Booga -- The Dorian Cycle

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Date Posted: 13:27:53 05/30/02 Thu
Author: ?
Subject: Booga

30-40 yards to the west of the main party, the ground begins bubbling and boiling. A burst of superheated steam sprays upward, and a human hand suddenly bursts out of the roiling, molten earth. Glowing bright orange, the hand gropes about the ground desperately for a few seconds, finally acquiring a firm grip. A second hand then pushes upward and does the same.

A few sparks of fire explode upward as a humanoid figure yanks itself, agonizingly slowly, from the boiling earth. A desperate snarl of pain can be heard as the head, completely devoid of hair, emerges. Howling curses in an unknown tongue, the figure yanks itself free of the earth and lies still, gasping for breath. The ground around it is charred by the intense heat still radiating from the creature's body.

After a few moment, he (definitely a he) slowly sits up, yanking a severed, rocklike talon from about his ankle. He glares at it for a moment, and then tosses it back into the rapidly-sealing hole from whence he came.

His skin slowly cools, fading from the molten orange to a heavily tanned caucasian. Long, dirty blonde hair, ragged and unkept sprouts from his skull and grows down to between his shoulder blades, concealing semi-pointed ears. A thin, shaggy beard also appears about his chin and cheeks.

Still breathing raggedly, he touches the area above his left eye (which is swollen shut, an old battle wound of some sort), tracing one finger around the scar there. His other eye glows an eerie, pupil-less neon green. He stretches, leaning against a tree (which quickly begins smoldering where contact is made with his flesh) and yawning. He stands barely 6 feet tall, thin, but all wirey muscle. Heavier than an elven build, though.

He sneers down at the burnt patch of earth where the hole once was, and spits a glob of phlegm down upon it.
"Nadorhuan... Lle naa haran e� nausalle! Tenna� ento lye omenta."

He scuffs the ground with his foot, drawing a crude, B-shaped rune. He then, as if for the first time, notices his present surrounds. And spies movement (the group) some distance away...

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