Union - Chapter 7 Stalker

With the chills running down his vertebrae, Rene readies up his mentality for his first incoming combat after landing upon this hellhole. After glancing upon the coming threat its silhouette shows itself in the falling moonlight with it’s beastlike appearance with barbed and sharp claws, rough and scaled appendages yet looks thin and emanciated and face similar that of a fusion of a spider and an unwilling feline.

With his reacting to identify this hungry creature, the beast reacted with swift actions brandishing its claws towards his torso and with tempered experience towards combat of beast-type creatures. Rene sidesteps as an attempt to dodge it’s attack while simultaneously pulling his blaster on his right hip, aiming with precision upon the head of the creature. He pulls the trigger and as the blast of heat travelling upon the creature it melds upon the shadows dodges it and appears behind Rene’s back.

With confidence Rene ducks upon the attack and with his left hand brandishes his dagger in an effort to deal damage upon the creature, with its trailing blaze it grazes the creature at it bellows the smell of burnt flesh.

With the creature hurt slightly it retreats as it reconsiders that the creature infront of it on a higher danger level scale as it increases its pace to deal with it.

With Rene seemingly unpertubed, he sheathes his blaster pistol and pulls out one-handedly one of his new “borrowed” rifles on his magnetic holster, puts his knife onto an attachment under its barrel and tenses up to quickly react wherever this creature may be.

His beeps as it completes its analysis of the creature as shows that it is some nocturnal creature of some relative new vaeiant of its species as most creatures will adapt and evolve to better fit its surroundings and have some edge on some other predators.

(Rethris Shadow Variant)

* Tier : I

* Level : ???

* Description : A rethris variant evolved to meld and move among the shadows to deal on some unsuspecting prey, this creature has both haste and defense but currently is weakened due to starvation

* Description : Tread wisely traveler as poses some threat if not careful

“A new variant eh? And what’s with the remarks it shouldn’t be hard to dealt wi-” as the creature slices up his flank, leaving a trail of blood onto the ground.

“That’s it you’re going down this instant, no more playing around.” Rene aims his rifle to his 11 o’clock and fires a 3 round burst of dense blasts of heat and as soon the Rethris variant emerges from the shadows it tenses up as it get hit by the scorch on three locations, on its head, right shoulder and upper torso.

It wails down on the ground with the smell of burnt flesh, it struggles to enter the closest shadow in its location but Rene stops its movement as he puts his left foot onto the back of the creature and exerts some force.

“Where ya’ going you little bastard, you ain’t going anywhere until I give you some pain.” With his creepy smile and sadistic look Rene stabs his blade on the body of the creature multiple times until he is satisfied and shoots it up close in the head to end its misery.

“Well there goes my newly acquired pants to shreds, might as well check the other rooms and exterminate this bastards since rethrises stays and hunts in packs of six or eight most of the time.” As Rene holds his rifle up close as he goes searching the rooms one by one, the closest room where he met the first rethris was a maintenance room with broken walls and its furnishing down on the ground and the lights flickering “Atleast the power is on, should be the sub-generators producing it from the solar panels.” Until his boots ended up kicking a hand of a skeleton with its skull cracked and smashed to bits.

“That’s a horrible way to go out brother, you may rest in peace.” As Rene gives a short lament to the corpse as he ventures to a door to his left and with his quick reactions opens fire as it blasts another rethris to oblivion.

“I should kill these rethrises before conducting extensive search on this remains.” He then goes his way through the hallways of the ship dealing with the rethris along his way counting up kills to a number of eleven kills and netting him 12 levels of experience and 12 pieces of white/black dice and 2 white/red dice and also a plethora of claws, bones and teeth of the rethrises.

“Where the leader of this pack? Oh it’s the first rethris I fought didn’t I, damn I miss my auto-loot function.” As he makes way to the the rethris leader by the cargo hold, as he disassembles the creature crudely he gains the claws and teeth of the creature which is way sharper and stronger among others but bones unusable since he broke most of it in his sadistic pleasure.

“Now after killing all this rethrises, I have crudely written the parts of the ship which is separated into: The Cargo Hold, The Mechanics Lounge, The Headquarters, The Armory, The Canteen, The Bridge, The Reactor and The Resting Area. But excluding 3 rooms that should be here, The Weapon Array, The Engine Hold and The Emergency Escape rooms, which might be destroyed or separated from the main hull during its re-entry.”

“Now enough with the cheaptalk, shall we see what’s spoils we gain from this ruins? And see is this hunk of scrapped metal can be form an escape shuttle for me…”