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Paeon looks to Noah briefly and pokes the dead Captain with his sword,
"I don't think i'd want to copy her force field, didn't seem to work. I have rainbow worms infesting my body, I am beyond tired and this is SPACE, everything can kill you and i don't even have a force field to modify!"
The Lashunta leaves the droid behind and follows Nipper and the gang. His Solar Mote returns to its celestial form and pulses light in Noah's direction before following.
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Ed spots startoad dragging the spacesuit behind him and stops in disbelief. Well someone slap a battery In the suit and put it on. Weren't you listening to the dead lady? Maybe an engineer can figure out how she modified it. Ed retrieves the two potions of lesser restoration.
Ed makes sure that he is in the center of the room as far from any wall as possible. Oh, and what's a Sanjaval Vagabond class ship? That's what the Sunrise Maiden was, I believe.
You can activate or deactivate your armor’s force field as a standard action. Once active, the device generates an invisible force field around you, including all your worn and carried items. The force field blocks solids and liquids but not gases or light (including laser beams). You can breathe while the field is active, but you can’t eat or drink.
While a force field is active, you gain a number of temporary Hit Points depending on the force field’s power. All damage dealt to you is subtracted from the force field’s temporary Hit Points first. A force field has fast healing, meaning that it regains temporary Hit Points at a fixed rate each round at the end of your turn, up to its normal maximum. If the force field’s temporary Hit Points are reduced to 0, it is inactive until the end of your next turn, when its fast healing restores some of its Hit Points. The charge capacity, amount of temporary Hit Points granted, and rate of fast healing vary according to the force field’s color code. A force field has a usage of 1 charge per round.
Item Level 3; Price 1,600
Slots 2; Armor Type Any; Bulk L
Brown: Capacity 10; Temp HP 1; Fast Healing 1
ᐒ The Sanjaval Spaceflight Systems Vagabond-class multipurpose light transport/freighter is a versatile workhorse with a reputation for durability and reliability. In service for over 100 years, Vagabonds are still regularly used throughout the Pact Worlds as cargo haulers, smuggling ships, and exploratory survey vessels. While a crew of six is the standard complement for the Vagabond, the ship’s coordinated control interface and double redundancies on critical systems were designed to allow a single pilot to operate the vessel with little difficulty.
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Something about the creature's traits and Moriko's warning stir a recall an Documemory you accessed on creatures of the Drift. One of these creatures was the Garaggakal, sometimes called a “Drift Wraith” by those spacefarers fortunate enough to have survived an encounter with one.
Highly intelligent, Garaggakals display intense curiosity about other creatures, but their extremely alien mindset makes peaceful interaction difficult, if not impossible. Garaggakals seem to divide all life into two categories: predators (such as itself) and prey (everything else). To a Garaggakal, the best way to learn more about a new alien species is to kill, dissect, and eat it — and not necessarily
always in that order...
Like the eponymous wraiths they are named after, Garaggakals possess the ability to phase through solid objects. They can also leech life energy from their prey that fall victim to their terrible bite. However those who have survived encountering these Drift predators all noted that the creatures are vulnerable to electricity.
Noah 2/0 continues to ponder the brown force field generator. I think I can install this in someone's armor if they have, or can create an open slot. I have such a slot, but I hope to avoid direct contact with this threat.
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A sudden realization causes Ed's antennae to bolt upright quivering with fear. Zoinks! I think that's a Drift Wraith in the walls. Not an actual wraith, but they might as well be because they can move through walls and suck the life out of you. Blast it with electricity. They don't like that. Oh, why did I use all my shock grenades. Maybe we should leave now...
"Well maybe it's gone now. The captain's been dead for ages and there doesn't appear to be any other organics around."
"Besides, there's not really any place else for us to leave to."
“Yes, leave. Let’s leave. Wraith sounds scary.”
Startoad follows along wanting to leave as soon as possible.
Fingernipper creeps, then halts, then creeps some more...
With the coast apparently clear of apparitions he beckons the rest of you forward. Entering the room you note the plethora of lights and controls on machinery within this room illuminate it in dim light.
Before you the chamber seems bizarrely torn between two worlds - its Southeastern half is rough hewn unfinished rock, while the Northeastern portion of the room (including the only door) is finished with the same ceramic-metallic plating found throughout the asteroid and its strange tunnels.
Your canny and/or technologically keen eyes note that this chamber houses similar strange machinery that were encountered alongside the alien sentry bot. However your iniutuion and savvy suggest that this machinery possesses control functions rather than simple monitoring that was previously encountered.
