From alt.pub.dragons-inn Tue Mar 21 12:40:05 1995 Xref: netcom.com alt.dragons-inn:4417 alt.pub.dragons-inn:8212 Newsgroups: alt.dragons-inn,alt.pub.dragons-inn Path: netcom.com!fractal From: fractal@netcom.com (Elizabeth J. Oostendorp) Subject: Re: New Character-Cybrix-History B Message-ID: Followup-To: alt.dragons-inn,alt.pub.dragons-inn Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest) X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL1] References: Date: Tue, 21 Mar 1995 15:12:47 GMT Lines: 41 Sender: fractal@netcom16.netcom.com Cybrix awoke slowly to find herself chained in a small unfamiliar room. As she sat up in confusion the images flooded back. Seeing through her mother's eyes Cybrix saw Brergia in flames. Masses of strange creatures clothed head to toe in leather wielding longswords mowed the peaceful villagers down like the autumn hay. When one valiant farmer sliced one of the creatures in half with a sycthe, the thing simply..deflated. But soon enough another was in its place. The creatures were like faceless dummies! Her mother has stumbled into the fray too late for any warnings. Oddly though, Cybrix noticed that the creatures had focused upon her immediately. She was dead within seconds. But what had tormented Cybrix's mind was what happened immediately after... She had seen/felt her mother's essence begin to escape into the ether when something black and sticky had wrapped around it and sucked towards a group standing off to the side. When Cybrix again saw in her mind her mother's essence drawn greedily into the black orb that hung around the neck of the man standing within a group of the faceless men, these ones clothed in chainmail over their leather, the horror again swept over her. She was curled into a small sobbing ball when the door opened. "Hush, my child, my demon whines that your pain is screaming in his ears." Cybrix sat up abruptly, it was him! He was clothed in dramatic red and caressing the black orb which hung around his neck. Cybrix slammed her forgotten shielding into place. The rush of evil off the man made her skin crawl. "Who are you ? Why am I here?? What have you done with my mother!?!?" "Calm yourself, little one, I shall explain everything in due time. I have need of you and thus I shall tell you more about myself than most will ever hear. All the world shall know is that Trersia is Master over all !! And they shall know it soon!!" Trersia threw back his head and laughed, sounding unhinged, all the awhile caressing the orb around his neck. *********************************************