>>5304727Frozen in place like a lost child at the supermarket (a perspective not wholly unfamiliar to you), you feel the <span class="mu-g">TIRE IRON</span> jerk and wiggle in your loose, trembling hand! Glancing between it and the gate, you nearly drop the auto repair tool as the orb on its end morphs into a hissing serpent formed from blinding white light!
Dancing out of the way of its attacks, you nearly fall over as your friends open fire behind you! Twirling to face them, you watch in shock as the sentry from before brushes off Sybil and Art’s magic before leaping past Talbot’s tendrils and Lil’ Stanley’s jaws!
Landing with a massive <span class="mu-i">THUD</span> next to you, the automaton rushes to the empty recess where the orb was sitting just as a meaty tentacle lined with hairy barbs and pulsating glowing veins darts through a crack in the gate and grabs for your ankle!
“<span class="mu-s">P-P-PEEL APART THE LAYERSSS AND LLLLLLAP UP TH-THE SECRETSSSS!</span>”
The slurred, stunted voice from beyond the door has an almost sing-song quality to it… like a child reciting a nursery rhyme. Not keen on finding out what it means, you snatch your <span class="mu-g">MAGICAL SNAKE TIRE IRON</span> off the ground and bring it crashing down onto the speaker’s appendage!
Sensing your intent, the snake head bites down on the tentacle and cleanly bisects it into two hissing pieces–one flopping around on the floor like a fish that escaped its tank, the other retreating behind the gate with a baleful howl spewing boiling orange liquid into the water around you!
Giving your new weapon a thankful nod, you and your friends prepare for more as the tentacle you felled is replaced by <span class="mu-i">five</span> more! Prying open the gate, the tendrils fire their hairy barbs in the direction of your pretty little face! Oh NO! Anything but your money-maker!
>CONTD. 