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Raith - HP = 56, PP = 38, EP = 38, Status = Fine
Kali'Zhira - HP = 53, PP = 41, EP = 38, Status = Fine
Kali'Zhira - HP = 53, PP = 41, EP = 38, Status = Fine
Nobody knew what this place was called or who may have once lived there, but the ruins spreading before the women held nothing but opportunity. She'd heard tales from roving caravans, warnings to never approach the Sunken City. Many a people have gone lost that dared ventured near it, and those that don't speak of gray abominations and clear shadows that followed your every move. The superstitious believed them to be the ghosts of the lost seeking to drag the living into the city to share their fate. Others thought it was the descendents of a long lost civilization turned wild that slept with the buried ruins until the desert winds unearthed the city once more.
But those were rumors, and most everyone agreed on the true threat that lived there now. The invaders had found a new outpost. That monstrous gray aliens that nearly destroyed the Su-Ku-Ta were spreading and nesting where they could, and what better place than an abandoned city lost to the annals of time?
This is what brought Kali'Zhira to this forgotten land, and as she looked over a high dune and down at the half-buried buildings she found that even that was a bit of a stretch. There had been activity, that much was certain. There were tracks in the sand, foot prints and drag marks side by side as they wound their way through the few spots of sanctuary to be found. But right now there was nothing. No tentacled beasts, no gray mammoths, not even the slight shimmer of those lizards lying in wait. Not even the lone tower that sat near the center of town looked like it had been used in the longest of times.
But those tracks still remained. Perhaps the monsters were simply out on patrol looking for more unwilling victims to sate whatever dark appetites they held. It would be a simply thing to set up shop in that tower, especially with no one watching, and once the beasts returned she would have a prime spot to pick them off one by one. And if they never did then she at least had some bit of shelter.
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Raith could not have been happier. She'd been following a lone caravan for sometime, a prime target in the empty desert for the aliens that now claimed most of its sands, and just as she guessed it came under attack. They rose from the desert, shimmering lizards and walking balls of tentacles ambushing the people before they could mount their defense, and though they suffered casualties the aliens were victorious. They claimed their prizes right then and there, the men slaughtered like so many others while the women were violated in the most disgusting manner possible, and those that still survived took their spoils and began to retreat back to the desert without any apparent care in the world. If only they had stayed to check their fallen comrades. They may have noticed the holes that had been torn through their bodies...
But Raith would be thankful for that. It meant the creatures had not yet noticed her, and she simply stalked them as they traveled, her rifle managing to destroy the occasional beast that managed to fall behind. Little by little the invaders' numbers fell, and soon enough the few lizards that remained shimmered into nothingness to scout. But how would they find a creature that could become just as invisible as they?
And this is what brought Raith to this abandoned city. The ruins looked old. Ancient. Far beyond salvation. But that tower. It still stood. It would make an excellent perch, one she could use to tear into the aliens that were still searching for her in the open desert. This was going to be a good day.
But there was one little catch. Was that movement up near the top?