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Subject: [AU] Synopsis
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Summary: Complete synopsis of [AU] events to date.

[AU] -- Andrea & Unicorn Thread Synopsis
Version 6/16/95

Covering all events in the alt.pub.dragons-inn [AU] thread from 
its conception on 3/8/93 to the present day, 6/16/95.

(NOTE: All dates used herein are in the USA format of MM/DD/YY.)

DEDICATION: This synopsis is dedicated to all the authors on the 
authors list server, and to all the others who have worked with 
me on the [AU] thread.

                              -----

    As I've said, it is my belief that it would be a Good Idea 
for us to synopsize our threads.  The following is my synopsis.  
Naturally, I would rather you actually read my deathless prose 
:), but that not being possible, this is probably the best you 
can do.
    "Deathless prose my left--"
    Andrea, do you mind?
    "Not very well, or so I'm told."
    AHEM.  Anyway, the following is, I hope, a pretty good 
synopsis of the [AU] (Andrea & Unicorn) thread up to the present 
day.  I may have gotten a few things slightly wrong, or glossed 
over a few events, but it should be fairly representative of 
what's gone on so far.  Please note that I have mainly followed 
the [AU] thread and only touched upon other involved threads 
where they are directly related.  
    "Chris?"
    Yes, Andrea?
    "You talk too much.  Just get ON with it!"
    I'm coming to that...Hey, where are--Oh, there they are.  
Hey, Jay, Sheryl, get the SPOILER warning from the 
rec.arts.startrek.current file, would you?  Ah, thanks.  Here we 
go...

WARNING: There are SPOILERS ahead for the [AU] thread on 
alt.pub.dragons-inn.  If you would rather read the whole [AU] 
thread in its entirety and not have the story spoiled for you, go 
ahead and press "n" now.  We won't hold it against you.  However, 
if you're more realistic about your prospects of reading the 
entire 1200K or so thing, then just go ahead and read this 
synopsis.  >Whinny!<  Oh yeah, thanks for reminding me, Sheryl.

To receive the entire story of [AU] (or most of it, anyway), 
email mrhyde@netcom.com and ask him to send you everything with 
the [AU] thread identifier in the header.  Other threads that are 
tangent include [Jiri] and [Kardia], if you want to read them 
too, and I also recommend the complete [MG] thread if you have a 
few extra weeks of reading time.   

There are also other people, I think, who keep apdi unexpired on 
their sites...you'll have to ask around; maybe one of them would 
be willing to send you the stuff.

Okay, Andrea, toss me that Control-P...okay, thanks.  Last 
chance...spoilers ahead!


