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EVENT: HERE THERE BE MONSTERS

Date & Time: October 24 - October 31
Location: Throughout Exsilium
Characters: ALL; tag yourselves in
Summary: The Transports return from their mission to find the island crawling with monsters.
Warnings: Violence, possibly injuries (notify a mod if there's cause to add a particular warning!)

The Transports return from their mission to Medieval Russia, but the Initiative Hold is eerily deserted. Normally, their would be a number of Initiative personnel prepared to meet the Transports at the end of their mission for debriefing.

Instead, there is only silence.

That is, until a distant thumping sound can be heard. It is growing closer, and suddenly the beast is bursting into the room. It lets out a roar and charges. Within minutes, it is easily defeated, but damage has already been done -- it collided with the Transporter machine, which is now making a low fizzling sound and lets off a couple sparks. The commotion is enough to draw the attention of the few remaining Initiative personnel who still inhabit the Hold, who arrive immediately afterwards. They are able to tell the Transports two things: that the machine is broken and currently unable to sent anyone back in time, and that the island has been overrun with aggressive, mutated beasts sent by the United Earth. They have been under siege for months, with the island's population reduced to a mere fraction of what it had once been.

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Yeah, let's not discover those sorts of things on accident.

[Like a certain blade.

And, Samus? Ask for or even admit help? Ha ha ha. Her visor flickers, giving the raging tentacle a good scan while she has a precious moment of reprieve.]

Its mouth is its weak spot. [WHUMPTHUD now with some minor amounts debris falling above them as the monster flails about for them. Their safe spot won't be safe for much longer.]

I can't get a good shot from this angle.

[ Derp yeah Adam doesn't want to know about any more special features.

The mouth, huh? Now he has to wonder if she knows this from experience or if she has some pretty fancy scanners in that visor of hers. Then again, it makes sense anyway... it might have thick skin but the flesh inside the mouth is usually soft and easily pierced. ]

...

[ Oh no. ]

Yeah, okay. I'll go and play worm-food, is that it?

[Even if she didn't have her visor to cheat, a large majority of her experiences have told her that yes; mouths, eyes, glowing red spots, and obvious gaping holes in armor typically make for good weak spots.]

No, I don't want to risk you getting eaten.

[Hgn, that kind of got blurted out. She smoothly follows up with:]

Think you can distract it for a few seconds?

Same thing, no?

[ Because to distract it he has to go and play worm-food, sigh. Not quite how he was hoping to spend his afternoon, but he'll do it because he's not the type to sit around. Or run away.

So he's gonna leave their little hidey hole, look for a nice spot and go HEY WORM HEY by firing his shotgun at it. It does no real damage but now he's getting some attention ... ]

[Distracting implies not getting eaten, or so she'd cheekily clarify if there weren't more dire and important matters at hand here. He bolts one way and she goes another--around the back of the thrashing, now being shot at and very irritated worm. She'll need a few seconds to charge up a super missile, but man, that thing packs a punch, it'll be worth it.

Just a few seconds...

Just a f--oh fuck the tentacle beast seems to take a sudden interest in the big glowing ball of energy being charged up just behind it. It makes a lunge for her and Samus is forced to take a pot-shot much too early. The missile clearly misses its mark and slams into a nearby building, kicking up a great wall of dust and debris. Dismantled scaffolding looks like it could easily impale the beast if it were dislodged any more.

As for Samus... it seems she is grabbed by many horrifying, snapping beaked suckers of the tentacle in the confusion, now wrested high into the air like a ragdoll.]

[ WAY TO GO SAMUS. And here Adam was counting on you being an alpha woman and quickly resolving the situation. Now he's down here while you're up in the air, not quite sure what else he can do. ]

Shit.

[ The missile missed... or did it? There's no way he can engage the beast directly, but maybe he can work with that scaffolding... just needs another impact to get it lose, let gravity do the rest. Maybe.

He has no idea if that'll work, but it's better than standing around. Adam's still lacking a missile launcher of his own, but the punches he can throw ARE pretty heavy. And his augmented limbs allow him to reach a position high up the building, so he can apply force where it counts.

That, in itself, is probably already distracting enough and will at least buy Samus some time so she won't get eaten immediately. ]

[The beaks of the suckers scrape and claw at her suit, trying to penetrate it with no such luck--no doubt she'd have several gouges ripped out of her flesh by now were she now wearing it. She fires randomly with her arm cannon, having no control over where its aimed with the tentacles all over it, hoping one shot is lucky and hits where it needs to. She punches and kicks, mostly swinging at air as smaller tentacles dart in and then dart out of the angry bounty hunter's reach. Some tentacles are unfortunate enough to come into contact with her, and she quite easily rips them off their parent stalk.

She's visually lost Adam as well, which isn't good.

Attempts at breaking herself free become increasingly more futile as the worm works her closer to its gaping, toothy maw.

Shit she really hates getting eaten...

There's a thunderous punch, and the tentacle whips around at the sound, only to have a long, metal scaffolding slide down and pierce right through part of its body. It shrieks in pain, wiggling furiously, finding itself pinned to the earth.

It hasn't quite let go of Samus but its hold isn't nearly as fierce, obviously having bigger problems to worry about.]

