"I can't be the only who thinks this is a terrible idea!" Rarity stammered. Even for a ghost mare, it was difficult to be heard over the rumbling tumult below. Nevertheless, she followed Rainbow closely as the girls' anchor flew lower and lower circles over the edge of the entity's destruction. "Believing—even for once—that there's a shred of respect to be had in that Seraphimus creature!" Her voice squeaked delicately. "Leaving her with the eloquent Kepler, no less!"
"I'm tellin' y'all, I ain't sensin' anythang to be concerned with!" Applejack exclaimed. "At least, not at the moment!"
"Are you meaning to say that she's made a complete turnaround?" Rarity remarked.
"Well... no..." Applejack took a deep breath. "But, for the time bein', she's totally on board with helpin' the Herald out."
"Hmmpf!" Rarity tilted her chin up. "Forgive me if I find that hard to believe, given her psychotic past."
"Ain't 'bout believin', Rarity," Applejack said. "My senses haven't let me down when they've been this on point. Besides, we're in no situation to pick and choose acts of generosity. No offense..."
"Point being...?" Rarity squinted.
"Shhhhh!" Twilight Sparkle frowned. "Everypony, please! Rainbow needs our help right now!"
"Actually, I just need Fluttershy's," Rainbow muttered, concentrating her narrow gaze on the fractured valley below. "How about it, Flutters? Am I getting warm?"
"I hate to say it, Rainbow, but you're going to have to fly lower," Fluttershy said in a trembling voice. "The two bodies aren't in the creature's path, but it will be uncomfortably close."
"I can do 'uncomfortable.'"
"I was afraid of that." Gulping, Fluttershy pointed. "Follow that path... through the rising mists."
"I think I see them!" Rainbow's voice cracked.
"You must get closer," Fluttershy insisted. "One of them—I sense—is faint."
"As in dying?"
"I don't know. That's why you must get closer."
"On it." Taking a deep breath to calm her nerves, Rainbow dove in the direction of Fluttershy's pointing limb.
Pinkie Pie trailed at the end of the ghostly train. Her body shook as he looked in the direction of the massive wyrm. "Better hurry up, Dashie! I think it's getting restless!"
Kepler paced and paced around the stationary wagon. His scorpion tail curled and uncurled. Every now and then—as the earth shook—he flashed a worried look towards the debris clouds rising from the sundered valley below the nearest cliff.
"Would you please stop that incessant shuffling?" Seraphimus droned, staring calmly into the same abyss.
Kepler gulped. "It cannot be helped. My frriends arre in perril at the tentacles of a continental god-beast and the only thing I can do is polish my glasses and rroll my Rr's..." The wyvern sighed heavily. "A rratherr unflinching porrtrrait of my existence, I fearr..."
"Preserve your strength for a moment when you can utilize it far more efficently."
Kepler glanced at her. "I suppose you shall next prrevail upon telling me not to give up hope..."
"We all will die at some point," Seraphimus said coldly. "Thanks to your impulsive leader, perishing will happen far... far quicker here in this blighted realm."
"A fate you look forrwarrd to with grreat anticipation, I imagine."
"Don't attempt to be sarcastic and bitter. It doesn't suit you, wyvern."
Kepler squinted at her from a distance. He adjusted his spectacles and murmured: "Do you mind if I ask you something?"
"Yes."
"What... arre you gaining frrom this, all of a sudden?" He tilted his hairy head aside. "How do you, a wounded nihilist if therre everr was one, benefit frrom spontaneously assisting us?"
"Do you see my talons?"
"Yes. They arre bound."
"I can't very well do much on my own in this hellscape," Seraphimus droned. "And it profits no one to be useless in times of conflict."
"Only those with a cerrtifiable futurre stand to profit."
Seraphimus frowned into the ashen valley. "Do not pretend to know what my future holds."
"Emptiness? Oblivion? A slow and melancholic death?"
Seraphimus was silent.
