"Well I guess if Gavin vouches for you you can help us find brobot. Back through the deadly electricity."
Valt slides the black keycard into the machine by the black door, "Science Deck Access."
A large metal desk with blinking lights and strange glowing panels sits atop a raised area on the east side of this room near a circular table. Two couches covered with black material sit to the south a pair of black metal pillars. Splatters of dried blood stain the floor and walls near a pair of doors to the north, while here and there patches of rust-red mold and fungus cling to the southern wall. The room itself is brightly lit by glowing panels on the ceiling.
There are double doors to the North, a door behind the desk, and double doors to the East.
So, we are not looking the other rooms? not even the one with the black strip?
Asks Valt to both Aurusk and Kraig.
"I never would have guess the black key to the black door would lead to a room where everything is black."
"I bet if we mix these plants together and apply them topically they will permanently increase our vitality. Volunteers?"
Alexis looks doubtfully at kraig.
Ah...no thanks. You give it a go first.
"Why would you think that, Kraig?" Nyssa looks around to room, from a position just inside the door.
Valt steps inside the room, and looks for more labeled doors, like this science desk one. Then he searches for papers with writings or another card.
We have 3 more doors to search for, or we can try to open the red one before we explore this many paths.
Says Valt while looking at the flashing lights, but not touching anything without a label he can read first.
That Kraig, where he gets these ideas? Hope he is just joking.
Nyssa moves into the room to cover for Valt while he searches. "After that chilly mold we came across earlier, I can't help but wonder what these here do." Nyssa stays well clear of the fungus in question.
"That door behind the desk would be a good place to go next I think."
"I still don't know why we're all down here, but I'll keep an eye for this robot brother of yours."
The goblin waddles in the room and looks around. He ignores the mass of blood stains at the northern doors and the weird fungus by the southern wall. He taps his musket at the machine by the door behind the desk. "My treasure sense is tingling. How do we open these doors? There ain't no keyholes, or nothing."
Oh sorry, Mr. Starboom, with the fray and others things I totally forgot about your question. Did not Gavin informed you? In any case, we are here searching for a lost member of the Torch community, called Khonnir. He was investigating why flame that gave name to the town has turned off and discovered that cavern complex. There is a monetary reward for finding him and for rekindle the flame too.
About the doors, they open when the appropriate card is inserted on that little box on the door's side. Looks like they are color coded, but not sure if there is a color that opens more, like having some hierarchy.
"Thanks for the rundown, wizard man. No, Gavin told me nothing, just help out you mooks. So you got me until we save this Khonnir fella, and get this bonfire thing lit."
Nortmog gives you a nice, wide sharptoothed grin.
"Well, you guys start opening doors and let's do this!"
He taps some black powder into his gun and puts in a bullet.
"Let's go this way. Probably where the important people come from."
Kraig opens the door.
There are several upright lockers. Inside them are pieces of broken metal and machinery. You search through them and find some technological gadgets.
You find three batteries and 26 silverdisks. There is also a cylindrical tube-like object with a lens on the front of it, and a button on the side.
There is also a white striped bin that is locked.
"That was my guess too." Nyssa tells Kraig. "Looks like it's only where the important people keep their stuff."
Its the bin attached? i not we can carry until we find a reliable way to open it. If we find the card that opens it, we can sell it or use for our own benefit.
"That thing's kinda unwieldy. If someone wants to carry it around, I won't stop you. Anyone know what this is?" Kraig shows the cylindrical object around.
As Kraig shows the group the object, he accidentally presses the button on the side and a cone of light comes out of the lens. He shines bright light at everyone.
Nyssa tries to dodge away from the light, there's no telling what it might do.
"Huzzah! I hold the power of the sun in my hands!" Kraig directs the light towards the white container.
Kraig's sun illuminates the white container, but it does not unlock.
"Ah, I've seen something like that, beardo. Its one a those shine-light things." Nortmog says. "I'm pretty sure it doesn't open doors or locks, bub."
"We'll leave that locker here for now, I think." Nyssa moves to the bloodstained double doors. She opens them and has a look inside.
