Thera attempts to aid Rakdon with her own personal knowledge of the subject, although she is a little bit disgruntled that he ends up educating her.
Rakdon doesn't know what the armor inside the tube is for. The whole suit seems to be sealed, so he is confused how the subject doesn't just suffocate.
Uran take a closer look at the melted metal to see if anything might be hidden or obscured by it.
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Dr Lendaro shines the flashlight into the sealed pods, to see what he can determine.
The very hard metal seems to have been melted with an intense heat.
Lendaro looks into the pods. There seems to be bodies inside the suits of armor. But the bodies look completely sealed in the suits. His knowledge doesn't seem to offer any answers.
Scratching her head, the gnome shakes her head a bit before her eyes flash to detect magic.
"I don't know anything about these, however there may be more than technology at work here. We have no idea if the bodies inside those suits are alive, dead, or otherwise. Tetsuda, stay near me."
Dr Lendaro nods. "I'll place my wager on otherwise...." He then looks to the hole in the wall - loaded pistol in hand, and shining his flashlight on the area.
"Shall we take a peek at what's through here?"
Linpul doesn't know anything more, despite the thought that no air can enter the tubes.
Lendaro's flashlight illuminates a group of chairs through the hole in the wall.
Uran covers the doctor as he examines the hole.
"Careful there doc. Dont know what might be liv'en in there."
Lendaro and Uran move to the doorway of the next room and see...
A massive black window, spider-webbed with hundreds of cracks, graces the western wall of this chamber, half-buried under rubble and twisted metal. Curved consoles of strange controls line the walls, with three chairs made of an unidentifiable off-white material facing them. A figure dressed in red fabric of an unusually fine weave sits slumped over the console in the western most chair.
Uran carefully moves into the room and checks the figure slumped in the chair.
Thera follows Uran closely, not altogether sure that a figure slumped in a chair was a good sign, and she remains ready to handle any aggressive move.
As soon as Uran and Thera enter the room, everyone feels the building begin to hurtle downwards, as though falling from the sky. You see visions of the building, a ship, crashing towards the ground. As the ship flies down, a recording plays. Despite being in Androffan, you can some how understand the words.
"This is the final report of salvage module Chrysalis, Captain Yurian Valako reporting. Divinity is lost; the rest of the ship’s crew is presumed dead or worse. The surviving crew of Chrysalis and I are boarding a launch and will attempt an emergency landing but without AI control, the prospects of a safe landing are minimal. I've secured an inhibitor facet-if I can install it into the Unity interface, it should disable the AI’s security long enough for us to reclaim control and perhaps even signal for help from home. I'm boarding the launch now, and will append further reports after our successful landing."
After a strong sense of nausea and vertigo, you regain your senses and return to the building.
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"Well...that were different!", Uran says in a shaky voice. He continues to examine the body in the chair.
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"Whoa, weird, I mean I can do something similar with Tetsuda here where I can see what he sees, hear what he hears, but still weird. I wonder what caused that?"
Gathering her bearing she pears around the room, wondering if the body could have done that.
Dr Lendaro immediately fishes out his journal, and jots down what he's able to keep in mind. "Certainly appeared to have been a traumatic experience for whoever lived that moment."
He goes over the words once again, then shines the flashlight upon the slumped body. "Could this possibly be Captain ... Valako?"
Lendaro has no idea what most of the words mean, let alone any connection between them. He does know ship, and believes this could be some kind of ship.
As Uran and Linpul continue to look around the room, a dark miasma and unsettling feelings start to swallow you. From the corpse of the body slumped in the chair, a dark shape with glowing eyes rises.
In the other room, two of the three armored creatures suddenly shift and stir. They strike through the glass tubes, bodies thinning to bone, pieces of armor suddenly disappearing.
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The two skeletal creatures move close to Rakdon and Solaria, claws digging and reaching for their flesh.
Behind Thera, she can faintly see an orb of light for a moment. As it disappears, a glowing skull forms and fades into the dark. Afterwards, a small shock of electricity assails her.
The wraith hovers forwards to Uran and reaches a ghastly hand through his body. It tries to pull out his spirit.
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Feeling a wave a weakness and nausea sweep through his body, Uran steps back from the wraith (5' step), and fires his rifle.
