"I stand corrected, you got A useful piece of information. Good job." Muga's slow clap seems to deem he still thought this a waste of time.
" Hrmph, he is too far gone but I think the crux of this matter is that soothe we found before.. they seem addicted. No matter.. he isnt repentant "
Yvell looks at him from in front of the doors down the corridor, " Muga you want that one? "
It seems that you were both partially correct. Uriah says a bit sadly to his allies Muga and Yvell.
To the Smiler Uriah says Were I you, I would pray to whatever god you venerate. Your soul will soon be theirs. and Uriah leaves the man to his fate.
Yvell also begins to sigh " If he is up ahead they had time to hear the racket.. might as well prepare ourselves with any enhancements we might need before going forward. Muga, you will feel a fire burn within you.. it might be prudent to Accept it. " Yvell spoke being one of the few times others could be effected by it.
Aeron moves back to let the others have at the pitiful creature before her. She pulls out her heavy crossbow and loads it in preparation for what is to come. She knew she would only get one shot with the weapon, so it would have to count. She sheathed Oblivion took up a position at the next door readying herself to move once everyone had completed their own preparations. With a steadying breath, she centered herself for the fight to come.
Yvell will ready action to start his Raging song before the doors are opened
The Smiler gives a basic description of the base-bosses lab is to the north, with her sleeping quarters. Smilers sleep in small rooms to the east, and the storage room is to the west.
The northern room turns out to be a hallway that bends to the west. There are a set of double doors.
Looking at this door (and the others), you see that it is a sliding door made of heavy glaucite. There are buttons next to the doors that you guess made them open automatically, however, they no longer work. Someone has attached handles to the doors, making them slightly easier to open.
Yvell opens the door to the next room.
Well over a dozen large glass tanks sit against the walls of this oval-shaped chamber. The tanks themselves are semi-opaque with condensation, grit, and filth, but several of them seem to contain some sort of figure within. Each tank has a metal-rimmed door on its front allowing the contents to be accessed, and one tank to the north has been wrapped with several coils of rope.
Yvell, still in his fiery raged form can still pay close attention and gives the room a sweep with his eyes before moving in the chant still resonating before walking in to the next door according to the layout
Uriah follows behind Yvell, studying he curious tanks and especially the one that looks to have been altered.
Both Uriah and Yvell see thin layers of condensation covering the glass of each tank, except for the one far to the north which is covered in rope.
Yvell moves up and peers into the northern tank , if it isnt the Ratfolk, he will turn and open the doors to the east.
Val follows Yvell into the room looking around.
Muga is reloading his sheath as he slowly walks into the room. "This room is bad news." A snarl forms on his lips, and he obviously doesn't like the vibe of this room.
Yvell thinks he sees a furry creature trapped inside the rope covered tube but its hard to tell without moving or removing the ropes. To the side of the machine is a lever, above which is written in Common and red ink "Release".
Valtyra sees nothing interesting in the room. She can't see through the layer of condensation on the tubes, or see anything useful.
Aeron enters the room after taking a last look behind to ensure no one was there. She then shuts the door behind them and moves deeper into the new room. She only then noticed the tubes and a sour expression crossed her face. Test subjects. She knew the sight well as her study of the gnome scholar's notes had many similar setups of such. She moved to place her back to a wall and leveled her crossbow as if "waiting for the other shoe to drop".
Yvell stops his song and pulls he Lever after cutting the ropes. " Be prepared.. this may go badly "
Uriah nods his assent to Yvell.
Cutting the ropes, Yvell and company see a naked ratfolk in the tubes fall out. He regains consciousness and begins to sputter.
"No! Don't dissect me! Oh, you aren't Smilers. Who the heck are you? Oh Gods, what are those?!"
Before you can answer, the other tubes suddenly release gas from exhaust ports and six undead abominations crash through the containers. Each one seems to have a metal drill arm and metal jaws, along with different attachments.
1. Muga, Yvell
2. Enemies
3. Aeron, Uriah, Valtyra, Phylla
Yvell looks to the rat and shouts, " I'm not sure but I might have an idea. They are foul and will be handled. If you are Whiskifiss, we've come to save you and destroy the foul Smilers. We are the Pomegranate Dreamers. "
After such Yvell slices at the one closest to him to test their strength.
