The beast moves over towards Janice where she lies, broken, on the floor, by the door to the airlock.
It swipes a claw out towards her, knocking straight up against the airlock door, and comes to stand over her, almost like it is taunting her to run, like a cat to a mouse. Janice didn't think her fear could get even worse... but it turns out, no, it can... and Janice flips, she just completely looses it, drags herself up and is about to lunge at the thing, to try and rip it to pieces with her bare hands...
As she does this, something sharp and fast whips around at her side. It's the tail, and it jabs into Janice, and from the point of contact she can feel a numbness spreading through her back where it landed the blow. Her level of panic slips through - she is no longer furious and trying to rip this beast limb from limb - rather, she has slipped into a catatonic state. She collapses to the floor, can't talk or move, and stares blankly into oblivion.
She feels the beast grasp her in its claws, pull her to it in a fierce sharp embrace. She feels some of her bones cracking as this happens. She smells the things foetid breath against her face as it takes off like a bat out of hell. She doesn't really feel the pain any more. She sees and feels herself being carried through the corridors, being squeezed up into some vent somewhere, and then she fades out of consciousness...
OOC:
For the xeno's first attack, 2 on the Special Attack table gives us PLAYING WITH ITS PREY.
She takes another STRESS and makes a Panic Roll. As no agency for player in this, I'll do the roll here to move things forward...
14 on the Panic table gives us "BERSERK. You must immediately attack the nearest person or creature, friendly or not. You won't stop until you or the target is Broken."
We'll let that play out after the xeno has made its second attack.
I'm going to hand wave a bit here, as the mechanics of what happens from here are a bit slow, but the eventual outcome is inevitable, given that no one is here to help Janice. Rather than going through a bunch of opposed rolls, panic rolls, more attacks, I'm going to move over that and narrate the outcome implied by this last attack (which I also improvised on slightly for dramatic effect, given the outcome was inevitable once that 4 had been rolled)
OOC:
@McButterpants/Janice I'm afraid that's the end of Janice. I leave it to you if you want to narrate her waking up, stuck to the wall in the egg chamber and what all us players know happens after that...
