Jirai the Hunted?

Jirai the Hunted?

Postby Lent » Thu Oct 18, 2007 3:12 am

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"Now you're absotutely sure about this?" Chet MkAfee, oldest of the brothers, sniffed as he stared hard at the front door of the dagger. He looked more like a walking mound of dirt than any sort of a human being, what with the shaggy brown-grey hair going all over his face and wearing the family's one pair of brown pants that was almost certainly once blue around his overly rotund belly.
"Yah." One of the younger brothers, tall and thin like a reed but with the same shaggy look nodded.
There was a point towards the door. "In this here bar?"
"Yah!" The man nodded repatedly. "Here a lot. KILLS here!"
"Well, ok then. We just keep on waiting. Jirai's got to go outside a lot during the day, what with that weirdo suntan!"

So the amassed eight brothers, sticks, large rocks, and sticks with rocks tied to them (making very crude clubs), sat at the ready for Jirai to appear continuing to loudly discuss their plans for her when she would arrive.
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Postby Jirai » Thu Oct 18, 2007 4:36 am

There were eight of them, and they were noisy. Nor was their intent at all hidden, so loudly under discussion was it. She watched with no little amusement from her perch - on the roof, of all places. Failure to look up was a habit that she exploited often.

A hand twisted, drawing forth a small gem. She twirled it through her fingers for several moments before grasping it, extending her arm out to hover above the group discussing ways to kill her.

And she dropped it, watching gleefully for the small explosion that would result.
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Postby Lent » Thu Oct 18, 2007 4:47 am

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Silas MkAfee, sixth son of the family, had seen some fairly peculiar things in his life. He had seen a pig with three eyes and a yellow river. Strange things. Now he had NEVER seen a man's arm go flying and his body stay where it was, but that's exactly what happened when the jewel landed on youngest brother Tib's shoulder and exploded right into second youngest brother Milo's face. That Milo's body was still flailing without a head wasn't too surprising (Silas HAD seen things like that before), but the arm? The arm was new. "Your arm, Tib! Your arm!" That the brother had lost a good chunk of his side to the explosion didn't seem to interest Silas.

It took the amassed family a few moments to realize what happened. Two of them were on the ground, either dead or dying. Massive rocks (And yes, Tib's arm) were thrown upwards in Jirai's direction.
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Postby Jirai » Thu Oct 18, 2007 10:02 am

Two down and high-pitched laughter rang out over the initial confusion, not faltering at all as she danced away from the hurled objects. One hand darted out, snagging the arm out of the air - she waved it mockingly at the six remaining brothers.

"Come now, just helping out! Surely six will be easier to feed than eight!" Ducking a particularly strong throw, she pouted. "You don't think so? Well, maybe four will be even easier, then!" Dropping the arm behind her, both wrists flicked, sending small blades spinning at two of those below.
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Postby Lent » Thu Oct 18, 2007 11:34 pm

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Maybe the McAfee boys got a bit too confused by the fact that none of their missiles struck home, or maybe an airborne Jirai was just a sight to see, but there was a bit of gawking, at least from that tall thin brother what was mention before. The gawking lasted just long enough for the blade to lodge itself in his throat.

"Wilson!" Five brothers shouted at once. Well one of them, being Chet himself, only made it to "Wil..." before the blade clipped him in the shoulder. Despite his tree like frame, he had been the first one to move.

With a scream he yanked it out of his own flesh and using all of his might, lodged it into the makeshift club, making the thing that much deadlier. "Don't you worry none about that! We'll eat your gizzard, girlie!" Instead of swinging at her, however, he leaned his body forward and nodded over to Silas.

With a grunt and a scream, the slightly younger man charged at his big brother, actually climbing up the ramp Chet had made his own body and leaping high into the air with an a mighty swing of his club (this one WITH the rock tied to it) towards Jirai's face.
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Postby Jirai » Fri Oct 19, 2007 8:58 am

"Girlie?!" The diminutive female sounded shocked by the use of that word. "Girlie! Just WHO do you think I am?" Well done - make her angry instead of amused. Not that she would kill you any less dead, either way! Silas charged up his brother. It was an innovative tactic, and one she might have complimented a few moments earlier. Not now, though.

