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As soon as the light had faded, Tina was behind a nearby stone. She instantly recognized that blue skintone and white hair; Sru. The personalized soldiers of the Artisian Armada. Made to crudely resemble their master Artimeus, the Sru are ravenous and dangerous creatures. Little more than skin around a cloud of artisian energy, the only sharp points was the teeth and the claws.
She could hear them trashing about over there, she didn’t dare to look at what they were doing. It was not that she could not take them, but the Sru also act as the eyes of their leaders. If they found her, everyone would know she was there, so she chose stealth for now.
After having searched the immediate cavern area, the Sru began shrieking at each other. That horrible shrill noise they could make just made you want to sock them one or punch yourself just to get the sound out. The tune of running filled the air as the Sru rushed out again, leaving the dead end cavern alone and empty once more. Or so they thought.
Tina’s armor had been right there in plain sight, but because of how broken it looked, the Sru might just have understood it as a dead DFS Soldier. Also the fact that the general area was simply smeared in blood might have help-! “Wait, what th-Hng!” Tina looked over the area in surprise, then looked down and almost threw up. Her stomach had a large hole in it, not big enough for organs or the like to flow out, but still, gruesomely big. The jumpsuit had already toughened up around it though and stopped the bleeding, no doubt another safety spell of the DFS Soldier Armor.
The hole didn’t hurt at all, which made it obvious to her why she couldn’t feel it before she saw it. At least the blood had helped her escape the ravernous fanged monsters that are the Sru. Looking around, she tried to locate her Splinter Rifle.
She had to get up and out of the cover from the rock to look around the cavern. After 5 minutes of digging behind some rubble, she finally located that square metal brick that is the splinter rifle. Not pretty to look at, but packs quite a punch, the splinter rifle is the honorary weapon of the DFS. It fires splinters of specialized round crystals as ammunition, super heated and charged with electrical and burning magick just for that extra kick. A single crystal can give 20 shrapnel shots of hurt towards any creature dumb enough to challenge you, and they pack an even meaner punch to the Sru, dealing in healing magicks that hurt those cursed scumbags.
Yes, with this weapon in hand, she will be dangerous to all who oppose her! *Click! Click! Sszzssrrpt clank!*
…After trying to fire it for a little while, it was obvious that the rifle didn’t work anymore.
Damnit.