From: dmcdulin@cs1.uct.ac.za (DB MCDULING)
Newsgroups: alt.pub.dragons-inn
Subject: New person arrives [Inn]
Summary: Kraska arrives at the Inn
Keywords: Kraska, new PC
Date: 15 Sep 92 10:59:41 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Department, University of Cape Town

ADMIN Sorry if this has already been on the net, I posted it a while
      back and it seemed to get lost in transit somewhere.

   Night had fallen, as it usually does at the end of any normal
working day. The everyday hustle and bustle of daily life in Generica
had died down as the honest (?) people went home to their husbands/
wives/children/pets respectively. Night-time however is not the time
in which nothing happens, it is the time when very note-worthy,
sometimes Earth-shattering (or should that be Generica-shattering?)
events take place. Tonight was going to prove no different.

   In the Inn, the usual patrons were being served their usual ale,
and the unusual patrons were being served unusual drinks, drinks which
fizzled and bubbled in sometimes quite disturbing ways. It has been
recomended that no human should ever try to drink any of these drinks,
because nobody really wants to have to clean the resulting mess off the
ceiling, walls and floor. (And this had usually been the result in the
past. The human body was just not ready for something akin to Nitro
being mixed with Glycerine. The result was always gooey and very messy.)

   In the empty space above a conveniently unoccupied table (very strange
night tonight if a table is unoccupied...) a small blueish spark appears.
At first it is hardly visible, but slowly, it starts to expand, and stops
resembling a spark, more readily taking the form of a blueish tinted
light. Almost everyone in the Inn had seen this strange apperition
starting to appear, and nobody was going to try and do anything about it
right at the moment. The light was looking more humanoid in shape as the
seconds passed, until finally it formed the shape of a man.

   Suddenly, there is an expansion of air, followed quickly by a small
thunderclap as a solid body took up the place where nothing had been
before. The man fell down on the table, rolled off, and landed with a
heavy thud on the floor. There was another, smaller thunderclap as a
staff materialised next to the man.

   "Grrffffnnk."  he mumbled.

   "Brnnk" he tried again.

   "Fffnnnnrrrk" he croaked, slowly getting to his feet.

   "Great. First he does'nt tell me where he's sending me, and then he
sends me to a space somewhat ABOVE the floor." he said as he righted the
fallen table. Looking around him, he saw that the whole Inn was looking
at him with interest, as they had never seen a man quite like him yet.
He stands 5'10" tall, and has slightly translucent skin, almost like
frozen, crystal-clear water. A faint blue nimbus surrounds his entire
body, as well as his staff.

   "My name is Kraska. Can someone please tell me where I am?" he called
out to the expectand crowd in the Inn. "You're in Generica, in the very
famous Dragons Inn too." one of the usual patrons piped up.

   "Thanks. At least now I know where I am. If it isn't obvious already,
I'm new to this place. I offer my services to anyone going on a quest.
I have the ability to control the temperature of things which I touch,
from a minimum of fifty degrees below freezing point, to twenty degrees
above boiling point. I have no need for food, only requiring pure water
for sustenance. However, I have a moral code which prevents me from
killing anyone or anything. As of yet, I cannot use magic, but I am a
swift learner.  Are there any offers?" Kraska said loudly to all
gathered in the Inn.

ADMIN   So a new character appears.

(My first posting to this group. Wish to join in somewhere please...)

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