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Bernard ([personal profile] myfairlily) wrote in [community profile] pawnstorm 2016-02-22 03:10 am (UTC)

Hmph. At least it's finally starting to get serious.

[Is that what it's doing?!

Well, with the number of tiny and incredibly annoying robot helpers that have come out of the woodwork at this point, the sudden and painful rain of icicles, and the fact that the parent robot has started making some truly alarming noises -- maybe that's one way to put it.

Bernard may not know very much about robots, but he's relatively well-acquainted with this one's movements by now; and the way its patterns are starting to shift, to slide into chaos, may be a result of the water, or maybe it's just becoming alarmed that its 'children' are in peril. There's no way of knowing. He's pretty sure throwing the robot off-balance both literally and figuratively is a good thing, but a cornered animal or creature or... whatever this is can become more dangerous before it's placated.

At least he has his second wind now, pausing for a moment in his retreat to turn a more attentive eye to how the back of their line has been doing; he can't really stay still due to the stray snowball still coming from the back, but he can also easily lift his halberd above his head and swing it into a good, solid spin to give himself a little cover from the icicles. He can wield it single-handed, but it's not ideal for lengthy battles like this one, especially when they're fighting on two fronts.

Ideally, they would have someone capable of taking care of the icicles or following Regene's suggestion of baiting the smaller robots into them, but their only real range fighter is a bit busy, just now.]

We should get back to the front line, but it looks like that one might need some sorting out, first. [He nods to the scrambling Regene, tilting his head towards Marie at his side. (What is names?? Someone really should have made callsigns for everyone; it's made worse by the fact that he can't tell the two dark-haired ones in the back apart in the fray.) A brief sigh, even as he's already moving to rejoin Setsuna again, before he calls over his shoulder--] You, the closest one with dark hair! You're about to step on your spectacles.

[Regene will have to do the rest himself, or collar someone else farther in the back, because Bernard's taken off running full tilt towards the robot. It's still following Setsuna wheeling about like a particularly off-kilter merry-go-round; its head is even starting to whirl a little in place. Perhaps it's actually getting dizzy, which would work in his favor.

Because once Bernard gets close enough that he can time the thrashing of those pesky arms, he jumps -- a pretty impressive leap for a guy carrying a good few pounds of wood and metal and himself, lands for a split-second on the robot's elbow at the end of a swing, and then goes straight for the shoulder.]

Heads-up!

[The yell is more for their sniper's benefit than anything else -- he doesn't really relish getting shot in the tail whenever Shinya is finished introducing his iceberg friend to the robotic compatriots. There's very little time now, so Bernard does a simple, quick swing: CLANG goes his blade in a resounding smack against the robot's helm, to a screech of either mechanical distress or metal against metal.

The principle is simple: it's easier to take out one head than two arms, and if something like this comes packaged with a head-like implement, there must be some value in taking it out.

Those close by may notice that even as he moves to take a second swing before jumping clear, the blade of his halberd -- perhaps from the friction of impact, perhaps from something else entirely -- has at some point gathered an ethereal glow. By the time he's done, it's almost like a miniature star in the gloomy confines of the labyrinth, though it's already fading.

Also, the robot's head -- knocked a bit sideways but not off -- has also started smoking pretty heavily. That's a good thing, too, right?]

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