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> Attempt to talk to the harpy
You stay on the defensive, but decide to see if the harpy isn't completely feral. You ask her if she understands you. The birdkin stops for a moment before simply tilting her head. You let out a frustrated sigh. It was worth a shot at least.
Now that you know for certain she is fully feral, you must decide what to do. You're currently in a fairly open area near the cliffside, but there is forest all around. If you had to run from her, then the forest would be the best choice. Even if she did follow you in, she'd be forced to land if she wanted to attack you.
While keeping an eye on her movements and thinking of what to do, the harpy suddenly lunges at you with surprising speed! You quickly manage to dodge out of the way and flip back around to see her landing back on the ground a ways away with her back turned to you. You put yourself back in a defensive position as the birdkin turns around. She has a smile on her face and playfully flaps her wings as she slowly starts to approach you. You're really not sure if this harpy is trying to trick you or is just being playful.
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Posted by thatonedude236 9 years ago Report
Throw stick to play fetch with Birb.
Posted by joe354 9 years ago Report
That..might be a good idea just get another stick and play with it.
Posted by Stunlocked 9 years ago Report
Throw the wooden club at the bird
Posted by WolfMorgenstern 9 years ago Report
Advance on the harpy and with the axe at the ready but low. Prepared to defend.
If she is playing we dont want to kill her! And if she isnt... Well obviously we need to survive. If we dont find Garret or Myla I'll be sad. 3:
Posted by RumiBelly 9 years ago Report
Try to tame the harpy
Posted by Thagrahn 9 years ago Report
Naughty but playful harpy?
Tackle and Hug?
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Was expecting either not fully feral, or would turn aggressive.
Posted by Thagrahn 9 years ago Report
Still trying to decide if we should charge the birb, cast Firestream on the birb, or just try to move so there is a tree behind us.
Posted by Thagrahn 9 years ago Report
I've got it!
Smile, drop weapons, and charge the birb!
We dodged her twice, Floira should get a chance at being on the offence in this game.
Posted by Rubiont-47 9 years ago Report
Warn her that you had a very bad day. Get ready to fight if it will continue to approach.
Posted by teslacoil22 9 years ago Report
the answer must be dodge rolls, dodge roll all around her.
Posted by Rayen 9 years ago Report
Dark Souls approach? :V
Posted by Bledric 9 years ago Report
Target lock and walk in circles till we know all it's attack animations. A flawless strategy that hasn't killed me many times.
Posted by Deska 9 years ago Report
Think of Myla, captured and at the mercy of Edris and her thugs. Channel the motivation and make our stand! She's too fast to just outrun, and bombs arnt exactly the strongest creatures in the woods.
Posted by Alenora 9 years ago Report
Agreed! We can get nommed all we want -after- we set things right. No belly adventures until Myla's saved!
Posted by AtmosRobot 9 years ago Report
That sudden lunge was not very comforting. That being said, it gives me an idea. What would happen if the harpy lunged at us again and we threw up a stone shield?
Posted by Thagrahn 9 years ago Report
Wait for her to stop circling, and raise it behind us?
Posted by Stunlocked 9 years ago Report
Her stone shield spell isn't really good, it took forever to make and didn't even support its own weight.
The birb would have plenty of time to attack and she would fly straight through it if she happened to hit it. That would mean rocks flying towards you which isn't very healthy. And the birb.
Posted by Kartomic 9 years ago Report
Better yet... Position ourselves in front of a tree, and try to bait the harpy into charging into it. That outta knock her out cold.
Posted by DeityV 9 years ago Report
Damn, I want a Birb. All right, here we go. Use stone shield to raise up a small round rock. Let's throw it intentionally wide right to see if she tries to fetch it. If not, then at least we are prepared for a fight.
Posted by Lurkergonnalurk 9 years ago Report
Flap back, imitate it's gestures to show goodwill!
If anything, we could make a feral friend!
Posted by AnominableBreadman 9 years ago Report
Lead her into the forest to see if she follows you, then attempt to play with it while keeping your distance.
Posted by Shadowlyger 9 years ago Report
Enough of the shenanigans! Fry that sucka! LET THERE BE FIRE!
