Coaxed off of the golem by both the fish snapping at him and the strange-looking — kettle meet pot — hybrid butting him off, Vinea shrieked shrilly, scampering up to the rock pile's peak. "H-hey! I think—" he murmured, cut off by the beating of wings and angry screaming. Hearing the familiar sound of his kin, he widened his eyes, nearly whinnying: "it's a fin beast, I think." Then, he lowered his voice and whisper-yelled to her, "stay back though! Please!"
Mother henning successfully completed, Vinea barked in the direction of the dragon, casting ice upon the strange fish. Just as he went to crawl back down the golem's front, he watched as the weird hybrid—again, kettle meet pot—made to put the fish back into the water. "Hey, wait!" Stretching out a paw to make contact with White, he wheedled, "don't put it back in yet. It feels... weird." He gestured vaguely, hoping she'd understand.
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The golems do not react to being climbed on, nor to all the noise around them. They do not react to anything, in fact, until Asimona shoots forward like a white arrow, opens her jaws, and fires a blast of freezing, icy magic toward the fish.
Then, their bodies slowly groaning with the sound of grinding rock, both golems turn toward the dragon. Perhaps they are attracted by her use of magicka. One lurches into motion, rapidly lumbering toward her, its thumping steps shaking the earth beneath as it reaches great stone arms up for her. It would probably be wise to avoid it.
As White drops down the steep embankment to try and drag the huge fish to water, she would find that she's saved it from the brunt of Asimona's frosty spell--for better, or for worse, as the fish snaps up like a beartrap to try and seize her by the snout. Still, parts of the back end of its body are sheened with ice, and its thrashing appears weaker.
A banana, out of nowhere. The yellow fruit thumps down off the fish, bouncing unhelpfully off of it and past White, floating away on a new adventure down Polaris' river. Skeena's magic attracts the attention of the second golem, which starts to stumble toward her, swinging at her with a rocky fist.
- One Stone Golem is chasing Asimona. It has not yet reached her.
- The other Stone Golem is swinging a fist at Skeena; she must roll at least a Barely Successful (Other) to avoid.
- The ancient Fish is attacking White. She must roll at least a Barely Successful (Other) to avoid.
- Both golems are currently ignoring any passengers that happen to be riding on them.
@Vinea @Asimona @White @Skeena @Talion
Skeena did as her Brother asked, scurrying back from the ledge. She trusted him to protect her, always did, even with the Voice whispering poison about him in her ears. But things didn't go well, and she was forced to scurry forward.
With a loud groan, the big rock monster things came to life. One began to head towards the Big-White-Thing-With-Freezing-Breath, arms reaching out. The Bird-Dog was pulled beneath the water by the fish, and her Flying-Yellow-Thing seemed to draw a Rock-Monster's attention, as it swung a giant blocky fist at her. She attempted to leap clear, but the fist caught her, sending the hybrid flying. Skeena slammed into the rock wall with the crack of breaking bones, and eolled down until she was half-submerged, stunned.
The old and battlescarred fish continues to struggle, but it is growing weak. The freezing spell is showing its effects, the thrashing no longer quite so violent. The fish fights with struggling jerks to maintain its grip on White's muzzle.
The golem which struck Skeena pivots slowly as its target is snatched away from beneath it. The bananas that hurtled toward it, or perhaps the magicka used to summon them, draw it on further, but it finds Vinea clambering quickly out of reach. The other golem plods dutifully on beneath Asimona, reaching for her--still unable to pummel her from the ground. It stands impotently below, seeming to stare up at her with a face of blank and empty stone.
- White is still being attacked by the ancient fish, and must roll a minimum of Barely Successful (Other) to break free.
- One golem is distracted by Vinea, and is pursuing him but cannot reach him.
- One golem is distracted by Asimona, and is pursuing her but cannot reach her.
@Vinea @Asimona @White @Skeena @Talion
Talion dispassionately watched the catastrophe unfold before him.
He didn't notice the tiny Gembound upon the golem until the fish snapped at it. Another small Gembound appeared, as if summoned by its comrades' precarious situation, and yelled something about the first being its 'brother'. Since he didn't recognize that word, he wondered about its meaning, and why it was used in reference to another Gembound.
The dragon suddenly taking to the air again pulled the owl's gaze, and thoughts, away from the strange pair. It did not study the fish like before though. Instead, the dragon seemed to decide to end this whole ordeal by blasting a stream ice at the fish. That might have worked, if the golems hadn't been around, and Talion might have informed the ragtag group as much if he'd had any time to do so. Unfortunately, he was forced to watch, just the others, as the golem suddenly came to life because of the use of magic.
The white hybrid diving for the fish drew Talion's gaze away from the golems for a few seconds. He watched, unsurprised, as the thing thrashed up, and clamped its jaws around the hybrid. It had already attacked the tiny one, why did the bird-dog think it would react any differently to it? Because it was helping?
One glance at the pair of little ones said they were at least distracting their own golem. The dragon hovered in the air, jaws parted as if to let loose another blast, this time at the golem approaching her. Since it was big, and was at least out of range of the golem, the owl turned his attention back to bird-dog. It needed help now.
Talion unfurled his wings and pushed off the rock in one fluid motion. He glided over the water, and then began a slow ascent in a wide circle around the group. As soon as he thought he was high enough, the owl twisted and dove straight at the fish.
"LET GO!" He screeched as he twisted again, slashing at the fish with his talons.