- Hold your fire!
John says so, but his right hand already lies on the pistol handle. He whips his left arm forward, open palm facing the creatures, and shouts out to the approaching avian serpents:
- Creatures of the realm! We mean no harm, be not confused with our look! We are merely passing by!
Negotiate with creatures first. Should they attack us disregarding our effort to talk to them, start firing at them and tell others to do so.
The creatures don't respond but they don't seem to be diving down at you with any real aggressive urgency. They're sort of lazily circling down toward you. But they do look intent on landing on the platform.
Land between the armed people aboard the lovely warbeast.
You touch down on the platform.
"SON OF A BITCH!" Tarmac exclaims before his attention is drawn to the approaching flying snakes.
If those snakes get hostile, take out my anger at not having cigarettes on them by stabbing them with my spike if they get in range. Defend the Engine Spirit.
You run over to where the engine spirit is tied onto the war beast and brandish your spike.
examine snakes with mild disdain for not being fish then continue patrol of barbecue-that-which-offends me
You waddle around the platform, wenking.
dance, shake my booty at the snakes. If they get attack our group shoot at them, without booty shaking.
You point your butt in the air and shake it forcefully at the descending snakes.
Hyenakles growls.
Take aim at the nearest sky snake. Be ready to shoot it.
You take aim but don't fire.
Observe reactions of sky snakes. Make sure my molotovs are ready to throw at a moment's notice if they prove hostile.
You get out your lighter and keep it close to the cloth wick of the molotov.
The snake creatures descend all the way to the platform and land gently atop it. Their wings, still only visible as a slight hue of gold and distorted light, seem to fold in upon themselves and vanish. The snakes don't fall to the ground, instead they remain standing, as it were, coiled upward like a spring. They begin speaking in what seem to be a variety of languages, perhaps trying for one you understand.