    Andrea and Sheryl arrived on a ship in the Generican harbor, 
pursued by cutthroat sailors who wanted Sheryl's horn.  They 
managed to evade the sailors and find their way to the Dragon's 
Inn, where they met 'Raelf and ar'Elya, who had come to the Inn 
to pick up their free lunch.  They talked for a bit, and then 
Andrea saw an announcement on the bulletin board pertaining to 
Raoh, which triggered an emotional collapse.  'Raelf got a room 
at the Inn for Andrea, and noticed the locket around her neck as 
he was tucking her in.	The locket contained pictures of Andrea 
about ten years younger, and a young blonde-haired girl.
    The next morning, Andrea and Sheryl found their way up to 
the Mages' Guild to thank 'Raelf, and look for a possible 
solution to a "problem" concerning Sheryl.  They were sighted by 
Kadrys, who was rather interested to see a unicorn, on the way.  
'Raelf scanned Sheryl, and promised to show up at suppertime with 
the results.  Andrea thanked him, then she and Sheryl left.  They 
stopped briefly at the Generican Library to see what it had on 
unicorn lore, then Andrea got directions at the Dragon's Inn to 
find the Low City Market.  Leaving Sheryl at the Inn, Andrea went 
shopping.
    On the way, Andrea was accosted by a would-be mugger named 
Callus.  She easily bested him and marched him into the Low City 
market in his underthings.  After this, she spent some time
shopping and returned to the Dragon's Inn before suppertime.
    While working on fixing up some of the slightly damaged 
goods she'd gotten in the Low City at bargain prices, a rather 
large feline humanoid named Kyhra walked up to the table and 
asked if Andrea would be his guide.  She replied that she was new 
there herself, at which the cat-man laughed and said very well, 
they could explore the city together.  Andrea liked him and 
consented.
    Next, 'Raelf and ar'Elya showed up, and 'Raelf displayed the 
results of his scan to Andrea while ar'Elya and Kyhra shared a 
dance.  The results: a very potent curse on Sheryl had all but 
eliminated her original shape-identity, replacing it with that of 
a unicorn.  The magic curse still lingered, interfering with the 
development of some of Sheryl's natural powers.  After Kyhra and 
ar'Elya returned to the table, Andrea told her story.
    Ten years before, Andrea and her young sister Sheryl (the 
blonde-haired girl in the locket) had lived in a small farming 
village far away.  One day Raoh had invaded the village and 
destroyed it, leaving behind an underling magician named Raykor 
to oversee what remained of the village and conduct his magical 
experiments there.	He had been about to cast some spell on 
Andrea on a whim, when Sheryl had distracted him.  In his anger, 
Raykor cast a very powerful curse on Sheryl.
    Andrea, Sheryl, their father, Father Phylum (a cleric of 
Issek), and a few other men from the village managed to escape, 
even as Sheryl's body began to change in strange ways.  However, 
Andrea's father and the other men were killed when a 
lightning-struck tree fell on the cart they were travelling in.  
After Father Phylus gave the last rites and lit the ruined cart 
and tree on fire to cremate the bodies, a rider on a dark horse 
galloped into the clearing.  It turned out to be Fujiko, a 
blonde-haired "lady thief/spy" who agreed to help the threesome 
get to Selactica, the nearest city, where the Issekian clerics 
might be able to help Sheryl.
    As they made camp for the evening, Andrea was at once 
horrified and fascinated to discover that Sheryl had 
metamorphosed into a small unicorn.  Father Phylus believed that 
the clerics at the Issekian temple in Selactica would be able to 
cure Sheryl, but Fujiko had her doubts.  She suggested that if 
they were unable to work the cure, Andrea should apprentice 
herself to the Selactican Thieves' Guild.  This would not only 
provide protection for Sheryl, but would also provide useful 
skills for Andrea and some prestige for the Guild.  Father Phylus 
was aghast at this idea, but it started Andrea thinking, as did 
her later discussion with Fujiko about what it was like to be a 
thief.
    When they reached Selactica, Fujiko insisted on giving 
Andrea a dagger, and it was well that she did, for they were soon 
attacked by a gang of young toughs who thought to get rich by 
taking Sheryl's horn.  Fujiko dispatched them all with some 
stunning martial arts and fencing moves, with the unacknowledged 
help of a middle-aged woman and a flowerpot.  They continued on 
to the temple.
    Unfortunately, the High Priest, Father Sheraton, was unable 
to do anything to help Sheryl, concluding that the curse had been 
driven by Artifact-level power.  Later that night, overhearing 
Father Sheraton and Father Phylus discussing sending her and 
Sheryl to a convent, Andrea took Sheryl and they fled to the 
Thieves' Guild, aided by a friendly Irish cityguard named 
Killian.  There they met Guildmaster Robinson, and Andrea 
commenced her training as an apprentice thief.