Nimbly, she swung her body beneath the makeshift club and launched herself at poor Silas, both hands sprouting blades as if by magic.
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Postby Lent » Sun Oct 21, 2007 3:26 am

"We're thinking you're lunch, gir...!" Silas shouted loudly, though not quite as loudly as when her two blades impaled him, midair. "AHHHHH!!." It sounded rather like that somehow less intelligent.

What WAS intelligent however, was one of the remaining brothers, Seymour, for what it was worth, the smallest of the bunch, somewhere just under five feet but stocky and wielding a rough cobbling of stones wrapped around his hands as if they were brass knuckles, charging at Chet. With a mighty heavy, the oldest brother flung him right at Jirai, on the hopes that her blades would be lodged into Silas' body (for maybe the bastard would be useful in death), and there would be a mighty, flying, pummeling blow to Jirai's skull.
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Postby Jirai » Tue Oct 23, 2007 2:01 am

There would be more giggling, a demented counterpoint to poor Silas' shriek. Busily freeing her blades from the now silent body, a twist did not quite carry her out of Seymour's way - the blow slamming into her shoulder instead. There was a hiss from the woman and one of those already bloody daggers would be lashing at Seymour, the other dropped from her grip.
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Postby Lent » Tue Oct 23, 2007 3:42 am

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There was much hooting and hollering from the McAfee boys as Seymour's blow landed. They got back some of their own! In fact, Chet himself was screaming bloody murder, not even seeing that Dagger coming down, and down it went, slicing across his face before lodging itself straight down in his outstretched belly. He began to stumble back and forth.

Midair, however, Seymour went for his next attack instead of dislodging himself and pushing back to safety. As she came at him, yellow, rancid teeth bit down hard into her ribs. If the blow hit, almost surely he would be in a perfect position to die a very bloody death at the hands of her blade.
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Postby Jirai » Sun Oct 28, 2007 10:52 am

Teeth snapped shut, burying into the leather she wore. It tasted unpleasant, no doubt. Fortunately, she wasn't one to poison her very clothing - not something one would have put past Suede Roschen. Not that it would matter that much, for the remaining blade was flashing, repeatedly digging into Seymour's body. Then she would be dropping that dagger as well, sliding the odd crossbow off of her shoulder.

"Run." An eerie smile twisted across her face.
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Postby Lent » Sun Oct 28, 2007 10:58 am

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Three McAfee's left on their feet now. One was wounded and on the ground. Well, these three were mighty angry but they weren't quite the go-getters in the family, no they weren't. In fact, they thought it was a pretty good idea, what with Chet not being able to tell them otherwise.

With three fairly intense screams, they were dashing back towards the woods as quickly as they could manage.
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Postby Jirai » Mon Oct 29, 2007 1:47 am

Intense screams mingled with insane giggles as the woman charged the crossbow, leveling it at the fleeing trio. What erupted from the weapon was not fire, as one might have come to expect, but a spray of rocks. The small pebbles were launched with surprising force at the brothers. This was apparently rather startling to Jirai as well, for the giggling stopped while she stared at the weapon in her hands. After a moment or two she shrugged, though, and looked back at her ex-attackers.
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Postby Lent » Tue Oct 30, 2007 1:17 am

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Rocks? Lots of things people could expect coming out of a crossbow. Bolts, mostly. Actually, yeah, just bolts. Definitely not rocks. It was a real frustrating last thought for the remaining three brothers, what with pebbles shattering their bones and piercing their skin. A few of them went clear through them from one side or another. Only one was so riddled with them that he fell dead on the spot.

The other two had to deal with the slow deaths that came from internal bleeding and shattered bones. Thankfully, they both passed out from the shock shortly after the impact.

And there it was, that all of the brothers, the last remaining kin of the once-glorious McAfee mountain clan fell to one woman, all within a span of a few minutes.
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