Extrication

[Brian]

"And hey," Jim says, jogging forward.  "Easy exit if we need one."

[Carthrat]

"Can't argue with that," replies Tom, jogging alongside Tim. "I like to think every step I take is a life-preserving one. For the *long-term*. Yeah, that's it."

[Brian]

"We are the monkey wrench," Jim says, nodding.

The section of blasted out wall is rougly spherical, revealing the bricks beneath the white plaster of the wall.  The room inside is pretty thrashed.  There's no body here, but there is a medical bed which has been folded in half, and has a lot of blood on it.

The wall leading into the hallway is also made of brick and plaster, but the hole is smaller.  The inner hole is about two meters, circular, while the outer one is about three.  The hallway is eerily silent, until a body flies across the aperature, and vanishes across the distance.  It's some seconds before anyone hears the crash of impact.

The body was thrown from the direction the smoke came from, and thrown away.

Sterling is about to take a step forward, when Daniel says, "Hold on.  Check before you go into the hallway."

"How?  I can't exactly see around corners," he replies peevishly.

[Halbarad]

Tim carefully pokes his head around the corner, ready to draw his head back at the first hint of any kind of danger.

[Brian]

Daniel yanks Tim back just before a heavy piece of medical equipment -- looks like a defribulator -- smashes into the wall where he was trying to peek out.  He didn't get a glance of more than a huge, hulking, largely humanoid figure.

However, everyone now hears a loud grumble, and the loud stomp of approaching (very heavy) footsteps.

[Halbarad]

Tim takes a quick breath, giving Daniel a quick thanks before preparing for the approach of whatever the heck it was he just saw.

[Carthrat]

"I have this horrible feeling," mumbles Tom, pulling out his gun and taking a few steps back.

[Brian]

Jim grabs the remains of the bed and hefts it over his head.

Sterling pulls a knife from his pocket and shakes his head.  "You first, then I'll try and keep ... whatever ... busy."

Then there's no real time left for planning, as a huge ogre of a man charges into view.  He looks like a man, at least.  He's huge, his muscles overdeveloped to almost comical proportions.  His eyes are large and crazed, his hair is wild, and he's wearing a collar, to which two long-handled poles are attached.  There also appears to be a pair of devices on the collars to shock him should he wrench them out of someone's grip.

At a guess, they didn't work.

He's wearing a clean canvas coverall, dull gray in color, and his hands are empty.  He's probably got nearly two meters of reach with his arms, and he stands just over three in height.  His hands are empty, and a stream of spittle flows from one corner of his mouth to his chin.  His mouth seems to be locked in a scowling grimace, and he makes a gurgling, growling noise.

Jim immediately flings the bed at the monstrosity, and Sterling is right behind it, knife at the ready.  The bed flips end-over-end, and one corner of the metal frame smacks directly into the thing's forehead.  Sterling stabs it with his knife in the thigh, just a quick jab, and the thing sweeps the bed to one side, incidentaly flinging Sterling down the corridor and out of sight.

[Halbarad]

Tim grimaces as Sterling takes what looks like a pretty painful hit. Taking aim with the pistol, he fires it at the ogre once he's got a clear line of sight.

[Brian]

The bullet sinks into the thing's chest, causing it to grunt, and turn towards Tim with murder in its eyes.  It's bleeding fairly profusely, but this thing's probably got a lot of blood in it.

[Carthrat]

Tom hurriedly follows suit and raises his gun, points it at the ogre-thing, and squeezes the trigger a couple of times.

[Brian]

Tom's shots go wide, sinking into the ceing and the walls.  Kyle aims his own pistol at the ogre, and squeezes the trigger once.  A line of fire traces from the tip of his gun and across the side of the thing's fave, shedding a generous amount of blood and flaming sparks across the floor.

This gets the thing to shift its attention, and it lunges at Kyle instead of Tim.  Jim throws himself in front of Kyle, but the ogre just knocks him over with one arm, and then steps on the gray-skinned man.

For what it's worth, Jim doesn't look to be crushed, though he does wheeze, and is pinned.  Daniel fires his tazer at the ogre, but it doesn't really seem to notice.  On the other hand, attacking it with a knife seems less than wise -- it didn't work well for Sterling.

[Carthrat]

Tom fires again, cursing his inexperience. Repeatedly.

Man, this was soooooo much easier on the range, when I wasn't sweating so much that my hands felt like liquid.

[Halbarad]

Tim grits his teeth and fires at the thing again - hopefully if they can keep it distracted enough it won't be able to do any real damage to any of them.

And getting it to take a step so it's not on top of Jim might be a good bonus, too.

[Brian]

Tom's next shot goes wide again.  Tim's shot, however, has traces of red fire behind it, and blows through the ogre's left elbow.  The arm below the elbow suddenly goes limp and dangles uselessly, also unbalancing the ogre.

Jim manages to lift one foot of the thing off of him, and it reacts by stomping on his chest and crossing over him to try and reach Tim.  There's the sound of something cracking, and Jim groans, now pressed into the floor-tiles, which have broken around him.

Dropping his tazer for the moment, Daniel draws the gun he scavenged in Austin, and fires a quick shot into the thing's kneecap.  Kyle fires another shot into the thing's chest, and it staggers, but continues towards Tim.  Tom fires another round into it, which staggers it further ... and then it collapses, slamming into the ground heavily, and bleeding out across the floor.