"What is an Alpha?"...."What is a Richard?"....What is a Maruf?"....What is a Kharax?"
"We are creatures here. Do you not see us?"
Richard points at the sphere and whispers to his companions. "I believe the voice is coming from that. It is a cerebic fungus. A sentient plant."
A bit louder, he addresses the creature. "We are travelers, looking for a lost companion. This place... it appears to be some kind of metal structure. We do not know its purpose, but are trying to learn. Do you have a name? Are you stuck here?"
As he talks, Richard glances around the area, trying to figure out the purpose of the device and the fungus within it.
"Glad I got you smart guys with me...", Kharax admits, confused and bewildered by the creature until Richard pointed out the creature. "Izzit safe?"
"Just don't let it eat you," Maruf snarls. "Hey! Fungus! Where's the wizard? Tell us that and I'll tell you everything you want to know."
"I see you, yet do not know what you are....are you tasty?.....so hungry....what is a wizard?...."
"We are not tasty." Richard says quickly, trying to cut off that line of thought. "And even if we were, we'd be a temporary snack. Few beings come down here, and it would be a long time before another chance for food came around. But I think we can get you something. What do you like to eat?"
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Don't think about food, don't think about food, don't think about food.
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"Uhh.. we'll go find you fresh food." Richard gestures for the others to move quickly to the next door, giving the creature a wide birth.
Richards begins moving away, but the creature follows quickly, in a ravenous way! "hungry...so hungry...nom..nom...nom..
Alpha, adverse to being eaten will move up and bash the odd little meatbag.
F$&@! I thought of food!
Maruf tries to stay away from the meat-eating fungus and stabs at it from afar!
Alpha moves up ans strikes the floating brain plant.
Maruf tries to stab it, but misses!
Suddenly a shrill scream of madness pierces everyone's mind!
Alpha fights off the screaming in his neural processors and strikes again.
"Ok, who was thinking about food!?"
Richard proves that androids don't sicken easily as he climbs to a box nearby for a clear shot with his crossbow.
Ugh. Sounds like my wife. Doesn't affect me any more you stupid fungus!
"It wasn't me!" Maruf calls back to Richard as he mixes up a quick concoction and tosses it at the hungry fungus!
Will post action later.
Everyone manages to fight off the shrill screaming!
Alpha attacks again, but misses!
Richard stabs and lands a hit!
Maruf tosses a bomb, missing, but it is still burnt by the splashing volatiles!
Kharax casts strange incantations before his hand begins to spark with electricity. "Lessee if this thing needs a quick jolt!", he jokes before stepping up and applying his volatile touch.
And he curses in Orc as he can't even get close to hit the thing.
Kharax tries to touch the brainplant, but misses!
The brainy fungus tries to bite Kharax, then slaps Alpha with a tendril!
"Second verse, same as da first!", as the half-orc once again tries to electrocute the fungus.
Closer...
Alpha counters the tentacle with a shield bash.
Maruf tries the stabbing strategy again!
With too many combatants now between him and the fungus, Richard jumps from the box and circles around Alpha, drawing his sword and timing an attack to distract the creature when Kharax attacks.
Kharax and Alpha combine attacks to take out the cerebric fungus!
"Illogical meatbag."
Alpha will start searching the room.
"If there is anything else in this place, they probably heard that scream.." Richard pokes the fungus to make sure it's dead, then gets out his sickle and cuts it apart. "I don't want to think this, but if Khonnar came this way, it might have.. eaten him."
"I don't know, I actually kinda liked it. Would've kept it as a pet if, you know, it didn't want to eat us."
Maruf looks around the room. "There's not as much blood in this room. If it didn't eat him it ate the blood and we've lost the trail. But there's only one door in this room so let's follow it."
Searching the room, Richard finds a small metal box under the easternmost table that contains three gun-like devices.
Moving to the next chamber, the finds a corridor with doors to the east, west, and south. The blood trail reusmes and goes through the eastern doors.
"What is it? Can I have one?" Maruf asks of the gun devices.
"Looks like case of firearms." Richard passes one of the guns to the Cobbler, then looks to Alpha. "Are these like the stun gun or something else?"
"I cannot identify this object. It does not resemble a stun gun, but other than that I do not know."
"Maybe we shouldn't experiment with them until we know for certain." Richard glances at the Cobbler, not really expecting that all will heed his advice. Reloading his crossbow, he moves to the eastern door, checks for danger, then opens it.
"F+++ that! If Alpha doesn't know what they do, there's only one way to find out." Maruf points the gun at his own foot and pulls the trigger.
As Alpha heads toward the eastern doors, Maruf points the gun-thing at his foot and fires! Suddenly there is loud concussion as the ammunition hits his foot, explodes, and bathes the room in an intense light! On his foot, the charge smolders and glows, burning his foot! . The device seems spent after its activation.
Once everyone has recovered from the tiefling's experiment, Alpha continues through eastern door to enter some sort of lab. Metal desks sit to the north and south of this long room, yet the most distinctive features are a pair of odd, bedlike tables flanked by curving panels of blinking, pulsing lights. Moving armatures of metal extend out over the beds, each outfitted with glowing panes of glass and strangely glowing tools. The chamber reeks of blood, with great crimson stains splashed across the device, beds and floors. Standing near the rear of the room is a four-legged construct. As you enter, it immediately moves to attack!
The mecha moves toward Alpha and attacks! The thing hits Alpha with a claw-like hand tipped in needles. One of the needles enters Alpha's flesh and he feels the distinct sensation of something being injected into him!
"Dammit! You can only shoot it once? What kind of gun is that?" Maruf tosses the used weapon on the ground and drinks an extract.
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Maruf ferociously claws at the thing!
@Maruf: Isn't it fire damage and thus youre resistance would cover that?
"These things keep on getting bigger! Maybe we should put the odds in our favor?"
Maruf tears into the robot with his claws, leaving to long gashes down the side of it!
"If you have an idea Kharax, I'll try to keep Alpha on his feet until you're ready."
Richard grabs his scroll of healing and mitigates some of the damage Alpha has suffered. "One more left on the scroll!"
Alpha bashes the construct with his shield.
Kharax begins chanting, calling forth ancient magics of the elder earth elementals to provide a menacing size to Alpha.
Richard heals Alpha!
Alpha fights off the posion and attacks, but misses!
Kharax begins intoning a spell!
The robot turns its attention to Maruf, the one who struck it, stabbing the tiefling with its needle tipped claw!
"Ow! Mother f!*&er!"