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- From: justinf@cco.caltech.edu (Justin Fang)
- Newsgroups: alt.pub.dragons-inn
- Subject: [D/D/K/M/E] A coat and a horse...
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- Date: 27 Jan 1993 23:02:58 GMT
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- Meran watched as Dramic was led away by the sergeant. Well, Dramic was on
- his own, there was nothing he could do for him. Then Kevin, who had
- apparently been standing deep in thought, turned to him and said,
- >"Excuse me. By some chance do you or one of these fine gentlemen have a
- >coat I could borrow?"
-
- "Yes, I do," Meran replied. He held out his hands and concentrated
- momentarily.
- Mentally, he separated a small portion of his life energy and formed it
- into a coat, which he handed to Kevin.
-
- Kevin looked dubiously at the coat, which had just appeared out of thin
- air. He took it and put it on. Well, it felt real. Was warm too. "How did
- you do that?"
-
- "Umm, sort of difficult to explain," Meran said. Explaining precisely what
- he was would have taken a while, to say the least. He decided to just pass
- it off as as a form of magic. "It's, well, magic. Anyway, we're going to
- help someone in trouble," he added, thinking Kevin might want to know what
- was going on. He turned to the others. "I'll go get my horse. Back in a
- little while." He walked off towards the Inn's stables.
-
- Magic, Kevin thought. Well, if it was or not his hypothesis looked as if it
- was going to be extremely weird...
-
- Quicksilver considered. Maintaining the Meran form, the hawk form, and the
- coat he'd just given to Kevin was taking up almost all of its life energy.
- Fortunately the coat did not reqire much attention... Reabsorbing the hawk
- and dropping a few psionic powers should free up enough for a horse,
- though. No-one was in the stables right now. Good. The hawk flew down into
- the stable (it'd surveyed most of the city anyway), landed on Meran's
- shoulder, and vanished, reconverted into life energy. The ability to do
- certain of Meran's powers also vanished.
-
- Energy flowed outward from Meran's outstretched hands, coalesced into
- matter, and took the form of... a horse. Quicksilver took a few steps,
- trying out the horse form, with which it was not very familiar. She was
- less than impressive. Oh well, good enough.
-
- Meran hitched up the mare to Denner's cart (leaving off the bit and bridle,
- she could steer herself) and walked out of the stable. The horse and cart
- followed.
-
- [ADMIN: Some explanation here: Quicksilver is a single entity composed of
- both matter and energy. The exact proportions of the two, as well as the
- form of the matter and which part of the matter the energy is "attached"
- to, can be varied, but the total amount is fixed. "Meran" is what it is
- currently calling itself as a human.]
-
- Justin Fang (justinf@cco.caltech.edu)
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