Kepler bore a bittersweet smile. "Back on the Light Side, my brrotherrs and I know that ourr days arre numberred. Wyverrns perrish farr fasterr than naturre allows them to prrocrreate. Death surrrounds us in a shrroud, and therre is no escape frrom extinction. This is why the Mountain Matrron took us underr herr wing, I suspect. And when she did so, she taught us to make the best out of the meagerr time we have left... to purrsue peace, enlightenment, and the betterrment of all brrotherrs and sisterrs everrywherre."
"An insipid, futile philosophy."
"Oh, quite. Which makes me wonderr how a crreaturre so insistent on having lost everrything can still find the strrength to combat impossible adverrsity."
Seraphimus took a deep breath. "I was trained to be a defender of Verlaxion. Even in the Goddess' tragic absence, the instinct remains."
"Orr... perrhaps... therre is something farr deeperr." Kepler smiled. "Something that was innately strrong and fearrless in you long beforre Verrlaxion arrrived to stake a claim."
"You're misguided and self-absorbed," Seraphimus muttered. "This conversation is pointless. This whole damnable situation is pointless."
"Ach... and yet herre we both arre." Kepler waved a claw towards the shifting terrain in the distance. "An endangerred fourr-eyed wyverrn and a widowed grriffin in chains. Based on yourr perrspective, the two of us should have perrished about five or six similarr cataclysms ago..."
"... ... ..." Seraphimus stood still. Her charcoal-brown eyes followed a trace of color as it dove deep into the valley.
"I see them!" Pinkie Pie squeaked. She floated over Rainbow's diving figure. "Look! It's Flynn and Ariel!"
"Oh, how delightful!" Rarity craned her neck to look at the two ponies nestled on the edge of a craggy chunk of earth. "I... I think one of them is injured?"
"It's Flynn," Fluttershy said.
"Whew!" Rainbow exhaled, descending. "Thank Celestia!"
"Rainbow!" Twilight Sparkle scowled.
Rainbow flinched. "S-sorry." She squinted. "Flutters, how bad off is he?"
"He's just knocked out. Unconscious." Fluttershy exhaled. "The poor thing..."
"Ariel ain't feelin' too good," Applejack said, eyes shut as she relied on her senses. "Somethin' tells me she's at her wit's end."
Swooooosh!
"H-hey..." Rainbow wheezed, touching down beside the two. "...did somepony order Chineighs?"
"Rainbow Dash!" Ariel let go of Flynn and rushed towards her, scooping the petite pegasus up in a deep hug. "Oh gosh oh gosh oh gosh—!" She clenched her eyelids shut, squeezing tears away. "I n-never thought I'd see you again!"
Rainbow wheezed. "Y-you might not... if you k-keep squeezing..."
Wincing, Ariel floated backwards. "Sorry..."
The earth rumbled. Rainbow flew a nervous glance over her shoulder, then back at the two Heraldites. "How's Flynn?"
"The very definition of 'pooped.'" Ariel shook nervously in place. She rubbed her fetlocks together as wary eyes traveled in the direction of the slithering beast. "After all he's been through today, I-I'm afraid the poor dude won't be able to use his magic for a week."
"Well..." Rainbow touched down and felt the unconscious unicorn's forehead. She winced from the burning fever. "...he owes a lot to you for saving his skin."
"Are you k-kidding?!" Ariel's muzzle hung agape. "I'm alive because of him!"
"Oh yeah?"
Ariel nodded fervently, flying down to grasp the stallion's shoulders. "After the monster knocked us sky-high, I blacked out. Next thing I knew, I was pinned beneath a boulder. My tail was stuck. I struggled to get out... and the thing was slithering closer. Then—out of nowhere—Flynn here charged up and used his telekinesis to push the boulder away. It must have shorted out his horn or something, cuz I had to fly him out of there. We would have been devoured... h-hadn't the beast suddenly shifted towards Alpha."
"Yeah." Rainbow exhaled. "It was coming after Keps and I."
"Kepler's okay?!" Ariel's eyes widened. "What about the wagon?"
"It's all in one piece," Rainbow said. "Thanks to Seraphimus."
Ariel did a double-take. "I'm sorry. Thanks to who?"
