The Journey of a thousand miles

Game Master Vrog Skyreaver


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male Aasimar Magister 9 HP 73/73

Calista:

Oh I see. Its just a very strange looking wand of Lightning bolt. He should take some of these. Magical items can be very useful.

group:

Ameo watches was Calista shoots the club. He then smiles, says something to Calista, and then walks over and grabs a couple of the shelf.

Ameo casts detect magic, on the 2 "wands" that he picked up.


HP 43/43 | AC 19/23/29* FF15/19/2324* T15/19/20* | F+4 R+7 W+7 | Init +5 | Per: +14 | PP 48/60

the group:

Calista ltskes her 'gun' and buts the end to one of the metal implants on the dead body sky dropped before he took off. Seeing if the engery dos any thing to it.


Skyscale:

As you take to the air, you can see that there are many of the large, four-sided shelves that hold the strange clubs. Further in, however, you can see that several of the racks hold eggs for a variety of creatures , and that ahead and to the left near the far wall from where you came in there are 2 giant eggs that would be dragon if they were leathery, but the shell of these eggs all the ones that you can see, at any rate are shiny and black. As a matter of fact, the look very similar to the clubs that the others were investigating.

Looking at the tops of the shelves, you can see that they are marked in that same language you saw on the door to this room.

Sorry, I missed that you had decided to fly.

Korash, and Ameo:

As Isabela points the humming and sparking end at the corpse that Skyscale was carrying, she seems perplexed by something about it. Clearly she expects something to happen, but nothing does.

Isabela:

This rifle seems to lack a trigger, or any sort of firing mechanism. It is clearly powered up (as opposed to still powering up), but you can't make the bullets (or whatever it fires) come out.


Male Taninim
Stats:
AC/Touch/Flat/Surprise 22/14/20/22 | Fort/Ref/Will +11/08/05 | Init +00 | Perception +13 | Stealth +4
Draconic Exemplar 162 HP 8/8 DP

GM:
It's cool.

Skyscale flies over to investigate the 'dragon' eggs. Black eggs were... not good, if he remembered right. He placed a claw to one to test for warmth, and then began circling the egg with his head, sniffing, and eyeing it at differing angles. If it wasn't warm to the touch he'd pick it up... if possible... and start carrying it back to the group

Group:
Skyscale wings upwards... and then swoops out of sight a few moments later.


GM:

Well not trigger could mean, thought or sound controlled

She thinks at the gun, thinking it to fire, then talk to it, running over her languages to see if it is voice controlled.

The group:

She talks to the stick.


Skyscale:

Each of the eggs is as large as you are. Whatever dragon laid them must be truly massive. Attempting to pick one up, You find that you can do so, but it is a truly staggering amount of weight.

basically, it weighs about a ton and a half, which you can get as your 'lift over head' level of weight.

Isabela:

Speaking to the gun does nothing.
but you're getting warmer!


Male Taninim
Stats:
AC/Touch/Flat/Surprise 22/14/20/22 | Fort/Ref/Will +11/08/05 | Init +00 | Perception +13 | Stealth +4
Draconic Exemplar 162 HP 8/8 DP

DM:
Then once Skyscale had it on the ground, resting gently, he started rolling it back towards the group, being quite careful with it. It was very slow-going... but he wanted to know what they knew about it.

"You're one big baby ain'tcha, lil'un?" he smiles as he rolls the egg down the ways between the shelves. If he can, he'll check the other eggs on the wall, collecting a few of those as well, if he can find a way to carry them.

Poor Skyscale doesn't know how close he is to exploding himself. XD. I was kinda hoping they'd turn into armor or something and 'trap Skyscale' when he tried to put them on. But it really is looking like explosives, now :P


Skyscale:

While the large egg does roll, it's slow going because it is not a perfect orb shape. Holding one of the smaller eggs in each hand, you push the larger egg with your shoulder. It's slow going, and makes a lot of noise, but after an hour or so, you will get back to the location where the group was at.

Cause moving 5' a round trying to cover a half mile takes a bit =)

You have to pause to rest a couple of times, but you eventually make it to the group. Unless they come looking for you, then we'll modify that timetable.

Korash, Ameo, and Isabela:

From the direction that Skyscale disappeared, you hear a loud, continuous scraping sound that is growing closer to you.


Male Taninim
Stats:
AC/Touch/Flat/Surprise 22/14/20/22 | Fort/Ref/Will +11/08/05 | Init +00 | Perception +13 | Stealth +4
Draconic Exemplar 162 HP 8/8 DP

GM:
:> Skyscale sticks to the plan! He must know what they know about the egg! If necessary, he'll start calling out to them once he's around halfway back. :)


male Aasimar Magister 9 HP 73/73

Isabela:

Oh no, what is that?


