Seven casts Icy Prison. the creature is Rimed in ice, but not held fast.
Mort
Guaire
Isuma
Round 7
Jarreck
Neh-Thalggu
Seven
Mort
Guaire
Isuma
Guaire and the eagle move eastward.
Seven casts Icy Prison and the creature is Rimed in ice, but not held fast.
Mort casts a spell at the area that Seven targeted. the explosion of necromantic energy saps the strength of the Brain Collector and leaves it staggered.
Guaire moves closer !
Isuma unloads again on the creature
Round 7
Jarreck moves up and fires missing.
Neh-Thalggu flies forward and swipes one claw at the doorway, it opens sluggishly, and then snaps shut. Everyone hears in their mind KILL THE CREATURE. SLAY IT! GRIND IT TO DUST. DESTROY THE NEH-THALGGU
Seven
Mort
Guaire
Isuma
ROUND 8
Jarreck
Neh-Thalggu
Seven
Mort
Guaire
Isuma
As the door slammed shut, Seventeen was already casting another spell. The Neh-Thalggu had evaded the worst of her summoned ice, but surely it couldn't evade this? She pointed one hand towards it and whispered a harsh word. A fusillade of miniature missiles shot out from her outstretched hand and slammed into the horror's hide.
Seven's missiles finish off the wounded Brain Collector.
As you look at the room around you, you see.
Strings of tissue hang rancid and foul from the ceiling of this hourglass-shaped room. What may have once been some form of partially biological control panels line the western walls, but today they've all decayed into foulness.
Seventeen inspects the corpses to see if they had anything on them.
Either way she approaches the door to the east and suggests, "Maybe you should go first Jarreck in case there are any more surprises on the other side." She looks down at herself, "Oh I am damaged."
She retrieves a scroll from her case and whispers a word. It suddenly flairs with radiance as a swarm of nanites surge out of her, covering the damaged sections. They eventually sink back into her skin leaving a freshly printed section of flesh.
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Jarreck nods and turns a slow circle pointing at the door where they'd entered, the one just to the SW of Seven and the one further the the brain collector had tried to flee through.
"I think we left something behind unsearched, those doors are too far apart; but we can come back to it "
readying himself he moves to the door furthest away and opens it, moving inside if he doesn't see anything immediately
+3 vs traps
Guaire gets the eagle to sit on his shoulder, the bird turning its head as he moves.
She looks down at herself, "Oh I am damaged."
"Seven, you're -hurt-. Things like objects or golems are damaged.
You're alive.. despite unusual origins, alive is the word,.", he shrugs.
She looks at Guaire curiously before replying in a monotone, "If you look into it, the definition of life rather strange. All this..." she indicated the walls and floors around, "Is or was alive. So is the moss on the rocks outside. The moss can be damaged, killed. Yet as far as we know it senses no pain. Curious."
Seven finds a few odd looking fleshy objects that look like they might have been tools of some sort, but she has no idea how to use them or even what they might be used for...
Jarreck enters the next room as he touches the half rotten "controls" of the door which sighs open.
The drooping ceiling of this elongated gallery rises thirty feet high in places but hangs down to only five feet from the ground in others, sagging like a partially collapsed tent made of rotting flesh. The air itself swirls with multiple motes of various colors of light-what at first seem to be fireflies but, upon closer inspection, appear to be more akin to floating jellyfish-like creatures.
UHOH
Jarreck turns the corner and spots a strange glowing creature. Unfortunately, it spots him too.
SURPRISE!
Engine Attendant moves its tentacles around and a translucent shield pops up around it.
Jarreck
ROUND 1
Isuma
Engine Attendant
Mort
Jarreck
Guaire
Seven
Efficient in its digestion and reproduction, a single lunarma can depopulate a village in a few days, spawning dozens of offspring that scatter in search of more prey. Fortunately, an adult lunarma lives no longer than a year. During this time, it seeks to eat and find living prey in which to lay its eggs.
A newly spawned lunarma forms a cocoon in which it metamorphoses into a preadult, emerging when it senses food. It can remain dormant in its cocoon for centuries, and clusters of eggs have been found in sealed caverns beneath icy surfaces, as well as on cold moons and drifting asteroids—as if placed there by an intelligent creature.
Though lunarmas are able to communicate among themselves telepathically, they’re only barely intelligent, and their thoughts are primitive. They have no known culture, and their desires are limited to feeding and procreation. The only instinct they seem to have beyond that is a violent aversion to flumphs, which they attack on sight.
An adult lunarma is nearly 5 feet across and weighs 400 pounds.
This particular Lunarma looks bigger and seems more intelligent than the norm as its carrying a weapon.
Seventeen's image analysis routines had identified Jarreck's assailant. A Lunarma this wasn't good. Combat analysis subroutines spooled various data points down her tactical HUD. She watched with strange fascination to see how Jarrack would react.
"By the clan elder's beard.... we keep running into the bizarre on new levels as we go..."
As the eagle seems somewhat anxious, Guaire hushes the bird to remain calm.
SURPRISE!
Engine Attendant moves its tentacles around and a translucent shield pops up around it.
Jarreck snaps off a shot, which misses, and moves.
ROUND 1
Isuma hears the sound of the sonic pistol and moves into the area with her rifle held high.
Engine Attendant waggles its tentacles and Radiation suffuses into the area, Jarreck is given a douse of the harmful effect he feels frail and sick.
Mort flies into the room
Jarreck
Guaire
Seven
Round 2
Isuma
Engine Attendant
Mort
Jarreck
Guaire
Seven
Seventeen noticed the tell tail scintillation of hard radiation and she remarked in her customary monotone, "It would be best to spread out."
