From alt.pub.dragons-inn Thu Aug 3 08:00:26 1995 Xref: netcom.com alt.pub.dragons-inn:8597 Path: netcom.com!noc.netcom.net!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!nntp-hub2.barrnet.net!news1.digital.com!pa.dec.com!nntpd.lkg.dec.com!leggy.zk3.dec.com!orb!not-for-mail From: hutch@ibeam.jf.intel.com (Steve Hutchison) Newsgroups: alt.pub.dragons-inn Subject: Re: [SATIRE] NHD Makes a Call Date: 2 Aug 1995 23:19:04 -0000 Organization: Duchy of Wabesylvan Obspauk Lines: 30 Sender: news@Orb.Nashua.NH.US Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <3vmh12$rq9@newsbf02.news.aol.com> from "GENERICUS" at Aug 1, 95 08:31:30 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Not to squash such a lovely parody, but... Generica is a city. Nexus is a world. Generica has buried sewers, toilets, literacy, and other things useful for a prosperous renaissance-equivalent fantasy city. As a center for trade in a dimensional nexus, there have been all sorts of things imported that one might find anachronistic. Menus. Eyeglasses. Hot and cold running and walking water. Baths of all types. Sanitation, especially in kitchens, for the same reason that the medieval folks HERE had it: food tastes better if it doesn't get fecal bacteria in it. And, as established, the Stumble Inn is supposed to be a gathering place for adventurer types, guards, and other sword-carriers. It's considered part of the genre for crying out loud. Oh yeah, and ostentatious use of magic is fairly common here. While the real, lasting, stuff isn't necessarily common, Generica has more than its share of hocus-pocus. It's common enough that we've even got a guild regulating its uses. While the Stumble Inn would certainly be investigated for the deaths, if anyone was interested in going along with that thread instead of ignoring it, there's no reason to invent reasons to hassle the guy. Genericus, old creature, your penalty is to write a better story than the one J.Simon's telling. Hutch (arbitrary self-appointed crank and one of the few surviving apdi-geezers.)