Bloodstains mar the floor and walls of this hallway, while scorch marks and smears of ash on the walls evidence some sort of altercation having taken place in this area relatively recently. Four tangled mounds of metal and other materials lie further up the hall, surrounded by strangely colored stains.
Nyssa notices that it is a lot of blood, a few people's worth of blood.
There are two sets of double doors to the East and South at the end of the hallway.
Cautiously, Nyssa moves closer the tangled mounds of wreckage. Broken brobots? Nyssa wonders silently.
The mounds look different than the repair drones--definitely not brobots. Some of the tangled masses are blue and gray with tubes and blue liquid, others have rotors, long, spindly fingers and broken gun-like pieces.
Alexis looks at the site, and kneeling examines the blood and scorch marks.
looks like a battle was fought here. Khonnir is a mage, isn't he. Could explain the burns.
She stands up and says no bodies, so they won?
Valt looks at the blood worried and, looking to alexis, says:
Perhaps, but too much blood. At least some on them got wounded.
Well, our first priority is to find Khonnir, so lets follow the blood stains trail and hope for the best.
don't get too worried, valt. A little blood can seem like a lot, and healing can help a lot. I think they won their fight, healed and moved on.
I say to follow the blood trail until we find Khonnir group, so if no one questions it, lets go with caution.
Aurusk nods, We should find out what made that trail. Come along. He slowly makes his way to the eastern doors and opens them.
You enter the eastern doors.
A long table with various unusual stones and dirt samples heaped on it sits along the southern wall of this room, while to the north a line of metal desks with glowing panels and buttons are placed next to a large humming device. The heart of this device seems to be some sort of flickering sphere of reddish brown mud or dirt. Dust covers much of this room, save for a strangely clean swath between the doors, which leads to the strange humming device.
On top of the machine in the northeastern part of the room is a purple plant with ropy root legs, an open maw and vine tendrils extending upwards.
You all hear a whisper-voice in your heads. "Who are you? Where am I? What is this place?" Other than the plant, there are no living organisms in the room.
There are double doors to the south east.
"Explorers. Golarion. Looks like some kind of laboratory to me." Nyssa answers the questions she hears in her head, out loud. Then she adds: "That plant looks hungry." She readies an arrow to pierce it's hide if it moves to grab anyone.
The voice whispers in your heads again.
Red food, red food, give me red food... Do you have red food? It is very yummy. Delicious. Wet and slimy. Sometimes warm or dry. Red food, red food..."
It continues to repeat red food in your heads like a chant.
"This must be the father of the purple plant shown in the other room. We should find it for him. It sounds like it's carnivorous. We could feed it the tentacle thing we killed earlier."
Aurusk jumps into the air spinning. He tries to find the direction of the voice, but can't seem to come to any conclusions. Finally, he covers his ears defensively. What?
"We could, but we won't. Nyssa tells Kraig.
Nyssa is getting angry. "You! Red Food! Shut up!"
The voice whispers. "I will be quiet. But you must give me red food. Or else I will get angry."
The purple plant's vine tendrils wiggle in the air.
"Is anyone else hearing a weird talking voice in their heads? I'm not going crazy, right? Someone tell me what to do. I ain't the leader guy here."
Nortmog has his musket shifting from the rocks to the plant, unsure what exactly is making the noise.
this is odd. Can plants talk?
Well, perhaps we can find you some more if you explain us how you get it first. I mean, there was other creatures like us that passed by? How many and what was with them if not alone?
Asks a concerned Valt, with no intention to get closer to the strange thing.
Creatures like you were pulled through here by creatures not like you. They were metal things. Then I ate the Red food on the ground. It was delicious. I am hungry. Give me red food, red food, red food..."
The whispering in your heads gets louder. You see the purple plant's ropy little roots rip themselves off the machine.
"Alright buddy. We gotta go find the others like us first, then we'll feed you. You just hang tight. Photosynthesize."
"No, no, no, no, no, no. I will not wait any longer-" A powerful scream assails your minds, causing you to nearly black out from the intensity.
1. Purple plant
2. Everyone
The plant extends its tendrils out and swings at Kraig.
The tendrip whips out and misses.