Re: The Question of Heresy (Game Thread)
In the next matter of moments, Zieg moved forward, down the hallway, brandishing his stub revolver. Ahead of him, he saw the two dregs nearest to the cybermastiff turning tail and running. That left only the petite adept, Thiopia to be beset by an attacker, and she was the last defense between the savage and Lili.
The Arbitor raised his revolver and fired into the man's back. He stiffened immediately, and tumbled to the side, unable to break his fall, for the bullet had severed his spinal cord. Death followed in a matter of moments.
Elsewhere down the hall, Gallus finished off the poor bastard who was under the jaws of the mastiff, and the cyber animal immediately set off in hot pursuit of the fleeing dregs.
It seemed that the battle was won, save for the sudden crash of the window in Thio and Lili's room, where a tall, powerful humanoid in tattered rags, had hurled itself through the window, falling to the ground with brutish efficiency, upon both its bare feet.
When it stood, for it seemed much more an it than the man it had perhaps once been, the most notable feature were its gleaming red eyes. So inhuman was it, that those three souls who first laid eyes upon it were forced to steel themselves against it's horrid visage.
Its skin was pale, almost translucent, with a waxy, writhing quality to it, as if some power or force was living beneath the flesh and trying to work its way out. The tips of each toe and finger were encased in metal nubs, which in turn were connected by metallic sheathed wires that looked as though they belonged on a tech priest. These wires looped around the bulging muscles of the brute and entered into his body at socket embedded in each of his shoulders at the rear. It's mouth is sewn shut in a crudely stitched fashion, and it makes no sound, no roar, nor any battle cry as it stalks forward, intervening itself between Lili and Thio, though right now its eyes rest upon the adept...
