From: Rannou@info.polymtl.ca (Patrick Rannou)
Subject: Re: CENSUS -- Please Read
Organization: Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Canada
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 00:52:23 GMT



THREAD SUMMARY AND THREAD GENERAL DATA:   THE DRAGONQUEST.



Suggestion for the updated character list:

(why not make it a THREAD oriented character list? It would be
far easier to follow who is who and where is who and what happens where and
when...)




*The DragonQuest thread includes:


From me:    PR  Patrick Rannou  (Rannou@info.polymtl.ca):

Character                     Status       Class        Creator

SunStorm FireStarr the Giant, Main PC      Fighter       PR
ShockWave the DiamondSword,   PC           Magic Sword   PR
TrueSilver the Dragon,        PC           Dragon        PR
Alita the blue skinned        NPC          F/Thief       PR
Krastin                       Villain      Fighter       PR
The Dark Master               Main Vilain  Vampyre       PR
Vornik                        Villain      Mage/Thief    PR


From the other Players: (in order of appearance)

MS  Michael Sander    Lancos Erredan, Fighter  344lwkc@cmuvm.csv.cmich.edu
SH  Stephen Hutchison 'Raelf, 'Kan Traveller   hutch@ibeam.intel.com
AT  Andrea Todkill    Kadrys, Vampire Thief    andrea@cm.deakin.OZ.AU (*)
RR  Ray Rich          Valgar, Fighter          rhr9081@hertz.njit.edu
MC  Matthew I Cohen   William, Mage            cohen@spot.Colorado.EDU

(*) On "hold", because personnal life is more important than a.p.d-i,
    and I think everybody agree with that.




Synopsis:

SunStorm's friend, TrueSilver, has disappeared. The DragonQuest
begins, and our heroes soon discover that they are to face a
very powerful prime force of Evil>. And what they do or don't do
will change both the future and the past forever.


Thread type:

The DragonQuest focuses on Character Development, storytelling,
and PC interaction. It is an open thread: this means that new players can
join anytime, provided that they e-mail first and that a majority of
players accept them in. But new players join for the duration (unless of
course something special happens).


What has gone before:

SunStorm fought against a guy in dark plate armor the night the mod
attacked the city of Generica. When he got back, both his helm and -more
importantly- his friend TrueSilver, had disappeared. SunStorm broke into
depression and to calm him down he got reduced to dwarven size by Luthor
the mage from the Luthor thread. Then SunStorm gathered a few brave souls,
and then the party first did some information gathering. Lancos was
attacked by the same guy in dark armor, and Valgar found a strange book.

The party was surprised to meet another 'Raelf, from the future. This one
stayed silent, tough, not revealing any of the things to come, but the
party felt that whatever he knows is in store for their own future, it
isn't a funny one.

In the evening, a PyraCubicDiamond (PCD), a strange  magical construct,
appeared on the Plaza of Glittering Steel. The thing succeeded at stealing
SunStorm's soul before 'Raelf destroyed it. Then Krastin, the guy in dark
plate mail, shouted his rage because "they destroyed the gate", and he
ordered a great number of gargoyles to attack the party. After a hard
fight and an unholy word, the DragonQuesters vanquished all but Krastin,
who escaped -again!-, Lancos still having succeed at repelling his enemy.

'Raelf then saved ShockWave who exerted himself too much trying to control
SunStorm's soul-emptied body in the fight against the now defunct
gargoyles. Now, ShockWave inhabits both the sword and the gian'ts body, and
is slowly learning to deal with biological functions (like trying to deal
with too much drinking.

While the party rested in the inn, Alita the "Real Babe" (tm) came in and
courted every DQer, and took a fancy at Kadrys (who helps the party a lot
while at the same time staying very silent and observing), who repelled
her. Seeing her actions had the reverse effect than what she intended, she
stopped acting like a trollop and instead acted like if she was part of the
party -something which isn't still a fact at all-. 'Raelf then discovered,
by analyzing the data taken from the PCD, that it wasn't only a charm
spell, but an artifact, and it's main core is still existing inside a cave
which Valgar read from in the Book. And SunStorm's soul is being tortured
in that cave.

While Krastin makes new plans to face the party, they are starting to
realize that the Dark Master -an unknown evil being of great power- is
behind all this. Meanwhile, William, a novice mage who tried to help the
party when the PCD first appeared, meets Lancos, who wonders why the mage
has carved a statue depicting half a woman and half a dragon -which looks
strangely like TrueSilver-. But time is of the essence: They have only a
few days before the new moon, which marks the exact time of the opening of
the hidden magical cave which rendered crazy it's first explorator: the one
who wrote the Book.

Things seems to go badly enough: Alita knows more than she is saying,
SunStorm's soul is being tortured by the sadistic Vornik, TrueSilver is
still missing, ShockWave is sleeping over his booze, Lancos is suffering
from a strange curse from a magical pendant/collar he owns, and nobody
knows about it, Kadrys has been called away and magically disappeared, and
the future seems to hold only bad news. But there is still hope: 'Raelf the
Elder knows that in this timeline, things are happening differently. Even
if a paradox is dangerous, it's better to cause one forcefully than to deal
with what the Dark Master plans to do (or has already done, depending on
he PoV) to the timestream.

Everybody know that on Nexus, and particularly in Generica, the
timestream is already random enough, nearly to the breaking point. To
'Raelf, that's a weak point which gives him flexibility for his
interdimensionnal travels. For the Dark Master, that's a weak point which
has already allowed him to change history. But time isn't absolute, so
there is still hope. What does all that has got to do with a DRAGONQuest,
you ask? Heh, if you want to know the answer, you'll have to follow the
thread. Or join and be one of those who helped save the Dragon.


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