[@Starfall]

[i]The back swing hadn't been absorbed by the mucous, it hadn't even had the chance to begin. Her first swing was what had stuck after the monster's arm was blown off. But what really mattered was how the Magna Pater handled Satori's shadow defences. It wouldn't have stuck out its tongue unless it had grabbed her first, and its reaction speed was on par with Satori's. A negligible distance? That was what the monster had had to begin with, and it could handle sudden close range sneak attacks just as well as Satori.

It would unleash a low frequency sonar blast to disrupt Satori's ability to detect it at close range, the noise both cloaking the horror in sound static and disrupting the air pressure in its vicinity so that she couldn't feel the air shifting around it accurately. At the same time it would change the direction of its grasping arm as the spike shot for it in a way similar to how Satori had altered the swing of her hammer, to grab the ankle. She might have had another way if sensing it, and so it was not taking any chances. The monster would then aim to jerk her leg out from under her to its right to force her into dramatically missing its head by changing her entire bodily orientation, wrenching her to her back and making it difficult for her to keep a grip upon the hammer without having to readjust. 

What's more, even if the hammer could break the slime's molecular bonds, it could just generate even more slime beneath that to keep the hammer firmly stuck. The slime acted also like an insulator, preventing the elder horror from getting shocked.

She'd be pulled to the ground, the Magna Pater lurching in with a chuckle that sounded as if it had come from a hyena with a mouth full of grave dirt. Anchored to the ground by shadows? The beast would upturn the ground too in the process. She'd wind up lying in front of it, and it would would be close enough so that even if the woman could see the soggy muzzle pressing into her belly, there would be little she could do to keep the tongue from piercing deep and entering her aortic artery. She could theoretically go crazy with the shadow spikes, but with the monster able to manipulate her body so easily with its wild might, she'd feel like less a tiger with its tail grabbed than a garden snake being used as a nun-chuck.

Meanwhile, the tail wasn't done yet. She had only severed what had been in reach, about four feet of it. After having been sliced away, the remainder would rear back out of reach and dip down, slime oozing over the stump to stop the bleeding by the time the Magna Pater had jerked Satori. 

The monster had not yet revealed its ultimate weapon, which only its tail could call forth. As soon as the time was right... [/i]