[satanworship] Re: 28 milliseconds later
- From: Roger Nolan <rog@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "satanworship@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <satanworship@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2014 08:14:28 +0100
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> On 27 Sep 2014, at 04:20, Eddie Marsden-Jones <eddiemarsdenjones@xxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
> 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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