To Catch.. A Bat

[DoF Archive]

Date: 10/28/1999 11:59 PM Central Daylight Time
From: RDI Jaded

Alarmed by an incident involving a certain talking bat, Janella prepared to do something about what she deemed an "unnatural" - and obviously insufferable - creature.

"It's probably some half-baked wizard's pet!" Janella finished her shift in the Outback, muttering oaths under her breath. She had discovered guano, bat droppings, on her favorite crimson hood shortly after Tarl had chased the bat from her head earlier that evening. Janella missed where the bat fled to, but the fighter assumed that it had taken nest up in the Outback's rafters. Furious over the soiling of her fine hood, Janella vowed to get even
with the culprit.

She found the grapes which Tarl had fed to the animal. Janella also found a box, along with a string, and stick. She arranged the items carefully, knowing the contraption was somewhat elementary, but, how smart were bats anyway?

The Outback's infamous caller smirked in reluctant acceptance of her handiwork. It would have to do, for now. And so it was that a make-shift trap was set, in the beams above the Outback's bar, awaiting the curious inspection by, perhaps, none other than the talking bat.

Or so Janella hoped.