A quiet night

[chozo_girl]

 [Late night in the Chalice. Most of the personnel is already asleep hours ago, the place is calm and silent, and the lights are a bit more dim. It's quite peaceful compared to the hustle and bustle and noise coming from the hangars that are the norm during the day.

For whatever reason, however, you are going around the corridors, be it because you have business somewhere, needed to go to the bathroom, simply to enjoy the quiet, or any of a myriad other reasons... 

...but despite the apparent peace, if you're in any way observant you'll probably soon feel stalked. Something is observing around the empty, long corridors this particular night. Every now and then there's very quiet, metallic pitter-patter sounds that stop whenever anyone looks around. And sometimes, a low, quiet creak like that of an ungreased old door hinges' opening can be heard, sometimes to the left, sometimes to the right. And overall, a definite feeling of observation. 

Definitely unnerving stuff.

How do you react?]

Comments

[saikyocivrobo]

W, what the?! I thought all Invaders were destroyed already...!

[chozo_girl]

[The creature advances on Werter slowly, the tail slightly upwards and waving slightly like a cat ready to attack]

[saikyocivrobo]

Gah! Stay away! I'll bring help back, little guy! Hang in there!

[Werter backs down, looking for something - weapon, other people, an emergency button, doesn't matter.]

[chozo_girl]

[Well, Werter, you're in a corridor, which rather limits the available options. Though there are doors to various interconnected rooms and areas, you might try to get into one and close the door after yourself, and use the head start to lose the thing and find reinforcements]

[saikyocivrobo]

Tch, the options don't look good. Let's just... What?

[Werter stares at Prometheus' ultra-expressive body language for a second.]

It's not trying to eat you? You just want it to let you go? Wait a minute...

[chozo_girl]

[Indeed, the thing doesn't seem to be actually chewing on Prometheus. Just biting and shaking him around like a rag doll while the tiny bot complains. The thing apparently doesn't eat robots.

Now whether it eats Werters is definitely a more open question, mind.]

[saikyocivrobo]

Okay, let's try this...

[Step 1: take off a shoe! Step 2: throw the shoe to distract the creature! Step 3: try to reach Prometheus while it's distracted!]

[chozo_girl]

[The crature follows the shoe with the eyes as Werter takes it off and readies to throw it, clearly interested and waving to the sides.

...and when Werter throws it the thing jumps upwards like lightning and catches it cleanly off the air with its front claw with a gleeful screech.

It then lands, and looks at the thing carefully, grabbing it in front of its "face" like a chimpanzee given a new thing.]

[saikyocivrobo]

Wait a sec... I recognize that sound!

[Werter pulls out a spare battery out of his pocket.]

Hey, look. Energy! You know what this is, right?

[chozo_girl]

[The creature looks at the thing in Werter's hand with four curious eyes on one side of its head, sort of perking up a little and waiting]

[saikyocivrobo]

You feed on energy, right? Here, catch!

[Time to throw another projectile.]