Line #23 Quotes/NothingButSkulls


1	->''Then a pile of heads he laid--''
2	-->''Thirty thousands heaped on high--''
3	->''All to please the Kafir maid,''
4	-->''Where the Oxus ripples by,''
5	->''Grimly spake Atulla Khan:--''
6	-->''"Love hat made this thing a Man."''
7	-->--"Oatta's Story", opening poem to Creator/RudyardKipling's 'His Chance in Life' from ''Plain Tales from the Hills''
8
9	->"The ride's a little bumpy on the famous Road of Skulls..."
10	-->-- ''"[[Creator/IainMBanks Road of Skulls]]"''
11
12	->'''''BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD! SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE!!!'''''
13	-->-- '''Khornate Berserkers in general''', ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000''
14
15	->'''DM:''' Suddenly, a great rumbling shakes the caverns. The walls crack open, and thousands of skulls are released!
16	->'''Legolas:''' Oh crap.
17	->'''DM:''' They tumble down from above, forming a great avalanche of death. The horrid sight is-
18	->'''Aragorn:''' Skulls? Like, ''only'' skulls?
19	->'''DM:''' Yeah.
20	->'''Aragorn:''' But that makes no sense!
21	->'''DM:''' It's just a trap! Dungeons have them all the time.
22	->'''Aragorn:''' I'm not calling the device into question. I'm questioning the payload. Thousands and thousands of skulls? How does that work, exactly? Was this a race of floating heads?
23	->'''Legolas:''' Maybe they have another trap which just drops arms and legs.
24	->'''Gimli:''' I'll bet this was a robust culture. Imagine their funerals... "Oops, Granny's dead, let's lop off her head and chuck it into the big bin to be dropped on adventurers."
25	->'''Aragorn:''' This is the first trap I've ever encountered that could be triggered by ''negotiations''. I wonder how long it takes them to reset the trap every time it goes off?
26	->'''Gimli:''' ''(possibly)'' Conan's Codpiece! It's like we're in a big bowl of Cap'n Crunch.
27	->'''DM:''' [[RocksFallEveryoneDies The skulls continue to pour in, filling the room and threatening to crush your nitpicking, over-analyzing characters.]]
28	->'''Aragorn:''' No problem, I'll just roll my saving throw vs. ridiculous contrivances.
29	-->--''Webcomic/DMOfTheRings'', "[[http://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=1203 It's a Trap!]]"
30
31	->The statues ended in a vast atrium, a hundred metres a side, surrounding an open sarcophagus. Offerings from a more recent holocaust were stacked in great piles - thousands of R'larri skulls, many with the cranium sliced off. Flowering vines had sprouted amongst sun-whitened bone, elegant blooms of yellow and red through empty eye sockets and exposed brainpans. Seven studied them with detached curiosity, taking a picture with the Doctor's holocamera.
32	-->-- ''The Flux of Mortal Things'', a ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' fanfic
33
34	->"So many groups of disembodied heads have come before me and failed."
35	--> ''VideoGame/StrongBadsCoolGameForAttractivePeople 4: Dangeresque 3''
36
37	->'''King:''' What ''is'' this place?\
38	'''Kikimora:''' Where the ''[[ExpendableClone failures]]'' end up.
39	--> ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'', [[Recap/TheOwlHouseS2E21KingsTide "King's Tide"]]
40
41	->'''Vipsania:''' So, this Hydrargyros -- did you know him well?
42	->'''Franz:''' Eh. We dragons don't get chummy. [...] To be honest, he really wasn't what you'd call ''scintillating company''. Cranky, touchy, a real grouch. Not a people-friendly kinda guy like me.
43	->'''Humongulus:''' ''(off-panel)'' Behold! Humongulus has found ''yet another'' artistically-stacked pyramid of skulls!
44	->'''Vipsania:''' ''(to Franz)'' Apparently not.
45	--> ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'', on [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20230127 Jan 27 2023]]
46
47	->''"I wonder where their bodies are?"''
48	-->-- '''Guybrush Threepwood''', ''VideoGame/TheCurseOfMonkeyIsland''
49
50	->''When he died\
51	Turns out he left behind\
52	A mansion full of other people's skulls\
53	The odd thing was, [[OffWithHisHead they never found his own]]\
54	When he died''
55	-->-- ''Music/LemonDemon'', "When He Died"

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