PARTICIPANTS:
UBERGHASH (GULP), ZUPGUGH, BOZBLOT, FENZOKH, Z'MACHT
Moria,
Feasting Hall
The
darkness and cold of Moria is broken and swept away within a few paces into
this huge hall, replaced by bright light, sweaty heat, and a fetor of burnt flesh.
The smoothness and straightness of its walls are indicative of Dwarven hands,
but long ago orcs condemned this once-beautiful spot to become a feasting hall,
destined to be defiled by decades of abuse. A multitude of long wooden tables
are scattered about, but the centerpiece of this room is a huge bonfire,
roaring within a pit carved into the floor. In addition to smoke, light and
warmth pour from the flames. However, the great shadows cast by the single
flickering source of light within the room also lend an unwholesome air to the
chamber; in one moment a whole table can be plunged into darkness by a single
being's silhouette.
The
unfortunate snaga forced to brave the heat of this bonfire plunge spitted
chunks of animal and orc flesh into it. Also cooked by these miserable slaves
are enormous pots containing a horridly mysterious combination of ground animal
parts, termed 'Sog's Surprise'. Once the food is heated, a blend of spices is
sprinkled atop, just enough to keep the foul stuff down a diner's gullet, and
they are placed atop a wooden counter along with loaves of bread. Beside the
counter are large wooden barrels filled with ale, with a stack of complimentary
tankards next to each. Periodically, an empty one is wheeled away to the Juicer
still, replaced quickly by a new vessel.
Contents:
Uberghash
Sog
The raucas howling, never-ceasing in the hall
of feasts, grows exceptionally ferocious. Whatever angle the sun is lingering
in the lands far above, in the feast hall it is time for play, time for gorging
one's self till your black-green bellybuttons sprout inside-out, time for
merrymaking in the orcish way; crude, lude, and plenty loud.
Juicers paddle in on caskets, and behind
their one-wheeled acrobatics peddles in the little jailer Bozblot... *One-Two
One-Two One-two-three* the little uruk's feet go, pitter-patting towards the
head of a table. He leaps, and scrabbles his little frame up to the table top.
Bozblot parades in high-step down the length of table, rapping the orc noses at
either side with a small leather strap. He makes several passes, back and
forth, and those seated at his stage pound into the table with their fists and
crude utensils. Bozblot kicks the odd platter up and over the uruk's heads with
panache, always in unison with the hungry host's pounding beat.
Uberghash
slinks into the feasting hall, red eyes glowing with horrible glee. "The
Sober Fate of the Orange Doom rules the Caverns Under the Earth," he
declares icily, and giggles. "The other fates are ousted or ended -- even
the Beautiful One. Was fun while it lasted."
Bozblot
hikes up his little black kilt of leather-metal pleats, and thoughtfully twists
a red-leather boot in front of him, and in front of an especially roudy orc
seated in front of his prancing. "What you think, is new boots better than
my old loverly mocassins?" asks the jailer of the uruk before him. Bozblot
finds three seconds to be three seconds too long to verbalize the correct
answer, and the orc is swiftly delivered a close-up of Bozblot's new shoe.
As the bust-nosed orc grapples his face and
slides out of his chair and under the table, Bozblot resumes his clogging.
"You there!" Chirps the jailer mid-step, "where can good
servants of the flame find Sog's most finest swill?" Several thumbs direct
him to a corner stash.
Uberghash
hops toward Bozblot, now, frowning most dreadfully. "Liars!" he
calls. "I am the Prince of Cooks, Master of this Feasting Hall, and I say
you are all buffoons. That's Chaumurky's ale. Ughhh. If you can afford it, get
Drolyag's stuff."
Announcement:
Dairnir has changed the poll to: Wearwolves in Dol Amroth ... aroooo!
Bozblot
's nob nose frazzles as his wide-cocked ears bend to make out the mad cook's
booming. The noise of the feast hall is most inclement now, and it lingers in
the stale, sweat heavy air. The hoots and howls of even the loudest orc float
deadly in the air, and they seem of the air itself, and not the fruit of orcish
lungs; which ever mouth they sprout from seems only a mute catalyst, fueling
the deafening static.
