From: bfish@sequent.com (Brett Fishburne)
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 92 16:41:57 GMT
Newsgroups: alt.pub.dragons-inn
Subject: [KQ] Captain [Warehouse] Out of the darkness and into the light

Characters: Kron Questors

When Azzar dropped her pack to free her bow, Captain fished around inside it
looking for the grappling hook.  Unfortunately, Captain remembered, the hook
and rope had burned up in the building which once held Rhoan trapped.  Captain
straightened back up from his search as Azzar's arrow found its way home.

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The octopoid leviathan [hereafter referred to as "Sam" for my simplicity] was
rather curious as to why this moving meat had entered its area.  Sam was used
to having dead animals delivered to him which really didn't supply much of
a challenge.  In fact, he had become so complacent with his extensive and
frequent feedings (while the masters of this complex weren't big on feeding
most of their guard animals -- keeps the edge on -- they had lost too many
soldiers trying to move dead cows into position when they did not keep Sam
well fed) that he really didn't find these pieces of moving meat any
particular threat.  After grasping a couple of them in his tenticles and 
finding out that they had an awful sting, he tried to eat one and see if it
was as juicy as his normal meal.  Just as he brought the wriggling piece of
meat into position for a nice, good chomp, something hit him in one of his
eyes!  Fully unused to significant pain, Sam flailed his limbs about himself
at once forgetful of the moving meat and extremely concerned about the pain
in his eye.  His arms first extended fully and then drew themselves up under
the octopus as he scuttled into the sleeping corner of his room.

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With amazing swiftness, the ocotopus dropped his remaining captives and
withdrew.  Rhoan, Kron, Azzar, Colin, and Captain [ADMIN: Am I missing
anybody -- if so, add your names as appropriate in your mind as you read]
looked at each other in amazement.  The very thought that one arrow could
hold such a creature at bay even for a moment was overwhelming.  Kron was the
first to act:  He sprinted for the door previously blocked by the octopus
and threw it open.  The rest of the group got themselves into position behind
Kron (Colin and Rhoan both had a hard time doing so due to thier recent close
encounter with the floor) and all were in position when the door was opened.
A bright light streamed out of the doorway and impaled the group where they
stood.  It was only after their eyes had adjusted to the light which seemed
to be coming from a whirling chandelier fully twenty feet up in the air, that
the group began to make its way into the room once more wary of traps which
might impede their progress.  With a boom, Captain closed the door seperating
the group from the octopus.

It was clear that this room would be no better than the previous rooms the
group had faced.  There were arrow slits in the walls from about ten feet
on up and there were two unusually large slits which made Kron particularly
uneasy.


-- Captain