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(Message started by: Iceman on Oct 9th, 2007, 8:04am)
Title: Shotgun
Post by Iceman on Oct 9th, 2007, 8:04am
Jonathan has just several cartridges left in his shotgun, and his pursuers are gaining on him. There are no other human made objects anywhere near or other life forms for that matter. Jonathan fires all the cartridges aiming down at, pretty much, one spot only, which weren't meant to hurt his pursuers. But why then?
Title: Re: Shotgun
Post by Grimbal on Oct 9th, 2007, 8:40am
[hide]Biathlon[/hide]?
Title: Re: Shotgun
Post by Iceman on Oct 9th, 2007, 9:05am
Good try.  ;)
Title: Re: Shotgun
Post by Sameer on Oct 9th, 2007, 9:49am
He crosses a wooden bridge on a pass and shoots at a spot to break the bridge so that his pursuers can't cross?
Title: Re: Shotgun
Post by Ghost Sniper on Oct 9th, 2007, 10:07am
Assuming that his pursuers are driving some sort of vehicle, maybe he fired at the wheels?
Title: Re: Shotgun
Post by SMQ on Oct 9th, 2007, 10:21am

on 10/09/07 at 08:04:34, Iceman wrote:
... There are no other human made objects anywhere near ...

That would seem to me to rule out biathlon targets, vehicle wheels, and all but the most primitive of bridges. ::)


Was he [hide]shooting a hole in a frozen lake/pond[/hide]?

--SMQ
Title: Re: Shotgun
Post by Sameer on Oct 9th, 2007, 10:51am
Hmmm a [hide] frozen lake without any fishes? [/hide]... well another try..

He was shooting at a [hide] beaver dam so that it floods [/hide] and takes the pursuers along with it...
Title: Re: Shotgun
Post by ima1trkpny on Oct 9th, 2007, 1:50pm
Jonathan fires the remaining cartridges into the rocky slope beneath him (then runs) creating a rockslide that with hinder/stop the pursuers?

(Finally it let me post  ::) )
Title: Re: Shotgun
Post by gotit on Oct 9th, 2007, 2:23pm
[hide]Were Jonathan's pursuers human beings?[/hide]
Title: Re: Shotgun
Post by Iceman on Oct 14th, 2007, 9:57am
No to everything.



on 10/09/07 at 13:50:38, ima1trkpny wrote:
Jonathan fires the remaining cartridges into the rocky slope beneath him (then runs) creating a rockslide that with hinder/stop the pursuers?

Good try.



on 10/09/07 at 14:23:30, gotit wrote:
[hide]Were Jonathan's pursuers human beings?[/hide]

Yes.
Title: Re: Shotgun
Post by Archae on Oct 14th, 2007, 9:50pm
[hide]To kick up a bunch of dust so that his pursuers cannot follow his trail after the point of his shots?[/hide]
Title: Re: Shotgun
Post by Iceman on Oct 15th, 2007, 2:44am
No.
Title: Re: Shotgun
Post by gotit on Oct 15th, 2007, 2:54pm
[hide]Jonathan and his pursuers were inside a tunnel. Jonathan fired at some loose rocks that fell and blocked the pursuers' path[/hide].
Title: Re: Shotgun
Post by Grimbal on Oct 16th, 2007, 9:40am
Jo is a seal.  He fires a hole in the ice to escape under water.
Title: Re: Shotgun
Post by denis on Oct 16th, 2007, 12:41pm
Jonathan is climbing a mountain, steep hill or cliff. He shoots away the ice ledge, small tree, shrub or foothold that allowed him to gain purchase and reach the top.
Title: Re: Shotgun
Post by Iceman on Oct 16th, 2007, 1:06pm
[hide]One of you three is real close[/hide]............  ;)
Title: Re: Shotgun
Post by Ghost Sniper on Oct 16th, 2007, 2:55pm
He was climbing a mountain. He shot right underneath his foot to cause an avalanche, crushing his pursuers but leaving him uninjured, since he shot below him.
Title: Re: Shotgun
Post by DC1E2L on Oct 17th, 2007, 12:21am
[hide]Jonathan is climbing a mountain, steep hill or cliff. He shoots his gun, to create a foothold so he can reach the top.[/hide]
Title: Re: Shotgun
Post by gotit on Oct 17th, 2007, 1:35am
[hide]Jonathan and his pursuers were in a tunnel. It had a pit in the middle that was covered by a plank of wood for people to cross over. After crossing the pit, Jonathan fired at the plank of wood to destroy it so that his pursuers would not be able to cross over.[/hide]
Title: Re: Shotgun
Post by ima1trkpny on Oct 17th, 2007, 8:15am
[hide]Jonathan had just crossed a very long rope and plank bridge across a huge canyon. In the absence of a knife to cut the ropes, he used the remaining cartridges to sever the ropes and thus his pursuers can't follow[/hide]?
Title: Re: Shotgun
Post by Grimbal on Oct 17th, 2007, 8:44am
Wasn't it [hide] James bond, sliding down the ramp of the stairs [/hide]?
Title: Re: Shotgun
Post by cchris on Oct 17th, 2007, 9:30am
I was thinking he was [hide]climbing a rope, that went around some sort of pulley, and his attackers were climbing up as well, and in order to escape he shoots the rope, causing the attackers to fall but himself to go upwards and escape[/hide]. I know it's not right, but just an alternate solution.
Title: Re: Shotgun
Post by Iceman on Oct 17th, 2007, 9:31am
I like DC1E2L's answer but ima1trkpny is no the right track. Remember, there were no man made objects near. And yes, it was a movie.  ;)
Title: Re: Shotgun
Post by gotit on Oct 17th, 2007, 1:11pm

