Newsgroups: alt.pub.dragons-inn
From: arsmith@nyx.cs.du.edu (Alan Smith)
Subject: [Welcome] Ja'nis: Rats.
Message-ID: <1993Aug6.174831.1245@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
Date: Fri, 6 Aug 93 17:48:31 GMT

In our last exciting episode:
>From corner number 12, a tall, muscular woman dressed in ordinary civilian
>clothes stood up and strode towards Luthor and Wraith.  Three dark, cloaked
>figures instantly stood up and jammed themselves in where she just was.
>  "Hmmm." She remarked, "Large demand for corners tonight."
>  "Allow me to introduce myself, I am Ja'nis, most recently of Gunther
>Toodie's private guard, current, and it seems perpetually unemployed 
>mercenary."
>  "As for stories, I have several, would you like to hear about back home,
>the lizardman wars, or why I'm stuck here?"

     Luthor stood and bowed.  "Well met Ja'nis.  I am Luthor Anside and
this," he pointed to the golden-skinned human beside him, "is Wraith.
I think I would like to hear of your home.  I have travelled much in my
life and I enjoy hearing stories of distant lands.  Please, have a
seat and share your tale."

  'Well,' Ja'nis thought with the one corner of her brain that wasn't going
'Erk!' 'I *did* offer.'
  "Er- um...<cough> <chuckle> You picked kind of a doozy there, why doesn't
somebody else go first while I try to organize this in my head?"  She looked
around, trying to hide a plea for help deep down in her expression.
  Serene chose that moment to come up and plunk Ja'nis's favorite drink down
in front of her, something she had not ordered yet during her stay at the inn.

  She was fast coming to the conclusion that everybody in here was psionic.