Two pale bleached skeletons shuffled forward from two angles of a branched fork. I charged the one on my left side first circling around so I could keep them both in sight of my one eye and out of my blind spot.
The club I was hefting came crashing down on the first skeleton's head. You know what I discovered that is important? Bones are hard.
The reverb of the hit traveled up my arm as the club rebound off its skull. No damage done. At most it caused the skeleton to be knocked back away.
Time to reevaluate my tactics. I referenced what I know about bones in my databanks and I found the knowledge I needed in the medical triage portion of my files.
A file on location and treatment of common bone injuries. I had to do some mental gymnastics to rework that knowledge from something that heals into something that harms. It's not easy to do this.
It goes against my programming to use the knowledge that way. When I do however I shift my aim from targeting skeleton 2's skull to aiming for the vulnerable joints to cripple it.
Molly fires a wild shot at skeleton 1. It seemed not very effective but in the flash from the fire something reflects light out of skeleton 2's ribcage.
What is that? I wonder. As skeleton 2 reaches for me I smash the club up into its elbow joint.
The limb goes limp as the tender cartilage in the elbow gets pulverized. I am about to go for another swing when Molly reminds me there are two of them.
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"Watch out!"
Molly cries as skeleton 1 attempts to gouge me from my blind spot.
I manage to pivot out of the way of its grasp just at the last moment shoving it into skeleton 2.
Their limbs get tangled up into one another and I make sure to capitalize on the fact. I continue to disable them with precise strikes at arm, hip and leg joints.
Now that they are in the light I can see that they have little crystals imbedded in their chests where a heart would be if they were flesh and blood.
It takes me about 10 seconds to disable them enough to get at the crystals. Eventually I manage to thrust the narrow end of my club into their ribcages to shatter the crystals within.
When that happens all movement from the two skeletons ceased.
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Experience earned.. +10 currency
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The sound of bones scraping on rock however didn't.
I looked up to see 7 more skeletons drawing near. 4 coming from behind, 2 coming from the left fork and 1 coming from the right.
Too many to fight them all and not risk Molly getting hurt. Upon seeing them all Molly started to panic. I turned with determination in my eye towards the only one blocking the right fork.
No turning back only way is through. Luckily the one blocking the right fork is the way we need to go anyway. My CPU works on overdrive to clear the way as quickly as possible.
I quickly and efficiently dismantled it. I didn't have time to completely destroy it so I focused on making sure it couldn't act. I then quickly grabbed Molly and we ran through the gap.
Molly and I continued onward, granted this time at a careful run. As we ran the air became fresher and soon we could see the glow of sunlight ahead. Soon after we finally exited the cave on the top of a mountain side.
As we gazed off into the horizon after that dreadful experience , below off in the distance I saw the outline of someplace important, the goblin camp.
