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Post by Eivor on Mar 31, 2024 7:35:39 GMT
Eivor could still move while fighting, and continues to block and manoeuvre while jabbing at them. Likely they were not used to facing someone of her skill, and they did not have armour. There was no necessity to land a killing blow; any appreciable wound would render them flightless and vulnerable. With that in mind, she focuses on the shoulder area, though she was not averse to hitting them anywhere in the torso if they were unwise enough to get too close. She wonders if a mace might have been more useful, though it was a little late for that now.
"Go back to your masters, harpy! You have no business here!"
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Post by Deleted on Apr 1, 2024 0:02:57 GMT
Focusing on the problem at hand, Jacob sets to work carving up any harpies who come near, stabbing and slashing into their claws and legs to try and persuade them he is perhaps too prickly a pear to pluck today. He keeps Martin-esque directly behind him to prevent harpy or Brand from laying hands on him.
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Post by Admin on Apr 2, 2024 3:59:57 GMT
#s://i~ibb~co/6HC1M7B/harp1~png Eivor:"This is the time of the harvest—so many years without the feeding. Why did you let us through?" one says before Eivor slices off a wing, leaving it scratching in the dirt, trying to reach another fallen harpy to feed on. Eivor does fight another few steps down the hillside.
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Post by Admin on Apr 2, 2024 4:03:23 GMT
Jacob:
The cave mouth is easily defended as long as he doesn't step out too far to where the creatures have more room to maneuver and swoop. He soon as a pile of dead harpys clogging up Anubis' mouth, but also takes a few deep cuts from their raptor-like talons.
Eventually they seem to get the picture and focus their hunting on the people flees on the plain below.
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Post by Eivor on Apr 2, 2024 7:22:44 GMT
"Why shouldn't I let you through? The alternative was worse," Eivor comments, continuing her path toward her objective. "It is the natural order for there to be a hunter and hunted. The way had been closed by a senseless ritual and an evil priest. Who do you serve?"
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Post by Deleted on Apr 2, 2024 11:08:43 GMT
Jacob sticks to his defensive position for now, waiting for Eivor to return. As the harpies seek out easier prey, he uses the respites to glance at his unconscious charge, to assess how bad the bleeding is from his injuries, and to keep watch for any efforts by Brand to get him to offer up more than the harpies have already spilled.
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Post by Admin on Apr 3, 2024 5:17:16 GMT
Jacob:
Brand is gone. Why would he stick around when his efforts to stop this massacre were thwarted? Jacob has scratches and a few deeper cuts. Quick application of bandages and he is still standing and able to fight on. For now.
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Post by Admin on Apr 3, 2024 5:22:34 GMT
#s://i~ibb~co/6HC1M7B/harp1~png Eivor:"So you defeated the High Priest Brand. For too long he defied the will of Anubis, bending the temple to his own needs." "It is good you understand the need to hunt; Amok-Annet will feel no guilt when feasting on your heart." "We serve Imheo-Tep, god-king of the Nile. All worlds will fall to him."
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Post by Deleted on Apr 3, 2024 10:02:18 GMT
Jacob withdraws with his napping charge back into the cave a little bit, reducing his visibility, improving his position's defensibility, and waiting for Eivor to return or for this "hunt" to run its course.
As he watches the slaughter going on below, he feels a bit sick to his stomach, but he focuses on gathering information. Is there any discernible pattern to the attacks of the harpies, or are they just locusts descending on a "crop" until it's devoured?
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Post by Eivor on Apr 3, 2024 16:18:40 GMT
"Here and now, I am the Hunter," Eivor replies, making a quick attack before retreating back down the hill toward her lost weapon.
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Post by Admin on Apr 6, 2024 4:16:06 GMT
Jacob:
The creatures don't have a pattern other than to find anyone they can. Most are killed and eaten on the spot, others are lifted into the air and dropped from a height and then eaten, and a few are carried back through the opening to the harpy's home.
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Post by Admin on Apr 6, 2024 4:17:37 GMT
Eivor:
She takes a few more cuts and kills a couple of the creatures. They decide pickings are easier elsewhere and leave her to hunt the other pilgrims.
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Post by Eivor on Apr 6, 2024 7:45:59 GMT
Eivor goes to retrieve her weapon then heads back to Jacob. If there are any surviving pilgrims on her route she will attempt to bring them with her.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 6, 2024 11:16:44 GMT
"Certainly, that seems like an awful idea, Jacob. Let's do that." he mutters to himself as he pulls Maybe-Martin back into the cave. But he had to try and get at least a little more information about this "shadow bore." Speaking a word of power, Jacob stepped back out far enough to be able to see the tear in the sky, counting on the magic to cover the distraction of trying to examine a hole in the universe while keeping harpies from tearing him apart or carrying him away.
((Casting the Defensive Luck Power Word to cover me before I step out to examine the big tear in the sky - Does it appear magical in nature? Like it might be a Pattern effect? Logrus (all he's got to go on in that respect is his experience with the Black Road)? Is there any sort of indication of *how* this thing was done?))
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Post by Admin on Apr 9, 2024 2:24:09 GMT
Eivor:
The harpies have scoured the place clean. A few fly high above her but aren't brave or foolish enough to try attacking her again.
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