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Glancing back to the others, Tabitha thinks that she figured out what the purpose of this room is for. "Ah! This room must have been a break room for them." Turning back to the large machine, she waves her hand over the glowing panels. "Oh! Hot! This is definitely a Advanced stove. Wow... Um, should probably turn it off."
The goo in the five tubes Tabitha tries tastes quite... bland. It has the consistency of molasses mixed with paint, but otherwise Tabitha is able to stomach the taste of the tubes with no ill effects.
Kadosh shakes his head as Tabitha tastes the rations.
"Feh! That stuff surely must have spoiled by now. You'll do much better with fresh food!"
He looks around, moving to the door to the south, opening it when the others are ready.
The door Kadosh checks opens up into another grey-walled corridor, with another door directly across from the break room. A set of double doors leads back to the circular room, and three pairs of double doors are at a t-intersection to the east. One pair sits on the north end of the intersection, another sits in the middle, and the last one is in the south end.
Kadosh heads to the door directly opposite the break room .
The door opens with a *whoosh*.
Four narrow stalls take up the south portion of this room, their doors and partitions not quite reaching the tiled floor or ceiling above. A fifth door stands to the west, while a strange metal basin protrudes from the wall immediately to the east of the entrance.
"Drinking troughs for very small animals?" the android guesses, but it is more distracted by the smear of blood across the floor. "That bodes ill. Perhaps we should follow the trail."
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Looking into the room with the strange stalls, she shakes her head. "I don't think so..."
She takes a bit longer view of this room, and tries to figure out what this one is.
Possibly realizing what this room's purpose is for, her face reddens slightly. "N-no. That is definitely not what this room's purpose is for." She would then give a brief summary of what the purpose truly is. And she finishes with a simple sentence. "So don't drink the water."
"Indeed. Let's follow the trail. It's either something we have to help or something that wants to kill us...
Jasper checks the blood trail in the hall.
"Hmm... the blood seems to be going underneath those double doors over there." The hunter says, pointing to the double doors on the eastern wall of the corridor.
Malin visibly tenses up.
"The cat and blood seem to say something bad is in there. Shall we try to deal with it?" Kadosh asks his companions.
If they agree, he pulls his morningstar and then casts bless when they're ready to go through the door.
Triax tightens his grip on the sword, ready to race into the room.
The doors open with a *whoosh*.
Metal desks sit to the north and south of this long room, yet the most distinctive features are a pair of odd, bedlike tables flanked by curving panels of blinking, pulsing lights. Moving armatures of metal extend out over the beds, each outfitted with glowing panes of glass and strangely glowing tools. The chamber reeks of blood, with great crimson stains splashed across the device, beds and floor.
A strange, white, spider-like automaton turns its head as the party opens the doors. Its head has one bright, unblinking blue eye, and it lifts a humanlike and in the party's direction. The creature's fingers are tipped with four needlelike spikes, its knuckles filled with a blue fluid that flows from a pair of containers mounted to its back.
"Παρακαλείσθε να αναφέρετε τη φύση της ιατρικής έκτακτης ανάγκης σας." It says in a monotonous, mechanical voice.
The android studies the creature and copious amounts of fluid scattered about the room. With unliving focus it ducks low, flicking its blade out and slicing at a leg.
Triax's blade slices into the machine's leg, and strikes something important. The machine emits a high-pitched whine and wobbles around.
HP 19/19
AC 18, touch 11, flat-footed 17 (+1 vs. robots)
Fort +4, Ref +3, Will +5; CMD 13 (+1 vs. robots)
Orisons: daze, detect magic, light, resistance
1st: bless [], hydraulic push [], sleep [], detect undead [x]
Channel (1d6): 0/4
Healing hex used: Jasper [], Kadosh [], Malin [], Tabitha [], Triax []
Effects:
Kadosh, seeing Triax attack the thing, joins in, bringing his morningstar down on it in a glancing blow.
The machine staggers to one side as Jasper and Malin race into the room, with Jasper swinging his nodachi from the south...
...and Malin from the north with a bite!
Jasper's swing knocks the drone's head off while Malin's bite pulls the machine down to the floor. The machine does not rise.
"What did it say, Tabitha?" Kadosh asks, assuming it was some robotic curse, as he looks around, still trying to find the source of the blood.
The blood trail comes to an end at one of the bed-like devices. Attached to it are several strange machine arms--some end in blades, others end in needles, and there appears to be a couple of tube-shaped things at the end of other arms.
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Tabitha blinks a few times before responding to Kadosh. "It..." She lets out the breath she was holding. "It said, 'Please state the nature of your medical emergency'." She steps forward to the dismembered machine. "Um, I think it was a healer of some sort." She tries to understand what exactly this thing is.
She then turns to look around the room. "And I guess this is a place for healing at one time."
The room you're standing in does appear to be some sort of advanced healing facility. Unfortunately, most of the equipment here seems to be malfunctioning.
Triax surveys the blood. "Most healers I have known are more dedicated to cleaning up after themselves. I am curious as to what manner of creature bled so much while crawling here."
Kadosh looks around.
"Well, is there anything here we can use to help us?"
"Well, something is still alive down here that's not just a plant. I guess we should keep trying to find it. Jasper, are there any other tracks or anything besides the blood smear?"
Jasper starts looking around some more.
He pauses as he walks back out into the hallway. "Wait a minute..."
