Mass Effect Play: Thorian Part 1

Part 1: Into the Darkness

After some SCIENCE we crafted knock-out gas grenades to render the inhabitants of Zhu's hope helpless. We lift up the crashed ship to expose a narrow stair way down into the darkness.
The marching order is: Shepard, Garrus, Kaidan, T'Soni, and Talia. (The remainder of the crew stayed behind to secure the exit.)

As we make our way down the tunnel Garrus notices a large pod on the wall. Just as he taps Shepard on the shoulder the pod unfolds into a lithe three fingered featureless humanoid that starts moving toward the party.

Shepard, "Greeting we come in peace".

Dr. T'Soni makes a concerned expression, "There is danger here", she says as she draws her pistol.

Shepard pulls his sonic blade and stabs the creature, making a solid blow, but not phasing the creature in anyway.

Garrus shoots at the creature with his assault rifle and also hits.

Kaidan attempts to throw the creature but it squirms in his biotic grasp and only pushes it back two meters.

T'Soni aims.

The Creature, to later be name a "Thorian Creeper", hits Shepard with its claws but fails to penetrate his armor.

Talia fires at the creature but misses.

Garrus aims with the assault rifle.

Kaidan focuses pyrokinesis upon the creatures torso and raises it's temperature by 800 degrees, to no effect other than it is now glowing red hot.

T'Soni shoots with her shot gun and blows the Thorian Creeper into little flaming pieces. She then analyzes the remains and determines that the creature is an undifferentiated fungal mass: There are no organs, no bones or structures of any kind. It is presumed that something else, something external is animating this thing. Its body structure is most similar to a turian or a quarian.

After combat analysis also showed that shotguns were the most effective weapon against this creature so everyone arms themselves appropriately.