Mission 1.2: Sinister Trail

The face Close to Zakk took a bullet or 2, but unfortunately it seems to still be conscious. "You bang bang me, I bang bang you..." The voice emitted sounds to have an echo with static.

As Zakk tries to shoot at the face, he also moves back up the slope out of the large face-shaped pit.

Enemy turn

The face that was close to Zakk follows after him again and is Close.
The 2 faces at the nose entrance now change their mind of staying there, and now move towards Matsuki, now Short distance to her and Tariq.
1 face is now seemingly sleeping at West Cheek, at the bottom of the slope of Tariq's location.
1 that was above the Mouth now moves to the location where the 2 faces are.
The 6 that was spawned high up at the centre of the basin is now doing something. The faces have joined together at the neck, causing their long stems to bundle up into one. "Welcome." "Nice!" "Come on.. come on..." Small faces start to bubble out from this cluster.

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End of round

3 faces spawn at Forehead, medium distance from ground, and 3 spawn at the Chin, short distance behind Zakk.

Party's turn!

Nikolai tries to remove his vacsuit from his bag. Unfortunately, he is having trouble, as it is bulky and is slightly stuck. He manages to make it out of the creepy room at least.

Matsuki shoots at the face Closest to Zakk. The one that was injured. Her attack has properly finished it off.

Tariq runs to gentle slope. He tries his best, running pass faces and Zakk, but ended up tripping over himself. He is now at the Chin, where he is surrounded by 3 faces.

Zakk tries to shoot at the gathering faces that are now looking down at the crippled Tariq. He opt to unload a lot at once.
Despite all that, one face is hit, but it's still alive.

Zakk moves on, feeling awful for being helpless to save his friend. He still tries to draw attention to himself with his lyrics, taunting the faces that seem to be getting more dexterous for dodging his bullet shower. He is now next to Matsuki at the edge.

Matsuki's attempt to negotiate is met with an assortment of mockery and nonsense. She then moves back away from the edge, and is now Short distance from their truck. The cluster of faces however, seems to answer amongst the din.

"We need help? Yes. Thank you for drawing us into being. Individually, we are but foolish nodes. But where we emerge, more follow, and our minds will unite to hunger for more. To know more. And we know not why this abandoned outpost exists. I will need to take your bodies, you humans. This fungal vessel is good enough to connect the Network to this real space, but the network needs to look deeper. Something denies us. Something of the Network, but is antagonistic of it. A traitor. Your bodies shall be controlled by us, instead of single directionless souls..."

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Enemy turn

The 6 headed Cluster had another head fully matured. They began to chant in an alien tongue. Their light turns from white to red, and red alien glyphs began to glow from the metallic pillars. The glyhps of which looks familiar to the ones in the janitor made.

"Alright, blabbering fools, this is now official investigative business. This is not a show anymore. We will not have redundant heads crowding the crime scene. No, these humans are no longer zoo animals to gawk at, they are tools to spy the traitor hiding under there! Shoo!" The Cluster announced aloud to the other faces. The other faces began to sigh complain about being late to call more friends.

(What I am doing is to slow down the spawning now.)

The Cluster, now done with taking control of the pillars, goes down and towards Matsuki. Short distance above west cheek, Short distance to Tariq and Zakk.

The face behind Zakk follows him again. It instead of focusing on Zakk, looks to Matsuki, short distance away. "I see you now. Your fears... Your secrets that you deserve to be killed for taking..." (Matsuki, roll WIL save.)
The 3 faces at west cheek now moves to Zakk. They also began to terrify her, visions of death is whispered to her. (roll 3 more WIL saves.)

The face sleeping at West Cheek is still sleeping.

The 3 spawned faces at forehead medium distance from ground now moves to West Cheek, short distance from ground. They then merge with the Cluster, forming 10 faces.

The 3 spawned faces at Chin now begin to assault Tariq. The injured one will laugh at him for trying to sleep, while the other 2 pummels him with their heads. (Tariq, roll WIL save)
Those that are pummelling find their heads being hurt, and began to slink away.

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End of Turn

2 faces spawned at the middle of the gentle slope.

There is a vision that flash into the minds of everyone now that the Cluster have appeared.

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Party's turn

The rounds Matsuki fire shred up the face cluster, destroying 8 heads, leaving 2 mature heads left.