"Look, we can talk about it later." Rainbow shifted Flynn's figure. "Right now, we gotta fly Flynn to safety. Then I'm going to need your help in finding Big Show and Wildcard—"
"Better do it fast, Rainbow!" Twilight Sparkle suddenly yelped.
"What?" Rainbow craned her neck. "What's the matter?"
"The landscape is breaking apart in our direction!" Rarity squeaked.
"They're both right." Fluttershy gulped. "The beast is headed this way."
"Awwwwwwwwwww Luna poop," Rainbow grunted.
"What?" Ariel flinched in place. "What's the Girl-Alarm say?"
"We'd better move." Rainbow started picking Flynn's limp body up. "Now."
Rummmmmmmmmmmmmmmble!
A shadow fell over the two pegasi in the starlight. Ariel looked up to see the left flank of the beast slithering closer towards them. As its chitinous body tilted, a sea of tentacles rolled over and lunged in their direction.
"Oh shit!" Ariel's ears drooped as she trembled all over. "Oh shit shit shit shit shit—!"
"Quick!" Rainbow shoved Flynn into Ariel's grasp. "Take him to higher ground!"
"But—"
"You're bigger than me, girl! You can carry him further!" Rainbow took a deep breath and charged the tentacles head on. "I'll buy you some time!"
"Rainbow!" Ariel practically shrieked. "Are you kidding?! You can't take that thing on—"
"I've got no choice!" Rainbow huffed, her ruby eyes reflecting a deathly wave of tendrils inbound. "Go—"
SWOOOSH! A dark figure murked in front of her, blocking protectively.
The ghostly mares gasped.
"Wildcard!" Rarity chirped jubilantly.
Cl-Cl-Clakkka! Bard's bo-staff kissed the starlight. With a savage glint to his goggles, a bruised Desperado stood his ground in midair. He twirled the weapon just as the probisci of the stalks lashed at them. Thunk! Th-Thunk! Cl-Cl-Clank!
Wincing, Ariel took that opportunity to fly towards Alpha with Flynn dangling in her grasp.
Sparks flew as Wildcard deflected more and more of the ravenous stalks.
Hovering behind him, Rainbow's eyes wandered to the griffin's armored side. She spotted the hilt of an ancient Emeraldinian sword. "Wildcard!" her voice cracked. "Pass it!"
Reading her mind, the griffin spared a metal talon—Schiiiiiing!—unsheathed the blade and flipped it behind him.
Rainbow nimbly caught it in her teeth, then flew in to slice the multiple tentacles being warded off by Wildcard's twirling staff. Sch-Sch-Schliiiiink!
Red mists kissed the air. A groan echoed from deep within the beast's mammoth girth. A rolling length of the creature shifted in the two mortals direction. As a result, a fresh wave of stalks lunged all at once. Swiiiiiiiish!
Wildcard clenched his beak tight and held the staff up at full length. Th-Thwkkkk! No less than twenty tendrils wrapped around Bard's weapon. The Desperado shook and struggled, but it was obvious that he was about to loose the staff altogether.
"Mrmmmfff... hold it—!" Rainbow Dash did a backflip, twirled about, and flew lengthwise across the row of grappling tentacles. Sl-Sl-Sl-Sl-Sl-Sliiiink! She lopped them all off, reducing the tendrils to meaty chunks.
Another groan. The beast only slithered closer, promising yet another onslaught of countless tentacles.
"This isn't working!" Twilight exclaimed. "We're only tickling the monster!"
"We gotta give it some real hurt somehow!" Applejack stammered.
"Rainbow, look!" Rarity pointed.
Recovering at Wildcard's side, Rainbow followed the fashionista's gesture. She saw a long crease... an ancient fissure grown into the side of the entity's chitinous flesh.
"A weak point?" Pinkie wheezed.
"As weak as it's gonna get!" Rarity said.
"Wildcard!" Rainbow pointed at the spot in question. "Do you see—?"
Wildcard nodded. Whistling, he lifted up a bit and attracted the next wave of tentacles, fending them off as best as he could with Bard's staff.
