But he slips in some of the garbage!
Round 1:
Dunklezahn: Miss
Booker: Kill
Hack-it: Go
Janzi: Go
Hostiles: TBD
Gig: TBD
Grey: 122
Red: 82
Hack-It and Hum both fire upon the remaining creature.
Janzi takes aim at Red with his liquidator disintegrator pistol.
Hack-it and Hum blast only the wall, but Janzi scores a solid hit. Both worms, seriously injured, but desperately hungry for nourishment, fight on. It tries to bite at Dunklezahn repeatedly!
but can't connect!
Round 1:
Dunklezahn: Miss
Booker: Kill
Hack-it: Miss
Janzi: Hit
Hostiles: ATK
Gig: Go
Red: 95
Gig realizes that he needs even more firepower. Spreading his legs and shaking his hands out like He was preparing for a gun fighter’s duel, Gig cats another Arcing Surge at the worm.
”Time to bite the dust varmin!”
Gig's spell works far better than expected. The worm is clearly electrocuted, and it smells like burned meat in the already gross room!
Booker puts a hand on Gig's shoulder. "Not bad, cowboy. We've got a long way to go yet, though, so save yer fancy magic when bullets'll suffice."
He gives the room a cursory glance for anything obviously valuable poking out of the dump , then nods to the vesk. "Let's keep moving." The veteran scouts ahead and listens carefully at the doors to the north .
In the dump is a cabinet by the door. It's unlocked. Within the cabinet Booker finds a merciful venomous paragon semiauto pistol (with 16 small arm rounds), 3 doses of tier 3 sedatives (likely used to sedate a surnoch if it becomes unruly), and 3 doses of sprayflesh.
Booker doesn't hear anything or see anything at the door, but the door is locked. The sign above is written in Eoxian.
BRIG
Janzi reads the sign. Hmm, we may have found a good permanent home for Hack-It, he says with a smirk. It's a brig.
Gig looks for a panel to unlock the door and begins trying to break the codes.
"Howdy, door. Open sesame!"
Gig fiddles with the voice recognition software until something clicks. At the end of his "magic words" The door lock replies "Welcome Major Ivernerak."
The door then slides open. This room is brighter than most of the ship, with crisp white light flooding down from the entire ceiling. A series of four barred cells runs the length of the aft wall, each with a barred door with a keypad lock. A metal cabinet hangs on the fore wall, behind a small metal desk with a computer terminal and a metal chair built into it.
"See what y'can find on the terminal," Booker orders, then goes to check that each of the cells is empty.
"I know you think you're funny, Janzi. But suffice it to say that no brig would hold me."
Hack-It goes over to the computer terminal to see (and hack) what he can use.
Hack-it has no problems getting into the system. He cannot only open and close the cell doors but also learns that the cells are supposed to contain “four dwarf-form corporeal undead: names unknown, loyalties unknown” who were imprisoned 6 months ago. There’s no note of these prisoners ever being released, even though the cells appear to be empty.
Booker confirms that the cells are empty.
(Darkvision 60')
(Darkvision 60')
(Darkvision 60')
--->
"Looks like there's four traitors that they had locked up. The enemy of my enemy, and all that?"
”So if there are suppose to be prisoners there, how come we can’t see them? Do you think they escaped?”
As the party wonders what happened to the prisoners you hear the sound of metal scraping against metal. It's very faint, but you think it's coming from the floor boards just in front of the cabinet.
"That's my guess. Though I gotta admit... nice trick."
"They're undead. Not likely to be friendly. I say we leave 'em." Booker replies to Hack-It, then tightens his grip on his rifle as he watches Dunklezahn move suddenly to the desk.
Dunklezahn's quick action proves fortuitous! A quartet of undead dwarves erupt from under the floor boards! The massive vesk is the only thing between them and Hack-it!
Round 1:
Booker: Go
Dunklezahn: Go
Gig: Go
Janzi: Go
Hack-it: Go
Undead: TBD
"Well, whaddaya know, they ain't friendly," Booker mutters, raising his rifle.
Booker wastes no time at all, nailing blue with a shot from his rifle. The undead dwarf continues to fight as if nothing happened though.
Round 1:
Booker: Hit
Dunklezahn: Go
Gig: Go
Janzi: Go
Hack-it: Go
Undead: TBD
Blue: 29
"Well, whaddaya know, they ain't friendly," Booker mutters, raising his rifle.
Color me shocked, yeah, Janzi says, moving into the room and taking his own shot at Blue with his liquidator disintegrator pistol.
Dunklezahn whips around and nails the marooned one with his longsword. The two total hits rock the undead, though he doesn't drop. Unfortunately Janzi can't follow up with another.
