From: jcarl@jabba.ess.harris.com (Joe Carl Jr.)
Subject: Introducing Mr. Briggs and looking for others
Organization: Harris Corporation - ISD
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 19:22:03 GMT

[ADMIN:  This is Mr. Briggs's first visit to the inn, I hope you enjoy him
and decide to participate.  Jump on in if you can contribute]


The door to the inn swung wide, and the eyes of some of its occupants
turned to see who had entered.  They saw no one.  Most had assumed
someone had left and their curiosity went no further, others more
observant lowered their gaze and saw a child enter the inn.  No wait,
it was a halfling dressed in a three piece suit with a beaming smile
that made them want to smile too.

Mr Briggs was in a cheerful mood, it was a sunny day creeping towards
evening.  The Inn was under new management and it was high time for
Barnabus Bristlemeyer Briggs to inspect the new establishment for the
quality of it food and drink.

It wasn't quite dinner time yet, but people were starting to show up
anyways. Mr Briggs waited just inside the door for a barmaid to seat
him properly.  He brushed his feet on a rug at the entrance to remove
the dirt of the street.  

Mr Briggs was beginning to get irritated "So much like them big folk,
they never take the time to look down at the roses."

Mr Briggs gave up waiting for service and walked across the room with a
slight limp to the Bar.  He climbed his portly body up a bar stool with
amazing dexterity for one so round.

"Excuse me good sir," he said to the bartender.  "Could one order a meal
at the bar instead of waiting for a table?"

"Why sure you can, I'll make sure you get properly served here."  He then
waved over the barmaid to take his order.

"What would you like son?" she said, her full figured bosom was right in
front of his face and he had to look over her breasts to look her in her
eyes.  He ordered a full 7 course meal trying not to blush, as his eyes
occasionally wandered where they shouldn't for a proper gentlemen. 

She leaned over to look Mr Briggs full in the eyes when it wandered once
too many times.  "How about I get you some roast mutton and a plate full
broiled potatoes?" she said with a wink at the now fully blushing Halfling.

"That would be fine Ma'am, and some ice water too please!" he said with a
frog in his throat.

She turned and left.  The bartender leaned over the bar "Can I get you
something real to drink while you wait?"

"Why yes good sir you can, would you happen to have any Vartrill wine
back there?"

"That stuffs kinda hard to get, elves don't part with their wine cheaply
you know.  I do have some in the Cellar, but you'll have to pay up front
and for a full bottle too."

Mr Briggs opened his belt pouch and place 2 platinum pieces for the bottle
of Vartrill Wine on the bar.  He then slide another platinum piece onto
the bar separate from the first two. "These two are for the bottle, and this
one is for you if you can direct someone interested in traveling to the 
sundered Dwarven hold in the Troll mountains to retrieve an item of power."

The bartender took the first two coins and left the third "I'd be stealin'
from ya if I took that one, but I'll put the word out discreatly."

--
Joe Carl Jr.               "It ain't what a man don't know that makes him a
jcarl@jabba.ess.harris.com   fool, but what he does know that ain't so."
                                                           -- Josh Billings
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