The Ark:: A RPG Session continues::: The monstruous centipedes under St George

Xephos hauls himself off the floor and grasps his katana in his right hand and his pistol in his left, and steps forward, next to grexas, he looks around and tries to see a way forward. (roll 20 + 5 spot = 25)

As Xephos enters the room with his weapons ready, he surveys the place with a penetrating gaze. His eyes pierce the darkness of the huge rectangular chamber only so far.
To the west, in front of him, he can see the other side of the room, about 35 ft away, and to the north at his right he can spot a big iron door similar to the one he just went through.
To the south on his left, in the middle of the room there are three big cages, about the size of a man. They are open and a little red light blinks constantly on a panel next to the door on both cages. The iron door on the northwest corner also has a panel that glows with a blinking red light.
Farther to the south, Xephos guesses that the room must be about 70 ft long, and his eye can barely pierce the darkness there, and he alone can see, about 50 ft away, two massive elongated and bulbous bodies twitching, and moving about, rising like worms standing up to the height of a tall human male, hundreds of little clawed feet sprout from the things’ misshapen blobs. Both are wearing what appears to be a metal collar around what might be the thing’s bulbous head. That head is also embedded with several green spherical eyes that seem to posses some sort of terrible and malign intelligence. Also they look pretty hungry.

Xephos immediately reacts and spreads his wings wide, flying toward the easternmost thing, (roll run 17 + 4 = 21 ) and lands on its head, next he swings his mighty katana (17 + 6 = 23) and it collides with the things "Skin" (Roll 2, 5 + 4 = 11) and cuts into it, causing a deep gash. thick yellow blood pours out, and xephos feels it somewhat comforting, it is similar to his own and he starts to feel a little guilt at cutting this thing.

Farther to the south, Xephos guesses that the room must be about 70 ft long, and his eye can barely pierce the darkness there, and he alone can see, about 50 ft away, two massive elongated and bulbous bodies twitching, and moving about, rising like worms standing up to the height of a tall human male, hundreds of little clawed feet sprout from the things’ misshapen blobs. Both are wearing what appears to be a metal collar around what might be the thing’s bulbous head. That head is also embedded with several green spherical eyes that seem to posses some sort of terrible and malign intelligence. Also they look pretty hungry.
The monstrous centipede squirms at Xephos’ attack and recoils, preparing to bite him. From the middle of the room, the second creature rises up in its multitude of legs on the back part of its body and launches itself in two slithering and lightning fast movements that end up behind Xephos. The thing opens up a jaw that displays several fangs about the size of a child’s arm and attempts to bite Xephos’ head off with two fast bite attacks (18, 13) The first bite allows the creature to sink its fangs in to Xephos’ skin, and the jaws of the thing close in on his throat. The pain is excruciating and Xephos can feel himself being sort of pulled in to the thing’s mouth, he can feel the muscles working on the worm’s jaw and throat, pulling him to a certain agonizing death. (9 damage) Xephos finds himself struggling to be free of the creature’s jaws.
The wounded worm seems to laugh an evil insect like laugh and coils its body, preparing a mortal finishing attack on the winged man that hurt it.

Grexas climbs down off Zaj's back and rushes into the room. Seeing the monsters closed in around Xephos, Grexas passes his gun back to his tail before dropping to all fours. He rushes over to Xephos stopping a few feet from him. Grexas retrieves his pistol from his tail. He takes aim at the beast trying to swallow Xephos and fires. rolled 19+3=22 rolled 9+3=12 damage, Grexas' shot hits its target, blowing a hole in the creatures armor, the creatures disgusting blood sprays everywhere, Grexas sidesteps the spray and takes aim again, rolled (18+3)-4=17, rolled 12+2=14 damage. The creature spits out xephos and falls to the ground twitching.

The monstrous centipede holding Xephos in its clicking jaws lets out an insect like cry of rage at the hot metal piercing its body. As Xephos falls to the ground again, he sees with unbelieving eyes that the creature in front of him, recoils and jumps off to the eastern all then moves with blinding speed towards the door from which the companions came in. When the worm is at the left side of Grexas, it jumps off the wall, opening its legs to embrace the man with the smoking gun that hurt its mate. (22) The thing latches on to Grexas and the agile cat-like man can feel the squeeze of a giant’s embrace taking the air out of his lungs. Grexas can then feel hundreds of filaments sprouting from the worm’s disgusting body and inserting in his flesh (19) Grexas is hurt by this sudden attack, and he feels poison starting to work on him. (7 damage)
Meanwhile, the centipede that was trying to eat Xephos twitches in rage in the ground, and Xephos can see a very nasty looking sting sprout out of the thing’s rear end. The worm stands on its hundreds of legs and rises the rear end of its body, ready to skewer the winged man that wields the cold iron.