He starts walking towards the southern pair of double doors. "...it sounds like something's banging on metal through here."
His eyes widen. "And it sounds like someone's in there!"
"Well, let's go then. Everyone be ready -- who knows what's in there!" Kadosh says.
He hefts his morningstar.
The android's eyes flash silver as it moves to open the door, sword tightly held in hand.
The doors open with another *whoosh*.
A row of beds sits along the southern wall of this well-lit room. Glowing screens and metal desks sit on the opposite walls, and splatters of blood adorn the floor and several of the beds. To the east, a large metal device that is the size of a large bed hums softly, despite the frantic pounding coming from inside it.
A silvery robot creature identical to the one the party previously slew is standing before the bed-sized device. Its head turns to the doorway as the party opens the door. A golden, flying robot is hovering over one of the beds as well. Its arms and hands end in spindly, multi-jointed fingers, and four circular rotors hold the creature aloft.
"Παρακαλώ καθίστε. Ο γιατρός θα είναι σύντομα μαζί σας." The silver robot says, extending a hand tipped with needles.
The gold robot's three glowing eyes blink briefly before turning yellow. "Νέα δείγματα εντοπίστηκαν. Αναλαμβάνοντας Δείγμα τρόπου συλλογής." It warbles.
The gold-coloured bot looks like it might be some sort of collector robot--a type of machine equipped to collect living specimens. Its carapace is much tougher than the medical robot, but it's vulnerable to sudden electric shocks and impacts. You glimpse a blinking set of eyes on its backside--it looks identical to the eyes on its front. Flanking it appears to be impossible.
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Tabitha relays the information she recalled. "The silver one is a medical machine, not that tough. But the other one is much tougher. It can't be flanked, but electrical attacks should work well."
She frowns a bit. "Tabitha wishes she learned that shocking grasp spell now!" She holds back till the others engage the machines.
"Really? Well, we'll see about that." Jasper grins and leaps at the gold-coloured robot with Malin in tow!
Jasper's weapon flies wide of the robot, but Malin manages to find her mark. Her teeth clamp down on the robot, but her teeth don't even leave so much as a dent.
The gold robot swings a fist at Jasper...
...and when that misses, tries to swat Malin off of it.
It flails about without hurting either of them.
HP 19/19
AC 18, touch 11, flat-footed 17 (+1 vs. robots)
Fort +4, Ref +3, Will +5; CMD 13 (+1 vs. robots)
Orisons: daze, detect magic, light, resistance
1st: bless [x], hydraulic push [], sleep [], detect undead x[]
Channel (1d6): 0/4
Healing hex used: Jasper [], Kadosh [], Malin [], Tabitha [], Triax []
Effects: Bless (+1 morale bonus on attack rolls and on saving throws against fear effects), 1/20
"Spirits, give us your aid against these ... things!" Kadosh beseeches.
The silver robot turns to the door when Kadosh starts casting his spell. "Γίνεστε υστερική. Παρακαλούμε, ηρέμησε." It warbles in a monotone voice.
It advances on Kadosh. "Χορήγηση ηρεμιστικών." It says before stabbing at him with its needle-tipped claws.
The claw misses Kadosh by a good margin, and the robot's eye blinks. "Είστε μόνο καθιστά πιο δύσκολο για μένα να σας βοηθήσει."
"What's it gibbering about?" Kadosh yells as he dodges its claws.
The android maneuvers around the robot, flank or no, and ducks in to slice at the optic sensors of the construct after quickly surveying the creature.
Triax's strike cuts a gash into the silver robot's chassis, just under the optics. The drone turns to Triax.
"Τρέχοντας με αιχμηρά αντικείμενα ενέχει σοβαρό κίνδυνο για την υγεία."
Tabitha grips her knife in her hand, focuses, and throws it at the silver robot...
...and her knife flies into the drone's blinking eye! There's a shower of sparks as the knife wrenches itself free and returns to her hand!
"Παρακαλείστε να παραμείνουν ήρεμοι--" It starts to say before it degenerates into a harsh buzzing noise.
Jasper grunts in annoyance. "Malin! Get the other one!" He barks before turning his weapon on the collector robot again.
This time, he manages to make a dent in the robot's chassis. The snow leopard leaps away from the golden robot...
...but the robot grabs her by the tail and yanks her back into melee range. The leopard yowls and starts flailing about, trying to escape the robot's grasp!
The robot refuses to let go...
...but unfortunately, with one last burst of strength, the snow leopard squirms out of the robot's grasp!
HP 19/19
AC 18, touch 11, flat-footed 17 (+1 vs. robots)
Fort +4, Ref +3, Will +5; CMD 13 (+1 vs. robots)
Orisons: daze, detect magic, light, resistance
1st: bless [x], hydraulic push [], sleep [], detect undead x[]
Channel (1d6): 0/4
Healing hex used: Jasper [], Kadosh [], Malin [], Tabitha [], Triax []
Effects: Bless (+1 morale bonus on attack rolls and on saving throws against fear effects), 2/20
"Good shot!" Kadosh encourages as he steps between the creature and Tabitha.
Unfortunately, he's distracted by glancing back as the dagger returns to its owner's hand, his own blow rebounding harmlessly off the robot's tough chassis.
The silver robot starts shaking and wobbling.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA" It buzzes as it wobbles around. Its blue eye goes white and sparks fly from its head.