Curtains#2 - It Came From Below!

[Velmont]

Lawrence stop a moment and stare at the man.

Did I just kill him...

A chill pass through his back and neck. his grip on the stoll become more loose and the stool falled on the floor.

"Wake up... not the moment to think now." he says to himself.

He turns his heel and start to run outside, to find Granite when he stops in the doorway and look back.

"Damn... I can't let him die here if there still a chance to save him."

He go back to the man and try to lift him.

Too heavy, he'll slow me down... except if...

He concentrates and his body fall apart again. He starts to imagine his body mass to gather on one point and the big spider reform. He grabs the man in his mouth, feeling it ligther, and start to run back to the stair.

OOC: HP spent to gain solid form. Take the guy with his mouth. And try to find Granite.

 

[Mimic]

Granite 3 stun 1 hp remaining

As soon as he spots the glowing green eyes, his insticts kick in and he rushes forward and attempts to kick at the fallen fungus man.

"What does it take to finish this guy? I would have chewed through a tank by now." He thinks to himself.

 

[Rybaer]

Thurman Biological Sciences Building
CC State Campus, Coast City
Apr 17
23:23

Dr. Linderman's lab...

Granite charges through the darkness, glass crunching underfoot, and aims a side kick at the glowing green eyes. The Green Fungus sees it coming and rolls aside, just narrowly avoiding the blow. (Attack roll 4+7=11, miss)

The eyes disappear, but Granite can hear the larger man stand and shuffle back a few steps. "You just don't give up, do you?" he says.

Two sets of windows in the room simultaneously implode, sending glass tinkling across the tile floor. Streams of street light begin to filter in through the gaps between the thick fungal tendrils...which are now writhing and extending into the room on either side of Granite.

The Green Fungus' green eyes again meet Granite's. In the dim light, Granite can see him standing erect - powerful and confident - and bearing no sign of injury or exhaustion from the fight.

"Now, would you like to tell me just what happened to the hard drives?"

*****

Twelfth floor lab...

Fate's calming, authoritative voice seems to finally get through to Sue. She takes his hand and doesn't react too badly to being turned insubstantial. Fate grips her firmly and then floats through the wall and down to street level as quickly as possible. There he leaves her in the company of the others that he escorted down.

Lawrence, meanwhile, transforms back into the spider swarm and then into the single large form. It is just as taxing to perform as the first time, but he's becoming slightly more comfortable with the shape.

He picks up the fallen man in his jaws and tries to carry him toward the stairs. It's an awkward arrangement and the man's arms and legs bounce along on the floor, but Tarentula manages it okay.

Just moments after reaching the stairwell, he heads a loud crash echo from somewhere below...but it doesn't sound as if it's in the stairwell itself. He hurries down a couple floors and hears another crash, this time of breaking glass. It sounds like it's coming from the somewhere a level down - the seventh level, where Linderman's office is.

Tarentula pushes through the door and into the seventh floor hall. He rounds the corner and sees the remains of the lab's door lying on the hallway floor.

*****

Adjacent rooftop...

"Whoa, look at that!" Andrew says from his perch overlooking the Biological Sciences building.

Professor Linderman trots over and Jorgi hears him say, "Oh dear, I think that might be my lab."

"Uh, Jorgi?" Linderman says. "You might want to take a look at this. Something appears to be happening next door."

If Jorgi is so inclined to break away from his electronics work for a minute, he'll see that the thick tendrils of fungus that encase the building across the street are now writhing fluidly about halfway between the ground and the roof. Several dozen tendrils are sliding in, presumably through the windows.

"Yeah," Linderman says, "I'm pretty certain that's my lab."

 

[Velmont]

Lawrence Thorn, HP:2, Healthy

Lawrence put down the man at the entrance of the lab before entering the lab. Lawrence feels all object around him, even if all is in darkness. His senses are limited to proximity, but it is better than stumbling on things. Taking adavanatge of the dark, the spider silently climb the wall and move on the ceilling, and try to spot everyone in the lab.

OOC: Move silently (+12), moving in the lab, on the ceiling, and as soon as the fungusman is spotted, in his direction.

 

[Mimic]

Thurman Biological Sciences Building
CC State Campus, Coast City
Apr 17
23:23

The eyes disappear, but Granite can hear the larger man stand and shuffle back a few steps. "You just don't give up, do you?" he says.

What can I say, I'm annoying like that.

"Now, would you like to tell me just what happened to the hard drives?"

Sorry, don't know what your talking about, he says with a shrug. That's not my area of expertise, I just pummel things. Tell you what, I know a couple of people who are really good with computers, tell me what your looking for and I will give you their phone numbers.

<all out defensive>

 

[Radiant]

Jorgi Vadislav

Without warning a lightning bolt flashes from Jorgi's hand to the nearest door that leasts into the building.

