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ID: B6rj8/kw/qst/6216391#6218182
3/26/2025, 4:58:48 AM
Fraying focus! Focus now, before you are ... getting ... ah, shit! Shit! What do you do? What even can you do? The bundle, the wand and the knife inside of it. Dropping the bundle and stooping to pick it up might have worked earlier, but in the final stretch, it doesn't seem like to work. You drop anything, and it is getting left behind, what with you being hauled away as you are now. The apparent options - such as they are - are to either wrench your arm out of the grip of this Guard or to wait until you are released. Neither of those are appealing. Wrenching your arm away would tip your hand immediately, there wouldn't be any time to put your hands on anything before the Guards knew you were up to something. If you wait until you are released, then there is a chance - a chance, mind you - of an opening to get your hands on wand or blade while they are distracted. Potentially, you might be able to get the bundle so you can dig through with your other hand - though that will be tricky, given the low light, awkward angle and the fact that you are just short of being dragged. Is it worth even considering tripping up or shoving the Guard, instead of wrenching your arm free? It might pass as an accident long enough to buy you a precious second or so ... shoving being more like to work and tripping being more like to be accepted as an accident, or the Guards own fault, but arm in arm as you are, if you aren't careful you could end up going down with the Guard and finding yourself in an ... an even worse ... ah, Mercy. You don't even want to - damn it. Position. The word is position. And that is all it is, just a word. And just a word is all it is going to be. You are getting yourself out of this. Don't dwell Don't fraying dwell! Somehow, you have moved yourself beyond panicking - that may be the only thing that keeps you ... alive, among other things.
Now, after the immediate response, there is then the question of what do next, assuming you are able to get the initiative. The Guards are in full harness, odds are your untrained hand and a pin-stiletto is not going to avail you of anything much against them, but a blade is sure in ways that the Mysteries are not. And in this case, might well be quicker too. If you were willing to risk running around with eyes aglow, then you could dump Strangeness into them deliberately, then Mitigate it away, offensively. Setting aside that you would be using yourself for at least part of the Fuel and all of the Catalyst, you would be risking blowing the tips of your fingers off - or whatever you made contact with. It would be the quickest of your options though, and the only fighting one that didn't rely on you getting into your bundle. You could do it right now, if you liked ... but you would be best served by ... skin-on ... no, just ... the point is, it would be one at a time, like the knife. And course, the Guard with the gun is the one out of reach ...
Now, after the immediate response, there is then the question of what do next, assuming you are able to get the initiative. The Guards are in full harness, odds are your untrained hand and a pin-stiletto is not going to avail you of anything much against them, but a blade is sure in ways that the Mysteries are not. And in this case, might well be quicker too. If you were willing to risk running around with eyes aglow, then you could dump Strangeness into them deliberately, then Mitigate it away, offensively. Setting aside that you would be using yourself for at least part of the Fuel and all of the Catalyst, you would be risking blowing the tips of your fingers off - or whatever you made contact with. It would be the quickest of your options though, and the only fighting one that didn't rely on you getting into your bundle. You could do it right now, if you liked ... but you would be best served by ... skin-on ... no, just ... the point is, it would be one at a time, like the knife. And course, the Guard with the gun is the one out of reach ...
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