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Sinopol for Hardscrabble
When I look at these again, I see all my payment and word count fields are blank. Sigh.
Words: 1245. $50
Age ~40. Dirty, growly, wall-eyed and brain-damaged (or differently-abled) treasure hunter.
HARDSCRABBLE: You can't make me eat my friends. I won't!
FOUR DOG: He's talking about you guys, right?
HARDSCRABBLE: No, my LITTLE friends.
SPLINTER: His lice.
HARDSCRABBLE: Hey, what does "abdicates" mean?
JAMES: No. No. No. You wrong!
HARDSCRABBLE: I think that's it.
JAMES: You're gonna break it!
HARDSCRABBLE: Yep.
JAMES: Aww, tsk.
HARDSCRABBLE: It's locked.
JAMES: Sonuva--
HARDSCRABBLE: Sorry James.
- Hardscrabble tells his story, sort of -
HARDSCRABBLE: Cause I was hatched out of a witches egg, been doomed to fly high! Like a crane with no... legs.
PLAYER: Um, okay.
HARDSCRABBLE: Pico and Sepulveda!- randoms -
HARDSCRABBLE: (random comment) Am I... dead?
HARDSCRABBLE: (random comment) Random mumblings one hundred and twelve...
HARDSCRABBLE: (regarding a dead giant ant) May flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.- Player makes the poor decision of selecting Hardscrabble to help with a task -
HARDSCRABBLE: I'm just like your nose! Pick me.
PLAYER: I need your help with this.
HARDSCRABBLE: I could go either way!
PLAYER: Why don't you stay here and work these switches while I run the gauntlet.
HARDSCRABBLE: I promised me Ma I'd never switch again... but okay, why the hell not?
PLAYER: Why don't you run the gauntlet while I stay here and work these switches.
HARDSCRABBLE: I promised me Ma I'd never gauntlet again... but okay, why the hell not?
HARDSCRABBLE: [deep sniff] Mmm, somebody baking a cake? Maybe the cake is through this door. I want cake!
HARDSCRABBLE: History Eraser Button!
HARDSCRABBLE: Big SHINY button!
HARDSCRABBLE: The jolly, CANDY-LIKE button!- Combat -
HARDSCRABBLE: (no ammo) Hardscrabble needs ammo--badly!
HARDSCRABBLE: (lost idle) They are lost and I am idle...
HARDSCRABBLE: (death) Elizabeth!
HARDSCRABBLE: (alert idle) I'm looking to put some more notches on my... what is this thing?