>>5266278>>5266751>>5266753You resolve to get yourself out of this shitty situation. Namely, you'll do so by pitting one inscrutable horror against another.
You break off away from the horde of creatures chasing you, moving towards the sound of the Orphans increasingly growing cries, signalling its presence with babbles and childish murmurs. You still ready your gun, just in case it gets far closer than you'd like when you're trying it coax it out.
Except, by the time you reach the spot where the noises were coming from, an alleyway between how of the large flesh-buildings, you find nothing there except some slime along the ground. Looking up and to the sides, you still see n nothing that would show that the Orphan was here at all. That can't be possible. It's not <span class="mu-i">that</span> fast is it?
Its just as you're about to leave and head for somewhere else to duck under, as you hear the clicking hissing and howling of those things chasing you, that you feel something drip down along your shoulder from the wall behind you.
Turning your head up rapidly, you watch the wall come apart as dozens of long, oozing arms stretch out, slime rolling off of them as the Orphan all but slides out from what used to be a wall of one of the meat buildings. It burbles ecstatically
>"I finally found you, Mama...>"Now we don't have to be alone anymore..."The arms reach for you, wrapping themselves up and over your chest as you futilely struggle against their inhuman strength. Nearby, your pursuers howl as they finally catch wind of your scent once more.
>Struggle and try to break out of its grip.>Shoot it with your gun.>Hit it with your Wave and hope that loosens its grip.>Raise your Bubble against it's assault.>Write-in. 