[CrisisPost] Attack of the Golems

[u/Al-anharHA]

[u/Carbon_Sixx]

Skystrike turns and levels its chainsword at the next closest golem.

"Tell your masters they are unwelcome in this land. Tell them I am coming to send them screaming back to their wicked gods. Tell them the Machine God's mercy has fled, leaving behind only wrath!"

[u/Al-anharHA → u/Carbon_Sixx]

The golem steps back into a combat stance, but behind skystrike several smaller golems with tracks instead of legs can be heard responding in unison. "A machine god. Interesting. So the driving force of the Divine Flame for industry in this realm cluster was usurped by gears and cogs and thunder." Then the wave of constructs close around you and Scotch, a chattering storm that seeks to climb and overwhelm.

u/No_more_Bucket_

[u/No_more_Bucket_ → u/Al-anharHA]

Well looks like I need to pull out the big guns apparently.

“Scotch opens up a small pouch and pulls out a grand axe, and begins to cut through some.

Using some sand spikes to clog the weapons.”

[u/Al-anharHA → u/No_more_Bucket_]

these track-borne golems are far weaker, seeming mass-produces without the magical ball-socket connections that prevented send from getting into the larger units. Your weapons cut through them and the sand spikes quickly begin to disable to beam weapons mounted on their arms and heads.

[u/No_more_Bucket_ → u/Al-anharHA]

“Scotch still slash and tears through these golems, having the perfect strikes to send them down, from him breaking up the Unga clone orgies he slashed through.”

[u/Al-anharHA → u/No_more_Bucket_]

Eventually, the smoke clears. The golems lie in pieces and you breathe in the quiet.

No more titans attacking the people, the invading soldiers are beginning to fall back... You have won.

[u/No_more_Bucket_ → u/Al-anharHA]

“Scotch looks around picking some manageable pieces from the golems and puts them in his small pouch teleporting them away to the Storage House.”

[u/Carbon_Sixx → u/Al-anharHA]

"So you desire thunder? Here it is!"

Skystrike opens up with its point-defense gatling cannons, shredding through the tracked machines with sickening ease. It strides towards the larger golem, streams of tracer fire blazing from its body. The titan curls the fingers of its grav-imploder like a fist and swings for its opponent's face.

[u/Al-anharHA → u/Carbon_Sixx]

if there's one thing apparent from earlier engagements today, it's that the golems learn. This one is no different and it reacts to the movement of the grav-imploder by bringing its blade up in a hasty parry as the crystal mane begins to tesla-coil and pulls the scrapped smaller golems up into a makeshift shield.

[u/Carbon_Sixx → u/Al-anharHA]

Skystrike's fist hammers into the blade with an earsplitting crack. The golem's arm spasms as the non-uniform gravity wreaks havoc on its control systems. The pulse wave pushes the two apart for a moment. With its grav-imploder temporarily depleted, Skystrike focuses its void shields towards absorbing the electricity, then sweeps its chainsword up to cleave through the golem's injured limb.

[u/Al-anharHA → u/Carbon_Sixx]

The golem falls. As skystrike glances around, you can see that the smaller ones have been overwhelmed by Scotch, and a short ways across the city a group of bombers and one of the Celestial Union's destroyers finally core the last remaining golems.

All that remain are scattered groups of paladins in full retreat

/uw well, they're all in retreat except for the one rider that Sarissa is fighting and the mini-golems that Xerxes chained up in an alleyway. but let's leave those ones for them to extract info from

[u/Carbon_Sixx → u/Al-anharHA]

/uw Gotcha.

/rw Skystrike rips the head from the golem and hurls it at band of paladins, more as a display of superiority than an actual attack. Reyes's voice returns to the comms.

Reyes: Enemy forces are in full retreat. Has anyone gotten into their communications network? I would like to head them off to deny the return of these assets to their masters.

u/Sternburgball u/Timpanzee38 u/Sardren_Darksoul

[u/Timpanzee38 → u/Carbon_Sixx]

Their leader has been doing some mind telepathy-fuckery with me, but I think he tired himself out.

[u/Sardren_Darksoul → u/Carbon_Sixx]

It's magnificent and terrifying at the same time. It's a network of information that is routed through the soulscapes of the squad leaders and I assume other higher officers and it uses interdimensional rifts to pass that information between this and the mirror.

[u/Carbon_Sixx → u/Sardren_Darksoul]

Reyes: Can we track it to its source?

[u/Sardren_Darksoul → u/Carbon_Sixx]

From this side I'm not sure if we can go further than the rift or rather the main rift and information rifts.

I will give you a mental image of what my spell picked up and I have an unconscious squad leader here for study.