[satanworship] Re: 28 milliseconds later
- From: Eddie Marsden-Jones <eddiemarsdenjones@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "satanworship@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <satanworship@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2014 07:20:21 +0400
So is it too tight for scythes now? Are we talking fisticuffs?
> On 26 Sep 2014, at 23:48, Jason Proctor <jason@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
>
>
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