SPACE MARAUDERS - Deployment time

[Tingalz]

camp path

We are only here to help ourselves silly

head to the dark path

I say take the cave.

Cave path it is.

: So... this planet's got an eldritch on it? : Something like that. Somewhere near here has already been attacked, so we should be safe. : How do you know? Have you ever fought an eldritch before? : I don't remember. Have we, Slobodan? : No, we haven't. : Oh well. There's a first time for everything, and we- : Hey, do you hear that? : That scraping? It's probably nothing. Anyways, we-

Something bursts out of the wall, but it's too dusty to see anything right now.

[Ad Bot]

[Harm94]

Kick a rock toward the anomaly to see what happens to it.

[SWAT One]

Shoot what appears to be a giant worm.

Edit:  If you can't do that successfully, hightail it outta there and take the other route.

[A million souls]

I bloody knew it!
Enemies in caves!

Throw dust at it, if it's that invisible eldritch then we should be able to see it more clearly.

[Harm94]

I bloody knew it!
Enemies in caves!

Throw dust at it, if it's that invisible eldritch then we should be able to see it more clearly.

Na man, those are just glow stick suspended by string to scare people.

[Tingalz]

One week prior...

ICONIAN MILITARY EMERGENCY RESPONSE MEETING

: Thank you all for meeting here on such short notice. Gathered here are some of the most experienced fleet admirals in the hegemony. : You have been called here to be briefed on a new threat that may soon become galactic scale. It's not ferronis, or the solar empire, but a new type of eldritch. : I thought we had the eldritch threat under control... : No. It's wrong to think that even the hegemony could control eldritchs. However, this specific one can be taken on with military force. : Vaẕīrid Icosse, standing here before us, is a veteran at dealing with eldritch threats. High command itself has assigned her fleet to go forth and destroy the menace where it stands. : And the rest of us? : Your fleets will be outfitted with the proper countermeasures and you will be on guard for any other threats such as this. : Can you further describe this threat? What makes it special?

: I was getting to that. 3 days ago, a high energy eldritch signal was detected in deep space in the mid-dimru sector. : You mean it didn't come from the core? : Possibly. We can't tell right now. It's classified as an armada-type, meaning multiple entities make up a single being. Currently, the eldritch is terrorizing the nearest planet. The planetary defence force was, however, able to damage it somewhat. : That's it? This is just another eldritch. Why are we even needed? : Superstition or not, the emergence coincides with the ancient iconian prophecy of the world-devourer referred to as th- : It's superstition. This is a waste of effort. : We don't expect an alien to understand. : I understand well enough. Why do you care if it has to do with ancient myths? : Eldritchs have coincided with the mythos before. Nobody knows why, but maybe it has to do with their nature. However, if this turns out to be the world-devourer, I doubt even Icosse could beat it back. : We'll see. Be the myths real or not, there is no denying that this is a serious threat. I will take care of it. The world-devourer, the Khresh, will be destroyed.

I bloody knew it!
Enemies in caves!

The dust clears a bit, revealing some sort of hideous thing standing before you. It appears to be made up of off-color bone and chunks of flesh pieced together in an almost-humanoid form. Two purple eyes bulge out from the mass. Something about its appearance and motions makes it seem just, off, like it doesn't belong in reality, yet here it is. It almost makes it unpleasant to look at directly. Yellow sparks are coming from what appears to be claws dripping with bile, and it definitely looks like it's about to attack.

[SWAT One]

Say hello to the local resident.

[RedGajin]

spread out and bangbang

[Harm94]

Looks too dangerous to get close to. Shoot it.

[fawkes..]

Yeah, kill it.

[Lugnut]

run like pussies because there's no need to attack something that doesn't belong in reality

blow up the cave

go the long way, help noobs out, amass an army of lovey beasts to do your bidding

[PowerDag]

aim for the eyes

[Tom Gunn]

Run away scooby-doo style

Then pull off his mask later to reveal it was just the old janitor all along

[comr4de]

Sue eldritch for copyright infringement on the kresh

[Cybertails1998]

oh stuff it's the "break into spores on death" Kresh

run