This is a story written by Wojtek Wilk from the Target listserver. Enjoy!

A risky life of a heretic

I have appeared on the subscribers' list recently. My "sickness" (as some friends say) of playing DT ccg started short after I came back from inspecting an abandoned temple of Algeroth on Venus about a year and a half ago. At that time I served the Imperial Blood Berets. Since that mission I began to avoid sun, became to behave angrily at everyone and even killed some beggars just for fun.(I wouldn' t do that before). I didn' t feel well for a month. I felt like a mob of ants charged my skin every five minutes. The worst thing happened when I decided to visit a Brotherhood member, my good friend Sabathius, who was studied for gaining the mystic skills and powers to serve Brotherhood. He stood aghast as he saw my face. It was pale gray and brown speckled with rotting spots and three brown yellow transparent blisters on the lips. He immediately made a telepathic connection with his mentor. At first time I couldn't realize what was he trying to do. I thought that he was doing some routine mental training. I decided to leave in order not to disturb him but as I went out of his cell - strong arms grabbed me and I couldn't even scream. There were three masked mortificators awaiting for me. The last thing I noticed was sweet gas sprayed on my face. After that there was only darkness.

I woke up with a fright. There were two Brotherhood exorcists over me wearing safe suits. I couldn' t move. Something held me tight strapped to a metal bed. I couldn' t see the faces but I knew that something painful was going to happen. One of the assasins made a few moves with his hands murmuring ununderstandable incantations. I stared to shudder and loose self-control on my mind...The second man covered me with his shadow. I realised that I was in danger. My soul seemed to scream: Fight him! Don' t let the Untrue Power of humans incapacitate you! You have to serve your Lord of War! My will was too weak to prevent the inquisitor from breaking in my mind. I felt something like Grizzly battle tank' s annonade hitting my forehead. Then he suppressed me like a hundred trunks or Mishimese banshees rolling over my without even touching me. I dreamed to die but it had not to happen! I don' t know why I didn' t lose my conscience. After a long time they stopped for a while... My mind was telling me hat something was burning inside me but there was no fire. My wishful thinking wasn' t completed. In the edge of my eye I noticed a new object. At first it stood covered with a mist. But after a while the shape turned outto be a new Brotherhood torturer. It was an INQUISITOR! He had his head covered with a mask too. He approached majestatically. I heard his not able to bear voice : Step back! The other two men moved obediently in silence. The inquisitor put out his Book of Law and started to interrogate me with an icy cold sepulchral voice. There was nothing to hide. I had to tell him everything about the temple, the banned volumes I looked through once, my personal point of view on the Brotherhood- I doubted in their righteousness since a group of Martian heretic terrorists captured Capitol embassy on Phobos, only eight hundred meters from the Brotherhood possesion. Another case was when two Bauhaus security guards disappeared and replaced by spies of Algeroth on the airfield on Mercury. What' s strange they managed to crash an airship by terrorizing the crew. A half of the passengers were Brotherhood adepts. As he heard it I got a strong blow of cold light on my eyes. Then he poured some liquid on my scorched limb. I felt like a parachute jumper who lost his equipment a hundred meters away from the ground. I had no strenght to scream longer. Some force was pushing me descent endlessly. My thoughts were mixing over and over again. I can' t recall when did it stop. When I was awoken?- I don' t know... the hatred speech continued... Finally the inquisitor put his right hand on me me, I guessed I spilled myself with cold sweat, It was wearing the Glove of Exorcist. My mind was plunged into nowhere. The power of this artifact was so strong that it brought me to reality for a moment. It inflicted on me a shuddering touch of sparks and tiny lightnings ramming the rest of my conscience. IN THE NAME OF EVERLIVING SPIRIT OF NATHANIEL I AM TOUCHING YOU WITH THE LIGHT OF RIGHTEUSNESS! The Warp of Darkness is over. Welcome back to life. I know that now I will have to spend a year in a secret Brotherhood hospital under their guard until I will fully recover. I wouldn' t attain an honour of survival but for my friend, Sabathius the mystic I met, whose relations with highly settled personalities made it possible to wheedle for me the right of condescesion from the Inquisition. Even unintended deeds of faithful soldiers may be harmful to humanity. The source of all defeats lays inside. Nobody can stop the evil which is eternal and sponges on competitive universe.


That' s all. It is my first draft that size but I hope there were be not so many mistakes so you got it. Please write me a comment. By the way, I am a student of the final class of highschool in Poland. I wonder if there are more Poles interested in games you created. If you found by a chance any of those, please tell them. Best regards,
Wojtek.

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