Inanimate Warriors

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There's a scene I'd like to write, but with full awareness that it uses some Copyrighted material. So, I'll just describe it here.

An army approaches a large, ornate building sitting alone on a hilltop. The army is a bizarre mixture of ancient and futuristic, with knights in shining, powered armor riding robotic horses and carrying energy weapons. One man, leaning casually on a cane, stands in wait, at the bottom of the steps to the museum. The army is halted by its leader, who tells the man to surrender. He says nothing. The leader points out that the man has no army to defend his museum. The man makes an expansive gesture with his arms and cane, and finally speaks.

"Let my army be the rocks and the trees and the exhibits I have gathered. Treguna Mekoides Trecorum Satis Dee!"

There is an odd moment, where even the least perceptive can sense the power unleashed by that apparently simple phrase gathering. Then comes a blare of trumpets. This is followed by the sound of ponderous marching, and through the doors and down the steps come hundreds of mannequins dressed in the military garb of thousands of years of conflict.

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I recognize the reference

Sounds interesting. I'd love to read it if you ever write it. Will there be a flying bed in the story anywhere?

Oh no!!

0.25tspgirl's picture

Beware the mouse!

BAK 0.25tspgirl

Filigree Apogee Pedigree Perigee!

Hypatia Littlewings's picture

Filigree, Apogee, Pedigree, Perigee!
Darn, am I pronouncing it wrong?
I still can't get that spell to work!
I've been trying for years.

*giggles*
~ Hypatia >l< ..:::

I've never read the books and

Stickmaker's picture

I've never read the books and haven't seen the movie in a long time, but I believe you're forgetting the POOF!. :-)

Just passing through...

You can forget the Legion League.

There was a Blight league since then. And new league with new version of the game starts on the next Friday, 13-th :-)
And I am amazed that no one wrote anything in the Path Of Exile universe!
It is a much better Diablo III than Diablo III!
Am I the only one here who still plays computer games when 50 years old?

No-one else has mentioned it,

Stickmaker's picture

No-one else has mentioned it, so I'd like to point out that this segment contains elements from two movies.

The strange man is paraphrasing a quote Dr. Henry Jones misattributed to Charlemagne. That quote and the spell seem to go gothether, at least in my warped mind.

Just passing through...