Yvell slashes at the creature's chest with his curve blade, and black ichor oozes from the severed dead flesh. It remains standing and waggles its jaw at the paladin.
Muga slashes at one of the undead but his large blade strikes and bounces off a metal piece.
The undead move closer to the living and try to clamp on with their jaws and swing their spinning drills into the heroes' flesh. One of the Rust-Risen, the one with the spinning chest blades, tries to grab onto Valtyra instead.
Yvell gets stabbed in the side and bitten in the neck and shoulder by two of the Rust Risen. Uriah tries to dodge and weave but he isn't ready yet, and the zombie catches him with its drill and bites into his arm. The undead tries to grab at Valtyra but its arms move two slowly to reach around her and she slips away. Aeron knocks aside the Rust Risen's attacks effortlessly with her scimitar. Muga distracted by his miss, is stabbed and bitten by his zombie.
Uriah staggers away from the undead monstrosity and points at the Undead that Yvell slashed. Uriah's dagger flies at it of its own accord! however the dagger fails to find purchase.
Val looks at the monsters trying to figure out what they are.
Then she steps next to the monster infront of her, she says a prayer to Serenrae and directs holy light at the undead.
Yvell lets out a grunt of pain as the presence of injury start to become a well known addition to his current life. After the swell of Valtyra's Might Yvell tries to cut down another one of the undead. " Stand together! Don't let them separate you from the rest. "
The Rust Risen that bit into Yvell yanks out a chunk of flesh from the paladin.
Uriah's mind thrown dagger flies a foot away from his intended target and stabs into the glass of an un-shattered tube.
Valtyra swings at the creature that tries to grab her, misses, and then just moves out of its grasp. She recalls some rumors about experimentation on undead, grafting all sorts of strange gadgets and metal parts onto regular zombies. Valtyra remembers that they also have a habit of malfunctioning.
Valtyra's light strikes at the undead. Her positive energy causes the nearest zombie by Yvell to suddenly fall to the ground.
Yvell turns to the northern Rust Risen and cuts it apart with a clean slash of his Elven curved blade. It severs the creature horizontally, and the undead stops moving.
"Hmm... They don't have any minds... And they don't smell good either." Phylla murmurs. She swings her tentacles at the creature harassing Valtyra.
Yvell pulls his blade back with a satisfaction but was bleeding profusely. " Filth, good thing we have some way of dealing with multiple undead. They are beginning to get annoying. Phylla this is why you must have conviction, to rid the world of creatures like this.. they.. taint your red food and I'm sure you wouldn't like that "
"Preaching mid battle while nearly dead... I'm honestly not sure how to take that."
" I'm nowhere near dead. You can talk once you start hitting something. If you want, next time you can take a blow or two. " Yvell drew his weapon back ready to strike down another Undead.
Muga slashes through the the closest monster. Its jaw rattles as it falls down, drill suddenly turning on and stabbing into its stomach.
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When battle erupts, Aeron fires a bolt at the closest undead. It stabs into its head, but it doesn't seem to affect its combat skills at all. After Valtyra's wave of light engulfs it, it screams wordlessly and falls apart.
Aeron drops the crossbow, then moves in close to Valtyra's undead and slashes at it with her scimitar. The android's attack misses, striking off its metal jaw.
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Uriah's enemy takes a step closer to him and tries to bite and stab the sorcerer. The Rust Risen's body screws seem to be loose and its attacks are too slow to hit Uriah, much less graze his clothing.
Aeron shifts into a flanking position with the little space plant offering her a more favorable position against the metal monstrosities. A whisper leaves her lips as a stream of arcane words flow forth, her free hand moving in a simple set of gestures before she strikes two quick hits against the creature before Valtyra.
Uriah fends off the creature as best he can.
The android makes two quick slashes, one glowing, at the sawblade-chested undead. She cuts at the undead's torso and it falls apart, the blades still spinning and digging into the metal floor.
A mark flares to life upon the largest falling piece of the downed monster. The image is of a mask on the one side is a humanoid face very similar to Aeron, but the other depicts a set of runes puzzled together like a set oh clockwork gears.
Yvell breaths out and tries to cut down the Last Undead.
Val walks behind Yvell and way from the undead, she chants and casts a spell.
"I suppose I can start talking now, but meh, I've already said my piece."