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- >>40333264
- Well, they do [have hollow bones]; but the bones of birds are not entirely hollow, nor all all the bones hollow/partially hollow. the same is true of harpies
- >>40333011
- [Harpies are] Not too resilient; Harpies aren't much more resilient than a human; they make up for this by flying low and in large groups, surrounding and overwhelming their prey.
- How I learn of this is another story with my witch gf; for background, we live in a town in the Casade mountain range
- >be a couple years back
- >a little while after the merge
- > our town had formed a "well organized militia"
- >really was a small army
- >I was a guy who did patrols with some other guys on "technicals" along the mountain roads
- >Basically keeping the roads surrounding the town safe and clear
- >one morning, we come across three bodies and a bunch of feathers
- on closer inspection two guys and a harpie
- >One guy is alive, almost hypothermic and roughed up with a broken leg
- >harpie has a grapling hook gouged into it, has been beaten to a pulp; it's dead
- >other body was another man with lots of defensive wounds; also dead
- >Take him and the bodies into town, to the "hospital"
- >was basically a large re-purposed house
- >gf was doctor on duty
- >manages to get guy conscious and talking
- >he and the other dude were trying to travel through the mountains
- >trying to innawoods
- >only had one shotgun and a rifle between them, and were traveling horseback for innawoods reasons
- >they were ambushed by three harpies
- >they got one with the shotgun before the harpies swooped in to grab them
- >the survivor got the other harpie far enough away to peg it with the shotgun
- >other guy was taken off his mount and was being flown off with
- >the survivor (who said he had the grapple hook and rope for climbing) said he rode after and threw the grapple at the harpie
- >somehow nailed her, but she kept flying pulling him off his mount
- >basically dragged him around until she got too tired
- >dropped his friend from a great height
- >friend died from the fall
- >survivor still fought to pull the harpie in, beat her to death out of sheer rage
- >then collapsed out of exhaustion.
- cont.
- ----------
- Here's how I know about the marrow
- >while gf was nursing guy back to health, she gave him a "magic soup"
- >"It was made from the marrow of the harpie, it's a powerful healing agent"
- >she only ever said this to him, no one else, ask her why
- >"it isn't really a healing agent, I just told him that because it would make him feel better"
- >what.png
- >basically, the soup wasn't magical or for healing puposes, she was just using a sort of placebo effect to get him to be more willing to talk about the harpie attack
- >"also broth from harpies make for a very robust broth in a soup; works well to warm you up. I can make you some if you want anon, I still have plenty of harpie left at home"
- Harpie actually doesn't taste that bad, but you can only really use them for soup.
- >>40333820
- [When fighting harpies] All else fails, volley firing with multiple guys works really well, they can't dodge multiple projectiles grouped around them.
- Got more mountain town/witch gf stories if people want them; current shenanigan is a bunch of tribal and feral orcs moving through the Cascades, like the orcs in my first story.
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