video [isonade hunting tips]; un: hunter

[notched]

[ The woman on camera is petite with a pretty face. Her hair had been braided back neatly at some point, but now loose strands of it hang around her face. Her clothes are loose and androgynous; always in rough-spun breeches and sturdy boots. She is sitting in what appears to be one of the Tamamo pleasure dens, the phone balanced on its side with a stand so she can speak to it without holding it.

That's as far as she's gotten with technology, it mostly baffles her, but she has something to say: ]

Isonade hunters. Listen well. All Shark Giants are capable of a deadly, four-legged charge attack and they swipe at you as they come into range. Dodge to the side, not backwards, so that you may more easily circle to their back.

Bait and kite them until you are able to land your backstab cleanly. Their hide is tough, you must commit in full. But they will fall swiftly if their spine is severed.

If you have not the poise to withstand their charges, you must stay at range from them and work slowly, steadily. They will tire with the cumulative damage to themselves.

Gather as many Haniwa as you can to take with you. They have no particular defense against accursed attacks, these will be a great boon to you as a projectile. Do not linger long with them in your possession, however, or it will be you who suffers from their taint.

[ She goes silent for a moment. Studying the camera, something she is not used to speaking to. Her dark eyes are ever so slightly disconcerting, a little distant and empty.

But she quirks a small, courteous smile, ]

Happy hunting.

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video; un: bbhood

[appleforyou]

[Impressive. These were solid strategies. Bulleta is standing in her dingy little Enma apartment, holding the phone up close. She tilts her head to the side thoughtfully.]

My, those are some excellent tips~ ♥ I take it from your username you're a fellow hunter? It's truly a pleasure to make your acquaintance, if so!

[She sits the phone down and gives the screen a little curtsy.]

I had thought I was the only one around here. I've never been so pleased to be wrong, hehe~

[notched]

[ Her dark eyes lower back to the phone with curiosity when someone responds. She hadn't gotten that far in her thought process, responses... Hm. She contemplates the sweet voice directed at her.

No one Hunts and retains such an innocence in earnest. It is always a ploy to disarm, but then they all have their tricks and ploys. She simply makes a note not to be pulled in by it. ]

Aye, I am a Hunter. Anna. I've come from Yharnam.

[appleforyou]

[Anna was wise to see through that act (well, the parts that were truly an act) so early. It was probably better for both parties this way.]

Anna. [Bulleta nods, as if committing it to memory.] I've never heard of Yharnam - I don't think that it exists on my planet. What is it like? What sort of things do you hunt there?! [She leans towards the camera eagerly, bright-eyed and rosy-cheeked. This was probably the most genuinely excited she'd been since she arrived here.]

[notched]

[ She looks upon the eagerness with the same empty affect. She's seen the type. She is not one of them, she has been too hurt by what she has seen. ]

...Beasts. There is a plague in Yharnam that turns man to beast, among other ugly things. It's a cursed place, on the brink desolation.

[ Anna has a low voice for a woman, scratchy with disuse and the lightest touch of a brogue. ]

[appleforyou]

[Bulleta pauses, rolling the words over in her mind. A plague that turns man to beast. She can't relate at all. The feeling that rises up in her as she thinks of herself or her grandmother at risk of something like that is anger, of course, but it's mixed with something unfamiliar and unpleasant. Something vaguely like fear - something almost like sympathy.]

Nnn, that sounds absolutely dreadful. I'd rather die before I'd let myself be turned to a monster.

...

I guess... you became a hunter out of necessity, then?

[There was a clear discrepancy in their attitudes towards the craft, at the very least.]

text; un: tengennohana

[ryototsukai]

i don't know if we should be advising people to use the Haniwa figurines as weapons.

[notched]

Use any weapon at your disposal.

[ryototsukai]

trust me, i know that in a fight like that, there's no such thing as 'unfair tactics'. it's not about that, it's about the danger it might pose to yourself. someone could screw up and wind up in a seriously bad situation.

[notched]

That would be a learning experience, would it not.

[ Thrown into the deep end of the Hunt. Sink or swim. ]

[ryototsukai]

well.

yes, but one they might not make it back from.

i'm responsible for making sure the tamamo young guns don't get themselves killed, you know!

video | un: andy

[killtime]

[ Andy's never been especially good with technology herself, but this is one of the only posts she's seen that actually seemed useful enough to bother with. And maybe, subconsciously, she recognizes that look in the woman's eye — something kindred. ]

How many have you killed?

[notched]

[ Anna stares at her blankly for a moment. How does one answer this question when they were living in a time loop. After a moment, she decides not to answer that part. ]

Two, of the local variation.

[ Anna's voice is just a little low for a woman, scratchy with disuse and she speaks with the softest dust of a brogue. ]

[killtime]

[ She's seen the Isonade, and two is no small feat. ]

On your own? Not fucking bad.

[notched]

I hunt alone.

[ No one is to be trusted, not when there is blood in the air. ]

...the other two ran. I lost them, in the streets.

[killtime]

[ Andy's always been more of a pack animal herself, but there's nothing wrong with a lone wolf type. This one's clearly not having any issues handling things on her own. ]

Weapon of choice?

video;

[sawofstrength]

Pretty sound advise over there, Missy. Been at this kind of lifestyle for long?

[notched]

Aye. I came up as a Hunter.

[ Not from childhood, but she was 18 and it was 10 years later when the Nightmare began. She has been looping the same final night of Yharnam now for... who's to say how long. ]

[sawofstrength]

By choice, or necessity?

[She couldn't help but want to know.]

[notched]

Choice. I came to Yharnam looking for medicine for my sister. Joined the Hunters militia instead.

[ She knows. She knows. She should have gone back. She didn't know how things would turn out. She couldn't have. ]

[sawofstrength]

Sounds to me like you made it work if you've been at it for however long as you have.

[She won't judge.]

video; un: braver

[identitycrisiscore]

[The blond young man eventually gets the phone in a position where he could look at it to respond to the lady on the network. Which, admittedly, is more effort from him than he would usually use to respond, but, hey.]

Professional advice. I could have appreciated this the last time I tangled with them, but I'll file it away for later.

You hunt monsters too, then. [It's a statement, not a question. Game recognizes game, Anna.]

[notched]

Aye, a long time now.

[ She looks young, pretty. But time loops are a bitch. She's been trapped in the same night for... there is no telling how long. ]

Many ugly things.

[identitycrisiscore]

I can believe it. [And that's not sarcastic - The way she describes how to take down these shark-people is brutal. Efficient in its own right. Comprehensive.]

I'd heard people were using the statues as bombs. I've never had the need to use something like that myself, but you clearly know your way around making use of what you have.

What's your preferred weapon?

[Might as well ask - from one monster hunter to another.]

[notched]

One must use any weapon they can. There were icons in Yharnam much similar to the Haniwa, accursed things.

[ She has her whip on hand with her, it is an elegant thing. A long whip with many delicate little hinges that allow the many blades to snap and flow. It rips, it tears. ]

The notched whip. A Hunter's trick weapon.

[identitycrisiscore]

Bladed? [ The way he looks into the camera makes it looks like ] Looks like it's in good condition.

[ A mercenary can always appreciate another's weapon. ]

Heavy blades are more my speed, but I looks like a nasty piece of work.

Must have been some nasty things in Yharnam, to have these kinds of weapons close by.