Kanei continues running. 7 meters away the drunkard drops the maybe catskin and retrieves his grappling hook. I can hook it onto the cage? NO you could risk hurting Iosif. Then the Gore? YES THAT COULD WORK!
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Alright, super sorry for the delays, I lost wifi last evening.
In the heat of battle, the dagger only manages to skim across the Gore’s ear, and it doesn’t stop its charge. You are, however, able to get a solid hit on a second one with your sword. It is the Gore you missed with you knife that grabs Iosif’s cage.
As you throw your stone, something slams into you from behind, pushing you over onto your face.
The Gore veers violently away from you, flapping it’s wings to fly upwards
It doesn’t let go of Iosif.
The Gore slams into something and you suddenly find yourself falling in midair. You have a split second to register this, before you hit something that doesn’t give. It is a ledge, high up in the wall of the factory. At least thirty feet below, you can see the party engaging in mortal combat. You here a low growling behind you.
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Kanei rolls over holding his sword up hoping to block what he thinks is a gore from ripping his face to shreds.
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You’re able to roll over with ease. There is no Gore.
The body is that of a Kingdom Soldier, staring up with sightless eyes.
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Kanei looks at the soldier, He’s horrified to say the least, He hadn’t seen a dead body since…since He- Don’t think about it. he stumbles back up. Where did it come from? he scans the nearby area in hopes of finding what had thrown a Body at him.
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“Just our luck we find a nest.” Callen grumbles and he tries to get to the Gore with Iosif, trying to kill it before it could reach its destination.
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The Verdant Paladin whips around to see what he’s stumbled upon.
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There is nothing that seems to have thrown it at you.
It’s difficult to try and hit the Gore without hitting Iosif, and it’s moving away all the time.
The creature is like the Gores below, but at least twice as big. It lays on its side. It’s body is grotesquely boated, it’s a sickly green. Instead of the two legs and two claws at the wingtips, it has six fleshy appendages, ending in thin, blackened spikes that reach out at least 3 feet.
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Callen is getting angry and begins climbing the structures to try and close the distance so he could get to the Gore that had Iosif and keep other Gores off of himself.
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Hesitantly Kanei restarts his sprint towards Callen.
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The Gore holding Iosif seems to register this, veering away from any structures to prevent Callen from reaching. Where it was going was unknown, but it climbed higher and higher.
Iosif stopped screaming at this point and was too preoccupied pressing his hands into his face so hard it was likely to leave an impression to have given Callen any assistance.
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Callen was relentless in his pursuit of the creature as he moved with great speed to try and close the gap, his sword and daggers striking at Gores that got in his way with every intent to kill the foul beasts.
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Depending on how dark it has now become without their walking sun, Hereward quickly retrieves his sunstone. He holds it up almost like a torch in his left hand to better see, but keeps his arm closer to his body so that the monsters can’t easily grapple him. As stated before, he heads towards the nearest person to help them combat the Gores.
If it is more evident that it is his unit that could use the help, he moves into formation with them. Otherwise, he tries to push forward and help the men in front. Though unless the Gores are lowered themselves for easy stab shots in the eyes, Hereward attempts to slash their limbs or guts with his scythe sword.
For now, all Hereward can do is focus on surviving and taking the battle one monster at a time. Small advances, anything else would be suicide. There were other men that could help the caged freak. He was also with the representatives, at least one of which was a good warrior. Surely he was in decent hands. If not…just more bookworm incompetence.
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The Verdant Paladin charges the grotesque creature, but he gives no battle cry, no sounds of battle. There is no scuffing of boots or shoes for he does not wear any. There is only a silent charge. If the creature is not aware of his presence (which is doubtful) it soon will be. Once he gets close enough, he slashed at the creatures head with one axe and fends of any attacks with the other.
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The Gore carrying Iosif is smaller, and struggles to move upwards. Instead, most of its movement remains on the same plane of height, Iosif’s feet dangling 6 or 7 feet above the ground.
In your mad dash, you see Representative Castele cowering, Representative Vaughn shouting something and pointing at Iosif, and Representative Scane fumbling with a pile of toppled crates.
You’re able to get some hits in on Gores that come nearby, but you and them are moving too fast to significantly damage many.
You stumble, and have to catch yourself against somone - The Alliance Representative. She shouts something at you and points at the floor, but you can’t hear above the shouting and high-pitched whoops of the Gores. But you see what she is pointing at, and it barely registers. Crossbow quarrels, and a strange object in her hand. Reminiscent of a crossbow, but smaller, and with a strange tubular apparatus attached to the side.
Your Sunstone is dimmer than it was when you first took it, but it is bright enough to have an immediate effect - the Gores shy away, seeming to avoid coming near you.
You see Holland, his hammer discarded, on his back, stabbing with a long knife at the Gore that has him pinned to the ground.
The creature sees you, but its body is too large for it to heave itself out of the way in time for your first strike. Your weapon sinks deep into greenish flesh, and the Gore - if it can be called that - screams.
You barely hear it. Its spiked limbs go rigid, all six extending towards you, and you have to dodge backwards to avoid being impaled.
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Callen grabs the device and tries to see how it works.
OOC: gun, fancy crossbow or flamethrower?
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In the split second you have, this is what is registers as, with a small groove where a quarrel would fit.
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Kanei scoffs, stupid, all of them. he thinks as he continues running towards Callen, he readies his Grappling hook as soon as he can get close enough he’s going knock that oversized pig out of the sky.
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Callen smiles and grabs the weapon and loads it, “Time for some target practice.” He says as he takes aim and starts letting the bolts fly at the monsters to try and clear two paths: one for the representative to rejoin the others and one for Callen to continue his pursuit. (He is shooting to kill, of course)
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The Verdant Paladin takes a swing at the appendages with his axes. He attacks them one after another as fast as he can.
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