Monday, June 20, 2011

338 - Decide on a NON-INTERVENTIONIST COURSE OF ACTION


Well, you've been stabbed in the ARM. You shout for the PIRATES to get the NINJA and the two BEARDED CREWMEN fire their HANDCANNONS, miss (because he's a NINJA), and chase the ASSASSIN off down the STREET. Your "friend," the COFFEE-STAINED CREWMAN, loiters nearby, GUN drawn.

You pull the KUNAI out of your arm and check your previously unknown HIT POINT TOTAL. Yeah, losing one HIT POINT didn't put much of a dent in the total. Maybe a little dent in your ARM, but that should heal up.

The FUSE-BEARDED GIANT PIRATE seems torn between watching the continuing BATTLE across the RIVER and hunting down the FLEEING NINJA*. He glances down to your ARM.

IM (IMPRESSIVE MAN): If ye let that go, ye might find yerself with a pretty little scar, lass. A couple o' good scars let people know yer nothin' to be trifled with.

He pauses, staring across the RIVER.
 
IM (IMPRESSIVE MAN): Ya have me thanks for taking that knife 'stead of my back, but that was a da'fool thin' ta do and I'd ask ya not ta repeat it.




*Were he to chase down the ninja, the large pirate would most likely plan to palm the ninja's head with one of his massive hands and squeeze it like a melon until it burst, all the while stabbing his razor sharp (but strictly utilitarian) sword deep into the purple scum's belly, then reveling in the destruction of another foe (one more enemy slain in a long list of those who dared oppose him). He'd most likely let that be a lesson. He's a harsh teach'r.

3 comments:

RoverDaddy said...

TURN to face the IMPRESSIVE MAN and discuss the ongoing battle, and then suddenly realize you are the FIRST PERSON in this UNIVERSE to ever face NORTH. Oh heavens! How different the world looks from this NEW PERSPECTIVE. It as if you were blind your whole life and only now can SEE for the first time. What are the METAPHYSICAL implications of this discovery?? Should you TELL someone??? Will they think you are crazy?????

Snap out of it JET, everybody knows you can't face NORTH. It's a physical impossibility.

Tom said...

develop CRUSH on IMPRESSIVE MAN

daydream about LIFE AS PIRATE KING AND QUEEN

or!

peer ACROSS RIVER for M Bison to see what SORT OF TROUBLE he is getting himself into

CageyJay said...

Agree that REPEATING IT is not something you would now do (or maybe, but only for RHYS). Bind up wound with Wicked Awesome Handkerchief?

Check COFFEE-STAINED CREWMAN for burns and offer AID if necessary.

Keep KUNAI.