Taking his time to examine the door, Rallos feels around the edges, the door itself and even the floor and walls around the door frame…after his extended search for traps, he still fails to find anything untoward…
…meanwhile, beyond the door the mechanical whirring and periodic ‘clanking’ rises in volume and speed…
Emerald lays her hands upon the wounded menfolk and their wounds knit back together with a green glow.
"Whatever that sound is, it seems dangerous. Be prepared." Yasmin readies herself near the door.
"Lets find out what danger lies beyond the door here." Gray says, pointing to the south door.
"Same as before, someone open the door and Rallos and I will make the first attacks. I suggest we draw it toward us. I see no sense in attacking on its terms. Nine hells, what kind of monstrosity makes noises like this??"
Yasmin again will cast dancing lights the round before opening the door.
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Ea prepares herself for a fight, tense and grim.
Who will be called to your arms, Pharasma?
Something mechanical, probably.If it can't die, it can be broken nevertheless. If any of you has some acid, prepare it.
This curving room is a good-sized kitchen, complete with decaying tables, cupboards, and bins. One newer table has what seems like a child’s laboratory set up, with broken cups standing in for beakers.
You have little time to take this in as, just inside the door, looms a large mechanical humanoid figure...whirring, fizzing and with the occasional 'Clank', it moves towards the opened door...if it was ever an elegant machine, it is no longer...panels have been removed revealing cogs clashing against twigs, rocks and feathers, one of it's legs ends in a wooden stump and, most grotesquely of all, one of it's arms has been replaced with a human limb...rotten and hanging limply at it's side...
From behind a table, a cloaked goblin giggles and shouts, "Get them Clanky, get them!!! Soon Skizzertz will be the leader of the Bloodbriars..."
Yasmin - the automaton is clearly some kind of Construct and, from your experience / knowledge, will have certain immunities such as death effects, disease, mind-affecting effects (charms, compulsions, phantasms, patterns, and morale effects), necromancy effects, paralysis, poison, sleep, stun, and any effect that requires a Fortitude save (unless the effect also works on objects, or is harmless).
Additionally, this particular construct appears to be well armoured...
"Get ready. Let it come to us."
Ea carefully walks back into the room, emotionlessly, a plan taking form in her mind
She looks for a long piece of wood, and if there is none, smashes her morningstar on an old table to break it
Ea smashes the wooden bench nearest the door and finding the largest plank remaining, she readies for the arrival of "Clanky"
Clank, Clank, Clank, Whirr, Clank...
The automaton awkwardly moves towards the opened door and towards Grayface who stands there dumbfounded by the approaching machine. A metallic green fist is raised and, with a squealing release of air from a piston, it drops down towards the warrior....
Standing behind the machine, the goblin pulls the hood of it's cloak back revealing an elaborate pattern painted across it's face...raising a wooden object high above its head...it leaches Grayface with a focused gaze, "Drop your weapon and pay tribute to Mother Lamashtu..."
"Why don't you pay tribute to me, goblin scum." Yasmin attempts to daze the goblin.
"Is that you Mother Lamashtu? It's me, your humble servant Skizzertz"
Rallos throws a dagger at the dazed gobbo.
Eat that, dog!
Clang!! The large bastard sword hits the ground with a clang, as Grayface is magically compelled to obey. "Blast!"
5' step diagonally, finishing the "kill box".
Move equivalent to draw my dagger.
Standard to throw it at Clankey!
With a commanding voice, the young priest of Pharasma calls the marble-skinned wizard
Emarald, come quick while the goblin is dazed. Take this wooden planck with me, we'll put it between the mechanical thing's legs to trip it.
Fearlessly, she jumps into action, placing the big wooden planck between the construct's leg and waiting for Emaral to hold the other bit
Slotting the plank between the construct's legs...Clanky, who was already rather unsteady and ramshackle, whirs, shudders and, without grace, falls in a mechanical heap...
As it falls, it swings it's functioning arm at Ea, but to no avail...
Sister Zalinsel says in a cold voice
Don't let it get up, if you can.
Her eyes never quit the worshipper of Lamashtu as she unfolds her morninstar, and she whispers what seems to become her "warcry", emotionlessly
Let Fate be.
Emerald steps up to try and smash Clanky.
Quartz scurries over to bite the goblin at the ankles.
Emerald's Morning Star comes crashing down upon the fallen automaton, leaving a sizeable dent in it's chest.
