The eastern side of this otherwise metal-walled room is collapsed, revealing a wet, earthen shaft leading upward (where you came from). The floor is covered to a depth of three inches with stagnant water that's seeped in from the exposed earth. The west wall contains a bank of strange machinery and cracked or partially shattered glass panels. To the north, an open doorway beckons into another, larger room, but the door's frame sparks periodically with tiny bolts of electricity.
Yvell motions to the door, " Grammanar, do you believe you can disable that? There was once a similar hazard upon the Ruins beneath Torch.. later found out to be 'The Divinity'. The hazard sparked often but we were able to rush past it with good timing. In this particular case I do not think that is possible due to the water at our feet. If you cannot.. I can trigger it and hope our healing is enough to push through. "
He slowly approached, it eerie that they heard no other sounds but their own. " Phylla, are you sure you heard thoughts down here? Are they still present? "
He will await the response of someone else before moving forward.
"Yeah, I'll see if there's any loose wires."
"Yes, there are thoughts here. But there are many. I can't really focus on any." Phylla sends. The fungus stays near the rear of the group, trudging at her own pace.
Grammanar stops the sparking around the door.
Looking into the next room, you see:
This wide room has a rounded desk in the center inset with banks of technological equipment. A large set of doors to the northeast are badly mangled and jammed with rocky debris. A single glass panel with a thin metal frame extends from a desk to the south; this panel slowly flashes with a softly pulsating white light. A few inches of standing water cover the southern portion of the room's floor.
Giving Grammanar the nod of approval Yvell warily steps in to inspect desk in the center and the room proper. He wasnt sure it was safe and rather no one else be subjected to the possible misshaps.
If nothing immediately happened. He started to look over any information. Casting Technomancy.
As soon as Yell approaches the panel, it begins to play.
An image appears on the glass screen-an image of the same room, as viewed from above the southern door. A man leans in over the screen on the desk in the image, then straightens up and nods his head eagerly before speaking to the apparently empty room. "As I thought. While this terminal accepted my spell's magical charge, it's unlinked to any sort of central archive. We'll not be able to extract any significant information from here."
A second, much deeper voice from an unknown source replies,
"But what you seek still lies within the ruins of this ship, does it not, Master Xoud?"
The man nods again. "I believe so. We will need to explore further. There may be additional defenses though. This is why I called upon you, Sahasho-you will lead the way."
At this point, the man walks away, a swirling of dust and wind following him before both are eclipsed by the screen's edge. The screen flickers and goes dark.
Yvell was taken aback by the sudden scene explanation and his mind lingered on the Name Xoud.
" Well, I suppose that explains some things. One.. this seems to be exactly like the other ship 'The Divinity'. Two someone else has been through here. Three the Person was not alone.. and named Xoud and Sahasho. Let's examine the other areas. "
Yvell goes, leading the way to the next entrance.
Yvell opens the sliding doors and is confronted by a swirling mass of metallic sand. It tears through exposed wires and metal off the walls and starts to move towards him.
1. Valtyra, Muga, Yvell, Juxt, Perdix
2. Enemy
3. Grammanar, Phylla
"That is not a thing that I can cut." Muga raises an eyebrow.
Yvell squints, its odd moving of wind and debris. " Its clearly a swarm of some type. "
He raises his voice in strength, calling the power of Ragathiel to him.
Perdix will cast haste on the party and attempt to identify the swarm.
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Grey swarms! How do you fight these? I've been trained to run..."
Yvell and Perdix have never encountered such a swarm. Their best guess is a swarm of tiny robots.
"I've never heard tell of such things. Discretion might be the prudent course here. "
" Swarms are always annoying, Unless you can get back up the well quickly running isnt an option. Likely the door kept it at bay or the electricity from the other. Something that hits multiple things may work. Otherwise we cannot advance. If you can sunmmon something or otherwise this would be the time. "
Yvell tries to reclose the door.
Muga helps with the door if it's stuck.
Muga and Yvell shut the sliding door before the creature can come out. Moments pass and it does not come through the door.
"I don't want this thing alive to... Uhm... No, that's the wrong word. Animate? Yes, animate, to kill us from behind when some enemy lets it loose. Let's prep up, and blast it."
"Got any explosives?" Grammanar asks, "Or... fireballs?"
"I don't do that sort of magic, sorry. "
Yvell keeps his song going as he speaks, " The environment and our ability has given us the method to rid this swarm. Valtyra will be able to summon those of the wind to draw the swarm into themselves, empowered by my lord's wrath. Between the healing and endurance given, we force it into the door that once held the electric hazard! Thus, Grammanar likely be able to cause the door to spark once more.. and fry them... though the elementals of air likely not survive... the remaining could then easily be picked off or shocked once more, Especially if soaked in water by the elementals "
"Alright, I'll see what I can reattach."
Grammanar's tinkering causes the door to spark again. It will likely shock anything that passes through it.
"Open the door and i will set them on that swarm. Or is there a vent?" Val asks.
Yvell nods, " If there was a vent I am sure the swarm would have been upon us Valtyra. I shall bolster them on entry, lets hope this works. "
He opens the door once more Raging Song still active.
Yvell opens the door and the nanite cloud surges out. It is struck by the winds of the air elementals, that pull it towards the electrified door.
Electricity courses through the steel swarm and arcs through the water on the ground. The lightning continues to illuminate and electrify the water until the lights in this room blink out. The metallic sand creatures cover the water.
"Right. The door. Again."
And Grammanar moves to turn the lightning back off.
Muga deftly jumps up into a corner, one foot on each perpendicular wall to stay slightly further away from the water.
Yvell steeled himself for the backlash of his plan as the electricity coursed towards them.
Coming up significantly less worn than he had guessed an alternative battle with the swarm would have been he thanks Grammanar for his swift work on the trap. After some slight recuperation he motioned to the party and continued through the next door.
" Hrm.. I suppose that might have been what Phylla had heard... many thinking minds. "
"Argh!" as he fails to get away from the shocking water.
Clearly hurt Val casts a spell on herself.
"No. I did not hear any voices from the shiny dust. Why would there be any voices there? Phylla murmurs in your heads.
The lightning courses through Phylla's purple body, but her flesh starts to mend together.
"I hate to be a bother, but could someone give me some help here. That charge of electricity did quite a number on me. "
13/38 HP.
" I see, then there is likely more... " Yvell seems wary once more.
He makes sure his song stays a bit to ensure good healing.
"Heh, good, ending on that would be disappointing."
" Always one to stir up trouble Muga, though I cannot say I dont share a similar mindset at this moment. The fact that this is likely a ship and the reason Iadenveigh is having certain issues while ALSO being of interest to the Technic League gives the urgency to eliminate particularly deadly threats. We do not want something worse than Jevik. "
Yvell awaits at the second door past the swarm of metallic bits.
Passing through the pair of doors, you reach a larger chamber.
This cavernous chamber is split into maze like passages by tall stacks of dark, dusty machinery. The western side of this room is a jumble of stone, as from a catastrophic collapse. Three crushed tubes protrude from under the tumbled stone, each as wide as a wagon and capped with a circular metal plate. On the north side of this room, a shattered glass terrarium surrounded by technical equipment stands empty. To the south, more silent machinery looms amid workbenches scattered with technological parts and several large machines that bear restraints and metal skullcaps.
Seeing how everyone is hurt Val channels.
"Thank you Valtyra. I was feeling quite tepid. "
then gazing around at the new room.
"What a fascinating room! I'll have to catalog all this equipment... once it is safe to do so of course. "