Tess follows suit, lowering her weapon but staying silent, keeping a sharp eye out.
Several misshapen humanoids creatures with strange metal armor burst from the rooms and the southern hallway. Each is carrying a morningstar made of strange metal. One of the creatures pulls on a wooden lever, releasing large blobs of blood and flesh (like large moving tumors) that begin to shamble towards the party from the large metal tubes.
Another of the misshapen humanoids appears beside the levers, her face seems split and put together misaligned, and she carries a pistol that evokes cold white gas. She shouts in Androffan.
1. Valt, Kharamell, Nyssa, Alexis, Tessara
2. Enemy
3. Bron
Tess narrows her eyes. "They think we are servants of the black and here to take their brains!" She switches to Androffan.
"We really don't want your brains. We will defend ourselves. Stand down!" Nyssa's tone goes from conciliatory to commanding as she speaks in the lost Androffan tongue.
The suli twirls her blade up while settling into her fighting crouch. There will be blood.
[b]"I would guess that they are not at full mental functionality and are not listening to you. I urge you to actively defend yourself."[b]
Kharamell moves then casts Ball Lightening and targets the front tumor.
Ref 20 to negate
Ref 20 to negate
Valt follows Kharamell and starts making gestures and chants, when suddenly a rift expelling a violent fire extends through the entire passageway in front of him.
This will give us some cover until we deal with the creatures near us. -Says the summoner.
The Black? The black what?
Alexis starts to sing, inspiring the party
The female humanoid shrieks, "Lies! I know the creatures of the Black, the servants. They look just like you, brain takers. You can not fool me."
Lightning blasts the front tumor, sending the scent of iron blood and burnt flesh out of the pipe.
A large wall of flame sprouts from thin air. Screams escape the mouths of the affected, twisted humanoids as the flames lick their bodies.
Nyssa sighs, then quickly follows Iophiel into the back room and attacks the creature in the center of their line.
Before advancing into range, Nyssa fits her arm into the straps of her quickdraw shield.
Tess gives a short hiss. "If you refuse to see reason we will be forced to defend ourselves!" She shouts in the creature's tongue, then she casts gravity bow on herself.
Nyssa hacks off the humanoid's arm across the elbow, spraying a trail of red ichor on the metal floor. The monstrous creature drops its weapon and clutches at the stump.
touch
cold
The humanoids move forward striking at the nearby heroes with their metal morningstars. Some leap out of the fire, red light reflecting from the nearby magical wall. The one in front of Nyssa clutches at its arm stunned by the suli's assault.
Icy white light pierces outward from the split-faced woman's handgun.
Nyssa lets her sword's momentum bring the blade around in an arcing circle, to cut into the creature again. It needs to be finished.
Kharamell shoots at the floor and creates a hole beneath the feet of two of the attackers.
Create Pit 30' deep; Ref DC 16
The two balls of electricity move to injure the blue blob.
Ref 20 to negate
Ref 20 to negate
Valt, with enemies on front of him, wounded and with Iophiel acting on her own, decides to take on the defensive, vanishing in the air after a brief chanting and quick gesturing.
Invisibility
Tess gasps in pain as the blow lands, then steps back and pumps a pair of arrows towards her assailant.
Lightning electrifies the red blob, shredding it into a stinking pile of burnt flesh. The electricity surges out and strikes the blob still within the tube.
After Nyssa's blade spins in a circle, the humanoid's body is split in half through its chest. As the pit appears underneath the creatures from Kharamell's magic, one falls down (with nowhere to go), while the other leaps back into the intensity of the fire wall.
Iophiel hacks down the other remaining human-thing in the room, while Tessara's arrows stab through the core of her attacker.
touch
cold
touch
cold
Two blasts of white ice-light shoots from the split-faced woman's gun at the other android. Ice forms along the chest where Kharamell feels the biting cold. The nearby androids move towards Tessara and Valt, striking at them with their metal morningstars. Tessara shifts her body back to dodge the horizontal arc, but Valt feels the metal batter his shoulder.
