Begin your blog with the line: Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred
From Charge of the Light Brigade by Alfred Lord Tennyson
Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred rangers. They knew that being on elephants was better than walking through it, but everyone knows that the valley of death is not named after a flower. The only goal that they had was to get across. Once across they were scotch free, but before they got to reunite with their wives waiting on the other side, they had to cross. The only rule was not to live. Hey! but that was the goal of the game. You cheated in life, so you should be good a cheating in a simple run right? Wrong. This was no ordinary game. There is only about one percent chance that you will win. Who are you playing against? No surly not each other, they wouldn't give you the satisfaction of killing each other. That would be too easy. They want your blood splattered against the wall. See as a child I always thought it was fun watching those people once a year getting slaughtered. I now understand that this was wrong, but it was the way I was raised: Once a year the criminals of our city get thrown into the valley of death and teams that you join once you hit seventeen try to kill you. The way they do this is another story in itself. Lets just say they use us as test dummies for new weapons that they create. So now as one of the criminals about to get slaughtered, I see how the others felt. Just yesterday I was a free man, ready to participate in my team ceremony but, the police just swept me right out of there. -BANG- Crap we are bring released No! I haven't finished telling you why i'm innocent. No I get it, this is the game. You needed one more pawn to play with. Well good thing that you don't know I have cheated already. I have my invention right here in my pocket. You idiots were just to worried about getting me you didn't check my pockets. Well have I got a story for you, this invention is no weapon like the other kids at the ceremony that you made us make. I altered it to something much more. As I walk down the first steps of the valley, I can already hear the teams discussing what their obstacle is. HA! they're pissed. They weren't expecting an animal this big. They thought all large mammals were eradicated after the accident. DAM! Looks like I shouldn't be as confident, just as the balls of liquid lead came shooting down, I realize there plan after all. They weren't pissed, they were happy. They think it's too easy and just as the first ball hit my arm and left a hole in it, I run. Run down to the worst place I could, the pit were it is said you can never get out of. It's not an option. Its a matter of life and death. I will just hide. Wait. As I reached the beginning of the pit I realized that the government really doesn't want anyone to get out, because as I look over I see a pit of with a myriad of frogs...
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