Rainbow, in the meantime, spat her sword out and clasped it between two fetlocks. "Rrrrrrrrrrrgh...!" Wings at full-blur, she threw herself at the visible seam in the monster's natural armor. She struck it blade-first, and the old Emeraldinian weapon sank halfway to the hilt. Chttttuunnk!
The creature barely budged. Then again, the Heraldites weren't done yet.
"Draw back, Rainbow!" Applejack shouted. "Wildcard's about to do his thang!"
Sure enough, as Rainbow Dash flew back from the embedded weapon, the Desperado dove down. He reared his metal arm back, and glowing mana emanated brilliantly from the leyline core of the prosthetic, accompanied by a deep bass hum. Vrmmmmmmmmmm! At last—with a shower of sparks—the limb overloaded, and Wildcard threw his metallic fist forward with the mother of all punches, landing squarely against the hilt of the embedded blade.
THUNKKKK!
A wild spray of red juices fountained in every direction from the fresh gash. This was followed by an immense, deaffening groan, and the creature stopped slithering altogether. The tentacles across the wyrm's back all retracted at once in some epic "wincing" gesture.
"Ohhhhhhhh it felt that alright!" Pinkie Pie belched.
"Good enough!" Rainbow panted for breath and motioned Wildcard to follow her as she ascended. "Let's get the heck out of here and regroup with Ariel and—"
"Look out!" Fluttershy shrieked.
"Huh?" Rainbow gasped as Wildcard's arm wrapped protectively around her and dragged her to a higher altitude. "Whoah!"
At that very moment, the creature's body was lunging skyward. Patches of cosmic light was instantly blotted out as the front half of the beast reared towards the heavens, stretching for hundreds and hundreds of meters. Squinting, Rainbow and her companions could see giant, barbed mandibles stabbing at the sky. Ear-piercing shrieks rippled outwards in every direction, and the earth shook as its rear half rose and fell with catastrophic thrashing motions.
"Hmmmpff!" Pinkie folded her forelimbs and rolled her eyes. "What a big baby!"
"Wow..." Twilight blinked. "I didn't think we hurt it that much."
"I think... something else is happening to it," Fluttershy said.
Rainbow sputtered for breath, dangling from Wildcard's clutches. "Like what?"
"I don't know..." Fluttershy pointed. "Just look at how its mandibles are biting at the air. It's almost as if it's struggling to breathe."
"Yeah!" Pinkie also pointed. "And just look at that big fat pony perched on its giant mandibles! I mean... talk about annoying!"
Twilight did a double-take. "Wait... what?!"
"What big fat pony?" Applejack wheezed.
From a distance, both Rainbow Dash and Wildcard could hear a guttural war-cry, accompanied by the distant glint of a swinging axe. The war shouts acted as savage punctuation to each of the monster's prolonged groans.
"Ya like that?!" A voice could be faintly heard echoing. "Take it, ya big fat rolling bitch turd! Take ittt! Raaaaaaaaugh!"
Wildcard's goggles rattled.
"Buck me sideways..." Rainbow grimaced. "...is... is that actually...?"
Fluttershy's forelimbs curled up as she nervously eyed the pony perched suicidally atop the creature's thrashing face. "Oh... my..."
Oh jeez, that isn't good.
So the team is pulling itself back together, great to see that even apart they are still formidable. Hope Seraphimus finds a productive reason to live, instead of a reason not to die.
Warning: Big Show contains sharp parts and may be a choking hazard. Keep out of reach of children.
Thank Celestia indeed! Now Dash will (hopefully) have Ariel to have fun with later ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Whelp everyone has been found! And only Flynn is injured, which doesn't seem to be that bad. All in all that wasn't bad for being chased by a giant wyrm thing.
Whew! Finally caught up. This time's official. Ahem. Ahora...
Don't fall into Sera's pesimism yet, Kepler. We still have 3 more books left
Pinkiepls.
Okay, Logan.
Dios, I never thought I'd get here in under a year.
...
Now if you excuse me, I'm gonna go lie somewhere and die peacefully.
