From: owner-acka-games-digest@muppetlabs.com (acka-games-digest) To: acka-games-digest@muppetlabs.com Subject: acka-games-digest V2 #169 Reply-To: acka-games@muppetlabs.com Sender: owner-acka-games-digest@muppetlabs.com Errors-To: owner-acka-games-digest@muppetlabs.com Precedence: bulk acka-games-digest Tuesday, October 7 1997 Volume 02 : Number 169 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 7 Oct 1997 14:46:57 -0500 From: "Bollinger, John C." Subject: Acka: YORL play Brusari gestured to a fallen log and Stutim seated himself. Brusari, still standing, began to speak. "My name is Brusari. My people call themselves the Guardians, or sometimes the Watchers. Some who have a lower opinion of us" -- Brusari grimaced -- "twist the latter into 'Spies'. We trace our history back for centuries, to before the seperation of the Solgrai and the Rishnet." "What do you mean, 'seperation'?" Stutim demanded. "Solgrai and Rishnet have always been rivals, if not outright enemies!" Brusari laughed softly, sadly. "No, child, though there are those who would like you to think so. It was more than five hundred years ago, now, but the whole land was once ruled by one High King. Solgrai was the name of the last High King's son, and Rishnet was the name of his advisor. The Guardians held a place of honor in the society of that day. We," Brusari smiled, " -- THEY -- protected noble and commoner alike, righted injustices, and watched against the coming of all things evil or malign. But they didn't watch well enough," Brusari sighed, gazing off into the distance as if seeing those long ago events with his own eyes. "The Guardians chief seer forcast a dire threat to the High King, but could not identify it. The very next day, the High King was slain. The stories vary, but all accounts describe the razing of the entire city by an enormous, three-headed, three-eyed beast colored midnight blue. They say it stood taller than the palace. A credible witness reported seeing the the High King himself disappear into its maw." Stutium gaped -- Brusari was silently crying. Play: really big blue thing ThinMan ------------------------------ End of acka-games-digest V2 #169 ********************************