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Nissa smirks at the panicky eye.
Recalling a certain 20th-Century gun-toting toon who happens to be about Nissa’s full height, Nissa aims both guns at the ground and says, “Time for my Yosemite Sam impersonation!”
She blasts downward!
If life were a cartoon, this would rocket-propel Nissa. But all her guns do is shoot the floor. This hopefully hurts the black panicky eyeball thing!
She can’t actually talk like Yosemite Sam, so as she fires the first shot she says the first cowboyish thing that pops in her head: “Yippie ki-yay, muh… wait a minute. That might be a ninety’s movie. I can’t quote it without disrupting the space-time continuum.”
She fires the second shot. “Hasta la… nope.”
Charles slashes and egg with his blade, but the goo that drips off of the blade gathers in orbs and begins to form more eggs.
Zellgato's debuffs slow the growth of the eggs he hits.
When Nissa shoots the floor, the black pupil gets smaller and flits away, trying to avoid taking the blast directly.
"Yosemite Sam? I know that one!" says Greer, pointing his rifle at the floor for his next attack.
The eggs nearest Nissa's blasts shrink away while the eggs furthest from Nissa's blast grow more.
Three eggs seem to be growing larger than the others.
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Nissa chases the eye! As for it being a smaller target, she says, “Using my own tactic against me? Bad move.”
She points and shoots a bullseye. Demon’s eye. Whatever. It’s a damn good shot with damn good damage!
Charles keeps going at the largest egg, feeling rather nervous about a demon this big popping out.
Zellgato holds his fire, using his HUD of his labl he scans the closest creature. Attempting to figure out if they're suspectible to poisoning or other options they have on hand.
Retaining his weapon at the ready to combat any threats to Kai, or appearences of large ones.
Theo assist Charles in destroying the large white eggsac.
Zellgato holds his fire, using his HUD of his labl he scans the closest creature. Attempting to figure out if they're suspectible to poisoning or other options they have on hand.
Retaining his weapon at the ready to combat any threats to Kai, or appearences of large ones.
As for how they're growing so fast, Zellgato finds that each egg is connected to the tower itself is by hundreds of thin capillaries. The tower is pumping the eggs full of the substances these things need to grow.
A good part of whatever makes these creatures tick is magical though, not biological, so not really Zellgato's wheelhouse.
The combined attacks of Charles and Theo rupture one of the largest egg-sacks. The creature that stumbles out of it is almost six feet tall and looks like an evil baby bird. It's form starts to dissolve almost instantly though. It wasn't ready to hatch. The floor drinks up everything.
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Nissa chases the eye! As for it being a smaller target, she says, “Using my own tactic against me? Bad move.”
She points and shoots a bullseye. Demon’s eye. Whatever. It’s a damn good shot with damn good damage!
[dice=Shoot!]d20+10
[dice=Good Damage]4d6+6
Blasting the dead-center of the eye causes some of the smaller eggs to be reabsorbed into the Tower. There are still a couple large eggs and many medium-sized ones.
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“How we doing, Kai?”
The fire in Nissa’s eyes burns wildly, as it always does when she’s ready to cause an explosion.
She fires a couple shots into the floor as she speaks—
—“I’m about ready to burst! Should I wait for your signal?”
Charles goes for the next largest egg. "We can do this!" he shouts, as much to himself as anyone else, as he again brings the Sword of Truth to bear.
Greer and Nissa continue to blast at the floor. It seems to be working; When Charles and Theo destroy egg sacks, more do not appear. The ones that are there continue to grow however.
Zellgato watches Kai install the implosion spell encased in a temporal stasis tube, the magic supplied by Doc Z and the stasis tube being from your more technologically advanced world.
"Hey, you know what we should call that thing, Kai?" shouts Greer over the sounds of blasting. "The Egg Scrambler!"
Theo looks over the Charles, seeing the results Nissa is getting and shrugs. The godling reverses the Angel Blade high and thrusts it down into the floor. "Give my regards to Lord Hades, a$$hole!"
Making all the right wire connections while giant demonic eggs are popping up everywhere is a little challenging, but kai appreciates the heroic efforts of everyone trying to stave off the undoubtedly horrible creatures that would emerge from those eggs. That said, when the giant baby bird emerges, Kai drops the tool used to put the final touches on the imploding device.
"Uh, I'll need more time, very sorry! Can't rush this, or we all implode."
"Uh, I'll need more time, very sorry! Can't rush this, or we all implode."
"I don't think you've got anymore time," shouts Alt-Greer. He points to the egg embedded in the wall of the Tower. It's beginning to split open. A demon begins to emerge, tearing the sides of the egg open with its long talons. It looks similar to the vulture-like one you fought on the roadside yesterday, but it has a purple hue and it's larger.
"Void," shouts Alt-Greer.
The demon screeches angrily at Alt-Greer and pushes his head free of the egg.