Bozblot clogs closer to the cook, still
playing the tiny tyrant on his table-top. *BAP* another orc is introduced to
the jailer's spanky new handsome heels. "The rat lover? Drolyag? Always
petting... 'Fred'.. bet there's rats in his juice. Mighty KICK though eh
ladz?" squeaks Bozblot, emphasizing 'KICK' with another.. well you know..
but apperantly the owner of the third assaulted nose doesn't, because he
doesn't duck.
Bozblot
's nob nose frazzles as his wide-cocked ears bend to make out the mad cook's
booming. The noise of the feast hall is most inclement now, and it lingers in
the stale, sweat heavy air. The hoots and howls of even the loudest orc float
deadly in the air, and they seem of the air itself, and not the fruit of orcish
lungs; which ever mouth they sprout from seems only a mute catalyst, fueling
the deafening static.
Bozblot clogs closer to the cook, still
playing the tiny tyrant on his table-top. *BAP* another orc is introduced to
the jailer's spanky new handsome heels. "The rat lover? Drolyag? Always
petting... 'Fred'.. bet there's rats in his juice. Mighty KICK though eh
ladz?" squeaks Bozblot, emphasizing 'KICK' with another.. well you know..
but apperantly the owner of the third assaulted nose doesn't, because he
doesn't duck.
Uberghash
waves a small, clawed hand admonishingly at Bozblot. "Drolyag's is the
best, fool. The best, and every Lord since Jreznog's admitted it. And I've got
the whole supply as remains," he boasts. "Save for five barrels."
"A toast then!" shrieks Bozblot,
"Toasts to Drolyag.. Bozblot will serve his own swill." The jailer
stomps down the table and leaps most artlessly to the ground with his hands
flippant in the air, as if his stunted little arms could lend drag enough to
slow his fall. Once grounded, the wee-orc blinks his feet, and his sheeny shiny
new boots towards Sog's counter.
A single arm flanks the wee-orcs progress to
that wide and happy land of 'booze store', and yanks him to a standstill. A
less than jovial guard leers at the runt, and spits his scolding straight in
Bozblot's face.
"Shouldn't you be lookin' after Pigtusk
runt?" grunts unpleasant-orc.
"Quite right, quite RIGHT, I'll see too
it cap'n!" squeaks Bozblot.
"The jails is THAT way, runt."
Unpleasant-orc crooks a warty green finger to the exit.
Bozblot heads towards the ale barrels just
the same.
Bozblot sashays to a barrel almost as tall
as he, set at the end of Sog's counter... "NOT that one runt! work the
ones we's already tapped!" comes a gruff thundering from Bozblot's left.
"Hold on a minute.. they're all empties. Ok lil' fello, tap that one for
me, and yer first beaker's free!" comes the big, big voice from beside the
runt, and an a huge hand is lowered in front of Bozblot's face. The hand holds
some kind of spiggot, and the wee-orc is quick to snatch it up.
Bozblot straddles the cask as best he can,
his distended tongue following his eyes as he aims... *CLOMP-splshhhhhh* The
spiggot enters the barrel! .. but so does half the lid, and so does half of
Bozblot's arm. His hand comes out, but without the spiggot. Bozblot begins
unstrapping his scimitar... mumbleing something about 'getting the nasty out of
the nasty poison'
Bozblot
grips his sword with both hands, his feet still wide apart. He bites down, and
closes his eyes, and begins slashing maddly in the direction of the barrel...
still mumbelling.
'Nasty bog-rot... buncha filthy spit...
greedy grog..' curses the wee-orc, and he feels himself go light on the floor.
His mad slicing yet to find resistance. Bozblot opens his eyes, and finds that
he's been lifted by the seat of his little kilt, and that the casket is fairly
far below.
He grins, and then he's sent OVER the bar,
and halfway across the hall, loosed scimitar and all.
