Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-33521582-20180324203957/@comment-33521582-20180706084825

As Gaut rises, filaments of black ichor from the dead creature fall from his armor. He is able to survey the battlefield around and determine its grim prospect. It's this moment of clarity that allows him to fling himself to one side, falling into a leap and roll without even thingking, when a gigantic appendage comes crashing down on him. The giant beast's scream resonates through Othmar's chest cavity as the mass of chitin and muscle contorts sideways to follow him, sending him crashing through rank upon rank of underdeveloped eggs.

Alexus' limbs blur as he throws small insectoids left and right, crushing their skulls with the butt of his pistol, shooting them in their open jaws as they leap at him, or caving in chest cavities with powerful kicks. He hears a massive roar and looks up to see that the gargantuan monster has arrived, and witnesses Gaut's narrow escape from instant death. The overloaded pack on his multi-melta stops its staccato whirring and goes back to its usual, powerful thrum, the display light going green.

Drew is alone on the ledge, panting and in pain, even as his Larraman cells clot his wounds as his body is pumped full of even more adrenaline. From there he can see that, even if Zhevordus could get clear, he wouldn't have a shot at the sunken middle of the cave from that location.

With a howling screech, the deformed abomination speeding its way to Zhevordus is lifted from the ground and contorts in the air as it begins to collapse upon itself, air escaping from its pores in a hissing whistle, as if it were being boiled alive. With a wet crunching, its body crumples and a rain of maggots and black liquid squirt from the mass as it comes crashing down to earth. Zhevordus looks up from his work as something massive approaches from his left, at incredible speed, the air pressure from its approach enough to unbalance his huge frame.

Sergeant Invexus rushes past Zhevordus with a bass roar and kneels, putting all his weight behind his storm shield. The low crackling in the shield intensifies to a thunderous roar, and arcs of electricity rise from its surface groundind themselves harmlessly against the Marines' armours but charring small creatures who respond with agonizing hisses. When the huge monster's second appendage hits, the shield flashes like a star has been born in the chamber, and the red gloom gives way to white light that reveals the true extent of the cavern, projecting huge and disturbing shadows. The tentacle is stopped with a sickening splintering sound, as of a ship's plasteel hull giving way, and Invexus is launched into the air.

The remaining members of the team scatter grenades around the looming terror, their blasts sending the smaller creatures flying, even as they continue to lay down fire, the exploding bolter shells creating piles of gore and blasted chitinous corpses around the area.

The gigantic hulk looms over you, and roars once more, like an earthquake that brings down rocks from the ceiling and makes teetch chatter insde of power armour. It opens its gigantic maw, thousands of rows of teeth drip with an oily substance, and large gobbets trail down onto the floor, hissing where they come into contact with the sizzling surface. The creature has no eyes, but huge, array-like, antenna sweep through the air.