Greer fails to act this round; he's obviously afraid, but not just for himself. "Not to rush you, but it's time to bounce."
-1 penalty to hits -50% speeds.
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That is an accurate tactical assessment*cursing under his breath*Whats the plan? Zellgato shouts out as he takes two shots
-1 penalty to hits -50% speeds.
-1 penalty to hits -50% speeds.
"Keep the other ones from hatching!" Charles shouts, then charges the new-hatched demon with his blade. "Kai, you'll get your time!"
Nissa focuses on a place behind Void.
She points her gauntlet and her subatomic form passes through Charles, through Void—
Nissa is free to flee as she snaps back into her clothes, full sized. But she will only move out if Kai does. And since Kai can’t leave yet, she positions herself in front of Kai.
The Olympian stands side-by-side with Nissa in front of Kai as she works on the bomb.
"I don't think you've got anymore time," shouts Alt-Greer. He points to the egg embedded in the wall of the Tower. It's beginning to split open. A demon begins to emerge, tearing the sides of the egg open with its long talons. It looks similar to the vulture-like one you fought on the roadside yesterday, but it has a purple hue and it's larger.
"Void," shouts Alt-Greer.
"Then go! This needs just a little more... ngh." Kai is evidently stressed as the imploding device is taking its sweet time arming itself.
Zellgato definitely gets a shot at Void from his readied action, because Void does come rushing out. Z's shot hits.
Charles attacks with his sword as the vrock steps fully out of the egg and starts to run towards the center of the room. The demon bats the sword aside with one of his massive talons and attempts to run past Charles.
Nissa passes through the demon subatomically and, for a moment, sees what chaos looks like at a subatomic level. It's not pretty. She blasts the demon as he runs, causing him to stumble.
Void isn't heading towards Kai, but, rather, Alt-Greer. Running towards Kai would be smarter, but the demon seems singularly focused on reaching Greer. Void's pretty clear about his intentions. "Kill the Greer," shrieks the big purple vrock.
Theo swings with the Angel sword and hits. It cuts the demon deeply, but it doesn't stop the thing from focusing on Greer.
It's only because of Z's injection that the demon doesn't reach Greer before the end of the round. Next round though, Alt-Greer is going to receive the full wrath of a creature born of wrath.
Greer tries to fire the sonic weapon at the creature, but he doesn't get it up in time. He blasts the floor accidentally this time.
The other eggs start to shrink as the Tower reabsorbs them. Z's busy right now, but the physiology of this Tower is almost plant like. Humans don't grow parts and then reabsorb them into their bodies, but plants do it frequently.
Charles is rather surprised by the demon's actions. He'd thought getting up in its face would get its attention, but... well, apparently it hated this world's Greer *that* much.
He slashes at it as it shoves past him.
He then glances around at the other eggs, noticing they're getting reabsorbed. They... might actually have a chance, the former zookeeper thinks to himself. They just have to play keep-away from an overpowered demon for a few more seconds, and then somehow get out of here before setting off the device...
...yeah, they can make it.
He keeps telling himself that as he moves up behind the big demon and hacks at it again with the Sword of Truth.
Theo growled in frustration over he devolving situation. "Kia. Do your thing. Be right back."
The godling springs forward to attack the vrock.
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“Just keep moving, Greer! Let us do the shooting if the beast wants ya that bad!”
Nissa blasts away at the vrock!
"Well S@+%, after the commander." Comments under his breath as he dashes to Alt-Greer's side, pulling a pressure syrgine "Tch, I should've tagged you earlier. Play keep away" lamenting briefly as he jams it into Greer's muscle.
Zellgato is out of Biohacks, but still has his medicinal boosters
Kai keeps frantically working on the device, hands shaking with fear and stress.
Both Nissa and Charles manage to hit the demon once as it races across the room towards Greer.
Zellgato will soon discover that demons are immune to poison, or, at least, this one is.
Void slashes at Greer with his talons, but Greer avoids them both. The bird-like demon pecks at Greer with his beak tearing into Greer's shoulder.
Greer blasts Void with the sonic weapon. The demon finds it annoying but shrugs it off.
"Greer! Keep moving!" Charles snarls as he chops at the oversized bird-demon again. In desperation he goes for speed rather than accuracy, but just ends up swinging wildly.
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“Greer! No—I’m not losing you twice!”
Nissa rushes between Greer and Void. She fires the gun in her gauntlet hand!
Finding his weapons fairly ineffectual, Zellgato opts for trying to help cover Alt-Greer. Pulling his trusty fire extinguisher Zellgato sprays the creature entirely attempting to blind it and give Alt-Greer breathing room.
Dirty Trick. KAC+8. Using Dex as I'm firing it. Hoping using an item will help the roll in someway! Trying for the Blinded Condition.