GM:

Uses TP on the gun thing

6d20 ⇒ (2, 7, 12, 19, 6, 13) = 59
6d20 ⇒ (3, 20, 17, 10, 17, 19) = 86
6d20 ⇒ (11, 9, 3, 5, 13, 9) = 50
6d20 ⇒ (2, 11, 16, 9, 3, 1) = 42
6d20 ⇒ (10, 4, 18, 20, 17, 15) = 84
5 mins to get past the blocks

seeking to think at it to fire.
"Fire/Activate/target and shoot/link shoot/ link aim shoot/ release/ disrger at target..."

The group:

"Sounds like Sky has found something lets hope its not killing him, would some one go have a look"


Isabela:

Unfortunately, using your power (which does activate this time!) on the rifle has no effect. It just continues to frustratingly hum....


Male Taninim
Stats:
AC/Touch/Flat/Surprise 22/14/20/22 | Fort/Ref/Will +11/08/05 | Init +00 | Perception +13 | Stealth +4
Draconic Exemplar 162 HP 8/8 DP

GM:
While Skyscale made his way back across the armory -er, hoard-, stopping to rest when he needed, he hummed the Draconic equivalent of 'Hush Little Baby'. It was strange to realize... they weren't just taking adults, they were also taking children. Any intelligent race would know that using babies for hunting was stupid... especially when they were eggbound. That meant that Calista's observations were clearly wrong.


Isabela looks at the device in frustration, could it be a cutting tool not a weapon, they may be mining slaves not targets.

then in all the languages she knew she says.

"Safety off / fire / cut / activate / release "


After an hour of a screeching sound getting louder, skyscale comes into view, shoulder pushing the biggest egg shaped object that any of you have seen. You can also see that he is holding a pair of smaller black orbs that are about a foot in diameter. Skyscale is talking softly to the large object.

All of the objects have a shiny, subdued reflective outside.

Calista:

You're pretty sure that the outside material of all three objects is something similar to plastic; it appears to have the right texture.


Male Taninim
Stats:
AC/Touch/Flat/Surprise 22/14/20/22 | Fort/Ref/Will +11/08/05 | Init +00 | Perception +13 | Stealth +4
Draconic Exemplar 162 HP 8/8 DP

Draconic: "And if that 'Szcarlisnav' don't shine, Momma's gonna..."

Skyscale looks up from his babbling in his strange Draconic tongue and looks up to see that he's finally arrived. "Calista! I've found eggs! They are taking children, too! And they... do not seem healthy." He stops rolling the eggs and waddles over on his hind legs, still holding the two smaller eggs in his foreclaws, which he holds out for them to look at.


After what feels like years of frustratingly pointless trying Calista smashes the gun on the ground to see of it brakes. When nothing more happens she tosses it away and with a discussed look says to all of them in every language calmly.

"Yet another pointless wast of my [kind of sex] time here"

She pulls her head back and shouts to the room and who ever is there watching them for entertainment.

"YOU KNOW I"M starting to thick who ever made this place was ether After what feels like years of frustratingly pointless trying Calista smashes the gun on the ground to see of it brakes. When nothing more happens she tosses it away and with a discussed look says to all of them in every language calmly.

she makes an obscene jester with her hands then looks at the others.

"New rule guy's [kind of sex] this alien social experiment, I'm no [kind of sex] lab-rat to be [kind of sex] with, form now on we ignore every not a lit door, we just keep opening lit [kind of sex] doors until we find the [kind of sexing] way out, but Ill bet you anything there is no way out of this [kind of sexing] stupid place"

Then on seeing Sky finally show up

"O goody look sky, ill go get the frying pan shall I, we can have eggs for lunch"

She walks off very [kind of sex] off and fed-up with the whole [kind of sexing] situation


Male Taninim
Stats:
AC/Touch/Flat/Surprise 22/14/20/22 | Fort/Ref/Will +11/08/05 | Init +00 | Perception +13 | Stealth +4
Draconic Exemplar 162 HP 8/8 DP

Skyscale looks to the others... and says something.. then looks to Calista as she walks off. Unfortunately, they have no idea what he says... but the fact that he clutched the eggs to his chest, and his neck stretched forward a bit was definitely a defensive posture.