IIIIIIIIIIIITS JOOOOOOOOHHHHHHNNNN CEEEEEENNNNNAAAAAA!!!!!!!
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Welcome aboard, and for Nietzsche's sake don't die on us now! We still have one hell of a journey left!
LEEEEEEEEEEROYYYYYYYY JENKINS!
So far, everyones found, but something Im wondering. Is Big Show just going to keep needling Doomsday in the face, or is he going to give it a severe case of terminal paracitic brain infection?
Fry-ing tonight?
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Welcome to the journey!
*sigh* You know I'd like to get into the spirit of awesomeness, but honestly I feel like this is problematic with trying to have it both ways. I mean, either the creature is hundreds of meters tall, a so-called "continental" leviathan, in which case I don't care how big your axe or sword is, unless you're a equally hundred meter tall robot or Ultraman you're not going to be able to hurt it. Or the creature isn't as big as described, in which case its at least plausible for normal, mortal sized folk with normal weapons to hurt it. Just saying, this is stretching the suspension of disbelief, even for this story.
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Thanks :)
I'm reminded of that scene at the end of How to Train Your Dragon, where one of the riders is standing on the big dragon's face and smacking it in the eye with a war hammer.
Of course, he got distracted and nearly thrown off when the hot girl complimented him, so for Logan's sake Ariel should stay back.
Big Show...that actually makes sense.
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Frying? I mean, they could try, but sourcing a skillet large enough might be a problem, and I don't think they could fit the leftovers in the wagon anyway.
Boss Fight!
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and doing the same thing to the hulking goliaths in Shadow of the colossus wasn't?
Climbing on to them and shanking them in a glowing weak point with a sword.
or any JRPG with a building sized boss that, by all rights, your weapons and magic shouldn't even register on their pain scale due to its immensity and the thickness of its skin as a result.
It's the exact same concept as that, just you're reading about it instead of commanding a virtual avatar to fight it yourself.
Emergency Code: Assist
Work with your allies to defeat the enemy.
Emergency Code-Start!
-Through the path long forgotten, into the darkness long begotten. Ofolrodi.
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While I see what you're trying to say, indulge my rebuttal if you will.
In Shadow of the Colossus the main character is using a sword specifically enchanted to strike the weak points of the Colossus, and the defeat of those giant beasts is not due to physical damage being inflicted upon them, but rather the energy that's being released from the seals on their bodies that are being destroyed by the sword. Also the largest of the Colossus was, at best, maybe forty or fifty meters tall. Not hundreds of meters like what we see described here. Last I checked Logan's axe isn't specifically enchanted to kill giant monsters.
In games like Final Fantasy the characters occasionally fight giant creatures, yes, but in those games the powers of the characters is usually well established as being beyond human, whether they're using magic to enhance themselves, are genetically engineered supersoliders, are mystic monks with DBZ styled chi powers, or were cursed by unknowable demi-gods with magical might. Regardless the superhuman powers of the characters is usually established, and an acceptable part of the suspension of disbelief that they can fight giant monsters like dragons or what have you.
However the Austreaoh series has this tendency to switch back and forth a lot between the depicted level of strength the characters have. Sometimes they seem like super warriors, capable of taking on armies by themselves. Other times they have trouble with just a few opponents. However when it comes to large scale foes like with the Divine Rainbow took on back in Ledomare, she spent most of the time running away form it, and this creature is easily several magnitudes larger than that dragon was. Its a question of degrees, here, and the idea that Logan, a dude who is, at best, two meters tall and has not been shown to have superhuman (or pony) levels of strength it is a stretch, at best, to think he could actually physically hurt this thing. It'd be like something the size of a flea being able to hurt something the size of an elephant. I'm sorry but unless the dude is the Legendary Super Pony, a Kryptonian in disguise, or something else is revealed to be going on here, I'm going to have trouble buying Logan can hurt a three hundred meter kaiju.