    Two years later, Andrea's training was done.  She and Sheryl 
left Selactica and spent about ten years wandering from place to 
place, seeking out various wizards who were unable to help with 
Sheryl's affliction.  At last they came to Generica.
    Andrea's story over, the four at the table were then 
accosted by a young lady with henna-colored hair.  She said her 
name was Kardia, and that she could break Sheryl's curse, though 
it would in all likelihood not restore Sheryl to her human shape 
(her human shape-identity having been destroyed).  Andrea replied 
that she'd have to talk to Sheryl about it, and Andrea and Sheryl 
returned to their room to discuss the matter.
    In the course of the "discussion," Sheryl managed to make it 
known to Andrea that she would emphatically rather keep her 
unicorn form, and the reason she hadn't tried to get this through 
to Andrea before was that Andrea would probably not have 
understood.  Andrea ruefully admitted this, and so they decided 
to have Kardia go ahead and remove the curse.
    Later that night, Andrea finished repairing her burglary 
tools and decided to try them out.  She slipped out of the Inn 
and across the square to a big jewelry shop called Karrigan's 
Quality Jewelry.  She got in, stole some gems, and replaced them 
with marbles from her pouch, and managed to rescue a small grey 
cat from the cat-hating shop guard while she was at it.  She 
decided to name this cat Carson, after a fellow thief at the 
Selactican Guild.  It stayed around a few days, and was promptly 
never seen again for the rest of the thread thus far.
    The next day, Andrea, Sheryl, and Carson were in the common 
room of the inn when there was a great commotion that resulted in 
Enn Piecy announcing a major storm coming in.  Shortly afterward, 
a cityguard came running in to confirm this, and many of the 
people currently in the common room ran off to help pile 
sandbags.  Kyhra came stumbling in, nursing a hangover, and 
introduced Andrea to his elven friend Jiriku, a mage.  He then 
ran off to help stack sandbags.  Jiri would stay and help tend to 
any wounded as they started coming in.
    A little later, the storm hit.  Andrea was alone in the 
common room (with Sheryl and Carson), studying a spellbook by the 
light of a single lantern suspended from the ceiling above her 
table.  Though she was't a magician, she could cast a useful 
cantrip or two when she remembered to keep her studies up.  Jiri 
came up and invited her down to the basement where he and 
Listener were going to perform to keep the Inn patrons calm.
    In the middle of the song, Jiri suddenly gasped and ran out 
of the room.  Andrea followed.  Jiri had felt Kyhra's death, and 
had been unable to save him.  Andrea hauled back and fetched him 
a slap on the face to bring him out of it, reminding him that 
there were wounded coming in to be treated.  Together they did 
what they could, and then Jiri wandered off and disappeared.
    The next day, Andrea observed the reconstruction efforts 
going on in the Low Town, and decided to chip in.  She made 
contributions at various temples, including the Temple of Aditi, 
where Delmara's new acolyate Aitreni took a liking to Sheryl and 
braided her mane and tail (much to Andrea's amusement and 
Sheryl's disgust).  After they left, Andrea went up to 
Glorshanned Keep, to the real estate office.  She had decided 
that she liked the town and wanted to stay there.
    Andrea found a great deal on a house.  The house was 
something of a Jonah--it had belonged to a master thief and was 
outfitted with a good many traps, both magical and mundane.  The 
only people who had known the secrets of all the traps were long 
dead, so no sooner was the mansion sold than the buyer tended to 
die.  Andrea was able to purchase the mansion for the sum of 5000 
gold pieces.  When she visited it to take a look, a poisoned dart 
trap barely missed her.  Andrea and Sheryl returned to the inn 
and posted a notice asking for help storming the house.
    Andrea and Sheryl hadn't known that someone had been 
watching them out of a window of the house.  In fact, the silent 
observer had been none other than Andrea's old nemesis, Raykor 
the wizard (now Raykor the ArchMage).  He had come to Generica 
because he knew that Andrea and Sheryl would be here, and he was 
using data gained through a magical link with the curse in his 
research on the "ultimate" curse, a spell whose casting would be 
the masterpiece of all his magical experiments.  He watched and 
waited. Later that afternoon, Andrea was playing Klondike 
solitaire at a table in the Inn when Enn Piecy stopped by her 
table to tell her fortune.  Disturbed by what he saw (though he 
refused to say exactly what disturbed him), he gave Andrea a 
silver ring and insisted that she wear it.  Next, Kardia came in 
and joined Andrea at her table.  Andrea told Kardia that she 
could go ahead with the cursebreaking, and Kardia took some 
preliminary measurements. 
