Bloody Stupid

"Look Dogs you don't like me, I don't like you, but can't we work this out somehow?" Growls gutteral barking that was their response.  I figured their master was coming (how unsporting to use dogs I thought, certainly not something I would have done, though in all honesty I DON'T HUNT PEOPLE FOR SPORT!) so I didn't have a lot of time to get out of the tree and get moving again, but the damn dogs while not actively trying to eat me, weren't leaving even when I asked nicely.  Ordinarily this would be something fire magic could cure (like burn down the tree, wait that would be dumb, which would have probably happened because lets be honest, dumb moves are my moves).

There were three dogs so any attack I made on one I'd get boned by the other two (hopefully not literally). That was assuming that my not exactly stellar sword work would take down the horrific fire breathing beasts.  I had to do something and I was very aware of the time. I figured I'd take a bet and try out some blood magic.  Yes regular magic was not working, but blood magic as I have said in the past (the essence of necromancy using ones own self and ritual as regents instead of natural power) doesn't neccessarily play by the same rules that regular magic does. Most of the time I use a combination of regular magic and necromancy, but I did know techniques to just use the human element and the ritual with no magic. It was not smart to do (especially using ones self as the regent) but I think we both know where I fall on the doing smart things over dumb ones for self survival.

So I sliced my hand open drew numerous sigils and ritual things around the tree and then turned my hand out and let the blood fall below.  The gods for their part eagerly lapped it up, creepily so almost fighting each other to taste my tainted essence (tainted in this case with ritual, not my usual whatever I did to myself style). They reacted immediately, no longer barking or growling they became docile. I breathed a sigh of relief and remained in my tree, because I knew that the hunter was about to become the hunted. Hopefully, I mean it was blood magic used in place where magic was not normally working, I could have just made the beasts happy by letting them drink my blood and the ritual magic did nothing.  Look obviously it worked, but there was no guarentee it was going to work, and that is the hallmark of a Lorentino plan!