Newsgroups: alt.pub.dragons-inn
Subject: [Roaming] Interlude Two
Message-ID: <237o51INNbna@news.gac.edu>
From: Thorr-kan, the White Minotaur, and Horde Father-Confessor
Date: 29 Jul 1993 05:45:05 GMT

In the Slums, something stirs.  It is a being of darkness, a creature created  
solely to feed off the living.  Once, aeons ago, it also walked in the light.   
But than the Corruptor came with Her honeyed words and tempting promises.

The being believed in Her and gave himself over.  His betrayal cost his people  
greatly.  Scars from his treachery still mar the Great Forest if one knows  
where to look.  But he was finally driven out, sent fleeing towards his Owner  
in agony and disgrace.  In Her infinite cruelty, She sentenced him to sleep  
indefinite.  The reach of the Great Mother is long, indeed.

But, at long last, he has awoken.  The world around him has changed greatly.   
Where he was laid to rest is now a great urban center, lacking the nature from  
which he sprang.  However, there are possibililies in this wilderness if one is  
willing to look.  He is, because far to the southeast, another prescence is  
stirring:  his sister, she who faced him so long ago.

Something important must be afoot to make her act so hastily.  For though she  
is aware of his prescence, she continues to do nothing about it.  Instead, her  
powers are spent protecting her faerie subjects from a threat she is not able  
to directly confront.  Meanwhile, he grows in power without interference.  A  
little while longer and he will force the confrontation he has been longing  
for.  After her death, let Nexus beware.

He is Thorne:  treant, mage, vampire.  The dark and neglected give him form,  
savagery and death let him act.

She is the Lady:  dryad, druidess, immortal.  From the light, the open, the  
caring, she draws her power.

Theirs is a war that spans millenia.  Its latest battle is about to unfold,  
catching unaware mortals from across the worlds.  In the greater scheme of  
things, it is little enough.  But to this corner of reality, it could be  
everything.

-Matt C.
guardian- 1. one who has care of a person or property.  2. In other words,  
	     someone who puts their ass between others and danger.

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Nuke 'til they glow, then shoot 'em in the dark!
Matt Cutter, e-mail to mcutter@nic.gac.edu OR mcutter@vax2.gac.edu              
Gustavus couldn't afford my opinions if they wanted them!
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