The Grandmaster (616 version) comes to you with a proposition. He wants you to enter Shelob's cave and fight her. If you win, you receive $1 billion dollars, all taxes paid, all legal ramifications worked out in advance.
To give you a chance, Grandmaster generously offers these benefits:
- You get restored to peak health and physical fitness, and any injuries and diseases you may have are completely healed.
- You are granted the superpower of nightvision.
- You get a light saber, and may train in a holodeck for one week before the combat, although the holo simulations do not exactly match all the twists and turns of Shelob's lair.
If you win, you get to keep the health and the nightvision, and of course get the prize money.
If you lose (die horribly), then provided you went out bravely, you get a place in Valhalla, if you want it. (Odin, too, is watching.)
So … who’s up for the Shelob challenge?