#earthrunes

Grabbing several wild turkeys, and laying them down to purchase.

"Oh dear....."

"I'm gonna kill him" Claire mutters

A snicker "He got us, come on" Leo laughs, then says "Hey, the wisp is moving again"

And it is, as if realizing it got it wrong, the wisp, still strong, shoots out of the building and makes a new path

"ONe almost could have predicted.... it's on the move again, let's go."

"I won't kill him, but can I shave his head when we get back?" claire asks the baron

as they follow the wisp

Temerity slaps money down "This should cover it and thy child's tuition," And races off, now with a bag full of Wild Turkey Bourbon "Should go well with the feast, aye?"

"I think I would prefer not, Dame." August says as they follow the wisp "Perhaps he was , ah, distracted."

"Oh he's just having fun" Leonora says

and they move on now the Wisp pickjs up speed so they must go at least at a jog. There, at a drive in theatre out of business, is a large silver screen, 'the Thing that ate the Bronx' reads the credits now fading

and out of the screen steps... THANKSZILLA!

The unholy turkey GOBBLE ROARS, red resentful eyes. To look at it is to look at one who feels not gratitude, but resentment, as the ladies mentioned. Sour, Cynical, and bitter!

August draws his blade. "Ready, ladies? Temerity, frontal attack. Dames Leonora and Claire, will you flank? I'll go with Temerity."

"Works" Dame Claire says "Leonora, those feathers and hide look thick, go for the eyes if you can." As she and the archer move the sides.

"Eyes it is" Lenora says, "Gonna be a far shot though"

And she moves to the flank

Temerity grins "Ready? I'm positively saucethristy! Let us charge, my lord!"

August nods, and they advance!

And Temerity and August clash with the giant 40 foot tall Thankszilla, hacking at it's mighty drumsticks! It bends down to poke at August with a beak so huge, even Vince might be envious at the size of that pecker!

August raises his shield to protect himself while he stabs upward into/at the beak.

So hard is the beak that while his shield holds, another blow like that might buckle it. August's own blow does not damage the beak, but the snood about it bleeds sending the THankszilla into a fowl rage even as Temerity slices off a section of it's mighty wattle!

Leo's first shot for the eye misses entirely, another goes too low and barely pricks the neck

August darts forward, trying to get under the giant bird if there's room.

Dame Claire works the other flank, stabbing at what she hopes is a tender part in the foot.. this causes it to raise it's mighty drop stick, given August time to go under. His sword glows with power, allowing him many strikes if he wishes were most would get one!

Hopefully. protected by the bird's body, August slashes quickly and darts out behind it.

Repeated strikes to the undercarriage of the mighty Thankzillz set it to stomping furiously, but August has already made his way to the tailfeathers!

And out the other side to catch his breath and assess the situation.

Temerity says "In the words of Arnold, Patron Saint of Doom that returns, if it bleeds? We can eat it!"

Indeed, the creature is bleeding from various locations, the underside, the face, the foot! Though Claire played for that by getting stomped hard.

August sees it is about to turn. Maybe he can draw it down, and make it's eye an easier shot for their archer?

"HA!" August dares it, waving his sword and shield to catch it's attention.

It turns, it is a creature of resentment and bitterness, and no resentful bitter creature likes being mocked! (See your touchy ST for an example!) It lunges down to try to SWALLOW August then let's loose a terrible sound, for August's provoking has made it's huge angry eye on one side an easier target, and wwhile still a challenge, the Archer of Fiona wins through with an arrow that strikes bullseye, err.. Turkeything eye!

"Now," Claire says "Work it's blind side if you can!"

August slashes and dashes.

"TRUTHBRANCHHHH!" Temerity yells a battle cry "Now in Mint flavor!" And dances and hacks and strikes. More arrows... August hits already wounded underside again, opening it further!

August moves to that blind side "LEONORA! THE OTHER EYE!"

He slashes and dashes again.

There is a THRACK and.. suddenly, whether the other eye was hit, or August struck something vital in the deeper wound, or Temerity managed to hit actual throat, or Claire managed to pierce feathers to get it's angry heart... the chimera gives it's last angry selfish gobble... and finally dies, the resentment that held it destroyed, it burst forth in it's once captured charity and gratitude... Turkeys, at least twenty five of them start to fall, ready for cooking, SEVEN rich hams... may seem short on the ham department, but then there are two goose meals ready to be seized, and two ducks ready for roasting!

So much cranberry sauce.. thankfully in bottles

Of course, falling ready to cook poultry (And ham) of 8 pounds and up can be dangerous if they land on you

"SHIELDS!" CLaire advises!

August brings his up.

THUMP WHAP BAM on the shield, Leo has no shield so hides under August's with her

Oddly, the meat does not seem damaged by the force of it. Another gift from the dreaming perhaps? Temerity laughs "As God is my witness, I KNEW Turkeys could die!"

It's possible no one else gets it

And one TOFUrkey! Which looks kind of out of place

August dodges and shields himself from the foul fall and will protect others if needed.

"Thanks" Leo says as he keeps her from dying at the bulk of a 16 pounder.