Stage 5 - The Temple of Doom II

Gong-Ju tries to plug the laser hole before blasting the enemy again.

[ +- ] 🔥 Internission

BOMB SHELTER

Gong-Ju’s shotgun blast takes out the unwilling and the rocket that was homing in on Diamond! Casey drops the Revenant and Murasaki saws up the hefty Mancubus.

The door to the north opens. Inside is a yellow key! For those who are hurt, the Imp offers you the rest of his band-aids. It’s exactly enough to heal all of your wounds.

A small TV screen in the Bomb Shelter clicks on. The picture is snowy at first, but a squiggly image of a man in a hat appears and, aside from the occasional static flicker, the picture eventually becomes clear.

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ORLANDO JONES

"Hey! You girls made it—oh! Shit! Is that blood? That’s a lotta… not yours. Cool.

"Anyway, this is weird. I can only see the yellow rooms from the security cams. So there’s this huge space between here and a door to the south. If you can find your way there, it leads to a long, narrow passage heading east, then north. There’s a teleporter in a hexagonal room in the northwest. I don’t know where it leads—"

The picture becomes snowy again.

It momentarily clarifies. Orlando Jones is slapping the screen, muttering, "This fuckin’ thing. Hey, ladies, can you he—"

The picture clicks off.

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[ +- ] 🎸 Running From Evil

GREAT BALLS OF METAL

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With no means of replying to Orlando, and all wounds healed, there’s not much to do but to go into the yellow key door.

At first, there’s nothing to this room at all. Just a long, cylindrical passage that goes downhill.

Then when you take one step… the wall behind you bursts open! There’s a large metal ball! It’s rolling at you—SO RUN!!

ROUND BALL…

RUN!!

She has no time to think. Murasaki starts running as fast as her feet can take her!

Gong-Ju makes a break for it!

Casey runs from the boulder and throws several knives into the walls, hoping to catch and slow down the boulder.

You all avoid getting crushed immediately! Casey tosses knives into the metal ball’s path. The perfect sphere weighs several tons and easily drives the planes into the solid ground.

Murasaki backflips towards the rolling metal sphere! The moment her feet make contact, she focuses her ki and kicks off of it as hard as she can, hoping to slow it down with the force she created. She launches back towards the rest of the pack.

Gong-Ju accelerates her running by doing several dodge rolls in a row, which somehow makes her move faster than just regular movement!

The combination of Casey’s knives and Murasaki’s flying kick works like a charm! Murasaki’s off-ball kick propels her away from the slowed ball and Gong-Ju rolls out of the way so the two don’t collide!

This leaves everyone at a safe distance, except Casey—but thanks to Diamond’s protective magic, Casey is able to barely outpace the metal ball (for she is sprinting in heels)—

Our Dear B☢️MBSHELLS[/f] turn the corner just as the metal ball bashes into the wall at the end of the corridor!

This cuts off the way back, but then, didn’t Orlando Jones say something about a teleporter?

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ORLANDO JONES

"Damn right I did! But I also gotta say, you handled that rolling hunka metal way better than ‘Doctor’ Henry Jones. He never shuts up about that rock… not like we’re on speaking terms, but if we were, I’d still be hearin’ him repeat that story about that damned rock.

"Anyway, you still got ammo and gas in those weapons? There’s a lotta columns in the next room. Plus, it’s dark in there. Might be to your advantage. Might be to the enemies’… I’d say it’s a fifty-fifty shot—"

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[ +- ] 🔥 DOOM

CYBERPINK 299X

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ORLANDO JONES

"Oh… wait! I just found a monster manual. It turns out demons are unable to hear extremely loud noises through a closed door. So they didn’t hear that huge ball crash, or me talking.

"So you can definitely get the jump on ’em. Better still—I got a visual!"

Three of the enemies’ profile pics appear onscreen.



"Cyberdemons… why did it have to be cyberdemons?"

Before the rhetorical question can be answered, the door before you slides open.

You can see there are at least two hell razers, two armored pinkies in sight making snorting sounds, plus more snorting you can hear from behind some of those columns.

And you don’t immediately notice the Cyber-Mancubus——and fortunately, all of the enemies that you can see are facing north. Though one of the pinkies is sniffing curiously. He turns toward you.

All of the demons do…ROUND ONE…

FIGHT!!

Murasaki rushes in, swinging her chainsaw like a maniac. She's not focused on hitting any specific enemy in particular, she simply cleaves into anyone that happens to be in the way.

Casey rushes after Murasaki, firing several pulses at a hellrazer further into the room. Then she charges an armored pinky, slamming the butt of the rifle right between its eyes.

Casey’s shot whizzes past a hell razer! But he is clearly shaken as she takes down a pinky, repeatedly bashing its head!

Murasaki takes the head off of the rest of the pinkies! Her saw puts a gash in the metal plate of the Cyber-Mancubus..!

Gong-ju unloads both shotgun barrels at the mancubus!