>>5304733As a salvo of razor-sharp hairs whizzes past your head, you notice the severed tentacle from before rising from its resting place on the ground on a fresh pair of arms and legs!
“<span class="mu-s">TELLL OR WEEEE TAAAKE,</span>" It gurgles, laughing haughtily to itself,"<span class="mu-s">TEEELLLL OR WE TAAAA-</span>”
Before Tentacle Jr. can finish, he’s soundly vaporized by a cone of impossibly-bright light from the sentry’s head! As the creature fizzles out of existence like newspaper in a bonfire, a compartment in the golem’s chest pops open revealing <span class="mu-i">another</span> orb–one that fits snugly inside the now-empty recess next to the gate! With its power source restored, the gate’s defenses flicker to life once more and immediately get to work cooking the tentacles trying to get through!
“<span class="mu-s">CAN’T HIIIDE FOREVERRR CAN’T HIIIIDE FOREVERRRR!</span>”
Laughing as whatever field blankets the gate reduces them to mulch, the tentacles and their owner retreat beyond the gate once more! With a satisfying ‘<span class="mu-i">click</span>’, the toothlike protrusions bar the gate once more as the sentry, now powerless, kneels in front of the fresh orb as a last-ditch attempt to protect it!
As you and your pals struggle to register what just happened, your impromptu pow-wow is pushed back when not one, not two, but <span class="mu-s">THREE</span> brand-new golems emerge from secret compartments in the walls! Stomping towards you with menacing lights shining from their rectangular heads, the golems repeat the request your doppelganger must have heard at least a hundred times now:
“<span class="mu-s">INITIATING SCAN. DO NOT MOVE.</span>”
What… what’s the plan here?
>DUH, DO NOT MOVE!>RUN! MAYBE SCREAM A BIT, TOO!>CRY! IT GOT YOU OUT OF A SPEEDING TICKET ONCE!>ATTACK THE GOLEMS WITH YOUR NEW TIRE IRON!>TRY TO COMMUNICATE!>MAKE ONE OF YOUR DUMB FRIENDS DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT!>WRITE-IN!