A shift of snaga, covered in saw-dust,
groggily relinquish their seats at the table little Bozblot bowled under, and a
second shift, this one caked with soot takes their place. Little Bozblot
emerges, up and over a bench, his handsome metal helmet traded for a bowl of
noodles somewhere in his rooting about the floor. Are they noodles? They seem
to be alive... edible anyways, as the wee-orc nibbles on the ones flopped over
his forehead like withering-slithering slick-slickery bangs.
"Heya cooks, who's this 'Beautimous One'
you was barkin about when you came in?" asks Bozblot of the applauding
orc.
Zupgugh
slinks warily into the Feasting Hall. He does not see any of those who wish him
dead, but does not completely let his guard down. He grabs a plate of grub,
literally, and sits.
Uberghash
removes a flask of liquor from a strap whereby it dangles from his belt,
grinning. "Him they called Trezak," he replies, giggling. "He is
dead now."
Bozblot
bobs his chin; a quick bow. "And is that Trezak's life-juice in yer
beaker?" asks the wee-orc, admiringly considering the prince's flask,
"Your highness?" He bobs his nob in a second quick-bow.
Uberghash
shakes his head sagely. "Of course not. It is distilled liquor, my good
orc." He removes a short, greyish cord from a pouch at his hip, tying it
to the neck of the bottle and uncorking it.
"Is that like grog? Like swill? Your
highness?" inquisits the runt, flopping the bowl from his head and timidly
pacing towards the cook... "I bet its flamable..." Bozblot jokes.. or
seems to joke.. his eyes shift side-to-side, scanning for something. They dart
from a torch sconce, to the fire place, and back to the flask.
Uberghash's
tiny mouth twists into a sharklike grin, his fangs glittering white against the
crimson of his mouth. "Do you? How ... perceptive. Bring me a torch."
'CH' has barely dwindled away its sound, when
Bozblot perks the fat end of the torch over the cook's shoulder. "Is
smolders enough? Its almost gone out?" chirps bozblot, though the torch is
still blazing with a foot-long flame. "Do we need, /more/ flame,
'highness?"
Uberghash
extends the end of the cord into the flame, giggling wildly as it lights.
"Now, to test my newest holy weapon. Perfected." Raising the brittle
flask above his head, he takes aim ...
"Should we pray first? Do we need more
flame? Do we neeD MORE FLAME?" the welling ire in the wee-orcs eye's
mirror the malevolance in his voice, "Its like the digger ses, you can
never to chores too... you can always do a better... well I forgets how it
goes," Bozblot scampers to the fireplace, calling back to the cook,
"But what it means is, MORE FLAME"
Bozblot begins digging around in the great
blaze with his scimitar, unseating a few flame-soaked logs. The logs roll away
unnoticed from Bozblot's feet, till they settle at the base of some ornately
clad adjunctant of sorts.. at least he's ornately clad, for his robes are
long.. long enough to trap up the logs...
*WHOOOSHHH* .. screaming.. flailing about..
The jailer keeps his gaze locked on the cook's flask.
Uberghash
scowls. "No, no!" he cries. "Only the flask matters! Its very
burning shall be a prayer!" Cocking back his arm, he tosses the primitive
Molotov cocktail. At Zupgugh.
Zupgugh
reaches down on the floor to grab a grub that crawled off his plate. He then
looks up as a snaga bursts into flames right behind him and falls on the floor
laughing.
"I will say prayers to the flame just
the same!" screams Bozblot as the flask flies across the hall. The wee-orc
flops on his belly, pupils ever locked on the mad cook's missile, even when the
orc withi the flaming cape runs over him screaming something about his eyes,
and melting, and why his skin is crinkly.
The flask hits.. "PRAISE BE TO THE
FLAME!" squeels Bozblot, picking himself from the floor and dancing in
front of the snaga behind Zupgugh. "Stop your chicken-dance, you are
BLESSED!" screams the wee-orc.
The two flaming uruk combine, and though they
seem to strain to part, their blackening skin... sticks together?
