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As the tumor falls to pieces under the combined attack from the ankylosaurus and Omo's bombs, Jarreck releases the tension on his bow returning the arrow to his quiver. Sliding off the top of the tube his left knee buckles slightly from the hit it took when the trap caught him unaware. He walks over collecting the spent laser pistol, holding it up toward Omo. "You said that was a work shop back there, think you could use this as a basis to make a working copy that can be reloaded?" Nodding towards Guaire he agrees "Man, you stink."
Walking towards where the trap set off he stops and turns back to Seven, "Can your new friend walk point Seven, doubt a little rockslide will slow him down at all" Jarreck will follow behind the dinosaur, hiding behind it but keeping an eye out for trouble.
"Unfortunately not, Jarreck. That would require a military laboratory and someone how could make advanced weaponry. Maybe one day I'll be able to access that kind of programing in Mr. Hellion."
Guaire coughs, as he gets to draw proper breath again.
"Yeah, it's giving nasty acid burns.
But you two wouldn't smell too good either if you had been swallowed whole like that."
Guaire swipes off the worst of the goo, and with a frown he adds,
"If whoever locked it up is alive and down here, i've got some words with that person."
"A logical idea Jarreck." replies Seventeen in her customary monotone. She then turns towards the hulking monstrosity she'd summoned and in the most incongruously bossy voice demands, "Tiddles. Forwards! Do not step on the elf or anyone else for that matter."
She directs it to move past the blockage.
The collapsed stone here splits the immense manufacturing hall in half. The jagged rock fall does not quite reach the south wall, leaving a space ten feet wide that allows access into another large chamber beyond. The floor is littered with bloody clumps of flesh and broken machinery shaped like arms and legs.
The Ankyolosaurus smashes through the area, leaving rubble in its wake and clearing a safe path forward.
The western half of the manufacturing hall contains immense cylinders, bins, and furnaces covered with thick layers of dust. Evidence of an ancient battle remains here and there on the walls in the form of scorch marks and broken machinery. In particular, the heaped remains of a strange insectoid automaton lie in a ruined heap to the west, partially buried under fallen rocks.
Assuming the party presses on...
A line of runes is printed above the two doors on this room's western walls. Several tattered, strange suits of armor hang in shreds from hooks in a wide alcove between these doors.
In Androffan, the doors to the South are labeled "Canister Access" and the doors to the North are labeled "Nanotech Laboratory"
"Oh! These are the remains of a powerful robot called a Myrmidon. It had impressive rockets. Let me see if I can salvage any part of it for Mr. Hellion."
When they see the nanotech lab and canister access, Omo gets excited. "More canisters? This could be a godsend we should be careful of more swarms though."
He moves into investigate -- first to the lab, careful for traps.
As the Ankylosaur dozers its way through the facility's interiors, Guaire shakes his head.
"That beast could have wiped the floor with much we've seen thus far.
I was wondering what the heavy impact from earlier was."
Omo searches the closed doors to the Nanotech Lab and finds them untrapped.
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Jarreck mouths "Tiddles???" as the huge dinosaur passes by, shaking his head he follows close behind. Moving across the ancient battlefield he eyes the remains of the robot Omo identifies, with a squeeky bit of awe, as a Myrmidon; personally glad it is no longer functional.
As Tiddles comes to a stop on the far side of the room, Jarreck moves forward with Omo to check out the doors presented taking the south doorway as Omo takes the northern one.
Moving through the doorway into area A12 if no traps are found.
Omo opens the doors.
Seventeen follows Omo and Jarreck and turns round and beckons to the dinosaur and shouts, "Tiddles heel!"
The dinosaur eagerly crashes after her sending tremors through the metallic superstructure and causing dust to be displaced every time one of it's feet thunderously hits the ground.
Just outside what Omo figures was a guard post, Seventeen bossily commands Tiddles to, "Sit! Stay Tiddles, Stay! Good boy Tiddles. Good boy!"
