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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lazybones" data-source="post: 5281073" data-attributes="member: 143">I think there's only one left from the original game, now that we've met the silacoids. But it's a good one. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />* * * * * Session 26 (October 27, 2008)Chapter 116The Alphas found themselves confronting yet another alien species in the depths of the alien base.  In some ways the silacoids were the strangest yet, amoebic blobs that pulsed forward across the floor to attack.  Jane fired her plasma rifle, scoring a direct hit on the nearest blob that engulfed it in a corona of white-hot plasma.  But the burst cleared to reveal that the creature was virtually unharmed, and it lunged at her, extending a pseudopod that smacked her hard on her left leg just above the knee.  The agent staggered back, clutching at the wounded limb. “Gah, it’s hot!” she warned, unnecessarily; they could all see the bright glow of her armor where the alien had smacked her.  And they could all feel the sudden spike in temperature as heat radiated from the aliens like coal in a furnace.  More blasts streaked into the aliens, but while the plasma bolts had a certain kinetic impact, it was clear that the heat they delivered was of no hindrance to the creatures.  Hadrian whipped out his slug-thrower and emptied a clip at the nearest alien, but the silacoid merely absorbed the bullets, the force of them slowing it for only a few seconds.  Mary tried to run, but the nearest alien extended itself into a long tendril that caught her on the back of her ankle, taking her down.  The alien surged forward to crush her, but Catalina and Vasily were there in an instant, Catalina pulling her up while Vasily blasted it with a point-blank shot from his cannon.  The force of the blast smacked the alien back a half-step, but it quickly recovered and came in again.  “Come on people, run from them, they not fast!” Vasily exclaimed, as Jane and Hadrian fell back, shooting as they went.  “What is this walking-away-from-burning-puddle-thing?”They made their way to the far exit, the aliens literally in hot pursuit.  The silacoids moved slower than the humans, but apparently solid walls did little to hinder them.  “Now what?” Jane asked, grimacing as she put weight on her injured leg.  Sweat was visible covering her face through the dark plastic of her visor.  “Keep moving!” Vasily yelled, leading them toward another of the side-chambers.  The aliens kept following.  Hadrian paused at the entry and took an alien grenade from his belt.  Triggering it, he rolled it across the floor toward the nearest silacoid; the bomb collided with the alien, which pulsed over it, smothering it a moment before detonation.  The alien—or rather, pieces of it—went flying across the room.  Hadrian and Vasily were struck by bits of it, which hissed and sizzled as it struck their armor.  The Russian grunted and tore a piece of it from his helmet, before the sheer heat of it could damage the alien alloys.  It continued to smoke as he dropped it onto the ground. The other aliens kept coming, but with a confirmed technique for dealing with them, the advantage passed back to the Alphas.  Vasily ordered the others on ahead and lured two more silacoids after him with a second grenade, springing out of their path with the things almost on top of him.  This time the grenade went off with only part of it embedded in one of the aliens’ bodies; the force of the blast knocked Vasily onto his back, but both aliens were destroyed as violently as the first.  The last of the aliens almost got to Vasily before he could get up, but Jane lunged at it with a vibroblade.  The alien pulsed and shifted in mid-lunge, but Jane met it with the alien steel, cutting a deep swath in its body.  It surged and smacked her again, knocking her down, but again the other Alphas were quick to intervene, blasting the alien with a point-blank barrage of firepower that transformed it into a sizzling puddle.  Mary helped Jane to her feet, while Vasily tried to blink away the sweat pouring down his face.  “This just a great place to be, huh,” he said.  “Can see why the Chinese signed treaty.  They want aliens to build theme park.”“Nothing in range,” Catalina said, scanning with her motion sensor.  “The one we’re seeking,” Mary said.  “He’s here somewhere.”They made their way forward again through the alien complex, encountering more unfamiliar plants and other growths.  Jane recorded it all on her helmet camera, but they didn’t stop to explore the side-chambers, moving steadily forward toward their eventual destination. Finally they saw something different up ahead; the scattered growths faded away, and the spongy quasi-floor gave way to more regular construction.  There was a large set of doors visible in the back of the chamber, but there wasn’t time to look around; a large party of a dozen mutons were waiting for them. Including one holding a blaster launcher, which it lifted to its shoulder as the Alphas spotted it.</blockquote>

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