>>6054696The disappointed face of Dr. Valen flashes into your head for a moment. Sorry doc, but you've got bills to pay. The crossbow clicks, the bolt launches and vanishes into the dark of the beast. It jerks and grunts, then snarls angrily. There's a feeling of tension, of muscles bigger than you rippling and contracting, tightening up, mirrored by your own body tightening into a single taunt string. Then the apartment sized bear lunges forward and swipes a single massive paw, shredding undergrowth and tree branches.
You don't even have time to panic. "Well fuck me."
The paw, miraculously, mercifully, the paw and not the claws at their end cutting through tree trunks like paper, slams into you and hurls you like a ragdoll through the air, bouncing and twisting off tree branches, through brambles, over the path, and into the forest on the other side. The air shudders as the bear roars into the sky. Ok, maybe mistakes were made. Maybe attacking a giant bear wasn't the brightest decision you ever made. But that thing...it was definitely a monster of the hunt right? Probably, you hadn't read a Wokopedia article on bears recently or anything. And if it was a monster, that size? You could probably buy a whole fucking case of vodka with that thing's bounty. Or you know, spend it on something other than alcoholism.
If you lived anyway. You reload your crossbow and watch the massive bear bring down a tree across the path as it angrily stomps your way.
> Hit and run is the only reasonable option, right? How fast can it really move if it has to smash through the tree and the underbrush the whole time?> Actually, if we're being reasonable, getting the hell out of here might be the best move. That thing is fucking huge. 