August fires at the akata that he can see past G-607. "G-607, step back through the door!"
He takes a step back to make room. "You're too exposed in there."
G-607 misses with both strike.
August manages to hit yellow from the hallway.
The red akata lands a particularly bad bite on the android.
Maenala and Zeigris are up
Yellow is it hard by the force missiles, while the laser fire has not effect on the beast.
The blue and yellow akata both attempt to chomp on the android, but is not successful.
G-607 and August is up
"Tactics: Some tactical retreating."
G-607 tries to press the advantage by striking the one hit by missiles.
He takes a guarded step backwards into the hallway.
The castaway fires at the akata through the doorway.
"So many of these things!"
G-607 crushes the head in of the yellow akata.
August delivers another shock to the red akata....which only angers it. It turns to him and run towards him delivering bite...
Maenala and Zeigris are up in initiative
G-607 delivers a good hit to the akata on the way through, but not enough to stop him from getting to August.
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"Well this is inconvenient and distracting. I apologize, Mr. August. I can't unleash another delightful barrage with it standing so close." Zeigris pulls out his survival knife, keeping the tactical emitter in his other hand. "Allow me to be a bit more surgical in assisting you." He then tries to stab the red akata in the neck with an unhanded thrust.
Maenala puts a round through the chest of the akata dropping it....The blue one still lives and goes after G, but the android blocks it with his solar weapon.
G-607 and August are up...
"Ow!" he shouts at the creature bites through his armor. The nanites swiftly repair the holes and restore environmental protection while his rescuers put down his attacker.
"Thank you!" August breathes and then unloads on the remaining akata through the doorway.
Despite the various misses, no frustration is visible on G-607.
Maenala manages to hit the target in the bridge.
And August gets one shot off as well.
G*607 misses both strike...
The akata find its opening and delivers another bad bite to the android...
Party is up
Zeigris unleashes a violent blast of magical energy...it lifts up the akata and throws it against the consoles and comes to a top at the fore windows.
Inside the bridge you locate the three cocoons that the Akata's came from.
Once at the consoles, you can easily access the root menu, which leads you to the basic functions. This allows the user to re-pressurize the ship and turn the lights on.
To get to the more advanced functions of the computer takes a bit more of an effort. .
Successfully hacking the computer, grants you access to the ship's log. Which is behind yet another firewall.
"Systems Failing: Rest required." G-607's speech is slightly glitched as he sits down on the ground, clearly pandering to his organic side with the rest required.
"Nice shot," August compliments Zeigris. He walks to the damaged android.
"Let me try to tend to that," he says as he rests a hand upon G-607's shoulder. The castaway concentrates for a moment as he channels restorative energy into the android's biologics.
Once the android's physical wounds have been repaired, he moves into the bridge and examines the console. With a few simple commands, he powers up the lights and life support.
"I'm not very skilled with computer code," he says. "There seems to be a log file in the ship's data core, but it's secured."
"Gratitude: Thank you."
"Comment: Further rest required for full function. Perhaps rest should be acquired when back on our own ship."
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"Why miss Maenala, flattery will get you everywhere." He'll adjust his goggles and step up next to August, trying to gently move the mystic aside. "Allow me, my dear man. You're adept enough, but I take these things apart in my boredom." After a moment he adds as an afterthought, "Sometimes I put them back together again."
With August having already powered the computer up, Zeigris immediately begins working with quick fingers and the keycard to access the secure logs and bypass the system defenses. "Hmmm, they never patched out the meltdown issue in their processors... tsk."
The logs detail the discovery of the Drift Rock, the crew’s initial exploration of the asteroid’s surface and the strange “geodes” they found there. The captain then states that the crew was under attack from monsters that “hatched” from the geodes they brought back to the ship . The next entry is more hurried, and the sounds of combat are audible in the background. “There’s something else—it came from the rock!” the captain reports with more than a trace of panic in his voice. “We’re getting overwhelmed! I’m going to open the ship to vacuum—maybe that’ll slow them down!” The log’s final entry was recorded in engineering and shows the captain in his space suit. “Purging the air didn’t work. I’ve set the autopilot to continue on to Absalom Station, but we’re abandoning ship. We’ll fall back to the rock and try to regroup there. Acreon out.” There are no further entries.
