[Abruptly, the too-many-limbed creature isn't the only thing that's moving in the room with Maggie.
There's a loud bang, echoing through the space, like someone just slammed a door - or used a door to kick off and lunge into the room, as the case may be. Almost inhumanly quick there's a body between her and the darting shape, a humanoid in plain, dark clothing. One that mostly moves like a person, except for how efficient it is, slamming a shoulder into the thing and turning the momentum of the fall into a throw and a roll, coming up braced on one knee (Murderbot, what the hell did you get yourself into this time).
One flash, two, fill the space, as it fires some weapon at the creature (if she's looking closely, the rolled-up sleeves of its jacket reveal lines like mechanical seams in its hand and forearm.) Its face is perfectly human from the cheekbones up. Presumably from the cheekbones down, too, except it's wearing a cloth facemask, and it's not looking towards her.]
Two meters down the corridor. Second door on the left.
[Its voice buzzes strangely, echoing with a cicada-like fuzz of static, as the Unknown form starts to rise once more behind SecUnit.]
Husks and Haunts pt. 1
There's a loud bang, echoing through the space, like someone just slammed a door - or used a door to kick off and lunge into the room, as the case may be. Almost inhumanly quick there's a body between her and the darting shape, a humanoid in plain, dark clothing. One that mostly moves like a person, except for how efficient it is, slamming a shoulder into the thing and turning the momentum of the fall into a throw and a roll, coming up braced on one knee (Murderbot, what the hell did you get yourself into this time).
One flash, two, fill the space, as it fires some weapon at the creature (if she's looking closely, the rolled-up sleeves of its jacket reveal lines like mechanical seams in its hand and forearm.) Its face is perfectly human from the cheekbones up. Presumably from the cheekbones down, too, except it's wearing a cloth facemask, and it's not looking towards her.]
Two meters down the corridor. Second door on the left.
[Its voice buzzes strangely, echoing with a cicada-like fuzz of static, as the Unknown form starts to rise once more behind SecUnit.]