One drone isactually quite far in northwest, around northmost burning helicopter, and there appears to be some action. Namely a line of seven ISIS cars are getting shot on. One car veers off the road and crashes on wall, but nobody comes out of it. Remaining cars pull hard stop and people storm out into cover shortly before the cars are eaten by what looks like a disease and turned into dust. Actually that grayish goo even seems to make dents into the very road. Sky high drone moves towards the intersection where the psychopath was last time seen and descends a bit while doing so. Hmm, there appears to be people on rooftops. Some are bigger than others, some move more than others. The drone is little too high to make out enough details and the display isn't too large either to exactly identify your targets. You probably should just shoot everybody. It's a mercy for those who are fully affected by the psycho thing.
Snipers/Trappers: Well, there's that minaret sniper south was using, but merely crossing the road to reach it produces creeping paranoia and wrong ideas. The original target, the mosque in north, is still viable, assuming you can reach it and remain sane. There's unfortunately no other good spots, unless you consider about every rooftop ever here. Sniper Original pair returns to their original spot. Nobody ran more than 40 meters before wacko effect was fully out of your mind.
Recon South moves back to south and encounters some lizardmen from west... are you still hallucinating? Because these people have scales, long sharp claws and teeths, and lots of bone spikes growing through clothes all over their bodies. And they seem very hungry type. Flesh eaters. All have bloodied face and you are certain that's not their own blood. Those scales provide enough protection to make your silenced pistols less effective, so you rely on teleporting slices of their necks away. They don't appear to be bothered at all about losing members of their group, and instead run wildly towards you like a tide of hungry flesh. Of fuck they are on roofs too... They are many.
And at this point you get shot on. To be precise, the two snipers in the trapper group just drop dead as bullets tear in and out the other side their brains. Recon north gets shot on back at exactly same moment, but thankfully the combat armor stops bullets piercing your bodies. You will definitely have bruises before sun sets next time. Death is interesting experience from intellectual point of view, but rest of your bodies are not shielded from full extend of the experience so for a brief but very important moment you are feeling discord between
your true body and your other bodies. Stoneself feels it too. Being separated from pain of other bodies is a great thing, but it would be even better if all bodies had same insulation.
Trappers and recon north spin around pistols up and brain ready to lock on your assailant but they see nothing. Invisible? Multiple shooters? Shit! Scatter! But there's nowhere you can hide! And that stupid bird... ooh, shiny...
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You and stonemind are completely separated from the collective. Being so suddenly reduced down to two minds is very unpleasant experience, not one you would want to experience ever again. Almost as if you were turned into retard. Naturally you are still better off than any avarage human being you may walk on in roads of random metropolis, but still, the difference is horrible. Stone mind can't do shit. All you see is dancing lights where your bodies were. More shooting is heard where lights dance, your defenseless bodies are probably getting shot at. Just how many tricks does the psycho guy have in his disposal!
Lights go off as suddenly as they started and your mind expands back like a compressed rubberball, but the situation is far worse now. For example, recon north didn't come back. Nor did the entire four man sniper/trapper squad. Sniper south, who's actually fairly close them, can see their fallen bodies. And a bird flying up to sky. The same bird which appeared in front of them before you were forcibly reduced.
Recon south is actually even worse. They still live, for now, but they are being eaten alive by horde of lizard mutants. You can tell that really sucks. Really. Sucks.
Recon South also hears pair of explosions from north. Those are more on level of normal grenades going off, not the tactical nukes like that one few minutes ago. And thunder booms once again from west.
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