Posted by RumiBelly 9 years ago Report
Try to confuse it. Recite quotes from Alice in Wonderland or Through the Looking-Glass.
Posted by Razgriz 9 years ago Report
She's likely going to hound us until we're out of stamina or something, then eat us! When she's distracted, clobber her over the head.
Posted by BloodKnight 9 years ago Report
Wave your arms in the air like you just don't care!!
Posted by Schpadoinkle 9 years ago Report
She's just playing, it's ok.
Play with her, show her you're friendly.
Posted by davidargall 9 years ago Report
This play is called cat & mouse, and is routinely lethal for the mouse-us. We need to get kitty to go away.
Posted by Salvec 9 years ago Report
Tackle that harpy to the ground. Friendly glomps ftw!
Posted by Menyra 9 years ago Report
Cast Torch (or whatever the light spell is) on our weapon, and then wave it around in an attempt to play with the birb.
We should sate her curiosity. Clearly the birb likes shinies (because let's face it: what kind of birb doesn't like shinies? :V) so the best course of action is to create our own shiny!
Posted by Thagrahn 9 years ago Report
Don't risk our stone axe, cast it on one of the throwing stones.
Posted by YesImCanadian 9 years ago Report
I like this idea. We cast it on a stone and throw it to the side, close enough to her to get her attention, but far enough to get her distracted and see what she does.
We need so stay vigilant. We don't know what else is out here.
Posted by YesImCanadian 9 years ago Report
For as much as I don't think we should, we should move towards the forest. Give ourselves as much of an advantage as we can.
Posted by davidargall 9 years ago Report
Situation getting worse. Stay alert and ready. Attempt to retreat slowly and carefully to tree or bushes where harpy flying will be hampered.
Make gestures to look threatening. A predator can't win if it takes even a small wound. The next meal would escape, or some healthy predator would finish it. So if we look dangerous, it should leave us alone.
Remember, if we survive, we win. There is no need to kill this thing if it will go away.
Throwing a stick likely won't work, but if we can do it safely and easily, we might as well. But our prime tactic is to stay ready.
We probably don't have time to cast any stone spell and still dodge, But we might be able to make a shield we can use as a shield while it is not attacking. But our stone spell didn't work too well before.
Now we do have a firestream spell, which might make the harpy go away, or immediately attack, and since feather do burn well, it may retreat. The spell doesn't do much damage, but if the harpy fears fire, it could save us.
Posted by KinoTheCat 9 years ago Report
Now its time to act. Cast an ember toward shte bird, and wait to see if she lunges again. If she does, try to raise a stone shield in front of it so as to knock her out with her own momentum!
Do not throw our weapon. This is a bird that is probably wanting to eat us, do not get rid of the one weapon we have.
Posted by CrazedCultist 9 years ago Report
Typical EVIL birbs
EVVVILLLLL!
Posted by Schpadoinkle 9 years ago Report
Guys, trust me. I am the foremost expert on harpies in this part of the internet. This birb is harmless!
Just look at that face. There's no malice there.
Posted by paltiel 9 years ago Report
Okay, I'll bite. What's the safest way to play with her?
Posted by Schpadoinkle 9 years ago Report
If she wanted to eat us she'd have done so while we didn't notice her. Swooping at Floria was an attempt to say "play with me"
The way she's approaching now suggests that she thinks we're interesting. A good way to get on a bird's, or feral harpy in this case, is to offer her something. Since I don't think we have food, clearly we should offer a hug, or some sort of snuggle.
As long as you're not rough with the wings. Birds don't like it when their wings are handled.
Posted by paltiel 9 years ago Report
*nodsnods* Yeah, we're completely out of food. Thank you- Playing with her like that gets my vote.
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The only piece of lore available is the Blue Bird in DunRun:Re. What it says is that she 'Loves to "play" with her friends. Prone to lewd acts.'
Posted by Rayen 9 years ago Report
Delving deep into research are ya? :V
Posted by paltiel 9 years ago Report
Yesh. ^w^ Still can't beat it 100% of the time, tho.. >_<
Posted by AtmosRobot 9 years ago Report
I'd be careful with applying Blue Bird behavior to our current encounter. They're not necessarily the same thing.
Posted by CrazedCultist 9 years ago Report
SHHH! DON'T TELL ANYONE!
