From alt.pub.dragons-inn Thu Oct 6 20:22:34 1994 Xref: netcom.com alt.pub.dragons-inn:7751 Path: netcom.com!netcomsv!decwrl!pacbell.com!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!swrinde!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.infi.net!larry.infi.net!anthony From: anthony@infi.net (Anthony Ignacio) Newsgroups: alt.pub.dragons-inn Subject: [DT] - Repost Part 2 Date: 30 Sep 1994 20:25:48 GMT Organization: InfiNet Lines: 52 Message-ID: <36hs8c$sa0@lucy.infi.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: larry.infi.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] ================================================================ Morning mist blanketed the valley diffusing the early morning sunlight into a kind of opaque mote shower. Kelanen surveyed the leftover burned rubble of his father's stronghold. Lord Aldorion's home was now nothing but ash and memory. After his battle with the Dread, Kelanen had summoned magefire once more to consecrate his former home as a funeral pyre for those destroyed by the Dread. Now I must seek out that which will reimprison the escaped Dread, he mused. "I will need to find others to aid me in this quest," he voiced aloud to the morning mist. "I will search beyond the Void to find these others. There are none left here with the power to accomplish what needs to be done." Turning his back upon his former home, Kelanen opened an iri- descent portal through the Void. Behind him, four dark shadows rose up from the earth, slowly taking physical form. As Kelanen stepped into the gateway, the four half shadows flitted in after him. Kelanen's magesense detected the four Dread as the the Void re- sealed itself behind him. Whipping around, he raised his staff focusing a diamond brilliant ball of magelight at the tip. Flaring like a magnesium torch, the magelight banished the immediate darkness revealing the four looming Dread. Laughing, the lead Dread smiled exposing razor sharp fangs. "Your light has no affect upon us here," it boomed. "We are of the Void. In the end there is no light that shines in this darkness between worlds. Not even yours!" As one, the four demonic creatures poured their will over the glaring magelight slowly dampening its brilliant shine to a mere ruddy glow. Feeling his magic being smothered, Kelanen reached out and twisted a portion of the Void with his mind, desperately working a portal to anywhere open. A sliver appeared in the Void showing beyond it a sleeping city in the growing evening. Flinging himself through, he crashed upon a limestone paved street tossing aside his staff and rolling to his feet un- sheathing his warblade all in one fluid move. With some inn behind his back he turned and faced the four nightmarish figures that emerged from the still open portal. ================================================================ -- :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: :: Anthony Ignacio :: InfiNet Account :: :: anthony@infi.net :: Norfolk, Virginia, USA :: ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::