Taking aim at at the shadow bug (Red).
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"Nice allsixing Dakoyo and Dakoyo-but-not-Dakoyo!!! I think that last bug was going to bite my poor innocent beard short!"
Gazigaz rolls forwards and takes a look at the hallway towards the bridge. "We're very close, but lets check this side door. Maybe its a bathroom and Big Nako just got stuck inside!? Like when I made roast quig-fil for everyone!"
He comes up to the side door and takes a listen for any sounds of groaning indigestion.
"OH! Thats not the sound of indigestion (unless maybe really bad indigestion)! But that's definitely Big Nako!" Go goes ahead and tries the door. "Big Nako! We are here to help" He calls at the door.
The tiled walls of this room are colored a soothing sea-foam green. Three cushioned tables occupy the center of the room, each with a plethora of mechanical arms ending in various
nozzles, manipulator digits, and other implements. A series of chairs runs along the starboard side of the room, with apertures in the wall behind them. The air is humid and smells of sandalwood.
Nakonechkin, is currently trapped on the central massage table, being kneaded and pummeled to a ridiculous degree!
"Hey! Big Nako! This no time for a massage! Oh... wait... that don't look so relaxing... How we turn it off?" The skittermander moves into the room and wrings his hands, looking around for a button or something...
Blurting over the other skitters, Nako shouts, "IN HERE!", running into the room on the right. Seeing the boss's predicament, she leaps onto one of the mechanical arms, attempting to rip it apart.
"GET YOUR ROBOT HANDS OFF OF NAKONECHKIN!!!!1!!"
Dakoyo rolls up to the other Dakoyo and shakes him up with all of his arms in a celebratory move.
"Good work with the other prisms. Inferior technology to what we use but interesting nonetheless."
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"Nako is relaxing while we are worried and contending with the crazy ship? Do we get massages too?" Dakoya says with a chuckle and helps look for the off switch.
to shutdown the machine.
I can fix It.
Quonx too goes to the machine to stop it.
The Dakoyo pair survey the room and note that the massage tables arms seem to be capable of attempting to grab someone nearby... to make them relax, surely. Moving close to them to destroy them will potentially have you end up like the vesk.
"Oh... no... Big Nako! You HATE being relaxed, yes? This must be terrible for you!" He looks to the other Skittermanders jumping into action and grins "Don't worry, Skitterteam will help, you just hold on!"
If it takes the rest some time to finish their actions, Gazigaz will start running Big Nako through some tales of Vesk military victories to help take his mind off being massaged to unconsciousness.
I will still try to disable it.
Dakoyo-but-not-Dakoyo hops nervously from foot to foot, his six hands wringing together nervously. "Help him! Free Big Nako from those crazy massaging robot hands!"
Nako moves in to attack the table while quonz disables one
Nako scores a heavy hit to the arm while quonz aytempts to disable it. Unfortunately, even though Quonz disables one, one of the table grabs Nako (grappled)
[ooc]I will start with the table on the right and work my way left, to make a safe path.
Disable the next one.
if needed
Gazigaz stays in the back, waving his baton like its needed to guide the high-intensity operations inside. "Go go Quonx!"
When he sees Nako get grabbed, he reaches over to grab her in response with four of his arms. He takes a hold of her legs and tries to pull her out of the table's grasp. "Let go of Nako you stupid table!!!"
Wrestled by the many-armed machine, Nako tries to figuratively (and perhaps literally?) turn the tables, trying to grapple the machine in turn!
"If you get bonked too hard come to me so I can do the concussion protocol on you!" Dakoyo calls from the side.
Continuing with the "Not Nako's Day", the massage chair that reached out to grab her pulls in her, pummeling her with the deepest tissue massage ever. It clearly wasn't designed for that, but the haywire machine continued to roll and thud over the skittermander
Qunox too keep up trying to 'Fix the machines'.
To shut it down
Undeterred by her failures, Nako again tries to grapple the crazy massage chair!
As Quonx works to fix the machine, Nako finally gets freed (probably with a little help with her friend.) Big Nako looks groggy from his ordeal, his scaled skin pummeled from hours of the message table.
He catches his breath before roaring. “Quasar’s light, that machine nearly massaged me to death! Thanks fuzzballs, you saved my tail.” Nakonechkin snorts. “We aren’t done here, though! If you’re up to it, you should head to the bridge and see if we still can’t bring this hunk of junk home. Trendsetter will probably fork over a sizeable chunk of credits to keep this quiet.”
Holding his quantum reality spanner above his head.
"Yes captain, we are right behind you. We can fix it!"
"You need some astral soothing, Nakoboss? We already know I have the most impressive techniques." Dakoyo says waving around his stethoscope.
Nako, pummeled and out of breath but attempting to look nonchalant, says, "Yeah. Bridge. But, maybe we should hang out here for a minute? Make sure these robo arms aren't gonna come back to life?"
