[h3]Pthumeru Yharnam layer, the Old Labyrinth[/h3]
[h3][color=darkred][B]Arrayah, the Black Blade[/B][/color][/h3]
It seemed that now, finally, – after the party had had what could easily be interpreted as a remarkably successful and thoroughly [I]lucky[/I] battle against a creature whose strength seemed beyond them – their fortunes were starting to turn. Ophelia took the chance to try for a twitch-reaction eye-shot at Arrayah with her own pistol; an incredibly ambitious shot for someone who had most likely never so much as held a firearm of any kind until tonight, let alone trained with pistols: she sent the quicksilver bullet whizzing above and beside the monster, missing her entirely.
Over by the beast herself, Farren set out on a perhaps even more ambitious maneuver, intending to counterattack by jumping onto Arrayah's arm – an arm that was barely wider than one of his feet – before proceeding to assault her from above. It was a flashy and very impressive plan... but that is not what happened. Instead he jumped onto her arm and immediately started slipping on the narrow, rounded limb. He immediately lost the foothold he would need for a quickstep up to target her head, and awkwardly stumbled back down to the floor, still right in front of his opponent. The silver lining was that the jump and brief moment trying to balance on top of Arrayah's arm had been enough to make the scything slash of the Profane Abyssal Blade miss.

Of course, all that meant was that Arrayah could keep up what she had been doing undeterred. Her left hand whipped off to her left, carelessly tossing Farren's piercing rifle away into the gloom of the cavern, while her right arms simply stopped the swing with the black spear from right to left... and swept it back left to right instead, still aiming for Farren's thighs.