Subject: [porc] Death to the wyrm!
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1998 17:34:58 -0800
From: jdavis109@juno.com (JAMES R DAVIS)
To: dagrfall@ods.com

After Zarth's act of blinding the dragon, I was able to push the claw up
out of my shoulder, where the claw had found a flaw in my chain mail.
Grabbing my swords, Scorcher already repaired through its magic, I
sheathed them.  I pulled two ebony daggers from my belt and looked
around, wishing Alyssa were with us and not with Betrayal, as her
draconic form would have been quite useful.  I moved to its side and
starting using the ebony weapons as climbing axes, slamming them into the
stony scales of the wyrm and pulling myself up.

Knowing that any magic I can cast would be short-lived, I chose a simple
levitation spell.  I floated up to the high ceiling and flipped over,
swords pointed straight at the wyrm's back, between her wings.  Yelling
to Adeline, I said "Dispel me!  Now!"  Mea moved to stop her, but
Adeline's actions were augmented by her unnatural speed.  I felt the
nullifying ray strike me and then gravity re-exerted its dominion over
me.  As I began to fall, Mea and Catris peppered the head with arrows,
mundane and incediary.  I felt myself falling towards the dragon, relying
on my swords' sharpness to drive me like a 5'7" long arrow into her.  I
miscalculated.

I slammed into the dragon and bounced off, skittering off her back like a
drop of water in a hot skillet.  My head slammed off the stone, but I
managed to retain consciousness.  I felt the dragon's tail wrap around
under me, lifting me off the floor.  I opened my eyes, my head reeling
from the shock of the blow.  Scorcher and Ghalleva were pinned to my
body, no help there.  The dragon turned its head away from my companions
and the tail deposited my in her mouth.

Seeing Zarth's shield still lodged in her jaw, I grabbed the straps.  I
ducked low behind the tower shield and pressed my swords against the back
of the shield.  I felt the muscles in her mouth contract.  She was going
to bite me in half!  Realizing this, I kicked the shield away, dislodging
it, and held my swords up.  The resistance suddenly gone, the dragon
closed her jaws, driving my swords up into her brain.  Death was swift.

Puzzling my companions, I got out of her mouth and sliced open her chest,
no longer so strong without her magic.  I pushed into the dragon's
corpse, in search of several things.  The most important though, was her
heart.  I sliced the thing out, and dragged it out into the open.  The
organ, about the size and weight of myself, took up a good area on the
floor.  I turned to my companions and said "Stand back or come forth and
partake of the dragon's heart.  If one eats some of the heart within one
hour of the death of the wyrm, you will gain the ability to change into a
dragon for the next full moon.  I am going to eat some.  Does anyone else
care to?"

I turned and sliced off a section of meat, biting a large piece off.  I
offered a piece to my companions.  Catris took the meat from my hand and
ate a large portion of it.  Adeline outright refused, as her undead
nature would render the heart useless to her.  I held out a portion to
Mea and Zarth, who......................

~Lord Jemalas Tamislane of Thornwood, Ruler of Kalisis
JDavis109@juno.com

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