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Message: <blockquote data-quote="James Heard" data-source="post: 3109860" data-attributes="member: 7280">Outside the Argotch Inn, Port Verge (nighttime) – DragenWords had no meaning. Sounds outside him were dull and unimportant.Thump, da-Thump, Two beats of his heart. The bowstring was primed. Dragen exhaled and blinked. Somewhere ahead of him, the metal man clung to his attacker.Here a peek, there a peek. The moments became patterns. The patterns wove themselves into the intricate dance of his heart within his chest. Here a peek, there a peek, here an ear, there a shoulder, the back of its hand danced into view.Here a peek, there a...a swift motion from his navel to his neck to drawn in a quick breath of air, as quickly released as the two fingers upon the string, dancing backwards in a practiced arc to gather another softly feather shaft and pull it free like a hawk diving for a rabbit in a field, pulling its prey upwards to rest upon the caloused forefinger of the opposite hand, lifting upward just so to clear the distance of the shaft on the next release.Dragen was sure that the arc of each arrow slowed in time before it hit, but he had long passed craning his head to worry over the lick of each polished and sharpened tip. Bugbears were soft, and soft things died for Dragen more easily than harder things. Thump, da-Thump. Between heartbeats, Dragen drew back the bowstring to take another life.So like a god, I whisper out and a life ends. Dragen smiled, truly at peace.OOC: Dragen shoots. Dragen has Precise Shot, eliminating any normal penalties for firing into melee. If the target has cover for some reason, barring total cover, Dragen has Sharp-Shooting, which reduces their cover to +2. He's not yet going into Rapid Shot, because I don't want him chancing a total -4 modifier to his attacks and missing. After he fires, Dragen will take a five foot step in any direction that doesn't smack him into a wall, off a ledge, or within reach of an obvious combatant.</blockquote>

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