    As Kardia took the measurements, she and Andrea discussed 
various things, including Kardia's fee (about 5 gold pieces), the 
house Andrea had purchased, and Andrea's slight magical talents.  
Kardia also agreed to help "debug" the house in exchange for 
being allowed to stay there.  As they returned to the common 
room, Kardia noticed that someone named Jameson had answered her 
request for a roommate.  Andrea said that whoever it was that had 
responded was welcome to stay in her house, as long as that 
person helped in the trap removal.
    The next day, Andrea made the acquaintance of Lance and 
Blaze, a warrior and mage who offered their assistance, and 
Azariah, a nature sprite who was quite fascinated by Sheryl.  She 
also met Kadrys, a "mysterious stranger" whom Sheryl didn't seem 
to trust for some reason.  Kadrys, actually a vampire, wished to 
participate in the de-trapping of Andrea's new house, and Andrea 
accepted his offer gladly.
    That evening, Kardia took up residence in a room in the 
Dragon's Inn and started to work.  She briefly met Kadrys, and 
then, as she worked with Sheryl, Kadrys came in to talk to her, 
and help her work.
    Over the next couple of days, Kardia completed the removal of 
the curse.  Meanwhile, Callus was watching Andrea, thinking dark 
thoughts of his revenge.  But other eyes--those of Raykor, the 
evil ArchMage who had cast the original curse on Sheryl--were in 
turn watching HIM.  Callus found himself teleported into a dark 
room, where Raykor was waiting to make a deal with him.  Raykor 
gave Callus the means with which to "kill" Andrea (a poisoned 
ring) in exchange for a promise to bring the unicorn to him.  
However, the "poison" was actually a sleeping potion--he intended 
for Callus to act as a diversion from what HE intended to do.
    Callus snuck into the Inn to attack Andrea; she managed to 
kill him but was pricked by the ring on his finger and fell into 
a deep sleep.  Raykor then teleported in and began to weave his 
curse over Andrea--a very powerful magic geas that would 
completely erase Andrea's original personality and shape if it 
succeeded.  
    At that very moment, Sheryl burst out of the door and was 
able to give Andrea the antidote to the sleeping potion.  
However, Raykor then cast his curse.
    But Andrea resisted it, with help from Sheryl and that ring 
Enn Piecy had given her.  She turned the magic of the curse back 
onto Raykor, who screamed and vanished.  When she was finished, 
the ring had melded into her finger, but other than that, Kardia 
pronounced them curiously clean of any side-effects...except for 
something on Andrea that Kardia couldn't quite make out.  The 
three limped tiredly to their respective rooms and retired for 
the night.
    The next day, Andrea suddenly felt a mysterious urge to get 
out of the city.  It wasn't something she could put off; it HAD 
to be obeyed.  So, leaving brief notes for her friends and a 
notice that the HouseStorming was temporarily delayed, she ran 
off out of town, to the north.
    Not long afterward, two unicorns galloped across the fields 
north of town, stopping at a small stream to drink and rest.  
Soon after that, Andrea regained consciousness under a tree by a 
stream, feeling very sore and without the slightest idea how 
she'd gotten there.
    After bathing and eating, she felt better.  Meanwhile, Jake 
Pitzar, a reporter for the Generican Examiner, had heard about 
sightings of the two unicorns and was looking for them.  Jake had 
earlier started to investigate the large donations with which 
Delmara was financing the rebuilding of the Low Town, but had 
given up and ridden out of town.
    It was a simple matter for Jake to find where Andrea and 
Sheryl were before the townspeople.  He made friends with Andrea 
and Sheryl, and then the townspeople showed up and they were all 
forced to flee.
    As they were running, Jake tripped, knocked Andrea down, 
landed on her back--and then she transformed into a unicorn and 
ran, with Jake barely managing to hold on.
    Several hours later, Jake woke up as the unicorn stopped.  
Andrea changed back to human form, with no memory of what had 
happened.  They were at an abandoned farmhouse, where they 
decided to stay for the night.
    During the night, Andrea asked Jake how they'd come all this 
way, and Jake told her about her uncanny transformation.  Andrea 
digested the information, stunned, and then Andrea and Jake found 
themselves under attack by a band of roaming brigands.  They 
managed to drive them off, and then went to sleep, with Jake 
Pitzar taking the first watch.
    Meanwhile, back in Generica, Blaze decided to investigate 
Andrea's new house in astral form.  However, as soon as she got 
inside, Raykor tried to capture her spirit and drain her 
life-force into himself.  He failed, though Blaze was severely 
shaken by the experience.
    The next morning, Andrea found that by concentrating, she 
could understand what Sheryl was saying.  However, she took this 