She moved inside and noticed the translucent shield surrounding the Engine Attendant. Autonomous subroutines where busy classifying the likely cause of this phenomenon while she moved into position.
An enemy spellcaster was a clear and present threat, one that had to be neutralized post-haste. So she marshaled her inner forces and eyes glowing with strange fires she chanted the same powerful spell she'd used against the earlier alien. She pointed at the Engine Attendant and suddenly great bands of ice threatened to form around it!
Guaire moves into the room in the south, the bird following him.
Jarreck opens up with double blasters and scores several good hits +13
Guaire moves into the area.
Seven discovers that the spell was a Shield spell. and the Lunarma finds itself trapped in a solid block of ice!
Round 2
Isuma cannot fire at the creature now (the spell blocks LOS) so she contents herself to wait with her Rifle aimed What now? she asks
Engine Attendant struggles in the ice
Mort also waits, as his spells require line of effect
Jarreck
Guaire
Seven
Round 3
Isuma
Engine Attendant
Mort
Jarreck
Guaire
Seven
Seventeen glances at Jarreck and then to Isuma, "Lets see if it's somehow immune to radiation."
She sits cross-legged with her folio out and turns it to a particular page and starts reading!
"Solitary? I don't recall doing much of that back in the clans' prisons. Then again, Ridleport's notorious for being less law abiding than most cities."
Seventeen abruptly snaps her folio shut and very nearly jumps up. She gives the ice-cocooned Engine Attendant a determined look. She utters several harsh syllables, and the area around the ice seems to sparkle. She repeats this once more before stating, "There's no telling if that worked. Better break it out."
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Having give the area a wide berth while Seven prepared the imprisoned creature, Jarreck moves forward with knives drawn. Chipping away at the creature once the ice thins Jarreck tries to bury the blade he has in the creatures 'head?'. Still frustrated that the creature sapped him with radiation as well.
The creature resists Seven's attempts to irradiate it.
Jarreck chips away at the creature's icy prison until he's able to stab it in the head. It squeals in pain as it shatters the icy bonds, battle resumes.
Round 1
Isuma unloads into the creature
Too late does she notice it suffers no damage from her Zero Rifle
Curses. I need a new weapon, too many of these foes resist the cold!
Mort now knows that the creature is immune to cold, which rules out a ton of his own spells, so he contents himself with moving close to the creature and touching it the creature is partially blinded.
Guaire
Seven
Jarreck
Engine Attendant
Seventeen notes the apparent the ineffectual nature of her spells with mild curiosity. She decided to try a different approach. She whispers a word and points. Suddenly a cloud of golden particles covered the Engine Attendant...
Guaire?
Also, Seven sorry I didn't specify but Mort used his Touch of Darkness to partially blind the creature. It now has a 20% miss chance....and that allows Jarreck to sneak attack.
Guaire moves north and motions the eagle to follow him.
Round 1
Isuma unloads into the creature
Too late does she notice it suffers no damage from her Zero Rifle
Curses. I need a new weapon, too many of these foes resist the cold!
Mort now knows that the creature is immune to cold, which rules out a ton of his own spells, so he contents himself with moving close to the creature and touching it the creature is partially blinded.
Guaire moves north and motions the eagle to follow him.
Seven casts Glitterdust but the creature resists
Jarreck stabs the creature repeatedly
Engine Attendant squeals in pain and attempts to savage Jarreck
miss
hit
hit
The Lunarma claws and bites Jarreck but fails to grab ahold of him.
Round 2
Isuma darts forward with her blade bared. but he creature's hard carapace protects it.
Mort touches the creature again but his spell fizzles.
Guaire
Seven
Jarreck
Engine Attendant
Guaire points at the attendant, giving the dirty trick command to his eagle.
"Rind."
The eagle flies forward.
Guaire moves north and fires an arrow at the attendant.
Seventeen observed the ferocious combat, she could slow this Lunarma down but she was saving that spell. Most of her other spells were less useful but somehow she was sure it had cast at least one spell in preparation for this combat. She decided to strip that away so she called out "Nullatum!" and pointed. The air around the Engine Attendant sparkled.
[Dice=Dispel Magic check]1d20+10[/dice]
Round 2
Isuma darts forward with her blade bared but he creature's hard carapace protects it.
Mort touches the creature again but his spell fizzles.
Guaire orders his bird forward, and sends an arrow streaking in. The arrow scores a hit.
Seven dispels the magical Shield covering the creature, making it much easier to hit....which allows
Jarreck to go all ginsu on the thing. (Every single attack hits since it was at -4AC due to the Dispel Magic. 95 Damage....) the creature falls to the ground dead.
Engine Attendant
The drooping ceiling of this elongated gallery rises thirty feet high in places but hangs down to only five feet from the ground
in others, sagging like a partially collapsed tent made of rotting flesh. The air itself swirls with multiple motes of various colors of light-what at first seem to be fireflies but, upon closer inspection, appear to be more akin to floating jellyfish-like creatures.
Seventeen regards the Mindrender coolly, "A cruel device." Noting Jarreck about to depart she stopped him, "Before you go." She whispered several words before he vanished.
Jarreck rubs a pepper on the flaccid looking "doorway" and it opens sluggishly.
Jarreck scouts around and doesn't notice anything moving. The light in this area is dimmer than normal, as if the ship here is rotting a bit faster than in other areas.
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Not wanting to waste time on a wild goose chase but also not wanting to leave behind something unexplored that perhaps holds more of their enemy, or something beneficial in their fight against the Dominion.
Jarreck will move to check the doorway to his north to look aroun, if nothing is there he'll move on towards the red arrow.
+3vs traps
+3vs traps