An intense fight scene involving wizards, creatures, crumbling bridges and flavors of Gandalf and Sirius Black dieing...all at the same time. I get this mental picture of this really intense fantasy scene where there is a troupe wizards fighting nasty, 8-legged volcano creatures over a pit of lava for some obscure, but important reason or other that no one can really seem to remember. At some point the bridge starts to cave and all of the wizards are about to die, but one uses his telekinetic powers to keep the bridge from falling into the boiling lake of lava and their imminent deaths. One of his comrades takes a hit from one of the creature and is dangles from the bridge by his wounded left hand. The telekinetic one almost breaks the spell on the bridge to save the falling guy, but the guy shouts, "No, you fool! Prolong the magic! The Obah Cypt is in the cavern of the griffin-chimera-snake-sphinx-thing! Do not fail!" After that incredibly cryptic and unhelpful "hint" that no one (character or reader) can figure out because the author has failed to mention any of that stuff before, he falls to his fiery death (only to show up two books later, to everyone's relief because they can finally figure out what in the wide world of Waldo he was talking about in the first place, minus his right arm and with a bionic left eye).
It broke my heart when Gandalf died, and I definitely cried when Sirius Black died (I'm still a little sad about that one). Sorry for all of the run-on sentences. That happens when I get really excited about something, like boiling lakes of lava...and I don't really edit these posts, that's not really the point of this blog.
+5 awesome points to anyone who knows where the "Obah Cypt" shows up in popular fiction (author and book title, please...AND if you can name the folk story that the book is based off of, you will receive an extra 10).
It's from "your mom" and based of "your face".
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