skeletonbow: A long time ago just prior to his death, Nostradamus spoke in a weakened voice prophesying of a time in the distant future that would come to pass in which people would be entertained by games created out of artificial light dancing upon flat rectangular surfaces with which they would interact to control the dancing light via arcane mechanisms. This prophecy would eventually become known as
The Last Prophecy of Nostradamus, and what made it particularly notable was that he foresaw the creation of a game created in his own image and of this last of his prophecies.
While it fascinated him, this game essentially created an interesting paradox that in a future time would be observed by others as some sort of bad omen and sat aside not to be spoken of, out of fear of the potential unknown horrors that may result from being overly curious about such obscure and occult matters.
As the legend of his prophecy predicted, a day would come in which a virtual entity brandishing a crossbow and appearing in the form of a skeleton would arrive displaying no heed toward these myths, legends and common heresy surrounding this last of Nostradamus' prophecies. It is not known from whence the skeletal entity would come nor whether it was of man or monster, dead or alive, or some form of undead apparition of the Earth or of some distant world or alternative dimension, nor was the precise timeline shown to Nostradamus in his vision. He only foresaw that a day would come when this skeletal being would arrive ready and willing to receive and accept Nostradamus' Last Prophecy and-
"I dunno and I don't freakin' care, just knock him out and shove him back in the crypt already before he recites the entire works of freakin' Shakespeare."