Rune-blastbear survives by any means necessary!
Rune uses run.
Rune quickly transforms into a very thin and long creature, like a giant millipede made out of paper. with giant legs. He uses his legs to jump towards the ceiling.
William points his ranged tentacles at Rune. There's a flash of light and out of nowhere, Rune is now surrounded by a floating box of mirrors. He jumps through the top mirror, breaking it apart, but something is wrong. Everything is strange. All the colours are inverted. That will make seeing things hard, until he gets used to it or it wears off.
After a moment of confusion, he decides to ignore it and just slips through the cracks on the ceiling, into the floor above this one.
Got away safely?
Fire the Dubstep Bomb!
You feel the last of your strength leaving you. Your flesh and bone retreats back inside you, back where it should be... mostly. You'll never get over all those new strange lumps and hard spots that have appeared on your body ever since you were abducted.
Now you should probably get out of here. You may be back to a healthy (if a bit tired) human form but you're A) naked B) in a room that might collapse soon and C) in the centre of a magical battlefield. You think there's still some poison floating around. That and all the other weird stuff in here might be bad for your health.
At least you can still see Rune. It's like there is a miasmatic purplish wind that is constantly blowing through the path he took and you can somehow see what he sees whenever you look at it directly. Should be useful for avoiding or finding him. And if you're lucky, that means that others can see him too, so it might make him more vulnerable to other dangers. I mean, he did look like he was in a worse state than you.
Hm. Looks like your ranged weapons are also semi-random. Or maybe it's related to that damn corruption. Wait. Corruption. Weren't there a bunch of your tentacles squirming around here? I guess we should add a D to the reasons for wanting to escape this room.
Rush Svajoklis and tackle him to the ground if I manage to get close enough. If I manage to tackle him, his face gets the Golden Arm treatment. If he manages to evade me, use the crossbow.
"Rush"? Really? Okay, if that's what you're going for, I'll roll
with for it.
<Svajoklis, After the End>
Was that a shield that just went down? Unload my gun in terminator's back, aiming at the shoulderblade of golden arm (So between his head and his golden arm). If this fails to obviously incapacitate the terminator, run.
Svajoklis attempts to shoot Savus in the back. He raises his gun, pulls the trigger and a round flies right above Saevus' shoulder. The casing gets stuck on the rifle's ejector. Svajoklis spends several seconds mentally cursing the gun, the world, himself and everything else as he starts legging it.
Saevus tries to catch up to him, but by the time he has started moving, the only thing left in his opponent's place is a Svajoklis-shaped cloud. He attempts to blast his opponent, but only manages to hit the ceiling and destroy some lights instead.
: -sending a team up to investigate the source of the disturbance. :
Svajoklis runs for the service stairway, presses the button top open the door and... nothing happens. It's not powered. He attempts to force the door open by running into it but only manages to form a dent on it.
Saevus unleashes a hail of crossbow bolts on his position, but he has already jumped behind the reception desk, where he is working to unjam his rifle. The bolts get embedded on the plastic of the door and the reception desk and the quickly fizzle into nothingness.
: Everyone should get ready for combat and report to their posts. :
This looks like a good time to take some potshots.
You open the back door of the van and start firing. You manage to hit the road, some air, a random car... and then the driver swerves right just as you're about to fire, you lose your balance, grasp for a handhold and shoot one of the two guys with you in the face.
"WHAT THE FUCK?!"
"What?""You just shot Marvin in the face!"
"Well, it was an accident. It's all the driver's fault."You're about to keep arguing when the missiles hit. The tiny explosions cause the entire highway to shake. The driver does his best to keep the van stable, but then there is a bump and it twists sideways. You feel weightless for a moment and then everything starts spinning. You hit something and everything goes black.
You are unconscious. And probably hurt.
Grr. "Damn it! Watch out!"
Time to focus on driving; both in avoiding those explosions and trying to get closer.
You pull the handbrake momentarily and drift left while at the same time slowing down just enough to stay in the sweet spot you've created and hide behind another car.
It looks like this drone has never heard of the three laws, as it seem to not give a damn about collateral damage. Destruction rains down all across the highway. The section in front of you can't take anymore and starts collapsing. Your target's van makes it across to the other section, where it leans to the side, impacts the ground, spins around and then slams against the protective barrier. Your target is probably still alive though, since those black distortions are still there close to the van, looking stronger than ever.
However, right now, you have bigger problems. The section of highway in front of you, the last one before the Central Tower, the one your target is on, it is higher than the one you are on. Which means that if you keep going at this speed, you'll slam into a solid block of reinforced concrete in a few seconds. But if you stop, you'll be a sitting duck for the drone and risk letting your target get away.
Kosak Durar, After The End
"Eh?"
I guess not. Kosak looks around.
Ok then, we'll continue with your exploration of the underground if you don't want to fast forward.
The area looks similar to the one you were before, but much darker and quite larger. You can see that the thing you destroyed was just part of a greater structure. You're not even sure if you should call this an animal or a plant. You can see similar worm-like tentacles branching off a central trunk disappearing into various pipes, doors or holes in the walls. And it looks like the one you "killed" (maimed might be a more appropriate word) wasn't even the largest one.
The central trunk rises out of a pipe in the bottom of the room and is slowly pulsing. The greater structure does not appear to be aware of you, or if it is, it's not showing that in its reactions.
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