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- From: siewert@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Karl Siewert)
- Newsgroups: alt.callahans
- Subject: A Sudden Crisis Next Door
- Date: 24 Jan 1993 05:03:48 -0600
- Organization: Kansas State University
- Lines: 64
- Message-ID: <1jtt2kINNduk@matt.ksu.ksu.edu>
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- Summary: Maraud takes a brief powder, and we meet a few new Taiwan patrons
-
- Suddenly, the group hug seems much larger. This could have something to do
- with the unexpected entrance of two beings who each outmass most of the patrons
- put together. The merriment subsides as the callahanians look up, and up, and
- UP at these guys.
-
- One gentleman(?) is around eight feet tall, six feet wide, and three feet deep.
- put on your shades, everybody. He's wearing highly polished solid gold armor
- with a dragon scale motif. You can't really tell if his appearance is _sup-
- posed_ to be menacing or not, because he has on a dragon head helmet. All of
- the firelizards in the Place stop whatever it was they were doing and flock to
- the giant, collecting in respectful silence at his feet.
-
- The other guy is dressed in bright green armor. He's about 6x6x6, and looks as
- if he could benchpress Tokyo. His head is uncovered. Literally. Perched on
- his neck is an almost comically small skull which appears to be flaming. He
- carries an 8 foot battleaxe with an atomic symbol carved into the face of the
- blade.
-
- All callahaners with weapons reach for them instantly, wondering why this had
- to happen right on the tails of this alien thing, but then they notice Rie
- standing between them. Only because he's waving frantically, though. If you
- thought he was an unprepossessing character surrounded by assorted anthropomor-
- phic mammalia... Anyway, Rie calls out loudly (loudly, Rie??) from atop a gro-
- wing stack of soapboxes.
-
- "Calm down, everyone. Please, calm down. This is Dragonel (gesturing at the
- gold dude) and this is... oh, I forget his name. Anyway, they are regulars
- and bouncers at the Taiwan On. We need to talk with Slash."
-
- Slash disentangles himself from the mammal pile and comes forward, anxiously
- (anxious, Slash?? This really is out-of-character night, isn't it!!)
-
- <WHAT'S UP?? IS THERE SOMETHING WRONG??>
-
- "I'll say! Stargazer's gone. (different one, folx) All was as usual, and
- then Tilto saw something flash by and she was nowhere. Nobody else saw a d**n
- thing. No doors opening, no prior warning, nothing. You know what that
- means."
-
- <HOLY ZARQUON!! SERIOUS POWER, SERIOUS SPEED, MAGIC SHIELDS THAT BLOCKED
- EVERYBODY INCLUDING GAZER... WE'RE IN TROUBLE.> Slash turns to the group, a
- worried look on his face. <GOTTA GO, FOLX. SEEMS THEY NEED ME AGAIN.>
-
- The four rush out the door, Slash muttering something about a bartender's work
- is never done. On the way out, Rie calls back.
-
- "See you soon. It's been incredible. By the time we get back, Slash should
- have his own email, sig, and posts. Until then, to all at Callahan's Place.
- Best time in 5 cosmoses (or is that cosmii? I never can remember.)"
-
- <AND TO KITTEN, SHONIAS, AND EVERYONE HERE. MAY THE LIFE IN THIS pLACE NEVER
- FADE>
-
- >Crash!!<
- <<CRASH!!!>>
-
- And the door slams shut.
-
-
- --
- / James Riekar, barhopping yoyist, at your service \
- Impersonated at Fort Hays State by Karl G. Siewert, pretending to be at K-State
- \ address=siewert@matt.ksu.ksu.edu /
- \ Never underestimate the power of the truly eccentric. /
-