>> Press the attack. More distance is not what Archer needs.
> Deeply lament not knowing any actual attack magic.
> Get another Wall reagent in one hand, and a mana vial in the other. Whatever our next shot is, we'll make it count.
> Are there any trees or other terrain large enough to fully obscure us from the north?
I'm considering trying out Blind here, but since she's (presumably) a stronger magus than us we'll need to really put some juice into it to make it work. Another option is catching the ATV with Forbidden Zone (maybe a mudpit?)
>You one read in a fantasy book that one may kill with magic, supposedly, but a gentleman never would. Kind of irony that some foreign nob is the first to really try it...
>You prepare another wall spell and grab one of your vials. Looking around, there are several trees large enough that you can probably hide behind them.
>A SHORT WAYS AWAY
>Archer springs forward, practically pouncing on the other servant. Not having time to grab a dagger, she instead aims a fist right at his groin. The other servant tries to dance back, but he hasn't quite found his footing yet and stumbles. Still, Archer's attack falls short, but it allows her to close distance and find her own way to her feet as she rests her weight on her other hand, then pushes off the ground. With a quick motion, she dismisses her bow and pulls out the two daggers in her belt. Not having time to reload, the other instead flips his gun around his hand, holding it by the barrel, and draws a knife from his belt, taking a step back as he does. Its blade is black and comes to curiously tapered point, Archer recognizes it as a modern military weapon via the knowledge given to her by the Grail system.
>She lunges, leading low with her right hand. She doesn't expect the attack to find his flesh, rather it is to force him to act so that she can capitalize on it. He moves, his knife coming down to intercept it. Unexpected, she anticipated him to pivot, but that's fine. Her other hand comes upward, aiming for the underside of the taller man's jaw; his pistol swoops in to bat the attack away. Carefully hiding her frustration, she presses onward, keeping him on the defensive as her knives darts high, low, toward his sides. Each time, he interceptions them. There's no martial art involved with this, she quickly becomes certain, rather he is simply anticipating her attacks and deflecting them.
>"No wonder you could shoot down my arrows so well!" she hisses, grinning at the man. Fighting face to face like this, it wasn't something she did often. And against this guy, she felt reasonably safe from dirty tricks, it just didn't feel like his style. and however well he could block, he definitely didn't have time to do anything else. It is a question of stamina, or perhaps cleverness....
>"You're pretty vicious, ma'am," he says back. "It's a shame we have to do this, but I can't let Eileen down!"
>Should Archer:
>>Continue to press the attack
>>Attempt to hit him with an unanticipated attack
>>Disengage and open up some range
>_