Allusions..

        First Dragonlance, now the Avatar Trilogy.. let's see who can be first
to allude to the Lord of the Rings! :) By the way, I've uploaded the first 400
messages of the game to the textfile section, in case anyone is interested in
them. Who knows - perhaps someday they'll be a collector's item.. ha.. :) Back
to the game.

        Borack and Aardvarkin unstrap Malcolm's backpack and proceed to
examine its contents. You find a couple of daggers, a small leather sack that
jingles when shaken (presumably containing coins or similar such small metal
objects), a waterskin, a day or two's worth of iron rations, some firelighting
equipment, a brass ring, a miniature silver trident (about a foot long), and a
tin box marked with strange runes.

        Ever the curious thief, Aardvarkin is the first to open everything.
The leather pouch does indeed contain coins; over a dozen gold crowns.
Eagerly, he reaches his grubby, nimble fingers into the bag, but after
disapproving glances from the rest of the party, he slowly withdraws them.
Unhurt, he turns to the tin box, which he shakes around, but no sound is made.
There certainly seems to be something inside it, since it weighs quite a bit,
so he opens it up. Inside is a small silver spoon wedged inside a gob of stick
gray paste. The substance gives off a rubbery odour and none of you are able
to discern exactly what it is. Attempts to read the writing on the outside of
the box - apparantly Malcolm's, if any of you remember his handwriting
correctly - return nothing. The runes don't even seem to be words, but rather
a strange combination of letters: "BX.3: ANTH. F/P. 2 SP." 

|\       |\/|
|/ungeon |  |aster

Sage's Desk AD&D