"A DOUBLE BLESSING!!!" Bozblot
flops to the floor again in prostration.
Uberghash
draws his black robes about him with a giggle, patting his dread meat-fork with
a wicked smirk. "Thank you, Garjin and Yog. I knew you would not lie to
me."
"PRAISE
BE! PRAISE BE!" screams the wee-orc, as the two orcs being consumed by
fire /peel/ apart. Still on the ground, Bozblot squeaks up at the cook,
"Highness, you are indeed a prince amongst cooks. PRAISE BE!" A
charred arm wrends its meaty weight from its socket, and slops to the ground in
front of Bozblot... "PRAISE BE!"
Zupgugh
stops laughing and shambles off into a far corner of the Feasting Hall. He is
full and eager to leave the presence of the strange cook.
Zupgugh
has disconnected.
Uberghash
slinks closer. "The spirits of the Great Old Ones call to me," he
hisses.
Bozblot
rises from the ground, but not before trophying the charred arm down the front
of his pants. "What do they say?" the wee-orc whispers breathily.
Uberghash
shrugs. "They talk about the weather," he replies darkly.
"Storm's coming. The Blue Metafabriculation has arrived. Watch out for the
Beastah." He waves a claw about idly. "Wra'qura is lonely and wants
to drink soup; Narkhash whines about the unfairness of the green hammer."
Bozblot
contorts in facial-ticks at every syllable of 'Metafrabriculation', but his
bright wide irises burn beggingly... "Who's the beastah? Where does prince
of cooks reside? A great and powerfull throne of pots?" Bozblot stumps his
toe as he kicks away some crude dishes of the feast hall strewn about their
feet. "Not THESE Pots, but runed and loverly pots of LORE" squeeks
the runt.
Uberghash
folds his hands arrogantly, giggling. "I am Master of the Kitchens,"
he replies. "I have a secret den of darkness in which I practice ...
Necromancy. I converse and commune with the unquiet spirits. Truly, we must all
fear the Blue Metafabriculation and beware."
Bozblot
tucks in his elbows to his stomach, and purposes a forced shiver. All the
wee-orc's raiment shimmies as he jiggles. "I fear it," offers
Bozblot, though still hoofing at a pot with a stray leg, "Will fashioning
a mighty throne of cookthings stay this bloo-things anger? Majesty?"
One of the orc-torches flops to the stone
beside the jailer, motionless now and for ever, though still sizzleing. The
other ork-torch follows only seconds later.
Uberghash
shakes his head. "No, we must feast. I shall declare a feast in honor of
the King, the Holy Demon, and Moria. It shall also frighten away the Blue
Metafabriculation."
Bozblot
nods. He nods so hard that the loose flesh around his chops keeps nodding long
after the rest of his head stops. "A feast, is wise. Wise amongst orks,
Prince amongst cooks. How shall humble, humble" Bozblot begins lowering
himself to one knee at the second 'humble', "humble lil'boz be helping the
feast? Highness? Majesty."
A manic
grin, as Uberghash gestures toward the kitchen. "You must procure rats.
Take with you the cooking staff. We shall impale a thousand little rats on
sticks and cook their little bodies!"
"And maybe some we will not
cook" adds Bozblot, now bold and readied for the kitchen, "For some
like stringy ratsticks cold? Yes? Majesty?" Bozblot waddles away from the
cook, though inspecting every mess of matted snotrag and moulded meal that
pocks the span of tile till the kitchen door is reached... and there are
many...
Bozblot whispers above all the din of
feasting, quieted thought it has become since random diners were set ablaze,
"A thousand rats... and maybe a fish? or two? for lil'boz.. maybe?" A
discarded bird carcass moves... beneath its serving plackard, which is scored
with fractals of bacterial fuzz, a serregated tail whips idly on the floor.
*ShhHINK* 'DIEEEeee' ... (The jailer is
armed, and cast head-long towards the floor. Some chitter-chatter rodent
squeakings turn to squeeky-squalky rodent SCREAMS.
