fh_dungeon | The Vault, Somewhere, Sunday Morning

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The Vault, Somewhere, Sunday Morning

The vault door stood large and broad in the hallway - so large and broad that it was as if the corridor itself had had to grow several sizes to accommodate it. It was a dark red, and its surface was almost completely smooth but for the slots where three keys would fit.

It exuded quiet menace.

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The vault door unlocked with a click as soon as the last key had found its way into its slot.

There was a brief silence.

Then something large and heavy rolled away inside. Something else clicked. And then a third click. Finally, the door seemed to break open neatly along the center... and then slid open.

Sending dozens of angry large clockwork spiders flooding into the corridors. Whoops.

Edited 2013-04-14 12:00 (UTC)

Jessica learned her lesson with the knight yesterday. If she was going to use fire webbing on these spiders (... appropriate, BTW), it wouldn't do to just shoot them because then they would be angry large FLAMING clockwork spiders.

That's what Jessica started catching two or three at a time in fire web nets and then webbing the nets to the wall where they could melt or overheat or whatever happened when you burned clockwork spiders for a few minutes in intense heat..

"Oh my Goddess," Liara said, giving the incoming flood of spiders a big-eyed stare because what else could you do?

She called on her biotics. And she received... a minor electric shock.

"Goddess!"

...Jaina would actually rather Godzilla.

By this point she'd come down here with guns and a sword, and one of those would sound terrible killing these things. Ugh, fine, time to just randomly shoot at and explode them.

On second thought, that sounded cathartic.

Oh, Bo was on this.

Or at least she was on the ones small enough that she could stomp them or beat them to smithereens with her baseball bat.

She kind of preferred the stomping; it had that personal touch and it proved that with enough force behind them, even neon green bowling shoes had a point in existing.

Eric was pretty sure biting these wouldn't do anything, so he went with ripping their legs off and beating them to death with them.

Mmm, catharsis.

"Shiiit!" That'd be Priestly backing off to let someone way more suited to fighting metal spider things handle things. He was injured and down an arm and not a fighter and --

*spin* *thud*

Ohhhhh yeah, he had a weaponized tail.

So, that'd be Priestly backing off, and thwacking at mechanical spiders with his tail.

As you do.

Which could only warrant a, "Seriously?" from Dean as he hacked at the limb of an oncoming spider robot.

His life was even weirder than normal lately.

"You're just jealous," Priestly said, jumping over one of the spiders and using the tail for enough hang time to land on top of the next.

Not his best plan. It was like trying to land on a moving bowling ball. "Shit!"

He had a feeling he'd be saying that a lot, today.

"Eye on the ball, Priestly," Dean shot back, shaking his head. No way would he be jealous of a weird tail. And ears.

You mean adorable tail and ears. That sometimes got scritched by pretty girls.

"Which ball? There are, like, a million balls! And they're all shaped like evil death spider robots!"

Excuse you, this wasn't anime. And he would prefer them on a hot, scantily-clad chick.

"Well, keep an eye on all of 'em!"

"Exactly how many eyes do you think I have?" Priestly whacked another spider aside, then flailed Dean with his good arm. "Stop looking all calm about the robot spiders of death!"

He was stabbing things! It was his element!

"Dude, this is a whole new level of freakin' weird for me," Dean assured him. "It's like being in some messed up comic book."

". . . Okay, I guess I can't really argue with that." What with the ears and the tail and all. He thwacked another spider, accidentally sending it flying in Dean's direction. "Uh, heads!"

They could be the dynamic duo of Hunter and the Tanuki!

Dean ducked down, only coming back up once it had been stabbed into submission. And then he just gave Priestly a look.

Hey, Priestly was already a sidekick to one hero, thank you very much.

"What? You try aiming with a freaking tail."

CRUSH DEAN'S DREAMS, WHY DON'T YOU?

"Try hitting them to the other side, okay?" he snapped instead of addressing the tail thing again.

Priestly thwacked another spider aside almost idly -- in the other direction, yes. He was getting the hang of this tail thing!

"I dunno, man, you're the one with the freaking machete. Maybe we should work together on this."

His machete was pretty awesome...

Dean shrugged, stabbing down into one of the spiders that got a little too close. "Pick 'em off one by one then," he said, yanking the blade out. "And warn a guy before sending them over."

"I said --" *thwack* "-- shit, heads!"

You know how sometimes cats and dogs don't seem to be entirely in control of their own tails?

Yeah.

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"Ewwww."

The reaction wouldn't stop Kitty from doing something about these things, though, and she actually confronted one, figuring that if phasing didn't break it, it was safe to stab with a letter opener without getting a shock. Of course, she forgot till the last second that she'd managed to phase twice in a week down here...

But when the spider twitched and fell over, Kitty raised her arms in victory with a "Yes!" and decided this might be kind of fun.

Ugh, spiders. Piper wasn't a fan, but these were things she could handle. At least her exploding power could.

It was still a bit wonky, but there was some life in it today. Full working power would have taken out dozens at a time. It only worked enough this time to take out maybe two.

Still, watching them explode was very satisfying.

"Crap crap crap!" Time to hit everything she could reach with a stick. How tough were these things?

..... not so tough that a really good whack didn't at least take out the legs so you could keep whacking them.

"You are not getting in the way of my exit strategy!"

OK, Bel could handle this. Better than something trying to mess with his head again. He just hoped that his fireball wouldn't fizzle out like they had with the Source.

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