"H. Turnip Smith - All Traffic Keep Right" - читать интересную книгу автора (Smith H Turnip)

Issue 41 - December 1998
It's been quite a year... Eleven issues were released in 1998,
more than in any other year (Ibn Qirtaiba is officially still
an irregular publication, despite its recent monthly
regularity). Last month the third SCIFI.CON coincided with the
third special issue of IQ released for the event. And most
dramatically of all, Ibn Qirtaiba's USA Internet provider went
out of business in August, leading to an unscheduled period of
downtime for the publication. Now we are back on-line,
hopefully to stay: any input from readers or potential sponsors
as to how the costs of the relocation should best be covered
would be welcomed.
Issue 41 opens with the second part of Fred Noweck's
entertaining account of his adventure gaming experiences - the
conclusion will appear next issue. Next is a letter from a NASA
consultant who has a request I'm sure many of you will be
interested in! New contributor H Turnip Smith follows up with
an excellent speculative short story All Traffic Keep Right,
and Keith Allen Daniels wraps up the issue with another of his
well-loved poems. Issue 41 is illustrated by Uptoantix, a
self-described digital tinkerer, whose Digital Igloo you can
visit by clicking on any of his 3D compositions in this issue.
Merry Christmas to you all, and I look forward to presenting
more Ibn Qirtaiba in 1999!

Contents
The Compleat Adventurer, part 2 by Fred Noweck
Letter
Short story: All Traffic Keep Right by H Turnip Smith
Poem: Porifera by Keith Allen Daniels
Adventurer,
The Compleat Adventurer , part 2 ┬й 1998
Fred Noweck
Now for my experience at MJ:
I arrived at 8:30 p.m. Friday evening after driving all day and
taking the wrong turn a couple of times (note: having a
navigator along is very helpful). That was when I discovered
that my character profile had not arrived. (The game-master,
Eric, said that they had tried to get in touch with me but had
been unable to.) So, with the help of one of the game proctors,
we rebuilt my character. Since nothing else was working right,
I became a half-elven thief. Fortisven Half-elven by name. It's
real easy to come up with an Elven name: just pick a long word
and add and/or subtract vowels until it's unrecognizable. As I
had no Elven ears (all Elven characters have to wear Spock
ears), I wore a head-band covering my ears. (Sort of like Spock
did in the Star Trek movie, The Voyage Home).
With the 110 points I was allowed, I chose: One-handed weapon,
poison craft (the ability to work with poisons), apply poison
(this lets me make a poison blade), waylay (useful for a