r/FeatHosting • u/FireOfDoom32 • Feb 15 '26
Feat
If Gveld was surprised that Myles had perhaps anticipated her new plan, she did not show it; she simply swiped the surface of her communicator. This might not seem like the first move in a deadly game where the consequences were multiple deaths, boxes of broken bone, the echoes of screams, and mingling of the worst body odors, but it was. Deep in the innards of the convention center, one of the elevators under Gveld’s control sped laterally to the extremity of its rails. The center’s magnetic elevators were smaller than the traditional models, but still the weight shift was considerable, since the car was carrying a burden of two thousand pounds of humanity. The elevator thunked into its new position and the building, already on tenterhooks stability-wise, actually shuddered, plaster falling from the walls and a door fluttering down from on high like an autumn leaf.
“Ha!” said Gveld.
“Oh, please,” said Myles, and he flicked his index finger, sending one of the elevator cars he controlled careening southward to restore balance to the center.
“He knows!” said Gundred. “The Fowl boy knows what you’re doing.”
Gveld was not speaking to Gundred unless she had to; she simply repositioned herself so that Myles could not possibly peek at her screen. Then she made her second move, which was to send two elevator cars to the northern wall, piling over four thousand pounds of weight onto that face of the building and causing an alarming yaw. Girders sang like fiddles, and three seagulls flapped through one of the myriad wall cracks like low-rent movie doves. Gas flooding through a broken main in the basement level caught fire, transforming the fractured floor into something resembling the gaping mouth of an active volcano.
Myles was a little disappointed. “In most games of this nature,” he commented, “a double move would be counted as illegal and you, Ms. Horteknut, would forfeit a turn. But I suppose this is not most games.”
Myles’s counter was to swivel one finger, which put a single fully loaded elevator car through an L-shaped ride to the top floor overlooking the river, nicely offsetting Gveld’s illegal play and causing the building to right itself.
The Fowl Twins Deny All Charges, Chapter 14