[Should I move her?]

[Warn her you're gonna and if she doesn't budge, yeah.]

Lianelle warns her and gets no response, so picking her up and carrying her it is-

- up until Analise unhinges her jaw and swallows Lianelle whole, her body bulging to fit the surprised champion inside.

[- dis- and re-corporate?] asks May, opening fire on the "champion" who accompanied this person.

[Yes something weird is going on with these insides and I need out fast to defend you.] 

Lianelle struggles against the muscles surrounding her, trying to get her sword at a good angle to actually push into the guts of whoever this actually is.

'Analise'  looks less and less human as her midsection bulges, her body lengthening and her face becoming more snake-like as her skin resembles a darker variant of the layers of scales surrounding the other figure. A forked tongue flickers out of her mouth after May's fired bullets bounce harmlessly off of their intended target. May feels a surge in backlash as this happens and the figure she shot at starts running towards her. 

She discorporates-recorporates Lianelle and leaps up and over the charging figure. With Lianelle out of the creature's guts she'll try shooting that one in case it works any better.

The shots seem to be chipping at the scales! And causing the creature, at this point fully transformed into a giant serpent, to lunge directly at her.

Meanwhile, Lianelle takes a swing at the figure, her sword slicing through a layer before sticking into one of the deeper ones. 

So Lianelle kicks them hard enough to send the figure arching away over the treetops.

Can she get a shot directly into the creature's mouth, does it have its mouth open -

It does and she can! It jerks back, hissing in pain, its mouth bloodied.

Good. Can she nail it in mouth again - or the eye -

Eye, yes, but then it's going to try to wrap itself around her.

It can't do that, it goes right through her and won't even know if it found the right place or not, but that's expensive - [how're you doing] Blam blam.

[Trying to get them pinned down properly, almost got it - you need backup?]

[Need company, I'm prone to comms chatter backlashed, I'm sorry -] Fucking DIE snakething.

Snake thing is not having a good time but none of this is proving immediately fatal-

-and then the ground shakes followed by a dull boom. And then another time, louder than the last.

The snake jerks it's head around, lunging in Lianelle's direction -

- a third impact -

- and the snake chokes and dissolves into scales and then dust.

[- you won? The snake's gone -]

[Yeah - give me a bit while I bury the body.]

[How much of a bit]