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Richard Pearman @graptopetalum.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

#WIPSnips October 1 injury Eleprin and Printorac have been called on to help young aristocrat, Quigly, who's been mysteriously hurt. From "Tales of Midbar: Ghost Mage" - if you like this, click the link: www.inkitt.com/stories/635659

$Background: A town of pyramids with big flames between them. "We'd like to know how he was injured," said Luafren. "We were attacked but had date rape spells put on us. Only Quigly was physically hurt and there was no sexual interference." "It looks to me as if somebody, or something, grabbed your left arm, dislocated your shoulder, broke the ulna and radius, and dropped you off a building," I pondered. "No that doesn't really fit." "We were on the ground at the time," said Quigly. "We think it must have been the quippas Narsommug hired recently but he won't do anything if we can't prove it. Come on, we were at our machine repair shop right near Western Minerals Research! That's where Narsommug's quippas work." "No, stabbing or sexual interference," I said. "Strange fighting style. What? Grab very hard, pull, throw? Why grab your left arm unless you had it raised?" I danced round the room trying to act out what I thought the attacker had done to Quigly. Who could crush a strong man's arm bones? They must have thrown him with some force to cause the fractures in his foot and hand and his neck had taken an impact too with the result that two vertebre were fractured, this was his most serious injury. Then it struck me that the attacker had to be tall, very fast and very strong, probably with martial arts training, and I only knew of one person who fitted that description. "Nothing about your injuries that looks terribly Nuhara," I said. "Not all quippas are Nuharas," snapped Annu. "If these quippas aren't Nuharas, why do you suspect them of violence?" I asked.$

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