[ ... That worked.

Somehow. At least now the thing should be distracted enough by being pierced for Samus to free herself, provided she didn't get hurt or lost consciousness or whatever, so Adam jumps down and quickly makes his way over to her to check.

Here, let him stab the tentacle wrapped around you so it'll let go of you faster. ]

[She knows all the good the stabbing will do to ultimately bring down the beast, though it's definitely helping to ease her situation. With each slash and stab Adam makes, the tentacle shrieks and slowly forgets it was holding a prisoner.

Unfortunately for Adam that means it's now focusing its efforts on him. A smooth, rubbery, non-sucker filled end of a tentacle makes a grab at his ~~junk~~ ankles.]

Jensen!

[Samus is still quite alive and kicking--literally covered in slime, kicking and wresting her body away from the tentacle's hold. She's not completely free yet, but gotten herself free enough to properly aim her arm cannon, shooting to try and keep the tentacles away from Adam's legs.]

[ And wouldn't you know it, the tentacle seems really bothered by those shots, twisting and turning and giving Adam some time to move out of th way again after realizing it was gonna go for him next.

Though that wouldn't be too much of a problem. ]

What are you doing? Kill it already before it recovers!

[ Your concern is noted and appreciated Samus but really, kill the damn worm already. Adam's a big boy and take care of himself, and the next time a tentacle lashes out at him, Adam stabs it and pins it to the ground... he can do that one more time. Hopefully you'll have killed it by the time a third one comes his way. ]

[What a pain in the ass. She knows the fastest and most efficient way to go about that is also the most disgusting. She wasn't quite looking forward to it.]

Fine. Brace yourself.

[It's much easier to go with the flow, as it were, and Samus is able to very quickly make her way up to the mouth of the worm now that she's not fighting its inherent desire to make a meal out of one or the other (or both) of them. She'd give it far more than she could chew, and disbelievingly, she lets herself get swallowed whole.

Samus quickly disappears down the gullet of the beast. She's helping you real good, Adam, if you can hold out for a few more seconds.]

[ ... Did she just--

Yeah. Yeah, she did. Wow. He can just hope that plan doesn't at all backfire; he can sort of see what she's trying to do but it's incredibly foolish, what if that thing has particularly nasty stomach acids that even her suit won't be able to handle?!

Either way, Adam has a feeling it might be best to retreat and uh, just get out of the way of whatever there is to come, a giant explosion and flying tentacles and slime or what the fuck ever.

He didn't sign up for this shit. One last particularly aggressive tentacle stab, and Adam activates his cloak again and effectively drains his last energy reserves as he moves back into cover.

Well there better be a show now that he's got a front row seat. ]

[She can handle a lot, though she has no idea what's in store for her down below. The trip down is anything but pleasant, as if the worm had teeth scraping and gnawing at her all the way down its esophagus. Inside is pitch black, spare the dim glow of her suit. She feels the acid sizzling at the heels of her boots and she knows it's dangerous to waste time. She curls into a ball to drop one of the more devastating weapons in her arsenal...

Adam is wise to take cover for in short time it seems like the worm is having digestive problems, squirming and wiggling knowing something terrible and awful is about to wreck havoc on its innards. Suddenly it thrashes so frantically it nearly rips itself in two to escape the scaffolding but too late--in the next second its insides are literally blown apart in a thunderous explosion. Blood, guts and slime are scattered far and wide; all over the ground, splattered on buildings and of course... caked all over the woman who rose up from what little remained of the smoking corpse.

This would surely smell foul in the coming days...]

[ Adam isn't sure if he'll let Samus use his shower this time. His apartment might end up smelling anyway.

And this is a pretty terrible smell, Jesus Christ. Good thing he was hiding or he might be covered in worm goo now. He's almost more concerned about that than he is for her, even after that explosion, because something tells him she's alright and there's no need to worry.

Might wanna check if that worm is really dead, though. You never know. ]

... Did you really have to make a mess like that?

[ BITCHING. Surely a rocket to the mouth would have also done the trick! Gross. ]

[She takes a moment to flick off some of the offending slime before slowly approaching him, it being the worst of her troubles now.]

Yes. I did.

[She gives one of the more whole looking pieces of the tentacle a good kick for measure, it giving no reaction of any sort.]

I was being thorough.

[And for her sake, she really hopes that was thorough enough. Power bombs were limited in supply.]

Are you alright?

I didn't just get swallowed by a giant worm, nor was I at the center of an explosion.

[ Yeah, that's his answer. And considering he isn't even covered in moster slime, yeah, he's pretty alright, if a little low on energy. ]

It's probably best to head back. Are you planning on staying here and getting swallowed by more mutant animals?

[Crossing arms.]

I'll stay on patrol.

[And find a water source not completely tainted by blood or mud to kind of wash off in. Samus do you ever stop...]

[ ... sigh. Siiigh also crossing arms there's really no point in arguing with her, she'll do what she want anyway. ]

If you're certain ...

I'll be fine.

[She doesn't uncross her arms but her posture seems to relax minimally, perhaps if smirking under that helmet.]

Try to stay out of trouble, Jensen.

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fuck yeah i even have a wall punch icon

punch the keys I mean walls for god's sake

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