The Savage Brawl [Round 5: Battletopia]

Originally posted on MSPA by Dragon Fogel.

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Konka Rar watched Gormand quietly making his way through the bloodied hall, unnoticed by Hoss.

He wasn't sure what the meatball had planned. Was it going to alert Hoss to their presence? Unlikely; the cyborg had clearly been busy down here for quite some time. When would he have had the opportunity to ally himself with the food-creature?

He then remembered that he had considered Gormand a possible ally against Ekelhaft, but had not yet asked the creature about the nature of its meat-virus. The explosion, and then the voice of the supposed 'god', had occupied his thoughts.

Well, he would just have to ask later. In the meantime, as he waited for Gormand to act, he scanned the area with his cybernetic eye, looking for any sign of the 'ghosts'.

They did not seem to be here. Perhaps they had sought out other bodies to possess, with these ones being unusable for their purposes.

Konka Rar turned his attention to a mostly-intact face nearby; it resembled the zombies he had animated earlier.

It seems astonishingly unlikely that the first three recognizable corpses I encounter here would be triplets, he mused.

He turned to observe Gormand's progress once again. The meatball was nearing Hoss, and moving even more cautiously. The cyborg seemed somewhat inattentive, still attacking the corpse in his hands.

Konka Rar made a mental note to animate that relatively intact corpse if a battle began. He also suspected that if the face was at all recognizable after Hoss' assault on it, it would look quite familiar.