Uberghash
nods imperiously, hopping up onto a nearby table. "Indeed. But I stand
firm on one point: we must impale the little buggers." Coldly: "Stick
the stakes into their mouths and PUSH-hh-hh."
Following
the sickly stench of burning flesh, Z'macht eventually snakes his way towards
the feast hall. His nose crinkles, allowing two symmentrical strands of mucus
to wind their oozing way down down down towards the cheiftain's menacing mouth,
full of sharp teeth: bloodstained rows of them! He stands in the Hall's
entrance, his face set and hard, a pillar of granite.
"What is this tomfoolery?" the
strict uruk growls, eying the writhing bodies on the floor. Sulfurous yellow
flames jut from their wrecked bodies and blue plumes of noxious smoke unfurl in
the air above them. "The blasted elves no sooner deplete our ranks than we
start helping them ourselves! Skai!" This last expression of frustration
is followed by a long line of curses that would even make the most trailworn
scout blush.
Bozblot
hears the cook above the talashak, and offers him no answers. Instead he claps
up his rat and beams at the cook. 'Push-Push-Push, for the Dush-Dush-Dush!'
squeels the wee-orc, and he pets the rat, tenderly. He cuddles the rat. He
coddles the rat... He repeats his rhyme...
"PUSH" Bozblot's knuckles go white.
"PUSH" The cracking of tiny rib bones can be heard by almost all.
"PUSH" The rat coughs up its own tongue... "For the DUSH"
Guts now.. pink.. "DUSH" nope, make that green... "DUSH"
Rat PINJATA! And Bozblot has won! For he is showered in rodent entrails.
Uberghash
folds his berobed arms. "Welcome to my Feasting Hall, O Dreaded
Talashakh!" he calls. "Those burning orcs were in the way of the holy
flames of the cooks of the hall, regrettably. They should be lashed for their
incaution! Beaten to death!"
Z'macht
brushes Uberghash aside as he storms towards Bozblot. "Do so," he
calls over his shoulder. "And make it fast!" Upon reaching the small
orc, the Talashakh hovers over him with baleful and hatefilled eyes. He licks
his lips.
"It seems you carry your job every
where you go, little one," he says. Z'macht eyes the animal carcasses
scattered about. The enrails. The stench! Hundred of feathers are scattered
about the ruined feast hall - some singed. "Help Uberghash clean up this
mess. After that, I demand your company in the Morghash commons... There is the
small matter of Pigtusk... Now, he lies bound hand and foot in my
quarters."
Uberghash
frowns. He is, after all, prince of the cooks. Pouting, he claps his hands
together, and a number of feasting-hall snagas emerge from the kitchen,
cringing at the sight of Z'macht. Uberghash claps again, frowning, and they
file over to him. A strange, high-handed gesture, and the little orc snaps his
fingers ... several of the servers begin cleaning up, but the rest blink, or
frown, or mill about blankly, uncomprehending.
"Helping
the wise and wonderous prince of cooks is no chores to skulk over!"
merrily chirps the Jailer, and he kneels to finger up the intestinal tract of
the first of the thousand feast-rats. He happily pops the gutsack string into
his mouth, but something crunches... Bozblot spits out a bit of tile from the
feast-hall floor. The rest of the rat he scoops into his opened hand, till its
heaped to overflowing.
"Pigtusk! Inquiries! DOUBLE BLESSINGS of
the flame is THREE-TIMES blessings! Happy day!" the wee-orc cheers.
Bozblot stands, hands his steamy handfull to an unsuspecting cooksnaga, and
takes up rank beside Uberghash.
Fenzokh
enters the room, his muscular arms folded over his barrel chest. Sitting at the
bar, he orders Sog to bring him some ale.
Z'macht
nods his head gruffly and wades his way back towards the exit. "Indeed, I
expect you'll make a good time of putting PigTusk to the question, Bozblot.
Bring as many uruks as you can muster.. I want all ears to hear what the
prisoner has to say!" Finally, z'macht reaches the door and vanishes into
the gloom.
