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- Subject: Re: Fizzle returns
- Date: 29 Dec 1992 19:22 CST
- Organization: University of Houston
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- In article <silk.725478770@mcl>, silk@mcl.ucsb.edu (ken mencher) writes...
- >As thunder booms outside the Inn, a few patrons look out into the cloudless
- >sky, shrug, and return to their drinks, thinking, "showy mages."
- >
- >After a minute or two, a very scorched looking old man walks into the Inn.
- >Flapping behind him is a small bronze dragon (very small). He waves to a
- >waitress, and asks for a large mug of elven wine, and a comfy chair by the
- >fire.
-
- Fleck, having been standing around outside lost in thought for eight times
- longer than was good for him, realized that someone had just entered the Inn
- proper, and, wonder of wonders, left the door ajar.
-
- Which was interesting. So Fleck stared at the door. A little. Before he
- threw all his negligible weight against the door and shoved it open a few more
- inches. He squeezed in, maneuvering his little bug wings through the narrow
- opening scant seconds before someone poked the door shut. He narrowly
- avoided a good squishing.
-
- >After having brought the items, Fizzle settles himself down, and turns to
- >the sleeping patrons around him. "Darn....No-one is willing to listen to
- >my old war stories...hmmm...anyone interested, or should i just talk to the
- >wall??"
-
- Fleck peered out from inside his parka. The inside of the Inn was rather
- more interesting the outside. A roaring inferno in a cavernous fireplace,
- chairs and table legs like a forest, and a lack of anyone any smaller than
- twice his height. He caught the old man's question, thought a moment, then
- said blankly: "What?"
-
- >Fizzle
-
- [Note: Fleck is a bit distracted, and rightly so. He's been struck with the
- 'stremely sobering thought that his time here, or anywhere, is limited. This
- not being his fault, but the universities', or, rather, actually, mine....]
-
-
- R@: "I'll be eligible for readmission whe WHAT freezes over--?"
- --
- "I simply ignored an axiom."
- --Albert Einstein, on relativity
-