@kaoz42 "The engine... Is located... Down there, across... Just few rooms ahead and you... Will find them, rather... Hard to miss." The Latexmind groaned, "All we ask... To land this ship safety... Regardless how... Much damage it takes when... We have landed... Or repairing... The engine may fix... The issue."
Elyria’s breath hitched. That wasn’t supposed to be there.
Her muscles tensed as the green stinger slithered through the air, its movements slow, methodical—searching. She didn’t recognize it. Not from any logs. Not from any Fleet records. Not from Earth.
Stay calm.
The ship was silent except for the faint hum of dying electronics and the occasional groan of shifting metal. The stinger tapped along the console next to her, as if searching for something. Testing.
She had seconds to decide.
Options:
Run: The door to the corridor was twenty feet behind her. If she moved fast enough, she could bolt through and seal it. But if the thing was fast—she might not make it.
Hide: The supply lockers to her right were open enough to squeeze into. It was a gamble, but maybe the creature wasn’t hunting yet—just curious.
Fight: She had nothing but her wits and whatever debris she could grab, but she wasn’t going down without a fight. There was a wrench on the console.
Decision:
Elyria slowly reached for the wrench. She didn’t move fast—sudden movements might trigger aggression. If the thing didn’t notice her, she’d back away slowly toward the corridor. If it did, she was ready to swing.
Her heart pounded.
What was this thing?
And how long had it been on the ship?
As you reach for the wrench, suddenly, the lights begin blaring red.
OXYGEN LEVELS DECREASING. MAKE FOR THE NEAREST ESCAPE PODS.
You begin to realize the exact buttons the creature pressed are the ones to reduce oxygen in certain areas in order to flush out hostile lifeforms or boarding pirates.
Everyone hear's the words, and H.I.A.H immediately shouts "Get me to the control panel! NOW!"
The Latexmind have its deformed head face at HIAH, "You might... Not make in time... However, I... Can as well as for I can... Get through the vents as shortcut... Straight to the control panel. Tell me what I must do as if I am... Your creator, then I... Will take care of rest from... Here." The black slimy figure groaned. It sensed the mind in distance isn't alone and it has a fear instinct before the warning goes out. That way, The Latexmind can reach the control panel while rest people can arrive and help Elyria before the hostile mind tears her up. (By the way, whenever The Latexmind infects anyone, this card would represent that.) (Gotta put a reference there. Can you guess which it is referenced to?)
Elyria didn’t hesitate. She grabbed the wrench and bolted toward H.I.A.H, her mind racing.
The creature knew what it was doing. It hadn’t been fumbling blindly—it had targeted the life support systems. That meant intelligence. That meant intent.
The air already felt thinner, her lungs tightening with the first signs of hypoxia. They had minutes at best before unconsciousness set in.
“H.I.A.H, the main console is 10 meters ahead! Move!” Elyria shouted, gripping the wrench tight as she sprinted alongside the AI.
The vent above clattered again. More movement.
There was more than one.
She cursed under her breath.
She needed a plan. Now.
Options:
Secure the Control Panel – If H.I.A.H could override the oxygen drain, they might still have time to regain control. She’d hold the line while the AI worked.
Make for the Escape Pods – If the ship was compromised, they needed to abandon it before whatever these things were overran the ship.
Try to Communicate – Was this truly hostile? Or had the ship’s security protocols triggered something unintended? Could she reason with it?
Decision:
Elyria skidded to a stop at the control panel, turning to face the vent with her wrench in hand.
“H.I.A.H, override the lockdown! Get us oxygen! I’ll keep this thing from pressing any more buttons.”
Her breath was short, her head light. But she would not let these things kill her.
@Mellow_MC Seeing that the experiment subject will keep push more buttons if it is left alone. The Latexmind will compress itself, tearing the alarm sound with loudly cracks, flesh rips, and pops even through theses are muffled by the latex. It releases itself as if it created a spring below its to jump onto the experiment subject. Having no time to force the subject enter relaxed state, it will give "lung failure" and "heart attack" in order to cause the subject to panic then passes out from it. Otherwise, it will break every bones in all limbs to bring great pain upon the subject.
Its not offensive or anything, just shows an Alien Creature.
"IT looked around. The other creatures were making funny noises again. And the structure it was on was making sounds too! The sound came out of the walls and the ceiling. Then the creatures startet running. Was it because of the noise? Were they trying to communicate? But why wouldnt they use ITs Galacto-Language then? Such a strange place this was! IT decided to follow the creatures to find out what this was all about."