Deciduous Seedling - Martial Artist 2 | Gladiator 1 | Soulknife 6 (Deadly Fist, Gifted Blade)
Vitals (M/L/H):
Init +5, HP 79/92, PP 23/26 | AC 36/34/32, T 20/18/16, FF 36/34/32 | Fort +6, Ref +11/10/9, Will +10 | Perception 17 (Low-Light)

Korash is generally confused. "Whoever brought us here, maybe, is dead now. Then we find ways out."


Comes running back
"just had an idea, Rapping"

She pulls at the gun like thing trying to get the plastic off, if that dos not work she smashes on on the floor reapidly with the pointy end away.


"Or!! Sky bring that here, this could be a power-cell of some kind not a gun"


Male Taninim
Stats:
AC/Touch/Flat/Surprise 22/14/20/22 | Fort/Ref/Will +11/08/05 | Init +00 | Perception +13 | Stealth +4
Draconic Exemplar 162 HP 8/8 DP

"What is it with you and jabbing things into things, ripping things out, and smashing things..?" He moved over to the body he'd carried earlier and nudged it with his nose... before sighing.

"What do you intend to do with it?" He continued clutching his eggs protectively as he looked at Calista.


"This whole place is tech the likes of which I have never seen before, but one thing always stays consent, the laws of physics, o you can bend them with linking to the higher and lower energy grids in sub space with Psionics, and the Psinoics you call magic, but they are always the same. So no matter this tech level is higher, energy is energy, and to alter states and change things you need energy. This things sparks like the hard end of a battery. It just hit me this my be just that, a power unit. Used on the devices in here, its a educated guess but right now that's wall we have to go on. So what I want to try is see of this thing powers those things"

She points at the eggs.


Male Taninim
Stats:
AC/Touch/Flat/Surprise 22/14/20/22 | Fort/Ref/Will +11/08/05 | Init +00 | Perception +13 | Stealth +4
Draconic Exemplar 162 HP 8/8 DP

Skyscale lowered his head to show that he wasn't trying to assert his dominance, and also to show his acknowledgement of the delicate topic at hand. "You want to stick the lightning club into an egg to see if that will work..? Calista... surely there is some other way to test the object than to take a life in the process... even if you are hungry. I will not allow you to fry the eggs. I... understand that you are upset, Calista, but this is not the answer. I did not wish to say anything untoward, but you look fine without your scales. And they will grow back! They violated you in a way I cannot hope to understand... but killing the new life that they so callously threw aside is not the solution to the anger that you feel. Besides, if they will not grow back, perhaps Korash will aid you in taking new forms. His magic is astounding."


As Skyscale clutches the smaller orb to his chest, it begins to melt, flowing over his body. It manages to cover the front, but it seems that there is not enough to cover the entirety of his body.

Skyscale:

In your vision, you can see little floating lights, which have a line pointed at different people's heads and the various objects in the room. spinning around to take a look, you see that the there is a little bubble of light above all of the people here with you, the club that Isabela threw on the ground, and the large egg behind you. Whatever is on you in no way inhibits your senses or movement.

Not a great Picture, but it's what I could find.


Male Taninim
Stats:
AC/Touch/Flat/Surprise 22/14/20/22 | Fort/Ref/Will +11/08/05 | Init +00 | Perception +13 | Stealth +4
Draconic Exemplar 162 HP 8/8 DP

"Magic!" Skyscale exclaims. "Not eggs, but magic! The eggs. They are pointing at your faces with magic!" Skyscale bounces excitedly. "I don't know what it means, but it's... pointing at all of the things. There is light everywhere now!"

He hands the second egg to Calista swiftly, without a second thought, and wings back over to collect eggs for everyone... trying to find one that will fit him better than the first while he's at it... If he can find a slightly larger egg, he'll try to pull his current shell off.


Skyscale:

As you think about pulling it off, the covering reforms into an orb, which you deftly catch before it falls. You don't see any larger orbs, but you can certainly make a couple of trips and grab some for everyone in the party.


Male Taninim
Stats:
AC/Touch/Flat/Surprise 22/14/20/22 | Fort/Ref/Will +11/08/05 | Init +00 | Perception +13 | Stealth +4
Draconic Exemplar 162 HP 8/8 DP

Skyscale brings back orbs for everyone! And... assuming nothing has happened with the huge orb by the time he gets back, he presses his chest to it, and does all manner of clambering on it... trying to get it to encompass his body. Both in and out of shell.

I figure that will already have been tried, though!


male Aasimar Magister 9 HP 73/73

You would all be considered strange, back home.


Ya, you can't get the big egg to do it's thing....yet.