on 10/17/07 at 01:35:25, gotit wrote:
[hide]Jonathan and his pursuers were in a tunnel. It had a pit in the middle that was covered by a plank of wood for people to cross over. After crossing the pit, Jonathan fired at the plank of wood to destroy it so that his pursuers would not be able to cross over.[/hide]


Icey, you did not say anything about my answer.
Title: Re: Shotgun
Post by Iceman on Oct 18th, 2007, 5:11am
That is because I don't know what you're talking about. This is not flattering for me, not you, I suppose.  
:-[  :P
Title: Re: Shotgun
Post by Grimbal on Oct 18th, 2007, 5:29am
Anyway, there are no man-made objects nearby, that would exclude a tunnel and a plank.

And if Iceman doesn't understand what you are talking about, it is very unlikely to be the intended solution.

Iceman, the idea was [hide] that a plank is used as a bridge over a pit, a pit that otherwise can not be crossed, and by firing at the plank, Jonathan either destroys the plank, or makes it so fragile that nobody would dare walk on it.[/hide]
Title: Re: Shotgun
Post by Iceman on Oct 18th, 2007, 11:50am
Isn't plank man made?  ;)
Title: Re: Shotgun
Post by Grimbal on Oct 18th, 2007, 12:47pm

on 10/18/07 at 11:50:46, Iceman wrote:
Isn't plank man made?


on 10/18/07 at 05:29:40, Grimbal wrote:
Anyway, there are no man-made objects nearby, that would exclude a tunnel and a plank.
Title: Re: Shotgun
Post by JiNbOtAk on Oct 18th, 2007, 5:51pm
Jonathan is Tarzan / Indiana Jones / any hero swinging from vine to vine. He shot at the vines so the goons could not swing to him.

When you say no man-made objects, you don't mean their clothes too, did you ?  :P
Title: Re: Shotgun
Post by Iceman on Oct 19th, 2007, 11:54am
No vines.
Title: Re: Shotgun
Post by Whiskey Tango Foxtrot on Oct 19th, 2007, 8:41pm
[hide]Did he fire them off in order to cause an avalanche and separate himself from his pursuers?[/hide]
Title: Re: Shotgun
Post by Iceman on Oct 20th, 2007, 5:25am
No avalanche.
Title: Re: Shotgun
Post by cheesepuff on Nov 4th, 2007, 7:41pm
[hide]He shot a hole in the ice and dove in

Though he probably wouldn't last very long under the ice... [/hide] :-/
Title: Re: Shotgun
Post by Grimbal on Nov 5th, 2007, 2:00am
He shot the golden cube and got the money to pay for a good lawyer.
Title: Re: Shotgun
Post by Iceman on Nov 5th, 2007, 6:55am
No ice.
Title: Re: Shotgun
Post by Grimbal on Nov 5th, 2007, 7:19am
Ice?
Title: Re: Shotgun
Post by novicenumskull on Nov 5th, 2007, 10:59am
Does "pursuer" necessarily mean they want to harm jonathan? Maybe he was shooting into the ground below to give his pursuers some acoustic direction to locate him. Maybe he was lost.
Title: Re: Shotgun
Post by Iceman on Nov 5th, 2007, 2:13pm
How about putting a brain inside your skull? Still, remember Frankenstein.   :P
Title: Re: Shotgun
Post by mikedagr8 on Nov 5th, 2007, 2:17pm
Was Johnathan shooting, to create a break between himself and his pursuers or some other reason?
Title: Re: Shotgun
Post by Iceman on Nov 6th, 2007, 6:58am
He was shooting so that the [hide]distance between them does not decrease a lot[/hide].  ;)
Title: Re: Shotgun
Post by Grimbal on Nov 6th, 2007, 7:04am
Was he using his gun for propulsion?
Title: Re: Shotgun
Post by Iceman on Nov 6th, 2007, 11:08am
pro.... what?
Title: Re: Shotgun
Post by thecow135 on Nov 6th, 2007, 6:09pm
pro·pul·sion  [pruh-puhl-shuhn]
–noun
1.the act or process of propelling.
2.the state of being propelled.
3.a means of propelling; propelling force, impulse, etc.

