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Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 12:34:05 EDT
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Subject: [L] Bakr Sticks His Head In The Sand

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From: Thomas Kettenring <kring@physik.uni-kl.de>
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Subject: [L] Bakr sticks his head in the sand


  Mat and Kachin covered behind a rock formation and watched the Questors
from afar when something approached from the left.

  Kachin gasped.  "A blue dragon!", he whispered.  "We met a dragon just
like this two weeks ago!  It killed three of us, that's why we needed new
comrades when we met you and Lenek.  That here's probably the same lizard."
  "Let's hope it kills some of them, and let's hope it doesn't eat Brycur,"
Mat answered.
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  Bakr took some equipment from Murell and intended to carry it closer to the
portal when Murell called to Brycur who was already a few steps away with
his load, "Brycur, where are you putting all the ... *DRAGON!*"

  "Oh no!" The young mage turned around and faced a huge blue dragon.
He froze and awaited the end, but it didn't come.  The wyrm didn't breathe
but grabbed Sal's horse instead.  When its back was turned, Bakr dropped
everything and ran as fast as he could.  Behind him, he heard Lathan roar,
"He'll breath this time.  Scatter!"

  He tried to hide behind a rock but he had a distinct feeling that he was
not exactly safe there.  Then he heard a deafening noise, not unlike thunder,
and shortly after the beast was directly above him for a second, flying
another cycle.  It could well have seen him, so he ran again and covered
behind a bigger rock.

  "Algabr w'almuqabalah al-hwarizmi!"  He seemed to turn into a shrubbery.
And the shrubbery thought, "I wouldn't be of any help anyway..."

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     The Great Blue Wyrm (as he liked to call himself) circled again
above the pitifil group of humans.  They all tried to split up, but it
wouldn't do them any good.  Did they really think that they could outrun
the king of lizards?
      He decided not to breathe again.  If he did and hit the ring, he might
destroy it.  He would have to settle for using his claws and spells.
     'First, I'll slow them down a bit,' he thought to himself as he began
chanting Dragon Magic.  The spell went off and some were slowed.

ADMIN: Slow Spell, Luthor and Bakr are affected, Murell isn't...the rest of
       you can decide whether or not the spell worked on you.

     One of the humans was shouting something about the portal to another.
How silly...they would not escape that easily...

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ADMIN: Algabr w'almuqabalah is a famous mathematics book by Mohammed ibn Musa
  al-Hwarizmi.  The word "algebra" comes from the title of this book, the word
  "algorithm" from the author's name.

Bakr ibn Ja'far ibn Musa al Mekneshi, apprentice mage.

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