The Tower, begins to shift and change, messing with the party's ability to hit the demon. Void is mostly ignoring them, so singular in its rage towards Alt-Greer. The room, however, shifts in size, stretches into an oblong shape, which, then, spins. The exit shifts and multiplies. There is one exit and then there are 12 exits and then there are no exits. The red glow that comes from the floor flickers like a strobe light. All of this messes with Theo's and Charles' aim as they attack Void.
Nissa manages to hit the demon, but it barely notices.
It's only Zellgato's trick with the fire extinguisher that buys Greer some breathing room. He drops his boom-cannon and runs towards the door. The door shifts and moves and Alt-Greer finds he's rushing straight into a wall. The demon pounces, brushing past Nissa.
Void attacks Alt-Greer once with the same talon that slashed Nissa a few seconds ago.
Despite the demon's rage, its attack is precise. The talon slices both of Greer's Achille's tendons with one slice. Greer stumbles into the wall where the door appeared to be a second ago.
Greer pulls out his backup pistol and fires uselessly at the demon.
Lacking any other ideas at this point. Zellgato tries an unknown quality. Firing two vials. One at Alt-Greer and one at the creature. "Plan Z Greer!" Zellgato shouts as he releases a shot at Greer's muscle mass.
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Nissa’s shield is nearly wiped by the monster’s attack. Unfazed by the consequence, she strikes back!
“You messed with the wrong girl.”
She fires again and follows, so she can split an atom on the back of Void’s head!
Greer suddenly transforms into a reptilian creature. It's smaller but still mostly humanoid, as if a four-foot tall crocodile evolved to walk upright.
This gives the demon pause, "Am not Greer?" Void asks. The transformation means that the form-fitting helmet protecting Greer from Void's telepathy is loose. Void will spend this round probing Alt-Greer's mind and discovering that this is, in fact, the soul he wants for breakfast.
Nissa attacks get the demon while he's confused and unable to react defensively.
"Almost there, almost... Kai wipes some sweat off with a shoulder, hands still busy with the device.
"Done! Ready! It's set!"
Only then Kai looks around at the mayhem of the shifting room, alt-Greer nowhere to be seen and a smaller demon having now spawned alongside the vrock.
"Uhh..."
The Olympian focuses his will and strikes at the vrock.
Charles slashes at Void as the demon follows after Greer.
Seeing the situation, he knows that there's not much chance of this world's Greer surviving... unless he did something about it.
Charging forward, Charles transforms to his chimera form and jumps more-or-less on top of the transformed Greer, bodily interposing himself between Void and its target. A triple roar bursts from his throats as he challenges the demon.
The demon slashes at Theo and then at Charles, leaving the reptilian creature that it isn't sure is 'The Greer' alone for a moment.
Greer-turned-reptilian's eyes open and he chants, "Abu avis raktavarna. Turik ha nimi rakshasa." It's only after he says this that he seems to be aware of his surroundings again and begins to slither-crawl towards the exit which has appeared, momentarily, to his left.
It is around this time that everyone hears Kai say the device is done.
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Nissa rushes to the exit, but stops short inches away.
“Theo! Please carry me! Everyone out! Trust me!”
Nissa’s right gauntlet is held up, index finger off the trigger and pointed at the vrock.
Her eyes are like two suns.
—as soon as someone grabs Nissa, she’ll protect a supernova at the vrock!
Once struck by the Void Vrock, Theo uses his Retribution (Su) godling ability and instantly retaliates.
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“Theo! Please carry me! Everyone out! Trust me!”
"You got it." The Olympian sweeps his muscular arm underneath Nissa and runs out of the room.
In Theo’s mighty arm, full-sized Nissa is whisked away. Her fiery eyes are fixed on the tower!
Charles has never quite been sure what happens with his equipment when he transforms. It's clear that something in the transformation stores his weapons somehow (and even watching a video of himself transforming hadn't quite cleared up how), but stuff he was wearing? Well... suffice it to say that he wasn't sure whether or not the hand he'd been wearing the guantlet on was now a claw that could pierce demon hide.
But he was going to give it a try.
He slashes at Void with his possibly-gauntleted claw then retreats towards the exit.
The demon, Void, doesn't so much die as get reabsorbed into the Tower. The last thing he says is, "Want. Eat. The Greer." He says this in a tone that sounds a little sad, like this whole thing has been a misunderstanding and it isn't sure why you're making such a big deal out of his desire to eat Alt-Greer's soul.
Void is gone. For now. The eggs in the Tower begin to grow again like a half-dozen cysts on this strange red eyeball.
"Egg sssscrambler," hisses Alt-Greer-turned-lizard-creature. He pulls himself up and rushes towards the exit. The cloud of spores that landed on him when Void exploded begin to grow into long dark twisting tendrils.
"Ahh! Fu<k!!" The godling whines as the spores attack his godling flesh. The Olympian lays the flat edge of the Angel Sword on his skin, seeing if it kills the spores.