As this seems to be working well enough, Maxim keeps at it with the Streetsweeper.
Or not.
Fully Photon Attuned.
Eric moves around and fires, keeping well away from the creatures as his ghost protocols flicker his armor in and out of view.
DC 20+CR
Huamnoids: I need a battery, or several. My weapons are low on charges.
Boreal misses by far. But EH-RK balances the scores by blowing the earth elemental to pieces. Gron draws first water from the water elemental. Maxim's misfire of the streetsweeper is overshadowed by that action.
Boreal repositions and joins Gorn in splashin gin the water.
Thinking how relaxing it is to not be the sole focus of every monster they meet, Maxim casually squeezes off another round.
Eric moves around and fires, keeping well away from the creatures as his ghost protocols flicker his armor in and out of view.
DC 20+CR
Just for the fun of it and to steal the kill from the big brutes, Imagine throws a spell in.
With a horrible scream of pain, the water elemental slowly is dragged down to it's knees - or what a water elemental has as comparable anatomy - to then just disintegrate into a a large puddle.
Perception check while examining the containers finds an
x-ray visor, but the device was built for the multiple eyes of a
kishalee, so anyone without the kish subtype who uses it gets
a splitting headache and must succeed at a DC 20 Fortitude
save or be sickened for 1 hour afterward. A PC who takes 1
hour and succeeds at a DC 28 Engineering check can alter the
visor to remove this drawback.
Maxim shrugs.
Willow comes out and checks the mess the boys have caused with all the rocks and the puddle on the floor. "I'm not going to clean that mess up." she tells, as she dances with large steps over and around the mess.
Taking a look into the containers she complains "Why can't we come past a boutique or a jeweller, when walking through alien history. Always only this military tech crap. And totally useless and rotten in addition."
"Oh, what's that?" Imagine puts some kind of fancy goggles on, that emit green light. "Gah!" she calls out as she turns to the others. "I know that beauty is only sin deep, but man are you ugly beneath!" She pulls the thing off her face and throws it at Maxim. "This thing gives me a headache."
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Gorn takes a moment's pause to down a canteen of water, allowing his vigorous body to replenish itself, and he emerges from his repast fit and ready for more.
He takes a look around after Max's casual survey.
Gorn comments that he has found an oddity an xray visor, but one built for the strange many-eyed kish. Noting that it could be fixed, he sets to.
"There, that should do it," he states, putting it on.
"Wait, you're going to do that now?" asks Maxim, incredulous. "We're in the middle of a f#*@ing combat zone and you want to take an hour to fix a pair of glasses?"
"Riiiight."
Maxim makes use of the hour exploring and looting the offices. (D4a-e)
Nameplates are attached to the wall outside each office. They have been converted into meditation cells by the kish, each containing a simple woven mat and several crude bowls coated with dried-up paint. The walls are a confusing riot of colors and shapes.
The southernmost office contains the body of a kish warrior. The corpse is burned in places, and two of its limbs are clearly broken.
Having found nothing of real interest, Maxim proceeds into the area of the cubicles and looks around.
Over a dozen standing desks fill this large chamber, many of which have been heaped with dried flowers, decorative bundles of grass, and other homemade trinkets. Though worn in many places, the faintly checkered carpet still looks high quality. A corridor leads out of the room to the east, a large locked door leads to the west, and a red door stands in the northern wall. Strangely there are gifts left on the desks.
As Maxim steps into the first cubicle, shaking his head what those hillbilly kish have made of this office area, a baboon like creature, with a mane like a lion jumps at him from hiding. While the ape dulls its fangs at the armor, the axe that hits him in the back, leaves the unpleasant sensation of being split in half.
Boreal wonders if Maxim has stubbed a toe, as he lets out his frustration.
After deftly stepping out of the enemy trap, Maxim turns and wags a finger at the monkey, attempting to lift it off the floor and immobilize it from jumping over the cubicle. (Gravity Hold)
Graviton Attuned X1
Eric takes out his combat knife at the sounds of combat.
