Play@YSDC

The investigators grab Baumgartner and manhandle him through the passage and out of the awful maintenance room, back into the tunnel. His senses seemed dulled and he is apathetic and doesn’t resist, although they can feel him shaking with fear. He is weak and smells terribly.

As the companions decide what to do next, they are confronted with a sight so hideous it stops them in their tracks. Coming toward them across the railway sleepers is a horrific creature, about three feet long, and blue-black in colour. It seems to have insect-like plating at irregular intervals over its body. Slime leaks between these plates, and numbers of whip-like tendrils of sickly pale yellow extend outwards to distances of almost eight feet. No eyes are visible, but it can obviously sense our heroes as it moves remorselessly towards them, its tendrils lashing.

Baumgartner screams in horror, his eyes rolling back in his head. The creature draws closer…

OOC,Roll SAN at the sight of this unspeakably vile monstrosity. If you pass, you still lose SAN. Henry and Alice, roll 1d2. Norman and Isadora lose 1. If you fail, roll 1d6+1!

Isadora Carmichael
SAN 64
[dice]0[/dice]
Current SAN 63

Isadora screams - then freezes - then screams again. She witnessed the monstrosity before in a vision, but in real life, it's even worse... but perhaps the preliminary vivid nightmare prepared her mind to cope.

As soon as she regains control over herself, she unwraps the alien weaponry, and aims it at the creature... And hopes to get the operation right.

Alice screams in abject terror, taking her shotgun and pointing it at the abomination, hoping it will actually be hurt by the blast.

OOC,Sanity roll (current level 64) for seeing the creature: [dice]0[/dice] Sanity loss for seeing the creature: [dice]1[/dice]

Roll SAN at the sight of this unspeakably vile monstrosity [dice]0[/dice] [dice]1[/dice]

Owens readied his shovel. "We're all going to die!" he thought, quaking, but said: "Those without a weapon shine your torches and light up the beast."

Henry Glynn

Seeing that she is struggling Henry takes the flashlight from Alice

Suddenly one of the creatures tendrils lashes out, close enough so that the heroes can see the nasty barb at the tip. It narrowly avoids Baumgartner, who wails again.

OOC,[url=http://orokos.com/roll/594635]Tendril Attack 50[/url]: [u]1d100[/u] [b]64[/b] Now you can act. Isadora is first, then Alice, but this turn Alice will need to free her hands, unsling the shotgun and cock it, so she misses out. Henry is holding Albert and a flashlight, so Norman is free to use the shovel to attack with if he wishes. Isadora’s alien mist weapon does 1d10 points of damage. She has 35% skill (25% base skill but she has had a little practice). The mist moves more slowly than a bullet, and luckily the creature seems quite slow-moving.

Isadora Carmichael
Mist Weapon Attack 35%
[dice]0[/dice]

Mist Weapon Damage
[dice]1[/dice]

OOC,Yes!!

Isadora utters a short prayer (invoking all and any benevolent entities that might be present in this forsaken tunnel) and activates the weapon...

Extra damage
[dice]0[/dice]

The creature stops and shudders, its tendrils quivering. But suddenly again, tendrils shoot out, two this time, aimed at Isadora and Henry.

Attack on Isadora,[url=http://orokos.com/roll/594661]Tendril Attack on Isadora 50:[/url]: [u]1d100[/u] [b]58[/b]

The tendril whips past Isadora's face, but luckily she is unharmed.

Henry, however, is not so lucky...

Attack on Henry,[url=http://orokos.com/roll/594664]Tendril Attack on Henry 50:[/url]: [u]1d100[/u] [b]36[/b]

The tendril rips through Henry's jacket, and tears a piece of flesh from his arm. The pain is excruciating. The companions watch in horror as a gaping maw opens on the creature's back, and the tendril disappears inside. It has eaten a piece of Henry!

Henry,[url=http://orokos.com/roll/594665]Tendril damage[/url]: [u]1d2[/u] [b]1[/b]. Henry suffers 1 point of damage.

Everyone,You are free to attack again - Isadora, then Alice, and Norman if he really wants!

Henry Glynn

Clutching his wounded arm Henry attempts to stagger out of range of further attacks.

Isadora Carmichael
Mist Weapon 35%
[dice]0[/dice]

Isadora tries to hit the foul creature again, but misses...