She then peers into the room Omo opened and whispers to her brother, "My new assertiveness routines appear to work well."
Unsure exactly how to interpret his sister's new manic energy, Omo stutters, "Yes, you certainly seem to have a way with him."
Jarreck enters the southern doors This hallway has doors at the north and south ends. A bright orange hexagonal sigil adorns an immense metal door to the south. A porthole-like glass window is set into the door at head height.
Meanwhile, Omo enters the Northernmost doors.
The walls of this large room are lined with dark panels of glass, tiny buttons, and other mechanical devices. A set of metal tanks sit to the west, while a chair mounted on a swivel on a short platform sits to the northeast. To the northwest, a section of flooring has been ripped away to expose a tangle of metallic plates and coils of brightly colored cables. Two round tables sit in the room's center.
while examining the exposed flooring in the northwest corner of the room reveals that the plates and cables are an immense power conduit capable of accepting electrical charges, whether via a battery, a generator, or spells like recharge.
Omo hears an invisible voice call from the Southern reaches of the room
"Have you word from my master?"
Instantly wary, Omo tries to determine if this voice is coming from the machinery or from some invisible creature.
"I must confess that my answer to that question depends on who you are and who your master is. I am Omo. What is your name?"
Guaire follows Jarreck. As he (Jarreck) stands observing the room, Guaire takes a closer look at the strange symbol.
"I'm no expert, but that looks like a warning sign to me.
I'd hate for another one of those 'things' to be in there."
The voice is almost certainly that of an invisible creature
My Master is Xoud, Furkas Xoud. I have waited here patiently for some time...names have Power Omo. You may call me Wind.
In all the excitement, Omo forgets information he already knew.
"Hullo, Wind. Did you say Furkas Doud? The Smoke Wizard? I cannot say that I have made his acquaintance. May I ask when you last saw him?
Did he order you to kill future explorers of this ship? If he did, I must strongly object. Are you bound here in some way?"
Seemingly uninterested in the invisible creature, Seventeen moves a little distance away from the invisible creature and sitting crosslegged she starts to read a book.
Of course she was intensly interested, and wanted to know what it looked like. There was one spell she knew of that could attune the caster to all things ethereal. She just had to look it up!
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Jarreck studies the rune along side Guaire but after a moment shrugs his shoulders. "Sorry can't make heads or tails of it myself, but perhaps you are right, we should have Omo and Seven take a look at this before we move forward. Will you get them, gonna test the place for radiation. Don't believe we have done that yet since we dropped down here."
While Guaire steps away to get the others, Jarreck retrieves the radiation detector from his pack and sweeps the area.
In the other room, Omo and Seven palaver with the invisible creature Wind
I am bound here by Xoud, he left me here. I do not know how much time has passed, time has no meaning to a creature such as myself. Can you free me? Can you send me back to my home?
Jarreck does not detect any dangerous levels of Radiation.
Seventeen cocks her head while she considers the creature's request.
"Bound? That sounds awful. To what purpose would he subject you to such a fate? We may be able to help you, but I'm not sure if we have the tools with us presently. Sister?"
Then you are of no use to me. Begone. the invisible creature growls.
@Seven What's the roll for? Seven would automatically know what types of things would dismiss an Outsider, I figure that would be covered in Arcane Spellcaster Class 101. (Dismissal, Plane Shift, Banishment)
A little miffed that the air spirit didn't even wait for verbal confirmation from his sister before getting huffy about whether they could be of help, Omo continues to wait for his sister's response.
You would think that immortal spirits for whom time has no meaning could at least not interrupt and wait to hear whether they could be released or not.
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Seeing no signs of radiation, Jarreck tries to bide his time waiting on the siblings to return and see if they might interpet the rune above the door. But while he does so he checks the door over well, and verifies the locking mechanism is operational and unlocked, occasionally sticking his head up to look through the porthole making sure nothing is happening on the other side as he fidgets.