experiment a bit too far and changed into a unicorn by accident.  
She and Sheryl went for a run, but it was ended rather rudely 
when a hunter shot Andrea with an arrow.  Andrea sent Sheryl back 
to find and bring Jake before falling into the river and being 
swept away.
    An undetermined amount of time later, Andrea (still a 
unicorn) was dragged from the river by a 14-year-old boy whose 
name was Jay.  He removed the arrow, bandaged the wound, and led 
Andrea to a safe hiding place, an old bandits' hideaway.  Jay's 
stepfather beat him regularly, and he dreamed of getting away.  
He also hoped to become a thief one day.
    When Andrea woke up, she discovered to her horror that she 
could not revert to human form.  Then Jay returned, with feed, 
bandages, and grooming equipment.  As he groomed her, Andrea 
noticed the welts on his back and was able to heal them with her 
horn.  After that, Andrea ate some grain, spent the rest of the 
day grazing, and went to sleep back in an old stall in the cave 
hideaway.
    Back at Generica, Kardia was worried about Andrea and Sheryl, 
and mentioned this to 'Raelf during a visit on the pretext of 
looking for housing.
    Sheryl arrived back at the farmhouse and fetched Jake.  
Together they walked to the river, where they confronted the 
hunters and scared them off.
    Due to another one of the strange time distortions that 
constantly plague Nexus, perhaps exacerbated by a tremendous 
magical disturbance (a demonic invasion) the evening of the day 
on which Andrea had left town, a week had passed in Generica.  
During that time, an expedition was organized to find out what 
had happened to Andrea, Sheryl, and Jake, consisting of 'Raelf's 
satyrlion brother 'Raf, ar'Elya, Kardia, and Clyde, a former 
Generican Examiner delivery boy who had been changed into a 
centaur by 'Raelf.  After a few days of travel, the party met up 
with Jake and Sheryl.  
    The next day, Andrea and Jay got up, ate breakfast, and then 
set out together.  After some travelling, Andrea realized that 
she didn't know where she was going, so she spent the day 
grazing.  Meanwhile, 'Raf's party woke up and started looking for 
Andrea, finding the trail and following it to the river.  That 
evening, they ran into each other.
    Most everyone in 'Raf's party was surprised at Andrea's 
transformation.  Jay was rather startled at all the people and 
the second unicorn, but that was nothing compared to the shock he 
got when ar'Elya and 'Raf were able to trigger the magical 
control mechanism that caused Andrea to revert to her human 
shape.
    As Andrea, 'Raf, and ar'Elya discussed recent events to try 
to figure out what was happening, Sheryl stopped Jay from 
slipping away by falling asleep with her head in his lap.  A camp 
was made, and everyone went to sleep.
    During the early morning, the camp was visited by four 
unicorns from a nearby herd who were curious about why a unicorn 
should be travelling with humans.  They cast sleeping spells on 
those humans present in the camp, but the only person who was 
actually affected to any great extent was Jake Pitzar.
    Later that morning, 'Raf and ar'Elya reviewed the results of 
a scan they'd run on Andrea the previous evening, and explained 
the curse.  ar'Elya altered the effects of the curse slightly in 
exchange for a promise on Andrea's part to do a little 
investigative work for her back at Generica.
    In another part of the camp, Jay and Sheryl woke up, and Jay 
and Sheryl forged a bond between each other, the traditional 
"unicorn-and-virgin" relationship talked of in legend.  Andrea 
noticed this rapport forming and felt rather insecure about it, 
until Kardia and ar'Elya talked with her and managed to convince 
her that it was not a bad thing, for either Jay or Sheryl.
    Meanwhile, back in the house that Andrea had bought, Raykor 
managed to recover completely from the deleterious after-effects 
of the reversed curse, using the severed horn of the unicorn he 
had used to pattern the curse upon.  He swore that when Andrea 
returned, he would have his revenge.
    Andrea sat down with Jay and told him about how Sheryl had 
been changed into a unicorn by Raykor, and how Raykor had tried 
to do the same to her with only partial success.  She also said 
that there was no way she was going to let Jay and Sheryl go off 
by themselves, and that she would take Jay on as her apprentice.  
Then a news imp arrived to wake Jake up and tell him that he was 
needed elsewhere.  He said he had to go, and left.
    A short time later, Andrea examined 'Raf and ar'Elya with the 
truesight that all unicorns possess and saw some very odd things 
about them.  ar'Elya noticed Andrea's confusion and explained to 
her that they were 'kan, beings from another plane who adapted to 
other planes by "eating" a sentient from that plane.  Andrea was 
at first alarmed, then reassured by ar'Elya's explanation.
    After they broke camp and started moving, Andrea spent some 
time alone, thinking.  She considered all that had happened to 
