Maruf leaps back into the room around Richard and runs around the table to slash at the orc from behind!
"Ungh!"
The orc's attack lands solidly into Richard. Thrusting back with his rapier, he sidesteps to the right. "All yours Alpha!"
Alpha, with Richard's aid, thrusts his shield at the remaining orc.
Maruf moves into the room and claws the half-orc!
Richard distracts the half-orc long enough for Alpha to smack it with a shield, dropping it!
Searching the fallen, on the ratfolk you find they each carried a screaming bolt, leather armor, hand crossbow with 10 bolts, short sword, brown access card, and 2 gp. Each half-orc carried mwk studded leather, mwk buckler, brown access card, 2 silverdisks, and 10 gp.
Holding his wound, Richard looks over the humanoids they just fought.
"What were they doing down here? Looting? Are these are more of Garmen's thugs?" Something doesn't add up. What are we missing. The skulk chieftain said something..." "Wait, remember what the skulk chieftain said? They saw a woman with purple hair enter the Hill around the time Khonnir went missing. We should try to interrogate one of these half-orcs if they are still breathing. See if they know anything."
He moves to check the fallen for signs of life.
[b]"Interrogate then! But I haven't seen any purple-haired women among this lot of suckers so I'm guessing she's still down here then.
Kharax heals his friend's wounds, before stabilizing what's left of the other party.
"So what's da plan? Good cop, bad Cobbler?"
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Maruf's version of 'bad cop' is just to scream nonsensically in the captive's face.
Once one of the enemies is awake, Richard lets the Cobbler scream in their face for a minute before stepping in with a proposal difficult to refuse.
"You have two options."
He holds up his hands and gestures to Maruf with one. "One, I leave you with him." With the other he holds out a silverdisk. "Two, you walk out of here alive and with a coin in your money pouch."
Letting him consider for a moment he asks some questions. "Who is your leader? What are you doing down here? Are you working with Garmen?"
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"Betta start talkin', this him on a good day!", Kharax thumbing over to the Cobbler.
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After healing and stabilizing one of the half-orcs, the party begins trying to gather information. The half-orc sneers, seemingly unmoved by either Maruf's screaming or Richard's words.
Wow, I'm bad at this...
While unusually empathetic for an android, Richard just doesn't seem to have a knack for intimidation. With a sigh, he lets the Cobbler punch out the uncooperative half-orc.
"Let's check these doors." He says, moving to give the right-hand door a cursory glance for traps or other unpleasant surprises.
Maruf gets a little carried away once Richard turns his back and punches the half-orc a few extra times.
After allowing Richard a few seconds of cursory inspection, Maruf throws open the next set of doors.
Richard finds nothing suspicious about the door and opens it to find a set of bunks. Checking the other doors in this room reveal more bunks and a wash room through the far western door. Nothing of interest is found within the rooms.
"Shall we inspect that door?", pointing to the western wall.
"Ok."
Stungun in hand, Richard "Cobbler's" the western door.
Richard check the southwestern door and finds a narrow corridor that leads back to the entry hall. Opening the northwestern door, you see a rubble filled chamber. The walls of this chamber are battered and dented, and flickering lights on the ceiling give the room a phantasmagoric cast. A mound of rubble sits heaped to the north, while numerous strange containers lie in haphazard piles throughout the chamber. A pair of desks with chairs are placed to the south. Two half-orc appear to be rummaging through the rubble and both look up in surprise as you enter.
Kharax moves up and lashes at the nearby half-orc with his whip, cracking it as he makes his announcement.
"We have you outnumbered! Surrender yourselves so we can talk this out first."
[ooc]Will drop whip if I fail by more than 10
Kharax moves into the room, readying his whip!
The half-orcs grab scraps of metal and move to engage the witch. As the northern one closes, Kharax's whip lashes out, tripping the man!
The other half-orc uses the opening to close on Kharax and bash in the side with piece of plate steel!
Dashing into the room, Richard leaps atop the crates, closing in on the half-orc tripped by Kharax's whip and thrusting with his rapier.
Maruf rushes into the room and lets out a wordless snarl as he tries to help Richard.
Alpha moves into the room, shield first.
