From: kring@efes.physik.uni-kl.de (Thomas Kettenring)
Subject: [L] Luthor, Bakr, and the War Dog
Organization: FB Physik, Universitaet Kaiserslautern, Germany
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 18:34:42 GMT

ADMIN: Posting on behalf of The Dreamer, adding a bit of my own...

>  Across the room, a large war dog moved to help his master fight some
>invisible foe.  Bakr murmured his spell on Scharidic to control the dog...
>but the animal was more resistant to psychic spells than the mage had thought.
>Apparently a highly trained war dog.  The spell failed, and Bakr unsheathed
>his dagger, which today looked extremely dangerous - sharp and barbed.
>And it felt that way, too.  The mage somehow managed to cut into the dog's
>rear leg, it howled, turned around, and charged at Bakr.  Oh no!  This was the
>end.  It was a real monster of a dog, and it was clearly a much better fighter
>than Bakr.

     Seeing Brycur chop off the hand of the bodyguard, Luthor decided that
he should help Bakr instead.  Bakr was being attacked by the guard's faithful
and rather large war dog.  The look on his face was one of panic.
     The dog charged Bakr, knocking him to the ground and making him lose his
dagger.  He tried to reach for it, but the dog went for his neck and it was
all he could do to keep the dog from tearing out his throat.
     Luthor ran over to them and grabbed the dog around the middle, trying to
pull it off of Bakr.  The dog was heavy, and strong, but Luthor managed to
wrestle it off.  Bakr, now freed from the dog, snatched up his dagger, and
moved in for the kill.  Again, Bakr tried his animal control, but the spell
misfired causing Bakr to go into a sneezing fit for a few minutes.
     When he was done sneezing, he saw that the dog was on top of a shadowy
figure (Luthor), snarling and barking wildly.  Bakr moved behind the dog,
reached around its neck, and slit its throat, ending the barking and the
dogs life.
     Luthor got up, now visible and with blood stains on his tunic.
     "I thought you could control animals Bakr," he said while trying to wipe
off some of the dogs blood.
     "Not this one, it was too well trained to go against its master."  Bakr
shrugged.
     "It's a pity, it might have helped against the queen.
     "And how are you Brycur?  You seem to have saved the day...and I thought
you said that you were no warrior...nonsense," Luthor said with a smile, but
his thanks were true.
     "Bakr, did you hear enough of the guard's speech to immitate him?" Brycur
asked changing the subject.
     "Yes, I think so, but I wouldn't want to do it for a long period of time."
     Bakr took his old form - he had fought looking like Private Veikas -
then he emptied his anti-exhaustion potion, tried to calm down a bit, and made
his spell.
     "Can we go now?" he said, looking and sounding like the queen's
bodyguard.

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     Love and Peace and Immitations,
              -The Dreamer-

"Sex is good, but not as good as the real thing."

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