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- From: kring@efes.physik.uni-kl.de (Thomas Kettenring)
- Subject: [Mista][L] Bakr tries to help
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.021728.12274@rhrk.uni-kl.de>
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- Organization: FB Physik, Universitaet Kaiserslautern, Germany
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 02:17:28 GMT
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- > When he left the shop, he saw a merchant ripping a page off something Bakr
- >recognized as a Generican Calendar. "Hm. I guess the others will be gone
- >when I return to the inn..."
-
- Then he turned in the direction of the inn and found that a fight was going on
- on the Plaza. A female elf was approaching someone who was going up in flames
- but who didn't seem to care... it must be a fire creature from an elementary
- plane. He remembered having learnt about elementary creatures at home, in
- Midgard. Dvergar, Hunar, Galdrar, Elementary Ghosts, Frodefolk, and... what
- was the name? Unimportant. There were a lot of Earth thingies around -
- what's the plural of Joerdmand? One of them was quite large - perhaps a Hune
- or a Galdre. He saw a whirlwind - he had forgotten how they were called - and
- then he recognized Firecat the gnome, badly distorted, through a transparent
- thing that looked like a man made out of water - a Fossemand? There were no
- Ice Elementals though... (Bakr didn't know that Ice was not an element in most
- of the worlds)
-
- Hey - was that Erik? Yes, definitely. Luthor's mentor. He had last seen
- him in Cormyr. If Erik was here, then Luthor was probably not far away. That
- thought made him realize that he shouldn't just stand there but do something.
- With his newly-purchased magic items...
- Ring of Repulsive Stench? No, elementals didn't have noses.
- Wand of Nosebleed? Grrmbl.
- Instant Imp? No.
- Sawdust of Pacifism! That was it. He would throw it at some of the Earths,
- and they would stay away from the battle (and start a sit-down strike, Bakr
- would have thought if he had been from another world).
- And the Clinging Marble for the big one!
- Licorice of Fur? Yes! He could protect himself for the case that the other
- things wouldn't work.
- Bakr cast Self Control, ate one of his licorices - whereupon he grew a dense
- black fur on the whole body so that only his once-white burnoose could be
- recognized - and charged.
-
- He reached the Earths and started to throw sawdust at them, careful not to
- come too close. The first one just ignored him - he was not standing in the
- way - and approached the inn. The second one ignored him too, and when the
- third one did the same, it dawned upon him that these creatures probably had
- thought structures so foreign that the sawdust wouldn't work...
-
- The Scharidian mage retreated. He started Plan B: He took the Clinging Marble
- and threw it at the big Earth Elemental. He hoped that the ground wouldn't
- shake too much when the creature repeatedly slipped on the marble...
- The item landed at exactly the place where the Elemental would put his foot
- next, as it was supposed to - but it was just crushed under said foot.
-
- Desperately, he unsheathed his dagger and charged the smallest Earth he could
- find.
-
- --
- Bakr ibn Ja'far ibn Musa al Mekneshi, apprentice mage.
-