Eclipse restores a fraction of power to the deck, and even manages to power some cameras. There seems to be two small humans hiding on the images shown by one of the camera.
In the first room of the deck, scattered barrels and boxes line the lowered floor of this storage chamber. A thick bulkhead to the port side leads farther onto the deck, while a similar bulkhead to the aft connects to an arterial hallway that runs the length of the deck.
This storage room is in a somewhat haphazard state—as if a small, terrified alien had rushed through it.
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Draken winces as Grinder goes on the scare against the children and rushes forwards into the room towards the boxes and crates they hide behind. "Now now! No need for that!" he hisses at the Haan, rolling his eyes as he turns to the hiding children. "No need to fret children, my name is Draken, what's your names? Can you tell us what happened here?"
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You found us! We were so scared, the lights when out and.. the first child says, when the second makes a sshhh sound.
We better tell them.. the first says, but the second kid looks frightened. Yes, we should, the first says, these people look like they want to help us.
The kid finally explains: We were down here when the lights went out and.. the kid hesitates, happy feet escaped. He is naughty and moves around a lot. We tried to capture, so you should be careful when you enter the next room. There's a trap there, but I can help you disable it.
Happy feet is nice, you should hurt him
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Draken keeps the easy smile on his face, just like when faced with paparazzi and other such slimes of the media. "Good, thankyou children. Now, who is 'happy Feet' a friend of yours, a pet? Did he run off before the lights went out?" At the mention of the trap, he shakes his head. "Now why would you do something Like that eh? Yes please, remove it and we will get your friend back safely. Perhaps you should run along."
He is friendly, yes, but he can be really curious. He never hurt us...
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Draken smiles broadly to the children, turning to a wince as Grinder shoves him, but he quickly recovers. "Yes, now you remove your contraption and we won't raise this mischief with Fitch." he states, keeping his voice cheery to avoid causing the children any further distress, and, more importantly any crying.
With the contraption removed, Draken strides through the door with a confidence he hardly felt.
The children meekly help find the trap, and Eclipse disables it without much fuss.
This next area consists of two adjoining chambers. Four large containment capsules fill the fore room, three of which hold stasis-locked objects, including a tablet, a strange curved sword, and an odd spiral of bioluminescent coral. A crack leaks fluid from the fourth capsule, which displays a foot-wide breach near the bottom. The aft room contains several desks, each hosting a deactivated computer terminal.
There is no sign of the creature that is wreaking havoc on this deck.
Some of the vents are half-open, and there's tracks on the wall, from a many-legged creature. It might be in a pipe somewhere.
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Draken looks to his companions before making his way to one of the computer desks and waiting for it to boot up in such a low powered area. As soon as it does so, Draken messes with the programs to see if there is a way to control the area's sensors to find their little stowaway or to change vents to block them in...
Draken manages to release some steam into the vents, flushing out whatever hides inside. Out crawl a curious, semi-sentient centipede-like creature - nothing like anyone has ever seen before. It fidgets and tinkers continuously, and immediate presses all buttons on a nearby dropped console in rapid succession.
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Eclipse eyes the other android and starts helping with a sigh.
Whatever let's us catch this thing faster, right? It isn't cute...at all...no way!
He kneels down next to Kappa and starts typing on his typing on his companions screen too. Hoping it lures it over to type on the communicator and they can nab it.
"Alright, this is a little fun." he says quietly.
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Startled by the steam pouring from the vents, Draken spins as the creature emerges from their hiding place, eyes widening at it's alien appearance. He had never seen the like before, but he immediately tried to work out the best ways in which to communicate with them. Moving slowly, he attempts to aid the Pangaea Android's attempts.
Pangea manages to communicate with the alien, be it at a superficial level. Happy feet - the centipede-like creature sure has a lot - seem to trust the android, and merrily taps along with the combinations that he proposes.
Meanwhile the area starts filling with a dense fog coming from the vents. The place is getting hotter, though nothing seems hazardous at this moment. It makes things a bit hard to see, though.
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Whilst Pangaea soothes the alien creature, Draken wracka his brain in a way to communicate without a shared tongue. Using non-verbal communications and slow movements, Draken holds out his hands to prove they are bare, before reaching for food in a pouch on his hip. Holding it out carefully, he smiles at 'Happy Feet'.
The creature smiles happily and seems ready to follow the party out of the hold. With the disturbance gone, restoring power to the E-deck is rather easy.
After travelling back to Fitch, the Ysoki seems pleased, Well done is bringing back this alien alive, and not harming it. I have a special Xenobiology team that will be very interested in communicating with this guy. I believe the children can be of help as well, they are so much quicker in learning new communication methods.
Congratulations of a job well done, he concludes, dismissed!
Five minutes later, the group gets a message from Guidance, summoning the party back to the lorespire complex. A holographic message from Guidance - presenting herself as a Lashunta this time - states Congratulations on your initiation. The starfinder Society values all new agents, and we see great potential in your group. Welcome to a new career as a Starfinder agent!
The message ends with a short musical jingle, which sounds awfully familiar by now. The craze made it all the here...
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Boons rolls: get something cool on 19-20
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