From: Erik Sieurin (BV9521@utb.hb.se)
Date: Wed 22 Nov 1995 - 13:50:52 EET
Hmmm..... maybe Lord Death on a Horse DO drink coffee - he has
partaken too much of that primal darkness, so that he dare not go to
sleep. That's why they tap the peasants - they need the FP (remember
that if you use the "classic" Tap description, you can sack someone's
INT and POW for FP?) so that LDoaH can stay awake (all the Tappers,
who in my SERIOUS opinion are one type of "special command", trained
in other forms of sorcery as well, channel the FP into LDoaH so that
he doesn't have to go to sleep).
Thus the solution to the problem of KoW lies, of course, in the hands
of the pacifist Chalana Arroy, who must cast ONE HECK OF A BOOSTED
"SLEEP" SPELL on LDoaH.
Then, when he starts dreaming, the BAD things start to happen.
Now, as a Devotee of Primal Coffee, there are things that even I
fear. Well, there are the accursed abominations like cafe au lait
and so on, but they are merely disgusting, like watching a ghoul eat,
not horrifying, like watching ME eat.
But then there is Kask. Kask is an invention by the Wolf Pirates of
Ygg, who knew all about Coffee since long ago, since it was the secret which
Ygg, ancestor of Kings, used to defeat Valind his Father and gain
the Crown of Mastery. Ygg learnt about coffee from High King Elf, of
course.
But Kask is another matter. Kask is an equal mixture of coffee in its
primal form and the primal form of Fire Within Water, ie alcohol as
pure as possible. The latter is an old Godlearner secret connected
with the Firebergs, and was probably discovered by the HeroQuesting
Harrek the Berserk. When he joined up with the Wolf Pirates, he fused
the secret rituals of Firewater, WHICH MAKES YOU GO TO SLEEP if you
drink enough, with Primal Coffee, WHICH KEEPS YOU AWAKE INDEFINITELY,
if you drink enough. The paradox of what happens when you drink so
much Kask that you can neither sleep nor stay awake is to horrible to
contemplate, and may indeed explain the statements about Harrek being
the greatest Dreamer of the third age, etc etc.
And guess what the secret of staying awake all winter that the Rathori
held was? The secret stolen from the White Bear by Harrek? Obviously,
the name of TWB is really an euphemism, like when the Greeks had a
nice name for those horrible vengeful spirits (errynies? errinous?
SP??) . It should be the Black Bear, the Bear Blacker Than Night With Red
Glowing Eyes. The Coffee Bear, that is.
Now, stay away from Kask. But please partake of the Primal Coffee!
Erik Sieurin
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