Subj:	 [ffml] [MW] Bait and switch
Date:	00-01-09 22:15:32 EST
From:	RaumKatze2@aol.com
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From: RaumKatze2@aol.com

     Mogomra decided the best way to find out about this foreign world was to 
use scanning majick, which would allow his point of view to become separated 
from his body and move around the world at will.  He closed his physical eyes 
and cast the spell.  At lightning speed, he traveled through the night, 
observing many things.  
     He saw that his henchmen were here.  He could call on them later if he 
needed their assistance.  He saw another powerful mage riding in a giant 
hovercraft with a female mage.  Together, their combined power was equal to, 
if not exceding his own.  He also saw that the insipid Yaoi Beard Man and his 
equally distasteful crew.  Then he found it, the Necronomicon.  It was 
located underground, beneath a nearby town, which was called Kalm.  Soon, 
nothing else would matter.  Mogomra imagined the power he would soon possess. 
 Just the thought of it made him laugh evilly with anticipation.
     He made the short trek towards the quiet hamlet.  At first people who 
noticed him regarded him with only mild apprehension.  He situated himself 
near the center of town, in the spot where the Necronomicon lay directly 
underneath.  Mogomra charged up a beam of energy.  At this point, some 
townspeople started to become alarmed.  When he started blasting the ground 
with this destructive force, some people ran into their residences, and 
others escaped from the town.
     Mogomra cleared away the cobblestone's which made up the towns street, 
and the soil beneeth it, he reveal a thin layer of metal webing.  After 
blasting through this, he strolled down the staircase beneath, and made short 
work of the ancient automaton which had been designed to protect the area 
from intruders.
     And there it was.  It was being used as a seal... to seal what?  It 
didn't matter.  Soon, he would be omnipotent.  He retrieved the book, opened 
it and read the dreaded passage, "Klatu, Beratta, Nicto..."
     But nothing happened.  There were two possibilities why.  One was that 
he did not hold enough mana energy to cast Ultimate Majick, but that couldn't 
have been it.  The only other possibility was that someone else in this world 
has already used Ultimate Majick.  But if that was so, wouldn't he have 
noticed that the universe was under some tyrant's rule?  Perhaps the Ultimate 
Majick user was a benevolent person, who used their power to maintain order.  
But if that was so, why didn't they stop him from disrupting life in Kalm?  
Or maybe the person who did it did not do it of their own accord, and did not 
know the true nature of their newfound powers yet.  He decided that this was 
the most likely explaination.  Mogomra's next order of business was to find 
this person and manipulate them for his own purposes.  He used the scanning 
spell again, and found his man, a half-man, actually.  This creature was part 
human and part winged furball, with a bit of Aerial Calamity mixed in.  Now 
that he knew who and where, the only variable that remained was how.