Exploring further, in this universe, small animals are used to perform electrical activities and some mechanical functions. Lamps and bulbs are glowing hamsters, complex mechanical functions (like dirigible engines) are done with animals. Radio valves are voles and mice. We turned out to be in an alternate Earth, during World War two, in a Nazi zeppelin. There were soldiers on board, human, who spoke German. Curing magic did not work here, and I no longer had the link to Illana. Wizz [NPC] did not have his link to Vull but Ah Hung [Steven] did have his link to Grism (though, Grism has no heal spells).
Ah Hung volunteered to have the Speak-German suppository inserted; it was the diameter of an egg and long as his gnome foot. After some painful and eye-watering minutes, he had it in.
"Oh mein Gott. Das ist völliger Agonie," he whimpered, half-sobbing, as he hobbled around.
Out in the corridor, we encountered two guards. Despite being armed with rifles and lugers, we managed to drop them. Peg Groups [Ian] got shot in the arm.
Then we progressed through the ship, encountering and dispatching soldiers, and amassing a collection of three MP40 machine guns, two rifles and two lugers. It turned out, much to our advantage, that one of the high commanders of the airship was an evil double of Yeti [Darryl]. Several of the guards acknowledged Yeti as their leader, until they realized their mistake, but it was too late then. There was probably a whole platoon of soldiers on the airship, so we didn't want to encounter them all at once.
In the stern cabin, peering through the port-hole, we espied one waiter, two guards, two lieutenants and the actual Yeti look-alike. He was physically identical to our Yeti, dressed in the regalia of a Reichsmarschall, had a wicked scar above his left eye, and radiated evil like some demon from Hell.
Guessing that he would have a high-tech high-magic plate embedded in him, like Bad Santa, and that this was the key to go home, we launched a two pronged attack into the cabin.
The instant we started firing, the evil Yeti started to morph into something huge black and dark. Wizz, John Wayne [Shane], and our Yeti, froze in terror for a few moments, and the evil Yeti sent out tendrils of darkness into me. The tendrils possessed me, but thankfully Wizz managed to chop them off.
The soldiers soon died, followed by the lieutenants. We suffered some heavy damage ourselves: I went down with a horrendous chest wound, Peg Groups had his arm smashed to pulp, and Light Touch [Jeff] had his arm blown off and vaporized into a red mist. But six well-placed Healing suppositories cured us enough to defeat the Reichsmarschall. He was destroyed in a hail of MP40 bullets, double-handed sword strikes and Ah Hung's tenacious mace. Mention in dispatches to Peg Groups for firing a MP40 one-armed, to Ah Hung for some pin-point long-bow shooting, and to our Yeti for a lucky blast with the MP40.
We had two Regeneration suppositories in our collection. When one of these was inserted into the hapless helpless armless harmless Light Touch, the stump of his destroyed arm started to slowly regrow.
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