The foreman's teeth becomes gritted. 'Can't swing this around, huh?!' he asks, and he hefts the sword into the air- Though he can't use it too effectively as a sword, it'll certainly be effective enough as a cudgel. The world's breath seems to be held for a moment as he begins to swing it downwards... And suddenly, there's a thump that drives through the sand, something striking the sand in the center of the camp, crushing a- thankfully now empty- tent. It slowly begins to stand up, everyone turning to stare, the foreman's arm going slack, sword falling to his side, as the giant... thing slowly stands. It's vaguely humanoid, but it shines, nearly three times the size of a man and covered in plates of intricately carved Jade. People are slowly beginning to stand, approaching it uncertainly, when it strikes the ground with one gigantic fist, sending a shockwave through the sand, throwing everyone but you two off your feet.<br/><br/>King sees the Daiklave fall, and that hilt, the carven image of the sungod. And he feels a pulsing need. 'Touch me, take me, stand up! Destroy your foes, destroy the usurpers of this world, take your place! You've lived all of your life being forced to deny your destiny because of a quirk of birth, born in a place that could not hold you! Undo that mistake! TAKE ME!' The strange steel-and-Jade thing laughs, voice loud, twisted, and you realize suddenly how meaningless the chains that bind you are, the chains that bind you to this dead-end town, the chains that bind your hands together.<br/><br/>Saffron, meanwhile, feels a pulse of heat from the bracers, burningly hot, felt through the fabric of her pack, yet somehow feeling right, and her eyes are drawn to the pit in the san where the monster struck, and she can see the gleam of gold. You feel another shock of memory, wearing the bracers, pressing your hands into gauntlets of gold, a shimmering golden armor surrounding you, and letting you strike blows that would fell Behemoths, that would splinter the creature standing above it like a sun-brittle branch.