Wolfgang stills when he sees that head coming around the corner, fear tightening his stomach into a hard ball. It doesn't make him question his surroundings at all, the impossibility of this -- very much the opposite, it's the sight of that machine-thing that convinces him this is real. It suddenly makes sense to him.
Because that thing, right there? It has Technocracy written all over it.
Identifying it is slightly less pressing than getting the hell away from it, though, and he immediately takes a few slow, cautious steps back, staying out of its green headlights. Can he outrun it? He's fast, but he has no idea if it's faster. Four legs, but made of metal, it looks like. If it's Technocracy, it might be Primium, which means magic might be useless. He won't know unless he tries it, but if he tries it, the backlash could --
Well. It won't be pleasant.
He glances behind him. Can it climb? (Can it fly?) If he can get up somewhere high where it can't follow, he has a better chance than trying to outrun or attack it. There, a few meters behind him, he can make out the skeletal remains of a fire escape, like the exposed spine of a building. It looks like it's barely hanging on and is definitely not safe but it's his best chance for getting somewhere defensible, so he starts slowly backing up in that direction, not wanting to run yet because doing so will almost certainly attract that thing's attention.
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Because that thing, right there? It has Technocracy written all over it.
Identifying it is slightly less pressing than getting the hell away from it, though, and he immediately takes a few slow, cautious steps back, staying out of its green headlights. Can he outrun it? He's fast, but he has no idea if it's faster. Four legs, but made of metal, it looks like. If it's Technocracy, it might be Primium, which means magic might be useless. He won't know unless he tries it, but if he tries it, the backlash could --
Well. It won't be pleasant.
He glances behind him. Can it climb? (Can it fly?) If he can get up somewhere high where it can't follow, he has a better chance than trying to outrun or attack it. There, a few meters behind him, he can make out the skeletal remains of a fire escape, like the exposed spine of a building. It looks like it's barely hanging on and is definitely not safe but it's his best chance for getting somewhere defensible, so he starts slowly backing up in that direction, not wanting to run yet because doing so will almost certainly attract that thing's attention.