Newsgroups: alt.pub.dragons-inn From: kring@efes.physik.uni-kl.de (Thomas Kettenring) Subject: [NTY] Re: The return of Firgun. Message-ID: <1993May15.230511.22030@rhrk.uni-kl.de> References: <1t3c5cINNqrk@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> Date: Sat, 15 May 1993 23:05:11 GMT ADMIN: Bakr's timeline gets more and more garbled. I guess I'm too quick now. Let's assume B. knows the names of Ja'nis and Jorma... he can learn them in a later posting set earlier. > The fat mage casually glanced around the room to look if any of his Rat >Quest companions were here (which seemed to be not the case), occupied a chair >and started talking. [bending the truth omitted] > He smiled. "I don't know if there are more of the giant ones down there, >but surely most of them are not *that* big. Why are you interested in rats, >of all things?" > Meanwhile, Firgun returned to the Dragon's Inn. By the time he arrived, >both the sneezing and the invisibility had ended. "Hello, everyone. Did you miss >me?" he asked. No one seemed to notice him. Firgun looked around, and noticed >Bakr talking to someone, and walked over to him. "Hello, Braker. Nice to see you >again. Mind if I join you two?" Coming closer, he noticed there were two others at the table whom he hadn't seen before - gnomes don't always have that magnificent a survey. Bakr had gone a bit gray and stopped in his tracks, if one could speak of tracks of a sitting man. His face had the expression of an antelope who has carefully inspected the waterhole for predators and, after declaring the place safe, finds itself bitten in the neck by a small poodle that has sneaked up on it. "H-. Hello Firgun. This is Palandun, Ja'nis, Jorma." Bakr moved his flat hand around pointing to a military-looking man, a woman, and a boy. "Folks - this is Firgun, a friend of mine. His field is fungi." He hoped for a subject change and vowed silently to tell a story as soon as this was over, and stay close to the truth this time. "Rowan - could I have a goat milk?" -- Bakr ibn Ja'far ibn Musa al Mekneshi, apprentice mage aka Thomas Kettenring