within him that is causing this.
	Then there is Seline.  Beautiful, exotic, Seline.  He had not stopped
thinking about her all day.  Every free moment of his day had been consumed
with thoughts of her.  Not that there had been many free moments.  Mikar had
insisted on buying some weapons, clothing, and suplies.  He had also insisted
on going out alone for a while to get caught up with the news on the street and
to do a few errands.

	Nikola had just finished his dinner when Mikar walked in, looking very
concerned.  He hurried over to the table where Nikla sat and began to speak.
	"We have trouble my friend," he said "there have been several
dissapearences in the last few weeks."	Nikola looked confused.
	"Isn't that rather normal?  Generica is  a large town and a dangerous
one."
	"These aren't the usual dissapearences.  After I left you here I went
around to some of my usual hang-outs.  I looked in on my friends," at Nikola's
look of suprise he smiled.  "You think that life on the street is a lonely
one?"  
	Nikola nodded.
	"It isn't, you develop a lot of friendships and relationships,
otherwise you won't last a week on the streets.  Especially in this city. 
Anyway, over the last few weeks there have been several mysterious
dissapearences.  Young men and women, of various races, have simply vanished. 
The worrisome thing is that the vanishing people are all people who live on the
streets, or are among the poorest of Generica.  This bugged me so I went to the
Examiner's office to see what they knew of it.  There wasn't a single story
about it.  Then I did a lot of checking.  All of the people who have
dissapeared, about thrity in all, were at the age of the sexual peak for their
respective races."
	"Achthyl!"  Nikola pounded the table in anger.
	"Yes, I am afraid so.  I think that we should post a notice on the
board at Dragons Inn, asking for adventurers to help us on this quest."
	"We will do this tommorrow after we have spoken to Seline."

	They walked up to their room.

	"Well, warrior, what would you have me do?"  Mikar asked playfully as
he lay down on the bed.
	"Nothing for tonight, we need to find an Inn with thicker walls!"
		And then they slept.