always here to help
Title: Re: Shotgun
Post by Ghost Sniper on Nov 7th, 2007, 4:56am
Just shoot the ice behind him once he crosses the frozen lake and make his pursuers fall in the water.  ;D
Title: Re: Shotgun
Post by Grimbal on Nov 7th, 2007, 5:00am

on 11/05/07 at 06:55:35, Iceman wrote:
No ice.
Title: Re: Shotgun
Post by Ghost Sniper on Nov 7th, 2007, 10:13am
Assuming the gun is a bazooka  ;D, he shoots the tree behind him, knocking it down, blocking or squishing his pursuers.
Title: Re: Shotgun
Post by Iceman on Nov 7th, 2007, 10:57am

on 11/07/07 at 10:13:48, Ghost Sniper wrote:
Assuming the gun is a bazooka  ;D, he shoots the tree behind him, knocking it down, blocking or squishing his pursuers.

[hide]This is, actually, real close. [/hide]
Title: Re: Shotgun
Post by Ghost Sniper on Nov 7th, 2007, 12:41pm
[hide]There was a tree with one end on the ground and the other end barely hanging by a vine. He shoots the vine, which breaks, making the higher end falling and blocking/squishing his pursuers.[/hide]
Title: Re: Shotgun
Post by mikedagr8 on Nov 7th, 2007, 7:36pm
No living objects I thought, so something like a cliff instead?
Title: Re: Shotgun
Post by Whiskey Tango Foxtrot on Nov 7th, 2007, 8:38pm
[hide]He ran across a log that had fallen over, naturally creating a bridge across a small ravine.  After passing, he turns around and shoots the non-man-made bridge out so that his pursuers can't follow him.[/hide]
Title: Re: Shotgun
Post by Iceman on Nov 7th, 2007, 11:21pm
WTF got it, I suppose, because I said no other life forms. Is tree a life form? :-[ If not, then he shoots the living tree to create an improvised bridge. I saw this in a movie once.   ::)
Title: Re: Shotgun
Post by towr on Nov 8th, 2007, 1:59am

on 11/07/07 at 23:21:19, Iceman wrote:
Is tree a life form?
Yes, it is.
Unless it's a binary tree ;)
Title: Re: Shotgun
Post by gotit on Nov 8th, 2007, 3:00am

on 11/08/07 at 01:59:50, towr wrote:
Yes, it is.
Unless it's a binary tree ;)


or a B-tree or a B+-tree or.....
Title: Re: Shotgun
Post by Iceman on Nov 8th, 2007, 6:06am

on 11/08/07 at 01:59:50, towr wrote:
Yes, it is.

........dunno much about trees, :-[except that leaves fall in autumn. But do trees have feelings, or soul for that matter? Answer this one if you can, summer hotshots.. :P      
Title: Re: Shotgun
Post by Iceman on Nov 8th, 2007, 6:13am
......or maybe the tree was dried-up and dead.   8)
Title: Re: Shotgun
Post by towr on Nov 9th, 2007, 7:54am

on 11/08/07 at 06:06:03, Iceman wrote:
........dunno much about trees, :-[except that leaves fall in autumn. But do trees have feelings, or soul for that matter? Answer this one if you can, summer hotshots.. :P      
Well, obviously trees lose their leaves in autumn because they're depressed about the impending winter. So that means they have feelings, and if they have feelings they must have a soul as well.  ;)
Title: Re: Shotgun
Post by Ghost Sniper on Nov 9th, 2007, 9:31am

on 11/09/07 at 07:54:39, towr wrote:
Well, obviously trees lose their leaves in autumn because they're depressed about the impending winter. So that means they have feelings, and if they have feelings they must have a soul as well.  ;)


Now you're getting into more sci-fi-y stuff. In the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th books of the Ender series, the "piggies" third life form is a tree which has souls, minds, and feelings, so if you were talking about them, then I guess that would apply.
Title: Re: Shotgun
Post by Grimbal on Nov 9th, 2007, 9:56am
Ents.


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