I climbed down the edge of the mountain, spied a small robot walking around, decided to break in my new bow. I pulled out a metal arrow, took aim at the giant obvious vulnerable point on his back, and released the string. My arrow knocked the part from the watcher's back it screamed in pain, but to my dismay I saw that shy of half it's health had been lost, and now it was angry. The machine began firing some sort of laser weapon at me, it hurt! I let fly several more precious arrows, desperate to bring the beast down. Each arrow did far less damage than the first, but eventually the bot fell, and I leaped down from my rock to harvest whatever prizes I could from it's corpse. Before I could get a good look at my bounty, something hit me from behind, and I fell, hard. It was another watcher, which had apparently been alerted by the screams from the first. I clumsily struggled to dodge it's kicks while haphazardly plinging arrows in it's general direction, but before I could do much harm to it, a laser struck me from a third watcher I had not yet seen. I turned to flee, despondent that I had expended so many arrows without even claiming my prizes from the one I managed to kill, but now both surviving watchers were shooting at me with ranged attacks. I only managed to run a few steps before my life bar emptied and I fell once more. This time, everything went black.
I awoke next to a campfire, back at the top of the hill. I got my bearings and headed back to where I had died, already considering new strategies to improve my chances against this mechanical foe. A few short hours later, I was sniping watchers with a single shot, crawling through grass, laying tripwires and explosive traps, luring in machines five times bigger than the watchers and dispatching them with a single spear-strike.
Horizon, Zero Dawn
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