Newsgroups: alt.pub.dragons-inn From: arsmith@lamar.ColoState.EDU (Alan Smith) Subject: [Colony] Meanwhile, across the planet... Message-ID: Date: Tue, 05 Oct 1993 03:02:08 GMT References: ADMIN: I'd appreciate it if we stuck to this thread name and saved [NTY] for Palandun-stuff not dealing with the colony. Also, the citation Tallik the Unimpressed quotes is correct to the best of my knowledge. It was early morning in Generica. Sammin dragged himself down to breakfast with his housemates. Ulla had already cooked him some eggs, and the mage- student was very, very grateful, even if they were a little burned. "Have you picked a project?" Walis the Contemptuous asked. "Hunh?" Sammin replied. He gulped some coffee and looked a lot better. "Oh. Yeah. Blow your mind." "What?" Ulla asked. "Change day into night." "You can't do that." Walis sneered. "Oh yeah? Watch." Sammin stated, and he did. "Blow me to Bermuda!!" Ifthak the Irscable screamed as the sun suddenly popped up on his Spine Mountain hideout, on the West Continent. Ifthak promptly blew away on a great gust of wind for a teeny island on a planet in another dimension. "*That* was cool." Tala the Sarcastic said. "Been done before, too." Her brother Tallik the Unimpressed stated, turning from his star charts. "Has not." Tala said. "Has too, sister mine, Sir Thomas Mallory: _The Sword in the Stone_ earth. I'm led to understand they left it in when they made it into a movie." "Your Making that up." "Go look in the library if you want. Where else do you think he'd get that wierd an oath, anyway." #Children, please, Shut Up. Ulang is not done with the calculations yet.# It was not a voice, and it did not exactly speak, but it wasn't telepathy either. It was as though the entity had taken over their minds and implanted the reception there, instead of allowing them to listen or not. To those who were not familiar with it, this power was considered one of the most frightening of The Lieutenant's capabilities. "Sorry." The siblings chorused, not really but they wanted the statement on the record. Working with the LT had impressed them with the necessity of keeping certain things on the record. "How are we going to do it without Ifthak?" Tallik asked. #We don't need him.# "I'm done!" Ulang shouted, jogging out of the building. "My god, am I *that* late?" #Some Joker changed night into day. There, it's fixed. Get to work.# "Hey, what the?" Sammin asked as the sun popped back a few minutes after he had banished it. "Looks like you need some work." Walis stated. "Yeah." #So it was YOU. DON'T do that again.#