I had Xavier smash up the stairways. I really think Amanda and Obi were pretty confused about what to do about this. Like, if it was me, I'd have made some sort of gas explosive and tossed it down, but they just had guns and some grenades, and we could hide away in shadows away from them. We heard them arguing and shouting upstairs. They weren't really sure what to do. There was no other way down here, and they weren't good at mechanics. They could jump, but it was a decent way and when they poked their head down we tossed glass at them.

Meanwhile, we made bombs. There were quite a few gas containers, and a pump, but they were old and damaged. We yanked some wires out from the nearby lights and got a power supply going, and I swapped out old parts and put in new parts, and we began to pump gas from the incinerator into the gas cylinder.

I keyed on the helmet. "Hey Amanda, how you doing?"

"I will get you. You can't hide in there forever."

"I don't intend to. I'm coming for you. You can't hide up Jigsaw's ass forever." I clicked off.

"If she fucks you up for that, I am gonna laugh. I'll kill her after, but you had it coming." Said Xavier.

I turned to him.

"I need to keep her off balance. I'm not just taunting her for lols."

He shook his head. "I know you. You're having fun." I smiled.

"Mayyyybe."

"Don't let it overtake you. I've seen a lot of promising dudes get too caught up in showing they have a bigger dick."

I frowned.

"But mine is bigger than hers. Much, much bigger."

He punched my arm. "That's the spirit."

"Ow." I said. I guess- we had won almost every encounter here. They didn't really have as much reason to be scared. Or was it something else? I guess I had been pushing my pretty casual attitude on them. Since I was immortal, I made everything seem ok.

"So, you were offering lots of cash for people. Addison told me." He jerked a thumb out. She was helping make another gas bomb. "Where's the cash coming from? Your magic?"

I shook my head. "No… well yes. Have you heard of P=NP?

He laughed. "You know I have not heard of that."

I waved my hand. "Fancy computer stuff. I got a solution." I tapped my noggin. "You got anyone you wanna fuck over? This will do that." Resident Evil land came with some hefty perks.

He gave me a knowing look. "I'll think on that. Buying me by offering to kill my enemies."

My poison meter was pretty close. I had gotten an extra minute when poison maniac turned on again, but we were now 6 minutes in. Soon level 2 would hit, and I would lose some physical abilities. I could feel it burning through my veins, resisted by my body, my power, but still slowly scarring me.

We had four gas cylinders.

Old gas cylinder. Used to store gas, and now packed full of gas. 500 explosive damage on a hit. 5/5 durability.

I hoped it would be enough. I needed Addison for the next part of my plan though. I went to check on her.

"I heard you and Xavier are getting engaged."

I blinked. "What?"

"Comparing dick sizes and all." She said, as she filled the fourth cylinder.

"That was about Amanda's size, not his."

"Do you think she's trans?"

I shook my head. "No, she's not." Distracting humour for the damned.

"ANYWAYS" I said loudly. "You good for your part? Stopping Obi and Amanda?"

"I trust in you. I can't do it for long but you're gonna explode them."

"Their armor is built from some tough material like kevlar which resists slashes. It isn't made to stand up to bombs."

"You gonna sneak up through the hole? I've seen you looking at it a lot."

"Yeah. I am just thinking through the mechanics of it. I'm not sure if our bombs are enough to take out Amanda or Obi. There's a reason grenades and guns exists- our weapons are makeshift, and theirs are better."

"I think they're pretty good. Can't dodge a bomb."

I shook my head. "No you can't. I was thinking based off that. We are in theory trapped down here. If I went out the front entrance, they'd hit us, and I wouldn't be surprised if they booby trapped the way upstairs- easy to rig up a grenade, or a motion sensor."

"So what's the cunning twist. You always have one. A way out." She said, hopefully.

"I have… yeah. Had a lot of cunning twists. I hope this one works. We're stuck in a box. We come out run, they'll just gun us down.

She smacked me. Ow. Why? "No more losing talk. Your plan will work, and you'll beat them, right?"

"Erm, yes. Ok." I wasn't really sure how to handle this. "I shall beat them."

I had the gas cylinders- 500 damage each, and shit durability cause they were old. I had the people. I had the rope. I had my secret special surprise. It was time to do it.

Xavier tossed 3 of the gas cylinders up, into the stairs, one unscrewed enough to release gas. It was loud, flashy, and likely to draw attention from anyone watching. Addison, using her baseball skills, then hit a flaming ball of rags up at the gas cylinders. We all then went back around the corner and waited.

The boom knocked me and everyone else in the group to their feet. The house shook with the force, as three cylinders of explosive smashed their way through the stairway. I shook my head, dazed, as I got a notification.

You have slain Obi Tate! Level up! 10 perk points and 1 stat point.

Always fated to die in fire. We all picked ourselves up, and headed up onto the incinerator, and into the damaged room above. The walls next to us were cracked and shaking. We didn't have long.

Xavier smashed through the wall opposite them, and we barely got out before a secondary explosion smashed through the house, breaking the walls of the room behind us.

Try finding us in that, Mandy.

We rushed passed the open corridor, between the broken room, the stairway, and our wake up room. There was a wave of heat hot enough to raise blisters, and my lungs burnt from the toxic gas and smoke rolling off the stairway, but it wasn't enough to stop us. We went back into the starting room.

You have found a secret entrance by enduring extreme explosive force! +1 constitution (suspended until you get a good rest and food)

The explosions had damaged the walls, the floor, the ceiling. The house looked hella unstudy. The safe had tipped on it's side. And, the floor had been knocked open by the force.

