The Stories of Phalanx

"Yeah, the scar on my neck is a bit fuzzy on my memory, but I was on the planet Junge, which is essentially just one big massive rainforest. It's always fucking raining there, and we were dropping down on a group of Kiran, which are, uh, I guess eel people? Pretty hard to describe, and I don't wanna describe them anyways, they were total dicks. Anyways, we /again/, got dropped in the middle of fucking no where and had to find our way to the enemies. Of course, I actually killed the last man that fucked up our coordinates and caused us to miss an entire planet, but this time I was too fucked up to kill the rookie. While-" After being so rudely interrupted, she looks up at Kit "Can't get in, Fluffy's on the doorstep!" She then continues her story. "Where was I? Alright, I think I was at the part where I'm heading towards the Kiran... yeah, so while we were traveling we got ambushed by a bunch of Mirask, which are essentially octopus raptors... well, octopus with their mouths kinda? It's really weird, they're probably more than what an octopus looks like but it's fuzzy. The head is pretty raptorish, save for the mouth which is literally just a fucking mass of tentacles lined with razor sharp teeth and suckers. The teeth are more towards the inside of the mouth but boy was I not happy when that thing got me, fucking pounced on me before I even saw it, wrapping it's entire mouth around my throat and essentially trying to suck me dry and eat my flesh. Luckily, my squad didn't all get attacked at the same time and they killed the thing, but they couldn't remove the head without me bleeding out. I was med evac'd and they had to very carefully pry the thing off without killing me in the process. The scar is where the teeth were, and the rest of the scar has faded where the suckers were, because those were lined with smaller teeth." She rubs her throat consciously, shivering as she remembered the feeling of the beasts' maw around her throat. "Fucking worse than ripping my own eye out." She seemed to stare off into the distance, unfocused.