PasqalYou notice a spasm in the construct's organic limb just in time to dodge its lighting fast blow. The serrated blade whooshes less than an inch from your neck and drops to the floor with a heavy clang. The manipulators in the machine's underbelly give a furious screech, its frame twitches convulsively — and the construct becomes dormant once more.
YOU[Take a risk and proceed with the examination of the xenoconstruct]
PasqalHoping the last blow was just the thing lashing out in its death throes, you resume studying the construct.
YOU[Examine the machine]
YOU[Collect samples for study]
YOU[Unscrew the intact reservoirs]
YOU[Examine the frame]
PasqalThe unfamiliar xenomaterial glistens with a metallic sheen. The construct's body and limbs are a patchwork of stitched flesh that inconceivably transitions to mechanical components, as if organic tissue and metal were somehow fused to make one whole.
PasqalThe machine's armoured frame is covered with spikes and reservoirs — some of them are broken, and you see suspicious sanguineous liquid frozen between shards. The armour plates hide several rows of manipulators, razor-sharp scalpels and anti-gravity generators. The latter have fused into the engine's flesh and allow the construct to eerily hover above ground in search of victims.
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YOU[Examine the construct's weapons]
PasqalThe construct's front manipulators were replaced with a massive sword and a mechanic palm. Both limbs are embellished with hooked barbs — doubtlessly to inflict additional suffering to the victim. The machine's armoured plates at the other join to create a prehensile scorpion-like tail with a pair of unknown projectile weapons where one would expect to find a stinger.
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YOU[Examine the signs of damage on the frame]
PasqalThe massive ceiling beams and slabs are firmly pressing the machine to the ground, having crushed most of the antennae, hoses and reservoirs covering its frame. The marks left by bullets and chainswords are obvious on its armour plates — it does not look like these shots and blows inflicted much damage. However, the construct's tail and underbelly are in considerably worse shape after the explosion tore the armour away and exposed them to the elements.
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YOU[Destroy the heretic machine with a melta blast]
YOU[Leave]
PasqalThe nightmarish construct remains motionless in the dim light of the corridor.
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Entry point 2 of 10
PasqalYou discover the construct's weak spot and carefully cult away pieces of flesh melded with metal. it takes you a while to deposit the samples into secure containers with separated bunches of cable, manipulators and certain gadgets of particular interest.
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Entry point 3 of 10
PasqalThe gruesome tool of the enemies of Mankind remains dangerous even in this condition, so you decide to take no chances. A good charge of promethium explosives won't leave a single trace of this heresy.
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Entry point 4 of 10
PasqalYou barely notice a flash of metal before the terrible impact comes. The massive limb that lunged at you drops to the floor with a heavy clang. The manipulators in the machine's underbelly give a furious screech, its frame twitches convulsively — and the construct becomes dormant once more.
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YOU[Destroy the heretic machine with a melta blast]continues where this line first appears above
Entry point 5 of 10
PasqalAnxiety makes you feel hot, with acrid sweat eating away at your eyes. When the plasma cutter gets to the place where metal fuses with living flesh, your hand slips, crudely severing the accessible part of the construct and a few reservoirs with oily liquid that immediately splashes everywhere. You gather the intact samples, tear away several manipulators and put everything into a container, hoping these research materials will be enough.
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Entry point 6 of 10
PasqalYour attempts to separate the reservoirs from the frame remain futile until you push a lever under the armour plates. The vessels empty themselves with a loud click, letting the murky ooze drain into the construct via a series of pipes.
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Entry point 7 of 10
PasqalPlanting the explosives takes some time. Eventually your hand slips, and the timer goes off before you are ready for the explosion...
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Entry point 8 of 10
PasqalYou find several loose holds and joints. A little effort, and the reservoirs with suspicious grim murky liquid give way with a click, easily separating from the frame.
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Entry point 9 of 10
PasqalBefore you is a disgusting construct, a twisted nightmare made real by a fevered genius. An amalgam of rotting flesh and corroded metal is halfway buried under the rubble. The thing is motionless, but a dull green pus is still oozing from its swollen wounds.
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Pasqal(sequence)
PasqalPasqal is looking at the abominable tech with a mixture of disgust and... greedy curiosity. Without tearing his eyes away from the beast, he produces devices with narrow saws, test probes and analysers from under his robe and carefully inserts them into the claws of his mechadendrites. The last thing to emerge is a small melta charge.
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Entry point 10 of 10
PasqalThe terrifying construct is motionless — the heavy debris has firmly pinned the machine to a cold floor. And yet a single look at the disgusting thing is enough to make your skin crawl.
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