actually...I'm trying to bring the hullghasts all with me..there's clearly been several....I'd not finish going up, but wait, and if none were coming up, make some noise, go back down a bit, listen, repeat as needed until I get the pack in pursuit again.

"Radical tactics and a large helping of luck are my only hopes now" he thinks, thoughts racing on a tidal wave of adrenaline. --OOC--OK, here we go...Unarmed Combat application...Fate Point if it will help...Swing body around, and grab on to mutant, kick off and drop, using grip and my wei...

Continue ascent.....use Unarmed Combat to kick it in the face as needed.

actually...holster one, vox-bead "I'm not going to be able to talk while climbing" and put the other one in my mouth....teeth on either side of breech assembly...imagine a 1911 Colt...barrel sticks out to left of my mouth, grip is pointing straight forward, teeth on flat "sides".

climb and run like hell....but keep em behind me.

keep running....bolt pistol rounds explode, if memory serves....so.... Heading up will be impossible with a hullghast above...unorthodox measures are required...aiming slightly ahead of the footsteps above, fire several rounds into the grating floor above to create a hole for it to fall THROUGH. *Th...

Reload pistols..commence withdrawing Hab-Ward....trying to keep the loathsome mutants in pursuit....taking shots of opportunity to keep them baited...half-action shooting, got to keep moving...devote Fall Action to moving if necessary....urgently, but not in a panicky manner, calling on vox-bead...&...

Thoughts flicker furiously through the Arch-Militant's mind...."My blade might well serve better, but I may not have a chance to pick my pistols back up should there be more...." OOC--if I'm getting too creative/drawing upon RL experience which the rules don't countenance, I'll edit this n...

OOC--if memory serves, a quick shot is a Half-Action (not looking at teh book right now).... Hurriedly, I snap off a hasty shot at the hideous thing.....after the initial surge of adrenaline, if there is still only the one before me, a careful Aimed Shot at the beastial abomination. If there are mul...

Definitely NOT barricade Hab-Ward. Barricade one, cover other three....from position such that Hab-Ward is closest should I need to cut a path out, that's most likely to get me to safety, don't want to have to go through too many enemies.

there are 3 entrances to this room, yes? I will try to construct a barricade at whichever one is most isolated....meant to delay, not truly stop, and use what concealment/cover I found to lay down fire at the the other two.

Pocket all the trinkets, try to conceal myself, reload, have one pistol in each hand.

Shoot it. Twice. if it's still up, chase and shoot. If I run out of rounds, apply sharp object until hamburger is made.

"Suffer not the Alien!"

Gesture with the pistol barrel, to indicate it should lay down it's trinkets, and move back....when it is well back, I ease forward, pick them up, and examine them by bringing them to eye level off to one side, so I never lose sight of this...being.

Training my bolt-pistol on the creature, I tell it, "Step forward, and answer me if you are capable of speech. Who are you....or who WERE you?"

Methodically, I will search the contents of this room...remaining alert should anyone, or anyTHING, try to sneak up on me while I am occupied.

Press on into the room.

Looking around for anyplace that the whatever-it-was could have flitted off to, I'll head that way...or, if there appears to be a radiation trail being left, I'll follow that.

Scowling at the recent turn of events, I cal out to the armsmen above. "Head back. It is too dangerous for you to try and follow me down here. Wait at the entrance to the Mazeworks, give me two hours."

I will try to make the swing over.