<@Dreol> [Power Sliders! Session 13!] <@Dreol> [Last time after discovering that the power was out in the hospital you went in search of a fuse box of some sort. Once you arrived in the basement you discovered a dead S.T.A.R.S. officer with a fuse in his hand. You replaced the fuse in the storage room and once the lights came on you found yourselves face to face with a licker!] <@Dreol> [Begin!] * Kyler whips out his sword and shoots out a sword copy at the licker! <@Dreol> [The licker makes an attempt to move out of the way but the energy sword slices into him just as he is about to jump. He lets out a high pitched scream of agony and then whips out his tongue and lashes it at Kyler.] <@Dreol> [The tongue wraps around Kyler's neck and the licker uses its tongue to pull itself towards Kyler and slash at him with its claws.] Gah! Hell! This really hurts! * Kyler then just starts making chokey noises. * Kyler also tries to move away. <@Dreol> [Kyler's attempt to move away is met with a sharp pain in his side as the licker's claws dig into him.] * Kyler winces and makes rrrghy noises! * Micah lets out a snarl and dives ineffectively at that creature. * Katsuo takes a few steps around so Kyler's not in his line of sight, and takes a shot at the licker. His shot goes wide as the creature's erratic movements get it out of the way. * Henry looks indecisive and then makes up his mind. A black cloud streams out of his outstretched finger and engulfs most of the licker, but fortunately not Kyler. * Cassiopeia holds back a moment, taking stock of the situation, before narrowing her eyes. She points a free hand at Kyler as she circles around, bluish white energy surrounding him and healing his wounds, before she launches a burst of icicles at the licker. <@Dreol> [The ice pins the licker in place and it attempts to thrash about to no avail.] Dude, personal space! That's just not cool! * Lex grimaces in concentration as she raises her crossbow to fire at the licker, then grimaces slightly less as the bolt hits home despite the thing's thrashing. Then starts reloading. * Kyler chokes a bit, but having retained hold of his sword, flails it around at the tongue that's choking him. <@Dreol> [The tongue is sliced bad and the licker screams loudly in Kyler's face as it lets him go, retracts its tongue and struggles against the ice, breaking through it with its claws and leaping onto the ceiling. Its bleeding tongue hangs out of its mouth and drips on the floor as it scurries across the ceiling to above Cass and drops on her.] * Kyler rolls away, breathing heavily and feeling at his neck. <@Dreol> [The licker flails at Cass on its way down and leaves some pretty heavy scratches behind before landing in front of her.] * Cassiopeia tries to get out of the way, but gets sliced across her stomach and thighs. "Gah!" <@Dreol> [The licker gets hit by Katsuo's stunshot but shakes it off and growls.] * Henry sticks his sword into the licker's side, and to his surprise the monster groans and falls over. <@Dreol> [And flails about on floor before falling limp, its bloody tongue hanging from its mouth.] * Kyler coughs. "Good...*kff*...job, Henry. *hack*" * Kyler makes his way to his feet, stumbles across to the licker and Cass, and crouches down by her. "You...hfff...okay?" Thanks? You don't look so good. Want one of the healing things? * Cassiopeia stares down at the fallen licker, then kicks it a few times, just to be sure. "Aw yeah! We hit you like a tongue of bricks!" *to Kyler* "Yeah, hurts like heck, but I've had worse. Did that thing I did to you do what I thought it was supposed to do?" * Lex lets out a breath and lowers the crossbow, staring a moment at the dead licker before flicking her gaze around to check on everyone else. * Kyler puts his hand to his side where the licker clawed him. "You mean make me feel better? Yeah. *koffkoff*" He looks over at Henry. "I think I'm good for *hff* now, but thanks. Mostly still kinda catchin' my breath. Cass, you think you could use an herb or whatever, or can you, like, do that thing for yourself too?" * Cassiopeia nods. "Yeah, might as well before it scars. Got enough of those." She waves her hand over herself, and the same bluish-white light washes over her, healing up her wounds! Her shirt and pants still need some work, though. * Kyler finally finishes catching his breath and straightens up. "Well, that's one down...good job, everyone. And thanks for tryin' to get that thing off me." He pats Cass on the shoulder. 