Retrieve my plasma machete from the corpse
[Finesse: 7 + 1]
The problem with stabbing it in there and twisting is that it can sometimes be hard to get out, especially with the limited leverage of the cramped capsule and whatever the hell was going on with this guy's internal anatomy - you've never really stabbed a guy like him before, so it's tough to know what to expect. So you just turn on the burn and saw your way out, leaving a sizeable blackened gash in the body as you drag it out delicately so as to not accidentally pierce the walls or floor. And you even leave most of him intact, or at least very lightly grilled in the process. You know, just in case your buddies don't manage to hail the ship.
Reclaimed Plasma Machete!Attempt to weave a fishing net out of silk. Hope that someone else manages to somehow get the ship's attention.
[Mind: 5 + 1]
You've actually been working on one for some time. A girl's gotta do something in her spare time other than fantasize about injecting her venom into somebody's succulent flesh and reducing it to an edible slurry over a period of hours. Of course, the others certainly didn't appreciate you getting your webs all over their own corners of the capsule, so you mostly had to improvise with what little space you had, unused as you were to not having at least three attachment points for a proper net.
The end result, you guess as you twirl it between four feet, is perhaps less of a net and more of a coccoon. You guess you could make it into a butterfly net, certainly. Not so sure about fishing with it, though. At least you didn't overdo it like Waffels over there. Poor guy's clearly never tried to web while starved.
Gained Item: Small Silken NetUse my instinctive flashing ability to get the attention of the boat.
[Finesse: 8 - 1]
They are a mile and a half away for sure, but as you play an invigorating, half-naked (between the two of you, that is) game of Twister with Eccentrica on top of the capsule you think you manage to get the eyes of a good few sailors! And Eccentrica, far away as she is, makes sure to get the rest as they start to go for their primitive looking glasses.
Gotta say, not what you expected to be doing today. But definitely preferable to a lot of the alternatives.
Eccentrica also uses her instinctive flashing ability to get the attention of the boat.
[Finesse: 3 + 4 + Outfit Use]
You're a bit too far away for effective titillation, so you decide to just pull off your tearaway outfit and use the spangles and your own undeniably expressive body motions (well, at least next to Heehoo's, anyway, who's being an uncharacteristically good sport about gyrating along with you) to make your very own interpretation of a semaphore communique, the sheen of mucus and accumulated filth from spending all this time at sea causing you to veritably gleam in the sunlight.
Needless to say, a boat is inbound shortly, half a dozen curious Frog People in mismatched clothing looking ahead as they row in your direction, occasionally looking back at the death throes of the floral whale far behind them.
Used Up For This Encounter: Incredibly Seductive Spangly Tearaway OutfitTry to weave myself a nice coil of rope. Surely that will come in handy at some point.
[Mind: 2-1]
One of the greatest troubles with spinning webs is that it kind of depends on you having a good deal of nutrition to produce much in the way of usable material. So going for large volumes of the stuff is, as you find out in the voyage, rather inadvisable if you are at best on the verge of going mad from hunger and thirst.
It's a learning experience, you could say. Or it would be if you didn't feel like you were about to collapse on your own pile of disjointed sticky silk, each of your eight eyes starting to point in its own direction as your thoughts progressively lose coherence.
Wound Gained: DeliriousSome items, like the Incredibly Seductive Spangly Tearaway Outfit, have limited uses, but are replenishable when nobody's looking, whether through recharging at a generator, recalibrating their workings or, in this case, slipping them back on.
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