(lightbulb) Try to coax the fish into heading in the direction of the monster so I can tear off bits of it for Vlad to eat
(1) You kick the fish in the sides, cowboy style, and the fish rears nto it's dorsal fins, like some sort of dyslexic aerial horsefish. Now, dorsal fins are on top, so what I'm saying here is the fish flips over and dumps you into the new lake.
Switching to human form, I clamber over to my wielder and hold on to him, ready to switch back to weapon form if he grabs me, but otherwise just making sure we stick together.
(6) Good timing. Gwen grabs onto Kongor and rides him down, like that guy riding the atomic bomb in that one movie. You both splash down into the lake below. I don't believe either of your characters can swim. Gorillas aren't known for it, nor are weapons particulrly bouyant unles specifically designed to be so.
(lightbulb) Try to coax the fish into heading in the direction of the monster so I can tear off bits of it for Vlad to eat
Consume the fishies, see if I can speak and move my consciousness through the mist towards the crack and start consuming the monster and gas released by it.
If I end up near machinery and the heart start trying to break down nonvital and broken machinery and using that to repair the more vital and damaged machinery to aid Clunkers.
((Also page 69, noice))
No fish for you~ besides, it wouldn't satiate your hunger anyway. (6) you find that you can communicate by vibrating the mist or forming it into symbols or such. You start to siphon off mist and repair machinery. This alleviates your hunger, but only as long as you are actively doing so.
A disease of some sort
Alright, you take some of your corns, will them to produce plant based poisons, and (4) fly more or less over the center of the beast and drop the acorns into the water. They drop with a series of small plips and then float on the turbulent surface of the water for a moment. (4) Then they begin sprouting, growing thin stalks upward as a more bushlike series of roots dig into the water to suck up nutrients. The water around the new plants begins to clear as the plants sprout leaves which are lined with hard, black, spiked edges. This seems to be a pretty effective method, but currently the scale of it is pretty small. gonna need to multiply this pretty significantly for a complete cleansing.
Uh oh.
Follow my orders and return to the heart. Lay out some hurts on any hostiles that become apparent.
You dive into the water and swim down (6) you locate a fissure. The fissure is being assaulted by a tendril of the beast, complete with one of those sensitive center bits like the one you attacked before. You attack and begin tearing this one to shreds as well, drawing it away from the crack into the Heart.
An erratic beat you say? How disorganized. Gently try and see if I can locate the problem with clockwork magic. If the power of the heart is too much, stop immediately. If it isn't, analyze the problem and see if I can't nudge it into becoming more stable.
(6) It's a tall order, but somehow you manage to sync up with the Heart. You can see everything in the Heart Chamber quite clearly. Conversely, for the first time, you feel something organic: an emotion. A fear, a heart-racing panic. You struggle to calm yourself and it, and it works a little. You see that the battle is winding down as the full force of Omega bears down on this one escapee. You see that the water has more or less effectively contained the creature and that the damage to the Heart is still manageable. You sense Vlad's attempts to fight the monster, repair the Heart, and try to survive all at once, you sense the harried and somewhat uncoordinated actions of the various Omegas, and the deeper, more placid sense of Omega Base, working at a deeper rhythm beneath the conflict. The scale of it is hard to grasp - Omega may not be a Universe in itself, but it's still pretty big. Maybe like an Ocean or a Moon or something.
Anyway, you have access to some measure of the Heart's energy and can feed it into the ations of your fellow Omegas, or could direct it to self repair or something else.