Lelet considers her options, and tries to drop a sleep spell on this one again.
If they can knock it out, it'll make everyone else's lives easier.
Azmerai follws and jumps over the last meters to avoid tripwires.
The gremlin nimbly evades both Vezron and Azmerai's attacks, then stabs Vezron with one of its blades.
Lelet's sleep spell fires off at the beginning of her turn (DC 17), and she waits to see if it works before doing anything further.
Darian moves to where he can see the combat (assuming it's not too far) and takes aim at the gremlin with his crossbow.
She will try and get within 80;'
Azmerai swings the flail again.
The gremlin seems unaffected by Lelet's spell.
Vezron moves in for another swing.
Jolkum takes a slight step and tries to shank yet another annoying fey critter.
Lelet makes a 'tch' noise and thinks for a moment. Not finding any better ideas, she tries for another Ray of Frost.
The gremlin somehow avoids almost everyone's attacks, with a gleeful grin on its face. Rosa's bolt strikes it directly, but it does not seem nearly as effective as it normally would.
One of the gremlin's blades grazes Vezron's leg.
Okay, this isn't working. New plan, Disorienting Touch.
Why did my bolt now hurt it more?
Magic?
Goes back to her hammer, dropping the cross bow, she clicks it up takes a step and swings.
Jolkum's dagger bounces harmlessly off the beast.
With his previous attacks not quite connecting Vezron reigns in the power of his blow to go for a more accurate shot. Flanking with the others he goes in for the gremlin's blind side.
Darian fires his crossbow again, hoping for a lucky shot.
... to no avail.
Azmerai tries again to smash the little one.
Jolkum and Rosa manage to hit the gremlin, but their attacks seemingly have no effect. Vezron, however, manages to connect quite strongly. Its smile dissapears, and it tosses something into its mouth and swallows, rapidly fading from view.
Darian reloads his crossbow and waits for a new target to appear.
(-4 if I have to fire into melee, -4 if I have to fire past cover, +1 if it's within 30')
Vezron sees the little gremlin slip something into its mouth, providing an opening to attack. Seeing it start to disappear he quickly lashes out with a strong attack to try and finish it off.
Having an opportunity Azmerai again lets it slip, not hitting a barn dorn at point blank
Vezron slays the creature, and it becomes visible again.
While its blades are little more than jagged needles, it carries a few items of interest: two small vials with liquid inside, and a metal box small enough to fit in a hand, clearly of Androffan make becuase of the logo and serial number on the side. Some sort of trigger mechanism is in the other side.
Rosa also recognizes the distinctive glint of plastic in the heap of trash, she finds 6 plastic cards, each with a set of brown bars on one side. 3 cards have names and picutres of human faces, while one has a name and a much stranger face, paler and with an elongated head. The other two have "Extra" in Androffan.
She looks at the magic items just a moment but cares little for them, its the box and cards she is interested in.
She clicks it and a small flame comes out.
"Its a fire starter, some crew liked to use smoke as a form of drug. This one is almost fully charged"
Then she moves onto the card,
She holds the cards and taking a small lens out of a pouch looks over them.
"These are access cards, names and images of who they where given to on them. On the star craft they used to open doors. They are brown access only, it was the lowest level of access. They where typically carried by guests aboard the ship."
She slips one into her belt pouch and hands the rest to the others.
"Take one each, they will open some doors for you"
Azmerai takes one and places in a bag. "This opens door. Must be magic!"
She looks at him a moment then says.
"No magic, there is a *embedded electromagnet resinace coil* in the card, which as a *pattan code* reflecting its *security rating*, when you place it in the door slot, if the door has power it will use an *electromagnet* to read the Coil and so grant access."
Or that was what she wanted to say, what the other who did not know Androffan heard was.
"No magic, there is a embedded *Androffan* in the card, which as a *Androffan* reflecting its *Androffan*, when you place it in the door slot, if the door has power it will use an Androffan words to read the *Androffan* and so grant access."
She stops,
"I am sorry your primitive language dose not have the word sounds for some of the means by which the cards work. So magic as you say"
Azmerai just shrigs and repeats magic He then looks at his flail shakes it twice then drops it and curses it. When looked at he says."Broken"
"Well, no clue on the second potion aside it being magical..but the first one's a Cure Light Wounds. Good for what ails ya!"
She then looks back over at Rosa.
"It's close enough. Runs on the same weird theories that brought us skymetal and whatnot. If the words are only available that crazy moonspeak, just say them in crazy moonspeak. We'll add it to the vernacular eventually. Like, what is an electromagnetic resonance coil"--here mimicking the Androffan words even if she doesn't properly understand their meaning--"in closest Taldan terms? What's it look like? And how's the fire starter make fire?"
A pause.
"Also who wants it? Fire is pretty darn cool."
"This solution is a simple restorative potion to heal injuries. I am uncertain as to the properties of the other."
"We continue to explore?"
"Affirmative."
"We should head back and tell the grey skins their gremlins problem has been dealt with first."
"Then our itinerary is... First! Talk to those guys and get our payment for getting rid of their gremlin problems! Second! Press forward a little more. Third! Head home before we run out of water breathing!"
You walk back to the cavern of the grey-skinned people. When you arrive, the leader turns.
"You have driven them off? Excellent!"
She retrieves a clinking bag and tosses it to you.
Azmerai takes the bag and opens it.
"That all? Was hard fight. Broke my weapon!"
"If you had given it to me I could have repaired it"
She says
Addressing the dark-dweller, Darian asks, "Is there anything more you can tell us about these caves or the ones who came before us?"
Vezron pockets the key card. He had read about them but Rosa's description of them made more sense than what was in the books. It makes much more sense that these run based off of electromagnetism than magic.
He waits patiently while the others finish their business with the cave dwellers
Looking into the bag, it appears to have somewhere between 100 and 200 gp.
"We haven't gone far into the circle-door, as it is very dangerous. She gestures to the circular opening in the metal wall. "There are creatures of metal and cretures of bone, all with extra arms or legs. The walls are all metal, and there are many strange devices.
There was a woman with purple hair and many followers, they went through a door near the gremlins and it shut behind them. Then there were two more groups who were mostly humans."
"Well my friends, I think it is time to push in beyond the circle door."
"Agreed. Purple hair? Perhaps another android?"
Azmerai looks at Jolkum and nods. "We also have bring deads to town for proper burial!" Although a barbarian, he still is firmly in the customs of his people.