Doesn't break the story or anything, but I think this is just pushing the limits of believably a bit. I mean, if Logan is that strong, then what excuse does he have to really fail any strength related problem in the future? The guy ought to be able to walk through most opponents without trouble. Why did the door back in Darkreach even take more than one blow to break down? If he can hit hard enough to hurt something that's three times the size of GODZILLA, then the guy should be able to rip steel with his bare hooves like it's tissue paper.
Its possible there's a better explanation for what's going on that's coming up soon, so I'll see what Skirts has in store. Just saying for the moment my eyebrow is raised.
Hah! oh the wincing
I sense a certain absence of blight when it comes to Sera's depiction of Rainbow. That's a good sign.
Josho is back!
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I'll concede the point on SotC, having never played it myself, so my knowledge of the lore is fairly low.
I have played.. a Final Fantasy though, just one, and it was XIII, which I believe the characters were chosen to complete a task and 'cursed' with the ability to do magic... nothing more, no super human powers or any of the like, just pure magical aptitude, and one of the bonus bosses is a creature that would dwarf the tatzlhive Logan is hacking away at, which they killed with... some pretty illsuited weapons really, only Lightning and Fang really had weapons that could conceivably be called military grade, and bog standard magic.
Though, it doesn't seem like Logan is actually hurting it, since he's just cutting the stalks like Link on speed, it's more like the creature is flailing as though a spider is crawling on it's head, similarly, Dash and WC driving the sword into the exposed cut and reopening it was met with a "wincing" gesture and a low bellow, kind of like the wince and prolonged hissing Owwwww one might make after stubbing their toe.
Ah yes one of the constants in the Austraeoh universe at its finest. No matter a creature's size and power Big Show can and will piss it off.
Well, there's the love interest and brainbox. Now where's the fat one and the living deus ex machina?
Deus is ex-ing
And there's the fat one.
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Welcome to the Dark Side. Please don't die, as we have no desire to give Alamais any more soul stuff.
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To be fair with the Final Fantasy example I'll say that even in most of those games my suspention of disbelief is similarly streatched as it is here. I don't always consider a factor in Final Fantasy, or many JRPG story's, favor that they kind of hand wave certain characters taking on giant bosses with questionable weapons.
That said I usually prefer stories to not use full video game logic in written tales such as fanfics and novels, unless the powers are somehow justified in story. Heck, even in my own fanfic partially based on a JRPG I made it a point to establish characters obtaining high powered weapons or gaining high end magical spells before throwing large opponents at the party, and those were still in the thirty foot range or so, rather than hundreds of meters. And if a story does want to go full on video game logic, then it should be consistent with it through the whole tale. Austreaoh has this habit of going back and forth between cartoonish battle mode, and super serious realistic battle mode, depending on just how dramatic things need to be. It works some of the time, but for me it gets a bit jarring at times too.
I think may main problem here is just the particularly large scale of this beast. If it was just fifty to a hundred meters... it'd be a streatch, but I could buy it. But Skirts has gone out of his way to describe this thing as being multiple hundreds of meters tall and possibly miles long. Nothing that large should flinch at anything short of the size of a battleship. Logan is less a spider crawling on your face so much as he is a flea biting a whale. The whale shouldn't even register he's there.
Still, there might be another explaination here that Skirts just hasn't gotten to yet. One of the problems with short story chapters is that one doesn't always get the full picture, so its possible there's more going on here than just Logan whacking at Wyrmzilla.
OMFG, did Big Show just fart in its face?
Guys, this must be how the dinosaurs got wiped out.
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Have you ever had a thirsty ant discover that your eye is coated with slightly salty water, and decide to have a drink at the well that is your tear duct?
It is painful.
Or heck, have you ever had a bit of sand in your eye?
Super aggravating.
I think Big Show might be a large ant, relative to this critter.
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I've had some pretty epic showdowns with incredibly aggressive moths. And there was this one time when a wasp got into my car that nearly saw me plastered across several hundred yards of interstate. So I am somewhat familiar with the capacity of tiny things to aggravate the hell out of bigger things.