Uberghash
glances at Bozblot, eyes glowing mischievously. "Heehee."
Bozblot
returns the glance, though steals it away towards the fancily caped ambassador
at the bar. "Bless this one?" whispers the wee-orc, but then he
screeches, "BLESS HIM"
Fenzokh
leans back in his chair, drinking deeply from his mug. Leaning forward again,
he takes a look at Bozblot. He raises an eyebrow at Uberghash. "Your new
assistant, then, cook?" he asks. "I thought you'd never get one more
mad than that Bonk, but you've outdone yourself once again. Good show." He
looks at Bozblot again, and then back at Uberghash. "Strange one, this.
Seems to have a fascination about me wearing women's clothing."
Uberghash
ooooohs. "Such delicious attire!" he declares, hopping to his feet.
"Sog, provide this being free ale, on the house!!"
"FRILLY
SKIRTS" sings wee-orc, peddleing in place, scowering the cook-prince's
belt for a second flask. "FRILL-skirts frilly-skirts!" Bozblot picks
up his pace, but he still doesn't gain any ground.
The crowd rumours of another beat... a few orcs pound their
tables.
"Frilly skirts frilly skirts frilly"
Bozblot gasps dryly, his voice cracking the more progress he makes towards
nowheres... running... "Frilly skirts.. Bless him!"
Fenzokh
glares at Uberghash as if Bozblot is his reponsibility. "My thanks to you,
Uberghash, for the free drink, and I accept. However, if you don't quiet that
beast immediately, I may have to smash the mug over his cranium after enjoying
your generosity, and I'm sure Sog would start complaining about it."
Still running in place, with the many-sets of
fists hammering away, Bozblot spots an unremarkable orc heft a flask simmaller
in fashion to the cooks...the flask is tucked away.
Bozblot
speeds towards the flask-holder, and frisks him. The thefted uruk claws after
the wee-orc, but Bozblot speeds away...
The little jailer grips at the flask, and
with his other hand, rolls the hot butt of a firelog, never grasping it in once
place long enough to sear him.
"Bless him? Majesty?" Bozblots
arms, and the instruments therein, ache to be brought together, and his anxious
eyes pleed after the cook.
Uberghash
peers at Fenzokh, then at Bozblot. "Sog does not like it when cups are
broken," he agrees. "Good lil'boz, please cease thy antics and get
thyself a drink."
Fenzokh
nods to Uberghash. Sog brings him his ale, and Fenzokh holds his cup up to
Uberghash before taking a drink. "So, Uberghash." he says. "I
have not heard news of you in some time. How is it in the kitchens?"
Bozblot
gnaws at his underags as an invalid, both hands occupied. He wins with his
fangs a strip of cloth. Just as he begins lapping the strip of cloth into the
flask's mouth, the cook invites him...
Both his hands are freed, as the log and the
flask are cast behind him. As bozblot sands his palms together and approaches
the bar, a kitchen snaga kneel with an armload of plates. The kitchen snaga
adds to his load the flask, and the log orange-blotched with cinders still. He
adds them to the SAME load.
Behind the wee-orc, though he feigns not to
notice as he saunters up to Sog's counter, is more flailing, and screeming.
Other kitchen hands are quick to pounce on the cleaning slave though, and the
fire is put out.
"A tankard.. IF you please!" chirps
Bozblot at the bar.
Uberghash
folds his tiny, sharp-clawed hands, grinning dementedly. "All is
well." he replies, eyes glowing mysteriously. "The Blue
Metafabriculation, though, that is not good. We must all be wary."
"WARY" chimes in Bozblot, now with
ale-foam mustache. It takes the wee-orc several hops to summit the stool beside
the cook.
Fenzokh
looks slowly down at Bozblot. "Doesn't express thoughts very well then,
does he?" He looks back up. "The blue mataculation? What exactly is
that?
Uberghash
shakes his head. "Metafabriculation." he corrects. "A dreadful
Megapoesiarch from the depths."
