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You have already had too many starts and stop this EVA. If you ever are going to have any hope of netting and tagging enough conduit, then you are going to have to figuratively and physically go through this fucking worm. As resolved as you are going to be, you activate your positioning boosters, and move into a suitable position just outside of the furthest feelers. You open up the choke on your torch as wide as it will possibly go, then carefully, without taking your eyes off of the worm - who is still staring straight at you from at least two dozen different eyes - you tightly grip the wrecking torch in both hands, putting it between you and the worm.
When you are as ready as you are ever going to be, you hit your boost and you give the worm what for. The flame lances through the feelers as the boosters carry you within striking distance of the main trunk. The nearest of the pseudo-appendages lunge towards you, but in a moment of inspiration, you get the idea to burn all of your boosters, all over your suit at once. Doing so means that you are no longer moving forward, but at least the heavier 'arms' of the worm are cringing away from you now. Still, at least twice the worm manages to get through your guard, but at this point it is trying to shove you away, not grapple or consume you. It gives you a good thumping, but you are able to backburn away any momentum that the hits might have had, and then you set to burying the white-hot head of your wrecking torch in to any and every 'arm' that you can. Unlike the smaller worms - and even the feelers of this worm - these pseudo-appendages are thick enough that they don't burst immediately. Instead, they bubble around where you have the head of the torch, then they start to peel a bit before losing integrity and become this spreading ooze.
As you hold your figurative ground, you take a bunch of hits, and through you can feel them vibrating in your bones, none of them are more than glancing, and they can be corrected for with your boosters. And for each hit the worm manages to land on you, it costs the beast an 'arm'. At this point you are absolutely covered in smouldering worm viscera, but you have been able to keep your orientation well enough, and you can sort of see through your visor still. The two of you remain at an impasse, until finally, after trying to hit you with an eye-stalk and you driving the head of the torch right into its pupil, the worm decides that keeping its perch here is untenable. While it unanchoring itself from the ceiling does mean that more 'arms' are freed up, it also gives you an opening. Before the beast can either flee or bring those fresh 'arms' against you, you move to finish this.You boost yourself right up to the trunk, using the torch to scythe through a forest of feelers and smaller 'arms' before you bury the thing in one clean chop into the main body.
