Kosak Durar, After The End:
"Wait a minute- shouldn't I be able to see?"
Fact: dwarves don't use light sources(see Dwarf Fortress). Fact: unless they lose their eyes, they can still see anyway(see Dwarf Fortress). Kosak attempts to activate his darkvision.
Aha! But what about adventure mode dwarves? They have the same troubles with the dark as anyone else, no? And their raw files? They don't have any extravision tags. But anyway, let's let you have that one.
Do you want to move on to something more fun?
<Svajoklis, After the End>
Time to get the hell out of doge. Toss a flashbang, run to the stairs. This place has stairs, right? If it does, go down the stairs and search for something with more punch than my gun.
If there are no stairs, run and return to my search of some huge terminator crushing gears or ubermagnets on this floor.
There is indeed a service stairway. You should be able to access it from the southwest side of this room, assuming it's unlocked.
There should also be a magnetic conveyor accessible just one floor below. You might be able to get some rare earth magnets from there, turn them into a trap and stick the terminator to the floor or something.
Walking Tank, After the End
If memory serves me correctly, I crushed a radio under my foot. That means it's likely I just found DreamerGhost or the other guy. Rush over there and blast whoever is there into smithereens.
Saevus trains his golden arm towards the source of the noise and begins advancing. A moment later, a flashbang flies out from behind the couch and towards his face. But this time he's better prepared. He blasts the flashbang away and crushes it against a wall. It still explodes, but it only worsens his vision and leaves his hearing unharmed, making everything appear with a very low contrast and high illumination instead of blinding him completely.
: -have also destroyed a jamming device that was- :
Svajoklis jumps out of cover and attempts to run away, but a telekinetic blast catches him in the legs. It doesn't harm him significantly, but it throws him around and slams him against the floor. He scrambles and tries to get moving again, knowing that standing still is as good as being dead.
: -interfering with our comms. We have started regaining- :
Saevus is momentarily destructed by Limpy getting out of hiding and shooting him in the back with his rifle. One of the rounds gets through his shield, scratching his armour and messing up one of his runes. Saevus turns around, forced to defend himself, and blasts the offender with a telekinetic wave. The couch his was taking cover behind flies towards Limpy, crushing him and trapping him against the wall.
: -control of central systems and are sending a team up to- :
The elevator arrives with a ding. It's on the east side of the room. Saevus is close to the centre of the room, facing north. Limpy is crushed against the north side of the room. Svajoklis has just scrambled back to his feet on the south side of the room.
((Dangit, I said Flail, not Splash. 
))
WMD, After the End
Walk backwards. Unleash all the weapons at my foe with all the power I can muster.
You manage to back away a bit, back into the room you were originally in, but you are starting to feel a lot weaker. Your limbs have started retracting back into your body. You think you're either dying or turning human, and you're not sure that second option is that far away from the first. This may very well be the final long-range attack you'll be able to use for now. You might want to make it count.
Rune-Blastbear generates a very dense layer of skin quite a way under the exterior layer, then absorbs the melting skin within. He attempts to use this additional biomass he is re-absorbing to strengthen this new tough layer of skin to be resistant to any environmental hazard.
He moves closer and fires again, aiming more carefully.
Rune looks like a living wax statue trying to keep itself from melting as he tries to keep things vital to his survival from leaving his body or getting rearranged inside him. He moves forward and hides behind a piece of concrete that has fallen from the crumbling roof and manages to keep himself alive for now, but just barely. Or should I say... bearly?
"Do you ever get the idea that someone has powers that are a very good counter to yours? You know I actually knew someone whose power set was pretty much to counter peoples's abilities. She was pretty nice too."
Use my memories to see if there was anything about the clone that felt different for future reference. Work my way closer if I can, and fire a shot or two with the gun.
Hmm... Well, you think it was the echoes. His mind felt like his thoughts kept echoing, weaker repetitions reappearing multiple times before disappearing. The echoes also felt kinda spread out in space, as if he was leaking psychic energy. But when you killed the clone, the echoes burned away and his thoughts and position suddenly became as clear as any other human's.
==After The End==
<Oh, thanks.>
To yonder elevator!
Alex tries to run away to the elevator. Bryan raises his gun and gets ready to shoot, now having a better shot.
The shot finds Alex close to the heart, shooting out a fountain of blood. He falls like a broken bird, tumbling down the outer shell of the cannon to his death.
<Hm. I expected more.>
Enlarge one vortex to cool that hot strip, and use the other to watch Toaster. Shout out a direction to dodge in when shit goes down.
((Read below.))
John growled at the drone, then very quickly glanced at his companion. Would she be any more help after that attack?
Gun it! Get past this drone! Is the lady able to defend? If no, take over on defense while getting past the drone. If yes, fire a few more potshots; aiming isn't priority, just fire.
She is shaken, but alive. The car is not doing so well though. The strike must have hit some of the batteries. It's losing power.
You shoot, but the shot is way off, hitting a support column instead and completely disintegrating it.
The drone launches the two missiles hanging from it.
"Blue Right!" you yell.
The missiles break apart in mid-air, becoming dozens of points of light that dart around towards every part of the road.
You're certain this is it, that you're going to die, when a bunch of the missiles heading for you explode.
Phew. Looks like she did follow your advice this time.
Wait, what are you saying? You have a bunch of missiles that are going to explode near you and you're in the middle of a high speed chase. Sure, they may not be heading right towards you anymore, but this is hardly ideal.
<I don't doubt what I can do, I just doubt my ability to detect what I need to be doing. But I think this is related to what we saw before, isn't it. What you saw scared you. You're afraid you're hurting me somehow. What exactly did what we saw mean? Do you think you're eating away at me or something?>
<Frankly? Yes. I saw a part of me merged with a part of you. And... I saw that I could use it. If I wanted to. I could push in, go for more.
I think it might be related to our nature. Bond-formers are like you, in a way. Mind, body, soul, and their bonds, they're all one. And we are both missing pieces of ourselves. But bond-former magic... well, how do I explain this? It changes things. It's linked to more and to the memory of our kind and of itself. And it's not meant to be messed with unless you know what you're doing. It doesn't like that.
And, well, it might be helpful now, but who knows what will happen in the future? This isn't exactly an exact science nor do I have the power to analyze and control this. I could end up taking over your body and soul, eating you. And that would be a mighty big fail when I'm supposed to be here to help you. Eating my friends, not very enjoyable for me. Well, not with that meaning of the word anyway, hehe. Or I could end up stifling you, merging with you, changing you, replacing pieces of yourself, your body, your memories, forcing you to do things, who knows what else? Everything is one. Even if everything turns out OK and it ends up with us merely getting really close, what happens when this mission ends? When I have to die? I won't be able to simply... leave.>
<So... yeah. Fuck that shit. I'll just have to keep away, ignore this and be awesome without my abilities.>
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