>>5832953What was that noise?
You turn suddenly, staring into one of the darkened hallways. Your eyes narrow slightly.
...no, doesn't look like it was anything.
Turning your attention back to the next storeroom becomes a fatal mistake, as with your back turned, you only <span class="mu-i">hear</span> the rush of air, the rapid footsteps and the heavy breathing before you <span class="mu-i">feel</span> the impact lift you up off your feet. You hit the wall with a gasp, the wind suddenly crushed out of you by someone else's weight, and get just as quickly pinned. A garbled string of Low Gothic issues from a mouth just behind your ear, and you feel spittle spray against your ear and neck. Your thoughts were distorting and tumbling, mixed in with the pain of being constricted like this and the pressure on the soft tissues of your body disrupting the neuron cultures that had been placed there. You felt sick, your head feeling as if it was about to burst from the pressure, your veins pounding and your skin burning.
You writhe in it's grip, panic building at the feeling of a thin, elongated hand wrapped around your bicep and digging into the flesh. With a burst of manic strength, you flip around and find yourself face-to-face with something out of a nightmare. In the gloom, you can only see the vaguest suggestion of a face, but it's enough to see the elongated jaw, beady eyes and matted hairs clinging to it's head. It was a mockery of the human form, clutching at you and screaming as it tries to push you away with it's thin, reedy limbs.
<span class="mu-b">>[Omnissian] Your nose fills with the taste of ozone. Your nerves burn, and the area around you suddenly fills with the blue light of crawling sparks. A hand reaches out, and you grip it's skull in desperation.
>[Aetheric] The tide returns to your head, and you squeeze your eyes as it throbs and threatens to burst, your vision filling with an odd silver light as in a sudden explosion of force, it's outside of your head.>[Genolysis] You feel blood running down your arm, and you scream in a panic, clawing at your attacker with sudden strength that surprises even you, heart suddenly hammering and lungs beating hard before you lunge forward.</span>