With the ship pressurized and the environment being balanced while Zeigris works, the force field around August's head powers down, and he removes the rebreather from his face.
"Ah. That's better."
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Maenela crosses her arms. "The alien bastards overran the place, did they? It sounds like we're going to need to investigate that rock. Any suggestions as to how we get there? I say we hop back on the Hippocampus and regroup, then fly our way over. Then again," she tosses her hair, "I'll say anything to have an excuse to get back in the pilot's seat."
"Response: Maenela's suggestion is reasonable."
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"The shuttle would be more effective. Though if we're not pressed for time I would appreciate a bit of a nap. I have exhausted the brunt of my unique resources for the day and could use time to charge my batteries." He chuckles softly to myself. "Figuratively and literally."
Zeigris adjusts his goggles and gives a nod to August now that he can see the man's face. "I presume you'd like to join us."
"Yes, I think I'd best," August says. "And a rest would be good, if we're going to head onto the rock where these beasts came from."
He chuckles ominously and adds, "Besides, my only other choice is to wait until you leave and then depart with the shuttle and a sizable load of noqual."
The group load up the noqual onto the Hippocampus and take it to the asteroid...
As they get closer, they get a better look at the asteroid. The Drift Rock is a rocky asteroid only a few thousand feet in diameter with an unremarkable, irregular surface.
While apporaching the asteroid, the PC's notice something unusual about the asteroid.
After landing and exploring the Drift Rock.
G-607 mostly shuts down for the ride, hoping the others can handle the ship.
"Observation: There is a rocky overhand concealing a cave entrance that leads inside the asteroid. Shall we proceed inside?"
"That's unusual," August points out. "The edge of the rock looks like it was cut away from a whole, and it hasn't weathered any collisions with space debris. Like it spent its existence in the Drift until the Arceon found it."
He activates his environmental protections once more and his boot clamps as they disembark onto the rock. "There's a cave leading inside," he informs the others over his comms.
The group heads into the tunnel where you can tell that has no gravity.
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"Random Number Generation: North"
To the north, a dead humanoid body floats in this cavern. The body of is of a human male. His estex suit has "Acreon" on the shoulder.
Four tunnels exit this cavern to the north, south, east, and west. Strangely, however, while the south and west passages are hewn rock, the north and east passages are finished and lined with some sort of polished, metallic plating on the walls, floors, and ceiling.
In the cavern is a lone figure that seems to be mindlessly wandering around in circles. The lower half of its helmet is shattered, a long blueish tongue hangs out. It looks over at you and advances, mouth open.
Party is up....
August clomps toward the tunnel to the left and then fires his pulsecaster at the abomination.
"Engaging: Hostile Creature."
G-607 takes out his solar weapon.
He charges at the creature while wreathed in flame.
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Zeigris will clomp right along behind August, opting to bring out his more familiar Azimuth pistol to take a shot at the monstrosity. "I do not recognize this creature, but it reminds me of zombies from several classic movies I've watched." He takes a shot that proves noticeably less impressive than his allies, but still appears reasonably accurate.
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"Hmm, not good," Maenala mutters as she clomps along behind the others. Upon the creature showing itself, she quickly raises her weapon. "Yeah, not good at all. Is this another one of those akata things? And I thought we'd seen the last of them." She sighs heavily, then fires at the creature. "Well, let's take it down!"
The void zombie slams its arm against G-607 and knocks the wind out of him.
Party is up
G-607 retaliates in kind.
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Ziggy will continue to take advantage of his positioning the rather stirring motivational words of Maenala to continue draining his blaster's battery into the side of the... creature... thing. "Mr. G, do avoid any significant damage or we may be forced to fall back for a recovery period. Rather inconvenient!"
"Watch out!" August calls over the comms too late for G607. He fires his pulsecaster at the parasitically animated corpse.
"What out for its tongue, too!"
The void zombie stops moving as the Maenala's shot lands and begins to float aimlessly in the cavern...