The Beasts
Six massive doors slide open, slabs of the concrete dome six yards high. The beasts emerge, six towering constructs, strange and deadly.
Bloody Jones' creatre is a compact, rhino-like automaton, its body made from cylindrical tanks of sloshing acid which drips or sprays from a hole at the front, the crude iron face tapering to a giant flat blade. It walks on four giant pairs of scissors, jointed legs bent under it. Like his weapon, it's functions are pretty uncomplicated: it spits acid and slice stuff apart. Oh, and its body is covered with taut wires, hooks and primed crossbow bolts.
Bobby Jones has a similar ally: a giant engine surrounded by copper clockwork, it vomits molten plastic and toys. Sprinkled by sheets of plastic tarpaulin, it constantly emits puffs of steam, sending the sheets flapping and straining against their supporst in huge bulges. At the edges of the mess of pistons and clockwork are three long jointed metal limbs ending in outsize blades, which the creature slashes about visciously when not walking on them.
The thing that moves through the door into Felicia's section is entirely different. A horde of gray cubes roll in, each the size of an ant, which shimmer in and out of visibility. They scatter, then congregate loosely and form into a multitude of sharp edges that leap and swirl through the air, before dispersing again. With each new action, the sounds their movement makes changes: frmo the crackling of fire to the whirring of clockwork and the clanking of steam engines, they appear able to mimic any natural or unnatural sounds.
Gloompaw's beast is even stranger. Armoured in gaudy plastic, a squirrel composed of swirling gothic script on yellowed and ancient paper brandishes a cutlass crackling with lightning. It wears a tricorn hat and carries an augmented, futuristic spyglass. The giant rodent swaggers up to Gloompaw and gives a piratical salute, before thoroughly cleaning its tail.
Nikolas is greeted by another construct. A huge cylinder with purple dinosaur-like feet and wings, it is armoured with plastic game cartridges. It sucks in air, or presumably other substances, through a nozzle at its front end, then expels it from either the large hole at its back, propelling itself up and forward, or in a condensed stream back out the nozzle. It launches itself into the air and manages to glide two or three hundred metres, but pays little heed to Nikolas, preferring to throw itself systematically against the force barriers protecting the other contestants.
The final beast flies out towards the odd looking schoolgirl on a constant jet of paint. It is in the shape of a massive filled donut. Covered with steel ball bearings, it swoops back and forth dramatically, sparks flying from its innards. As it spins, jagged plastic chainsaws flash out and in again, though its several tonnes are likely equally deadly.
Post items for a trap now. As ever, I'll try to answer any questions that come up.
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