Ouch! What's a 'fallen pride'?
It's a part of megabeasts that personify the Seven Deadly Sins - the fallen pride is basically a classical Devil as opposed to both the randomly-generated, bizarre appearances of the vanilla Demons, and also the more horrific, deformed appearances of the other personifications, though it's still not pretty by any means - it has an overall humanoid bat-like appearance, a royal-looking collar of fur around it's neck, glowing purple eyes, two horns, two wings and two wicked claws - and also access to some fire magic (functionally a regular fire jet and also fireballs that can hit up to two targets at once).
They also can take over civilizations in world-gen by fooling them into believing they are deities the civ worships, similarly to how demons do it, and also if you topple statues in temples there's a chance you'll be cursed to assume the form of one...which, if you do it in a town aside from the one you start in, it's gonna draw the ire of everyone who sees you - if you do it in your hometown you merely cause a loyalty cascade from what I can tell.
In any case, Manex killed the next adventuring party - fire jets and fireballs in close quarters are quite deadly even to a party of 3. Also I dunno what it is, but...are shields scaled to fit whatever race uses them? I was playing as an animal person but I had to drop the shield I started with as it was reducing me to 0.099 speed.
Anyway, I decided to try something else and started from the tarkatan civilization of the Noiseless Roof, as a striker by the name of Shur Craftpulleys. Shur recruited a bowman, Sirka Canyonrises, and Sinata Danglepaddles, a spearwoman. I got a shield and a buckler since I didn't require a weapon due to my armblades, and also picked up some sawblades for throwing.
The group headed to the shrine of Saffronpack, where a sand titan had taken residence - Goock Lakeglades the Animal of Sun. It was a giant, three-eyed hadrosaurid with mandibles, and could breathe fire. Only Shur and Sirka fought with the massive reptile - Sinata had ran off. Shur's martial prowess was more than a match for the beast, managing to tear it's nervous tissue with just his armblades - unfortunately he couldn't get an instantly killing blow with them, which allowed the beast to still thrash around madly. He blocked it's fire with his shields, but he couldn't manage to block it's extremely fast fireballs. Sirka was consumed by the flames after the beast crushed his hands and feet by thrashing around on his limbs with it's sheer weight alone, and unfortunately later Shur burned to death as well - although he died with satisfaction, knowing the beast would go down with him soon enough.
Afterwards, I made a tarkatan swordsman, Miga Tonepages. Once again, she recruited a maceman, Eliralah Gutteroiled, and a pikeman, Keerur Webbolt, grabbed some gear, including an iron scimitar, a second shield, and an iron machete to replace her silver long sword, and headed to Saffronpack. The sand titan was long dead - Miga took this opportunity to butcher it's body and created some bone goods from it, including a figurine of Shur, in order to honor his memory, and also a cloak. She then found Sinata not far from the shrine, and after badly telling a story about how someone killed a treant or something, somehow recruited her as an entertainer (
).
The group of 4 then had two places they could head to - the shrine of Blossomgills, where Nenara the Feral Snake, a hill titan, had taken residence, and the Matched Phlegms, a lair of the hydra N'agn Earlymatch the Primitive Hide of Canyons (or, in my personally preferred, untranslated version - N'agn Mglwuhjah'anai Wganaqaricokeri Shahararu - apparently a faceless one had encountered it earlier and named it - given the rather violent and cult-like nature of the n'raqi, it's unknown how any other race managed to translate it's name).
They decided to head to the shrine, as they felt too inexperienced still for fighting the hydra.
Nenara was a one-eyed, humanoid marmot with deadly spittle that it didn't get to use. It was disappointingly weak - Sinata and Eliralah immediately leapt on it, stabbing and bashing it with their weapons, before Miga delivered the coup de grace with her iron machete aimed at the titan's neck, severing it cleanly. She then butchered it's body, and made several trinkets out of it's bones and hide - most notably a bone figurine of the beast itself, a bone helmet, another cloak, and a face veil to hide her rather terrifying set of teeth.
Feeling they were ready, the companions headed to the Matched Phlegms, where the hydra made it's nest. Quite a big mistake.
The hydra smelled the scent of it's prey, and charged after Miga, attacking her with it's seven heads but missing entirely or bouncing off of one of the shields. Miga's first attack was quite a square one - her machete got lodged in the multi-headed snakes fifth head, fracturing the skull. Meanwhile, the blows of Eliralah and Keerur quite angered the beast, causing it to charge, bowling over Miga, stunning her, and allowing the hydra to focus on the two pests.
The onslaught was horrifying - Eliralah's left foot and left upper arm were bitten clean off - eventually the beast grabbed hold of the maceman's neck with it's teeth, shaking him around in the air, before biting off the remainder of his left leg, and latching onto his head with another head and shaking viciously, tearing deep into his skin. The warrior fell unconscious from the blood loss and eventually bled to death. During this, Keerur went into a rage and stabbed relentlessly at the beast - the effort proved ultimately futile and caused minimal damage, but drew all of the hydra's ire - Keerur died even more horribly than Eliralah - N'agn immediately stomped down on Keerur's head, holding him in place, bit off his entire left arm, followed by both of his legs, then as if to add insult to injury, headbutted his face, knocking out some of his teeth - by the time the beast was done with Keerur, he was nothing more than a legless torso with his upper right arm still attached. Sinata fared marginally better - she still lost her left hand and left foot to the beasts attacks, though.
The sight of this slaughter angered Miga, who proceeded with all her might to
cleave off several of the beasts necks - this proved to eventually be too much for the hydra, who collapsed in a bloody heap, dead.
Sinata managed to fight off the blood-loss, although she's pale from it. Miga shall head back to her village, and drop off Sinata there, as she's clearly in no shape to fight anymore.
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