Light a stick of dynamite and throw it at the giant skeleton

From Create Your Own Story

Whipping out your canister of matches, you swiftly light one, light one of your sticks of dynamite, and hurl it at the giant skeleton with your most powerful and accurate throw. It reacts quickly, raising its shield. There is an explosion. When the smoke clears, the shield now has a hole in it, but the monster is still standing, and very angry.

It hurls its huge spear at you. You drop down into the splits, your flexible legs reaching a full 180 degrees apart as the spear sails safely over your head. The spear impacts the wall behind you. It is embedded at least three feet deep into the solid rock. You gulp in fear and awe of your opponent's sheer throwing power.

You perform a back walkover to get back to your feet, light another stick of dynamite, and throw it. This time, the skeleton simply catches the explosive with its now free hand and throws it back at you. You manage to dodge it with a quick cartwheel, but the lit dynamite is now on the ground only a few feet from you, the fuse with only a second left to burn. With a curse, you do the only thing you can do, snatching it up and flinging it with a swift flick of your muscular wrist into the small tunnel you came in through.

The explosive goes off, safely far enough away from you, but collapsing the little passage. You'll have to find another way out - if there is one. And if you can survive the giant skeleton, which has now drawn its sword and is rapidly advancing on you with its long, giant strides.

You draw your sword, standing there defiantly. The skeleton races closer and closer, drawing back its sword, ready to cut you in half with a single mighty swing...

A split second before the blade would have impacted you, you suddenly slide yourself forward, right between the monster's legs. You then whirl around and leap upward, gripping the bottom of its backbone and pulling yourself up, climbing right up the skeleton's spine. It flails wildly, trying to shake you loose, but you hang on. Nearing the top, you swing your sword at the creature's neck, but its bones are so dense and strong that your razor-sharp sword doesn't even make a dent.

You curse, then a sudden thought strikes you. You cut off a lock of your hair with your sword and place the hair between your teeth. Sheathing your sword, you light another stick of dynamite and use your hair to tie it to the skeleton's neck. You dismount with a double back salto to break your fall, then begin doing a series of standing back-handsprings away from the monster, elegantly backflipping like a pro-gymnast, putting as much distance as you can as quickly as possible with your blazing fast back-handsprings. You finish your tumbling run with a high back tuck, landing perfectly on your booted feet, and stare at the enraged giant skeleton, now charging at you.

The explosive goes off. The skull is blown upward several feet into the air before crashing to the stone floor. The now headless giant skeleton stands ramrod straight for a moment, then collapses. You let out a high-pitched feminine warrior cry of victory, the sound echoing through the great hall. "Not so big now, are you, fucker?" you smirk.

As your heart rate slowly returns to normal, you look back at the collapsed tunnel, hoping there's another way out. Having no other choice, you begin making your way further down the hall.

At the end of the room, two short passages branch out. One leads to a large cavern with a dark pool of water in the middle. The other leads to a smaller room with a ceremonial altar. Both rooms look completely quiet and empty, but you know that skeletons...and other monsters...can pop up from seemingly out of nowhere in a cursed tomb like this.

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