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Thera winces slightly, triggering her Fervor ability, casting Divine Favour and then ignores the creature shimmering in and out of visibility, hitting the two creatures standing together.
Uran blasts the wraith with his magical rifle, though the bullet is weakened by its lack of physical form.
The (red) skeleton claws at Rakdon as he casts his spell. The skeleton moves out of the way of some of the acid, but parts of its armor burn away.
Thera swings at the nearest skeleton, but she strikes to the sides of its face.
"Some sort of ghost?" Dr Lendaro steps within line of sight and fires.
"Uran... are you badly hurt? Get out of there if you can."
Linpul gives Tetsuda an order before clutching her hammer in a defensive posture.
"Tetsuda, flank with Rakdon, I'll hold up over here!"
Lendaro's bullet pierces through the wraith as it gives off a terrifying howl.
Tetsuda bites into the skeleton but only pierces armor, not the actual bone.
Sarainy fires at the (blue) skeleton. Solaria shifts and sends a wave of positive energy into the room, trying to damage the undead.
The wraith tries to touch Linpul this time, stealing her life force. The two skeletons claw at Rakdon and Solaria. The invisible orb tries to electrocute Thera again.
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Dr Lendaro wills another round into his pistol, aims and fires.
The shadowy form of the wraith shifts and opens a hole wherein Lendaro's bullet passes through. The wraith does not seem pained by Lendaro's attack.
Sarainy shakes her head, as if breaking free from a daze.
"Sorry guys, that all took me by surprise... think I've recovered now though."
She takes a step closer and magically empowers her bow, causing it to glow with an inner yellow light. With a prayer on her lips, she lets fly two quickly strung arrows straight into the Red skeleton.
Calling out to the Doctor, Linpul and Uran she yells, "I think we need to regroup! We are surrounded and being divided!"
Stepping into the corner, Uran aims and fires once again at the wraith.
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Sarainy's first shot sticks into the skeleton's helm and head, protruding through the back. It doesn't seem that fazed by the attack. The second arrow flies past and strikes the wall.
Thera's first strike misses the skeleton. The second breaks through its rusted, broken armor and the sound of bone breaking echoes in the room.
Uran blasts the wraith again, his magical weapon partially damaging the shadowy creature.
The skeleton by Rakdon turns and looks at Tetsuda. Rakdon fires magic missiles while it is distracted. Despite the damage, the skeleton does not seem to go down.
Solaria sees that no one is critically injured and sends another wave of holy light into the room. Both of the skeletons crumble to the ground in a heap of rusted armor and bones.
Dr Lendaro wills a round into his pistol, aims at the center of the wraith's ghostly torso, and fires.
"Good job, two down and two to go. Sarainy shouts out, letting the party members in the Control Room know the situation.
"Give me a moment, I know a spell to reveal this skull spirit..." she says, as she begins a lilting prayer to Saranae.
Lendaro shoots another blast at the shadowy figure.
Linpul continues to protect herself, ready to swing if the thing approaches her.
The wraith moves in close and tries to touch Lendaro's body. The invisible shape appears for a moment, electrocuting Thera.
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Solaria winces as she sees Thera take a massive hit of electricity, spasming through her body.
"Let Desna's warmth embrace you," she says, placing a healing hand upon Thera's back.
"You have troubled us quite enough!" Sarainy quips at the ghostly skull, as her sing-song prayer to Sarenrae finishes.
With her hand outstretched she sends a flash of glittering metal to the left of the skull's position. It shimmers, as if caught by the blazing sun, as it showers over the apparition and reveals its location. As the shards settle they continue to bounce off non-existent sunlight.
Thera whirls, and lashes out at the electric thing that continues to zap her.
Linpul holds her defensive posture, being unable to actually strike back without opening holes in her own defenses. Tetsuda on the other hand needs no weapons other than what he has been given.
Sarainy's spell illuminates a ball of light. It glitters and is clearly visible.
Thera's first strike misses. The second hits the airy apparition with her fist. The image changes for a moment to a sad skull.
Tetsuda leaps up and bites at the air thing. He tears bits of cottony air that dissolves as it is ripped from the things body.
Rakdon moves into the passageway, leans against the wall to get a good view of the wraith and fires magic missiles that illuminate the darkness.
Uran fires again at the wraith with his magical rifle.
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