USH'S MATRIX GAME 2006 FOURTH ASSIGNMENT (PHILOSOPHY)- 'The Door'

Klez will fire off shots from his pistol, angling to the left.

Once within range of the spiders at the door, Helios will fire.

Sirin will branch off with Klez to the left.

Heph will move to engage in close combat, moving up to run on the wall as he goes.

Ok guys, you are split now... spiders held off so far...

Melkor and Berserker are finally on the move again.

Heph makes a mighty effort to race along, as Helios blasts down a spider with his handy shotgun on the way in

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Covering Group Left

Klez (4/9/0) KW HL BB CC EE LR BT
Goncz GA-9 x2 (1/11)

Sirin (6/5/8) CF DM ST LA HL HT DiM VG BB CC EE

Covering Group Right

Azrael (9/7/0) CF KW LA ST HL HT DiM HC AL WW BB StS
Light Pistols (1) (2/3)

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Running Group

Helios (6/5/16) Distance moved: 30 (sloping corridor) ST KW BS HC VG HL HT LR BT SS SE
Shotgun (3/3)

Heph (7/23) Distance moved: 30 (sloping corridor) PW CF ST SE AL WW SC NO HL DiM VG HT 1

Berserker (9/19) Distance moved: 25 (spiral stairs) ST SS BS IB HT 1 CF SE WW NO DiM LA
Knives

Melkor Distance moved: 25 (spiral stairs) (5/6/0) DM ST SS HT DiM HL CC LR BT EE
H&K (1/1)

Distance of spiders (left/spiral stairs): 1 turns away

Distance of spiders (right/sloping corridor): 1 turns away

Spiders at door (30) x3: 0

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Heph flips off the wall and lands on the back of one of his spidery foes, ramming his fist downwards into a weak spot in its armor. Then, he flips off and brings the heel of his foot downwards across another's mandibles, cracking them.

(tap HT)

Berserker will continue to run.

Melkor continues to follow Berserker.

Ok guys, you are split now... spiders held off so far...

Melkor and Berserker are finally on the move again.

Heph makes a mighty effort to race along, as Helios blasts down a spider with his handy shotgun on the way in

Meanwhile, with no insttructions about loadout from Azrael, he doesn't have enough dice. Spiders closing in!

Berserker/Melkor- nearly at the top, and another door!

Heph brings down two bad guys...

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Covering Group Left

Klez (4/9/0) KW HL BB CC EE LR BT
Goncz GA-9 x2 (6/10)

Sirin (6/5/8) CF DM ST LA HL HT DiM VG BB CC EE

Covering Group Right

Azrael (9/7/0) CF KW LA ST HL HT DiM HC AL WW BB StS
Light Pistols (2/3)

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Running Group

Helios (6/5/20) Distance moved: 30 (sloping corridor) ST KW BS HC VG HL HT LR BT SS SE
Shotgun (3/3)

Heph (7/27) Distance moved: 30 (sloping corridor) PW CF ST SE AL WW SC NO HL DiM VG HT 2

Berserker (9/19) Distance moved: 28 (spiral stairs) ST SS BS IB HT 1 CF SE WW NO DiM LA
Knives

Melkor Distance moved: 28 (spiral stairs) (5/6/0) DM ST SS HT DiM HL CC LR BT EE
H&K (1/1)

Distance of spiders (left/spiral stairs): 1 turn away

Distance of spiders (right/sloping corridor): 0 turns away

Spiders at door (30) x1: 0

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So there is only door before us, no more stairs?

Door is at 30.

But this door isn`t defended? Melkor will open it, then.

Berserker will go in with Melkor.

Klez will keep firing back at the spiders.

Anything that Klez could shoot down to create more of an obstacle for the spiders?

There are actually various weapomns and shields and so forth on the walls... blocking may be more practical on those stairs. Or maybe not.

Could Sirin pull things down while Klez shoots?

Heph snap the front legs of the final spider, bringing its head down the floor. He then stomps.

"To the door, then," Heph comments to Helios.

Sadl,y Sirin, unarmed you don't have time to manage such a thing before the spiders are upon you.

Melkor and Berserker- you have reached the top of the walls, and daylight!

You are on the vast fortress wall, like a hyped-up version of the Great Wall of China.

Heph kills the last spider and Helios opens the door to reveal... what can only be the laboratory. It looks like it has come out of a 50s Hammer horror film, all flasks and bubbling liquids and little prongs with electricity shooting betwene them.

Klez and Sirin are at the spiral stairs, close to being overhwlemed... whilst Azrael is now actually amongst the mass of spiders at the entrance to the sloping corridor!

"Where's the Shield?" Heph asks to no one in particular.

Are there ways for the sentinels to creep in here as well?

Azrael runs to the door. Runs and keeps running, using his gun to kill anything in his way.

If needs be, I'll tap AL to get out of the mass.