"Would ye mind scoutin' ahead? I'll deal with this."
"Be my guest."
She begins making her way up the ladder as you plant yourself in the mouth of the tunnel and stare the thing down. It's incredibly big, easily several hundred kilos, and is plodding forward slowly. It doesn't have much room to maneuver in the tunnel, but it's not exactly built to get out of the way of things.
It shrieks at you again, spittle erupting from its mouth to mingle with the much fouler liquid you're both standing in. You yell back at it and it lowers its head.
Perfect.
You fire off a salvo of blades into the thing's path as it builds up momentum with the inevitability of a fleshy asteroid. Despite its flab, the thing leaps over them with surprising ease. Damn, if only Eileen was both watching and not completely oblivious to your world's history, because that is a golden opportunity for a Free Willy joke right there.
Only in this one, Willy dies.
Two blades thunder from your hands and bury themselves into its stubby front legs. With its landing gear compromised, the boar crashes down, leaving behind an impressive wake as it grinds to a halt. It furiously attempts to stand, screaming all the while but failing to do anything but raise a ruckus.
"And this little piggy cried 'wee wee wee' all the way home," you taunt, scraping your blades together like a decidedly morbid chef. You begin walking towards it to finish the job.
Incredibly, the thing manages to right itself, its front legs dangling uselessly as it slowly plows forward like a wheelbarrow of hate. You rush to meet it head-on and drive your blades deep into its forehead, meeting a surprising amount of resistance from its thick skull.
A scream dies in its throat as the rest of it just plain dies. It slumps to one side, tongue lolling as its blood further befouls the aqueduct.
You hear a series of splashes and turn around to see Eileen walking towards you.
"And that," you tell her with a flourish, "is how ye make bacon."
"That thing lived in its own filth and ate people."
"Oh, don't get so Upton Sinclair on me."
She ignores this and beckons you to follow her.
"What's up there?" you ask as you trudge behind her.
"Bodies. Gascoigne's been this way."
You follow her up the ladder to a stone staircase where, indeed, there is a large quantity of bodies. Some of them look like they were pummeled by stones while others have been hewn from crotch to sternum with savage blows. Nearby, you see another of the levers in front of what looks like an elevator.
"A shortcut back to central Yharnam. The Church had locked it, I assume."
She doesn't need to explain why it's now open.
The two of you surmount the stares and begin making your way down the narrow bridge. A massive, smoldering boulder sits at the opposite side in blatant Indiana Jones fashion, but judging by the bodies around it, they probably didn't get a chance to release the thing.
"Something's occurred ta me," you say as you step over what looks kind of like two pieces of a guy if you squint real hard.
"And what might that be?"
"That was the only available path from his house to here, right?"
"To my knowledge, yes."
"And his wife's lookin' for him, right?"
"So Fiddle said."
"So how did she get through the water ta here with all those beasties in there?"
She ponders this as the two of you pass a pair of mangled beast-men.
"She could have just run, couldn't she? The dead things aren't terribly swift."
"What about the pig?"
"It could have just not bothered with her, or she could have gotten to the ladder before it noticed her."
"Either way, I've gotta give her props for her commitment."
"Viola is a good woman."
You reach the foot of another set of steps. From the top, you can hear faint, rhythmic sounds, like a butcher hacking meat.
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