Yvell pulls free from the fleshy blob, pushing against its soft and slick mass until he can get away.
Seeing the android continue fighting Val casts a spell at the android.
The android shrugs off Valtyra's magic. As Grammanar fires at the blob, it makes a rotation with its body and tries to strike him. It leaves stinky goo on him, but is unable to latch on. The half orc's bullets puncture the ooze, letting out a aged stench, before its fleshy sacs start to regenerate.
A sick grin comes upon the android woman's severed face as she reaches into her pack and runs towards you and the blob. She says happily,
The blob decides to swing at Yvell again, contorting and twisting its body in an undulating wave.
Muga raises an eyebrow then steps waay back.
Val tries her spell again hoping to get the android to stop.
Is the map current, or is the android in another location? I need to know if I can act in time to prevent movement or not.
The android female is pressed up next to the blob. Her hand is in a pack at her side, and she has not pulled something out.
Juxt's shots obliterate the blob, puncturing it with arrows that pierce its gelatinous mass. The holes try to repair, but are not fast enough, before the monster deflates and leaves behind a pile of goo.
Valtyra's spell does not stop the android from moving towards the party.
Perdix will drop a grease under the space that the blob is in making it hard to traverse. DC 15 reflex.
Then he will move back to the west.
Grammanar draws his whip, switches to regular rage, and prepares to disarm whatever the woman pulls out of her bag.
Yvell sighs, " Just like Meyanda... " before he rushes forward to.. stop this deranded android from doing whatever she had planned, suicide or no. Calling on the power of his lord.
Grammanar's whip snaps at the woman in front of him. She pulls her body back to avoid the thievery.
Yvell rips the android's pack away from her, and can see the blinking sphere through a folded flap. Some kind of grenade.
An explosion erupts from the bag, ripping the leather into shreds and causing a blast of force to hit Grammanar, Yvell, and the android
The deformed android collapses to the ground and stops moving.
Yvell quickly tosses the The pack into nearby pipe opening at his quickened pace.
Hand on the hilt of the blade but less aggressive and on standby.
He shouts as the explosion goes off painfully.
Val rushes up to check on everyone in the explosion.
As the explosion happens inside the metal pipe, the android gives a faint smile, puts the gun against her head... "I won't be taken by you Dominion..." and pulls the trigger. A burst of ice and blood spills out of the deformed android's head as she flops to the ground.
Yvell stares hard as the blood gets on him and shakes his head, angry at the situation. Why try when they simply kill themselves? The devotion much like the follower of Hellion.
" Fool ... Valtyra check her vitals likely she is dead as are all of them.. unless we could have cured insanity based on her warped form.. death might have been better.. however.. "
A very unamused and stern Yvell shouted towards Phylla, " Phylla I noticed your lack of contribution and though normally this is.. par for the course, when it was obvious we attempted to subdue the target it is generally in your best interests to assist. Though Ragathiel is a fearsome god.. there is also an amount of duty. If you did not have the capability to assist I would understand, but you should have. You have to learn when to cut down your foes and when to give them mercy. "
He eyes cool somewhat and look at his own hand which grips then, " Though that does not excuse my own ineptitude. I could not push hard enough on my own nor was my ability to command adequate. I have gotten weak or complacent. " His hand grips hard enough to crack knuckles before giving a sigh.
" Check and see if any lived, then check the adorning room for anything of use... " his voice returned to the stern form.. it was reminiscent of when he first met the party, which only Valtyra might remember, it lacked any hint of emotion.
"She never wanted my help. If we're lucky, she's still got ammunition we can use."
Yvell's stare was cold as he looked at Grammanar, " Yes, I am aware of that.. but she knew she was no longer a threat and took her life, deranged as it was. That is a failure on my part as I;ve said, but I dont expect YOU to have the same moral obligations. As for the Object I might be able to identify it, there might also be something left of the back in that pipe as well as the rooms "
Perdix will add the touch.
"The greatest madness..--es?" Muga pauses for a moment, unsure of the precedent in this tongue, "have no cure, for they come from within. This... did not seem to be one of those, admittedly."
"No... but we tried to help, and I think we tried hard enough. A lot of other androids just died, and we never found out their reasons."
"She would have been useful to question, this Dominion sounds like something we should investigate."
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Yvell simply nodded, he concentrated on his task. " Check the rooms while I do this... We might find out things about this Dominion later. There is more to explore. "
(A5) Workbenches and tools litter this large room, around an unusual looking forge. A variety of bladed weapons hangs on the walls. A shelf on the north end of the room holds polished humanoid skulls.
(A6) This room may have once been used as a storeroom, but its metal shelve s are now haphazardly arranged and draped with thick cloth or metal plating. The result is a claustrophobic warren of passages throughout the room.
