Comic 1007 - Needle it
Posted on 9th May 2018, 12:24 AM
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From the door, you start firing needles at the offending monster. Two quick syringes hit the clawed creature's surface--but don't get to its bloodstream. You hit pure muscle and bone, and without a link to the brain, it would take a lot of blood to get control. As you squeeze the trigger to fire a needle directly at the exposed brain, you catch a glimpse of something... odd.
The monster can't seem to dig the jagged bone from its own brain with its claws--yet the bone is forced out. Forced out. Your needle hits the brain immediately after... and is similarly pushed out before it can inject its payload. Physically pushed out of the brain. You don't see anything at work--it's almost like something shoved it out from the inside.
The monster grabs what's left of your bone creature and casually chucks it backward, ripping it from the ceiling. Your monster's brain still has some activity, but you can't get it to move.
The large monster lumbers forward, beginning to squeeze through the door. You back up, and tell everyone what's going on.
"S'got bone spikes and muscle so thick a needle ain't gettin' through," Michelle says. "I can start shootin', but I dunno how much good it'll do."
"We don't have to kill it, right?," Fuse asks. "We just have to get past it."
The monster reaches forward... and sinks its claws into the floor, tensing for a leap.
"Fuuuck... that!," Caius yells, charging forward.
"Caius!" "No!" Michelle and Fuse shout after him, but he lunges, grabbing onto the monster. It's insane, but it does stop the creature from leaping straight into all of you--it instead turns its attention to Caius. It throws its huge arms around him, Caius's armor luckily keeping the spikes from dealing him any serious harm... for the moment. Caius and the monster have each other in a bear hug, and you can hear bone starting to crack--you can't tell if it's the creature's, the armor, or both.
Maybe Michelle can shoot the wall behind it so it's sprayed from behind with acid while Caius tanks.
this seems eerily similar to the cage match Caius had in England. Except with maybe less room to move, I suppose.
SET THE BRAIN ON FIRE
We need to hit the acid wall behind the monster. If Michelle is not confident enough with the big gun, use the pistol to start poking holes. The higher the better to try to hit that exposed brain. Alternatively, if Michelle doesn't think she can get a good angle, she can help Caius try and bullrush the monster INTO the acid wall.
Jane should focus on boosting Caius/giving him painkiller and all that (Michelle too if she joins him). If possible while doing that, Jane can also use the syringe-gun to make more precision pokes into the acid wall.
Can you use the red at point blank to try and reinforce Caius's armor?
Maybe we could trick the monster into charging into one of the acid walls?
It would explain why damage seems to be repaired.
When we encounter it here, it is going to have a Vore-Cannon or an Acid-Cannon.
http://bloodismine.com/comics/71/
Similar height and shape (though turned towards the camera rather than the usual profile pose), and even the same exposed brain.
...Do we happen to have another car handy to throw at this one?
Let Fuse envelope in Fire the Brain of this thing. Even as tough as it is, with his brain in fire I don't think this thing is going to be at his 100% XD.
And Jane must put her all in boosting Caius and Michelles. Tougher bones, Unlock the restraint in the muscles, heal their injuries, a Rush of adrenaline, etc.