AD-I: Demon's Hand

alt.dragons-inn is a newsgroup devoted to collaborative storytelling. People from around the world get together electronically and create characters and stories that can sometimes rival even published material! Mostly it's a lot of fun.
You can see the Dragon's Inn main webpage at dragons-inn.org.
Demon's Hand is a "thread" that started around January 1998, and has so far spanned 14 chapters. Here are the people who participate in the thread, along with their characters:
bill (that's me!) Qki email
Greg Brashier Ifreet email
Hmmrfst Hammer email
Kobara Talabrina and Muffy email
Neutronium Dragon Granite email
Tina Miller Sala and Pine email
Wolfshead Talonn and Kaa email
These two were in the thread in the beginning but had to drop out:
Midnite Raye email
Ptolemy Airel and Dragon email

...and now, the story!

Chapter 1: In the Beginning


Chapter 2: The Next Morning


Chapter 3: In Search of...the Mill


Chapter 4: Meeting the Wizard


Chapter 5: Fighting Goblins


Chapter 6: Aftermath


Chapter 7: Exploring the Castle


Chapter 8: Conversation and Combat


Chapter 9: Tabling the Discussion


Chapter 10: Sala, Meet the Demon. Demon, Meet Sala


Chapter 11: Public Drunkenness


Chapter 12: Weapons of Demonkind


Chapter 13: In Out of the Rain


Chapter 14: Duplicity?


Chapter 15: A Demon Approaches


Chapter 16: Catastrophe


Chapter 17: A New Day


Chapter 18: Conflict in the Mesa


Chapter 19: Resolution



If you want to save these chapters as text instead of HTML, here's a handy table of files for you. Enjoy!
1 2 3 4 5
6 7 8 9 10
11 12 13 14 15
16 17 18 19

How was it done?

I've written a little parsing program to take the "standard" ad-i format and convert it into something legible in HTML. If you're interested, the C source code for adi2html is here.

Bill Maciejewski [email protected]