"Stay away from that thing. It will corrode and eat your metal. Maybe we could get it to attack the BOT, though."
"If we can't lose it, maybe we can fool it? Lead it somewhere, attack, then double back when it flies away?"
"Maybe we can catch it" Jeji said as she pulled out the strange net.
"If I can get close enough..."
I say we concentrate on one foe at a time and try to ignore the Rust Monster and the spybot.
"The BOT may call more enemies, if we leave it be. Let's try to capture it with Jeji's net, kill it, and then move on or set an ambush for enemies who come."
Kricker urges his warrenmates to focus on the Smilers, but Perrik would not see the spybot left to carry on its business.
Trying to stand in the shadows as she opened the flask and quickly drank the extract, Jeji tried hard to remain unobserved.
She swallowed hard, not because of the liquid but more out of nervousness. It was time. If it worked, they might have the element of surprise. If not, the situation could get really bad really fast. She spun on her heels and charged at the creature, releasing her net as she got as close as she could before it made to fly away.
The spybot is very difficult to sneak up on and whirs to life at Jeji's approach.
Perrik:
Kricker: ;
Drahlneep:
foe:
Jeji gets the drop on it though and ensnares it in the net!
If the spybot falls due to the net, Kricker runs forward and pummels it with his Adamantine greatclub. If it is still in the air, he awaits an opportunity to try to engage it once it hits the ground.
AC currently 16 due to charge
Drahlneep draws his blaster and takes aim.
Perrik holds action until the BOT is within reach of his longspear, preparing to help Kricker deal with it.
Kricker waits for the thing to fall as Drahlneep fires his blaster. The burning beam hits, but the bug-like machine fires its own little laser torch to cut through the net and flitters free and into the air overhead.
"Not this time..." Drahlneep mutters as he double taps the trigger.
Almost enraged as the little bug burned through her net, Jeji drew a bomb out and hurled it at the little pest.
The bomb hits! There is a bright flash in the dark night and small burning metal pieces rain down onto the hard ground. The loud noise barely has time to fade before another sound is heard: the scuttling of the strange beast as it races toward the noise and light and the smell of fresh metal.
Kricker puts away his bar and draws and readies his gun.
Kricker stows his delicious wrecking bar as the strange creature barrels right at him! It bites at the Gorumite's newly acquired chain shirt breaking links and catching some flesh in the bargain in its powerful beak.
Perrik invokes a blessing over the party.
Argh, get this thing off of me before it eats my stuff!
Perrik fills his warren mates with fervor and Drahlneep fires two rapid shots at the creature hitting it once before it dodges behind Kricker.
Kricker steps back and shoots the thing with his musket.
And is obviously flustered by the thought of losing his stuff...
Rushing over to get behind the strange creature, Jeji drew her short sword as she moved.
Jeji rushes around the creature which pays little attention to the metal poor kobold. Krick rips his chain coat out of the thing's beak and brings his musket up and pulls the trigger. Perhaps the firearm has already been affected by the creature because instead of discharging, the hammer falls off. The creature follows the kobold snapping at Kricker. It misses, but one of the big feathery moth-like antennas brush the damaged musket and all the metal crumbles away as rust leaving Kricker holding only a wooden stock.
This thing would be fantastic to turn on our enemies, but no sense in holding back, bad enough we may need to call off this raid so Kricker can repair his musket.
He double taps again, frowning at the red battery light flashing afterwards.
Round 3:
Perrik attempts to slow the strange beast down, filling its mind with disquiet.
Two rays of burning light flash from Drahlneep's weapon further injuring the hungry beast. Perrik menaces the thing with supernatural doom and its antennas droop and it looks ready to flee. Surely, there is plenty of metal around Scrapwall that would be less painful and frightful to obtain.
Kricker brandishes the wooden haft of his musket as a club and strikes the ravenous musket-eater!
Jeji stabs at the creature from behind giving it a distracting poke. It turns on the alchemist and Kricker clubs it with his musket stock. Trapped between the pair, the panicked beast bites Jeji, but its antennas dart around excitedly as if eating were not its current objective.
"Just let it run, we have made enough noise," Drahlneep grumbles as he reloads the pistol and backs up from the melee.
Perrik grabs up a convenient bit of scrap and waves it over his head, trying to get the creature's attention before throwing the scrap past it. "Get something easier to swallow!"
Kricker grits his teeth in furious anger, but lets the party decide and holds his attacks unless the creature makes another hostile action.
Kricker reluctantly stands down and allows the strange cave cricket-like creature to scuttle past Jeji. It grabs Perrik's offering as it runs away.
The kobolds continue through the night encountering nothing else until the north wall of the kingdom of junk rises ahead. The ridge of refuse and junk is sheer here, like the face of a cliff. A gray metal wall sits at the base of the cliff, with a sizable metallic deck protruding south from its surface. This open-air deck is sheltered by a ragged awning of furs and scrap. Metallic double doors sit in the center of the metal wall, and above these doors protrudes a metallic armature of some sort with what appears to be a tube-shaped device fitted with a red crystal extending from the tip. A few scorch marks mar the deck’s surface here and there. According to Redtooth, this is the Smilers' hideout.
Lets wait here an hour and see if we can see any sign of activity inside. We have all night.
"Anyone want to bet that is some sort of weapon?" Drahlneep asks, referring to the object mounted to the deck. "Does someone have an idea how to disable it or something? Keep it from being used on us..."
The kobolds find some nearby cover to hide behind as they spy on the Smilers. Nothing happens, but they do have time to ponder the strange, vaguely threatening object above the door.
In the dimness, Perrik contemplates the apparent TEK weapon, trying to figure out its purpose and likely effects.
Although closer inspection would be needed to verify, Perrik believes it to be a larger version of Drahlneep's laser gun.
"It's like yours, Drahlneep, but bigger. I can't tell if someone needs to hold it to use it, though."
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"We should get one" Jeji said, standing next to the others and staring at the overgrown blaster. It looked like a formidable weapon indeed. Even with their new allies, they were still going to need a lot more weapons if they expected to take on a god.
"Hmm. Let's try not to destroy it, but...we need to keep them from using it. Especially if they have batteries. Smoke or magical darkness maybe? Someone have a magic potion that makes a wall?" Drahlneep has no clue what magic can and cannot do.
I cant do any of that, I think we just need to count on our natural stealth. Maybe Jeji can activate the Sneaky armor and see if she can get up there to disable that device (or a possibly trapped door) to get us in without raising the alarm?
"I think going from above and breaking the TEK weapon first is the best idea."
"I think going from above and breaking the TEK weapon first is the best idea."