The Elf King holds Ricia, Princess of Maranoa, captive in the gleaming, blue-towered City of Ice. Sir Kendrick of the Isles, determined either to rescue Ricia or to die in the quest, approaches and flies high above the City on his rainbow-winged griffin. The ring-mail-clad Kendrick, his cloak blowing in the wind, wields a spear forged by Wayland Smith who had hammered pale, flickering moonlight into the steel.
Ricia, seeing the griffin like a comet high and far away, runs out into the courtyard despite a guard's attempt to stop her while Alvarlan, in his cave of arcana ten thousand leagues away, transmits to both Kendrick and Ricia the mental message that, if the King suspects that it is Kendrick that flies above, then he will either send a dragon against him or spirit Ricia away. However, Kendrick is confident that the griffin's altitude is such that the King would need a scrying stone to see that it has a rider.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
Of course I recognized this bit you quoted from Anderson's "The Saturn Game." A very interesting example of how dangerous it can become when people in role playing games become enraptured by them.
Role playing games never appealed to me. I prefer chess!
Sean
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