Marcus was the first to react, he raised his rifle and fired at the creature. The bullet hit one of its arms, breaking off a piece of glassy chitin, and it shrieked like a roach expelling all of the air from its body.Ollie followed up Marcus’s shot with a blast of lightning from each of his hands. One went wide, but the other struck the creature in its center causing it to shriek again as it surged toward them, its bladed arms unfolding as it closed the distance, the viscera of its last kill sloughing off it as it skittered forward.The rest of them moved to meet the beast’s surge. Lance reached it first, meeting the beast head on. It sent both of its bladed arms toward him, and he managed to block one with his shield and the other his sword, but only barely. That attack was quickly followed up by it’s claws that raked across his armor and tried to tear at his gorgetJakub attacked the beast from its side, but it's skittering back half lifted and swung toward him with its dagger-like legs all aimed in his direction. He rolled under the attack quickly and struck out with his sword, but it bounced off the creature's exoskeleton.Crick stabbed at a more lightly armored area on the beast’s stomach, but it batted the spear away at the last moment with one of its hands.With it distracted, Lance managed to push the blades off himself and cut at its gut with his silver hilted sword. He managed to cut a shallow wound in its stomach and a thin line of yellow ichor appeared.The beast threw him back, and spun rapidly, forcing the three of them to dodge backwards to avoid it's tail.Michael felt a sense of wrongness in his gut that had staggered him for a moment when he first saw the creature, but he, Davi and Peter stepped in as the others were thrown back. Pyotr elegantly spun around the beast’s attack and cut at its face, but it adjusted its head and his blade bounced harmlessly off of its hide.Davi and Michael dodged (...)