Round 1:
Booker: Hit
Dunklezahn: Hit
Gig: Go
Janzi: Miss
Hack-it: Go
Undead: TBD
Blue: 75
Gig jumps into the room and quickly moves his hands in somatic gestures to cast Magic Missile on Blue too.
"Take that, you varmint!"
Hack-It steps toward the wall making sure that Dunk is in between him and the dwarves. He then wastes no time firing upon them.
Hum joins in.
Gig's missiles work as they always do. Hack-it and Hum both fail to connect with the quickly moving undead.
The undead stand up
The two surrounding the vesk try to shank him with improvised blades:
MISS
MISS
but neither gets through his impressive armor.
The other two apparently have scrounged up some pistols and take aim at Booker:
for
MISS
Round 2:
Booker: Go
Dunklezahn: Go + AoO needs bot
Gig: Go
Janzi: Go
Hack-it: Go
Undead: TBD
Blue: 75
Booker barely notices the small arms fire. He keeps his focus on the wounded dwarf.
Dunklezahn takes a vicious swing at the closing dwarf.
A grim line creases the vesk's lips. He concentrates on the fight, hacking down with the finely-made blade, then upwards again with a devastating backswing.
Janzi moves over to the far wall, taking a shot at Blue to try and give Dunk some help.
Booker blasts a shot right into the marooned one's head. Dunklezahn struggles, even with the open shot, but eventually connects, cutting down the first foe!
Round 2:
Booker: Hit
Dunklezahn: Kill
Gig: Go
Janzi: Miss
Hack-it: Go
Undead: TBD
Gig casts another and let’s another three magic missiles fly from his fingertips. The three bolts of force Arc through the air and land unerringly into white.
Gig wastes no time more one the next target, drilling it with a trio of missiles.
Round 2:
Booker: Hit
Dunklezahn: Kill
Gig: MM
Janzi: Miss
Hack-it: Go
Undead: TBD
White: 15
Hack-It and Hum do their best to help Dunk put the dead dwarf in front of him down.
Yeah... nope
Hack-it and Hum need to re-calibrate their sights as the undead continue their tireless offense.
The one locked into Dunklezahn can't get through his armor, while the other two split their focus. One moves to help Dunk's foe, the other closes with Janzi
for
for
Round 3:
Booker: Go
Dunklezahn: Go
Gig: Go
Janzi: Go
Hack-it: Go
Undead: TBD
White: 15
Dunjlezahn easily connects!
Round 3:
Booker: Go
Dunklezahn: Hit
Gig: Go
Janzi: Go
Hack-it: Go
Undead: TBD
White: 60
Knowing Dunklezahn can handle his own, Booker swivels the barrel a quarter turn to put a bullet in the dwarf accosting Janzi.
"Damnit Hum, don't bump into me!" Hack-It shouts at his drone, a sign that he's starting to get attached to it. He then punches in a couple commands to recalibrate its aim, then the two point their weapons and shoot!
Gig decides it’s time for some target practice. With a quick draw, he fires off a blast from his disruption pistol at White.
(Crit = Staggered)
Gig’s dimensional disruption weapon creates a streamlike gravitational wave function that disrupts subatomic fields in an effect similar to a sonic attack, and staggers its target as the wave function momentarily disrupts the fabric of space around the target.
Booker blows a hole through one foe, who keeps coming with a wordless snarl.
Gig's shot is right on target! The damage is minor, but the shock staggers him!
Hum still misses, eliciting a series of beebs that clearly aren't good. Hack-it hits though!
Round 3:
Booker: Hit
Dunklezahn: Hit
Gig: Crit
Janzi: Go
Hack-it: Hit
Undead: TBD
White: 75 (Staggered 1 round)
Black: 32
Janzi grimaces as the undead dwarf strikes him, but still manages to needle Hack-It: Doesn't that glob o' grease do whatever you program it to? So you're bumping in to yourself, then?
He takes a guarded step away from Black and opens fire.
Hack-It scoffs in response to Janzi, who obviously has no understanding of the complexities of drone technology.
With a pair of injured undead, and one who hasn't face the fire yet, they see no reason to press. For the first time one speaks, "Why are you even fighting? You're on a ship full of death!"
They don't slow down at all. The one closest to Janzi drops his weapon and tries to grab hold of him! but can't get his hands around his life support!
The other two adjust a bit and try to gut Dunklezahn from flanking:
MISS
for
Round 3:
Booker: Go
Dunklezahn: Go
Gig: Go
Janzi: Go
Hack-it: Go
Undead: TBD
White: 75 (Staggered 1 round)
Black: 46
"We're fighting because you idiots want to essentially blow up the galaxy!" Hack-It retorts, again firing weapons from point blank range.
Oh, yeah, use logic with a dead dwarf. That's sound reasoning, Janzi says, moving back from Black while fumbling for a new battery pack for his liquidator.