"Hokey Dokey. Gentlemen, time to wake up. Something big is stomping around out there and it might be coming this way. The other fellow said we should hide. Isn't this exciting?"
Help everyone wake up.
Flamenco John wakes everyone who wasn't already woken up by the sound. Basically, this is just Xan who he has to shake for a while and ply with promises of explosives and lusty women.
Hyenakles grabs John's gun, and frantically checks to see that it's loaded. As he pops open his door, he turns to Flamengo John.
"I should be right back, go ahead and wake them up and get ready to run. We need somewhere to hide, somewhere that isn't the jeep. Let's try not to die."
Take John's gun and the deer leg, and find shelter; it can be a ditch, an overhang, anything we could reasonably cower in or behind. Unless it's gonna get me killed, proceed to run back to the jeep, to get the others, before I duck and cover.
"Well that was fun guys, been a great time, love you all but, um..."
You shrug and jump out of the jeep, sprinting off into the dark. You run for a while before finding a large boulder and throw yourself behind it.
Keep looking! Must locate either bones or traveling schmuck band. Bones of traveling schmuck band are starting to sound okay also.
You hear the same giant footsteps as well; and given thats your only point of reference in this inky blackness, you decide to head towards it. Knowing those guys, it's probably near them. You fly in until you can see something. It's massive, too big for you to see all of it in the dark at once. It has a vaguely gorilla like stance, quadrupedal but with over-sized forelimbs and a distinct hunched appearance. You can see glints of metal hidden in coarse gray hair, some of it looks like armor plate but others are very clearly weapons that have been lodged in the creature's hide. Some are of enormous size and as you fly around it, you realize that this creature should, by all reasonable standards, be dead. Several long metal lances have been pierced straight through it, and human sized swords are embedded all over it's arms and back. It has a great maw of teeth that hangs lazily agape and it's eyes are partially covered by blinders. It's walking forward slowly, carefully putting one powerful limb down, pausing for several seconds and then moving another. Its movement seems almost autonomous, devoid of thought or rational.
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