[The projectile impacts the creature, making it stumble backwards. It takes a moment for the flesh to combust, but burn it does, failing and lurching and crashing to the tile floor below.]

[The other one circles the first with the repulsion of an animal smelling death on another, then picks up speed on its advance.]

[That is, until a net of tendrils lurch out of three nearby airducts in the corridor, tripping and grappling the creature all at at once.]

[Immobilizing it...]