Nyssa turns from her fallen foe and moves toward the next group of assailants. She slashes at the one to her left.
Alexis moves with the party, and sights her wand on the enemy. Still singing she triggers it, aiming at the closest enemy she can see.
touch attack
Valt, wounded, decides to impose his will upon Iophiel, making her to pop at his side, and compulsed to strike the creature menacing his master.
Nyssa drops the android harassing Tessara with a deep cut along its back.
Fire from Tessara's wand burns the purple android. He shrieks as the scorching rays pierce through his skin. From the side, Iophiel appears and slashes the (purple) android with her greatsword. The enemy falls to the ground.
Tess gives a quick look of gratitude to Nyssa. Then she rolls and comes up, firint two more arrows at the light blue android.
Bron falls back to give ranged fighters a better shot.
Tessara takes a step to get a better view and fires a rapid fire shot at the android leader.
Unable to close the gap and unwilling to enter the fire, most of the enemies stay put. The android leader fires two more shots at Kharamell from across the pit.
touch
cold
touch
cold
Valt gathers energy to envelop Iophiel with a pale blue light, that brights faintly. Then, the summoner asks her to engage the android with the strange ice-beams weapon and strides away.
Resist energy (ice) to Iophiel
Tired of being shot at, Kharamell casts Acid Pit under the android that's shooting him before moving away from the original pit. The balls of electricity move up to shock the remaining blob.
Acid Pit 30' deep; Ref DC 18
The two balls of electricity move to injure the blue blob.
Ref 20 to negate
Ref 20 to negate
Alexis moves up to Kharamell
here
healing
Pits, fire-walls..." Nyssa slings her shield and scabbards her sword. Picking off the remainder of the enemies of with arrows seems like the best idea.
Stepping forward, the suli taunts: "That the best you got? If you had a brain, it wouldn't be worth stealing. Even if we did that..."
Seerath leaps back from the acid pit. She snarls in Androffan,
The blue blob of flesh is scorched by the electricity and its body slides down into the newly formed acid pit.
The android beside Seerath leaps away from the acid pit but falls into the normal pit (having nowhere to go).
I can't open the spoiler to read what she says.
neither can I
Nyssa readies her bow. Before she lets arrows fly, she tries to reason with Seerath one last time. In Androffan she says: 'We don't want your stupid brain. We don't want to take you prisoner. We just want to talk."
The android stares at the blinking sphere in her hand, waiting for the inevitable.
Tess barks out at the android.
The grenade in Seerath's hand explodes sending icy shrapnel into the deformed android's body. She screams in pain as she dies. Hearing her final exclamation, the remaining androids stop in their place and no longer look like they will put up resistance.
"I do not understand why she would chose to die. To kill herself." Kharamell goes goes over to her husk and begins to see if she has any salvageable items. "Strip them of their weapons before interrogating them." He reminds the others. "Then let them go.
Eventually both pit spells will expire. Those in the first one must simply wait for the spell's duration. The second pit, though has acid in it and any in it will continue to take damage every round. He will dismiss the Ball Lightning spell.
"I can not imagine what scares she that much, but I fear we will meet it sooner or later. If we can collect some information about it from the remaining creatures, we will be able to prepare ourselves against."
Says the summoner, while expending magic energies from a wand to heal his wounds.
"Some fates are worse than death" Nyssa tells Kharamell. Perhaps these remaining wretches can tell us more about the Black, and it's agents."
Nyssa speaks to the survivors in Androffan:
better her than us
-6 metal morningstars
-8 concussion grenades
-masterwork green scatterlight suit
-timeworn zero pistol
-batteries (2)
-6 hide armor
The remaining androids grunt and grumble, but none of them are able to speak more than a few simple words like yes and no. Their eyes seem to cloud over when you speak to them about important or higher concepts, and they definitely are not able to tell you anything important.
How many charges are left in the Zero pistol and scatterlight suit?
Unless they are made of a special material, I'm not including the morningstars and hide armor on the LOOT LIST.