Chapter Three: The -blam!- is Back The past week, Gnome sat upon his thrown, seeking out his once mighty gnome army and rebuilding it. The beginning of the week Gnome had unleashed a wave of poisonous code that crippled the site and, he thought, deleted all non-Gnome-aligned users. While positioning units Gnome had noticed a few of his gnome missing, small gnome search groups had discover their dead bodies. This was his first proof that at least one person survived his attacks. He increased his grasp on the site and imported a lot more gnomes to search out and destroy these people. His searches discover one user, who was willing to trade his life for information. After only a few hours of torture, he told Gnome all he knew. This user had told Gnome about survivors and resistance groups, most of which didn’t know much of what had happened in the past week. After a few hours of torture, the user had agreed to work for Gnome and help bring these groups down. - - - - - - - - - - Halifax had led his old friends, Obbi, Twitch, and Joeybagofdonuts, down the back alleyways with a hoard of angry gnome at their heels. Leading them back to the others, Halifax screamed out for help and VII Toast and dmbfan ran out of a thread behind the gnomes with ban hammer raised. As gnome flew through the air after being smashed with the ban hammers, Twitch swung around and kicked a gnome on the side of its head, knocking it out cold. Obbi took out three daggers from his belt, with out looking he tossed two over his shoulder and Joeybagofdonuts and Halifax caught them, then faced the gnomes. Surrounded it didn’t take long for the six of them to kill the whole horde, after examining the bodies for survivors, Halifax told VII toast and dmbfan about twitch, obbi, and Joey. After that he noticed that MinkOWar was missing. “He went to search for you, that was ten minuets ago.” dmbfan told them with a hint of worry in his voice. - - - - - - - - - - - Impurity had looked for anyone watching as he left the makeshift hideout. He ran down the hall jumping from thread to thread in his daily search for more survivors. While searching a small thread, there was a loud rumble coming down the corridor in his direction, Impurity put his back to the door and listened as the rumbling got closer. The rumbling came and passed the small thread, hearing the voices Impurity had no doubt it was a group of gnomes. Returning to check the bodies in the thread, the door swung open and Impy withdrew his ban hammer and turned to face the door. A strange looking man stood at the door, dirty and coved in bruises and cuts he was surprised to see anyone. Seeing the ban hammer the man fell to his knees and begged for his life. Impurity sheathed his ban hammer and helped the man up. “Who are you?” Impy asked. “They call me Aarlos. I was just...I don’t even remember what I was doing when these, these gnome things attacked me, I managed to escape and hide from them.” After checking Aarlos out, he led him back down the corridors to the dead end. Checking to see if anyone else was around he pressed his palm against the code. - - - - - - - - - - - - - Sneaking down the hallway, MinkOWar noticed that there was a increase in gnome activity in his area. He stopped in the shadows of the hallways to listen in on a gnome conversation, “Why is he so angry all the time?” “Who knows. Probably because he was tortured by Overlord of Terror for hours and now he has to obey the masters orders.” “I can’t believe the Overlord of Terror put that pile of human meat in charge of us, where is he anyways?” “He’s around here somewhere.” As he was listened in, a Man hidden in the shadows grabbed Mink from behind, put his palm over Mink’s mouth and pulled him deeper into the shadows. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - A loud crack, then a short scream of death echoed throughout the forums. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Anton P Nym heard the scream from the souls hideout, he grabbed GamejunkieJim and whipped out his ban hammer, together they ran for the exit. Anton opened the code, and right in front of the door, dead on the ground, was Impurity. To be Continued. . . -Gnome- [Edited on 9/24/2005]