Author's note: I originally wrote the posts in this thread around the later half of the year 2000.
I've decided to re-post them here because, hey, why not"
Please excuse the weird formatting.
The marketplace was buzzing with the usual sorts. Dishonest vendors trying to get women to buy creams and oils which would make their skin perfect (forgetting this was RhyDin and that was already the case, that vendor was not very successful), men shouting as they attempted to hawk fake jewelry as authentic, and fortune tellers making things up off the top of their heads and having people believe it as a true prophecy.
It was here in the middle that Verceterix Favre was, looking in awe at a magic act. The magician was quite good as he did the usual tricks from levitation to using his magical powers to destroy an infidel. He was currently endowing an insect with magical powers, for reasons beyond all human comprehension. At least, that's what he told the group watching him. More likely it was just to show off he could make pretty lights that had the crowd oohing and aahing.
And when he was finished, he opened his palm to show the little insect hadn't changed one damn bit. The crowd quickly turned on him, the pretty lights all but forgotten, and they soon dispersed. Rix was among them, and he went about his merry way, giving the magician a pat on the shoulder as he passed. As the magician threw his arms up in disgust, the little insect, a spider actually, was flung on to Rix's shoulder.
The arachnid made its way to Rix's neck, and seemed prepared to bite his host. After all, it was just lit up like the Red Dragon Inn is when all the women's creamy white thighs are exposed, and the spider needed to take its frustration out on something. And just as its little mouth opened and neared the flesh at Rix's neck . . .
Whack!
Apparently Rix had bumped into a passerby, and when he uttered his usual "Excuse me, sir" the amazon warrior did not take kindly to it. So she smacked him across the neck.
"Geez, she was more built than I am," Rix muttered to himself as he rubbed his stinging neck, "and her breasts were smaller than usual for the women around here. How was I supposed to know she wasn't a guy?"
So Rix continued through the marketplace on his search for a gift for Ally, and the Amazing Spider-Rix was never to be born.
The marketplace was buzzing with the usual sorts. Dishonest vendors trying to get women to buy creams and oils which would make their skin perfect (forgetting this was RhyDin and that was already the case, that vendor was not very successful), men shouting as they attempted to hawk fake jewelry as authentic, and fortune tellers making things up off the top of their heads and having people believe it as a true prophecy.
It was here in the middle that Verceterix Favre was, looking in awe at a magic act. The magician was quite good as he did the usual tricks from levitation to using his magical powers to destroy an infidel. He was currently endowing an insect with magical powers, for reasons beyond all human comprehension. At least, that's what he told the group watching him. More likely it was just to show off he could make pretty lights that had the crowd oohing and aahing.
And when he was finished, he opened his palm to show the little insect hadn't changed one damn bit. The crowd quickly turned on him, the pretty lights all but forgotten, and they soon dispersed. Rix was among them, and he went about his merry way, giving the magician a pat on the shoulder as he passed. As the magician threw his arms up in disgust, the little insect, a spider actually, was flung on to Rix's shoulder.
The arachnid made its way to Rix's neck, and seemed prepared to bite his host. After all, it was just lit up like the Red Dragon Inn is when all the women's creamy white thighs are exposed, and the spider needed to take its frustration out on something. And just as its little mouth opened and neared the flesh at Rix's neck . . .
Whack!
Apparently Rix had bumped into a passerby, and when he uttered his usual "Excuse me, sir" the amazon warrior did not take kindly to it. So she smacked him across the neck.
"Geez, she was more built than I am," Rix muttered to himself as he rubbed his stinging neck, "and her breasts were smaller than usual for the women around here. How was I supposed to know she wasn't a guy?"
So Rix continued through the marketplace on his search for a gift for Ally, and the Amazing Spider-Rix was never to be born.