Ten
As he opened the door and stepped into the corridor, the next things he noticed was that there was no solid ground beneath his feet, but at that point he was already falling...
For some weird reason he held onto the book as if his life depended on it, it was utterly dark around him and in this darkness he kept falling, hearing the air rushing by his ears,...
He had been falling for a while, when he suddenly realized the screeching had stopped, which was at least somewhat comforting, though, not all that much with the thought that should ever find soild ground again his body would likely be crushed by the impact...
...
There was the image of a floor, a crashing sound and then a distinct pain in his entire, body, oddly enough, from what he could tell, he didn´t break himself anything and it didn´t hurt much more than falling out of three metres height...
Now he was lying on some sort of floor, face down and heard voices around him...
"Oh wonderful, ´nother one of these punks." ...was the first thing he heard clearly...
gearshift48
The...thing, initially did not react, yet the screeching continued, the eyes focus jumped...
...and stared at Dark Storm, a overwhelming feeling of instinctual terror overcame him, the next moment everything was over...
Claws errupted from the constructs armstump and the next thing Dark Storm felt was the claws impaling his body, the thing had lunged forwards, too fast for any living or artificial being to react, with the constant sound of the metallic and organic screeching mixed together, the monstrosity dragged him across the floor at speeds fast enough to make the doors fuse into a homogeneous mass in his sight, he felt a dimension of pain exploding all across his body, he felt bones breaking and heard the tearing of flesh, sinew and skin, the construct grinding his body against the floor of the corridor, then after what were but mere seconds, Dark Storm took his final breath, his dismembered and mutilated corpse dropping off the claws of the construct...
...
...Dark Storm awoke...
Was he dead?
As he looked at himself he noticed that his body was intact again...
...or was this all a dream?
His entire body was hurting as if someone just tried to tear him to bits...
He was lying on cold stone flooring, the room was small and badly lit, curious, considering he didn´t see any ligthsources or windows at all...
Infront of him, in the darkness, laid his weapon, as he looked around him he saw that there were four tunnels leading out of the room he was in, their upper side arced, everything past the archway lying in darkness...
Fort_Master_Gustav
Elohim reached towards the doorhandle and was about to open the door as it suddenly just swung open infront of him, leaving him open in a somewhat awkward pose, his hand extended towards the now far away handle, holding the shotung in his other hand...
The room behind looked like a bar, and there seemed to be already a small group of other people inside...
There was a young human woman standing behind a bar and a small foxlike creature which just jumped ontop of the barcounter, what looked like a human farmer with a pitchfork, talking to a large humanoid cat with long fangs and some guy that looked like a spacepirate sitting in a corner of the room...
...
Well and then there was the golden, bulky looking machine standing in one of the doorways, it´s arm mounted gun poiting into the room, having had probably the same idea as him a few moments ago...
Another door opened, one that looked like it belonged to the mens toilet and a large insect-like, many-legged creature walked into the room, holding what looked like another Manual in it´s mandibles.
Lastly, yet another door opened one that was labeled 'beverage cellar' and another tall cat-like creature wearing a sort of powerarmor looked into the room, jumping into cover only moments after...
Before anyone could react, the individual which looked like a space pirate cleared it´s throat and stood up, walking into the middle of the room, he had his arms raised to half height the palms facing outwards as if to calm someone, or everyone, down...
"Ahem, y´ know it´d be better if you people come in n´ lower the damn guns, this ´s s´posed to be a safe area, unless ya wanna blow your own heads off, that´s fine with me aswell."
Just in that moment a hatch in the ceiling opened up and another human dropped into the room, face down, right infront of the man wich just spoke...
He rolled his eyes and his arms dropped back down...
"Oh wonderful, ´nother one of these punks."
KrankysFirebrand48
The orb of psionic energy flew at the eye and...
Did nothing.
It was uncertain wether it just phased through construct or if the construct was just too heavily armored to to sustain any damage, yet his attack seemed to be unsuccessful, in damaging the construct that is, when the orb hit the construct, it´s eye focused and it´s view shifted towards Dhas, a distinct feeling of instinctual primordal terror started filling him, but he didn´t even have time to react on it...
Before he could make anotehr movement, claws had erupted from teh armstumps of the abomination and it lunged forward, impaling Dhas on them...
It raced through the corridor, grinding his body against the wooden floor, the pain blurred his sight, but they were moving so fast he could not have made out any details anyways...
Dhas felt his bones breaking to pieces, his skin and flesh being ripped apart by the claws of the machine grinding him against the wooden floor, then his mind faded to blackness...
Dhas awoke.