Kharax steps back and lashes at the other man's legs after taking his wound in stride.
Kharax then draws his longsword after his poorly aimed trip snags a nearby bolt and gets stuck.
Richard and Maruf converge on the prone half-orc, stabbing him!
Alpha and Kharax try to overwhelm the other, but both fail!
The standing half-orc swings at Alpha, but misses!
The other half-orc stands , and swings at Richard.
Richard stabs at the half-orc again as it stands, then parries and attempts a repost, but his aim is not so lucky the second time.
Maruf stabs at the orc again!
The party easily overwhelms the two half-orcs, dropping them!
"You ok?" Richard asks Kharax after the fight.
"These scavengers are everywhere down here." He says, scavenging the half-orcs then searching the room.
On each half-orc you find mwk studded leather, mwk buckler, brown access card, 2 silverdisks, and 10 gp.
Though the room has been picked over, you eventually find a locker that is locked, and appears to have resisted all attempts to open it.
"Look here." Richard points to the locker. "Let's see if my skills are better then these guys."
Retrieving his lockpicks, Richard goes to work on the locker.
With some time, Richard is able to jimmy open the locker. Inside, he finds a plethora of gear, including some sort of grapnel gun, a suit of sorts, a beacon, two batteries, and 24 silverdisks.
"This technology is unknown to me."
"Well this looks like some sort of gun." Richard picks up the grapnel gun, aims it at a crate across the room, and feels around for a trigger.
"Keep it! We've got a fire to relight!" Maruf moves across the deck to the next set of doors and Cobblers them.
Richard picks up the gun and finds it looks like a rifle with a small adamantine spike protruding from its barrel. Pulling the trigger, the spiked head launches through the air with a muffled bang. The spike trails an incredibly strong and thin metal cable behind it. An instant after the spike punches into the crate, tiny spurs lance out of it, anchoring the spike in place. Richard notices a second button near the trigger.
"Hold up a moment Cobbler. This could prove useful." Richard looks at the gun, noticing the button. "Now what does this do?" He presses it.
As Richard presses the button, the metal cable begins to retract, dragging the crate along with it.
A grin grows on Richard's face as the crate slides across the room to him. "Yep, I think this will prove to be very useful."
Disengaging the spike and resetting the grapnel for another shot, Richard follows the Cobbler south.
Maruf leads the way to a door to the south. Opening the door reveals a large oblong room. This room buzzes and hums with the sound of machinery. A long track of moving leather-like material rotates along a metal framework in the middle of the room. The eastern end of this device is connected to a looming metal machine fitted with thrashing and twitching armatures and blinking lights. Panels on the wall flash with strange writing and images of metallic constructs. To the west, a second track of leather, this one smeared with blood, churns through an opening in the wall to a room beyond. The entire place has an air of entropy to it—with missing parts, flashing sparks, and periodic discordant sounds of metal scraping against metal revealing how damaged the room’s machinery is.
Withing the room, you see two robot drones, similar to ones you've fought before. They move to engage as you enter!
With a guttural growl Maruf whips his longspear around and stabs at the closest drone!
With a glance at the thrashing machine, Richard sings a vanish spell and disappears. "I have an idea. When I give the word, step back from one of the robots so I can get a clear shot."
Maruf attacks with his spear, but misses!
Richard vanishes and moves around the room. He recognizes some of the writing, but realizes he will need some time to study them.
The eastern robot moves over and tries to strike Maruf, but misses.
The western robot moves closer, then fires a net at the cobbler, entangling the man in a net!
Maruf snarls and tries to tear through the net with his claws.
Richard squints at he words, but realizes it will take more time, and possibly knowledge, then he currently has. Turning his attention back to the combat, he moves around the far side of the machine and aims his new gun.
"Cobbler, step away!"
Alpha steps forward and bashes the robot.
Maruf uses his claws to shred the net, freeing himself!
Richard fires the autograpnel, hitting the robot and piercing its metal shell with the grapnel!
Alpha swings, but misses!
Kharax clutches his pearl to recall shocking grasp and casts it, charging his hand with electrical energy.
Kharax recalls a spell through the use of a pearl!
The robots continue to attack, but both miss their intended targets!