It’s time to get that key.

Things were just starting to go well, too. First, Min vanished. Then, the next thing I know, Fin is hitting the deck and blowing holes in the ceiling. It got real there for a moment. I heard balloon boy shouting from somewhere above us as the remaining knights turned on Zoe and I. Good thing those engineers were burned toast, otherwise I might not be able to record this now.

I was lucky that a chest was nearby, gave me some cover, but I was really hoping for a good solid weapon in there… nothing but some yellow bottle. Tossed it at the nearest guy that I could, and turns out that was probably the right call. Piss. Ya heard right. Piss.

Everywhere.

Lord Bucket Head here that took the brunt of it and wound up smelling like the back alley of a dive bar after a shore leave. That did not make him want to hurt me any less, somehow. I might have also had some words for him. He didn’t take kindly to it at all. I must have thrown him off his game, though, because he came in swinging wildly and I managed to avoid the worst of it. 

Once Zoe brought that robot thing back these lackeys should have just given up. I told them as much! Ah well, live and learn. Or die and learn as the case may be. By the time Fin and Min were coming back through the ceiling, it was basically mop up time.

I am glad that cauldron is still working, and it doesn’t seem to have affected either of ‘em from what I can tell. Though I don’t rightly know how I could tell if Fin wasn’t acting normal. Maybe he might start reciting poetry or not barging in and chewing on people’s organs. It bothers me a little how quickly I just accepted this behaviour as a totally rational thing to happen around me. He chewed on a heart! So far, it’s been close for me, but I’ve been able to keep my feet out of that cauldron. I’m still not able to bring myself to face that!

After calling off the reinforcements and getting those alarms off, it was time to recharge and set up. We were running out of places to search and it seemed like the obvious next step was to take on Captain Big Pants on the bridge. This was not going to be an easy battle. And somehow even with all of our excellent deceptions, I had a feeling we were going to be expected. We’d made a lot of noise. Too much noise. We started piling those bodies up like we were going into trench warfare and we might as well have been. Knowing what we did from Fin’s first try, I knew getting some Spiderbite radiation in on this fella was going to be important. Those shields were going to be a hassle! With some help, I tried to take up a good sniping position from the top of the elevator. And now we’re heading up!

Breathe in. Breathe out. Breathe in. Breathe out. Brea– Wait, why is that ceiling getting so close? OH NO OH NO OH NO THIS WAS A BAD IDEA!

*THUMP*

Well that sucks.

Sounds like a lot of metal boots on the other side of these bodies. Why did we pile them up so high? Time to get this going… Everybody is throwing grenades and shooting what they can, but those guards are doing something odd with their shields. Why is nothing getting to them? I can’t worry about that…  Gotta get my head in the game here. Toss, step, push off… I see you, big fella.

*HERE COMES THE BOOM*

Wait… did that actually work? Gotta love those flying through the air shots to the chest. I bet that hurt. Not surprised this guy didn’t go down though, going to take much more than that for somebody that size. Even with Fin following up with a major blow, Commander Tall Boy just seems annoyed. Why do I have a feeling this is about to hurt something fierce?

Image credits:

• Cover image: Fire Potion by Alia Moosvi sourced from Deviant Art (https://www.deviantart.com/alia-moosvi/art/Fire-Potion-874465440)