Posted by Sergit 9 years ago Report
I agree with this. She wants to play because she finds us amusing. So let's amuse her... Hugs and snuggles are a good choice. I was going to suggest singing to her and see if she singed along, or something, since that seems less dangerous than a hug, but... if you guys are up to it, I vote to offer her a hug as well.
Posted by Kartomic 9 years ago Report
This thing has attempted to attack us twice now, so I have a feeling that trying to befriend it is a bad idea. Cast the torch spell on our club or a rock, and wave it around to distract the harpy. When the time is right, throw a rock grenade at it.
That being said though, im quite nervous about Floria's chances here. Bruised and hungry, facing an enemy that is far faster than us. We'll need to use our heads. Maybe position ourselves in front of a tree, and bait the harpy into charging at us again.
Posted by YesImCanadian 9 years ago Report
That would be a smart move. If it does lung at us again, we might have a chance.
Posted by YesImCanadian 9 years ago Report
What we can do, is act friendly to it and act like we're lowering our guard. At the same time, we move so that we're between a tree and the harpy. We should get kind of close to the tree though. If it lunges again stops short and we're not close enough to the tree, we will be open for another attack.
If it doesn't lunge and is curious, we can try to distract it with the torch spell, giving us time to try something else.
Posted by Kartomic 9 years ago Report
Good idea!
Posted by MontyMiyagi2513 9 years ago Report
Whistle a little tune see if it mimics it
Posted by Sergit 9 years ago Report
This gets my vote too. Maybe singing is a bad idea, but whistling shouldn't be too hard. If the harpy seems to dislike our song, we stop whistling to avoid pissing her off. Otherwise, let's continue whistling and see what she does.
Posted by MontyMiyagi2513 9 years ago Report
I just thought since most harpies out side of mythology are based on song birds and the this harpy is feral to a certain degree something musical would give us a better chance of survival and possibly make a new friend
Posted by PowerPigeon 9 years ago Report
Y'know what, birb. We have places to be right now. If you want to follow us around, that's fine. You ain't got no beef with me, I ain't got no beef with you. I am one with nature.
Seeing as the birb is WALKING TOWARDS US, we'll walk calmly in the opposite direction, into the forest.
Based on the fact that harpies are mostly playful, and nighttime makes creatures more aggressive, I think the harpy is just AGGRESSIVELY PLAYFUL. >:u
I say that because becoming more aggressive isn't the same as becoming more violent or dangerous. If it's in a harpy's nature to be playful their playfulness is what becomes more aggressive.
I think that term best describes how it's acting right now. If it turns violent the only thing it can really do is grab us and carry us into the air, which is the only thing we need to avoid, which can be avoided by heading into the forest.
I say we smile and wave at the birb, then walk into the forest.
But we keep our guard up as we do so. We always keep our goshdeng guard up.
This isn't really an encounter, it's just a birb who decided it wants to follow us... Let's just let it follow us, but in the forest, where it can't attack us from the air.
So we should just let it be and walk into the forest, where if it does try to attack us, it can't do the one thing it can do, which is pick us up with its claws and fling us up into the sky.
If we start attacking every creature we meet, we're going to be in the forest forever, standing atop a mountain of skulls.
Come with us, birb. Let us venture into the forest together.
> Walk into the forest with our birb stalker. Head towards the nearest main road so we can start hitchhiking.
We're best just being neutral with the birb for the moment. We won't attack it or play with it, we'll just walk away and let it follow us into the forest, where it can't do anything to hurt us.
I mean, we really can't be distracted by this birb forever. We need to start heading to safety. We need to head to safety through the forest where we are safe from air-predators, who are the really tricky ones to deal with.
Attacking the birb would alert other predators, and make the birb actually violently aggressive instead of aggressively playful.
Playing with the birb is just asking for it to turn on us, or play with us in a very dangerous way, or take us back to its nest or something.
Let's just let the birb follow us around in an area where it can do no real harm, the forest. Show her we're not afraid of birbs.
In the forest she can't carry us into the sky, she can only use her hand claws and try to swallow us whole. If she did swallow us in the forest we could easily just light her insides on fire.
In the forest she can be our wingman. :U A-HA, A-HAHAHA, A-HA, A-HA, hehhh...
