And oh no we're screwed. I don't think we can escape it at this point, so if we're going to be captured/eaten I'd rather go down fighting. Chisel Attack, Forward the Gear, Charge!
Make a beeline for the police station.
Run in a sort of zig-zag, if the creature is going fast enough, it won't recover in time to apprehend you as you turn.
Turn and wait, when it get close, jump and go over it, then run
You jerk your eyes away from the creature and begin to run for the station. From behind you hear more screams and the quickly approaching sound of the creature’s claws on the street cutting through them.
Just as it seems that the clack of the shadow gargoyles claws are coming from directly behind you, you make a sharp turn to the right, practically diving. The creature is unable to change its course to match and skids past you, its momentum carrying it into the station with a loud THWUMP. The impact knocks several bricks loose,
The creature slowly climbs to its feet as you back away unsure of where to go. Before it can fully recover, however, a policeman exits the building to investigate and upon seeing the creature his face turns white. He pulls out his pistol, firing off several shots into the creature. In response the creature raises a disproportionately-sized hand to shield itself. Three bullets slam into the hand and a fourth misses, hitting the ground. The shadow making up the creature’s hand explodes out as the bullets strike it as if it were being held under pressure. The shadow flies out it separates into strands and slivers which hang in the air around where the hand was for a moment.
Almost immediately the shadows swirl back together as if in a vortex and reform into back into the large clawed hand that they had made up a moment before. The shadow creature flexes the hand as if testing it and the officer freezes, unsure of what he is seeing. The officer's paralyzation only lasts for a moment, however, and within a moment he is trying to fire off another shot, but the creature is faster and knocks the pistol out of his hands with one gigantic hand and then sends him flying with the other, newly reformed, one. Before the man even hits the ground, the shadow creature turns around to face you once again and wastes no time in bounding forward.
You prepare to run again as...
No. You have had enough of this crap, and you aren't going to take it any longer, you are going to show this thing what's what. No more running, except in its direction.
You charge towards the creature, chisel raised, and sink it into its shoulder as you leap up off of the ground and attempt to vault over it using its shoulders. Unfortunately, you aren’t quite coordinated enough to pull off a stunt like that, so you end up falling into a heap as you flip over its arm. You quickly try to untangle yourself, but you’re too slow at doing so. The creature puts both arms around you as if embracing you in a gigantic bear hug and squeezes tightly. It stops just short of crushing your ribs and leaves just enough room to breathe though doing so is like trying to suck air through a straw. Its body feels surprisingly corporeal, though you do seem to sink into it a little bit.
With you now trapped within its grasp, the creature slowly unfolds its diminutive wings and bends over before launching itself into the sky. Barely moving its wings as it flies; the creature seems to be propelled by something other than its own physical strength. You’re amazed that it can even generate enough lift to get itself off the ground, much less you.
"Good, now don't make a fuss. I'd hate ta have ta clean up th' mes, see?."You don’t seem to have many options right now, you suppose you could try to wriggle free, but you’re pretty high up already and the thought of becoming a pancake doesn’t sound too appealing to you.
HP: 9/10
Experience: 2/?
Inventory:Work clothes15 copper coinsGear necklaceA wrapped up bacon sandwich (Held in hand)Stonecutter's chisel (Held in hand) -Acquire Fumes of Humorous Disposition.
Yeah, update speed isn't really going to be moving any faster than a snail's crawl so long as I'm taking two math courses at the same time.