Maxim checks the door to the east and finds the stairs. At the end of the flight, he waits at the next door, readying the Streetsweeper for action.
"Hey Eric, wanna do your stealthy thing?"
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Gorn stuffs the various laser-based tools of destruction into his sack, because he doesn't mind the weight, and he thinks volume is something you turn up to 11 on the trideo.
He also takes a small break, recovering some bit of stamina.
Afterwards he follows Max, examining the dull-but-slimed room.
"I have a better idea," Gorn retorts to Max, stomping East and up.
"By all means, lead the way."
The southern half of this spacious chamber is divided into two metal containers that stretch up to brush the ceiling. Large corrugated doors on the containers’ fronts have been painted with crude symbols. On the eastern end of this room is an unmarked door, while the area opens into a hallway to the west.
It gets a bit cramped in the corridor, as four large elementals come out of the containers to the left and attack.
Are the elementals a full 10 feet wide? are they too large to squeeze into a 5 foot space like the stairwell?
Eric pulls his close combat weapons (Thunderstrike Pistol and Combat Knife) and stows his rifle.
As all retreat again the elementals stand idle for a while and then disappear into their containers again. You can see where the sympathies lie, as the air elemental shares a room with fire and water with earth.
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"Hrmmmmm," muses the large warrior. "Beseems yon spirits are but slaves to some un-seen stigmata."
He ponders this.
"Mayhap if you all readied your at-range attacks, one of us, one with uncommon valor and a brave, strong heart, could stalk into the room, again summoning the creatures, and those at the door could strike out with bolt and shot, to have the vanguard retreat again.
This we could do many times, until all are done.
Obviously I must needs play the scout.
Any to second the idea?"
"Nothing obvious about you volunteering for a role which requires bravery, but fate offers another chance to prove yourself." Maxim waits with the others, streetsweeper at the ready, for Gorn to incite the elementals.
Eric moves forward and fires a shot as he passed by the doorway.
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Mindful of their plan, and not wanting to give the beasties an excuse to escape, Gorn gets an idea.
He re-positions himself just inside the room and observes the monsters. Though he stands next to a foe, he stays his hand and instead keeps his guard up, anticipating the next attack, minimizing the risk to himself and maximizing the chance for the others to shoot them with guns!
"Imagine, didn't you call this plan 'Infinite Hit Points'? How did this work out the last time you tried it?" Gorn calls out, unsure of what he'd doing.
Maxim holds his action.
The air- and fire-elemental come out again and attack. The air elemental turns into a whirlwind and moves like a giant vacuum cleaner out of the container and through Gorn.
If Gorn is still standing and not whirling atound with the elemental, the fire guy slams at him.
Maxim looks on from the entrance of the stair, painfully aware that a plan is useless if nobody follows it.
at the nearest elemental.
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Boreal joins the fray with a pleased hum. Complex plans for things that are solved with simple violence give her headaches.
EH-RK blows away half of the air elemental. Maxim targets the same and adds to the damage. Which is a strange sight, as elementals don't bleed. It's body is moving air, but still it can be hurt. Which becomes even more obvious, as Boreal slices through it and the air stops moving, leaving just empty space where the creature was.
From the next container, the earth and water elementals appear. But they are slow and clearly out of their element here.
Eric moves around and fires, keeping well away from the creatures as his ghost protocols flicker his armor in and out of view.
Maxim takes another shot with the Streetsweeper, this time at the Fire elemental.
The shooting isn't very successful this time. But Gorn keeps dealing the damage.
The fire elemental lashes out with fiery eruptions.
The earth elemental also stomps closer and leashes out at Gorn.
The water elemental comes after it but has to wait for a spot to open.
Boreal attacks the earth elemental.
"You're still good out there?" Imagine asks.
Maxim looks at the barrel of the Streetsweeper, as if it missed so badly on the previous shot just to spite him. Ever stubborn, he points it back at the Fire Elemental and squeezes off another round.
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'Heh. These things are made for another time. Let's see how they handle hitting a gorram Space Marine!' Gorn thinks as one of the fire elemental's slam attacks makes it past his defenses.
Many things happen as the thing's fire fist gets close to Gorn's bleeding-edge armor.
Gorn's force field crackles, absorbing a third of the blow outright.
His thermal capacitor kicks in next, bleeding out the heat of the monster's blow.
Lastly his electrocstatic field crackls against the intruding fist, sending painful shocks against the kinetic force.
Gorn chuckles, not caring that he got tagged, so long as the other guy doesn't come away in the same shape he came in. Still having fun, he keeps up his running strategy of fighting defensively.
"Oh, Big Daddy is more than good, little girl!" Gorn calls out to Imagine, needing her attention, if not her services.
Maxim shoots one of them for minimal damage. Gorn with great bravado does a mighty swing, that doesn't hit at all.
Eric moves around and fires, keeping well away from the creatures as his ghost protocols flicker his armor in and out of view.
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EH-RK makes sure that he doesn't become a target, for one by moving around and using trickery to be hard to hit, and second, by not angering the elementals.
The fire elemental and the earth elemental keep lashing out at Born and Boreal.
Boreal stubbornly keeps attacking the earth elemental.
Eric moves around and fires, keeping well away from the creatures as his ghost protocols flicker his armor in and out of view.
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As both sides seem to be particularly ineffective, Maxim settles in for a long battle.
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This would be a totally boring standoff if it wasn't about life and death. But with the options of being bored to death and beaten to death the elemental's seem to choose the latter. And entertaining themselves with beating up the guys coming throug.
"You tell me when you're no longer good and need some of my caring attention, right?" Imagine inquires, while shortly looking up from her handheld device.
Boreal is disappointed by the clumsiness of the earrth elemental, but that doesn't keep her from attacking.
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Even as his Force field and thermocapitor try their level best to adjust for the onslaught, the solid hit takes Gorn by surprise and he reels on his heels, his spinning at least making him a hard target for the missing follow-up.
Still, all in all he has a lot more fight left in him and he quickly regains his senses.
"Oh we're still all good here, honey. Especially the parts you care about!"
Determined not to show fear (or show weakness in front of the cute mystic), Gorn re-doubles his efforts to try and end this sooner.
What Gorn has to deal is more than the fire elemental is able to take. Disappearing with only a waft of smoke left that quickly disperses, there is room for the water elemental now. It moves in to continue the legacy. Just not with dry heat, but chill wetness.
"Did you see the gas pipe the fire elemental was attached to?"
"Neither did I. I don't think using logic works very good here." Imagine comments.
"Keep it up, Gorm. You're starting to get the hang of this 'fighting' thing we do."
photon attuned x2.
Maxim makes good use of the streetsweeper. EH-RK does his trickshot successfully on the earth elemental.
The elementals keep lashing out. They have some sort of body structure, but it is surprising everytime where the limbs for the attack come from.
"Ouch." Boreal states as the elemental hit her painfully. Which throws off her aim.
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