Still not totally convinced the comparison is apt here, given we're talking a three hundred meter wyrm kaiju covered in chitin that probably puts the armor of a Gundam to shame. Comparitively speaking we humans have very thin skins and sensitive external bits for our size, not to mention a common mentallity that tends to freak out when bugs get in our faces.
So unless this ancient super predator just happened to have a specific evolutionary weakness to farts I'm still not convinced Logan should be able to do anything to it, but we'll see how this pans out.
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To be fair, by the time you reach the insanely big enemies in jrpgs, you should have some form of super magic or a summon that could decimate a small continent.
That's why I prefer SMT and Persona games as my JRPG's of choice, the enemies never really get that big unless it's a main/final boss, and the combat is hard as balls, which makes sense given the protagonists are usually around 16 years old, and most of the fighting is being done by summoned demons/personae.
I get your point though, the scale of this thing, what the herald are doing would barely qualify as a mossie bite, and heck, if it's that much more gigantic than they are, hunting them is gonna do nothing to fill its belly.
Like a drop of water in a desert.
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Unlike video games giant animals in real life they are frequently easier to kill than one would expect. Example giant whales hunted by Alaskan"s in leather canoes using primitive weapon. The same can be said about the giant mammoths killed in large numbers by stone age tools.
And lastly many a human has been taken down by a tiny bee sting
Our tank is doing his thing.
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People die from bee stings due to allergic reactions, not because the stingers themselves did lethal harm to the body.
As I said before, its a matter of scale. The whale and/or mammoth comparison with human sized hunters is a matter of people dealing with something around ten to fifty times their size, often by ganging up on it with numbers.
Here we're talking about something that makes even whales look like guppy's by comparison, literally described as altering the horizon as it moves. That's a size that has no real life comparison among the animal kingdom. I do not exaggerate when I tell you that neither you or I can properly imagine the scale of such a beast. Physical attacks from beings at our scale shouldn't even be noticeable, let alone cause an actual reaction.
That said I'll wait and see exactly what's up. Might be there's more to this than we've been shown. If not, my suspension of disbelief takes a hit, sure, but it hasn't been the first time and I doubt it'll be the last, and here I am still reading, so not like I'd be giving up on the story. I'll just bring this scene up every time in the future Logan either loses in a contest of strength or fails some other key strength related task, is all.
Well, he's putting on a show all right.
For a moment there I thought I had missed something again and he literally had four eyes.
Rainbow Dash, a little more of the tact please.
Hopefully not a permanent injury.
Oh Luna poop we have wormsign
Courtesy of the Darkreach Expedition, maybe?
Achievement unlocked: Fart A City-Sized Monster To Death.
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My best guesses as to why he's capable of hurting it at all is that 1) He took his battle ax to its eyes, 2) He nailed its tongue (Which is EXTREMELY sensitive to pain in practically every organism you can name), 3) He enchanted his blade with moon rocks, 4) He picked up an Alicorn battleax, or 5) Any/all combinations of the above.
The day Logan's farts save the day is when I officially have no idea what to expect anymore.
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Given the emphasis made about the creature's sense of smell, and I find myself losing brain cells as I type this, but it's almost plausible that Logan is literally farting in its face to cause its sense of smell to go haywire.
I don't know if that would be better or worse than him just axing it in the uvula.
Why do you have to go and put a great joke right before a sad reflection?
New name? New name.
This guy would be right at home in a Warhammer novel, he's that badass(and unkillable).
What.
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This Wyrm is not Garignak.
It might have vulnerable spots.
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Welcome aboard!
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That idea is both hilarious and full of 'wat' at the same time
Note: Someone needs to add this to the Austraeoh group here.
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This had me stooped as well and I did a double take. After 8 seconds of rereading this and almost visualizing Keplar with 2 pairs of eyes, I smacked my hand against my forehead, remembering that this was a metaphor, plus also light insult, for a person that wears glasses all the time.
Oh my~
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu
Well, there's no doubt who that is, then.
I'm so happy Eagle Eye is back!
Well, I don't know why we were so worried about trying to find Big Show. His namesake is enough to know how he'll go out.
Looks like I have a lot of catching up to do. Let's do this thing!