Shachihoko wrote:

    Sorry to jump into your MST like this but it galvanized me into actually
writing something about this very good piece of fiction.

It twitched.

Peorth's eyes widened in surprise.  "May He, indeed.  John's
still alive."

L: <goes pale, staring in shock> Oh ... my ... gods ...
W: ... damn.
S: Not a pretty sight.
L: I think the First *really* needs to get a Dragon Slave shot up his butt
or something.
S: Think that'd affect him?
L: ... I dunno.

    [Druid steps in for a moment]
    Sorry to just jump in, but what do you think of this?

   Demons are really tough characters. You hack them up, and they regenerate.
You cast magic and often they aren't hurt, or worse, the absorb it. So here's
what I would (at times) like to do to the First of the Fallen,

    First you look for as many different viruses as you can. Then, taking as
long as necessary, you make a spell that copies their effects. Once that's done
you put it into the offending demon, and to make sure the demon doesn't rid
himself of it, you make sure it adapts. Now here's what will happen,

    Phase one, Demon feels the effects of the virus, say that of a common cold.
This is the point where the virus is adapting to the demon's body.
    Phase two, The virus goes dormant, this is to make the demon think it's rid
of the virus, so it won't try to hard to see if it's still there. This is also
the fact that the demon will be very disappointed to find out it still there
when phase three arrives.
    Phase three, The effects escalate. Instead of the common cold, it's now the
flu, and after a while it again goes dormant.
    Phase four on, As you might have guessed it comes back, but this time it's
even worse, and random. From now on the demon will forever be plagued by
illness. It might be anything, like say leprosy, or gangrene, or tetanus. Plus
it'll never know when it'll occur.

    How's that for a way to punish a demon? I could go on but I don't want to
get into more than just the beginning.

    [Druid wanders out of the theater]

-= end part 3 =-

S: <gets up, stretching> Excellent work, guys.
L: I wanna see them go kick the First's ugly butt!
W: *Is* there going to be a part 4?
S: We'll find out, I guess.

I hope so!

    Tim Miller
     trmiller@mail.bcpl.lib.md.us

Again, I hope you don't mind me jumping in like this.

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