Edynn's punch kills another outright, but her follow-up kick goes wide.
The last plant standing claws madly at her...
...and fails completely.
Inlé quickly hops around the Edynn to hack at the surviving foe.
Inlé's swing is nimbly dodged.
As the last creature tries in vain to hit her, Edynn brings her knee forward in a vicious attack that smashes into it's face.
Edynn brings her knee up and turns the last plant-beast's face concave.
The only things of worth in this room are on the chieftain's body--his hammer, and nine silverdisks.
"Nice hammer, really tiny though." Inlé comments as he picks it up before turning to Sialea. "Your dad or sister would probably get some use out of it when they're tinkering with those robots."
With the fighting done he took a moment to channel his god's favor and release a burst of healing energy over everyone... He took a good long look at the chieftain's hammer.
"It magical... No doubt its weighted perfectly to cause better accuracy and pain."
He said lowly his eyes aglow as he studied it.
Relieved the fighting was over Sialea looked at the hammer when it was held out to her and said, "They might but I think it is more of a weapon than a tool."
"Useful. Possibly as a backup weapon in an emergency. If nothing else it could be sold in town to someone else." Edynn suggests
Inlé nods to the other's statements and puts the hammer away for the moment.
The party regroups and proceeds to explore the remainder of the science deck...
1: A t-shaped corridor branching off from the (now returned) elevator.
2: A long, narrow room with a row of sinks & mirrors along the north wall, and a series of small rooms with some manner of devices that resemble white chamber pots in them to the south.
3: A room similar to the one you found Khonnir in, with metal desks along the north & south walls. There are two bed-like tables sticking out from the east wall, covered in blinking lights and flanked by curving panels. Moving armatures of metal extend out over the beds, each outfitted with panes of glass and strangely glowing tools. The whole room reeks of blood--there's a trail of it leading in through the doors and out to the north.
4: A long table with various unusual stones & dirt samples heaped on it sits along the southern wall of this room, while to the north a line of metal desks with glowing panels and buttons are placed next to a large humming device. The heart of this device seems to be some sort of flickering sphere of reddish-brown mud or dirt. Dust covers much of this room, save for a strangely clean swath between the doors, which leads to the strange humming device.
Sitting in the device, emerging from the mound of dirt, is a swollen, brain-like bulb encrusted with fungal shells. Several ropy legs stick out of the bottom of the mound, and a wide mouth bisects the bulb's crown.
The next several rooms had more technology that Sia found intriguing but ultimately of little immediate interest. She suspected these were medical devices of some kind but they didn't have the time to truly study them. When they reached the final room on this level she shuddered at the sight before her. The brainy tentacled thing was disgusting and she asked her friends, "Anyone know what that is?"
"I have no idea what that might be, though I do not expect it to be friendly." Edynn replies looking at the bizarre creature.
At the sound of conversation, the brain-like... thing in the device turns.
...and it waves one of its legs at the party.
Hello! Says a strange, child-like voice in the party's heads.
Nodding along with Edynn, Inlé's eyes go wide once the plant... brain... thing turns and talks to them, or their thoughts anyway. "Uh, hello." the Saboteur responds vocally.
The fungal creature's tone changes.
Where am I? What is this place? Who are you? Do you have red food? It's tasty. It thinks, its words coming out in a flurry.
"Uh, what kind of tasty red food?" Inlé asks, unsure how to answer the first two questions immediately.
Tastes kinda like something sour & runny. The brain-fungus-thing says. Or something else? I'm really hungry.
"I still have those food tubes in my pack..."
He whispered lowly while trying to figure out what in the nine hells that thing was.
"Yeah, we might have something for you." Inlé responds as he turns and gives Celen a nod.
Slowly as to not cause any alarm he slowly removed his pack and rummaged through for the food tubes.... and after a second he pulled out a spare sausage to toss it to the snow leopard.
He handed the tubes to Inle and nodded.
Hearing the creature speak in their minds was something that shouldn't bother Sialea, given as much as she spent inside of the minds of others speaking, but for some reason she couldn't point to it did. The thing seemed a bit addle brained in it's questions but she supposed they were valid ones. She watched carefully as Celen fed it, wary it might cause them troubles when he got too close to it.
