was that an emoticon summing up the situation? On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 12:14 AM, Roger Nolan <rog@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > ๐ฉ > > > 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. > > > > > >