The phantom horde is gleefully watching and the gigantic warrior looks aloft, calling to the Roc, "Flint Freeze!" The giant bird releases his frost breath and as it touches the horde it slowly dissolves until the frost reaches yardbyrd and the barbarian; the barbarian is fading but his ghost blade strikes at yardbyrd's throat going right through it- it doesn't even leave a mark!
Just as the warrior is about to fade, his hand and scimitar are still visible. Yardbyrd turns into grayish black stone; he has become flint! The last action of that fading sword hand is real, as the hand and blade become solid for an instant, but its chopping motion fails as the blade falls flat against our homeland soil. It randomly strikes an acorn that flips outward...it's trajectory is toward the viewing screen where it strikes a firefly at the bottom left-hand corner, causing him to jump. The viewing screen falls to the ground for an instant, as the firefly recovers, and the viewer falls on a tiny pebble that sails in a high, unbelievable arc, and falls, striking yarbyrd's beak and creating a tiny spark....
(more later)
Just as the warrior is about to fade, his hand and scimitar are still visible. Yardbyrd turns into grayish black stone; he has become flint! The last action of that fading sword hand is real, as the hand and blade become solid for an instant, but its chopping motion fails as the blade falls flat against our homeland soil. It randomly strikes an acorn that flips outward...it's trajectory is toward the viewing screen where it strikes a firefly at the bottom left-hand corner, causing him to jump. The viewing screen falls to the ground for an instant, as the firefly recovers, and the viewer falls on a tiny pebble that sails in a high, unbelievable arc, and falls, striking yarbyrd's beak and creating a tiny spark....
(more later)