How to beat the crowd

Here's a trick I just thought of that you and your friends can use to get through a large crowd of people: Let all your friends get ahead of you. Then, in your most sepulchral tone, command, "Stand aside now, or I will take the soul of every mortal in my path." Then calmly proceed forward, laying hands on each of your friends in turn, with each of them dropping instantly to the ground as though his or her life force is being snuffed out. With luck, enough people in the crowd will think that you must be the Angel of Death that they'll start a stampede to get away from you. When the way is clear, your friends can just get up and follow you to your destination.