"Someonegetascreenfrominside.TheProfneedstoseethisstuff."
At the call he floats to the edge of the building and softly lands on the railing. The cables of his construct slowly move as if alive, allmost reaching out for him while his hair moves in the same rythm. His face shows no expression as he turns towards the Professor. His eyes continue to flash as more information comes in. Jorgi would be affraid but right now his mind is only half his own and seems more machine than human.

"Findawaytostopit.Ortodestroyitifwehaveto."

 

[Keia]

Prof. Fate Unharmed, HP's: 2

Thurman Biological Sciences Building
CC State Campus, Coast City
Apr 17
23:23

"You should be alright here, Sue," Professor Fate commented. "Fall back if things get out of hand here, stay out of anything below ground."

With that said, Fate felt that he had done as much as he could to help the others, now it was time to save his recent companions. He flew directly for the building looking for where Tarantula and Granite might have gone.

OOC: Maintaining Intangibility, Flight, and Immunities.

 

[Rybaer]

Thurman Biological Sciences Building
CC State Campus, Coast City
Apr 17
23:23


Dr. Linderman's lab...

Tarentula hears voices coming from within the lab as he approaches...one of which sounds like Granite even though he can't make out the words. Tarentula drops the body on the floor and climbs to the ceiling, sliding into the room noiselessly. (Move Silent roll 13+12=25; neither appears to notice him enter)

The lab is a disaster, with shelves, books, broken glass, and crushed electronic gear scattered about. Both windows in the far wall are broken and thick tendrils of fungus are writhing into the room, moving closer to Granite. Another man stands across the room a short distance from Granite. He is easily seven feet tall and very powerfully built. He wears dirty and tattered clothing and his skin has a ropey appearance with a dull gray-green coloration. His eyes glow bright green.

"My problem isn't with the computers," the Green Fungus growls at Granite. "It's with what's missing. Your presence here can't be a coincidence, so I have to assume you're somehow involved. If you don't tell me where they are, then I'll have to break your body into gravel...just to make sure you didn't hide it inside." He gives Granite a maniacal grin and his eyes grow just a little bit brighter.

(ooc - Granite, the tendrils spilling in through the windows are starting to get much closer to you, from both directions. Soon the only clear path from them will be through the door to the hallway.)

*****

Adjacent rooftop...

Jorgi blasts the lock off of the roof access door, startling Andrew and Dr. Linderman. Linderman looks at Andrew and says, "I'll go find a monitor. I probably know my way around this building a bit better than you."

Andrew nods and continues to watch the fungus moving on the building across the street.

"Findawaytostopit.Ortodestroyitifwehaveto."

Andrew spins around at this. "Stop it!? With what? Maybe if a couple fire trucks loaded with fungicide all just happened to show up I could do something. As that's not too freakin' likely, I'm not sure just what you want me to try."

Andrew finally notices the strange, detached look in Jorgi's crackling eyes. He sighs, figuring that Jorgi isn't entirely in tune with the situation outside his world of electronics.

Jorgi, meanwhile, digs deeper into another of the hidden log files.

My appetite continues to grow at a nearly exponential rate. I'm becoming concerned, as eating will soon take up much of my time. At least the food supply issue has been solved...for now anyway.

Still, the energy exchange system at work in my metabolism doesn't seem to make much sense. If I'm becoming part fungus as I fear, why am I eating live tissue instead of dead? I will need to study this further.

*****

Floating through the building...

After dropping off Sue, Fate floats through the building's walls and heads for the stairwell off the lobby. He figures he might have a better chance of finding Granite if he follows his path.

In the lobby, something catches Fate's attention. It is a popping and cracking sound. He spots a bit of movement in the wall of fungus that covers what used to be the main entrance. The tendrils near the floor are writhing slowly, poderously digging into the tile and brickwork of the floor and...the foundation.

Fate spins around when he hears popping from the other side of the lobby. Bits of tile flooring split and burst upward, revealing a bit of fungal tendril as it surfaces momentarily like a sea serpent in Loch Ness.

 

[Mimic]

Granite 3 stun 1 hp remaining

Well, I love you too. He says mockingly, as he backs up towards the door avoiding the tendrils.

Lets finish this somewhere were your friends won't interfere.

 

[Velmont]

First, distract that mushroom. Second, make sure Granite is out of here with the guy. Finally, get out of here myself... that's sound ridiculous...

The giant spider jump and land in front the fungusman. It quickly try to bit the abberation before shifting back to Lawrence form.

"Granite, get out of here with the guy lying at the door. We'll talk later!"

OOC:
(Half) Move, using tumble to not hurt myself
(Half) Attack: Drain
(Free) Change form
Note: Dodge against fungusman only +2 (+0 against anyone else).