As everyone begins to work together to get H.I.A.H to the control panel, it immediately makes its way towards the globe shaped hole in the center of the panel. Slotting in, the following messages are broadcasted:
All O2 breathing life forms feel the air reentering their lungs. But then, a second message is broadcasted.
UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT NEARBY. CONDUCTING DEEP SPACE - SPACE - SPACE - zzzzzzzzzz
The console sparks and fizzles as H.I.A.H is blown out of the panel onto the floor, its glow greatly diminished. A groan suddenly shakes the ship. It appears the ship is beginning to enter atmosphere, which disrupted the scanners.
You all have under a minute to make a decision before the ship enters free - fall over the planet known as Wolf 1096b.
The Latexmind seems to have more trouble absorbing this one than the other. The stinger seems to be laced this time not with a toxin but with a form of sleep serum that begins to make the Latexmind drowsy, but it is successfully able to absorb the organism.
@Mellow_MC The Latexmind will spit the injected sleep serum out from the wound where its host stabbed.
It is able shapeshift into humanoid but because of lack of hosts, it looks like infected person or similar as that. This card looks like that expect for the color of latex is pitch-black, none else.
Elyria barely had time to brace herself as H.I.A.H was violently ejected from the control panel, its glow flickering weakly on the cold metal floor.
Then the ship groaned—a deep, resonant vibration that sent shivers through the deck. The artificial gravity lurched, and a sudden weightlessness tugged at her stomach before stabilizing.
We’re falling.
No time.
Options:
Regain Manual Control – If the ship’s thrusters still had any power, someone needed to reach the bridge and attempt to slow the descent.
Secure Escape Pods – The ship was already damaged. If they couldn’t control the fall, an escape pod might be their only chance at survival.
Protect H.I.A.H – The AI was their best shot at regaining full ship function. If it was too damaged, they could lose all hope of a safe landing.
Elyria acted on instinct.
She snatched up H.I.A.H, ignoring the way its shell burned her fingertips from the recent energy discharge.
“H.I.A.H, hang in there,” she muttered before shouting to the others.
“Bridge crew, get to the helm and try to stabilize the ship! If we can slow descent, we might not die on impact. Everyone else—secure yourselves! If we’re crashing, brace for it!”
Her legs pumped as she sprinted for the engineering bay—the only place that might have what she needed to jury-rig H.I.A.H back to function before they hit the ground.
Behind her, the ship screamed as it tore through the upper atmosphere.
Time was running out.
The strange four-extremities creature with the round thing on top picked up an orb, then made loud sounds and then it ran away. The structure they were on responded with shaking and metall noises. Now IT understood! This game was about that orb thing! So IT shoutet at the other creature and then began to run, chasing the creature with the orb! IT wondered what that orb was for. Maybe it was delicious metallic food?
Panos follows the order from his captain as ordered and makes his way to the command bridge to stabilise the ship. Just before he arrives, however, he collapses. "Have I run out of strength?" he thinks to himself. "It must be because I have been awake too long and my adrenaline is wearing off. But I can't give up now. I have to get to the command bridge." Panos continues to crawl to the command bridge and tries to stabilise the ship
@Mellow_MC With a roar loud enough to shake the entire ship (Every player should be notified of this if it works), K'tha E'rakhanan will immediately grow to full size, ignoring the incredibly painful jolt that comes as a consequence and begin to stay close to the Omniloth's neck (just out of reach of its head) and strafing it repeatedly with balls of plasma-fire, using his smaller size to maneuver around and dodge the Omniloth's attacks, and cutting it off with more attacks if it attempts to go towards the ship.
As the ship shakes from the roars of K'tha and the Omniloth, everyone inside is thrown around like ping pong balls as the ship jolts mid - atmosphere. As the ship enters, it begins to superheat. As soon as it does, the ship's speakers calmly state "Releasing cooling concoction. Please stand by." A strange foam like substance is shot out of holes in the wall and covers the inside of the inhabited rooms and hallways. In the nearby vents, you here a strange squealing sound and the smell of cooking flesh.
As you strafe around the Omniloth, it grows increasingly frustrated as it's bites all fail to either hit or penetrate your thick outer hide, although the plasma balls do little to no damage. You know from your long time in the universe that a single penetrating hit will almost immediately result in a severed head or neck.
