Nightcrawler

Shagreen the Sorcerer takes Kurt and Lockheed to his Fortress of L’un D’un T’wn where he secures his newfound pisoners. The Sorcerer plans to study Kurt and learn the secrets of boggie teleportation. Kurt attempts to teleport but discovers that this escape route is not open to him. Kurt meets three small boggies who assist him in escaping but they make him promise to rescue the Jinjay and destroy the Sorcerers arcane power device. The small boggies tell Kurt that Shagreen plans to sacrifice the Jinjay in order to gain more power in this world. They free Kurt but leave when Kurt frees Lockheed from his crystal ball-like cage. They burst into the room barely ahead of the stone terrors and interrupt the ritual that Shagreen is conducting. The Jinjay is chained to a stone altar in front of a large stone statue.. Kurt frees the Jinjay but Shagreen places Kurt in a constrictor field with another blast of arcane energy.

In a local dance hall, Captain McGurk learns of the kidnapping of the Jinjay and formulates a plan. He orders his crew back to the ship to carry out his plan. At the same time, Captain McGurk and his pirate crew are attempting to assault the Fortress of L’un D’un T’wn. Shagreen is so enraged by the pirate’s attack that he momentarily forgets Kurt is observing him. Lockheed further distracts the sorcerer by tugging on his tail. Two separate distractions are more than he can handle and Kurt finds himself released from the constrictor field. Kurt sees a steel ball hanging from a chain on the wall. He grabs it and in seconds began a deadly swing of the metal ball toward the crystal atop the sorcerers’ staff. The crystal breaks and a loud explosion occurs further damaging the architecture of the room. Captain McGurks sees the impressive explosion and decides to call of the attack before the Fortress completely collapses on the Jinjay he has come to steel. Nightcrawler and the Jinjay come too at the same time and observe Shagreen lying lifelessly in a pile of rubble on the other side of the room. Kurt ascertains that the Jinjay is unharmed and the pair attempts to find an escape route from the collapsing room. Kurt is suddenly knocked unconscious from a blow to the head from behind. Shagreen is once again in possession from the Jinjay. The Jinjay struggles for freedom but the sorcerer is physically too strong for her. Shagreen informs the Jinjay that he plans to finish the sacrificial ritual aboard his sky ship while he is dragging her to it.

Lockheed finds Kurt despite the blaze roaring around them. and leads Kurt to the boat dock where the sky ship used to be. Kurt sees the sky ship in the distance and bamfs; leaving Lockheed to catch up to the sky ship on his own. Kurt and Shagreen fight a duel to the death for the Jinjay. Eventually they both end up on top of the squid-like creature with Shagreen having the advantage as Kurt loses his footing and falls on his back. Shagreen is about to deliver the killing blow when Lockheed arrives and uses dragon fire from behind Shagreen. Shagreen jumps to avoid the heat and flames he can feel hitting him from behind as Kurt bamfs to a position behind Lockheed. Unfortunately, Shagreen also looses hi balances and falls to his flaming fortress far below the sky ship. The Jinjay gives Kurt a thank you kiss once he assures her that he is not a boggie.

Their ship is then hailed by the Royal Barge, which contains all the royal family aboard. Kurt is welcomed and Knighted by the King for his part in the rescue and for convincing McGurk to accept a reward instead of a ransom.

Meanwhile Kitty is hard at work trying to get Kurt back to his own dimension. While the Jinjay and Kurt (with Lockheed in tow) are walking by themselves in the garden, Kitty presses the magic button and retrieves Kurt’s costume only. Kitty and Illyana work frantically to send the costume back to its rightful owner and succeed. The Jinjay is sheepishly asking Kurt for a repeat performance when a dimensional warp opens behind him and Lockheed. They are whisked away leaving the Jinjay alone in the garden. However, three small boggies appear very intent on taking over where Kurt left off.

Kurt and Lockheed find themselves spit out of the dimensional warp onto a green patch of grass. As Kurt stands up to assess their surroundings a child boggie bamfs in front of him and calls him ‘Daddy’.

Apr 1985

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