Comic 1009 - Blood the giant eye
Posted on 9th May 2018, 6:14 PM
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You mentally check on your monster in the hall, with the bony limbs. It is definitely dead.
You inject blood into the brain of the big claw monster to get a better idea of what it... does. It seems like a poorly put together mass of muscle and bone, with little else--its brain is incredibly primitive. Like most of the creatures that came out of the hospital, it was improvised and inefficient. Even if it wasn't killed, you don't imagine it would live very long on its own.
You also take a closer look at the strange parasite that crawled out of the monster's brain. There's not enough there to even blood, the small and dangly thing thoroughly murdered by one bullet. You suspect that this was what pushed the needle and bone out of the larger monster's brain--and may have done more, as well, given how sloppy that brain was.
Lastly, you turn your attention to the hallway.
You make a ball of meat in the red and hurl it through the doorway. A laser discharges, disintegrating the tiny meatball in a flash. You then hear the sound of energy building back up. It seems like the eye does take a second or two to charge, but it can hold a charge once it has one.
You fill numerous needles with blood... and then levitate them all into the hall at the same time. As soon as the eye blasts one needle, you hurdle the rest of them at it. The eye can't charge back up fast enough to hit the other needles. Though you can't perceive very well through your needles--or through the corpse of your bone monster--the sheer number of needles you propel down the hall means at least one of them should hit.
It does.
You take control of the eye.
You focus on what's going on inside it, and how it's firing energy beams. You stumble onto the answer very quickly: it's not entirely organic. The eye has been modified, accessorized with technology that's wired up to its pupil. It's not just a ramped up monster from the hospital--it's a cyborg monster from the hospital.
Have Michelle (for old time's sake) pry off the casing for the Soda Cola™ machines. Even if it is a trap, I'd rather it go off now rather than once we go past them (and maybe we can get some 100+ year old soda we can throw at a later encounters).
Otherwise make a meat scout and scout away.
If it can let go off that wall and relocate, bring it as support fire. If it can't, consider falling back to this room for whenever necessary.