USH'S MATRIX GAME 2006 THIRD ASSIGNMENT- 'The Fortress'

"The best kind of test," Azrael mutters.

Heph turns and adopts a defensive stance, looking for wherever the Exiles are coming from.

"We should get going, Captain," Heph says.

"You will not call them off?" Mors asks, drawing his katana with a shing! and angling it slightly away from him, towards the source of the sound.

"If we are supposed to fight your army, what about you?" -Melkor says, seeming to struggle with himself. "At the end you may prove a worse enemy to humanity than the System".

Ush, is there anything in this place that may seem a good target to sabotage?

Absolutely nothing at all.

"Oh, I may be their King, but I cannot stop them. They are fulfilling their purpose- to kill Humans at every turn, by any way possible, including their own lives. And they have been long denied that purpose..."

There is an almighty screeching sound, as if from thousands of inhuman creatures.

This is because it is coming from thousands of inhuman creatures.

From out of one of those strange holes in the wall, comes a spider. Not any normal sort of spider, though. This one came from the same design department as Shelob, and is as big. Its eight eyes turn towards you, and now louder than all the others, it [screeches...

"The spider forms were my gift to them. I think you weill find them oddly appropriate..."

"Bugs it just had to be bugs," Berserker says then adds, "And for any smarty pants I already know Spiders aren't bugs but their close enough."

Ush I'm assuming that the king is going to be fighting right.

Nope, he doesn't seem to care much.

"It seems that there are hordes of them, we can`t fight them all. I assume we cannot escape from them?" -He looks at the spider uneasily.

The time for conversation is done because at this point several dozen more emerge from the holes.

They move EXACTLY like sentinels, skittering across walls, ceiling and floors, to overwhelm you.

It's going to be one of those days, isn't it?

Ahh, lovely. Spider sentinels. I HATE spiders. Ugh.

(shudders)

Time to try and kill things before they kill us I take it?

Azrael starts backing toward the door, Ingrams out.

Back the way we came, I think.

That'd be great if there weren't some fifty or so spiders in the way.

I assume that I cannot stay safe if I keep very close to King?

Nope. Those holes are everywhere.

But we cannot kill that many of them, right?!

I guess we will have to see.

I hate those sorts of responses...

Well, your intelligence on fighting giant spiders is inexplicably limited.

"Uh, I don't suppose anyone's got an EMP on 'em?" Ares asks, retrieving his MAC11 from his coat.

"Not quite," Heph says.

I suppose we should begin submitting our power choices?

Also, does Hephaestus still have his grenades from the Monastery? He didn't get an opportunity to use them, and I forgot to ask during loadout...