Eric's autophase armor flickers and he uses it to confuse and misdirect defenses.
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"Gah!" Imagine weakly cries, real panic starting to set in. "Okay, yeah! Get 'im, Erik! I'm just...I'm just gonna go with something I call 'infinite hit points.' Hopefully he'll run out of blood...before I do."
With that she meekly lays a hand on the biggest wound and she's surrounded by a yellow glow.
EH-RK lands another solid hit.
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"The f!!% are you doing?" Boreal asks Manteca, standing there fuming, doshko leveled ready to swing, "They are fighting and you ran away to look for a f$#*ing necklace?"
The skreesire agrees to that game and slams at Imagine again. But this time it gets it's tentacles in a knot.
Manteca stands staring at Boreal for a second, allowing the past few moments to catch up with his un-Suggested self, before dropping the pendant and breaking into a run back towards Imagine and the skreesire. Hang on Imagine, we're coming!!
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"And then you f&#+ing drop the thing?" Boreal shouts after Manteca before sprinting back
Eric's shifting form glides from shadow to shadow as he fires
"And then you f#+%ing drop the thing?" Boreal shouts after Manteca before sprinting back
"Yes because Imagine is in trouble!!" yells Manteca, arms flailing comically as he runs.
"She was in trouble before you decided to run away! What the hell are you doing?" Boreal shouts back at Manteca as she overtakes his flailing form
Manteca runs as far as he can. It is quite the distance that he has to cover. EH-RK shoots the creature again, but fails to trick it this time.
Imagine gets some of her health back and the other two are on their way to save her.
The screesire looks hungry as ever and goes for a bite this time.
Out of the rock formation to the east come two mini skreelings to join the fight. They come for EH-RK. A third one is attracted by the flailing shirren. Flapping around his head, it bites into Manteca's armor.
Boreal hears the commotion behind her from Manteca and groans as he is attacked.
"I will came and save you once I am done here..." Boreal roars at Manteca as she charges the Skreesire on Imagine.
The skreesire is less than impressed by the doshko attack. Baut all in all it is badly wounded.
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"Oh look I'm SAVED by someone who still has some blood in them! That's great, and after we've won I'll shower you in kisses and single-malt whiskey, but right now I need to be somewhere that has a LOT lower percentage of me losing more blood."
Imagine advances to the rear, dodging to a place where she can still see everyone, but is a good distance away from melee.
Manteca draws his survival knife and faces down the skreeling while Boreal rushes off to save Imagine. "Don't worry, Imagine - we're here now!" yells the shirren as he swings at the skreeling.
Eric darts away from the incoming screelings. He tries to put some distance between him and the creatures while firing at one of them.
As Boreal stays to entertain the skreesire she gets slammed.
Manteca gets mauled by his special friend - that he doesn't manage to hit. And EH-RK finds out that they are extra nasty in a group as the one biting him causes him to bleed, even though he shoots one.
Ow! You little... Take this! Manteca tries to amp himself up, taking a moment to mentally cheer himself on before attacking the skreeling.
It seems that most of his knife-fighting form has come from watching B holovids.
Boreal grunts as the beast slams at her before stepping into a flanking position.
"Come and get me you ugly bastard!" she taunts the beast
It is a nice invitation that Boreal offers to the skreesire, but it is not interested in taking her up on the offer. The creature takes another cut, and this one is too much for it to take.
Eric moves away from the screelings once more and he fires at one of them as he does
EH-RK shoots the same skreeling again, but it still flaps in the air. As the android doesn't want to play anymore and his bodily fluids don't taste well, the two skreelings go for Imagine instead.
The one with Manteca is happy with the shirren.
Ha! You missed you little... uh... excrement flake!
It... it almost looks like the practice he's been putting in in the recreation lounge is paying off.
Boreal swings at a skreeling.
Manteca sucessfully shoots his skreeling for the first time. Boreal on the other hand went to easy on those agile creatures.
Eric continues moving and firing, staying at max range for his Azimuth pistol.
EH-RK shoots past the creature. The skreelings move over to Boreal.
And Manteca keeps fighting his personal little monster.
HIIIII-YAAAH!
Drawing blood without getting bit must have made the shirren cocky, as the next attack completely fails to connect.
Eric continues moving and firing, staying at max range for his Azimuth pistol.
EH-RK shoots the first skreeling out of the air, reducing it to a red splat at the steep rock face. Manteca plays with his.
Boreal attempts to split a skreeling in two.
Boreal lands a solid hit, but those skreelings are sturdy. Boreal avoids being bitten, but Manteca almost jumps into the mouth of the creature in his attempt to avoid it.
Eric continues moving and firing, staying at max range for his Azimuth pistol.
but he misses wildly.
Boreal swings again.
First blood on me! Well, we'll see how your victory tastes you little...
Manteca deal the critter another wound. But at this rate this game of wak a skeeling will take quite a while. Meanwhile Boreal shows how it is done correctly. Slamming the toothy enemy into the ground with a mighty swing, so it doesn't get up again.
Manteca gets bitten into the arm he holds the knife out with.
Eric continues moving and firing, staying at max range for his Azimuth pistol.
this time, he thinks he does some good.
Imagine comes to Manteca's help and EH-RK ends the bloody playing around.
With the threats gone you check on your surroundings. The isolated grotto where the skreesire hid is dotted with piles of silvery ash. To the northwest, a low shelf of rock dams a pool of thick greenish liquid. A humanoid body in torn robes with one arm chewed off is ominously propped against the ledge. The body is wearing a symbol around its neck depicting a black hole with a red center.
Eric grabs the bag and says
Humanoids: We've dispatched the Skreesire, perhaps now we might focus on finding the Cultist hideout
Boreal stalks over to Manteca.
"What the <expletive deleted> are you playing at?" Boreal roars at the small Shirren as she crosses the ground between them. The muscles along her arms ripple beneath her scales, hands clenched.
Manteca takes a step back in confusion before his epiphany kicks in. "Oh! The thing with the amulet - yes, well, I heard a voice that told me to find it, and I lost all will to resist, and then I travelled to that pile of dust to root through it and then you came, but once I'd found the item in question I lost the compulsion, at which point I came back but splitting the group as the compulsion made me do seemed to have emboldened the young of the species - thank you, EH-RK, by the way, for your aid there. Oooh, I should go look at that amulet again!" Manteca turns and runs back to retrieve the amulet he dropped.
The amulet is a dented silver amulet with an oval pendant and a red stone embedded in its center.
Looking around the dead skreesire's lair, EH-RK finds a trapdoor under some of that ash/dust that lies around everywhere here.
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"Ya, well," pipes Imagine, wringing the blood out of her hair. "Maybe the next time someone runs off can everyone else please stay next to the distractingly cute mystic so we can cut down on unconscious face-plants by 100%?"
That done she takes time to examine the amulets.
"It's the symbol of the Devourer. Seen, like, eleventy billion of these things. Your voice is the most boringlyest voice ever."