Bored with how obvious the result of this match would be if it was a fair fight, Palom(who's bright idea was it to let that punk judge matches in Godlike anyway?) decided to spice things up by turning the match between Heat and Chris into another sort of contest.
The game: Darts.
The target: A sleeping Empyrea.
The rules: Each duelist has 3 darts to throw. Hitting the body is worth 5 points, hitting the face is worth 10, and managing to get one in her eye was 20. The real bullseye though, was the 30 points for getting one in her open beak.
The twist: Eggs would be used as ammunition instead of actual darts.
Chris, while not liking the premise very much, agreed to this match thinking that she could just apologize to Empyrea later. Also because she knew she had a much better chance of winning this then a fight against Heat.
Heat thought that throwing eggs at a goody two-shoes like Empyrea would be a hilarious way to kill some time and hell, the guy who's an expert with a grenade launcher has to have some advantage over Generic Swordgirl #3 in a game of "darts" right?
Neither one of them really thought through what kind of reaction pelting a very maternal <i>bird</i> with <i>eggs</i> might have.
Palom certainly did though. Watching Heat and Chris run like crazy from a berserk Godbird was about the most fun he'd had in a long time.
What he did fail to think through though, is what tends to happen to people who set Godlikes up for pain and embarrassment. He's on Heat's menu every day for the next month.
Oh the contest? Heat managed to lob two at once right down her throat after Chris pissed her off with one in the eye. With 60 points with his first two eggs, it was over, easy, in Heat's favor. No matter how much she scrambled, Chris just wasn't catching up with that.
