Perry Rhodan 106 - The Idol From Passa

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THE IDOL FROM PASSA
Kurt Mahr
SNAKE ATTACK!
THE GREATEST Kidnap Caper of All Time!
10,000 Terrans kidnapped!
Is Akon behind it?
This is a challenge for Division 3 and once
again (see #102) the agents of the Secret
Organisation are called into action, action
calling for the greatest diplomacy, a mantle of
invisibility and a devil-may-care approach to
danger.
For, make no mistake about it, danger
abides on every side on the planet Passa,
scene of mysterious happenings.
A strange plan is required when the intrepid
Terrans meet–
THE IDOL FROM PASSA
THESE INTREPID EARTHMEN GO TO A LOT OF
SACRIFICE!
Col. Nike Quinto—Chief of Intercosmic Social Welfare and
Development, created by PERRY RHODAN
Maj. Ron Landry—Division 3 Special Agent who doesn’t like
‘spooking’ around
Capt. Larry Randall—Landry’s sidekick who learns about a
skin game
Lofty Patterson—Passa’s old ‘Trader Horn’ who knows when
the natives are restless
Froyd Coleman—A Civil Service type who has to be of
unusual service
Maj. Bushnell—Chief of Terra Fleet base on Passa
Ayaa-Oooy—the Glorious, Magnificent, Wonderful One…
Passan God of Splendour
…and the spaceship Laramie
CAN THE MONSTER-GOD BE PASSA-FIED?
PERRY RHODAN: Peacelord of the Universe
Series and characters created and directed by Karl-Herbert
Scheer and Walter Ernsting.
ACE BOOKS EDITION
Managing Editor: FORREST J ACKERMAN
WENDAYNE ACKERMAN
Translator-in-Chief
and Series Cöordinator
CHARLES VOLPE
Art Director
PAT LOBRUTTO
Editor
Sig Wahrman
Stuart J. Byrne
Associate Translators
THE IDOL FROM PASSA
by Kurt Mahr
A Division of Charter Communications Inc.
1120 Avenue of the Americas
New York, N.Y. 10036
THE IDOL FROM PASSA
Copyright © 1976 Ace Books
An Ace Book by arrangement with
Arthur Moewig Verlag
All Rights Reserved.
Original German Title:
“Der Götze von Passa”
First Ace Printing: July 1976
Printed in U.S.A
ORDER OF THE ACTION
1/ THE SKIN GAME ISN’T A JOKE
page *
2/ THE GLASS FOREST DISASTERS
page *
3/ THE SERPENT’S TALE
page *
4/ GLASS DRUMS, DARK IDOLS
page *
5/ TRAIL OF THE UNKNOWN
page *
6/ IN THE CAVERNS OF SSST
page *
7/ THE CHAMBER OF DEATH
page *
8/ THE MONSTER DEITY
page *
9/ THE STOLEN THUNDERBOLT
page *
10/ TRI-LIGHT OF THE GODS
page *
PROLOG
WITH THE END of the 21st and the beginning of the 22nd century a new
epoch has dawned for humankind.
With the support of humans the Arkonide Atlan has succeeded in solidifying his
position as Imperator. The alliance between Arkon and the Solar Imperium has
borne fruit—especially for the Terrans who have already taken over important
positions on Arkon itself. Atlan must countenance this since he cannot depend
upon most of his own kind.
The Solar Imperium has become one of the most important commercial powers
on the rim of the Milky Way.
For 22 years now there has been a virtual stream of emigrants going out to
suitable colonial worlds. Also on many of the planets inhabited by other
intelligences there are Terran legations and trading settlements.
In spite of this, however, the situation is no bed of roses because meanwhile
Terrans have learned from bitter experience that there is a power in the galaxy
that is sympathetic neither to Arkon nor to Terra: the Akons of the Blue System
who have already made two surprise attacks.
But still other powers in the galaxy see a rival in the rapidly rising Terran
civilization—which is evidenced by the mysterious happenings on Passa. And
once more the secret agents of Division 3 are called to action!
