>>5773889Dropping prone as fast as you can, you manage to grab onto a thankfully cooler piece of engine just as the orb flips over! Hanging on for dear life, the stakes grow even higher when you feel a hand clasped around your ankle… along with a <span class="mu-i">lot</span> more weight!
Glancing below you, you find the two thralls hanging on to each other as well as <span class="mu-i">you</span>! As you start delivering a few kicks of your own to the lab drone’s masked face, you feel panic settle in as the orb gradually dips closer to the <span class="mu-s">PORTAL GOO</span> below!
You’re not sure how much autonomy Rivka’s Thralls have anymore, but by the way Obnoxious lifts his legs up to his chest and tries to climb Useless, you imagine there’s still a little fear in there!
Said fear proves to be totally justified, though when a cloud of chittering specks leap out of the portal and nip at the drone’s heels before a massive anteater-like snout pokes out from the goo and snorts them all up!
Swinging to avoid a trio of hissing vines covered entirely by scorpion-like tails, you’re just about to disembark when a <span class="mu-s">GRENADE</span> whizzes past your head!
“SORRY, SANDCRAB!” Shouts Pepper from atop a debris pile with Raj’s unconscious body as Chuck smacks a pair of giant cockroaches wearing zoot-suits into the goo behind her, “I WAS AIMING FOR THE ORB!”
WAIT UNTIL I JUMP, you bark back! Rocking back and forth a few times after giving the two Thralls a few more kicks, your chance comes when your hitchhikers slam helmet-first into a colossal smiling mushroom that emerges from the goop!
Using its head as a stepping stone, you bounce off of the probably-harmless critter and land on a chunk of debris opposite from Pepper and Chuck!
Safely landing on your face, you try your best to process everything that just happened… but once you see a winged wolf snatch a pair of flying shoes out of the air before being engulfed by what you think is a sentient ball of cotton candy, well…
You’ll deal with this in therapy later.
Speaking of therapy, someone that could <span class="mu-i">REALLY</span> use it appears out of the corner of your eye cackling madly as she brings her dumb, but also surprisingly-resilient orb hurtling towards you!
“<span class="mu-s">CLEAAAAAANUP TIIIIIIME!</span>”
The good news is that the engine’s looking <span class="mu-i">REALLY</span> dicey–like it’s actually being overtaken by some kind of <span class="mu-s">DICE SLIME</span>. The bad news is, well, it’s coming right for ya.
>ROLL ME 1d100+2 (+5 SPEED BONUS, -3 THIS PORTAL SHIT, MAN) TO DODGE! BEST OF 3! 