Chapter 2.1 - Into the Strange

AJ fires a shot, but his target deftly steps out of the way.

Diego throws his grenade hard and it whacks a strut, bounces down, carombs off a walkway, and detonates underneath you. Luckily, the walkway absorbs most of the effects, but Diego flies back out the door, and the rest of you fall upwards into the ceiling.

Two of the three aliens near you fish weapons out from nearby, weapons meaning chunks of material used in the scaffolding, and jump towards you. Their bulky limbs belie their speed, and they are all up in your face before you can whistle Dixie.The fourth alien {T4} nearby opens a small hatchway and pulls out some kind of energy weapon. It primes the weapon which clicks on with an ominous hum. It seems ready to fire (next round).

Below you, the sound of numberous hatchways opening echoes through the hollowed-out asteroid. The same ominous hum occurs several more times.

Diego grabs the edge of the doorway, hanging by one hand as his feet dangle out the hut's door back into space. Looking between his feet, it occurs to him that The Strange is really quite pretty, with the gently perturbing fractals of purple dark energy.

Eli attempts to dodge the blaster fire from the vile alien...

(Ooc his resistance cypher is still active so he gets the best of two speed defense rolls)

AJ and Eli each deftly dodge the club attacks.

Floats on Thunder aims his blaster with concentration and fires, striking the alien flailing at Eli in the chest.AJ whips out his crystal shard, and activates it at the creature attacking him. There is a brief hum from the crystal and then a screaming stream of harsh energy strikes the alien. It's flesh erupts into instanteous radiation burns and partially melts. The alien {T2} falls to the ground limply. The shard goes dead in AJs hand, utterly spent.

Eli aims squarely at T4 and lets loose a blast

Diego, gliding through the air, slashes the alien across a vulnerable spot, and the being {T3 is dead} drops, floating downward and away from you. Eli, his spike rifle clear of the close contact, takes advantage of the open air to fire at the alien with the energy weapon in front of them. The alien is slammed to the wall, and floats sideways slowly, spilling a greyish-green bubble stream into the air {T4 is dead}.

The scream of energy weapons, like holes being torn from the universe, fill the space around and below you. From multiple directions, lancing fire reaches for your flesh. Three of the aliens have floated into view {T5-7} but the rest are firing through the scaffolding at you.

Dodge dodge weave

Diego dodges the first shot, but the second burns through several supports and then his leg. {3 points of might damage}

Floats feels a blast taint his airspace, but he remains unscathed other than some blackening of his enviro suit. A second shot from below harmlessly blasts the edge of the asteroid.

Eli shrugs around two shots that come his way, outwardly non-plussed at the strange weaponry.

The universe waits for AJs next breath.