Barns and Eldrie whirl around - but the smaller astronaut is gone. No voice. No trace.
It's a relief - but also deeply chilling. Barns prefers knowing where the unhinged Zombie Lord is.
But for now, he has bigger - no, much bigger things to worry about.
The malformed creature remains.
The towering Astrospider, with its humanoid torso clad in reflective spacegear, looms over them. Its lower half skitters with the grotesque gait of spider legs made of rot and sinew. Every movement sloshes with the sickly sound of wet decay. It twitches with excitement, hands flexing like it's imagining them already squirming in its grip.
Barns tightens his stance, cane extended. "I'll take point, Eldrie. Cover me."
"Be my guest," Eldrie mutters, already stepping sideways to find a vantage point. He wants to be NOWHERE near that thing.
The Astrospider makes the first move. Its frontmost legs slam the ground and catapult its massive form forward, aiming a full-body slam at Barns.
"Harden Body!"