Seeing his ally trapped, he starts to turn, but then stops himself. "Self preservation" he tells himself and then, almost instinctively, he swings his blade in a wide arc and it hits the lower end of the "Thing" ( 16 + 6 = 22) and the blade cuts deep, very deep ( 6 + 4 + 4). next he turns and squeezes off a shot towards his allies captor, it hits him (15) but bounces harmlessly off.

Xephos’ slash severs the rear portion of the centipede’s body off, the tail flies off, squirming, the sting no longer a threat. The wounded centipede hisses at Xephos and squirms all over its body. Then he protrudes a vein like tube from its wide open jaws and spits a squirt of acid at Xephos’ face. Xephos reacts in a blinding movement and twists his body. The acid shot flies little above his face and it lands harmlessly on the floor behind him, burning some of the stone and making a small cloud of smoke. Then, the monstruosity jumps at Xephos and bites with its powerful fangs (17) inflicting a nasty wound on Xephos chest (5 damage)

Grexas feels the poison from the creature flow into his body, but thanks to his work hunting mutants with L.O.B.O.S his body is able to fight off the poison. rolled 17+3=20 opposed grapple. Grexas manages to free himself from the creatures grasp, though he feels many small wounds bleeding along his back, he feels a bit light-headed, but quickly recovers. rolled 20+5=25 tumble. Grexas moves back 10ft with an effortless backhand spring. Once he is back on his feet he takes aim and fires. rolled 13+3=16, rolled 8+2+1=11 damage. The shot tears through the creatures body, spraying blood everywhere. The shot seems to have penetrated a vital organ as the creature dies, twitching on the ground. Grexas stares in disbelief "Well, that was easier than I was expecting."

"Too right mate" Xephos mutters, before swinging his epic katana of epicness in his widest arc yet, hitting its torso ( 20 + 8 = 28 ) with a very powerful hit, driving clean through and spraying blood across the room, ( 2 + 6 + 4 x 2 = 26) and then he swings again, and again, and again, until there is nothing but the skull on the floor, which he stomps with a satisfying crunch "I think i win!" he yells across the room.

As the two companions holster their weapons and look about them, they rejoice in having lived through this terrible ordeal with creatures far from what they thought existed under the sun, stars or underground. The world has become a threatening, strange place, and there is no telling what awaits them beyond the door of this huge rectangular underground chamber. The door still blinks its red lights, in synchrony with the three cages, and the metal collars of the monstrous things that lie dead on the floor at their feet. Little by little, Zajeyu enters the room behind his friends, not wanting to be left behind.
The door stands in the north eastern corner, it opens northwards, the cages are in the middle of the room, and the companions stand some 20 feet north of the southern wall. To the south only a huge concrete wall can be seen, apparently, the only exit is to the north.

Grexas holsters his pistol and brushes himself off a bit. He walks over to Xephos and gives him a quick examination before pulling out the medkit. rolled 11+12=23 treat injury. rolled 8+3=11 hp restore (+5 for Grexas +6 for Xephos) After patching himself and his buddy up Grexas looks around the room. He picks up the collar from the creature Xephos annihilated. "So what's with these collars? Did someone keep these as guard dogs?" Grexas says more to himself than to anyone else. Grexas examines the collar in his hand a little more closely. rolled 13 search. Noticing nothing but the obvious lights and electronics, Grexas decides to go search the cages.

As Grexas nears the cages, he notices there are panels next to the open doors of the cages. The panels have a numeric keypad and red blinking lights that go on and off in sync with the lights at the doors and the collars. Going in to one of the cages, Grexas notices a steaming pile of organic remains, hman, by the look of some refused clothes and bodyparts.
Among the refuse he catches a metallic surface and grabs at it. It is a small box that has some symbols and letters written on its surface on a languaje Grexas cannot understand. He only catches one word in a yellow and black striped lettering: CAUTION.
Grexas decides to open the box and finds 6 fragmentation grenades in it, along with an electronic datapad. After looking closely at one of the grenades trying to assess its capabilities, he looks at the datapad.
The device has no functions available, and only one incoming message can be read: "The shipment will arrive at St eorge next Week. Meet at eastern gate. Bring it to those underground as part of our help. Signed, XXXXXX (Garbled). against the purists.

Grexas thinks to himself, o there's three cages, but there were only two creepy crawly things. He looks around the room. "Guys, keep an eye out for another one of those things. It looks like there may be one more." Grexas packs away the grenades and decides to examine the keypads on the cages. rolled 17 search check. He then looks over the walls of the room looking for another blinky collar. rolled 18+4=22 spot.

"Sure thing" Xephos mutters "Maybe next time we can kill it quicker!"

Xephos starts to walk towards Grexas, but his foot slips on a thick liquid on the floor, and he almost falls "This blood doesnt affect me..." he mutters to himself and out of his Antitox bag he pulls three empty syringes and fills them full of the creatures blood. He walks towards another cage and looks for anything useful ( rolled 17 + 2 = 19 spot).