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With a swipe of a molecular hand, hesitant Wooden Ones wobble, wibble, and then with a soft POP start -- POP -- detonating -- POP --- and smattering their tendril insides all over the environment-- POP.
Thus is the prize you gain from infidelity when a being of molecular malice and might have direct access to your organic systems.
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Everett is in a fight for his life.
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As the SW Core heats up, ice melts and the Root Crawlers sees theirs chance to strike!! They flash into the fleeing backs of the insensate and horrified Kronin Ripthings, gorged and slow from the return of their hunt.
NeoGenesis shouts out in alarm, just as a metallic appendage hooks around his leg and pulls him away from his allies, throwing him to the ground!
>You're on the GROUND
>OH NO
>THAT'S A BAD PLACE TO BE WITH THESE MONSTERS RIGHT THERE
>When Prone, you take a few penalties to Physicality and being thrown here, you have no MP this turn! Ufh!!
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Gallium's shattering bolt of scintillating lighting slams into the wooden guardian, but alas, they're not so conductive - though as they ground the enormous energy in the floor around them, they do catch fire and some part of their shell is blown clean off, reducing their DR. The Ripthings spot their chance and rush forward, meeting fangs with sword, tearing, biting, ripping, breaking, dying, being slammed against walls, stomped on, kicked, crushed, and two of them wraps their claws around the hulking Guardian and join it in its fiery personal hell.
The Malforma bristles its quills in a storm and enormous steel-hair-spikes bolt the exterior!
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Amelius, Sigma, Trish and Sundae form up an improvised barrier in an opening into the nursery, as attacks rain down on their improvised shield-wall. Distantly, pops resound.
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Amelius witnesses the miracle of life, as a gaggle of well-fed bean-gorged Woodsie Ones wrench themselves from the ground and eye him with 30 eyes in total.
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A lone security guard, coughing into his sleeve from a sudden itch in his throat, grabs for his communications system and forwards a report of a most unusual sighting...
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>WAKING PHASE
>THAT MEANS YOU LOT
>WASN'T THAT A FUN SATURDAY SURPRISE?
>OKAY, TAKE IT SLOW FROM HERE - +10 HOURS.