Deciduous Seedling - Martial Artist 2 | Gladiator 1 | Soulknife 6 (Deadly Fist, Gifted Blade)
Vitals (M/L/H):
Init +5, HP 79/92, PP 23/26 | AC 36/34/32, T 20/18/16, FF 36/34/32 | Fort +6, Ref +11/10/9, Will +10 | Perception 17 (Low-Light)

Korash would agree with Ameo, if he were able to understand him. Instead he just stays his distance from the weird melting orb.


Calist lissoned as sky talk, thinking where do you start in explaining to some one this primitive, bang rocks make Fire ? He's sweet but what the ...!!!

as the egg moved and changed, Calistra know at once what's she's looking at, she just could not believe it, a biomechanic space suit of some kind how the ... some think so crazy tech she was a little in shock, a biomechanics like suit! Made of some kind of living matter that could shape itself, just like the red suit she had on. The clan technia's had benn working on this for 100s of years, getting no where. And here it was, her anger was now gone, who ever had made this was 1000s of years more advanced then her people's if they had this level of tethnic craft, what could stop them. She no must fine out more, it could be a matter of like and death for the clans.

She held the egg as sky had done, waited to see if it to changed at form a suit around her.

gm shy is there with us we can see what he looks like


As Skyscale discovered, when Isabela pushes the egg against her chest, it reforms, covering her entire body.

Isabela:

In your vision, you can see little floating lights, which have a line pointed at different people's heads and the various objects in the room. spinning around to take a look, you see that the there is a little bubble of light above all of the people here with you, the club that Isabela threw on the ground, and the large egg behind you. Whatever is on you in no way inhibits your senses or movement.

Not a great picture of what you can see, but it's what I could find.

Basically Isabela is covered head to toe in black stuff that looks a little bit like someone covered her in paint. I tried to find a picture to convey what I wanted, but had no luck.


Calista lets the Psychoactive skin move over her, this is not the 1st time she has done this, the Psychoactive skins the clans have that let you servuvive in space, act just the same. What astounds her is when a Huc comes up.
hows it intergration with my vistion! the implants, ? Is this thing intelligent, ?

-2now covered in a Eco skin walks over to the club she dropped and picks it up, this time seeing if the siut activates it.

siut activate weapon

just relalized this has all, the makings of a great paranoia game all we need now are clones and an evil mad central computer


The best part of running a game like this is the theories.

Isabela:

When you look at the weapon you threw on the ground, you can see that it has a marker in it's HUD that is blinking. It would appear to be in the same language that you encountered on the doorway.


Linguistics 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (18) + 8 = 26 O yes baby, 26

Calista sits crossed legged on the floor and start to work. Her head moves around as she looks at objects and the others. Holding her hands out and looking at them. Then gets up and starts to look at the walls doors and objects.

Given that now she has more text and to work with she looks at known objects and notes what the text says, in this way she starts to gain and understanding to the written form. She can guess at some meanings.
This then acts as a roseta-stone to unlock the more.

She says to each of them.

"I am trying to work out a basic understanding of what this text says form the [unknown tech word] that this thing makes, its not [unknown word] is really is [unknown tech word] in some way"

GM:

augured-answer She wants to know how to remove the block to her powers, 7pp 80% right Manifest level is the same as caster level

6d20 ⇒ (9, 15, 4, 13, 12, 9) = 62
6d20 ⇒ (4, 17, 12, 18, 17, 12) = 80
6d20 ⇒ (10, 11, 9, 13, 8, 12) = 63
6d20 ⇒ (15, 16, 11, 9, 12, 12) = 75
6d20 ⇒ (13, 12, 17, 3, 1, 13) = 59
6d20 ⇒ (20, 1, 20, 15, 11, 10) = 77
6d20 ⇒ (17, 17, 10, 2, 9, 6) = 61


Male Taninim
Stats:
AC/Touch/Flat/Surprise 22/14/20/22 | Fort/Ref/Will +11/08/05 | Init +00 | Perception +13 | Stealth +4
Draconic Exemplar 162 HP 8/8 DP

Skyscale finally wings down, carrying two more egg shapes, and tries to give them to Korash and Ameo. Whether they take them or not... Skyscale begins to interact much more heavily with the giant egg, trying to get it to grow to encompass him... investigating it from all angles with his long draconic neck... even rolling it over to make sure he didn't miss anything.


male Aasimar Magister 9 HP 73/73

Ameo takes the eggs shaped object and observes it in his hands.


Isabela:

Nicely rolled.

