So that seems to have called Harpies out of the pit and they started to harry us and Wu and Tal went in mirror action pushing off of the rock cliff and their spears together lopped a harpy down. Then I got into the action actually getting pumped from the sight of those two even as I stayed I the safety and comfort of Ruppy's lap, my mind fogging from the passed over smoke. So anyways >.>, I sent Sawu to climb upon the cliffs, giving the little guy a bit of freedom, while I myself aimed for attacking the loud mouthed leader, who had been telling us she was going to eat us. But, the harpies did two things that really pissed me off before I could even let go of my first shot... One they let off a sonic screech that caused a significant headache making me growl, and then they tore Ruppy right out from under me, and made me nearly plant my face on the outcropping. SOO I fired, I fired right through the Damn, Loudmouthed Harpy's Freaking Cheek and out the back of her damn head, and the sight of Sawu simultaneously shooting the same one's face with his webbing caused that inner growl to turn to a giggle, as I finally joined the fray. Luckily for Ruppys Tal was there, swinging in to pull him back towards the cliff face and slicing a Harpy clean through, unfortunatly however another Harpy, the soon to be last of the Swiftlings, tore right through her chain, and they all went tumbling down. Again, Luckily, while the chain threw the swiftlings that had pulled Ruppy into the air went down into the Abyss, entangled so in the chain that they couldn't even flap, Tal had been able to save herself and Ruppy, pulling the Rocker against the cliff. I had to smile I couldn't help myself I was relieved that they were both safe, and that caused me to blush selfconciously.
And I fired again at the Leader wanting to fire right through her other blasted cheek, wanted to make the holes symetrical... but I missed.... I completely missed. Wu meanwhile, had ripped through another two Harpies and was plummeting into the abyss upon the back of one of their backs, before Tal, secure in the fact that Rupper was fines had jumped upon another ripping through her wings with what seemed like the ease of a knife through hot butter. At the same time Wu jumped back up from below and O.O.... Sodomized the lead harpy through the ass with her spear WTF... I couldn't help myself but laugh I couldn't stop and didn't notice as Tal fell into the abyss herself. I just fired upon the harpy again as it flew off from the wall with Wu nestled between her legs. The shot going long after pinging against her armor, but it was enough.. It was enough to allow Wu to actually steer the harpy back towards the rest of us, and pulling her spear free Wu finished off the last of the harpies.
Sawu then jumped down guiding himself through the air upon a strand of sharp glass webbing to land neatly upon my shoulder and told me, in gross detail about how he had reeled in the Swiftling who had caused the chain to fall, and with a squealchy bite had layed in his nasty silicon neurotoxin. And with but a glance, I saw the Harpy turning blue as it hung from the chain in a webbed hogtie, I couldn't help looking away, shuddering at the sight, but I remembered Ruppy was still stoned and hanging from the chains where Tal left him, and then I remembered Ta had fallen into the abyss and I gasped I looked down I threw myself at the edge of the outcropping to look out for Tal, and Ruppy... There was Ruppy and that brought a sigh of relief, especially as I saw Tal resting in Ben's lap, like a real life sleeping beauty. So I climbed down to retrieve Ruppy, and meanwhile up the cliff was talk. Talk about a map and a swamp, and with little discussion and the threatening sound of more harpies flying up from below, we journeyed to climb back up the chains and escape. Rhias turned around, Rhias yelled and spooked the the leader of the new wave of harpies and they all took back off into the pit.
Then we were off, back through the sea of spirits, and towards the light of a fiery river in the distance, always moving towards where the rivers all converged upon the center of the underworld upon the Swamps of the Asphodel. I stopped there watching as the spirits crowded around chewing upon supple flowers and found myself remarking upon the fact, then the man in the pot, who Wuyi had apparently put in there leapt from it and with a gory sight his body started to regenerate intestines pulling back inside and internal organs regrowing.. I... I had to look away, it was too much, and while I couldn't see who but it sounded like someone even hurled. After this unsettling event the man, now proclaimied that Joshua had been lieing to us, and this got us started talking, talk about our mission, or if we really needed to go upon it, what it really meant if these powers and memories weren't really ours. But, Joshua laid our qualms to rest, we were the right ones to have them, they were ours or apparently we would've died, aand his brother.. his brother proclaimed himself to be the Divinity Prometheus, which made Joshua Epimetheus... One who stole flame, the other who was gifted with pandora and her box.. The very men who were said to have made humanity from the mud and gifted them us with fire and hope. I can only say I was rather speechless at this revelation, but the others kept talking about the consequences of it all... especially about our escape the escape of all of us, and Tal and Rhia talked about not wanting to bring Kathy, that she didn't mean any good, and I couldn't blame them I don't much care for her myself as of late.
(STILL WANT TO THROW HER FROM A CLIFF *clenches her fist and looks angrily upon the girl as a vein throbs in her forhead*)
So our escape plan... We're suppossed to go down the Lethe again by boat, and this time to its end, to the cavern of Hypnos (Slumber) and Thanatos (Death)... If the harpies aren't telling on us for freeing Prometheus & Epimetheus, I sure as heck hope the lesser gods whose home we are going to invade don't tell. But hey, on the bright side at least we can try to get all of our memories back.
