Surely then you would be the punkiest monkey that ever popped.
[ A singing and dancing monkey? Who's ever heard of that? Apart from everyone who's read Journey to the West, but never mind that. ]
The swiftest of birds cannot be caught simply by being fast, not with human speed at least. They're tricky things, birds. They can feel the subtle changes in the air and dodge approaching danger without even having to see it.
[ Take it from someone who dedicated a huge chunk of his life to hitting swallows. He knows birds, but that's also why he knows how to hunt them. ]
So if a single arc cannot reach them, how about a second within the space of the same breath?
[ He swings his Laundry Pole at the fastbird, and as expected it dodges. It dodges, but just dodging isn't enough. In the fraction of a second when it has committed to a new direction, a burst of mana runs through the magic weapon, and a branch sprouts from the wooden sword, extending its reach at an impossible angle and catching the bird mid-turn.
Once hit and falling out of the air, it merely takes another strike to its small head to take it out for good. Their skin is as stone, but they're still hollow-boned birds. ]
And that, is how you catch one with a Laundry Pole. I'd prefer having a third arc to trap them for good, but we have to make do with what we have.
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[ A singing and dancing monkey? Who's ever heard of that? Apart from everyone who's read Journey to the West, but never mind that. ]
The swiftest of birds cannot be caught simply by being fast, not with human speed at least. They're tricky things, birds. They can feel the subtle changes in the air and dodge approaching danger without even having to see it.
[ Take it from someone who dedicated a huge chunk of his life to hitting swallows. He knows birds, but that's also why he knows how to hunt them. ]
So if a single arc cannot reach them, how about a second within the space of the same breath?
[ He swings his Laundry Pole at the fastbird, and as expected it dodges. It dodges, but just dodging isn't enough. In the fraction of a second when it has committed to a new direction, a burst of mana runs through the magic weapon, and a branch sprouts from the wooden sword, extending its reach at an impossible angle and catching the bird mid-turn.
Once hit and falling out of the air, it merely takes another strike to its small head to take it out for good. Their skin is as stone, but they're still hollow-boned birds. ]
And that, is how you catch one with a Laundry Pole. I'd prefer having a third arc to trap them for good, but we have to make do with what we have.