Gazigaz rubs Nakonechkin's lower back. "You OK Big Nako? Skitterteam can tackle run away AI on their own, if you need to relax after that mandatory relaxation."
He steps back out into the hallway, peering towards the bridge. "You DO know about the run away AI, don't you? If we don't fix it it'll probably fill this ship with deadly neurotoxin!"
Nakonechkin looks winded, but otherwise fine. Besides, the vesk would never admit to you that he -really- needed help. "Eh, I'll be fine. Nothing that a breather won't hurt. As for the AI... it's a pleasure ship. I doubt they have a ton of neurotoxin set to every port."
"Neurotoxins no sound good, Big Nako..."
"I can fit it with this."
holding up his quantum reality spanner
"And if that dosen't work, I can use this."
holding up a frag grenade
"If you say so Big Nako. But if I've learned anything from too many episodes of Stellar Quest, it's that every derelict spaceship is a secret military mega-project in disguise!"
Gazigaz heads to the bridge, one step behind Nako and Big Nako, pistol out and ready.
The door to the bridge is locked, but engineering or brute force take it down! Consoles and monitors line the walls and the ceiling of this small bridge. Viewscreens show
various angles of space just outside the exterior of the ship, and displays note the ship’s oxygen levels, internal temperatures, power output, hull strength, and the status of other systems. You don’t have a lot of time to look at them, but the consoles appear locked out from where you stand. More importantly, a strange creature covered in cybernetics lunges for you!
The strange cybernetic-thing fires twice with a pistol, grazing Nako!
Quonx too takes a shot the machine thing
F
"Hey! You're a butt!" Smarting from a grazing shot, Nako lunges forward at the mysterious creature, focused flame exploding from her doshko.
Dakoyo has a burst of ideas pop into his head when the enemy attacks Nako. Rather than share them he bundles them into a psychic attack at the creature.
Dakayo-but-not-Dakayo also thrusts sharp spikes at the mind of the creature attacking Nako!
(Will Save vs DC 15 for half damage)
Gazigaz points a paw at the horrible techno-monster and calls out "You don't need me to say it, but GET THAT THING, SKITTERTEAM!!!"
He follows up by aiming his pistol with one eye closed, then fires!
He frowns "Hmm, maybe I shouldn't have closed one eye. They always do that in old serials though..."
Dakoyos, you realize that the creature is a Cybernetic Zombie, a mindless, unliving thing. Your Mind Thrusts would have no effect , but is vulnerable to electrical attacks. Dakoyo (the first) also knows that the creature will self destruct when destroyed, blowing up (for mild damage) in a ten food radius.
"Shock it! Electricity hurt it bad!" Dakayo-but-not-Dakayo as he realizes what the creature is, and pulls back the thrusting mind spikes he had intended. Instead, the skittermander uses his mind to hurl a loose object at the cybernetic Zombie!
vs KAC
bludgeoning (to both robot and object)
"You are right! Shock them but stay clear...that thing is going to light up like a solar nova when it goes down."
Nako and Quonz both land solid hits (the mechanic's blow seemed to do additional damage to the things exposed circuitry.) Sadly, both of the Mystics thought better of there attacks with equally poor success in their non mental attacks.
The cyberzombie (which in other company could have a much different meaning) would much rather not have a red furred creature in its face, but shooting seemed like a bad idea. Instead, it drops its pistols and tries to claw at Nako... but can't manage to land a hit.
Taking aim and getting the 'thing' in his crosshairs Quonx too fires.
F
"Keep! It! Up! Nice shot Quonx!" Gazigaz cheers for his team, inspiring them to attack with greater accuracy.
He fires his own arc pistol at the cyberzombie, aiming for its head as it bobs about, trying to claw at Nako.
At this point you aren't sure what Dakoyo is aiming at. Hah.
vs KAC
bludgeoning (to both robot and object)
"Get 'im! Get 'im!" Dakayo-but-not-Dakayo continues to cheer on the more martially-minded skittermanders as he continues to send the heavy tool that he picked up with his mind hurtling toward the strange creature.
"It blows up when you kill it?! That's cheating!"
In lieu of recklessly slashing with her flame doshko, Nako fishes around in a pocket, finally pulling out a flash grenade . The red skittermander then pops the pin and lobs it under the cyber-zombie, aiming for a location just behind it .
The zombie pummels Nako with a barrage of lucky hits! It seems to avoid the flashing lights though.
"Ow! Ow ow!" Nako endures a barrage of zombie punches, and all for naught. "That's what I get for trying to think clever! Time to think stupid, I guess!"
vs KAC
bludgeoning (to both robot and object)
The heavy tool continues to fly around willy-nilly, narrowly missing companions as well as the target!
Aiming at a soft spot.
That was not so soft of a spot