Newsgroups: alt.pub.dragons-inn From: abb6731@ritvax.isc.rit.edu Subject: [JOI] What's that sound. Message-ID: <1993Sep22.042325.23973@ultb.isc.rit.edu> Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1993 04:23:25 GMT Segoi pricks up his ears at the sound of the pipes off in the distance. He scans the forest quickly to make out wither they melody was coming from, and then was off. The others barely had time to collect their thoughts as teh large form moved with a speed that beguiled his size into the forest. Segoi stopped just inside the tree line and listened. Off in the distance the sound of the pipes came floating to him, an old tune he thought he remembered. There was a strange scent as well, and not the one of the piper, that was clear and strong. Segoi pushed on through the forest. 'What is that smell, curse me for a fool, but I cannot remember it!" he thought. It came stronger now as he moved on, and in no time at all, though the sound of the pipes beckoned, he was drawn off to the west a ways, down a little mossy bank to a small river that ran from somewhere far to the north. 'Close now, mind how you go' he told himself. A few steps down the embankment, covered by ivy and decay was what seemed to be a cave. He stopped as if considering for a moment what to do. Then parting the ivy and stooping his head, he went in. Mr. Sinister...