Round 3
IStalker moves closer to Omo and attacks! hitting the Alchemist for 19
Mort casts Snowball at the invisible stalker, it hits!
Guaire swings/misses.
Seven nukes from orbit
Jarreck swings for the fences, and hits dropping the Invisible Stalker Sahasho.
Omo
When the invisible creature keels over dead Seventeen says to no one in particular, "How peculiar we could have helped it in time."
Mort hearing something fall done, looks up and asks: "Is it over? Is that thing dead?"
At that time he looks around the room figuring there might be something in here as well, no guardian is placed here without a reason.
He looks and looks and finally exclaims:"Aha! I knew there should be something hidden in here."
He walks over to the north-east corner of the room and tries top open the hidden panel, but cannot quite reach it.
"Jarreck? A little help here?" He asks after trying unsuccesfully to jump for a better grip on the panel.
Guaire takes a quick look at Omo and Jarreck.
"Those are some bruises and lumps on the head, big ones.
At least it's down for the count."
Guaire walks over before Jarreck, taking what Mort is pointing at.
"Here you go.", as he hands the items over.
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As the creature is heard to slump to the ground, hopefully lifeless, Jarreck relaxes just a bit to check on the cuts that apepared almost by magic when he was attacked, Shaking his head he ask "For those of you who can see it, it is dead right?" Receiving an answer to the affirmative, he cleans and resets his knives in their sheathes, before searching the room.
At Mort's call, "Jackpot!, Omo you are definitely in need of these I'm sure." he says as the canisters are brought out of the hidden cache. And as the black hypogun is pulled out with a smile he says "Both of us need this."
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Seventeen nods approvingly at Jarreck's work and then asks, "What now?"
"Thank you for saving me guys, I honestly don't understand why he reacted the way he did. We were going to help him."
"Biohazard? I don't know exactly but something in here is dangerous to life or perhaps an organic form of danger, like a disease. Best we leave it alone. Well, if we are going to heal that poor andriod we should take her back to our ship and come back into town to purchase a scroll."
Omo starts heading back towards the front of the wreck.
"This place could be useful to us later. Let's not mention it the the technology hatin locals."
Seventeen arches an eyebrow and nods her ascent, "Leaving the bioharzard well alone seems wise. And I agree we should not mention this to the townsfolk, to keep them safe as much as anything."
She follows Omo.
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Jarreck seems a bit crest fallen at his companions quick dismissal of the area, but the thought of catching something; a flesh eating disease, wasting disease, or some other gruesome mode of death, quickly smothers that before it even reaches his face. OK, lets go.
Thought perhaps wed be able to get more canisters
If Omo restores power to the Aurora (details are in a spoiler in an earlier post)the following things can be done.
Until someone imbues the power conduit in area A14 with at least 20 charges of power, the ruins of the Aurora remain dark and inert. Once the ruins gain power, the following conditions change in the ruins.
The Aurora consumes 20 charges per month to power the following.
1) The few still-functional lights in the ceiling flicker to life, raising ambient light levels to dim light.
2) All doors can be opened with a touch as a swift action.
3) The production lab (area AS) and nanotech lab (area A14) can be utilized to craft technological items.
4) The android foundry (area A3 and A10) reactivates and generates one new deformed android per week.(This process can be stopped by disabling the machinery or destroying it)
5) The nanotech lab (area A14) can be used to neutralize the toxic gas stored in the canisters in area A13. (This requires separate checks)
6) Someone can use the Aurora's facilities to recover data from the Gearsman (and read the spoiler to follow)
The Gearsmen were dispatched by Unity to recapture, or kill the Android Casandalee who had taken refuge here and restarted the Android Foundry. The Gearsmen you faced were the remaining robots from the forced dispatched by Unity that had lost contact with Unity and so remained here. Some time ago, someone (Furkas Xoud) arrived and took Casandalee's "body" with him.
"Right....i'm not up for taking on another biohazard like that huge glob again. Once in a lifetime's enough."
Guaire listens with attention at the options provided by powering up.
"That sounds interesting, but some would better be off 'fixed', like that foundry being shut down."
"That would be nice, Jarreck, though our neighbors leave something to be desired. Do we want to help our prisoner? She is hopeless mad. There is magic that can help, but if we don't want to cure her then we should take her far from here. Here she would be a danger to herself and others."
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"Agree Guaire, fighting off malfunctioning androids each time we come back is not a good plan the foundry would need to be disabled until such time a suitable repair can be made. But the other labs could be put to use, allowing us to perhaps recreate the weapons or hypogun that we find in a fully functioning state not a few shots and then it becomes a travel curiosity."
"Omo, what are planning on doing with her if you repair her? There's nothing to say the desire to freeze you heart when you affect her repair will be gone. She would still have her programing to fall back to, just no screwed up thoughts to go with it. We don't know if we're the screwed up bit or the original programming. And where would you take her otherwise?"
Seventeen agrees with Guaire and states mater of factly, "The androids produced by this foundry are broken. Unless we have some way of fixing the production line we should turn it off. As for fixing Seerath, she may not thank us but from what I've read all androids have a soul. There are those who would do it anyway knowing that. Or at least that's what the book claimed, illogical as it might sound."
With her deadpan delivery it's hard to determine Seventeen's own thoughts on the matter of souls.
"Set her free? What is our other option? Murdering her in cold blood?"