Looking at the runes, the first thing that you notice is that they are differently shaded when looking at the ones above both skyscale and ameo, and the ones that sit above the the massive egg and the rifle-esque object that you were beating up earlier. On a hunch, you reach out to touch one of the glowing runes, and it expands, giving you a set of scrolling information about the subject (even if you can't understand what it says quite yet).

Touching the rune above both of your companions produces similar results: scrolling information as well as skeletal or interior pictures of them both, similar to x-rays, but much more advanced.

touching the rune above the rifle causes it to likewise expand out, but this time there is a set of text and a blinking green button.

touching the rune above the large egg makes it expand, and you can see that there is a square black button with no text.

let me know what you want to do in a spoiler for now, and i'll describe your actions to the group.


Deciduous Seedling - Martial Artist 2 | Gladiator 1 | Soulknife 6 (Deadly Fist, Gifted Blade)
Vitals (M/L/H):
Init +5, HP 79/92, PP 23/26 | AC 36/34/32, T 20/18/16, FF 36/34/32 | Fort +6, Ref +11/10/9, Will +10 | Perception 17 (Low-Light)

Korash stands back warily—he's not going to touch the things without some convincing.


Male Taninim
Stats:
AC/Touch/Flat/Surprise 22/14/20/22 | Fort/Ref/Will +11/08/05 | Init +00 | Perception +13 | Stealth +4
Draconic Exemplar 162 HP 8/8 DP

Skyscale would leave the egg on the floor in front of Korash... then make his armor pop on... and off... and on... and off... and on... and then start playing with the -big- egg again.


Calista is sitting on the floor waving her hands around in front of her likes she it touching things that are not there.

GM:

She will see if any of the symbles changes the gun to active. By activating them all.


Male Taninim
Stats:
AC/Touch/Flat/Surprise 22/14/20/22 | Fort/Ref/Will +11/08/05 | Init +00 | Perception +13 | Stealth +4
Draconic Exemplar 162 HP 8/8 DP

Skyscale extended his long neck, tilting his head curiously, as he watched Calista. "You are not as good at dancing as Korash." He acknowledged.


she shoots back,
"If your asking me for a dance now is not the time"


Male Taninim
Stats:
AC/Touch/Flat/Surprise 22/14/20/22 | Fort/Ref/Will +11/08/05 | Init +00 | Perception +13 | Stealth +4
Draconic Exemplar 162 HP 8/8 DP

I suppose she is still bad at Draconic. Skyscale thought. "It is just that your legs are... supposed to move, I think. And you need the baton in hand. Otherwise it's all pointless. Because you're just... wiggling... if you do not. And wiggling is not a very good form of dancing." He said as he climbed over the top of the 'egg' to look at it from another angle, as he bounced on his hind legs to change the pressure that he was planting on it with his forelegs. "Mmmm. It is not like the others. Maybe I should see if I can find anything else interesting in the room. It does not like me." He rolled it over for good measure to get a better look at the 'underside'. Which he looked at by craning his neck so that his head was upside down.


"Sky don't go just yet, put it up right and hold it there"

GM:

once he has done that she will click on the black box the HUD shows over it.


Male Taninim
Stats:
AC/Touch/Flat/Surprise 22/14/20/22 | Fort/Ref/Will +11/08/05 | Init +00 | Perception +13 | Stealth +4
Draconic Exemplar 162 HP 8/8 DP

Skyscale climbs back over the top of the egg and then maneuvers it back into an upright position. He then started looking around it with his long neck while a foreclaw holds it in its upright position.


male Aasimar Magister 9 HP 73/73

Calista, Have you any idea what these things are?


"Put one on then you will see images/pictures/runes in your filed of view, eye sight/vision user you hand to lick on one, you will not feel anything but you will see the symbol change. Who ever made this equipment/tools/tech also placed an information system with in them. I am now trying to decode/understand/read just what that information is. The clothing is some form of space suit/Armour/battle dress and clubs/guns/tools are some kind of weapon/tool/wand."

She says this to every in their own language.


Isabela:

Pushing the blinking icon above the rifle causes it to stop sparking electricity, and the icon changes to a solid black. Pushing the icon from the giant egg causes it to do what I'm about to describe in the main room. The icon from the giant egg goes from solid black to blinking.

As Isabela is moving her arms about, the club on the floor stops humming and sparking, returning to the state you found it on. Before Skyscale can truly get his balance on top of the giant egg, it begins moving on it's own. Legs made of some sort of metal sprout from the bottom, the left and right hand sides slide out, and the opposite face from where Isabela is standing slides straight up, smacking Skyscale smartly just enough to hurt without doing damage.

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