Just as you are about to reach the command center, foam sprays out of holes in the hallway and shoves you back down around 10 feet. But you persist, making it to the bridge and jamming the controls upwards and the ship begins to slow. All 50 of the auxiliary engines fire up and the ship begins descending slowly, but still rapidly. As Elyria shouts "Brace for impact!" The ship impacts against the planet and everyone is rapidly thrown against the ceiling and back to the ground again.
Just as you are about to latch onto H.I.A.H, the entire ship shudders and IT is slammed into the ceiling and back down, landing it in a daze on the ground.
As you are almost completely unaffected by the heat, you continue to search the vents. As you do, you come across what looks like a small room, chewed into the wall. It is full of cooking horrors, screaming in pain. By the time the ship hits ground, they are all dead, and you are left alone in the vents.
IT was so close to catching the strange orb thing as the environment suddenly startet to shake. IT was thrown and hurled around and then foam came out of the walls covering everything! Someone was cheating here! But as IT thought about that IT got distracted by the foam. IT wondered what that foam was and startet to chew and eat a bit of it, and since it was quite foamy IT ate more and more of the foam. And then after a while, IT deceided that it was time for dessert. And the wall was full of machinery, computers and controls. IT startet to eat the delicious metall and plastik the stuff on the wall was made off ...
@Mellow_MC K"tha thinks to itself. If my plasma-fire breath does not damage it, I must find another way to attack it, but my teeth and tail probably won't work either. K'tha E'rakhanan decides to quickly blitz to the ship's core and harness its energy in an incredibly powerful plasma-fire breath attack straight into the biting jaws of the Omniloth, then quickly speeds away as fast as possible, dodging any attacks it might be able to perform.
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"The engine... Is located... Down there, across... Just few rooms ahead and you... Will find them, rather... Hard to miss." The Latexmind groaned, "All we ask... To land this ship safety... Regardless how... Much damage it takes when... We have landed... Or repairing... The engine may fix... The issue."
Elyria’s breath hitched. That wasn’t supposed to be there.
Her muscles tensed as the green stinger slithered through the air, its movements slow, methodical—searching. She didn’t recognize it. Not from any logs. Not from any Fleet records. Not from Earth.
Stay calm.
The ship was silent except for the faint hum of dying electronics and the occasional groan of shifting metal. The stinger tapped along the console next to her, as if searching for something. Testing.
She had seconds to decide.
Options:
Decision:
Elyria slowly reached for the wrench. She didn’t move fast—sudden movements might trigger aggression. If the thing didn’t notice her, she’d back away slowly toward the corridor. If it did, she was ready to swing.
Her heart pounded.
What was this thing?
And how long had it been on the ship?
As you reach for the wrench, suddenly, the lights begin blaring red.
OXYGEN LEVELS DECREASING. MAKE FOR THE NEAREST ESCAPE PODS.
You begin to realize the exact buttons the creature pressed are the ones to reduce oxygen in certain areas in order to flush out hostile lifeforms or boarding pirates.
Everyone hear's the words, and H.I.A.H immediately shouts "Get me to the control panel! NOW!"
(By the way, whenever The Latexmind infects anyone, this card would represent that.)
(Gotta put a reference there. Can you guess which it is referenced to?)
Captain Elyria Voss – Survival Instincts
Elyria didn’t hesitate. She grabbed the wrench and bolted toward H.I.A.H, her mind racing.
The creature knew what it was doing. It hadn’t been fumbling blindly—it had targeted the life support systems. That meant intelligence. That meant intent.
The air already felt thinner, her lungs tightening with the first signs of hypoxia. They had minutes at best before unconsciousness set in.
“H.I.A.H, the main console is 10 meters ahead! Move!” Elyria shouted, gripping the wrench tight as she sprinted alongside the AI.
The vent above clattered again. More movement.
There was more than one.
She cursed under her breath.
She needed a plan. Now.
Options:
Decision:
Elyria skidded to a stop at the control panel, turning to face the vent with her wrench in hand.
“H.I.A.H, override the lockdown! Get us oxygen! I’ll keep this thing from pressing any more buttons.”
Her breath was short, her head light. But she would not let these things kill her.
Not today.
Seeing that the experiment subject will keep push more buttons if it is left alone. The Latexmind will compress itself, tearing the alarm sound with loudly cracks, flesh rips, and pops even through theses are muffled by the latex. It releases itself as if it created a spring below its to jump onto the experiment subject. Having no time to force the subject enter relaxed state, it will give "lung failure" and "heart attack" in order to cause the subject to panic then passes out from it. Otherwise, it will break every bones in all limbs to bring great pain upon the subject.