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"Funny a minute ago you said if you weren't able to heal her, you'd drop her off somewhere uninhabited so she wouldn't be a danger to others, I simply asked where? "Although that could be tantamount to murder if her subroutines do not give her the skills to survive on her own. Jarreck gives Omo 4 batteries to restart the ships power, then heads towards the foundry to see about disabling it for the foreseeable future; and to check on our prisoner. Jarreck doesn't see Seerath as anything more than that right now.
Mort hears the conversation going on is isn't that interested in the ship or Seerath. He wanders off for a bit, checking on Seerath by himself at first and waits there for someone else to do the same.
Ok then...
Jarreck and the others are having a conversation about Seerath's fate...in the meantime Mort sneaks out to go check on our Android Assassin's status.
Jarreck gives Omo the batteries needed to restore power to the Aurora. Ostensibly, Omo does so (although Jarreck could do so too)
Mort gets to the room that Seerath was left in and sees the door is wide open and Seerath has escaped!
Jarreck and the others move into the Foundry proper where Jarreck begins examining the machinery to see if he can disable it.
It takes Jarreck 11 minutes to find the things he needs to unhook, rip out or otherwise disable in order to make the Foundry completely nonfunctional.
In those 11 minutes, Seven, Omo and Guaire arrive at the door to the room that Seerath was stashed in. Mort of course doesn't have to just sit there for 11 minutes, so he can interject what happens.
Upon hearing the news, Seventeen dictates flatly "Her programming dictates that she will stalk us and ambush when we seem weak, perhaps when resting. Unless we find her, she will be a constant menace."
Omo is surprised by the direction the conversation with Jarreck went. Are we having a fight? I am just tired of people asking me what we should do with her. I don't want the responsibility.
Part of Omo was relieved. If she attacked them again, this might become a moot point.
Mort looks at the tracks that Seerath had left and looks absentmindedly in the direction the tracks go.
He then walks back to the others to say: "Our captive has escaped her bonds. No doubt we will encounter her again."
"Hmhm.
But will she even have ample time to organize another strike force.
If the foundry can be shut down, that's one source of reinforcements she won't be getting."
"Yes we should be able to do that Guaire. I shall work with Omo to find a suitable way of powering it down." replies Seventeen.
Seventeen works with Omo to find a way of powering down the foundry. She's looking for something they could reverse but will be very hard for Seerath to fix.
Seventeen suggests, "We should think about searching for the Technic League spy, no doubt they would be very interested in this place. Also Seerath would be in significant danger from the spy."
I need some direction from you guys, are you hanging out down here for a while, going back up the well, something else?
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Overhearing Seven and Guaire as he emerges from the foundry area Jarreck simply states "The foundry is disabled, and no sign of any crazy androids. She is going to be an issue. Guaire can Spike tell you if she has passed out of the well? Otherwise, I guess we should search this place thoroughly before we leave otherwise everything might be for naught down here if Seerath stays while we are gone. Then we need to find the spy and check on a crazy wizard in a smoking tower I believe."
"If we have anything with her scent on it, Spike should be able to follow."
Omo tries to use the nanolab to destroy the biohazards.
Seventeen adds suddenly, "As you know I have been studying summoning magics. I believe I have found a reverse kind of summons where I can send a spark of my consciousness to a remote plane and commune with powerful planar minds. For example it would be possible to contact one of this world's many gods and ask them some questions. It's not without risks but such an entity may choose to help us track down Seerath or the Technic League spy. Should I try this now? It's not something I can do very often due to the ritual's harmonic sub-space interference which takes time to dissipate."
Jarreck takes a few hours to search the entire wreckage of the Aurora, during this time Omo uses the Nanolab to neutralize the biological hazard of the Aurora's mutagenic nanites. Omo realizes that the entire reason for the "Badwater" existing is these fumes leaking to the surface, it seems he did Iadenveigh a great service.
While they are doing these important tasks Guaire and Mort search for tracks, it seems Seerath did in fact leave the Aurora.
I do, but thing is, i've read some samples of the module's final fight.
[Way of Death] is pretty disturbing. :)
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After things inside the Aurora are squared away; Jarreck follows the others topside setting the electrical trap in the last doorway as they go.
"Guaire here are the wraps that were binding up Seerath if Spike can use them to track we have a chance to catch her although she has a sizable headstart. Otherwise perhaps we should head towards the wizards tower. Finding out what he's done with Casandalee's body may give us some insight as to where to head next."
Seventeen replayed Jarreck's words several times over in her head. She had a speculation about what happened to Casandalee but was lacking proof, perhaps a visit there would provide it.
Seventeen reminded Jarreck, "Ultimately we must mount an expedition to the silver mount. We are under-equipped for such an endeavor, and must first obtain the necessary resources. Furkas Xaoud's tower may well contain some of these, although it's not be the only possibility. I could instead attempt to divine the location of other caches, or instead hunt down Seerath."
"Thanks Jarreck, these will do nicely."
When back at the floor where they left Spike, Guaire finds the Pilo snoozing near the hole.
"Hey, you funny little pin cushion, wake up."
It opens one eye with a low coughing like sound, then stands up before shaking its muscles loose.
Guaire shakes his head.
"To be able to sleep here....you really are something.
Here..", Guaire holds the wraps near Spike's nose. "Find."