Geralt let his eyes slide shut for a moment, breathing in the crisp forest air. It smelled like the moldering forest floor litter, and like coming snow. He listened to weapons unsheathing, concentrated on slowing his own heartbeat into time with his steps.
"From behind. It's mostly immune to magic, including fire, but they can be disoriented by bright lights and loud noises. So if I shout 'down,' get down and cover your eyes. It's got sharp teeth, sharper claws out front, and a pair of horns wider than a king's mantelpiece, but it's slow and bad at protecting its flanks."
Catching sight of it moving through the distance, Geralt froze behind a tree. It had poor vision, they were safe at this distance.
"Fiends have a third eye in the middle of their forehead, I mentioned before. It can hypnotize you. You get caught out front and hypnotized, all you're gonna see is a red eye in darkness. You focus on that eye and when it starts to move closer, you get the hell out of the way. Just worry about saving your own skin; evade. Let the other two worry about everything else for the time being."
The fiend lurked in the distance. It was a huge bulk, twelve feet tall, with a span of antlers even wider, like a massive elk. It was black-furred, shaggy around the neck like a lion's mane, but the flanks had jagged pale cream bars. It was a creature made to hide among the trees, despite its size.
It rooted at the base of a large pine in front of it with its horns, seemingly in some great pain. Geralt had seen the strange, oozing tumors around its mouth and neck when it attacked his camp before.
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Date: 2017-10-31 04:15 pm (UTC)"From behind. It's mostly immune to magic, including fire, but they can be disoriented by bright lights and loud noises. So if I shout 'down,' get down and cover your eyes. It's got sharp teeth, sharper claws out front, and a pair of horns wider than a king's mantelpiece, but it's slow and bad at protecting its flanks."
Catching sight of it moving through the distance, Geralt froze behind a tree. It had poor vision, they were safe at this distance.
"Fiends have a third eye in the middle of their forehead, I mentioned before. It can hypnotize you. You get caught out front and hypnotized, all you're gonna see is a red eye in darkness. You focus on that eye and when it starts to move closer, you get the hell out of the way. Just worry about saving your own skin; evade. Let the other two worry about everything else for the time being."
The fiend lurked in the distance. It was a huge bulk, twelve feet tall, with a span of antlers even wider, like a massive elk. It was black-furred, shaggy around the neck like a lion's mane, but the flanks had jagged pale cream bars. It was a creature made to hide among the trees, despite its size.
It rooted at the base of a large pine in front of it with its horns, seemingly in some great pain. Geralt had seen the strange, oozing tumors around its mouth and neck when it attacked his camp before.