Kosak Durar, After The End:
"Now for the hard part."
Kosak starts climbing on the ceiling in an attempt to get to above the heart of doom. Alternatively, if there's a trunk nearby him, he climbs to it, and then uses it to get closer to the heart.
There is another pulse and the nanofluid around the heart becomes completely still for a moment, before it starts growing thousands of tiny points, rising at the ends of hardened rods, making the bottom of the room look like a giant needlestack, ready to perforate whatever is unlucky enough to fall in it. Well, the heart doesn't appear to be very optimistic about your chances of successfully reaching it. Let's see if you can prove it wrong.
Due to a combination of bad luck and poor planning, you appear to have climbed close to the least climbable part of the roof.
You try as hard as you can, but you don't manage to move forwards for more than a couple of steps before being forced to stop to avoid falling.
The needles start vibrating, moving like wheat in the wind.
Shit. Lojack.
Quickly see if I can disable this via my ability. If so, do so. If not, resort to smashing the antenna with more traditional measures.
If I can disable it, fly not directly away about three km and find another spot to hide. If I can't, summon a bomb, link it to the door being opened, and run.
If I'm not sure, assume it's not disabled.
((Well, people DID ask for a dangerous arena. The least I can do is make things more dangerous the more attention you attract to yourselves. To be honest, this isn't as dangerous as I thought it would get. I was expecting the city to have been destroyed by now, you're actually doing quite well. Well, for a certain definition of "quite well".))
((If it makes you feel better, I haven't ruled out nuclear booby traps for pursuers.))
((Heh. That would make for a good title. "The revenge of the nuke door" or "Nuke door 2: Nuke harder".))
You disconnect the cord connecting the antenna to the computer, unscrew it and pull it out. That was simple. You then pick up the antenna and notice that there's still energy in it. It's still transmitting. You double check and there is indeed nothing connecting the antenna to the ship. It should be completely inert. But it's transmitting. You consider why that might be for a few moments. And then you realize that that is probably not what's important right now, so you just crush the antenna and shred the cable. If it keeps transmitting after
that, then there's probably nothing you can do to stop it, sort of completely vaporizing it.
That done, you board the shuttle (taking a few moments to clear the bloody mess in the cockpit) and fly away. You're in the air for a few moments when the proximity alarm goes off, warning you about an "Obstacle! Obstacle!" with a voice that somehow manages to sound both urgent, monotonous and annoying at the same time. For a moment, you think it might have been damaged, as you can't see anything out there. You flip on the lights and sure enough, there's nothing but bugs out there. A second later, you notice that one of those mosquitoes actually looks a bit bigger than it should be. And it keeps getting larger.
...
Oh. So that's a thing then?
WMD, After the End
Force the transformation. Tear him apart with either the transformation or my weapons. If that all fails, initiate meltdown and take him with me.
Centi-Rune consumes his foe, wrapping around the human and stabbing it repeatedly while also nomming it.
Before William can react, Rune attempts to stab him again. However, given that his stabbing part is close to his head and he's really not that strong, his attack doesn't manage to do much.
William on the other hand, has just the thing. And by thing I mean a bunch of bones and tentacles shooting out of his body. Rune is pinned against the wall by the mass of tentacles. They start squeezing his body, crushing parts of it. However, William's transformation is starting to look a bit unstable. He's starting to throw green lighting bolts around and his weapons are growing all over the place, shooting off in random directions. This might not end well for anyone involved if it hits one of those boxes.
Meanwhile, a clearly automated announcement is informing then that nano-contamination has been detected and that automated containment and cleansing has been initiated on sector D4.
Saevus, After the End
So if I read that correctly, whatever that guy fired melted through the floor, yes? If I'm right, discard the shield and summon a sword or an axe. Stab/smash it into the wall and try to stop my fall. Then try to get a nearby door open with the bling-cannon and attempt to get onto a floor.
You summon and axe and try to use it as a hook, to decelerate yourself. And it works. Perhaps it works a bit too well, as the moment the axe hits the shaft's wall, it's yanked out of your hands.
<I bet he couldn't handle the ax-eleration.><Be careful, with comments like that, he might have an axe to grind when he gets back.><Nah. There's no reason to go axe-crazy over a simple joke like that.><You should give those terrible jokes the axe and let us get back on the action><Hehe. Look at him, he can't wait to have another look at Saevus' shaft.><One more out of you and I'll give you the shaft and have a vote on muting you.><Now we see the violence inherent in the system.>You try again, this time dragging a sword against the walls of the shaft. Unfortunately, this is a rather large shaft, so all that accomplishes is to push you towards the wall. So you compensate by summoning a second sword and using it on the opposite side. This time it works. You start slowing down, at the same time digging your swords progressively deeper into the walls, until you reach a complete stop. You stab your swords deeper into the walls to anchor yourself, just to be safe.
Now that you're no longer moving, you notice that there are numbers next to each door. This one reads "003". Huh. Looks like you were just in time. Then again, it looks like this tube keeps going well below 0, so maybe things weren't really that pressing.
Now for the hard part. Blast a door while holding on with one hand. On a single sword that you are not really sure about whether or not it can support your weight. ... Maybe you should had summoned something like a double-edged sword-staff. Sure, it's probably silly to use in regular combat, but you bet it makes a very nice anchor.
You blast the door. It dents severely, letting light flood into the shaft through the gap in its middle. You feel your sword slipping. You suddenly wish it wasn't so sharp. Well, no time to waste. You put your legs against the wall and push as hard as you can just as the sword slips the rest of the way out. You smash through the doors and slam into a well lit but particularly dirty lobby. And by dirty I mean there's dirt everywhere, covering the floor, with the occasional green moss-like thing growing in it.
A man and a woman wearing dirty work clothes are next to you, holding a cart, staring at you dumbfounded. You stare back. They flinch. You start getting up. They slide their cart the rest of the way into their service elevator as quickly as they can. You can hear one of them frantically and repeatedly pressing one of the elevator's buttons.
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