1/ THE SKIN GAME ISN’T A JOKE
Ayaa-Oooy, thou art the Glorious One, praised be Thy Name! We bow to the
will of Ayaa-Oooy the Magnificent…
* * * *
For Andy Lever the greatest adventure of his life had become a reality. He had
finally left the Earth and now he was on a far distant planet. He was actually
living on a world that was unutterably alien.
As he looked about him in the jungle clearing he realized that the strange hour
of twilight had come. The land lay in multicoloured shadows and was silent
except for the small mysterious sounds he was fond of listening to because they
helped to accentuate his awareness of adventure. This time of evening was the
period between red sunset and blue dawn—a 1-hour span during which the red
sun went down in the West and the blue sun came up in the East. The heavens
seemed to shimmer in overtones of reddish brown and violet hues, reflecting
weirdly in the glass forest around him as in some psychedelic kaleidoscope.
He was vague distracted by the unexplained presence of a single tree in the
clearing where not a tree had been standing several hours ago. But now there it
was, more than 15 feet tall and with a trunk that appeared to taper to narrower
proportions as it neared the ground.
Then it passed from his mind for the moment and he thought of other things. In
the alien twilight the small house appeared to have changed into a tremendous
dark shape that pressed itself against the warm earth and seemed ready to spring
upon its prey. Andy often marvelled at the strange impressions he received from
this dwelling, which was his house and should have filled him with a sense of
peace and security. At this peculiar time of evening it filled him with a
presentiment that was less definable. But then he would tell himself, as he did
now, that after all the house could only reflect his own temperament, which was
characterized by a restless zeal for action. No, the house was alright—it was he
himself who responded to the changing moods of his weird environment.
A small bright spark of light flashed against the brown-violet sky. Andy
watched it go as it sped heavenward and increased in brilliance. It finally
dwindled away until it blinked out like an extinguished star. Then belatedly the far
thunder of a starting spaceship rolled across the land. Andy took a deep breath,
sensing the heavy scent of the jungle, while he thought of the city of Modessa
where the great spaceport was located. He was satisfied with the place where he
was, 1,500 km removed from Modessa. Others called him a fool but he preferred
to be a fool rather than live in one of the great cities where one did not get the
feeling of being on an alien world.
All of which brought his thoughts back to the happenings of the day—or rather,
to what had failed to happen. The Evergreens, as the natives were called, had not
appeared; they had not delivered their usual quota of skins. Only 8 of them had
come to the shedding centre where ordinarily 10 times that number showed up
each day. Not that it made any difference to Andy. The Passa Skin Co. paid him a
fixed salary for his half-day work. He was paid whether the Evergreens supplied
any skins or not. So he wasn’t bothered about it personally—he merely wondered
about it.
Finally his attention turned again to the tree which hadn’t been there two hours
ago. He walked over closer to it but in the gathering darkness he couldn’t see it
too clearly. He refrained from touching it, however, because he knew what had
happened to inexperienced people who had grabbed hold of things without
knowing for sure that they were not dangerous. Actually he didn’t doubt that on
Passa it was possible for a thick, branchless tree to grow to a height of 15 feet
within a time-span of 2 hours. Stranger things than that had happened here. But he
still wanted to know what this was all about.
He turned around to get a lamp from the house. And that was the moment when
the tree began to move. It simply bent over toward him. Andy heard a sound
above him and whirled about swiftly but it was of no use. The thing he had
assumed to be a tree swatted him, knocking him down, and then it pressed him
against the ground.
For half a second Andy was paralysed with fear. Then he began to struggle
wildly against the weight of the thing but the smooth surface of the ‘tree’ offered
him no place to get a grip on it. He slipped down under it and the tree redoubled
its pressure on him as though his resistance had goaded it into further aggression.
Andy couldn’t breathe anymore. A fiery barrage of small, painful prodding
drummed against his ribs and there was a wild roaring in his ears. He suddenly
realized that he’d never be able to free himself from this murderous pressure. And
all at once he knew what it was that was lying on top of him and that nothing
could withstand such a massive force.
He began to cry out but there was no one there to hear him. As he began to lose
consciousness, oblivion seemed to rush upon him in blinding streaks of lightning
and crackling fireworks.
* * * *
Nike Quinto stared suddenly as though he had been struck dumb. He stood
there as if he were having a stroke and probably he would have been the first to
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