[h3]Below Rebirth's Rise, Eastern outskirts of Yharnam – Farren and Torquil (Collab)[/h3]
Despite the Hunter clearly being consumed by rage and desire to murder him, Skinner did not move, but merely awaited Farren's assault. Only once Farren was about two meters from him did Skinner raise both his arms slightly... and Farren felt the Lake Rune warning him that he was about to be hit [I]everywhere at once[/I].

As that strange [i]almost[/i] sensation washed over his entire body, Farren realized there wouldn’t be enough time for him to react–and even if there had been, he had no idea how to avoid whatever was coming. So, rather than attempt to quickstep, block, or act, he let go of the Piercing rifle, his hand already roughly at his belt, extracted a blood vial, and began to stab and depress it into his thigh in the same moment that whatever was about to happen suddenly struck.

As one might have expected given that the Lake Rune only offered half a second's warning, what happened next was extremely fast. Skinner swung his right hand in a horizontal slash, drawing a reaping arc through the air in front of him with the fist weapon. During the motion, the electricity wreathing his body seemed intensify on his right arm and on the bone blades of the beast claw in particular, shrouding the entire arm in blue, scintillating light while emitting a crackling noise as bigger and bigger sparks sprang from it. As he slashed, the crackling built to a crescendo roar of thunder as a veritable wave of destruction sprang forth, crawling across the ground with lightning reaching upward into the air like fingers trying to grasp at everything in their path.
The attack hit Farren point-blank, sending electricity coursing powerfully through his entire body, which would most likely not be a pleasant experience and was liable to wreck havoc on his brain, muscles and nerves on top of burning and melting whatever it touched.
But on top of that, the crawling lightning did not stop at Farren, but kept moving past him and spreading to envelop the street behind him. Torquil, who was just moving to join Farren's assault, saw danger approaching before he felt the warning from the Lake Rune himself, and reflexively raised the Loch Shield, since he could not see any way for him to evade the coming wave. The electric blast hit... and surprisingly did not hurt as much as Torquil was expecting. Most of the lightning that would have fried his body seemed to instead be drawn to and absorbed into the glass front of his shield, momentarily trapping its bluish light within it.

Less than a second later, having barely finished the broad slash that had summoned the lightning, Skinner rushed toward Farren with eyes filled with blue light. His bestial left hand, already in a ready position, moving toward Farren's right arm. Strangely, Farren would not feel a warning from the Lake Rune.