Chojin Patriarch
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On the up side, once the tip went through, there's not much more damage it could do. You can only be so impaled, after all. Unless it had retracting spikes like a gae bolg, or sharp sides, or...
I'll stop talking, shall I?Well, unless there's some nasty nanite payload in the wound, his healing factor should keep him going.
Distributed neural network, probably. Less points of failure compared to a spine-based biology.
That's the smartest play, given he could handle the Scarab. But he'd likely lose interdiction in the fighting.
Planning the space combat version of beating one futher-mocker with another futher-mocker, eh?
Definitely some kind of piercing effect involved with the edges.
And given a moment to focus on healing, you're at least mobile again.
Interesting trick. Wonder how he's managing that specifically. Telekinesis, of course, but it's a very unusual application of it.
And running into a defended position against two unknown threats is a dumb way to die.
Better work it out so you can teach the other Effigies.
So, sort of a bottled plasma field. Kind of like a Lightsaber or Gundam's Beam sabers (The big difference there being scale.)
Good reaction speed there, Marty. And now the fight gets nasty.
Not quite the intended use, by the look of it, but given their durability, a valid option.
Because even contained by his telekinesis...
...It's still a swirling mass of superheated metal. That sort of hit is definitely doing damage, but now she's wise to it...
Good, you remembered: Leverage.
Nice. I know he's probably not using the wet end, but it's still a funny image.
Dangit, he keeps bringing a fist or a club to a gun fight.
dual-wielding for the win.
Best way to do this. Keep on her, don't let her get a viable weapon formed.
Drawback of weapons attached to you: If they stick in the enemy's body... That puts you right in arms' reach of their return blows.
Which is still bizarre. Some kind of radio-emission thing? However Jevek managed it, he really needs to upgrade their range.
Ah, the joy of outnumbering a foe in a melee: knocking them in the back when they're not focusing on you.
Good signal. 'If I scream, attack!'
Whoops, that didn't take long. Let's hope Krillik isn't mortally wounded by this.
Right in the Scarab, eh? It's a guaranteed kill-shot, for sure.
Yeah, don't get carried away sticking it in her, Marty. This is a threesome, after all.
Tough luck. But I suspect the Scarab was in full control at this point. So she was literally a dead woman flying.
Definitely in need of patching up, for one thing.
...That you know of?
...Well, you two were here. Or at least they detected you heading that way.
Just when you wish you could take a moment, there's always something...
Not a great result for them. Yes, they took the Scarab down, but they got mauled something fierce by whatever trick it was using to beat their durability, and they only won mostly because of Marty's little beam-saber trick. So unless the others have come up with their own sneaky power-ups, they wont be doing nearly as well, will they?
Couple of cases of stray 'C's in Krillik's name.
Sadly, none of that in real-life, but I guess the fleet is so far out they can't really do anything to stop them. So I expect the next part to just be a debrief and victory party.
