Subject: Buchek Swims to Consciousness

The darkness that surrounds Buchek swirls, slowly brightening to reveal his cell. Shaking his head to clear it, Buchek releases the bars of the door, dimly noticing Kayla picking the lock and Erk blocking her from his gaolers' view.

"Damned litch," Buchek thinks, "hitting us with that time stop spell", before stopping to wonder how he knows of litches at all, let alone their sorcerous powers.

It dawns on him that perhaps this is the work of Dee-em, the supreme deity that stands over the world like a puppet master, giving his subjects the illusion of free will as they dance at the ends of his strings. But why? Why would it serve Dee-em's purposes to allow those strings to go slack? Why would... **darkness returns.**

Subject: Re: Buchek Swims to Consciousness

*thwap*

Buchek gets a nasty case of tetanus from an iron shaving on the jail cell bars and dies a painful death.

;)

I apologize for going MIA again. Life hasn't been kind lately.

BUT, light. end. tunnel. I plan on kicking off regularly again starting on Monday (hopefully) and continuing indefinitely. Sans one mouthy barbarian, natch.