Sorry about the strangeness of that last post. I wrote the first part early on then the second part later after all was said and done... The events I will describe for you now happened pretty much immediately after the events of the last post... They are merely split into this second post to better explain it in time with actual events.
We arrived at the Gate. Reirr was there. Reirr appears as a suit of old, battered and badly distorted medieval armor. The armor is badly dented inwards to the point anyone inside the armor would be dead and crushed. The fingers on the gauntlet are also all twisted and broken and the knees are smashed inwards. In short he looks like a medieval knight who was trampled and crushed and maybe hit with a mace a few times... From these broken dents and cracks flows that same black sludge. It's face is covered by a helm and visor but I'm pretty sure it was surprised by our arrival. Genome pulled out a gun and shot him in the helm. The entire creature just fell over backwards at the knees then slowly straightened back up a joint at a time. Faceless charged but his sword bounced off of the armor and an attempt to stab through a hole in the armor had no effect but to cover his machete in black sludge. I momentarily contemplated punching it but the thing is already full of dents I doubted any more would hurt it. We had been told it's weakness of course but... It didn't make any sense... We were told the sludge was it's greatest weapon and it's only weakness...
Reirr raised it's... mangled... horribly horribly mangled claw and grabbed the hilt of a large rusted sword. Of course given it's fingers all bend in different ways when I say grabbed I mean it's fingers twisted around the hilt in a disgusting way that caused my finger joints a large amount of sympathy pain. It raised the sword and began moving towards us. Faceless moved forward raising his machete. Reirr slashed. It was jerky, erratic... No fluidity to the movement, no force behind it... Nevertheless it slashed through the machete without slowing and Faceless barely managed to avoid being cleaved entirely in half. As it was he backed up enough to keep the slash from severing his spine but only barely. His torso was cut open entirely... Leaving just his spine in tact... His body slid backwards, the spine and upper half flopping backwards till he collapsed in a two part heap. Birds emerged from his corpse and lunged at Reirr but they didn't do anything... They didn't even distract him... Reirr started moving towards us and we fucking ran. He was slow but we had just watched him slice our buddy almost in half... Somehow we ended up out in the runway. Reirr was there already waiting for us. We tried to run again but suddenly the sludge leaked from him and created a ring around us. I don't know what the ring would have done if we had tried to cross but it can't be good. Reirr had us cornered he swung and then was launched backwards as a gout of black sludge flew from his helm. We turned and saw Harold supported by an apparently no longer drugged nor apparently no longer affected Dr. Malice. Reirr got back up in his creepy little way and Harold yelled to me to move to the middle of the circle. I didn't ask why I just grabbed Genome and got as far from the ring as possible. At this point Dr. Malice drew what looked like a flare gun and everything popped into place.
I grabbed Genome and pulled her to the ground covering her with my body as Dr. Malice fired. The sludge and Reirr ignited in seconds. The result was a horrible bonfire that scorched every bit of my body not hidden from the flame. Even with me covering her I could see Genome starting to melt. Luckily the fire didn't last long... It went out almost as quickly as it started leaving behind nothing but charred pieces of metal armor and a line of scorched runway around us.
I got up. Checked on Genome then turned to Harold and Dr. Malice, gave them a thumbs up and passed out.
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