Lair by Carl Stubblefield (recommended reading TXT) 📕

being hit. There wasn’t time to consciously process the motions, and he relied on his agility and used some of the moves from his naginata katas to move along the uneven ground.

Some powdery debris from a nearby strike momentarily blinded him and slowed him enough to be bashed by a tentacle. His armor tightened in response to the strike. The sharp tip of the tentacle flattened, not able to break skin. It did not absorb the entire force of the blow though. The rapid successive attacks appeared to overwhelm the armor. Good to know. Gus grunted as he hit the wall like he’d been kicked by a horse. Coughing to regain his breath, he barely rolled away from a huge tentacle swinging down to pound him into the ground.

Who Do You Voodoo by Josef “J7” & Christopher H. Knight

Damage vs zombies/Dark Nth increased x 4.

The distraction also allowed The One to ooze out tentacles on either side of Gus. They were slowly enlarging, like huge black waves ready to crash down and envelop him. Gus sent his weapon to the left with Ether Leash, trying to carve out an escape hatch. The damage was quickly repaired as more black material flowed into the tear. Losing room to move, Gus ran toward one wall and planted the tip in the ground. He then dashed, using Ether Leash to push up and away, imagining he was pole vaulting. Whether it was his adrenaline or fear, it worked! Gus sailed over the black wall as it began to crash downward to smother him, the polearm following him with a tug to avoid being buried in the tar-like material.

Gus turned and attempted to activate Wreck-luse, but the skill failed against the boss’ high level.

The One remained near the center of the room. Gus couldn’t get close enough to engage anything besides tentacles. Gus jabbed at the tentacles and by another stroke of luck he hit Wreck-tums!

The distraction was just enough for the Dark Nth to make its move on Methiochos. Clouded by anger, and weakened by the critical hit, Methiochos lost the battle he had maintained for so long. The Dark Nth took control, and Methiochos was no more, there was only The One.

Before Gus could reach it and get in a killing blow, The One sunk two thick tentacles into the magma pool, which were somehow unaffected by the heat. They pulsed as if drinking from the pool and the HP drain abruptly stopped and began to quickly reverse. The magma was sustaining it somehow.

Those tentacles have got to go.

Gus dropped a T-Wrecks right next to the magma pool, and it went to town on the feeder tentacles. One of its taloned feet compressed one of the feeders, which seemed to impede its ability to regenerate HP. Magma spewed in large arcs as the dinosaur ripped flesh, causing a breach in the living pipeline. The heat quickly sapped the construct’s HP, but the tentacles succumbed to the carnage before the T-Wrecks started to dissolve. The mass of tentacles probed at the magma but they were thinner and were burned as they tried to mimic the function of the feeders. The One had regenerated to about 80% of full health, however.

Zombie Me (Apoca-Mix) by No More Kings

Damage vs zombies/Dark Nth increased x 8.

This song-chain is taking too long to power up! Gus desperately slashed at tentacles by swinging his weapon in front of him like he was chopping wood with his naginata. He attacked any tentacle within his reach with abandon. So focused on his task, Gus did not notice that the hybrid-Nth around him had begun to emanate a crackling field of energy. Attacking tendrils were repelled by vicious shocks that caused them to lose cohesion. Nor did Gus notice the magma starting to cool as energy was leached from it, and the stone began to lose its orange amber hue.

All Gus could see were the tentacles. He hacked and hacked and they regenerated. The lighting in the chamber changed to a pale blue-white as the energy ball around Gus expanded. He continued to chop and slash at the tentacles. After losing the ability to suction energy and convert it into tendrils, combined with Gus’ wild abandon, he must have hit a critical point, because The One shook. Without the supplemental energy to sustain them, masses of tentacles dropped to the cavern floor.

Living Dead Girl by Rob Zombie

Damage vs zombies/Dark Nth increased x 16.

With the start of the next song, Gus’ arms began to move even faster. He felt like he was rowing with the back and forth slashing of his polearm. By the time he had completely severed the two large tentacles with sucker-like paddles on the ends, the magma had cooled to a solid surface behind him as his Nth pulled energy away from it using Energy Absorption. If he would have taken a mere one or two steps backward he would have fallen through the thin wafer of solidified stone covering the magma.

Gus felt like his muscles were humming with pent up energy. He pushed forward and the sparking electric bubble followed him, burning away tentacles and the slime that composed them. Gus noticed the size of the energy bubble shrinking as its energy was used up.

Sitting there, blanched by the crackling blue-white light, Gus got his first clear view of The One. His upper torso was strong and muscular, while his other half morphed into some inbred octopus-spider baby. A large segmented abdomen was supported by wriggling villiform legs underneath. Larger wriggling tentacles lined the sides and four long segmented spider legs crouched in a recess in the center of the room.

Zombies Ate My Neighbors by Single File

Damage vs zombies/Dark Nth increased x 32.

“Ya nasty!” Gus shouted as he charged the abomination. A chitinous leg deflected the naginata to one side and Gus flowed into a kata, blocking incoming attacks from multiple legs. The blade severed the jagged sharp edge of an attacking leg, spurting ichor as if it