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[stabbymcstabstab]

FIGHT but first cook up some of that bug meat to eat.

[Tack]

FIGHT but first cook up some of that bug meat to eat.

I don't think there'd be time. Maybe take some bug meat for later- while we flee?

[filiusenox]

Metis takes the chance to suddenly lunge forward, bringing the axe down on the pincer ripped through the door. There's a moment, when the axe's blade impacts the thick chitin, shuddering, before it rips through the claw and flesh with ease, and the blue-grey chitin pincer falls to the floor, wiggling a little.

Blood begins to spurt from the mortal hack.

There's a screech from the other side of the door as a tentacle lashes through the bloodstained hole in the door, trying to grab at Metis.

Metis dodges, hacking it off with an offhanded blow, snatching up the pincer and crawling into the duct, closing the hatch just as the creature slams through the blast door with an enraged chitter.

Cargo bay...Crawlspace(?)
It's pitch black here.

There's a light far, far to the south.

Spoiler: Inventory (click to show/hide)

<worn over body>     A Metal Grey Wastelander Cloak
<worn on waist>      A black leather belt with a number of pouches
<held in right hand> A bone handled, mandible great-axe
<held in left hand> A bluish-grey, chitinous pincer.

Spoiler: In a black leather belt with a number of pouches (click to show/hide)

A fragile, simple screwdriver
Three pounds of raw, greyish-red bug meat
A sharp, rugged, pocked plastic knife

Spoiler: Abilities and Traits (click to show/hide)

Exoskeleton: Thin, construction grade, metal plating, with several lumps and shards in several places, forming a patchy, bumpy, rugged exo-skeleton of slightly rusty steel, there's some sturdy, rugged plastic forming a forearm guard on your left forearm.
Natural weapon: A bent sawblade hooked to your right forearm
Insect Spines in right shoulder()
Fey Mood:Metis has a chance to go into a sudden crafting mood to make something. These items could be magical.

Spoiler: Health (click to show/hide)

Large amounts of pain
Walks with a limp
Hungry

What now?

[terkiey]

Stay out of range in the crawlspace and when it tries to attack, lop off the limb it attacks with. Rinse & Repeat

[Roboboy33]

See if we can spot any eyes on it, so we know if it uses light to see.

[Tack]

See what it is, and if it can follow us. Then go south and east.

[filiusenox]

Metis breathes out slowly, before slowly lifting the hatch and taking a quick, furtive glance at the creature, popping out of cover for just a second, but thats all the massive, bluish-grey, chitinous insect needs, one of it's tentacles lashing out across her face, a plume of blood spraying from the side of her circular face.

She yelps, slamming the hatch shut and crawling back away from it, frantically

Cargo bay...Crawlspace(?)
It's pitch black here.

There's a light far, far to the south.

Spoiler: A massive, bluish-grey, chitinous insect (click to show/hide)

This giant, insectoid creature is more than twice your height, covered in a thick, mottled blue-grey exoskeleton. It has three sets of massive, powerful arms, each terminating in a set of serrated pincers large enough to crush skulls with ease. Trailing far behind it is its scuttling, many-legged lower body, covered in thick plates of armor that spike protectively over each joint. Its head is small, with several thin stalks supporting its tiny black eyes. Underneath it is a large, birdlike beak, tinted bright red, around which sprout three long, tentacular mandibles that hang below it like a writhing, agitated beard, each covered in segmented plates of armor, each ending with wickedly-sharp, sickle-like claws.

It is in good condition.
A missing tentacle, the stump dripping blood, a missing pincer, the stump pouring blood.

Spoiler: Inventory (click to show/hide)

<worn over body>     A Metal Grey Wastelander Cloak
<worn on waist>      A black leather belt with a number of pouches
<held in right hand> A bone handled, mandible great-axe
<held in left hand> A bluish-grey, chitinous pincer.

Spoiler: In a black leather belt with a number of pouches (click to show/hide)

A fragile, simple screwdriver
Three pounds of raw, greyish-red bug meat
A sharp, rugged, pocked plastic knife

Spoiler: Abilities and Traits (click to show/hide)

Exoskeleton: Thin, construction grade, metal plating, with several lumps and shards in several places, forming a patchy, bumpy, rugged exo-skeleton of slightly rusty steel, with rugged, pocked plastic on the right forearm as a makeshift guard.
Natural weapon: A bent sawblade hooked to your right forearm
Insect Spines in right shoulder()
Fey Mood:Metis has a chance to go into a sudden crafting mood to make something. These items could be magical.

