>>5177629>>5177646>>5177647>>5177663You book it. Beating feet out of the room as fast as you can, and ducking under loose bits of rebar and concrete, you speed back down the way you came. The clicking-tapping noise gets louder and louder and you feel the intense burning presence of something large tailing right behind you. The Device you brought with you starts rapidly and incessantly beeping, the high energy readings of the thing chasing you driving it nuts.
You keep running, pushing yourself forward with your scavenged goods, but for whatever reason it doesn't look lime you're making any progress. You can *see* the exit, and the dim dusk-lit glow of the outside, but no matter how fast you run, you just can't reach it. The clicking increases. Your heartbeat roars in your ears.
Just as you're about to push yourself even further, reaching down deep for anything inside that could help you, something whizzes from way behind you and you shout in pain as something tears a groove across your back.
Toppling forward, you fall out into the open daylight, quickly scrabbling out of the shadow of the fallen industrial building. Quickly turning your head around, you catch the barest glimpse of your pursuer.
A huge shadowed face stares back at you, from the hole leading into the darkened building. It smiles a faint smile, then retreats into the darkness.
You are left breathing heavy on the dirt, a large wound cut across your back, slowly seeping your blood across the sand.
>Get up and try to limp your way back to your bunker.>Find some place to hide and rest for now.>Try and see if you can staunch the bleeding in some way. 