OXYGEN REMOVAL OVERRIDE SUCCESSFUL. OXYGEN RESTORED.
All O2 breathing life forms feel the air reentering their lungs. But then, a second message is broadcasted.
UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT NEARBY. CONDUCTING DEEP SPACE - SPACE - SPACE - zzzzzzzzzz
The console sparks and fizzles as H.I.A.H is blown out of the panel onto the floor, its glow greatly diminished. A groan suddenly shakes the ship. It appears the ship is beginning to enter atmosphere, which disrupted the scanners.
You all have under a minute to make a decision before the ship enters free - fall over the planet known as Wolf 1096b.
I think they misinterpreted the art. The mods make mistakes sometimes.
Did The Latexmind successfully absorbed the experiment subject?
The Latexmind seems to have more trouble absorbing this one than the other. The stinger seems to be laced this time not with a toxin but with a form of sleep serum that begins to make the Latexmind drowsy, but it is successfully able to absorb the organism.
The Latexmind will spit the injected sleep serum out from the wound where its host stabbed.
It is able shapeshift into humanoid but because of lack of hosts, it looks like infected person or similar as that. This card looks like that expect for the color of latex is pitch-black, none else.
Captain Elyria Voss – Crash Protocol
Elyria barely had time to brace herself as H.I.A.H was violently ejected from the control panel, its glow flickering weakly on the cold metal floor.
Then the ship groaned—a deep, resonant vibration that sent shivers through the deck. The artificial gravity lurched, and a sudden weightlessness tugged at her stomach before stabilizing.
We’re falling.
No time.
Options:
Elyria acted on instinct.
She snatched up H.I.A.H, ignoring the way its shell burned her fingertips from the recent energy discharge.
“H.I.A.H, hang in there,” she muttered before shouting to the others.
“Bridge crew, get to the helm and try to stabilize the ship! If we can slow descent, we might not die on impact. Everyone else—secure yourselves! If we’re crashing, brace for it!”
Her legs pumped as she sprinted for the engineering bay—the only place that might have what she needed to jury-rig H.I.A.H back to function before they hit the ground.
Behind her, the ship screamed as it tore through the upper atmosphere.
Time was running out.
As K'tha E'rakhanan tumbles out of the ship, it catches sight of something it had never seen before. A creature of unimaginable size.
With a roar loud enough to shake the entire ship (Every player should be notified of this if it works), K'tha E'rakhanan will immediately grow to full size, ignoring the incredibly painful jolt that comes as a consequence and begin to stay close to the Omniloth's neck (just out of reach of its head) and strafing it repeatedly with balls of plasma-fire, using his smaller size to maneuver around and dodge the Omniloth's attacks, and cutting it off with more attacks if it attempts to go towards the ship.
@kaoz42
As you strafe around the Omniloth, it grows increasingly frustrated as it's bites all fail to either hit or penetrate your thick outer hide, although the plasma balls do little to no damage. You know from your long time in the universe that a single penetrating hit will almost immediately result in a severed head or neck.
@Lurisauri
Just as you are about to reach the command center, foam sprays out of holes in the hallway and shoves you back down around 10 feet. But you persist, making it to the bridge and jamming the controls upwards and the ship begins to slow. All 50 of the auxiliary engines fire up and the ship begins descending slowly, but still rapidly. As Elyria shouts "Brace for impact!" The ship impacts against the planet and everyone is rapidly thrown against the ceiling and back to the ground again.
@LvB
Just as you are about to latch onto H.I.A.H, the entire ship shudders and IT is slammed into the ceiling and back down, landing it in a daze on the ground.
@FireOfGolden
As you are almost completely unaffected by the heat, you continue to search the vents. As you do, you come across what looks like a small room, chewed into the wall. It is full of cooking horrors, screaming in pain. By the time the ship hits ground, they are all dead, and you are left alone in the vents.
K"tha thinks to itself. If my plasma-fire breath does not damage it, I must find another way to attack it, but my teeth and tail probably won't work either. K'tha E'rakhanan decides to quickly blitz to the ship's core and harness its energy in an incredibly powerful plasma-fire breath attack straight into the biting jaws of the Omniloth, then quickly speeds away as fast as possible, dodging any attacks it might be able to perform.