I really don't want to hang around here to see if that mind affecting plant regenerates back to life.
She readies herself to progress through the next door.
"Should I have damaged the controls, I will repay by forcing open the door."
You go down the hall following the trail of blood.
You open the next door and enter the medical room.
Several beds are in this room as well as all kinds of cabinets and strange machines.
One of the bed lies Khonnir Baine.
He appears to be breathing but he has all kinds of machines hooked up to him.
"It's Khonnir!" exclaims Kurgu. He steps to the side to let the others pass.
"Whomever can treat him must!"
Not knowing what is happening with the old man, she decides to stand guard at the door to one side with her scythe ready to struck any foe that decides to come through the door.
A section of the ceiling slides open and a white humanoid machine (a torso with no legs) drops down hovering above the ground.
The machine speaks in a strange alien language.
Looking at it the machine has a number of needles were it's fingers should be as well as various cutting tools.
Kurgu replies, trying a tongue his people had picked up over the years:
"We sought Khonnir as friends. We would see him safe, well, and returned to us. Who are you, that treats him?"
@yes sorry I meant Androffran.
The machine replies
"Medical unit E-1B, the patient is in critical condition and can only be released to a blood relative."
"It is some sort of medicine man. Khonnir is gravely wounded and the machine will only release him to a blood relative. If we can believe it, it is treating his wounds."
She remains at the door, keeping a watch for any foes wanting to approach the room, while she listens to the conversation.
That strange thing is a healer! How much more stranger is this place going to get....
You hear something coming from the back of the room. A sort of thumping coming from a metal cylinder along with a muffled screaming.
Hearing the noise she decides to move along the wall of the room to the metal cylinder, Using her scythe she taps the cylinder, Who is there?
Kurgu sprints over to investigate, and looks for a way to open the cylinder.
The tube has no visible means of opening but there are several buttons on the side.
"Subject 3 is not ready for release yet please stay away from the confinement pod or pacification actions will be taken." says the medical droid. It moves close and pushes a button and the tube starts to fill with gas and the person inside seems to fall asleep.
Several small doors open up in the walls and several mechanical spiders between 2 and 3 feet in length start to enter the room.
Seeing the metal spiders coming out of walls, she readies her scythe to sweep them away from he using the flat side of the blade, not wanting to damage the sharp edge.
Kurgu queries the metal man in its language.
"This one was violent and attacked this medical unit. He will be held in stasis until a security team arrives to take him to a more secure facility."
"And when do you expect this "security team" to arrive? How long have you waited for them?"
"No time estimate is available. I sent the request for one several day ago but have not received a response"
"We could investigate. Can you speak our tongue? It would make speaking much easier."
What are we going to do with all these metal spiders?, keeping her scythe between her and the the spiders, as she moves to be close to Kurgu and Kul.
"You can investigate if you wish, I can only release them to someone in possession of a level white or gold security card.
Androfran ships uses colour codes for security ranks as follow
brown(visitor or guest)->black(normal crew)->red(pilots)->white(security)->gold(officers)
She shakes her head, I am not gifted with the art of spell, like the druids are. I gifted with the art of transformation, speaking as she her hands becomes sharp claws while holding her scythe.
"I'm ready to go or fight as necessary." Kurgu says to his companions.
"I like that plan. Let's go!"
The small spider bots have moved into room surrounding you and as your about to leave they strike. The spiders leap at you and try to shock you with their electric fangs (integrated stun guns)
4 spiders attack
All damage is non-lethal.
your go.
Round 1
After the one spider bites her giving an electrical jab, she decide to slash at the spider with her claws instead, not wanting to damage her scythe blade.
Round 1
He steps back and swings, determined to smash the robot spiders.
Kul and kurgu each destroy a spider and gal badly damages another (they have dr2/bludgeoning)
They attack again.
5 foot step forward attack Kurgu
Attack Gal again.
Your go.
Round 2
As the spider bites her, the jolt was too much for her causing her to collapse to the floor out for the count.
Kurgu also collapses, hitting the ground hard.
Kurgu and Gal go down and Kul finds himself alone. He get ready to face the spiders when the medical droid gets behind him and pricks him with a needle. His vision fades and he goes down as well.
You all wake up much later finding yourselves trapped in separate cells. 10 by 10 with a small bed. A shimmering wall of transparent light serves as the door from there you can see the other as well as several other prisoners.
All you gear except your armours have been taken away but your injuries have been healed.
"Damnation! Does anyone see a way out of here!?"
She wakes up to see her surroundings have changed, sitting up, she see her gear is not on her back or near her, she lets out some curses in Strix. Once her short cursing outburst is done, see looks towards the shimmering light, and sees the others also without their gear.
She stands and walks straight towards the one directly opposite of her, stretching her wings until they touch the side walls. Suddenly her walk comes to a crashing fall to the floor as she collides with the shimmering light, giving another rather loud curse once more.
Now sitting on the floor she slowly pokes the shimmering light with a clawed hand to see what it does upon contact. Realizing that it is some kind of force wall before her, she looks around the room to see for any means of escape.
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Kul awoke, and went for his sword and found it missing. "I knew I should have smashed it when we first entered." Kul said under his breath. He sat up and took stock of his situation. He rose and touched the glowing transparent wall. Then look out at the others he said loudly, "Can any of you knuckleheads hear me?"
The rooms are fairly bland and you don't see anything you can interact with besides a small panel next to the door and a small glass eye in the corner that seems to be watching you.
You ponder your situation for a moment when suddenly the lights dim and the door blocking the exit seems to fade but then it returns to normal.
Did you just see that. When the light dims the force wall seems to go.
She stands up and leans her right side against the the light wall, hoping when the light dims again she fall through the opening.