oh come on - ho-one is that fast! ae the all dead Usain Bolt skellies?!!! >________________________________ > From: Jason Proctor <jason@xxxxxxxxxxx> >To: "satanworship@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <satanworship@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >Sent: Friday, September 26, 2014 12:48 PM >Subject: [satanworship] 28 milliseconds later > > > >Arfa and Chump take up their positions on the edge of the pit, and arrange >their stances as their scythe teachers once told them, long ago. after a nod >to each other, they raise their weapons. > > >almost as one, the scythes sweep viciously downward and cleanly sever the >spinal cords of the two closest skeletons. the teachers advised them to keep >their eye on the target, rather than watch the follow-through, and this turns >out to be most satisfying, as the heads simultaneously jump vertically to >almost exactly Arfa and Chump eye-height. > > >the thrill of the triumph is brief, however, as at the very moment of contact >between the scythes and their targets, the skeleton horde springs to life with >mechanical rapidity. by the time the severed heads and the heroes begin the >downward path from the zeniths of their trajectory and their triumph >respectively, said heroes are mobbed by the first row of cadavers. > > >Arfa and Chump are bowled over by a sea of grabbing, biting, tearing dead >humanity. they try to drag themselves away, but only a second after the first >wave, the second line of skeletons hits, flailing with rusty weapons plucked >from the pit floor. > > >the third and subsequent waves flow around the melee and head for Splut, who >heroically makes his Bottle Out roll and flees back up the passage. > > > > > > > >