I gestured. "I knew it! A way out." We worked together, lifting up the trap door as the house collapsed around us. Steel reinforcements not made to hold up a house were all that was left holding it up. Behind me, I set up the fourth and final gas cylinder up. I had gotten lucky on this one, and got an uncommon property on this one.

Improvised proximity mine. A camera wired into the gas cylinder, operated off a battery found inside, allows this gas cylinder to explode on sight. 500 damage, 5/5 durability.

We ran into the Sewers. Dark, dank, lit by old electrical lights.

"Hold it!" Said an unwanted voice behind us. Amanda stood there, a rifle in her hands, pointed right at us.

"Fuck." Xavier started to go at her, but I put my hand on his arm. "She'd mow us right down. Amanda. How did you find us?"

Above us, the sound of the house cracking and breaking continued. It was muffled down here, but still loud enough to mean we had to shout.

"Gus lived! He used one of his hands- mangled it- and managed to pull himself out. He told me you would try to escape out of the secret exit. Now move it!" She said, moving her rifle.

I should have killed Gus. Curse my merciful nature.

I could sense the group's reluctance, but I motioned them on-

Cure had skulked off. We still had a chance.

She walked us through the corridors. Mindful of the fact that she had a gun on me, and I was probably losing this loop, I decided to try and get information.

"You said Summer- what is that?"

"Talky for someone who tortured me here."

"If I'm gonna die, I want to know why."

She grinned. "That's up to you. I'm not gonna kill you. Now move it!" She ordered. She fired a round over my head. The sound of the gunshot was deafening.

Ooh. I felt the tick. My physical stats had just degraded a level. Not good. I coughed up blood over my top, and felt my muscles and body weaken. The poison was eating away at me.

I'm gonna attack. Can you distract her for a second? Sent Xavier

I'll do it. I sent back. I sent a command to Cure to launch his attack. Amanda's leg was pretty mangled- she had to limp to walk on it.

She led us right back to the room we had been in during Saw. Just as we entered, Xavier made his move. He twisted, and with inhuman strength, started to toss his club. In the meantime, Cure came out of stealth and went to bite her- when bullets ripped through Xavier, disabling his arm and ripping through his body. The club thudded into the wall, and he swayed, bleeding, and dropped.

Amanda expertly moved her unbitten leg, and kicked Cure, knocking him to the wall. With a fluid movement, she pumped a pair of bullets into Cure's side. He whelped, and fell down, bleeding out.

Desperate survival perk used! Killer instinct perk used! Perk exhaustion setting in.

"That's what you get if you resist. Now move it!" She said, gesturing with her still full of bullets rifle. She looked visibly tired, breathing fast.

Fuck this. She was killing my dog. I had to stop her.

Jonas spoke. "I can save him- why did you?" She fired a bullet above his head. "Move."

Addison was cursing under her breath. Daniel was muttering. I was fuming.

"Amanda, I swear to you. Through life or death, this world or another, I will not stop hunting you."

"Sit next to that pipe." She gestured at the pipe I had been chained to. We all reluctantly went down. She still had the gun.

"I have a plan for you. I am going to lock you inside- I have handcuffs on me. Then we're gonna play a game. You'll love it. We'll see how well you survive then."

She stepped near the door. "I-"

And from behind her, the blast of a shotgun came. Blood spurted out of her side. She grunted, and tried to move, when a pipe smashed her in the face, knocking her down.

You have escaped the trap you were in in under an hour and defeated Amanda! 200 perk points awarded. Inventory unlocked.

Into the light stepped two figures. Adam Stanheight, and Lawrence Gordon. Adam looked pumped, he'd been working out, his lanky brown haired form now massive, the pipe in his hands easy and fluid. Lawrence held a heavy shotgun, and hadn't worked out but had a deadlier look in his eyes, one of determination.

"Game over." Said Gordon.

Butterflies spiral and dance, to a mad melody that only they can hear, and storms and hurricanes arise.

I'd like to say it was some dramatic corona virus thing that took me off my normally fairly fast pace, but it was mostly figuring out how they'd escape. Took me a while to map out a route out.

DG2. He is definitely getting something from Amanda next time.

Thorison1080. Other than the system, which is sorta a dimension hopping foe, his main enemies will always be Saw apprentices. This is a Saw story. I try to use minimal OCs. We've had zero in story so far. They don't really need gamer powers, they outmatch him in a direct fight by a large margin. If he fights fair.

Arkyong. Boom.

GLMO11. The system tried to get him to commit suicide in the first chapter. The system is definitely playing with him. And he is taking advantage of his future knowledge massively, just, he started off chained to a pipe in a room without any special tools.

Soda-fiedpsycho. She beat Eric Matthews in direct combat. I'd rank him as a journeyman/ master level combatant, given how many people he took down. She's badass in combat. Maybe not badass in trap making, but she can fight, better than experienced and skilled cops who ambush her. Like, he beat the crap out of her with a pipe, including a headshot, and she still beat him. I would have gone down to a pipe like that. And yeah, he's not looking forward to Saw 3.

Akashic Records. Thanks. Soon we shall be in another world, one partially picked by users and me, and he can gain new and strange powers.

ProfesorGoblitz. Bye bye.

Next chapter will wrap this up, and after that, he's off to a new world. Any new suggestions for worlds, do say. I'll put up a poll soon.