OiM - How it All Began

[Venom3001]

Andreas attempted to lift up about half of the snow.  

[SirBayer]

"Gentlemen, don't bother trying to finish them, we'll just drive them back with the fire," Arthur offered. "We can do it pretty easily if we do it right."  

[Pimped_Klingon]

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Cains eyes widened as the floor feel from beneath him, and he expected to feel the crush of his bones , but...nothing...absolutely nothing. It was as if he was floating, and he had no idea how to stop it. He feverishly looked around, panic setting in. What was happening? Someone attacked him? Strange urges to stay in this cursed place? The floor escaping from underneath his feet?  

[NativeForeigner]

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The snow in Andreas' arms began to form the Snowman's upper torso, right arm, and head. It looked around, slightly confused before turning to Andreas and squealing at him in some Snowmanian language.
It clawed at his arms and hands. It didn't have the capabilities to do much damage, but it could scratch.

The Snowman pursued Shepard. As it did, it began to grow smaller and smaller and it sank into the ground.

***

Cain landed, like the others, on a thin air cushion, saving him from a deadly fall.
A few bright-orange beetles scurried away from him. The door marked "1" had a cold draft coming from it.  

[Venom3001]

"Rise," Andreas commanded the snowman. He made it hover a few inches above his hand.  

[Jokerman-EXE]

Henry got his odd tingle as he grabbed a flaming stick and poked the floating snowman with the fire end. "Something not good is going to happen," he said.

Shepard slid into the camp, running down one of the Snowmen as he slid in next to the fire.  

[NativeForeigner]

Water dripped onto Andreas' hand as Henry melted the Snowman upper parts.
While the Snowman's head and upper chest were melting, it's lower body continued on as normal, even beginning to build itself a new chest and head.
Then Shepard ran it down.

It began to rebuild while the upper half became water, then ice once it was far enough away from a heat source. The ice began to slush up and become like snow again, only icier and harder. Henry felt another tingle and started to burn the hat instead.

As the hat began to burn, both halves of the Snowman began to flail and degrade into piles of normal snow.

The other Snowmen retreated into the snow just outside of the shelter.  

[Jokerman-EXE]

Shepard's mind flashed back to the last Snowman: when he had defeated it, only the hat and scarf had survived.
"Get the hat!" he shouted. He ran after the little ones and aimed a kick for the nearest one's hat.  

[SirBayer]

"Hats burn," Arthur reminded them, not making aggressive moves but keeping his hands securely on his fire stick. He wouldn't exactly be able to carry it around if it were on fire but it would serve as a weapon and a torch for a while now. They'd need more wood to put on the fire sooner or later, though...  

[NativeForeigner]

The hat landed a short distance away and gently fell to the snow.
The Snowman became lifeless and ceased movement. However, the snow below the hat began to shift as a new Snowman formed beneath it. As soon as the Snowman was full-grown, it sprouted arms.

Two of the other Snowman ran, or a Snowman's equivalent to running, into each other and began to mold together, creating a Snowman twice the size with four eyes, two hats, and two sets of enlarged arms.  

[Jokerman-EXE]

"Eh. Burn the hats," Shepard said, suddenly losing interest. He walked back to the fire and sat down.  

[Venom3001]

Andreas lifted a hat off the snowman-composite telekinetically and dumped it in the fire.  

[NativeForeigner]

The larger Snowman seemed unaffected, though one set of it's coal eyes fell from it's face.
It sank into the snow as well.

More of the smaller Snowmen started approaching from the outskirts of the campsite.  

[Jokerman-EXE]

"Hey, didn't I tell you to cool it with the powers?" Shepard asked as his hnd darted into the fire. He grabbed a coal, tossed it up and down a couple times, then launched it at a Snowman.  

[NativeForeigner]

The coal burned a neat hole straight through the Snowman's chest. It growled in protest, but it seemed mostly unaffected. It charged towards the group. It was cut off by the larger Snowman that Shepard had fought. The two hit each other full on. At first, the two merely lay in a pile of snow and hats and sticks.
In a matter of moments, the Snowmen's components began to rebuild and combine. It began to create a snowman with ten eyes, still a single nose, eight sets of arms, and six hats.
Multiple, smaller Snowmen began to pile into it, increasing it's size and number of limbs, hats, and eyes.