Don't Look Down! (Or "I see you paid your gravity bill")
The Never Ending Quest - Episode 77428
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What Sir Fred hadn't noticed yet, however, was the fact that the portal exited not onto
a nice, solid castle rampart, but
rather empty space. Whatever passed as a floor must have been destroyed, leaving Sir Fred
hovering in mid-air directly above the
dragon. The dagron's spell was wearing off, and Sir Fred could feel tendrils of Gravity begin to
pull him down. If Sir Fred had grown up in another place, another time, he might have been able to recognize what was about to happen and taken steps to prevent it. Two steps directly backwards would, in fact, have put him into a battered but stable doorway in that forlorn wreckage of a tower before the portal's magic faded completely. Instead, he chose to look down. Instead of seeing a nice, solid stone floor, of course, he saw the one thing that could instantly break any lingering levitation effects of any known spell - his own feet, firmly planted on nothing at all, and the castle floor a hundred feet or more below. Gravity came quickly after that, pulling Sir Fred into a desperate embrace with Mother Earth. Though Sir Fred may not have been aware of the First Magikal Theorem of the Brothers Warner, he was quick-thinking enough to draw his sword and turn his fall into a final, desperate dive to try and impale the dread dragon below. Unfortunately...
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Symkyn
5/30/2008 10:56:08 AM
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