Disaster! It’s all even worse than first anticipated! Not only will our friends have to take part in something called “World War Death”, the will have to take part in it while playing, of all things, cricket. Cricket!
For reasonable, normal people, ‘cricket’ is nothing more than the sound you hear when nobody is saying anything. But there is a second, hidden, sinister meaning to the word, in which it refers to a particularly perverted form of sportsball. Even today, that type of ‘cricket’ is actively engaged in by some people in some places. And others watch, unashamed. Humanity has such a long way to go, still.
In spite of his extensive experience with saner forms of sportsball, Biff has never had anything to do with cricket, and thus approaches the task of learning its rules with a complete lack of panic and dismay…after all, he’s learned the rules of those others sports back when he was much less intelligent than today, so how hard can it be? How little did he know. How little did he know.
And how little does he know, regarding the rules of cricket, even after having tried his best to learn them. Let’s face it, this isn’t going to be easy for anyone.
More on Monday.
It could be worse. They could be Mahjong club. I’m 43, and I still can’t understand the rules.
And did you read any Mahjong manga? The opponents are devils themselves!
Can’t say I’ve ever really tried to learn the rules of Mahjong, or read a manga about it. I did read Hikaru no Go at one time…and Go is a highly complex game with very simple rules, in contrast.
I did consider using a non-athletic, non-contact sport for this chapter, just for the heck of it…but, ultimately, most of the stereotypes only really work with some kind of sportsball. And there I wasn’t really motivated to research deeply, so using cricket has the advantage that I don’t need to understand the rules because nobody else does. XD