the Mechanic

The Never Ending Quest - Episode 28519

Finally Fred ceased laughing, a good thing too for he had already pissed his pantaloons and crapped his armor, by this time the only contents of his aching stomach was yellow bile and we'd all rather not see that come up or out!

Even as Fred heaved and sighed a wizerd appeared. "Hello, Bob," said the wizerd.

"My name is not Bob," said Fred. "My name is Fred."

The wizerd looked at Fred and said: "No, you may think your name is Fred, but in truth it is Bob."

"Tell that to my greatgrandmother!" said Fred as he started to rise from the sand.

"I already have," said the wizerd matter-of-factly. "She kicked me in the ars and I barely had time to escape her vile little cane." The wizerd wore black pants and a violet shirt. Upon the left shoulder of the shirt was the ensignia of the wizerd: a closed fist holding lightning; this wizerd belonged to the Chapter of the Brotherhood of the Fire-stone (a chapter well-known within Allaria although the closest member was far to the south in the Neoduchy of Lackluster).

Fred, now fully erect, wondered how this mechanic* got here. "How did you get here?" he asked.

The mechanic spat upon the ground. "Simple, hot air."

crap! thought Fred. hot air craft are more dangerous than riding the phosphorescent zebras of the Dense Underwood

"Listen," said the mechanic. "If you're thinking that riding in my h.a. is crazier than riding a luminescent zebra from the Dense Underwood, you can just rot on this here beach! Do you know how many people are looking for you? Huh?!? Do you know how many of the wizerd brotherhood as well as the wintch sisterhood are breaking their backs, roiling their fingers and riding the high heavens because the King got a friggin chain letter from the underlings of the Dark God Zgrlyski?!!?"

"You gotta be kidding me," said Fred.

"Do I look like I'm kidding you?" answered the mechanic as he tapped his black boot deeper into the sand. "I was sent by a friggin mage-worker of the damnable White Hand to get you. Those bastards scare the dickens outta me! Whatever they did, they zeroed in on you though... we're in the Bhokanair Archipelago and it's gonna take us a few weeks to get back home, and that's counting the stops I've got planned, let alone anything unexpected! So no dilly-dallying, let's git!"

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mechanic = a member of the wizerd brotherhood; broken into chapters these men are divided by tradeskill; the Chapter of the Brotherhood of the Fire- stone is known within Allaria for their skill in metal devices, tick- tocks, and aircraft - they are called both wizerd and mechanics

  1. Fred isn't sure...
  2. Fred follows the man who claims to be a mechanic from Allaria...
  3. Fred asks the mechanic his name...
  4. a wierd storm suddenly begins to blow in...

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