smelltheashes: (Combine)
Half-Life NPCs ([personal profile] smelltheashes) wrote in [personal profile] acts_of_gord 2008-09-13 06:41 pm (UTC)

The forward Strider pauses, dipping on two of its legs for a moment as it tries to get a better understanding of why it suddenly has a weight on its leg. That kind of thing isn't in its programming or its instincts- these things aren't robots, they're cybernetically altered and controlled living organisms, and both sets of intrinsic instructions exist. Now if it can just turn towards a building and perhaps whack the human against a wall...

She'd better climb fast, that's all we're saying.

As for the other two Striders, the rearward one attempts to turn its cannons on Donighal's fireball, but its guns have little effect. The one nearest X thunders, whipping around to target the source as best it can- the underbelly gun may have to retract, but the ordinary cannons are mounted under the forward edge of the thing's carapace and haven't been touched yet, and they're fully charged and opening out in earnest.

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