Posted by PowerPigeon 9 years ago Report
Then again I suppose this birb could be our safest guide out of the forest. In that case our best bet would be to hug it out.
I feel safer around this birb now that we've learned more about blue birbs from this universe in the comments.
> Hug Birb
Me am Floria. Me hug puny birb. Ugg.
She's blue, Navi was blue. She could have followed our kidnappers all the way to the mountains, which would explain why they aren't usually in mountainous regions.
Let's counter her WALKING TOWARDS US with a HUG IT OUT.
It should be SUPER EFFECTIVE.
Posted by PowerPigeon 9 years ago Report
Also we can't throw a grenade or use any fire, otherwise we'll start a forest fire and/or attract beasties with noise. We also can't walk into the forest as that's probably full of beasties too.
So the only viable option at this point is to hug birb. Combat would be unnecessary and dangerous, judging by my newly acquired birb psychology degree. It takes a birb to know a birb.
Posted by PowerPigeon 9 years ago Report
She could even help us fly *over* the forest so we don't have to walk through it. That would be cool. :v
Posted by PowerPigeon 9 years ago Report
Wait a minute now, the birb is in grabbing distance.
We could just say, grab the birb and shove it in our mouth.
Occam's razor. :v
We're playing with you birb, don't worry about it... just stay inside there, and play. >:u
Posted by PowerPigeon 9 years ago Report
What if we combine the two... we hug it out, then BAM, we eat the birb.
Then again making her fly into a tree and knock out would also be smart. That's the safest way of taking her out. We wouldn't even have to eat her then, we *could* just walk away. Or eat her.
There are too many options in this panel. Damn you, freedom!
Posted by Naubol 9 years ago Report
Burn The inn ; D
Posted by RavenXeo 9 years ago Report
I agree with certain people. move in front of a tree and have her charge again.
Posted by phantom131 9 years ago Report
Pluck the harpy to make a feather coat...
Posted by warbrand4 9 years ago Report
Well, Lets play the harpies game, something is off here and well keep defensive but play along.
Posted by Topazert 9 years ago Report
Keep on the defensive though maybe try to mimic her playful nature and put on a friendly face?
Posted by Topazert 9 years ago Report
Maybe also putting our weapon down as a sign of peace?
Posted by TotallyRandom 9 years ago Report
Hmm, an updated character creation page. With your past history of subtle hint dropping, it is safe to assume, Floria is done for. :P
Fighting is not an option with only a crude stone axe and no armor vs. a feral birb. Fleeing isn't a good idea either, as with her luck, Floria would only run into another monster. She should take her imminent death with humor and start singing "Surfin Birb". With any luck she'll survive another panel.
A-well-a everybody's heard about the birb!
Birb birb birb, b-birb's the word
A-well-a birb birb birb, birb is the word...
Posted by Rayen 9 years ago Report
Well, as I said in the post, I did the character creation thing cause it was suggested in the survey. I'm not dropping any hints this time. This encounter is 100% survivable, we just gotta do things right. :V
Posted by TotallyRandom 9 years ago Report
Maybe I am i little paranoid after the recent turn of events. But it's all your fault :P
Posted by YesImCanadian 9 years ago Report
You do realize that Floria has 8 luck. We got in this situation due to a bad roll.
Posted by TotallyRandom 9 years ago Report
Even 8 luck don't prevent two consecutive bad rolls. May X-Com experience teached me that you could easily miss 97-99% hit shots.. with whole 6 man squad.. in a single turn.. on IronMan. And with all the luck Floria had until now, statistics doesn't favor her.
Posted by Doomlycupcake 9 years ago Report
Jiggle those boobies around too attract her attention~~
Posted by The-Lonely-Gamefreak 9 years ago Report
Being playful isn't the same as being friendly, just being coy and cynical, so probably best to try and wait for it to strike first.
The forest itself may have other perils, but being close to the treeline as a defensive tactic will help so as to duck around a tree if it tries to dash us. We got the reflexes, but do we have the strength for this fight? Guess we'll find out.
Posted by Jondo 9 years ago Report
I think we should act terrified, point behind the Harpy, and yell, "Hey look! A distraction!" Then run behind a tree when she looks the other way.