From: tkelly@unix2.tcd.ie (Mithrandir)
Subject: [KQ]Silken on seacrh mode
Organization: Trinity College, Dublin
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 16:58:46 GMT

   Nightime,in Generica,and Silken was very tired.
 Ever since the visions at the stall during the afternoon, the elf was
feeling distraught.He knew what he had to do.It was his lot in life to
kill a former friend and compatriot.Kron was a good man,who would do
anything to help a friend in need.
 It was exactly for this reason that the ex-sergeant had to die.
 The elf had spent the rest of the day asking people if they had seen
Kron,but all to no avail.He had even looked in the door at one stage
of the Dragon's Inn.
  He knew that his own heart wasn''t really in it,however.He felt
truly rotten,but he knew that on no account would he let the Daemon's
and that mage named S-.The name he couldn't remember,but the eyes of
that man were always in front of him.They had been a pale blue,with an
inner fire of true power.Silken was sure that he was here,on this plane
somewhere.
   Eventually,the elf gave up and went to bed at his house.



  Late at night,and Silken awoke in a cold sweat.His heart was beating
rapidly,and he had a great hunger about him.He was dizzy with pain from
his stomach,and sweating profusely.He arose out of the bed in agony very
slowly an a step-by-step basis.The pain was too much.He was dying,he
thought.He felt a beast rise within him,a hellish beast howling with
death,and the glory of death,and ... blood.
  The elf rose of the bed,the beast in control,and he went outside into
the night,unclad,unarmed and looking murderous in the extreme.
  He flitted from shadow to shadow,searching for people.He smelt the
wind,and could smell humans,the tantalising smell of the humans.

  Silken awoke.He was no longer in pain,and fully in control again.His
memory held only fading glimpses of what had happened,and it felt like a
dream.He opened his eyes,and lay gaping at the sheets on his bed.They
were dripping in blood.He was truly horrified.There was a taste on his
tongue,sweet and pleasurable.It was the taste of human blood.
  He thought to himself,
  'What have those Daemons done to me ?'
 He decided to go to the library to find out.


  The Library was truly one oof the finest buildings in all Generica.
It did not concern the elf,however,and his mind dismissed the sight of
it.
   When he got there,the sun was just up,and the Library just opening.
He entered and headed for the stacks.
  After searching for only half an hour,he found a book entitled 
 "Sorcerer's guide to Daemonology",and sat down to read up for a bit.
  It was a book that presumed much,and sometimes the facts were
completely wrong.
  But he came across what he was looking for.
 The passage read.

 "...also,prolonged exposure to the dark dimension of Daemonkind often
causes a reaction to take place in the bodies of travellers.Upon their
return to this world,they have exhiibited a loss of blood,and a
necessity to drink of the blood of others regularly.It is a condition
similar to that of Vampirism.There are many subtle diffrences,but the
primary one is that while Vampires are highly allergic to sunlight,
these individuals to not suffer from sunlight harm at all.Other than
that,the diffrences are trivial.The infected person is often possessed
by a madness when their supply of blood is low.They heal at very quick
rates and are often immune to non-magical weapons.They also develop
certain powers,depending on circumstances.Stakes will not harm such
individuals as it would normal vampires,nor garlic.This warping of
metaboolism is also known to keep the infected apparently ageless.
They are truly immortal.There is no known cure for this condition."


   Silken put the book down carefully.He knew what his lot in life would
be.He was a Vampire now.He knew that he could live with the condition.
He would just feed regularly without actually killing people.He accepted
it,and was feeling more his old self than he had in a while.
  Now,he decided that Kron would have to be found double-quick.




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]]>>>Mithrandir<<<[[          ]]>>tkelly@unix2.tcd.ie<<[[  
 A.K.A. Silken,Thuengrim,Redtassle Marigold 
 A.K.A. Sorceror,Iglyarch,Lucien (Villains)
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