LaceraxYou find the issue and fix it with ease — one of the circuits was broken, possibly damaged in a fight with the other beasts. When you are done with the repairs, you are hit with a realisation: there is now nothing standing between you and this huge predator...
LaceraxWith a flash of its visors, the beast begins to turn slowly toward the exit. For a brief moment, you find yourself only a metre away from a monstrosity whose jaws could snap a person in two. It hisses in your face...
MaiveSuddenly, you see something moving out of the corner of your eye: a whirl of skirts, a frail figure. With a small shriek, Maive throws herself between you and the snarling beast. "Off with you! Get away from my lord/lady!"
YOU"What are you doing? It's going to kill you!"
MaiveThe young woman is trembling violently, but she does not move an inch. "Better me than you!"
LaceraxMaive shuts her eyes tightly and clenches her whitening fingers around her dress. With a sonorous roar, the lacerax swiftly lunges forward... past Maive's frail figure and toward freedom.
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YOU"Step away, Maive. That is an order."
MaiveThe young woman casts a desperate glance at you and is on the verge of saying something... but never musters the courage to protest. She meekly steps aside.
LaceraxThe silent duel with the lacerax lasts only a moment but feels like an eternity. Finally, with a beleaguered snarl, the beast dashes away without laying even a claw on its liberator.
SolomorneSolomorne gives you a nod of respect. "Not only did you deal with the augment, you also made a deadly beast recognise your authority with a single glance. Though, I cannot help but wonder about the repercussions of this jailbreak..."
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YOU"And here comes the fresh meat. Dinner time, little monster!"
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LaceraxYou spend the next several minutes trying to do something about the lacerax's damaged augmetic, but to no avail. The very design of this technology is too incomprehensible, leaving you unable to ease the beast's suffering.
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LaceraxYou try to reach your hand inside to get at the lacerax's augmetic, but the cage's bars force you to withdraw.
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LaceraxThe carcass slumps heavily to the floor. The creature's torment has ended.
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LaceraxYou are unfamiliar with the operation of the mechanical lock, but that does not stop you from disabling it. The cage door opens with a creak; however, the beast inside shows no reaction.
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LaceraxYou look over the lacerax, but see nothing that could explain its strange behaviour.
Solomorne"I've seen Glaito convulse like that when his augmetics were malfunctioning," Solomorne says, then adds with sudden anger, "I doubt the local halfwits have the first clue about maintaining implants. They should have stuck to shovels and left the beast alone."
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LaceraxThe antiquated lock proves more of a challenge than you thought. You struggle with its cylindrical mechanism for a long while before abandoning your hopeless endeavour.
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LaceraxA quick inspection is enough to determine the cause of the problem: some of the lacerax's augmetics are clearly not working correctly. The muscles near the energy conduits are twitching, as if the machine spirits, in their fury, were torturing the beast. It is surprising that only this lacerax shows such signs of torment, considering the poor state of the augmetics of all the cyber-beasts here.
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Yrliet"Such a desolate creature... All that finds its way into the chains of the mon-keigh is doomed to ruin."
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LaceraxThis lacerax's augmetics are just as rusty and in sore need of service, but the creature looks far worse than the rest. Gaunt and weak, almost miserable, the beast looks up at you with glazed eyes as you approach. On the door, you notice a scrawled sign that reads, "Animal Number 4. Downtfeed!" The same number is burned into the skin of the lacerax.
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LaceraxThe strange lacerax cowers in the corner of the cage, showing no interest in you.
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