The ape is not impressed by the solarian's cosmic mumbo jumbo.
The ape goes after Boreal and the Kish after Maxim. Another ape comes charging from the other end of the room attacking EH-RK.
Eric steps backwards and activates his "Hologram Protocol 1.45". images spring into existence mirroring his image and making him hard to find.
SP 41/54
HP 46
Mirror Images 4
Ow.
Seeing his finger trick ignored by the monkey, Maxim grits his teeth against the pummeling he's taking from what is most assuredly a legendary Kish warrior, the greatest of his race, and not merely some random jerk hanging out in the office cube, spouting political opinions to monkeys and whatknot.
Kickboxer 2 is just like Star Wars, but with more kickboxing!
Boreal makes long arms and hacks over the samll ape at the kish.
Imagine goes for the "wall" to get behind Maxim soon.
Maxim deals the kish a good one, showing that being a legendary warrior on this dump called Ishtamak may not be enough to keep the upper hand here. If only Maxims bleeding wouldn't make his point moot.
But even though the kish is tough as nails, there is only one of them anb Boreal found a reckless way, but a way nonetheless to come to Maxim's aid. Which adds to the pain of that warrior.
A little ape bashing is going on elsewhere, and Gorn misses of the legendary part of the battle again. Not that the apes are not serious threat. They are hard enough to hit, that Gorn only gets one punch in. Just in hindsight it won't be a very impressive story if you were the one beating some small ape compared to a legendary kish warrior.
The apes do some biting. It is really annoying to have such ankle biters around, and also more painful than one would expect from such small creatures.
The kish brings down more pain on Maxim, but isn't willing to take a further round of beating from two sides and moves away, going after Imagine.
Maxim whacks the dumb Kish as it runs away to try and pick a fight with a woman (arguably the most important member of the party). Then he follows, leaping over the half-wall past Imagine to reengage the enemy.
Imagine steps back. Originally she planned to keep out of the fighting. It's bloody and ruins your clothes. But as that kish came after her and Maxim has braught it within an inch of its life, she does the reasonable thing and sends it to its ancestors. As Maxim is not battle honor obsessed like others in the group she is pretty shure he'd appreciate it.
She points her finger at the kish and speaks the magic words. "Die imbecile!"
Maxim thwarts the kish's plan to evade his fury, by slashing it in the back when leaving and then, by following and adding another big wound. Which mutilates the body, but not the determination. That changes as Imagine works her magic. The kish's eyes widen as it reaches for its head, before falling over with blood dripping out of nose and ears.
Eric steps close and stabs the monkey creature with his combat knife
Status
SP 41/54
HP 46
Mirror Images 4
Humanoid "Person" Gorn Steelbreaker: I am a gender neutral android. I do not understand what being a male has to do with using my combat knife in this situation. This is a function of low battery power combined with a lack of sightlines for my plasma rifle.
Eric says flatly
Boreal uses her weapon against the ape in front of her.
The archaic human concept of fighting like a man or fighting like a girl are foreign to the vesk. On the little chit-chat between Gorn and EH-RK she takes a side glance with visible disgust and inquires "You start fighting the ape using your reproductive organs?"
As Gorn said. The intent is there, but the execution is lacking. The ape evades one attack after the other. Luckily Gorn gets at least one attack in, to avoid a big bruise to his ego. But the ape ist still far from dead.
Boreal adds a gash to her opponent.
Eric gives Boreal a sidelong glance.
Vesk Boreal Typhon: I do not understand. I thought fighting with reproductive organs was what you biologics called "the sex"
Eric attempts to stab the ape once again
Status
SP 41/54
HP 46
Mirror Images 4
Maxim gives Imagine a signature dumb grin as he rushes past her to give Boreal an assist.
Imagine gives Maxim her regards with a pat on the behind as he passes.
"Yes, but what else does Gorn refer to when telling about 'fighting like a man'? Maybe it's some dominance showing behaviour like with dogs?" Boreal makes a wild guess.