Once satisfied with the door, he does a thorough inspection of the remainder of the room while he waits(2 minutes), however in minutes he decides to check on the other side of the door whether Omo and Seven have returned with Guaire muttering all the while "Everything around here is dangerous".
Jarreck doesn't find anything of note while searching the small room.
Seventeen tells Omo and the creature, "It cant be done right now, but we could arrange to send you back home. In situations like this some kind of trade is customary, such as information in exchange for a ride home. If we agree to do this, what can you tell us about this vessle or your master? We don't need specifics now but a general indication would help."
@Omo It's a nanotech lab...so whatever you imagine is in there is probably in there. Are you going to search the room?
Omo begins to search the room...while Seven engages the invisible creature in parley. The creature ignores Seven's attempts to entreat with it...and Omo senses something coming up from his side!
Omo is slammed by an invisible foe and takes
Round 1
IStalker attacks Omo again Omo is slammed by an invisible foe and takes
Mort
Guaire
Seven
Jarreck
Omo
Omo steps back and drinks his See Invisibility in a defensive fashion.
"Help! Invisible Stalker! Help!"
I'm Guessing Guaire hears some sort of squeek, or 'aah/ouch', well enough to sense something's wrong.
At the sound of something in the other room, Guaire quickly taps Jarreck.
"We've got company, over at Omo & Seven's."
If the square i'm pointing at isn't occupied by Mort, Guaire moves over and figures he'll just have to swing at squares near Omo, until he'd hit something?
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About to open the doorway to the next room Jarreck stops and nods at Guaires warning, steel glinting in his hands as they both hurry to the next room.
"Where is it?" Jarreck calls out as he comes into the room. Trying to find the attacker.
swinging his dagger at where he thinks the assailant might be.
Seventeen backs away and whispers, "Sight beyond sight!"
Suddenly the world turns grey and she can see the outline of something hideous looming over Omo!
"I'm coming! I'm coming! Where is our new foe?"
Mort says as he jogs along to the rest of the group and then arrives seeing no enemy at all.
Round 1
IStalker attacks and Omo is slammed by an invisible foe and takes 19
Mort moves into the room and fails to see anything.
Guaire moves into the room
Seven casts See Invisible and now spots the Invisible Stalker (its on the map) Seven can use her actions to direct her allies to attack the beast (Still have a 50% miss chance though)
Jarreck moves and swings, but misses.
Omo moves and drinks an extract of See Invisibility
Round 2
IStalker attacks Jarreck twice +12 both attacks hit the flatfooted rogue for
Mort
Guaire
Seven
Jarreck
Omo
Omo helps out the cause by tossing a burning bomb at the once invisible stalker.
"It's there! It's right there! It's a spirit of air!
"I hope it at least feels this.."
Guaire takes a swing, hoping it wouldn't be utterly futile.
The actions of others were ever pulling to Seventeen and she remarked, "Foolish creature, we would have sent you home."
Marshaling her her inner forces, she concentrates on an exercise to transform one kind of energy to another. The ying for her yang. With renewed vigor she faces the insubstantial horror, points at it with her hand and whispers a spidery word. Five darts lance out unerringly to strike it, with the impact detonations briefly outlining it.
Round 2
IStalker attacks Jarreck twice both attacks hit the flatfooted rogue for 20
Mort delays.
Guaire swings/misses.
Seven casts Magic Missile at the darkness stalker.
Jarreck steps away and drinks a shield infusion
Omo tosses a bomb that harms the Stalker.
Round 3
IStalker moves closer to Omo and attacks! +12 hitting the Alchemist for
Mort
Guaire
Seven
Jarreck
Omo
Backed into a corner, Omo withdraws.
Guaire steps up.
"Come on, being all invisible, that's a coward's way."
"I can't harm it if I don't know where it is!"
Again Seventeen forcefully presents her right hand and whispers an arcane phrase. A fusillade of miniature bolts lance out unerringly to strike at the invisible nemesis! They detonate on impact spreading invisible gore in a wide area!