Other than the unusual gauntlets, the skeletons hold nothing of interest. Moving to the eastern door, you are to pry the door open to reveal two shiny metal tables or beds stand across from one another in the center of an oval room, with metal restraints positioned at the head, foot, and middle of each table. Metal racks along the north and south walls hold assorted sharp-looking implements. A rounded hutch protrudes from the eastern wall.
Onix sees implements on the racks are a mixture of surgical and mechanical tools, likely used to repair the robots encountered earlier. The hutch on the eastern wall is locked, and has a five-fingered “handprint” panel on it.
Itra retrieves one of the gloves from the skeletons and presses it on the panel.The locker opens with a hissing sound. Within, you find three vials of glowing blue liquid—potions of cure light wounds—and a needle-like device labeled, medlance.
Itra moves across the chamber and opens the western door. Rows of metal shelving fill this room. The shelves bear the look of long disuse but are surprisingly dust-free, considering the age of this place. Most of the shelves hold assorted pieces of machinery: wires, gears, and cases of bolts and screws, though nothing seems organized in any logical fashion.
Rani discerns the needle-like device as being something that can be filled with a potion or other liquid and then being able to adminster that potion through injection.
As Itra shows the party the card-like devices and the funnel device, Rani believes the cards act like lockpicks for technological locks and the funnel device puts out subsonic noise that attracts vermin.
Additionally, Rani looks at the gauntlet recovered from the skeleton.
Looking around, the party moves to the northern door. It opens easily enough to reveal a small chamber. Within is another "handprint" panel.
Itra puts the gauntlet to the panel and with a lurch, this circular chamber begins to rise, but it jolts to a halt after a dozen seconds or so. A flashing red light appears next to the door-opening panel, accompanied by a faint buzzing sound.
Suddenly a disembodied voice first in Goblin and then in Common says: “Negligible atmosphere detected. Do you wish to proceed? Push open button twice for yes.”
The two look at each other, then back to the party and shrug. "Nope".
Itra taps the button and the doors begin to open. As the doors open, you all feel a tremendous decrease of pressure, your ears popping painfully, as what little air is in the lift is sucked into the vacuum of the chamber!
A series of glassy panels form a semicircular array along the southern walls of this circular room. Some of the panels are lit but blank, while others flicker with a jarring, black and white dotted pattern. Many are cracked or simply dark. A throne-like chair sits before a mechanical table in the center of the room. A skeleton slumps in the chair, one bony hand grasping a large lever. Its other hand, wearing a strange, silvery glove, rests upon a glowing plate.
From within the lift, you find you are still able to breath.
As Onix moves into the room, he is buffeted by the strong winds what little air is in the lift is being sucked into the vacuum. He suddenly finds the air is too sparse to breath! He feels his body wracked by the lack of pressure!
Holding his breath, he notices the lever the skeletal rests near is labeled Air Pumps.
Onix holds his breath and strides over to the skeleton, pulling the lever. The is a loud hissing sound as breathable air begins being pumped into the room!
Within seconds, Onix is able to take a deep breath of seemingly fresh air!
Looking around, you see the skeleton is wearing a silvery, mesh glove. Nothing else of interest is found this room.
Onix easily takes the mesh glove off the skeleton.
Searching, you find nothing else of interest in this room.
Onix sees no doors and finds the panels unresponsive.
Going back down the lift, Onix begins fiddling with the controls in this room.
None of the control panels on the side walls are working, but the central table still functions to some degree. The table is a truncated cone, 4 feet high, topped with a flat, dark glass plate. Its controls include a long, wide brass panel set with dozens of small wheels with letters upon their rims—these “read-outs” for the controls currently spell nothing but gibberish. In addition, a glowing crystal next to a lever blinks with amber light. Pulling the lever causes the table’s glass top to light up, and a three-dimensional holographic representation of the sublevel, including the rotating ring of robot hangars, appears above the plate.
Manipulating the "graphic interface", the brass panel whirs to life, its letter wheels spinning and quickly producing a message; WARNING
DEPLOYMENT CAROUSEL HALTED BETWEEN POSITIONS
CAROUSEL MUST BE ALIGNED TO ACCESS EXITS FROM SECURITY SUBLEVEL
MANUAL REALLIGNMENT SYSTEMS: OFFLINE
HOLOGRAPHIC CONTROLS: FUNCTIONAL
HOLOGRAPHIC INTERFACE: DETECTED IN VINCINITY
HOLOGRAHPIC INTERFACE LAST LOGGED IN MONITOR ROOM TO CONTROL ATMOSPHERIC CONTROLS FOR ATMOSPHERE NULLIFICATION
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Rani's eyes are wide with wonder as he looks at all the marvels on display in this place. "We are truly among the gods here, are we not?"
He scratches his head as he contemplates the strange cone Onix had been fiddling with. "I wonder what these manual realignment systems are? Or where they are?"
The Garundi man looks about to see if he can see any further detail which might offer up a clue.