Fort_Master_Gustav
Like the last time, the massive carcasses fell to dust whenever they touched one, they reassembled the moment they were out fo range...
The monolith continued to flicker, as the ships pointed their weapons at it, it didn´t seem to react.
As the fighter dived into the orb, once more a wave of energy was released, encompassing everything in the bubble...
...Horror...
Pain...
Pain...
Pain.
Silence.
Death.
As the memory started the last of the blackened Cultbeasts were ripped apart by the unknown foes with the ominous energy weapons...
In the distance there was a third of a monolith, it was still intact, black strings connecting to the surrounding fog...
Infront of the monolith a tall red haired woman tried to hold back a blurry figure, the woman seemed to emanate considerably less power now, she was exhausted, her power seemed to be almost depleted...
"I will never let you through, this will be our world we will be free!"
New power surged through her from a distant place...
"I will not let you to the throne!
I´m afraid you have no say in this.
The words were weird, as if the blurry being had not actually been talking but rather emanating words...
The being launched the woman away with a simple movement of one of it´s appendages, another beam of energy was fired, larger than the others, it seemed to accumulate energy on the surface of the monolith then it detonated, with a collossal burst of psionic noise, the static sound of diffusing energy and a icy cracking...
The fog in the surrounding area began dissipating, just like the darkness around the woman...
Hatred, Hatred, Hatred...
Then, shadows engulfed her once more...
"You were never meant to be here! Do you think I would let you have your way!?"
The woman charged at the figure another time...
The beings on the ships came back to their senses, the orb disappeared, the beasts fell to dust and dissipated in the fog, once more a new tunnel a formed in the fog...
The only thing remaining in the bubble were the shattered pieces of the monolith, smooth black stone robbed of it´s former glow...
RandomCommander
Once more they were accellerated through the corridor in the fog, after a few moments, they ended up inanother bubble of space...
Immedietly they were greeted by massive blackened cultbeasts, the likes of which they had never seen, nor were ever mentioned in the archives, some of them singlehandenly dwarfed the entire collective group, their skin seemed to devour the surrounding light...
Was this already the end of their journey?
Moments passed and nothing happened, sensors began to pickup holes in the beast, burnt through them likely with brute force , there was no lifesigns and no energy readings from the beasts...
They were carcasses, cold and long dead, perhaps for ages.
Amidst the gruesome graveyard another orb of energy was floating, silently cracking reality...
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As the incisor made contact with the new orb, another wave of energy was released, like the last one it spread throughout the bubble and began intruding the teknodaemons minds with new memories.
These felt... more familiar, as if they were charging into battle themselves...
Pain... Joy...
Bloodlust... Horror...
Ecstasis... Fear...
Massive beasts were moving through their sight, were they one of them?
They were fighting, an unknown foe, they couldn´t see it, beams of energy, looking similar to the orbs energy tore through the massive beasts like paper...
They roared, screeched horrendously in the psionic realm and despite the pdds, chargedm fired back, fought...
An tall red haired woman with horns, engulfed in blackness, fought a blurry humanopid figure, she as well seemed to be loosing, by a large margin even, even though they could feel a tremendous amount of power coming from her...
The other...thing, they couldn´t feel at all...
A new challenger? He is powerful... but he is different.
I can feel it. But yet, he is not the same as me, I will teach him, show him my power...
I will show him the tower... will he understand my plan?
...or will he be blind like all the other mortal imbeciles...?
The memory stopped as abruptly as it came and the beast were thrown back into their own bodies...
Infront of their eyes the last remnants of the blackened cultbeasts fell to dust and disappeared...
A new tunnel formed, the orb was gone...
Terket
As they entered the tunnel, it seemed to accellerate their ship once more beyond its own capabilities and only a few minutes later they left the tunnel again...
They were in another bubble of space with teh same red hue teh last one had, however this one...
Massive, biological looking spaceships that looked like malformed spaceborne beasts were floating in the void ahead of them, their hulls seemed to absorb the surrounding light...
If these ships should notice them, it would be over...
Moments passed and nothing happened, a few moments later scans showed that these massive things...
They were all dead, they showed no energy signatures across their entire hulls, this...
...was this a graveyard?
Amidst the beasts anotehr orb like the last one floated in space, silently crackingf reality at it´s position...
Darknessry
Their expansive scans, whilst moving towards the orb resulted in nothing, like in teh last area, all these beasts were dead, killed at an unknown time, ages ago...
The monolith continued flickering whilst they approached the orb, but it didn´t seem to react, nor did any traps trigger...
Space felt oddly... dead.
As the new critter reached the orb, the group was engulfed by anotehr wave of the unknown energy, overwhelming their minds with new memories...
...Horror...
Pain...
Pain...
Pain.
Silence.
Death.
As the memory started the last of the blackened Cultbeasts were ripped apart by the unknown foes with the ominous energy weapons...
In the distance there was a third of a monolith, it was still intact, black strings connecting to the surrounding fog...
Infront of the monolith a tall red haired woman tried to hold back a blurry figure, the woman seemed to emanate considerably less power now, she was exhausted, her power seemed to be almost depleted...
"I will never let you through, this will be our world we will be free!"
New power surged through her from a distant place...
"I will not let you to the throne!
I´m afraid you have no say in this.
The words were weird, as if the blurry being had not actually been talking but rather emanating words...
The being launched the woman away with a simple movement of one of it´s appendages, another beam of energy was fired, larger than the others, it seemed to accumulate energy on the surface of the monolith then it detonated, with a collossal burst of psionic noise, the static sound of diffusing energy and a icy cracking...
The fog in the surrounding area began dissipating, just like the darkness around the woman...
Hatred, Hatred, Hatred...
Then, shadows engulfed her once more...
"You were never meant to be here! Do you think I would let you have your way!?"
The woman charged at the figure another time...
...as the beasts came back to their senses, they saw the last of the carcasses fading to dust, the orb was already gone...
The last thing remaining in the bubble of space were the shattered pieces of teh monolith...
A new tunnel formed in the distance.
KrankysFirebrand48
The ship began moving and eventually reached the new tunnel, as it entered, the ship began accellerating once more...
A few minutes later, they reached anotehr bubble of space, it was filled with the same red glow as the last one...
And a massive amount of beastlike looking ships.
some of them dwarfed even the obervation post the ship had come from, their were utterly black and seemed to absorb any surrounding light...
Had they goen too far?
Moments passed then the captain noticed that there were no energy signatures on the sensors...
...these beasts...
...are they all... dead?
Additionally to teh lack of energy there seemd to be also massive holes brunt through the bodies by unknown weapons...
It was only now that they saw another orb glow in the distance, once more in the center of the bubble, amidst this hoprrendous graveyard of Cultbeasts...
Catplayz
After a few minutes, they had reached the orbs proximity, the red glow illuminated the hull of the ship, and form this close up they could see the energy swirling inside the orb...
Space remained silent, they still didn´t get any reading of the thing on the sensors, but it was clearly right infront of them, interstingly enough, the cracks teh orb seemed to form in reality, didn´t seem to interact with the ship even remotely...