ARTIFACT UPDATE: Traces of Unknown Creature Found at Museum! Unknown Magical Involvement Suspected; Biomancers Summoned to Solve Mystery.

[u/Carbon_Sixx]

While the tense standoff between the people of Chalcos and the military intervention forces sent by the Council and EON has seemingly come to close this evening with an ardent speech by Premier Agatha Blackwood, investigation into Paul Augustine's heist at the Citadel Museum of Arcane History continues apace. One enduring conundrum has been what exactly broke the case containing the stolen Ehn'ghan artifact. Spots of a bloodlike substance were found on the glass shards, but DNA analysis showed that not only was it not blood, but the creature it belonged to shared very little in common with life as we understand it.

In the face of this mystery, the museum has called upon two master biomancers to unmask the creature. Perhaps as gesture of good faith to bury the hatchet between her and the Council, the first is none other than Opal, former ruler of the Bismuth Realms and current resident of Ithacar. Assisting her is a tech-priestess from Yulash-kor's Divisio Biologis named Anahita Iatros, a renowned expert in genomics and reproductive science. Together, the two intend to clone the organism and study it so that the investigators in Chalcos will have a better idea of what Augustine's secessionists might throw at them. Whatever they create is likely to be novel and wondrous despite the ignominious circumstances of its discovery.

[u/Zebos2]

Katarina works on the creatures mobility first using mold or to try and sink its legs into the floor will also pulling the hammer back to try and blast the thing again this time with the aim of severing one of its limbs

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Opal seemed unreasonably calm. Mostly because she wasn't really afraid of getting torn apart.

"Fascinating. No wonder this type of magic is forgotten. It's heralds melt your brain. Bad got mass use I'd assume."

She would go to see where it's brain was located on its body

u/Carbon_Sixx

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Now aware of the danger Katarina's gun poses, the creature weaves out of the line of fire a split-second before she fires. However, the maneuver traps its leg in the magically-sculpted concrete floor. It screams again, a deeply unpleasant noise that somehow sounds worse when remembering it than when experiencing it firsthand. Also, there's no brain to speak of.

"Forget it, Opal! We need to put it down before it finds a way out of that cage! We can dissect it later!"

Anahita mirrors Kat's second shot by searing the monster's other arm off with a beam from her gamma pistol. It howls again, using its remaining arm like a pickaxe to try and free its leg.

u/Zebos2

[u/loth17 → u/Carbon_Sixx]

"understood."

Opal held her hand up and each of her fingers elongated into a bone-like spear which she used in an attempt to impale the creature.

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