"This is the Adminstration's show and Ming Yung is the figure head of this mission. And of course I haven't...
: “Ah well, would’ve been good to be true. Or maybe you’re lying to me to avoid a dangerous paradox. Can’t blame you either way, apologies for my question.”
"I have a vested interest. It's a chance to explore a new area, and apparently there's some seriously unusual activity happening around here."
:“Curiosity killed the cat, you know? Although I’m the one with the most cat genes here, hehehe... Alis insisted it was critical to check this place up, so here I am too.”
"These are definately the colonists who disappeared."
:”Hahaha, this isn’t the time for jokes… You’re serious, aren’t you?”
: “So let me guess, you want us to take them alive.”
:”What an evil thing to do… We must set it right!”
Mao then performs her chirurgical blows with her tetra knifes. The reinforced carapace is no problem, the subdhermal nano-layers of adamantine directly below even less so, the singularity aura barely registered, and as the blades dig deeper into the bio-monster’s body Mao has time to leisurely calculate precisely which nerve strings to cut while avoid a critical stop of vital functions… Yet as Mao tries to elegantly follow up her moves into her next target, she finds out the bio-monster’s body is a lot more elastic and dense than she expected. Bio-fluids drags onto the blades, costing Mao precious seconds that prevent her from targeting the other bio-monster. Trying to shake the blades free shakes more of the bio-fluids into the frame, connecting meat and metal. The bio-monster seems to somehow be using them for support, automatically creating a new set of nerves in the fly using Mao as an extra core, meaning all the careful chirurgic work from Mao isn’t even slowing them down at all!
Teresa’s attacks cannot even scratch off the bio-creatures thick carapaces, although she succeeds in slowing down one of them.
After her attacks, she'd emit a strong telepathic transmission to the creatures she felt were awaken, in the same language, which amounted to communicating the animalistic equivalent of a warning to hurry and flatten themselves on their back to expose their bellies in submission if they don't want to be hunted.
Mao’s speech seems to fall in flat auditive membranes, probably since the bio-creature monsters language lacks any sounds things like ´submission’, and the whole subsonic grammar structure assumes they are the hunters, never the other way around.
:”Fascinating speech, Ming-Yung, but this level of bio-creatures has the whole concept of ‘surrender’ deleted from their neuron network. It would be like me trying to explain you how it is for every cell of your body splitting in two different individuals with completely opposite core values. Maybe I could do it, but not in six seconds. Now after seeing how you’re doing there, I think it’s best to keep out of melee”
As she speaks, Nei’s claw starts glowing blue, then she speaks a word:
:”CONGELAR!”
Ice implodes all around one of the lesser bio-creatures, trapping it inside a block of ice!
:”Ok, this shouldn’t be too complicated, it’s just like we wanted to capture live specimens.”
A scarlet Shot materialized in Red Ring Rica’s hands, which she points at the nearest bio-creature and launches a photon web, wrapping around and trapping it.
:”I can help too! GAIOLA DE FORÇA!”
Aryk swings her staff and summons a Force Cage around another of the lesser bio-monsters.
Your moment of surprise is lost, and the awakened bio-creatures start breaking out of their domes, leaping all over the facility to attack you.
: “SSSKKKKREEEEE!!!!!”
The ones that Mao had identified as possessing spirits reveal humanoid faces in the midst of their tentacles!
: “I Am Alfa Um! Alfa Um hungers! Alfa Um consumes!”
: “I am Beta Dois! Beta Dois searches! Beta Dois hunts!”
“I am Delta Quatro! Delta Quatro! Delta Quatro hates! Delta Quatro destroys!”
Alfa Um, the one who Mao had attempted to disable, lashes out with her tail, followed by her many tentacles in rapid succession! Mao then registers that the nerves attached to her frame are evolving, looking for any microfracture to crawl in, producing a myriad of enzymes to break it down to molecular level and then absorbing them, each hit against Mao healing the bio-creature! Then Beta Dois joins in and proves just as dangerous, followed by three of the lesser drones whose attacks fail to register in Mao.
Delta Quatro leaps at Red Ring Rica along two other of the lesser creatures. The scientist’s personal energy field flares brightly as it absorbs most of the blow’s impacts, but even then she’s left heavily wounded.
:”R0S-3774 , I won’t hold much longer here, I’m not a mobile fortress like you! Mind if I make a tactical retreat? I can take the bio-creature I captured.”
Aryk is targeted by two of the lesser creatures, blinking in and out of reality and ending up with ‘just’ several nasty cuts.
:”Owowow! I can’t run now! I won’t run now!”
Teresa and Stephanie find themselves targeted by two of the lesser bio-creatures each, lashing out violently with their tails at great speed!
Mao takes 63+52+39+36+38+41+41+39+38+39+38+40+39+39+38+37+40+37+37+37+69+61+39+40+40+39+38+39+40+38+41+37+40+40+38+38+38+41+39+38+38+38 damage, ignores all DR and hardness, each hit inflicts a -1 penalty on AC and saves until its damage is healed.
Make two reflex saves against Slowed for 1 round and another two for Dazed for 1 round, DCs 30.
Four Disarm attempts against the Steel Knives, DCs 39, 40, 43 and 48 (already taking in account size modifier)
Stephanie takes 33+28 damage.
Teresa takes 33+35+41+33 damage.
Four disarms against knives, DCs 25, 8, 8, 24.