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Uninterested in the captive as he doesn't understand the language it speaks, Jarreck finishes his inspection of the fallen dark stalker and the minions that fell before it. He then will turn his attention to the consoles surrounding the room trying to make sense of each one especially the hologram with the blue, green and red dot on it, trying to place where everything is in relation to each other. And how much of the digger they have already investigated.
"I'm not sure but I believe this thing could chew up an entire mountain in probably a week, that power is almost godlike"
After a few moments of studying the hologram you can tell the layout of the entire excavator. You see several green dots gathering below, nearly a dozen all together. The sound of a revving motor continues....
Suddenly you hear chanting The sound reaches a fever pitch and the green dots begin moving towards the control room.
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"Seems we've over-stayed our welcome once more, heal your damage quickly and Guaire reload the grenade launcher with something definitely more lethal, flechet and arc grenades sounds promising."
Standing close by the hologram watching the green dots move Jarreck will help Guaire ready his shot by indicating where the dots seem to be coming in. He is also keeping an eye on the red dot
Realizing combat is imminent, Seventeen suggests, "Hypothesis: a Bigger Jarreck is a better Jarreck."
She then mutters a spidery phrase and he gets bigger and bigger!
Suddenly just as quickly as it was turned on, the hologram turns off. The monitors around the room flare to life and Hellion Appears on them
A multicolored explosion occurs in the room. Everyone is affected by Chaos Hammer
Everyone takes Will DC 18 for 1/2
Everyone is slowed for rounds, unless you are chaotic or neutral (on the law/chaos axis not the good/evil axis).
"Come again? He sure is cheap, casting spells via an image."
Seventeen gets hammered and states redundantly, "I appear to be damaged."
[smaller]"Guys, we'd better retreat I think. I'm not prepard against this sort of warfare."
Omo does his best to lead the party out.
"We're leaving?" Seventeen seems surprised, but she adds, "They might be able to do that again... I think you have a point Mort."
Seventeen follows them out, back into the room with the batteries. She notes, "There are magics that can dampen elemental energies. Might be useful since this Hellion seems to favor them. Still that's a solution for another day. What do we do now? They are sure to follow, can we lay a trap for them with the Cylex?"
Mort takes the Blood Smear Poison as the group collects it, knowing that he's about the only one wanting to use poison as a weapon.
"This will come in handy, I'd like to pay them back for my injuries."
The group makes their way upwards and out of the Excavator, the sound of the Chainsaw in their ears and the howls of Orc battle cries ring the air. No one pursues them as they enter the Arena above.
Hellion appears in the monitors as they leave and taunts them again
Omo won't feel safe until they are back to the warren. They needed more preparation. As he leads them back, he speculates.
"We need to see if the priestess has any magic that could be helpful to protect us from those unholy blights."
Seventeen nods, "A logical suggestion. Still we've only seen Hellion on those flat enchanted picture frames. Well I suppose they might be technological. Anyway if we smash them, can he see us? If not it may be relatively safe to rest."
Guaire takes a shot at any monitor along the way.
"For good measure..."
"Your flail would be more effective, but all monitors and projectors need to be smashed."
Seventeen suggests, "Maybe we should rest up in Helskarg's quarters? We should remove any monitors and set guards in case."
She looks to see if the others agree. If they do she'll move there and take 1st watch.
"Resting closer to our goal would potentially be more of a tactical advantage. I and Spike can take first watch, if nobody volunteers."
The party moves towards the Lair and Jarreck remembers his quick study of the Monitors. He believes he can disable them with a little time...
As Jarreck creeps forward the image of Hellion appears on the screen and berates him, taunts him and promises vile things to him and his posterity. Fortunately all this ends about a minute after it begins, because Jarreck disables the monitors using his E-Pick.
Ok who is on watch, and just go ahead and roll some perception checks. Are you doing anything to guard the doors?
"I'll take the watch before or after you Jarreck, I'm not that great in the dark, but I can see if we have a light."
Omo will work on repairing Mr. Robot, during his watch.
Even with the best of care, most constructs will eventually become damaged. Unless a construct suffers some sort of structural damage that radically alters its physical form, the construct continues to function at its full efficiency, and only falls apart once reduced to 0 hit points. Ideally, however, a construct should see some repair before it reaches that point. The make whole or rapid repair spells provide the easiest way to keep a construct in good condition. Both spells repair damaged constructs, even magic-immune ones like golems.
Failing that, a crafter can repair a construct with the Craft Construct feat. When repairing a construct, its master spends 100 gp per Hit Die of the construct, and then makes a skill check as if he were crafting the construct with a DC of 5 less than the DC for crafting that construct. With a success, the construct regains 1d6 hit points per Hit Die of the construct. Completing a repair takes 1 day per 1,000 gp spent on the repair (minimum of 1 day). Repair in this way can only be performed while the construct is inanimate or nonfunctioning. At any time, a construct's creator can deactivate a construct under his control with a touch and a standard action.
A construct that has been completely destroyed cannot be repaired, though at the GM's option some of the materials may be usable in the construction of a new construct.
Additionally, some constructs have special means of repair, usually involving spells related to the golem's nature (such as the use of acid damage to heal a clay golem.)
Jarreck uses the EPick to jam both doors.
The party rests fitfully in the Lair of Hellion but are unmolested. During the third watch something tries to open the doors but seeing they are locked whatever it was moves away.