*back in the City of the Head*
"Ok, ok," grumbles OC. "You're the ghosts who say 'whee', I get it. Now will you serve me? The need is dire and the urgency ... urgent! Really!"
The ghosts 'whee' among themselves for a while. After a while the lead ghost (who seems to be wearing a shabby pillowcase) says "we have conssss-
idered your re
quest, and the answer is - we shall challenge you - to a game!"
The other ghosts 'whee' excitedly. OC looks less than impressed. "Erm - what kind of game?"
"Draughts!"
"Well, I haven't played that for a while, but if you insist..."
"Draughts it shall be!" The ghosts confer excitedly for a few moments. "Oh - stranger! There - seems to be a problem! None of us can remember how to play draughts. Wheeeee!"
OC mutters something about death having a diminishing effect on common sense. "Do you play chess then?"
"Whheeeeeee? No."
"Backgammon?"
"Never!"
"Football?"
"The Ghosts who say 'whheeee' don't have time for silly things like
that."
"Monopoly?"
"
No. We know how to play that, but we don't like it. Not at all!"
"Trivial pursuit?" The question hangs in the air. OC is beginning to run out of games...
(p.s., weren't some of the others supposed to follow him here
?)