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Eric says flatly Shirren Manteca Imani: I believe you would be well suited to that task
Eric quickdraws his Static Arc pistol and fires
EH-RK adds a minor burn wound to the creature. Faced with that many enemies with the vesk looking like she could consider it food, the plant creature withdraws from the fight.
Manteca stands gun at the ready, watching the thing run away.
"...Did we scare it off? ...Can plants feel fear??" He looks suspiciously at EH-RK. "How sure are we that this thing is a plant, anyways? That seemed a lot more like something less 'plant-y' and more 'bug-eating monster-y'."
After a few moments of watching and waiting the beast reappears from a completely different direction and shoots a thorn at Manteca. But Manteca is lucky as it is deflected by his exoskeleton.
Eric fires at the creature
Manteca starts to direct via telepathy to try to cut off the thing's escape, and takes a shot himself.
Manteca looks with sadness on the pistol. I don't even know why I carry this thing, looking with a twinge of jealousy at the longarms and heavy weapons scattered about the group.
Jazzning and EH-RK hit the thing, but Manteca shoots his arch nemesis: Foliage.
The creature disappears into hiding once more.
You stand there patiently.
After about a minute, Boreal turns to the others and says, "I reckon we scared it off."
Manteca stands with the gun still at the ready. "Didn't we already say that once already?? It's easy for you to think that it's gone, it doesn't seem to have the taste for vesk." The shirren looks nervously through the trees. "Even if we did scare it off - do you think we can outrun it?"
"Well what do you suggest? We can either sit here and wait until it does or doesn't come back, or we can move on."
The group moves on through the jungle with Manteca becoming paranoid.
All but EH-RK notice as the plant creature appears again, but only Manteca is ready to act immediately.
"I KNEW IT THERE IT IS QUICK ALL GET IT!" the surprised shirren says.
The foliage gets shot again, but the plant creature throws a thorn again at Manteca.
ROOOOOOOOOOOAR
Boreal charges through to the creature bringing down the doshko on its tentacled head. Which ends the creature once and for all.
Manteca sits with a *thump* on a nearby log. "Oh god, is it bad? What sort of venom did it just fill me with?"
I hate to break it to you man, but it put carrion spores in you. When you reach the comatose state, 11-20 tiny ksarik seedlings burrow out of your skin and just wriggle away. That will hurt. Like a lot. But on the bright side your disease will be over"
Manteca's antennae wilt as he hears the prognosis. "But... there's a way to fix it. Right??" Manteca fumbles with his bag, pulling out his medkit. "I'll just cut the whole thing out!" the shirren says manically, brightly holding the scalpel in a trembling claw.
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"Whoa!" Jazzming cried out as Manteca held aloft his scalpel. She rushed over and gripped his arm. "I'm sure there's a better way than just digging into yourself. EH-RK, you able to do any kind of scans to see if those seed thingies actually got into his system, first? I'm afraid neither Hawkings nor Faraday have a med-scanner. Something I should probably figure out a way to do, now that I think about it..."
Human Jazzming Brokato: Indeed. I might perform such a scan...however I believe that Shirren Manteca Imani is the Doctor. I am a Scientist, my skills lay more in the Physical Sciences.
As EH-RK distracts Jazzming for a moment, Manteca takes advantage of the distraction to swap scalpel to his off-claw and pry out the thorn. The shirren stands with wince as he feels the pain of broken chitin. "Well, technically it's a doctorate in xenopsychology... but I am learning." He looks at the thorn, then carefully picks it up and places it in a jar in his medkit. "Might as well hang onto this for study if necessary."
While you stand there in the green you suddenly hear a hoarse scream, from the direction the monster plant approached the last time.
Manteca stands, tossing the scalpel back in the bag and drawing his pistol again. "That... that can't be a good sound." He waits for someone else to go ahead to investigate, but will then follow them.
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EH-RK says Shirren Manteca Imani: You are correct. Someone should investigate. but makes absolutely no move to do so. You're pretty sure Eric means "someone else" should investigate.
Boreal turns from one to another in the group, shrugs when nobody makes to move, and brings her doshko to her shoulder as she starts to walk towards the noise.
Boreal follows the noise and as she comes closer the words become recognizable. Someone is demanding to be granted death by someone named 'Devourer'. The repetitiveness of the demand suggests that the person may be calling to some kind of deity.
As Boreal moves closer, unfazed by whatever might answer, she find a female lashunta, who leans at a stone. She looks really ill. On seeing the Vesk approach she threatens "I'll kill you if you come any closer." But her obvious inability to get up and her feeling around for her weapon, without finding it doesn't help with looking like a threat.
"Devourer? We have killed two things that have tried to eat us so far today."
Reynotto goes with Mrs. Boreal
Can I try to medicine and see what's wrong with her?
'The cult of the devourerer?"
Reynotto says "Mam, I am a doctor, let me close and i can see if I can help you"
I do have some sedatives if we think that will help, Manteca says telepathically to the party.
No, my question is how can you suggest that?"
"Oh, that's easy. She probably dehumanizes them in her mind in order to reduce her empathy for them, making her capable of applying such callous judgements," Manteca says cheerfully. "Useful when making hard choices, so I'm led to believe."
Taking a closer look at her, you see a thorn, like the one Manteca caught from the plant monster. "You, you,..." she searches for something to attack the approaching group. Being to weak to lift her sword, or the heavy gun she does some magic at Reynotto.
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"Something like that, yeah. Cultists bring their trouble upon themselves, no need to make your own life more complicated dealing with them," Jazzming said with a shrug. "It sucks, and can be construed as immoral, but I sleep fine at night. Most of the time."
When the woman goes and uses magic, though, she moved over to wack the woman on the head.
Unfortunately, the woman's erratic movements cause the hit to go wide.
"JAZZ, do not bloody attack her. Now mam you have two options, either we can help you and make it as bloody painful as possible... or we can do this the easy way. Your choice."
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"JAZZ, do not bloody attack her. Now mam you have two options, either we can help you and make it as bloody painful as possible... or we can do this the easy way. Your choice."
Or, again, sedatives. It'll only hurt a second but then she should be more capable to receive some healing, the shirren says mentally. I don't want to present the option out loud in case we're doing a "Good Steward, Bad Steward" thing here.
Boreal mentally says to Manteca Jab and squeeze right? as she hold out a hand to her side, waiting for him to pass her the sedative injection.