(A7) This room's shelves are relatively bare, with a few strange cylindrical objects with strange writing on the side lying in sparse piles on the shelves.
You find over a hundred goo tubes inside the shelves of this room, with Androffan writing.
"Enjoy over 100 flavors of concentrated meats, cheeses, fruits and even complete meals in our simple to eat packaging. Goo Tubes! For the busy researcher or military personnel."
Androids:
-10 weird metal morningstars
-10 grenades with gray sunbursts
-10 hide armor
Main android
-mwk green scatterlight suit
-timeworn zero pistol (20 charges)
-2 batteries
I believe you already know what hypoguns are so you can look. Most tech from Numeria is color coded with brown, black then white being lower and scaling upward.
You aren't sure what the other two items are, the pistol with 4 charges is similar to the new pistol, and the handheld device has an image of a gearsman on it.
Inside the pipe, Yvell can see and smell rotting meat and flesh along the sides and bottom. Whatever machinery and scrap inside of the pipe is covered in the slimy substance that the flesh blobs dragged as they moved. The pipe is hollow and provides a pathway through the large room.
Yvell tosses Grammanar the two pistols and explain their use, " They are pistols, guns much like what you carry now. The Zero Pistol you saw shoots Ice. Its well charged. The other pistol is similar to the Zero Pistol but likely uses a different element, you might want to try it out soon. Both are fairly old, they cannot hold a recharge. The White gun can cure woulds but isnt well charged. As for these weapons, they are grenades though I'm not sure what. "
" I think most of us are fine.. once healed to a degree we should carry on, I hope there is more on this Dominion farther inside. I'm starting to think I know what made the strange bears and poison spread, likely the same thing that affected this... Androids. "
The goo tubes instead bring fond memories, however it was not time fore that. After identification is done he revvs his chainsaw Blade once more and motions the group to continue onward to the next area, disgusting as it is through the pipe.
He checks the surrounding, if nothing seemed of use or out of the ordinary he went towards the door visible and opens it when everyone was ready.
"Heh, we'd better take anything of value, now that we've eliminated the defenders. Who knows what kind of baddies could loot this place now."
"I know how a zero pistol works," Grammanar comments, "Just not what it looks like after a thousand years of damage. I can use the pistols."
(A9, again)
The collapsed stone here splits t h e immense manufacturing hall in half. The jagged rock fall does not quite reach the south wall, leaving a space ten feet wide that allows access into another large chamber beyond. The floor is littered with bloody clumps of flesh and broken machinery shaped like arms and legs.
(A11)
A line of runes is printed above the two doors on this room's western walls. Several tattered, strange suits of armor hang in shreds from hooks in a wide alcove between these doors.
You can hear machinery moving through the doors of this room.
Yvell wanders inside his blade idle, yet ready. He moves to the Northern door while pointing to the Southern, " Likely they are attached. if the Android before was the leader I assume we wont be seeing much more of them, though the blood and chunks are concerning. Muga, open the door along with me, the rest cover our entry. There is too much mystery here for my tastes. "
Yvell pushed forward soon after.
"It surely is a curious place. "
Yvell scothed, " Curious is putting it mildly. Eat leaked poison gas, which held murderous, misshapen androids. One of which spoke of some Dominion. And somehow has something to do with this Xoud and Shahasho. It even has striking similarity to an area I and Valtyra have traveled and Phylla was.. 'born' The difference being the Torch was beneficial.. this place I am not so sure. "
"Yes, I don't see a whole lot of beneficial aspects to this location. "
" I will note... whatever Meyanda and these other Androids are supposed to be... I know they rare... yet we've killed quite a few. I found that alarming as well... especially since the well was.. closed up. I suppose they were subsisting on those goo tubes. "
"Roger."
"Yeah, but... the politics of androids are most likely dead and forgotten. Don't forget—we're just here to stop up the leaks, and smash or grab any remaining tech."
Muga and Yvell open both doors simultaneously.
(A14)
The walls of this large room are lined with dark panels of glass, tiny buttons, and other mechanical devices. A set of metal tanks sit to the west, while a chair mounted on a swivel on a short platform sits to the northeast. To the northwest, a section of flooring has been ripped away to expose a tangle of metallic plates and coils of brightly colored cables. Two round tables sit in the room's center.
There are three gearsman and a strange looking gearsman holding a rifle in one of its hands. Pointing it at the paladin-skald, the odd gearsman speaks in Androffan to Yvell in a robotic, neutral voice.
(A12)
This hallway has doors at the north and south ends. A bright orange hexagonal sigil adorns an immense metal door to the south. A porthole-like glass window is set into the door at head height.
A strange looking gearsman with a rifle stands guard in front of the door.