Chapter Two, Part Three "Guten Tag Freundliche Grüße die Herren. Machen Sie auch einen Mitternachtsspaziergang?"
If they attack me against any common sense, force feed them with pastry.
As the Germans turn to face
Link he just about has time to address them in a polite fashion [1+1] before they realise he is in fact a deadly menace! Three of them advance down the corridor to avenge their fallen countrymen.
Just in time before they reach him Link hurls first one deadly biscuit [6] and then another [6], piercing the first German’s skull and shattering the second’s pancreas! They fall to the ground, struck down! The second biscuit passes through [6] the henchman’s pancreas and out the other side, wounding [4] the third German in the shin! He falls to the ground clutching his lower leg!
Skill Acquired! Advancing Steadily in Cookie no Jutsu!
Attempt to break door open with bodily force. I'll have to remember to leave a note of apology for the broken furniture later, and leave informations as to where they can get in touch with me for reimbursement.
Behind Link,
von Fersen tries to shoulder barge his way through the door in his night-robe [3]. But the French, inferior though their door-furniture may be, clearly make high quality doors – he can’t quite break it down! It certainly looks damaged now though.
Peek out the door for nasty Germans on the other side, then run out and cave in some skulls (or shins if I really have the cricketing bug). Pay attention if they're just standing there, though, and don't fight them if they've surrendered.
Smith slowly opens the door and peeks his head round just as three Germans fall to the ground in front of him. One of them is merely wounded and two more are heading in his direction - the American steps out of his sleeping cabin and confronts the foremost standing henchman.
"Excuse me," he politely begins, before cracking the German on the pate. But the German quickly raises his umbrella to block the blow! He strikes back, and Smith barely dodges back away from the deadly umbrella tip, and unfortunately trips over the German lying on the floor behind him clutching his shin. Smith's appears to have moderately dazed himself, but the prone German is knocked clean out!
Conceal my rifle around the corner of the door, walk out the door and confront the Germans in native tongue.
As Smith stumbles over backwards,
“G” walks out of the door in front him and addresses the German pair who are still in the corridor [3+1].
"What is going on? Can you not see we are sleeping while riding this train?"
They are flummoxed for a moment and turn to look at each other questioningly. Then, in a moment of certitude, they decide not to apologise, but to attack! They advance menacingly on “G” but don’t quite get time to strike at him, having been so confused.
Draw my hat.
Inside the final cabin the two Germans ordered to arrest Wellington and McGeenyton are stopped dead in their tracks as
Wellington draws his hat.
"There is an explosive device inside here with which I can arm in a split-second and blast you and your men to smithereens. If you don't stop at this moment, heed my warning, and listen to my dear friend, your life is forfeit."
His brutal threat is effective [5]! In a way – the eyepatched
von Gruber shouts, in his high pitched voice,
“He is doing das bluffing! Men, get them! You English
pigdogs Englishers, you may stop me, but you vill not stop the bomb on the train! You will not get to Geneva alive! Ahahahah!”
And with a long evil laugh he dashes suddenly out of the Englishmen’s sleeping cabin, leaving his two men behind.
Fire a bullet into each of the germans.
Back inside the cabin,
McGeenyton decides to resist arrest and raises his double barreled walking stick to fire. In the enclosed space an enormous explosion resounds first once [5] and then twice [2]. As the smoke clears the German who was so recently intent on arresting the unfortunate Wellington is dead upon the floor, his spine clearly severed! He is struck down!
McGeenyton’s second shot was not so true – the surviving henchman leaps at the Englishman as a great hole appears in the wall behind him. He strikes at McGeenyton who fails to block the blow and takes the German truncheon full in the face! His cheek is bruised! He stumbles back, lightly dazed!
Wound Acquired! Severely bruised cheek!
There are, north to south, three sleeping cabins, 1, 2 and 3.
Von Fersen is locked inside 1. Link is standing outside in the corridor, having slain 4 Germans with 3 biscuits and injured another.
Smith and “G” have exited number 2. Smith is on the floor, having knocked out a prone German by mistake. “G” is facing two further Germans in the corridor.
Wellington and McGeenyton are in 3, with a German corpse and a German henchman, who has just severely bruised McGeenyton’s cheek.
Their leader, Helmut von Eyepatch Gruber has just fled down the corridor!