'Cause she's the nearest one. Really. FUCK. * Micah slams his fist into the wall. "Why the fuck am I useless when it matters?" * Kyler frowns at Micah. "Wait, wait, what?" * Lex does not jump this time, because the creature is dead, and she remembers the last time, when it was just Micah. * Cassiopeia slugs Kyler in an unsliced shoulder. "Hey, if I let that thing eat you, who would I get to carry the heavy stuff?" It was too fast. That was all. I might not have hit it if Cass hadn't pinned it to a wall first. * Kyler sorta grins at Cass, though he's still kind of glancing worriedly at Micah. "Please, woman, you can probably carry more than us big strong men all combined." * Henry looks rather embarrassed and mumbles something incoherently. Besides, Micah, you weren't the one who spent most of the fight tryin' not to choke to death. Can't think of much that's more useless 'n that. * Lex says dryly, "It did give you a good angle to cut off its tongue, though." In volume, sure. In mass, notsomuch. *flexes a puny arm beneath her coat* Anyway! Let's head back up to the operating room as soon as I make sure this horrible mutant monster isn't inexplicably carrying useful ammunition! * Cassiopeia searches the licker! * Kyler shrugs it off, kinda. "Well, almost." He then looks abstracted and feels at the tongue marks on his neck. "Didn't expect it to feel so...real, though. Pretty freaky." Does it eat people? Maybe we should check its insides. * Kyler then makes a face. "Not the sorta thing I thought I'd ever say...this thing is gettin' to me." * Katsuo smiles, letting the younguns do their thing. "Very realistic. Maybe completely real?" I couldn't hit the fucking thing. The man we saw downstairs didn't look eaten, so maybe we can skip that. I knew it was coming and I didn't get in front of it to stop it from trying to kill Kyler. * Kyler lets out a breath at what Lex says. "Well, that's a relief." What damn good am I in my own bloody genre? Worse I'm thinking everyone it touched might become a zombie now. There's no cure or anything? * Cassiopeia gets up, having found nothing. "Protagonist never becomes a zombie from a coupla scratches." * Kyler then turns around to face Micah. "Hey, you didn't know exactly who it was tryin' to get at. Couldn'ta helped it, so no harm do--" He starts to put a hand on Micah's shoulder in a dudely fashion, but freezes as the "might be a zombie" thing comes out. * Lex 's eyes widen a little at that one, but what she says is, "We'll deal with that if we have to. As for your genre...gaming is a different skill than actually punching something in front of you. You can't expect it to transfer." * Katsuo scratches his head. "Your genre is shooting bad guys, isn't it?" FPS? <@Dreol> [Now that the light is on, by the way, you can see more clearly the supplies in the room. Mostly you find hospital supplies. Bandages, stocks of syringes, scalpels, IV bags, and the like.] * Kyler carefully withdraws his hands and puts them in his pockets to be on the safe side. "I dunno if I'd call this FPS so much as survival horror, anyway." And Cass is right. Once we've cleaned this place out, we should get moving again. Also, why the HELL was I punching that thing or trying to? I damn well know it's a fucking super virus transmitted in all ways. Micah. You've never had to fight a licker before. You don't magically have the skills, physical or mental, to do it. Well, we'll figure it out if it becomes an issue. C'mon, the womenfolk are right, let's clean it up and get outta here. The room, not the licker, of course. * Cassiopeia takes another look around the room, just to make sure they didn't miss anything. * Micah just shrugs, though it's clear his ego isn't recovering too much from this. * Katsuo chuckles and walks out. His ego doesn't seem to be TOO bothered by his rather poor performance. So, uhm, time to use the key? Yeah, probably. * Lex nods. <@Dreol> [You get up the stairs and find yourselves back in the hallway except this time the power is on. Which means that the elevator is operating among other things. The whole hospital looks less sinister in the light, however the sight of corpses and blood everywhere helps to keep you from getting too comfortable.] * Henry looks around. "Why do people even play games like this?" * Lex tightens her jaw and keeps on walking, trying to see as little of the dead bodies as possible. "I don't know." I no know. * Kyler keeps quiet-ish, wielding his trusty flashlight and feeling at his throat every now and then. He looks around to make sure nothing was missed. It gets the adrenaline pumping. It's fun. It's all about being scared and shooting that fear in the nads. Something like that, yeah. Let's head to the OR. Micah was right earlier... gotta clear out each floor, or we'll end up missing a crank or a lever or something we need later. * Lex nods. "Marching order, then." * Kyler nods. "Sounds good. And yeah." Damn cranks. * Kyler gets back in the line position he was in when the line position was determined. * Katsuo takes his rank! "Onward!" <@Dreol> [Right then! You head back through the double doors and find yourselves back at the door with the keycard reader. This time the room is well lit and the light above the reader is on.] * Lex again looks around at the rest before inserting the keycard. "Everyone ready?" Yeap. * Kyler hefts his sword. "Ready." * Henry nods. * Lex grips her crossbow, then swipes the card and opens the door. Carefully. <@Dreol> [The light on the reader turns green and you hear a buzz as the heavy metal door slides open revealing a large circular room. The floor is covered in blood splatters which pool from the center of the room, where there is an operating table and on top of the table lies a body which is covered in a bloody