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[sid] => 65107
[catid] => 1
[aid] => mick
[title] => Quest of the White Staff Part I
[time] => 2004-09-25 12:27:47
[hometext] => More of a story, written in poem form...Dane, you inspried me on this one, and the ones to follow...comments appreciated
[bodytext] => My name is Carthen Captain, am I I command the Kings fleet Yet this Quest is personal Stille, Dark Lord of a distant land Has slain my wife and offspring An old prophet has told me Of a White Staff To revive the dead Stille has that staff This is my Quest My task Vanquish Stille *** We sailed for months With hardly any strife Tonight, though, there was tension There had been great winged beings Flying overhead A distant BOOM caught my ear GET DOWN I roared Just as soon as my voice Reached my crew A cannonball ripped through The main-mast I ran to the wheel And pulled a hard right My men were in complete pandamonium below They ran to the guns...but There was no ship to be seen Another BOOM This time blasting through the deck I counted at least 7 dead A shadow suddenly engulfed the ship Shouts and cries tore at my ears The enemy was above us Stille had sent it There was no doubt in my mind We propped up the guns And fired at the ship Our shots hit target Blasting holes in the bottom of the enemy I noticed three propellors on the sides And told my crew to take them out The shots were fired and two hit home The ship above us dropped suddenly But the one remaining propellor Pushed the ship aside It crashed into the sea to the port side A great wave washed over us But we rejoiced For the first battle was won [comments] => 1 [counter] => 151 [topic] => 31 [informant] => eyesxcriedxout1989 [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 5 [ratings] => 1 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => StoryPoetry )
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