He was lying on the ground.
His body was hurting as if an entire tribe zerglings just tried to rip him apart, but from what he could tell...
He was still intact?
What sort of place was this?
As he looked around there was very little he could make out for sure, he was lying in a small room, madefrom large stoneblocks, the room was badly lit and yet it was odd that he did have any light at all, considering there were no lightsources around, finally, in each of the four walls of the room was an archway, though everything behind them, laid in darkness...
Jenwuf
As Echo entered the room the first thing it registered was there were already several humanoid beings inside the room, as well as a small furred creature...
Additionally to that what could be a humanoid robot was standing at the opposite side of the room in a doorframe, with one of it´s appendages pointed into the room, soemthing that could be a weapon atatched to aforementioned...
Then there was a humanoid lizard standing in another door in the wall to Echos left, it also had one of it´s appendages stretched into the room and held what could also be a weapon in it´s other hand...
Apart of these two the remaining humanoids seemed to be harmless, the smallest of them, apaprently a female, was standing behind what could be a counter, a small quadpedal furred creature sitting on the counter by her side, there was a humanoid which seemed to have fur all over it´s body, sitting infront of another humanoid holding some sort of stick with several pointy ends and then there was one last humanoid sitting in the corner to Echos right...
Once Echo thought it had fully assessed the situation another door opened and another large furred humanoid, wearing some sort of armor or carapace came intot the room, immediatly taking cover...
Before Echo could take any further actions, the humanoid to it´s right stood up and walked into the middle of the room, it´s arms raised to half height, the palms facing outside, then it started speaking...
"Ahem, y´ know it´d be better if you people come in n´ lower the damn guns, this ´s s´posed to be a safe area, unless ya wanna blow your own heads off, that´s fine with me aswell."
...he just finished as a hatch in the ceiling opened and another humanoid dropped out of it, now lying face down on the floor...
The arms of the humanoid in the center of the room lowered.
"Oh wonderful, ´nother one of these punks."
Tson
As CETA opened the door the first thing he registered was that there were already several humanoid of various races present, the room itself was reminiscent of a traditional bar...
There was a young humanoid woman standing behind a bar counter, with a small fox-like creature sitting on said counter besides her, There was a large cat-like humanoid with long fangs sitting at a desk to his left, infront of what looked like a human farmer with a pitchfork, noen of these seemed to carry any weaponry, apart of the woman, which seemed ot possess a primitive crossbow. Then there was the other humanoid sitting in the far left corner in relation to CETAs position, he didn´t seemed to be human, considering the bonecrest on his head, however, he carried weapons of various kinds, probably none of which could do any harm to CETAs current frame, 'probably' because he didn´t get any data on some of the items he was carrying under his jacket...
The next thing he noticed was another humanoid, lizard-like this time, with one of it´s arms extended towards the doorframe it was standing infront holding a rather primitive shotgun in the other hand and...
A miniatured nuclear explosive in his equipment.
Another door opened, in the wall opposing to CETA according to the wall inscription it led to the 'mens´ toilet' and a large insect-like creature, this time not humanoid entered the room, it apparently held another Manual in it´s mandibles and seemed to be a sort of cyborg...
The next door opened this time one to his left, besides the counter, stating 'beverage cellar' and a tall lion-like humanoid stepped out and immedietly went into cover, of all present individuals he seemed to possess the most advanced technology wearing a powerarmor and several pieces of technology which hinted towards teh Dimensional...or 'Reformed' Collective...
Before CETA could react or say anything the man with bonecrest, looking somewhat liek a spacepirate stood up and walked into the middle of the room, his arms raised to half height as if trying to calm someone, or everyone, down...
"Ahem, y´ know it´d be better if you people come in n´ lower the damn guns, this ´s s´posed to be a safe area, unless ya wanna blow your own heads off, that´s fine with me aswell."
...the moment finished a hatch in the ceiling, notably according to CETAs scans there was no hatch there before, opened up and another human dropped into the room, now lying face down on the floor...
The arms of the spacepirate lowered along with his shoulders...
"Oh wonderful, ´nother one of these punks."
CursedPh4nt0m
The construct did not respond, however Nates voice seemed to attract it´s attention, the eyes focus shifted and then centered on Nate, the next thing he felt was that he was impaled by claws which erupted from the monstrosities armstump and was being grinded against the ground of the corridor, whilst the screeching continued and intensidied, now both organic and metallic sounding at the same time...
Neither did his armor show any significant resistance to the machines attack, nor seemed his innate abilities protect him against the instinctual terror that had taken grasp of him the moemtn the eye had focused him...
