h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

*Fate does not notice Khamsin, as the geyser is still between them*

*creeps round the geyser*

*creeps up the back of the mountain*

*starts searching his bag for something which might be useful. Notices a large damp patch on the side of his trousers and is glad that assasins wear black, cus even joan of arc has difficulty getting blood stains out*

A-ha, this might be helpful,

*removes from his bag another lighter/pen combi-bomb, but this time with a flame pattern on the pen, and assembles it. Throws the bomb into the fissure at Fate's feet, hoping the explosion will cause an eruption of hot magma underneath Fate*

Oh and I could always try this I supose... CASTLE!!!

*waits for the roll of thunder*




<*wonders if anyone'll spot the two book references* If none of this works then I guess I can try the old Atomic bomb in the volcano method>

*continues climbing the mountain, near the top now... jumping from rocky outcropping to rocky outcropping with landing in the lava in between...*

*The bomb lands in the fissure and the explosion of magma seems to vaporize Fate. The siloette of Fate seems to stretch and billow away, like smoke. The reverse happens a few meters from whoever threw the bomb.*

Foolish human!

*The mace swings down towards whoever threw the bomb*

*dives to one side, getting out of the way just in time*

Wait, oh mighty Fate, you are obviously very powerful, and so I make a sugestion. A game. I have six playing cards

*removes them from his bag*

A King of Diamonds, A King of Hearts, a Queen of Hearts, a Knave of Hearts, a Knave of Diamonds and the Ace of Spades. I will let you pick selections from the set untill there is only one card left. If that card is any card other than the Ace of Spades then you win and I will leave and give up, if however it is the Ace of Spades then I win and you will allow me to kill you, I mean you've got a pretty good chance really haven't you, what with you being Fate n' all. If you still do not like those odds I do have more cards which I could add to the selection to give you a better chance.

*fate slowly brings his mace back to his side*

you would play games, with a god?!

I will play your game then. Know this, if it is rigged, you are all.....Hmm Hmm Hmm...fated to die

*ok, lays out two sets of three cards each*

Ok, pick a pile, left or right

*lies in wait to see the outcome*

*continues climbing up the back of the mountain, now wearing a heat&pressure resistant suit*
*watches curiously throguh a telescope*
*where exactly are you doing that game?*

*the remaining images of Skenvoy fan out into a semicircle around fate, all of them very subtly looking for any chinks in the armour, weakspots etc.*


~Skenvoy

*crawls up into the crater and swims towrds the rest of them through the lava*

*picks up the left deck*

well?

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*waits still*

*Takes the left hand deck off Fate and discards the right hand deck. Now spreads the right hand deck out on the table, leaving three cards. Now point to two of those cards*