[X] Rise up and shoot whatever it is that's out there.
(You )1D100 => (34) vs 43. Hit!
(X6) 1D100 => (64) vs 60. Miss!
Without hesitation, you spring up from behind the overturned desk and raise your laser rifle to your shoulder —in the corner of your eye you spot the obsidian black silhouette of X6 doing the same. Within a heartbeat of each other the two of you fire and with a matching pair of high-pitched, whining bangs your rifles send two painfully bright bolts of blue-white light stabbing in towards the doorway. An instant later your eyes are flooded with tears from the glare and with a hiss of pain you wipe them from your eyes as a wave of blue and black sunspots burst into being in your vision. Half blinded you fire again and again, and from somewhere nearby you can hear X6 do the same.
With a suddenness that's almost startling, you hear the thing howl. It's an awful, deafening sound more like a rusted door slowly closing than anything a human throat could produce. On and on it goes, the noise mingling with its own echoes to produce a din that assaults your ears like nails on a chalkboard. Blinking rapidly to clear your eyes you throw laser bolt after laser bolt at the steadily clearing image of the creature —its form silhouetted by showers of glowing yellow embers— and with a sharp intake of breath you pause for a moment to take it in.
It's tall, taller even than X6. It stands hunched in the doorway like a doll in a too small dollhouse; the top of its head scraping against the ceiling. Unlike the earlier synth, this one stands on two, stick-like legs almost as long as you are tall. Held close by its chest are its arms, each twice as long as they should be and with a second set of elbows located further down and rotated 180 degrees from the first. At the end of the thing's bizarre arms are a set of long fingers that resemble half-melted wax sculptures infested with tumorous lumps and tipped with wickedly sharp claws.
With a brief trill, the creature takes advantage of your momentary pause to lunge forwards, it's legs uncoiling like springs and its arms unfolding like mantis claws. Startled, you hammer the trigger of your rifle.
(You) 1D100 => (19) vs 43. Hit!
(You) 1D100 => (18) vs 43. Hit!
(You) 1D100 => (25) vs 43. Hit!
(X6) 1D100 => (73) vs 60. Miss!
(X6) 1D100 => (94) vs 60. Miss!
(X6) 1D100 => (43) vs 60. Hit!
No longer blinded your shots strike true and plunge into the creature chest and arms with miniature thunderclaps and sprays of sparks. Beside you you see X6 fire blast after blast at the rogue synth, though by error or just plain luck the majority of his shots miss. Still howling, the synth approaches and with a sudden burst of speed, it swings its claws at your head.
(Rogue Synth) 1D100 => (85) vs 30. Miss!
(Rogue Synth) 1D100 => (90) vs 30. Miss!
Thinking fast, you duck below the creature's swing and back behind the desk. With a screech of metal-on-metal, the synth's claws scrape against the edge of the desk before slamming into a nearby emergency light and smashing it to pieces.
You:
[]Fire upwards at the Synth's face.
[]Jump away
[]Write in