The machine had grabbed him before he was able to jump into the doorframe, which was already out of sight, an unparalleled pain exploded in his entire body as he felt how his bones shattered to pieces and his flesh and skin was ripped apart by being grinded against the ground in the grip of the machines claws, he saw one of his legs ripping off, his sight blurring from the excessive speed and pain, making him unable to still pick up any details, the next moment everything was over...
The dead carcass of Nates body dropped of the claws of the machine...
...
...
Nate awoke.
Whereever he was, it was dark, cold, his body felt as if someone threw him into an industrial meatgrinder...
His body...
He stared down at himself noticing, despite the pain, he was still intact.
His weapon laid on the ground infront of him, the cryo-magazine still in.
It was difficult to make out any details in the darkness, but there was not much to be seen anyways, he was in a small squared room, made from large stone blocks, in each of the rooms walls there was an archway, behind which laid nothing but darkness, as he looked around he also noticed that there were apparently no lightsources in teh room and yet he could see...
What just happened?
Amazing_Goob ->Stormi_chan
...after Kirov finished his sentence and the crashing sound of the door stopped, the foxlike creature on teh counter jumped towards the door and opened it, returning to the woman behind the counter afterwards...
In the opened door stood a lizard-like humanoid holding an oddly shapoed shotgun in one of it´s hands, the other one extended towards where the doorhandle formerly was..
The next door opened, right behind him and behind it stood a large golden-clad robot, pointing it´s arm into the room which seemed to have a gunbarrel instead of hand...
As if this wasn´t enough commotion already the next door opened, stating 'mens´toilet' on the sign besides it and a large insectoid creature just walked into the room, holding what looked like another Manual in it´s mandibles...
Lastly the door besides the counter opened stating 'beverage cellar' and a large lion-like humanoid stepped out and immedietly went into cover again, it wore some sort of armor apparently...
What even was this mad place?
The man who looked like a spacepirate stood up from his palce and walked into the middle of the room, making a calming gesture with his arms...
"Ahem, y´ know it´d be better if you people come in n´ lower the damn guns, this ´s s´posed to be a safe area, unless ya wanna blow your own heads off, that´s fine with me aswell."
...the next moment a hatch in the ceiling opened, this time not above Kirovs table and another human dropped into the room, now lying face down on the floor infront of the spacepirateadventurer...
The arms of the spacepirate lowered along with his shoulders...
"Oh wonderful, ´nother one of these punks."
RandomCommander
As Kar'Guraad went into cover, additionally to the golden robot looking like the pimp version of an EL drone to his right and the lizard like humanoid, according to his circlet a "Musavian", he also saw a large insect-like many-legged creature which was, curiously, standing halfway into the room, holding what looked like a 'Manual' in it´s mandibles...
Before he could take any further actions, or take another look, he heard steps and then a relatively old mens voice...
"Ahem, y´ know it´d be better if you people come in n´ lower the damn guns, this ´s s´posed to be a safe area, unless ya wanna blow your own heads off, that´s fine with me aswell."
...the next thing he heard was that of a wooden hatch opening somewhere above, then the sound of a humanoid body crashing into the floor...
There was a brief silence then the same voice spoke again...
"Oh wonderful, ´nother one of these punks."
Stormi_chan
...when Lola returned Lila saw a humanoid lizard standing in the doorframe, it´s hand extended towards the place where the doorhandle was just a moment ago, the other hand holding some sort of off shotgun, after this the door to her right, usually leading up to the guest beds, was opened and tall golden robot stood in the doorframe, it´s arm which ended in a gunbarrel pointing inside the room...
The next door opened, this time that of the mens toilet on the wall to her left, and a large many-legged insect crawled out, holding a book in it´s mandibles...
When she thought this was about everything the door to the beverage cellar opened, behind her to the right, opened and she saw a glimpse of a tall humanoid lion, wearing some sort of advanced armor, but immediatly going into cover again...
Just like Lila, Kirov saw the same, his hand still extended towards the man which just dropped on his table...
Before any of them could do anything the adventurer Gal'qud stood up from his place in the corner to her left and walked towards the middle of the bar, his arms raised in a calming gesture...
"Ahem, y´ know it´d be better if you people come in n´ lower the damn guns, this ´s s´posed to be a safe area, unless ya wanna blow your own heads off, that´s fine with me aswell."
...as if to top it all off another hatch in the ceiling opened, this time not above Kirovs table and another human dropped right infront of Gal'qud feet, now lying face down on the floor...
The arms of the adventurer lowered along with his shoulders...
"Oh wonderful, ´nother one of these punks."