Spoiler: Health (click to show/hide)

Metis has a minor rend on the side of her face.

Large amounts of pain
Walks with a limp
Hungry

What now?

<<Monster today courtesy of Deep_Waters. BIG THANKS./non-sarcasm.>>

[racnor]

shift one of our plates to cover the wound, then slide backward, observing what the monster does.

[Tack]

shift one of our plates to cover the wound, then Fleeeeee

[terkiey]

Go east.

[filiusenox]

Metis brings a small plate up to cover the minor wound, before scrambling southwards. There's a loud bang as the massive, bluish-grey, chitinous insect begins to attack the hatch to the crawlspace, denting the cheap metal.

After a thought, Metis turns east instead of just fleeing the ship, her red eyes unable to see ahead in the dark, unable to see any lights, despite their slight glow, but she keeps crawling, keeps forging forward.

There's an ominous creak from the rusted metal below her, and just as she makes to back up, there's a snap, and it gives way.

Metis hits the cold metal floor hard, and if she had any bones, many would be broken and snapped, but instead...

Overcome by pain at last, Metis slips into a deep unconsciousness.

Prophetic Dreams?
Talk to Metis directly?
Dreams of the past?

[terkiey]

Dreams from the past sound ominous.. +1

[racnor]

Dreams from the past sound ominous.. +1

[filiusenox]

An image of another Cloaked, without the cloak, just a collar of cheap looking metal reading Ghest and some casual clothes, flickers forth from the roiling depths of slumber. It wraps it's arms around Metis - who wears a collar claiming such, as well as what looks to be like fake white-hair  - in a hug.

"I'll be back shortly, Met..." he assures, soothingly. "It'll end and I'll be home, safe."

The image changes once more, this time it's of Metis standing in front of a shanty, watching the horizon, which seems to boil and roil with heat, with wide eyes, before the ragged town is reduced to ash in a single, silent moment.

Metis awakes to the sound of gnawing, her arm curiously numb, she yelps as a sudden pain lashes through her. Looking over, she finally noticed A scrawny insect has chewed her arm down to a nub above where her elbow would be.

When she stirs and bats at it, the insect scurries to shadows and hisses.

Metis draws her axe with a single hand, wincing at the weight and feeling less than healthy as she eyes the creature.

Small Platform atop an idle engine. [Down] [West]
Cheap lighting illuminates this room, showing a small platform suspended by thick, steel supports above a large engine complex. The floor is, and this should come as no surprise, made of cheap metal plating, riveted down by hands long dead. There's railings ringing the edges, as well as a ladder leading down to the engine. A blast door lies to the west, swinging open and blood-stained.

Cheap lighting, rings the ceiling, a few panels of it laying on the floor, still glowing weakly.
A scrawny insect is here, trying to vainly hide in the shadows.
A bluish-grey, chitinous pincer lays on the floor here, in a pool of blood

Spoiler: A scrawny insect (click to show/hide)

A large bug, about a foot long and thin as a foot. It's dull, grey chitin is weak, missing in places, with a few spines ringing it's head. A few small, vestigial tentacles hang from around it's mouth.

It's stomach looks bloated. Blood rings it's mouth.

Spoiler: Inventory (click to show/hide)

<worn over body>     A Metal Grey Wastelander Cloak
<worn on waist>      A black leather belt with a number of pouches
<wielded in right hand> A bone handled, mandible great-axe

Spoiler: In a black leather belt with a number of pouches (click to show/hide)

A fragile, simple screwdriver
Three pounds of raw, greyish-red bug meat
A sharp, rugged, pocked plastic knife

Spoiler: Abilities and Traits (click to show/hide)

Exoskeleton: Thin, construction grade, metal plating, with several lumps and shards in several places, forming a patchy, bumpy, rugged exo-skeleton of slightly rusty steel.
Natural weapon: A bent sawblade hooked to your right forearm
Insect Spines in right shoulder( )
Fey Mood:Metis has a chance to go into a sudden crafting mood to make something. These items could be magical.

Spoiler: Health (click to show/hide)

Metis has a minor rend on the side of her face, she's missing her left arm, the stump dripping Blood

Large amounts of pain
Left arm is missing.
Hungry

What now?

[Tack]

kill and consume insect.

Then lower a few light panels down to the engine block, and attempt to make a portable light source with the rest.

Edit: V I'm assuming it had time to nibble around our armor.