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- From: kring@efes.physik.uni-kl.de (Thomas Kettenring)
- Subject: [inn] Kloote's past
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.115924.18541@rhrk.uni-kl.de>
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- Organization: FB Physik, Universitaet Kaiserslautern, Germany
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 11:59:24 GMT
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- In the back room of the Dragons Inn, Lifilis Kloote said, "What do you want,
- Spach?"
- The gnome called Spach eyed the conjurer for some seconds, then spoke. "It
- seems that you are responsible for a fine mess back home."
- That could only mean one thing. "How did you find out?"
- "Viscount Klintotos could convince Baron Basthala that it would be better
- to tell him everything."
- "The shark! I gave him the county to silence him!"
- "That's what the viscount suspected. Suddenly a lot of strange monsters
- around, the famous conjurer disappeared, and the conjurer's county under
- control of his neighbor and drinking pal. You really shouldn't have told him
- where you wanted to go. And you shouldn't have let him have this."
- Spach opened a pouch and threw the contents on the floor, dozens of crumpled
- pieces of paper. Kloote grimaced and shrugged his shoulders.
- "He just took them with him that night. We were drunk..."
- "Oh yes, you were drunk!" Spach picked up one of the papers. "Look at this
- abomination you created! Six horns, a beak, three eyes! And the talons...
- Do you want to know what it did?"
- "No, and I didn't create it. I conjured it. And that beast was Klikk's
- idea."
- "Klikk?"
- "Baron Basthala."
- "Bah! You're the main offender. You created the monsters."
- "Conjured."
- Someone knocked at the door. Bob Littlefair looked in and said, "You people
- want to fight some elementals? They are out there, on the Plaza!"
- Spach eyed Kloote suspiciously. "Did you do that? Exhale!"
- "No!" Kloote barked. It was clear that it was an answer to both questions,
- and Bob left.
- "Anyway..." Spach picked the papers up, looked at them one for one, and
- put them back in the pouch. "A sort of bat with two heads! A... no, I don't
- know what it is! A chimaira-griffin bastard! But what do the pictures of
- humans do in there?"
- "That's how it started. I tried to think of faces, drew them, and conjured
- them. You should have seen them, as they tried to understand what happened...
- Klikk and I could barely keep silent in our hideout. Well, it was funny then."
- "Ah yes. Very funny. Kidnapping people."
- "Later we changed to monsters. We thought they wouldn't mind."
- Spach and the half-ogre looked at each other in disbelief.
- "So what do you want? Bring me back?"
- "Yes. You'll put these beasts where they came from."
- "Nonononono. I can't do that! I can conjure them, but I don't know how to
- get rid of them! If I could, would I have run away and sacrificed my county?"
- "You will remove them! Every single one! If you can't... disjure them,
- kill them!"
- "But..."
- The half-ogre's gaze made Kloote stop at that word. Spach opened the door,
- and they entered the main room. Kloote's nose was at half-mast.
- They found that the Rabble was crowded at the windows watching the fight
- in the plaza.
-
-
- --
- thomas kettenring, 3 dan, kaiserslautern, germany
- ...and then the dragon ate the princess and the knight, and he lived happily
- ever after. -- Grandma Addams telling Wednesday a story (paraphrased)
-