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Post by Admin on Mar 26, 2024 3:05:36 GMT
Eivor:
It was energy at first, but then it began to feel as if someone was trying to pull the spear through to elsewhere.
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Post by Admin on Mar 26, 2024 3:22:45 GMT
#s://i~ibb~co/3RLgZ4b/oneeyedbrand~png Jacob:Brand twists away from the knee and is pushed back a few steps. "Corwin never could beat Gerard in a fight, fair or not. Only learn from the best, boy.
"Are you ready to stop this foolishness and return to saving people's lives?"He didn't try an attack of his own in response to Jacob's knee. Why?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 26, 2024 3:41:18 GMT
#s://i~ibb~co/3RLgZ4b/oneeyedbrand~png Jacob:Brand twists away from the knee and is pushed back a few steps. "Corwin never could beat Gerard in a fight, fair or not. Only learn from the best, boy.
"Are you ready to stop this foolishness and return to saving people's lives?"He didn't try an attack of his own in response to Jacob's knee. Why? "If only your plans for saving some lives didn't involve pouring mine all over the floor, I might be more inclined. As it is, I think you've shed enough of the blood of Amber for however many lifetimes you've spent doing it." Jacob wants to take a moment to recover, to consider, to learn something, but also doesn't dare give Brand a moment to breathe. So he kicks again, this time aiming higher into Brand's abdomen to try and knock some of the wind out of him.
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Post by Eivor on Mar 26, 2024 8:45:49 GMT
Eivor continues to try to wrestle her spear free.
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Post by Admin on Mar 28, 2024 4:13:13 GMT
Jacob:
"Martin's blood certainly, but no one else's. In my defence, Martin is the most useless of all of us. What has he ever done? Someone had to bleed, and he was the most low-cost choice. And he didn't even die. Save your ire for my brothers who deserve it."
Brand is ready for Jacob's knee and twists to avoid the hit and pivots Jacob off balance by some sort of Aikido maneuver. Before Brand can press his advantage, the cave shakes from the sound of the heavens ripping open. Brand pulls away and says something to Jacob, but temporarily deafened, he can't understand.
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Post by Admin on Mar 28, 2024 4:29:10 GMT
Eivor:
She tugs on the spear but something on the other side is pulling it. Until it isn't, Eivor pulls the spear back, falling off balance and sliding off the top of the hill. Only the rope tied to a horn prevents her from falling all the way down. The spear, however, does fall from her hands and slides down the rounded jackal carved stone and bounces down the hillside. The sky is ripped open with a deafening blast, and for a moment, she sees palm trees, pyramids, and the questing eye of the Sphynx. Bursting through the opening are Egyptian harpies, a woman's head and torso on an eagle body, and Egyptian because of the bangs, braided hair and kohl. Eivor is partially concealed by hanging off the side of the jackal's head so the uncountable multitude of the things scatter and swoop down the hillside and plane, chasing after the pilgrims.
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Post by Admin on Mar 28, 2024 4:32:52 GMT
Jacob:
A fresco of Eric cracks from the cave shaking blast, splitting his halo and continues through his head bisecting one eye. The soldier at the mouth of the cave might have screamed, Jacob can't hear, before being pulled up and away by giant eagle talons amid a spray of blood.
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Post by Eivor on Mar 28, 2024 7:58:50 GMT
Adjusting her grip on the rope and untangling herself Eivor rappels down the hillside in pursuit of her lost spear. It being Shadow, she acquires a shield and gladius on the way in case some of the harpies gave her trouble. If she manages to retrieve her proper weapon she will try to make her way back to Jacob and the altar.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 28, 2024 11:48:39 GMT
Jacob feels himself rapidly losing control of the fight, just trying to keep Brand talking...and then the heavens open. He swears at the noise covering whatever it was Brand said last, but when the harpy make a bloody swipe, carrying away the soldier at the entrance, a knife flashes into his left hand almost instantly.
Keeping an eye out for Brand - and muttering to himself angrily about not getting a better look at the glow coming from his eye - Jacob fetches the wounded, but stable, Martin-like figure from near the altar and starts to head for the cave entrance, debating the relative risks of cave collapse versus defending an unconscious body from flying harpies, and looking desperately around for Eivor.
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Post by Admin on Mar 30, 2024 8:22:35 GMT
Eivor:
She finds the sword and shield part of the way down the hill. The harpies have seen her now, and a bunch of them fly towards her. Does she continue to follow after her spear or climb back up to the cave?
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Post by Admin on Mar 30, 2024 8:25:19 GMT
Jacob:
He sees a great number of harpies swooping down and plucking up the fleeing people before rending them and eating their entrails. Their appetite seems endless. Eivor is part of the way down the side of the mountain. She has acquired a sword and shield. Many of the harpies are now flying towards her.
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Post by Eivor on Mar 30, 2024 9:20:43 GMT
Eivor's spear was more than just a weapon, and she wanted it back. She hastens towards it, wary of the swooping harpies.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 31, 2024 1:20:32 GMT
Jacob's eyes freeze on the horrors in front of him for a moment, he swallows hard, and then shakes his head.
"Ok. New plan. Don't die in the next few minutes." He puts Maybe-Martin on the ground, resting against the side of the mountain at the cave entrance. A dagger flips out into his other hand and he braces for combat, just focused on keeping the harpies away and not letting either harpy or red-headed uncle get near his unconscious maybe-cousin.
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Post by Admin on Mar 31, 2024 6:33:07 GMT
#s://i~ibb~co/6HC1M7B/harp1~png Eivor:Harpies attack as she continues down the hill. She stabs at them, and they claw at her. Her way forward is stopped by the need to fight the creatures.
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Post by Admin on Mar 31, 2024 6:48:15 GMT
#s://i~ibb~co/6HC1M7B/harp1~png Jacob:Brand is doing his own thing, deeper in the cave. A few of the harpies swoop down to attack Jacob, keeping him busy. He does manage to get a quick look past his fight and sees Eivor on the hillside surrounded by attacking harpies.
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