Skittering across the stricken 'Clanky', Quartz's animal companion avoids being grabbed and running up the leg of the Dazed goblin, attempts to sink it's fangs in...just failing to break the skin...
Rising to it's feet, the green automaton, swings a wild arm at Emerald...missing and crashing into the door frame.
As the mechanical thing rises, Ea tries to hit it with her morningstar
She issues orders
Rallos, find its weak point. Grayface, get your sword and attack the goblin.
Rallos draws his bow and fires at the goblin.
Rallos also looks for any weak spot in the automaton's defenses.
"Look at that, goblin. Your mechanical friend decided to bow down to me as well. It's not very smart, just like its master." Yasmin attempts to taunt the goblin, to either infuriate or scare it.
Emerald hits it hard as it tries to stand up, if it's still moving then she uses her free hand to try and burn the thing.
Emerald and Ea both swing at the rising Automaton, Ea’s Morning Star crashes against the door frame whilst Emerald manages to land a substantial blow on the machine’s ‘head’…sparks start to fizz and the ‘clanking’ becomes noticeably louder.
Emerald’s following acid touch is less effective as her acid coated hand is unable to physically connect with the automaton's body.
Rallos’ arrow is wild and disappears into the darkness…surveying the automaton, there are no obvious weak points…indeed it looks like the machine is well armoured.
The cloaked goblin, starting to regain focus after being dazes, listens to Yasmin’s words, thinks briefly and then, ”…I am Skizzertz, soon to be leader of Bloodbriars…most clever Goblin in Echo Wood”,
The warrior will reach down below Em's feet and recover his lost bastard sword.
With an acceleration of years and cog, the automaton swings at Emerald again...this time, a metallic fist connects forcefully with the Oread's skull...and she drops to the floor...
A disabled character may take a single move action or standard action each round (but not both, nor can he take full-round actions, but he can still take swift, immediate, and free actions). He moves at half speed. Taking move actions doesn't risk further injury, but performing any standard action (or any other action the GM deems strenuous, including some free actions such as casting a quickened spell) deals 1 point of damage after the completion of the act. Unless the action increased the disabled character's hit points, he is now in negative hit points and dying.
"Run, Longshanks, Run...from the Power of Lamashtu", Skizzertz adopts what he considers to be a most threatening pose and raises his Holy Symbol aloft for a second time...
Gray sheathes his blade and makes a grab for Emerald's limp body, pulling her to safety.
Grayface's corded muscles tighten as he swiftly lifts the limp form of his new friend and places her on the table behind him.
. Yasmin just laughs at the goblin. "You mean to make me run? You're barely half my height!"
Using her mockery, she attempts to intimidate the goblin again.
Rallos fires an arrow at the gobbo.
Quit moving so I can shoot you!!
It's sometimes hard to know, between the automaton and the priest of Pharasma, who remains the more expressionless. Sister Zalinsel shows no concern when Emarald drops after the heavy blow from Clanky, but rises her weapon and tries to hit her mechanical foe again
As she fights, she talks with the goblin "holy man"
It is most interesting, on a theological side. Lamashtu is the mother of monsters, do you consider yourself the "father" of that automaton?
”Smash the big one next Clanky…make him all mashed up!!! We’ll feed him to the foot draggers down below…”
‘Clanky’ moves forward and bodily smashes into Grayface who, whilst pulling Emerald to safety, let his guard down …
”Clanky and me...we be friends...”
Skizzertz stops attacking you, tuts at the arrow stuck in his shoulder and, pulling out a wand…casts a spell...singing to himself as he does so
”Skizzertz soon be boss, not Grulk”
”Send old boss off in Sulk”
”Skizzertz and Clanky go whole hog”
”Going to be boss of Tribe of Zog”
Rallos swings at the automaton.
Rallos then sings the gobbo a little song.
Skizzertz soon gonna be dead,
I'm gonna run my sword through his head;
Skizzertz soon gonna be toast,
Another minute, two at most!
In addition to the increased grinding and chewing of gears, Clanky also appears to be fizzing with small electrical sparks...they flash brightly in the darkness as they arc between the metal surfaces of the automaton.
Ea takes a few seconds to think, guarding herself from the mechanical things blows to the best of her possibilities, waiting for more information
Yasmin, what do you know about this thing? What are its weaknesses? We need your knowledge now. Your comrade's life may depend on it.