The Boss: Death? Death: Speaking. The Boss: This is The Boss. Where are you? You haven't been up to the office in days! Death: I've been held up. The Boss: What happened? Death: You know how when someone dies, they can challenge me to a game for their soul? The Boss: Sure, standard procedure. Death: Well, we didn't count on this guy. I might be a while. Gary Gygax: I add the paladin to my party.
Death: Oh, Jesus. He's getting out another rulebook.
“And there’s always the chance that you, or Death, hasn’t seen the latest gambit.”
<<Young one, setting up a chessboard in front of Death is an opening gambit practically older than chess itself. As we idly discuss the prospect of playing chess against her, she hears us and whets her game like a knife.>>