her over the last few days and tried to sort out her feelings 
about all these changes.  
    Andrea joined the conversation between Kardia and ar'Elya, 
and then several unicorns from the nearby herd, seemingly curious 
about Sheryl, followed the party through the forest for a time.  
'Raf and Clyde talked with them about Andrea and Sheryl.
    Soon afterward, 'Raf and Clyde happened upon some canoes that 
they could use to float the river.  After lunch, Andrea ran 
alongside the river in her unicorn form, to get used to it.  That 
evening, Kardia and ar'Elya discussed Kardia's relationship with 
Kadrys while Andrea, 'Raf, and Clyde played Frisbee.        
    The next day, Lance and Blaze joined up with the party, very 
happy to see that Andrea and Sheryl were safe.  Kardia examined 
an amulet for Blaze, and Andrea related her story.  They 
continued back toward Generica.
    After a few more days of travel, they approached Generica.  
And then Andrea lapsed into unicorn form, panicked, and took off.  
'Raf and Sheryl went after her.  ar'Elya explained to the others 
that this was another side-effect of Raykor's curse, that they 
hadn't told Andrea of because it would be better for her to learn 
to deal with it herself.  Raykor, a necromantic mage, had 
sacrificed a unicorn and stolen her horn and soul to fuel his 
magic.  The soul of this unicorn, N'graytha, now resided along 
with Andrea's in her body.
    Andrea regained control and found that she and N'graytha 
could coexist.  They returned to the rest of the party, and 
thence to Generica.
    After brief introductions at the lighthouse, Andrea slipped 
away to go to the Dragon's Inn for a drink.  N'graytha suggested 
that they go for a walk, instead, so they went down to the 
newly-arisen Kron Park.  While there, they met Vitor, the 
gardener/high-level Druid from the Generican Hanging Gardens, 
thogh he did not identify himself as such.  Andrea let N'graytha 
spend the day there grazing, then she/they returned to the 
Dragon's Inn to gather Andrea's remaining possessions and post a 
notice about the HouseStorming being back on.  
    That evening, nearly exhausted, Andrea made her way back to 
the lighthouse.  ar'Elya met her at the door and showed her to 
her room, which, to her surprise, was an analogue of her room 
back in the Selactican Guild.  She felt guilty about not missing 
her parents more, but Sheryl came in to reassure her.  After 
that, she went to sleep.
    Various adventurers, including Teonyl, Lance and Blaze, 
Kadrys, and Palandun, saw and responded to the HouseStorming ad.  
The adventurers got together and, coordinated by Leah (a facet of 
ar'Elya)'s dragonets, they teamed up to take on the house.  
Although told to stay back at the lighthouse, a rebellious Jay 
and Sheryl also came along.  After passing a test put to them by 
Leah to ascertain their determination and courage, they too were 
allowed to enter and help (much to Andrea's dismay).
    While investigating the library, Andrea, Jay, and Sheryl 
accidentally triggered a trap door that led to a room near 
Raykor's lair.  Meanwhile, Raykor had animated four huge statues 
in the room where Palandun was doing his mapping, captured 
Palandun, and tried to mindscan him to determine the strength of 
the party.  While Miro (a facet of 'Raelf), Kadrys, and Teonyl 
dealt with these, Lance and Blaze went through the trapdoor 
Andrea had fallen through to help against whatever lay in wait.
    After a brief encounter with kobolds, Andrea, Jay, and Sheryl 
entered the room where Raykor lay in wait, with Lance and Blaze 
arriving soon afterward.  Raykor tried to use N'graytha's horn to 
destroy them, but Andrea, N'graytha, and Blaze were able to 
defeat him using their unicorn inner strength and a magical 
amulet, respectively.  In defeat, Raykor fled through a 
dimensional portal, which Miro then sealed against his return.  
Afterward, Andrea took N'graytha's horn and was somehow able to 
channel the magical energies stored within it into incarnating 
N'graytha's spirit into a new unicorn body.
    After both Andrea and N'graytha had regained consciousness, 
they discovered that, through the merge, N'graytha had gained the 
ability to change into a human form.  Later on, Andrea and her 
friends had dinner at the Dragon's Inn, and talked about a 
uuencoded "Make Money Fast" post that showed up under their door 
one day.

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YOUNG ANDREA & SHERYL CHRONICLES [YASC] Synopses

#1: The Great Cookie Caper

    During her apprenticeship at Selactica, Andrea discovered a 
new delicacy in an arriving caravan--xocolatl, or chocolate.  In 
order to pass an upcoming test, she and a fellow apprentice named 
Daron stole the necessary ingredients to make chocolate chip 
cookies, then baked them in a City Hall kitchen.  It was a 
smashing success for Andrea, garnering her the highest possible 
grade on the examination.
-- 
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