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Diamaante opens the internal airlock door onto what appears to be the main corridor of the ship. It seems to run the entire starboard-to-port width of the ship, intersecting with a further corridor halfway down. Low-light conditions persist as flickering fluorescent lights emanating near the bottom of the wall panels to the floor cast unnerving shadows. Signs of battle—bullet holes, scorch marks, smears of blood—pepper the walls and floors. Two doors open off the hallway, one before the intersection, and one after. A small body in a space suit lies sprawled on the floor in the middle of the junction.
Telion pulled himself through the hatch, unclasped his tether and shuffled past the others to lead the way into the derelict vessel.
Telion approached the small body for a closer look, then poked his head around the corner of the intersection.
Jaxom shakes his head at August's correction and comments, "when we get back, I'm going to look up that Devlin character. I liked him."
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Idar unslings his laser cannon, keeping it pointed down the corridor. The vacuum silences the noise of it charging. Something was fighting in here, and there is no reason to assume everything is dead.
He does not proceed up to the central junction yet. The is a door on the left of the corridor, he'll check that first. No unknowns between them and their ride home, please.
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Telion and August approach the facedown figure in the spacesuit at the intersection of the corridors while Idar advances on the near door. Telion turns the figure over, revealing what once was a goblinoid face as its spacesuit helm falls away. Its lower jaw has been hideously dislocated inferiorly and a large blue-grey tongue protrudes from its mouth around a maw of teeth.
In a heartbeat, the thing's eyes snap open, revealing large inky-black pupils the colour of the void. It lunges at Telion!
The thing lunges at Telion, its large tongue thrashing and plunging for his neck!
"Whoa!!"
"Not dead!" Telion rocked back, but recovered quickly. The solarian's customary purple black energy fist slammed down at the gnashing face.
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Telion energises his fist and readies an attack while August grazes the small hideous thing with his laser pistol as the thing's tongue lashes out at Telion but misses.
The thing scurries up off the ground as Telion punches into the floor near it. Intent upon tasting the solarian's flesh, the ghastly tooth-filled thing lashes its tongue at Telion again.
The thing's tongue punctures Telion's neck, sucking blood from the solarian before whipping back into its maw.
Idar fires a blast that scorches through a bulkhead further down the corridor.
Jaxom casts daze on the creature.
DC 13 Will save please!
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"Still not dead!" Telion's telepathic voice reaches you all as he sidesteps ahead of August and slams his fist down on the thing's head. His purple-black fist grows a bit darker.
The solarian's fist misses the shorter creature.
As silent as death, a black form drops from the ceiling of the hallway to the aft - the hallway that Telion just stepped into. Tentacles too numerous to count writhe around a dog-like maw topped with beady yellow eyes. With a preternatural quickness, it sandwiches Telion in between the undead goblin and its toothy maw.
Telion suddenly feels a freezing cold emanating from the bite on his leg in waves.
The goblin-esque creature turns his attentions to August, hammering at the android with his flailing limbs.
The thing succeeds in ringing August's bell inside his space helmet, its blood-tipped tongue lolling from its mouth.
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August steps back from the thing with a guarded step as part of his study of the monster then tries to line up the perfect shot.
Lightning screams out the coils of the arc pistol and hammers into the goblin-zombie-thing again.
"Gods dammit! Forget staying strong, after we torch these things I say we go back to the Hippocampus and detonate this damn nest of monsters from a safe distance."
Telion took a quick step back so he could keep his eyes on both the goblinoid and the blue quadruped, then slammed his fist towards the former. As it impacted, the deep purple flared to life with an internal orange glow.
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Jaxom moves ahead of Diamaante to eliminate the cover, and fires at the goblin corpse...
Fire, Burn 1d4
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Jaxom blasts a hole straight through the dead goblin's sunken head. It drops like a sack of space potatoes.
The dog-like thing with tentacles around its head darts forward, slavering jaw aimed at Telion!
The dark form misses Telion's attack, perhaps distracted by the now-glowing fist of the solarian.
Jaxom fires twice more at the goblin shape.
Fire, Burn 1d4
Fire, Burn 1d4
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Jaxom unloads his laser pistol into the now-still goblin corpse, missing wildly once, but searing the dead thing's flesh further.
The solarian's fist glows brighter as his power swells. He swings an uppercut at the many-legged blue-black horror as Idar's bullet grazes its hindquarters.
"Thanks!" Telion manages as the crew finish off the deformed goblin corpse.
Telion connects solidly.
The thing's mouth slavers open, but it makes no noise, no sound, as it pounces upon Telion.
The thing bites into Telion's torso, leaving tendrils of blue-black dripping from the wound.
Telion stepped back from both the beast and his friends, then slammed his fist into the deck. The light that had been growing within his energy fist suddenly erupted in a massive solar flare, scorching everything within 10 feet of the lashunta before extinguishing.
Confident that the goblin is really dead now, Jaxom fires twice at the remaining foe.
Fire, Burn 1d4
Fire, Burn 1d4
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Diamaante and Idar let loose a fusillade of bullets at the space-black thing, scoring two serious hits to the still-wriggling creature. Telion steps back and brings down his supernova fist into the deck.
When the corona of light fades, the creature appears untouched by the flames. A laser blast from Jaxom fires into the creature, but also seems similarly absorbed without damage.
August fires his arc pistol twice, landing two electric blasts that paralyse and then topple the foe. As the corpse hits the deck, it begins to sublimate into gas, a blue-black ether seeping upwards from the foe until nothing is left but a greasy black stain on the floor grates near a desiccated-appearing goblin corpse.
-5 DC to identify rare creature
Seems like a -5 situation even, so effectively a roll of 30?
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August checks his pistol charge and keeps his weapon ready.
"Got me but it's definitely not friendly. Anybody not have an alternative to a laser pistol?" August asks a bit smugly with his many weapons covering his body.
Note to self: acquire disintegrator, sonic and cryo pistols soonest. Also figure out way to reliably carry six pistols without looking like a holovid pirate or, failing that, ensure I look like a dashing holovid pirate.
Jaxom pats the stick at his side, "I have a baton, but I really don't want to be right up next to these things, unless I really have to. Can you loan me something?"
Jaxom accepts the pistol, fumbles with the safety a little, before holstering it in a cross draw position. "Thank you."