Okay, Nicole, you can do this. It's just sneaking around while an anomaly is trying its damn best to track you down. How bad can it go? You take a moment to focus before you slide out of cover. You squat down low to the ground to keep yourself out of its direct line of sight. Not your first time doing this, so you let your muscle memory do its work.
The static really is helping you here. You doubt you would've even be able to attempt this without injuring it beforehand. It scans its head around in a desperate attempt to find where you are. You manage to get behind a half rotten table in time.
"COMBZZTBZZTWHEREVERYOUBZZZT!" Whatever audio quality it had left a second ago is quickly disappearing underneath a wave of constant static. "SHOWYOURSELF!"
[SEEKER OF THE CITY] It demands to have a function, a purpose. It needs this job to make it in the City! To film, record, to be the camera behind a magnum opus!
Guh. You're not sure what happened there in your head. Your mind isn't exactly pleasant even at the best of times. You continue to sneak around the entity, keeping yourself hidden behind whatever rotten and burnt objects are left.
>14 You're about half way there when the cover you were trying to hide behind collapses. It only took a mere graze of your shoulder to turn the table into a pile of charred dust. It's almost impressive...if the entity wasn't looking in your direction right as it happened.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_T3RjLpA7t8 - ENRAGED
"YOUYOUYOUYOU! YOU'REBZZTTHEONE WHO WAS EAVESDROPPING!" Static crackles through its voice like the fire that once raged through this building. "WHY ARE YOU. YOU. YOU. HERE? GET OUT! GET OUT! I CAN'T LET ANYONE RUIN, RUIN, RUIN THIS AGAIN!" Okay, fuck. You need to distract it for a moment while you prepare to sneak attack it.
"Ruin it? I'm not the one who ruined anything." You raise your hands up in mock surrender. "I'm a simple investigator."
"THE FILM HASN'T BEEN COMPLETED! I NEED TO COMPLETE IT! THAT'S HOW I'LL SHOW THAT BASTARD, BASTARD, HOW HE FUCKED UP!" The static around it suddenly grows in intensity until all you can see is a faint outline of static. In what feels like milliseconds, the anomaly teleports a few feet to the left.
[ANOMALOUS ABILITIES] It's losing connection with the world. It can't fully control its movements anymore. Very, very interesting.
"Surely you can take a break. It's been how long again?" You chug down another BROWN VIAL before subtly doing your telekinetic hand gestures, focusing on the vending machine. You need a few more seconds of it being distracted. C'mon, work...
"BREAK? BREAK? EVERYONE HAS BEEN TAKING SUCH A LONG BREAK AS IS, IS! DO YOU NOT SEE, SEE!" It wildly gestures its arms around the room. You only see a few charred skeletons around the place. "ENOUGH TALK, TALK, TALK! REMOVING PAPARAZZI PROTOCOL!" It charges right at you. Its bulky and slow but you're struggling to move the vending machine. God, work, WORK!!!
>9.5! 