Sergeant: Many
of you will never have faced anything like this and the course we must take will not be easy. First
you must traverse the bending bridge to reach the airlift that is
waiting for you on the either side. You will then be taken round to
the second bridge – the walls of which will seem to part as you cross.
You will then traverse the rickety platform which will lead you to
the geysers which will project you into the air until you make your
way into the maze. Once through you will be picked up and taken
around to the catapult for your final assault on the summit known as
'The Bell'. Some
of you may not return but that's the name of the game and the name of
the game is 'Screwball Scramble'.
Soldier A: Sir
- if it's so dangerous why are we doing it?
Sergeant: Ours
not to reason why – ours but to go and try. Anyone else?
Soldier B: Why
can't the marbles do it?
Sergeant: (laughing)
The marbles? They're too busy with their overgrown hamster run.
Besides they're too big – they'd get stuck. No, it is left to us -
we few, we happy few, we balls of bearing – for those who succeed
today must keep their bearing. Ready? Then – go! Go! Go! Go! Go!
<Rattling
and some cries as they fall off before an eventual ding>
Sergeant: Well
done, soldier – you made it. How do you feel?
Soldier A: I'm
sorry sir – I can't hear you – I've got this strange ringing in
my ears.
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