Another orc, a miner seemingly, for he is
petina'ed in mine-grime and ore dust, flops down on the seat to Bozblot's
right. The new arrival sets a dish, and a crooked paring knife on the counter,
and greets the wee-orc with: "Hoo there. Do you like riddles?"
Bozblot turns from the cook, and to his
right, and answers: "No, No riddles."
"I got a good one though!"
Bozblot's neighbor persists, before leaning into his meal and setting the
crooked, rusty knife beside his plate.
"NO riddles."
"Its a really great one" insists
the other orc, but as he leans back from his plate to chew, he feels a prick at
the nape of his neck. He cocks his gaze to his left, and there sees Bozblot,
knife readied, and most unenthusiastic about his riddle.
"Well, okay then" sweats the
wee-orc's neighbor, both hands palms-up in capitulation. Bozblot lowers the
knife... The miner resumes his grazing.. "Really was a good rid-"
As a woodpecker browsing for termites,
Bozblot pecks the rusty knife into the miner's temple.. till it breaks.
"NO RIDdLES"
The miner picks up his plate and slouches
away, pouting, and a little bloodied. Bozblot looks back at the cook, and the
ambassador, and chirps "So.. about these wulvvvss.. I've got ideas!"
Bozblot sips his neglectedly full tankard.
Fenzokh
laughs. "Now you have ideas!" he calls. "There was no flaw in my
idea, but those others ran off like girls as soon as one was felled. We
couldn't have done it without losing at least one life, now that uruk has died
in vain."
Bozblot
swivells his head in the negative, and says between sips "Not ideas for
the taking of the wulvvs... but for once we gets ahold of some. IDEAS"
Bozblot taps the side of his head with his forefinger while taking another
draught.
Uberghash
grunts. "Cook them!" he pipes, before swiping an ale from a passing
server and gurgling some of it down. Then, brooding, he falls silent. Probably
communing with some sort of long-dead ghost.
"Now that is one idea" admits
the wee jailer, noisily sip-supping at his ale. He blows some bubbles in his
drink before continuing, "I had more in mind... well.. do you remember the
big stone-looking tark that snipped up the Gothshaka?" Bozblot then takes
an extra long, extra messy turn with his beakar. Probably communing with some
sort of soon-to-be-dead cluster of brain cells.
Fenzokh
folds his arms. "Not really, but for all immediate intents and purposes,
yes. Go on."
"Wells," *sip* *sip* *gurgle gurgle
gurgle* "The tark was ridin some kind of long-legged cow. RIDING him mind
you.. got me to thinkin.." Again the wee orcs oratory is punctuated with
some noisy nursing of his ale.
Uberghash
ponders, still frowning ...
Fenzokh
raises an eyebrow questioningly at Uberghash, pointing a thumb at Bozblot, but
says nothing.
Bozblot
visit with the cool suds residing in his cup is brief, and he finally
concludes, out loud "That we should discuss when we got our sticky-mits on
some wulvvs though, eh? Do you concur?" Bozblot purses his lip to the
tipped level of his ale and sputters some more bubbles... "I certainly
concurr" comes the jailer's chirp, muted from the insides of his beaker..
and then his throat gets busy hauling the liquid, golden ore down to the depths
of his wee stomach.. gulp by gulp.
Uberghash
hops to his feet. "Never mind. The Pink Monomatriculation is threatening
the Doors of the Grey Orifice. Sog will serve you ale in my absence, yes."
He saunters out ...
Fenzokh
nods absently, long since stopped paying attention to Bozblot. "Aye, I..
concur. I guess." He drains his cup.
Some Morghash lacky of their Morghash chief
storms into the hall, grabbing several small uruks by the backs of their
collars and spinning them around to get a better look.
Bozblot recognizes the messenger, and remembers
his earlier summons... but as he slides the side of his rear off of his stool..
most importantly, he remembers his ale. *Gugga-gugga-GLUNK* "We will
speaks more later Frilly-Pants!" shrieks the wee-orc, skedaddleing
somewhat bowlegged from the bar.
*END