From:	Dave The Shade <IZZYUX2@*******.BITNET>
Subject:	WSIII
Date:	Thu, 3 Jun 1993 23:10:00 PDT

>>>>>|I'm back.
So they had us pinned/we had them pinned. Still it didn't look good for us.
They were using their panzers main guns to weaken our structure and we couldn't
do the same to them because IR told us they had AntiArmor missiles. We take a f
ew of them down, but thats about it. So then the mage tells to get into our
Panzer - he says he's going to punch a whole in their lines. I'm thinking BullD
rek. Yah, he's an initiate, yah he'll use a fireball or hellblast - but it ain'
t nearly enough at this point. But he tells us he's got something special. So
we hop into the panzer and wait. He gets in and tells the rigger to roll for-
ward so he can see the sky. After we do that, he starts chanting, pointing at
the stars, yelling at them - and then one of the silver sigils on his overjacke
t burns off/ actually vanishes, and a sharp flash of light of his hands. Then
he faints. And nothing . . . Nothing happens -- at first. Then we notice a
small falling star . . . Heading our way! Eventually the thing impacts on our
attackers with a tremedous explosion, light, rocking earth, the whole bit.
It annihilates one panzer, kills 10 guys, damages everything else - huge gap
in their defenses -- which we zoom through.
Later, he wakes up, and we go out to really drink. You know, its our lives
chummer - still alive. So after uncounted drinks we start pressuring him about
the spell. He doesn't wanna tell us, but after a while (7 drinks later) he give
s us some details.
Seems he was off doing meditation for an upcoming initiation in Tir Tairngi
re's wilderness when suddenly the background count gets so high it starts physi
cally burning. So he sits and checks the place out, Asrtal ways if ya scan. Get
s nothin'. He figures Mask. Takes another 2 days to discover an outjutting crag
g is really a huge stone vault door into the ground. Goes gets supplies and com
es back. The door is incredibly warded, and locked, and other stuff, in his own
words" Like spell energy used to create a net of magic covering the door like
it was made of 1 inch thick magiwire tied with gordian knot puzzles" -- yes he
was very drunk. So anyways he finally gets through (5 days later) and enters
a secret catacomb. Narrow and many branched. Lots of sarcophigi, a few other
artifacts. He gets into one chamber, and behind the leaning Sarcophigi are shel
ves packed with stuff. He takes one scroll out when he hears a menacing scrathi
ng/scraping in the catacombs. He gets totally consumed by fear and starts runni
ng. He swears that as he sprinted out the shadows took on form and substance an
d eventually started looking like . . . well better not to say. Needless to say
he withdrew every offending spell (anything that could be traced to him - he wa
s that scared!) and left - never going back. On the scroll was the hermetic
spell formula for the comet spell. He called it StarStrike, because that was th
e name of the spell in Speretheriel that was written on the scroll. So thats it
- the whole story. Hope it helps you out. Now the Tir is really going to be aft
er me . . Right Chummers|<<<<<
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