You also are drawn to the complex control panel is built into the north wall that may provide more information about the Drift Rock and its original function, if you could only access the controls...
The equipment in this room is ancient hybrid machinery that blends both sorcery and technology. As such spells and abilities relating to magic and/or technology will work equally well when interacting with the hybrid tech.
Ed follows, too nervous to leave the pack. He tilts his head peering around at the room...
and suddenly announces, This is the control room. It's run by magi-tech.
Startoad looks around starting to poke around the ceramic with his rifle.
"So what does it do? does anybody know how to get it working?"
Use your magic and computer skills, Noahtoo. I will bet we can get a lot of information about this rock-ship from this console.
Your combined savvy discerns that the room's strange computer system could be (like any other) hacked, although the task could prove difficult...
Hmm. this will not be easy. I would appreciate some help here. Noah begins to try to figure a way into the system. I almost have it...
Remember that it's arcane magitech, so it should work a little differently. Let me help!
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Startoad runs over, “Help? I help!” and starts look for a place to plug in and help.
With the benevolent input of Ed and intuitive chaos that Startoad brings, Noah finds the hacking of the system a relatively straight forward process.
As he access the Drift Rock system the android is met with layers and blocks of intricate coding and instructions in a strange language he cannot, at first glance, decipher...
Ed stare at the scribbles. I have NO idea what that means. Maybe record it and we can figure it out later. His eye go back to the walls, nervously expecting an attack.
I fear it remains meaningless to me as well. I shall record and store it all for later review.
Startoad sewing the text pop up resists the urge to immediately start pressing buttons and manipulating it with his uplink. He unplugs with a short zap as the cord disconnects. He looks around. “We leave now?”
We can go now, can't we? When told that they need to finish exploring the place, Ed follows along dolefully.
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[ooc] I’m down with SW them short rest. I’m relatively untouched. [ooc]
No stop, leave big rock. Startoad says with a bit of apprehension looking around the room.
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Nipper takes a look at the odd writing to see if he can glean anything useful from it.
As you collectively rest and plan your next steps, Fingernipper turns his canny mind to the strange lexicon;
You manage to decipher some of the patterning within the alien lettering and symbols - enough to discern that this chamber is designed to operate minor subsystems of some larger structure or device - perhaps even a vessel, although it is no longer directly connected to is parent system.
The exact nature of the missing structure remains a mystery, though references to systems such as BACKUP POWER TRANSMISSION, THRUSTER MANEUVER and FIRE CONTROL OF THE AUXILIARY are deciphered by you.
Additionally what you also glean is that these systems and potentially the control room you now stand in, are incredibly archaic in nature - perhaps a megaannum old. As a fragment of a larger structure, device or vehicle - the fate or whereabouts of which remain a mystery...
As he stands waiting Paeon's body is wracked with cramping and shooting pain...
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Paeon doubles over groaning as the pain and cramps overtake him,
'Unnghhh'
You note that while Paeon remains ill, the strange Void affliction that infects the lashunta has not progressed. While his strong fortitude is continually fighting the disease, but he remains at risk should it take hold further...
The burning in your veins and bones signifies that you remain Sickened , however you do not feel the affliction has advanced or grown worse in these hours past.
Ed shifts his nervous stare from the wall to Paeon and his rumbly tummy. Are you-? Oh no, the Void thingy is still in him. We really don't have a lot of time. When does our rescue ship get here?
After scrolling through the database, Fingernipper turns back to the rest of the party, "I can't quite read this, but it does share some similar root structures to languages I'm more familiar with. Near as I can tell this was a control room for a bunch of subsystems for some larger installation. Maybe even for a ship. What that was or where it is now, who knows, but what I do know is that this place is seriously old."
"Interesting stuff for sure, but I don't think there's anything of much use to us right now."
Noah nods that he is ready.
Fingernipper heads north, the single door opening into a slight elbow corridor that ends in double doors.
As the scouting Ysoki approaches these, the strange guttural gurgle of the Drift Wraith can be heard from beyond the heavy bulkhead...
Startoad presses focuses and a small forcefield activates around him. He’ll be first in if he can or near the front.
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Ed bravely takes the center of the pack to keep as many bodies as possible between himself and the walls. He waves his zap gun. Stay back, spook. We've got electro weapons and we'll use them.
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When everyone is ready startoad looks around offering a smile back at the group, “We be ok. No worries.” then opens the door blaster ready.
His head blinks a little as he goes to open the door. Being in the front is illogical and an unnecessary risk. The safest distance by my calculations is most likely to be 7.53 meters from the door. But have at it, I’m sure we will most likely not die.