Opening one of the tubes Inlé cautiously hopped over to the requester to offer its contents.
The brain-like creature turns to Inlé and scuttles out of its device, plucking a tube from the bunny's paws and squeezing its contents into its maw.
It clicks its teeth together. Yum!
Edynn simply watches the interaction, intrigued by the odd creature.
Inlé lets out a sigh of relief as... whatever it was enjoyed the meal.
The brain-like fungus finishes its meal. Not red food. But tasty anyway. Thank you.
Now, who are you and where am I?
Sialea looked at the strange creature as it ate and then heard it's questions again. It didn't seem to know much about anything really and she found herself sympathizing with it. "Well. I'm Sialea, I'm not sure what I am or where I'm from. Sounds like you don't either." Her tone was sympathetic as she understood that pain all too well. "As for where you are, well, you are in a room that is part of the remains of a science deck from an ancient, crashed, starship. You are beneath a town on a planet called Golarian."
Golarion? The brain-fungus says.
Science deck? Starship? So many strange words. What's a town?
A place where lots of people live together.”
Sialea considered how to answer the creature and said, "A science deck is where people learn new things through research, the process of learning. A star ship is something that would travel in the emptiness between the stars. A town is, as Inle said, a place where a lot of people live together, it also means that the place has a certain size too it."
Edynn silently observes the unusual exchange.
The brain-creature pauses to digest this new information.
...
...my head hurts.
It shakes itself, its legs rattling about. Why are you here? Are you here to learn?
"Kinda? We're looking for others, has anyone else been in here to talk with you recently?" Inlé inquires.
The brain creature pauses.
No. No one else came to visit me. It sounds oddly sad.
”Would... you... like... to come... with us?” Inlé hesitantly asks while craning his head to the others, a strained and confused look twisting his face.
The brain-like creature pauses for a moment.
...I don't know what's out there. This is my home. It wanders over to one of the machines on the far wall. I like it here.
I would like to stay here.
Sia nodded and said, "Yes, we're here to learn, sort of anyway. We're also trying to end a threat to our town." She thought about the creature and then said, "If you stay down here I don't think that you'll have many people come through, it will be very lonely." She smiled at the thing, "Think about it, we'll make sure to come back before we leave the ruins in case you change your mind."
The brain-thing tilts at Sia and clicks its teeth.
Maybe you bring some more food then?
Sialea considered the question and then said, "I can't promise we will have anything when we come back through but I will do what I can to make sure that someone brings some back for you soon."
The brain-creature claps two of its tentacles together.
"More food, we can do that..."
He said quietly trying not to stare at the creature too terribly hard.
Edynn shrugs as she turns to follow the others. The encounter with this creature had an unexpected result. Intriguing.
The party returns to the elevator and sets it on its course for the only floor available--the Engineering Deck.
The elevator rattles and hums as it descends, the lights inside flickering and dimming for brief moments before the device comes to a halt. A loud humming noise greets the party as the doors open, along with vibrations & rumbling that seem to permeate every inch of the walls and floor.
A cloying, animalistic stink fills the air of the hemispherical room the elevator doors open up to. To the north and south, curved ramps lead up to hallways leading out of the room, while several doors sit in the east wall. Flickering lights flash and strobe on the ceiling, and the grey metal walls are scorched, dented, and partially broken in places, exposing the colourful wires or metallic struts within. Four mounds of rubble, cloth and bones lie scattered about the room.
Pacing within the room are six catlike creatures, each with striped pelts and whiskers that jut out from long muzzles filled with sharp teeth. They all turn and growl at the elevator as the doors open.
Inlé nods then tentatively waves goodbye to the creature as they depart for the elevator. Arriving to the thrumming the bunny groans and pulls his ears down.
When he notices the large predatory looking creatures his eyes go wide.
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He frowned at their growling response. Whatever they were they were territorial. Sharp teeth too, no doubt they wouldnt be happy with just a spare sausage or two.
"I dont suppose they will calm down and be friendly.Dont step in front of me."
He began reaching for the sausages while kneeling down and sketching a quick rune on the ground in front of him.
"Anything is possible, though they definitely appear to be predators." Edynn says keeping her eyes on the large feline creatures.
Inlé quickly nods along, keeping his wide eyes on the predators.