blanket.] <@Dreol> [Above you can be seen a glass section where operations can be observed, and around the room are several trays of bloody tools. And at the far side is a door.] * Lex enters cautiously. "Micah, if we move that blanket, is something going to jump up and attack us?" My guess is yes. But I no Micah. Pretty much yeah If we don't it will jump up and shamble at us when we aren't looking. ...OK, well, what if we just shoot at it right now, then? If we attack it now it's just going to be a pile of things. ...is that a bad thing? Great. Well, better to do it when we know it's coming. <@Dreol> [Some of you notice that in the back-right corner of the room, behind some of the trays of hospital equipment is what looks from here to be a small person but whoever it is is in the shadows and your vision is blocked by the trays.] * Lex says quietly, "Hey, guys - " and gestures towards the corner. * Micah motions at Kyler trying to get him to look over there, since he has ranged and all, and will step towards it. Wha? * Henry looks. * Cassiopeia is staring intently at the sheets on the operating table, and blinks confusedly as she follows Lex's gesture. * Kyler notes it quickly and puts a finger to his mouth for shhness as Henry looks. * Katsuo nods and trains his weapon in that direction. * Kyler makes sure everyone is ready, then sends a Photon Ray over at the figure with a flick of his wrist! * Henry looks quietly then. <@Dreol> [The figure does not seem to respond.] * Kyler frowns and edges around to try and get a better view. * Cassiopeia takes a step into the room, scythe drawn, moving away from the figure in the corner and keeping an eye on the table. * Micah frowns and starts moving closer. "Someone watch behind us." <@Dreol> [As Kyler gets a better view what he sees is what looks like a young brunette girl with short hair, who appears to be hunched over asleep on top of an unconscious bandage-wrapped man.] * Lex moves to cover the door while trying to pay attention to what's going on in the room. * Kyler nods at Micah, sees that someone is taking care of it, then slowly takes one step towards the girl, his hand on his sword but not drawing it. He clears his throat. "...Hello? Miss?" <@Dreol> [No response.] Are they alive? I...cover me. I'm gonna check. It's a short-haired brunette girl and a guy covered in bandages. They both look out cold at the very least. I'll watch the table. Oh god. * Kyler edges slowly towards the girl and taps her shoulder gently. If there's no response, he's going to roll her over on her back. These are probably the two least thre.. I mean meet Starz members. You know who they are? They alive? <@Dreol> [Kyler rolls her over and to his surprise she looks perfectly fine... well except for the bullet hole in the center of her chest which has stained her shirt with blood. The guy, on the other hand, has been shot in the head.] Well that's Rebecca Chambers, she's umm.... a medic Aww hell. And I'm betting the guy is Chris Redfield, just a hunch. ...well, shit. So she hea- Oooh maan. <@Dreol> [The guy does not look familiar to anyone.] Yeah, that seems to be the case. * Micah blinks and looks closer. "Or I could be wrong." * Kyler checks for a pulse just in case. ...yep. Well, it was worth a shot. Not good. * Kyler sighs. "Probably not." * Cassiopeia shakes her head. "Check the bodies." * Henry looks away. "Did the zombies get them?" ...not unless these zombies know how to use guns. I wouldn't think so. Maybe they killed themselves. I don't know. * Kyler looks around them. "I dunno. I don't see any guns around 'em..." <@Dreol> [By the looks of it, Miss Chambers was in the process of bandaging up this guy and then was shot, as was he.] So... does this mean that Xelion got 'em, or is there some other kinda baddy in this game with guns? Xelion my guess. Make sure they don't have any ammo or keycards or anything, then let's check the table and that door. * Kyler nods, frowning, and searches them. <@Dreol> [On the guy is nothing of note. On Rebecca you find a pair of green herbs and a red herb, a bunch of bandages and antibiotic ointment, and an ID that states her name and that she is a member of S.T.A.R.S.] * Kyler hands the herbs over to Henry, tucks the bandages and antibiotics into his own backpack, and hands out the ID to Cass and Micah. "Think this could help us get in to anything?" * Katsuo keeps a watchout on the doors. * Henry takes them and looks up and away from the bodies. Could come in handy. Might give access to a weapons locker or office or something. When in doubt, bring it along. If we can find it of course it can. * Kyler nods curtly and tucks it into his pocket. He closes her eyes and those of the man, crosses himself briefly, and gets up and turns around. * Lex glances back into the OR. "Time to go?" Yeah. * Micah sighs. "Yeah. Let's go." * Kyler shoulders his bag. "Actually, let's check that table first." Right. * Cassiopeia nods, edges towards the table, holds out her scythe as far as she can, and tries to hook the cloth covering whatever. Better to be sure we ain't leavin' somethin' nasty behind us.... <@Dreol> [Session End]