Full Immersion [for what it's worth]

The important question is not "will the arrow shatter?", it is "will the arrow do damage?". Retrieving arrows is a tertiary concern in a fight with a dragon, unless they're special arrows or you need more shots than you have arrows to accomplish your objective. The primary concern is of course not dying.

I think in this particular circumstance using double shot will not be advisable, at least beyond the opening phase. We need as much precision as we can get to hit those wonderful vital areas so that the dragon will actually pay attention to us. It might be quite helpful as an initial volley to grab it's attention in the first place, but afterwards it would be more economical to fire single arrows. Say we invest 10-20 arrows into a time arrow volley to get the dragon's attention: then we could either have 10-15 double shots and one regular shot's duration to hold the dragon's attention, or 21-31 regular shot's duration to hold the dragon's attention.

>Link: You could try using a volley of time arrows to initially grab the dragon's attention, then switch to single shots aimed at vital areas to keep it occupied on you. Just wait for a good opportunity before firing. You don't have to actually do damage, but it would probably help.

>That dragon is moving rather fast. Unless the arrows immediately return to normal time upon striking something, it might be more damaging to bring arrows that the dragon will collide with to a dead stop. Things that are not moving in time are utterly immobile and punch holes in whatever strikes them hard enough. The reverse of air resistance stopping your arrows if they go too fast.

Jin opens fire, placing three arrows into the air and stopping them right away. This isn't too hard to maintain; it feels like having them all the same speed is easier--requires less concentration.

After what seems like ages of watching more of the fight, the dragon makes a sudden charge forward. Link winces, seeing it slam straight through a collection of some Florians who spray out away from him like a handful of rocks. It's just about to be above the plateau, and the area ahead of it's clear...

He speeds the arrows up; they were all on a pretty steep slant, and he near-pauses them again near the peak. And then two time arrows at once, as fast as he can make them, straight at the dragon. One of them hits it right in the left nostril as it flies in above him, and it pauses its flight, shaking its head slightly in mild irritation.

Jin fires another shot, making it as fast as he can and trying to land about at the dragon's mouth as it opens it up, taking in air for another fireball. This one makes its mark too, and even though it's maybe the size of a toothpick to the giant flying lizard it still has a sharp end embedded in the inside of the mouth.

His enemy seems to perceive that the source of its annoyance is below, and looks that way. Jin waves at it, wondering briefly whether a high charisma score makes getting even a dragon's attention easier somehow before realizing that it's still prepping a fire breath.

Keeping those few arrows in place, Jin starts running. This is less a giant ball and more a streaming, continuous gout of combustion straight at the land behind him. He dives a last few feet forward, rolls on the ground, and gets back up again, and the back tip of one of his tails hurts, likely singed but somehow not yet on fire. The dragon, practically ignoring all the Florians' arrows around it, is looking down to see if it got him.

Thinking quickly, Jin moves over to the side a bit, adjusting himself to place the first few arrows between himself and the giant beast. He isn't entirely sure if this will work, but it seems like it's worth a try. One more sped-up arrow to the nostril and the dragon roars, diving down at him, and catches the arrows square in its upper belly. They tear gashes along the dragon's forward momentum but quickly break off into head and sticks, the heads burying themselves in while the sticks fall harmlessly off.

The pain is apparently enough for the dragon to try and turn its momentum back upward mid-dive, an awkward maneuver that doesn't sit well with whatever aerodynamics let something that big fly in the first place. It goes spiraling to one side and crashes to the ground a few yards off from Jin, the remaining Florians hurrying after it.

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