Hephaistos Raising... An Iron Gods thread

Game Master Helikon

Twice my post got eaten.. sorry. You think it has a purpose. It could be a game of cards.... no. It could be a booksign... no. Something strikes you that you might use it as a key. But what kind of lock.... no clue.

Gin follows after Tamoq. He looks wary as the gremlins caused him trouble.

Perception: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (10) + 6 = 16

Moving into the room, Elasbeth is also keeping a cautious eye out for trouble.
Perception: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (14) + 2 = 16

Kunala enters with the team, considering if he should pull his new cloak out of his bag.

is it cold enough to worry about?

he says in his accented lisp,

My it is a little cold, isn't it?

then looking at miniri's and tomaq's fur coats he giggles and says

well color me jealous

The cold is not dangerous... yet!
Even after careful searching you do not find anything special in this room.

kunala looks carefully at the door,

he is looking to see if it Is trapped, may he take 20 on perception (that would be 24), and then to see if it is locked. if locked he would like to take 20 on disable device to unlock it (26}

You cant take 20 on disable device

Except locks yes, I meant in general if there is a penalty for failure. Locks generally dont have it unless it would jam.. or the Lock isnt a lock.

Miniri steps forward.

"Let me take a look at that... those cards from earlier that we received... strike me as some form of key... I remember devices that required cards to operate, access, open... in my studies anyway, I have yet to run across one but they match the descriptions of the cards used by other explorers. Perhaps the door needs one..."

Percpetion: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (11) + 4 = 15

Gin raises an eyebrow, " Really? Than why don'to you usu that cardo? Ai will watch. "

You can open the next door just fine.

Kunala opens the door bowing and waving his arm, in his accented lisp he says

after you ladies and gentleman

when he is finished playing the doorman he carefully follows Tomaq and Gin, looking around as he goes

perception: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (18) + 3 = 21

You still dont have your skills btw

Gin proudly walks in his blade at his side, calmly ready to strike and more creatures if need be.

Perception: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (16) + 6 = 22

Miniri follows, bow at the ready.

Seeing that everyone is ready to go on, Elasbeth takes her place in the group as they advance into the next room.

As you enter the next room, it seems everything stays the same. There is a door on the other side of the gangway wich leads deeper into unknown.
Unfortunatly there is also a 3 legged robot sitting in a corner. An eye trains on you but nothing more happens.... yet!

Gin is immediately put on edge, he did not like the unnatural sight of such creatures, almost seemingly being their antithesis... but he waited, Blade out..slowly approaching.

Kunala gently rests his hand on Gin's arm and asks the team.

before we attack this thing, is it intelligent and can we talk to it

"Let me approach... let me have the cards first, in case it responds to them. Elasbeth... mind coming with me?"

Miniri looks at the tripod robot intently and slowly moves closer.

Perception: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (4) + 4 = 8

"Sure, I haven't seen a functioning robot before." Elasbeth moves up as well, keeping a few paces behind Miniri as they approach the machine.

Gin seems quite hesitant especially when Miniri begins to speak an odd language to the device, one which it repeats similarly. his instincts told him to slay the being soon, but his Honor held firm.

Kunala steps a little to the side, hoping to get a clear shot off if something goes awry.

Knowledge Eng: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (2) + 9 = 11

Knowledge: Engineering: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (14) + 8 = 22

Miniri sighs and switches to common.

"It is ok. This is a repair and reconstruction machine, and appears to be in perfect condition too."

Addressing 88-2, she swiches back to Androffan.

Kunala whispers to Miniri in his lisping voice, being careful to make no sudden moves nor take his eyes off of the machine

is it letting us pass?

Turning to Kunala, she switches to common. "I am not sure. I have found out that I cannot give it orders, it 'advises' us not to molest the ship or misbehave to common protocol, and apparently was tasked with something called 'overwatch.' I am asking if it will let us pass or if that would violate this common protocol."

Thinking a moment, "I would suggest asking it what those are, it might help us figure out how to handle it."

Still listening for the unit's response, Miniri shakes her head.

"I am worried that confessing ignorance of them might trigger some kind of defense mechanism."

Gin seems to look back and forth between the recipients of this conversation in greater confusion than when he started in this land.

Kunala asks

are you sure you understood it right? Were in a tunnel not a ship. Will it let us go through the doors as long as we do not molest anything?

"I heard it correctly... some of my fellow Numerian archaeologists theorize that these artifacts came from the stars. Calling such a craft a 'ship' would not be beyond the realm of belief. If it will let us pass then probably... if not we may either need to find out what will give us 'authorization' or we may need to disable it, though I would greatly prefer not to."

" A threat isu a threat ... Ai will disaburu it if Ai have to.."

Gin seems confident yet fidgety.

what do we see of the doors, is there anything we would recognize; a latch, a doorknob, hinges. Or is there shapes or indentations that some form of knowledge check would let us recognize?

Kunala tries to look over the robots shoulder at the door itself, to see if he recognizes a way to open it.

first level modifiers perception: 1d20 - 1 ⇒ (19) - 1 = 18

You have never seen anything like it. It looks like a sheet of metal. If you checked the door behind, maybe tried to scratch it, you would have noticed it is incredibly hard.

Kunala shrugs at his lack of understanding of the door, he turns to the rest of the party and asks

can any of you make sense of this sheet of metal, no point killing the machine if we can't get in

Gin shrugs, he seems wary of the machine but this whole area seemed as much foreign to him as the land above.

Elasbeth gets out a book and begins writing in it while Miniri talks with the machine. In particular she writes notes about the machines physiology and makes a rough sketch or two while Miniri deals with it.

No problem

someone must know how to open this door

Kunala, done looking at the door and the machine, walks back out the the Humanoids area, finding Sef, asks her in his accented lisp.

Sef, could you possible tell us how to open the door to explore further into the caves

in case I need a diplomacy check

diplomacy: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (5) + 9 = 14 doubt if that will do much unless she is already helpful,

Does the unit respond to my question?

Miniri cautiously examines the door, comparing it to the cards to see if they will open it.

Taking a 20 on it.

You do not get an answer. You would think.... pressing the grey field should ...yes the door smoothly opens.
The northern wall of this otherwise empty metal room is a tangle
of what look to have once been strange cages of some sort.
Tangled amid the metal ribs of these cages are ribs of a more
organic nature—the ancient bones of some sort of alien creature.
Smaller mounds of rubble lie against the opposite wall.

Gin comes from behind the curious catfolk and places his hand on her shoulder. " Ai will walku through firsto... maybe trapsu "

Perception: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (19) + 6 = 25

Kunala shrugs and hurries to follows behind the other three.

Seeing the door has been opened, Elasbeth gives an annoyed sigh, and packs her book away so that she can follow them down the new passageway.

Once Kunala catches up to the group, seeing the room has two doors and not having seen what Miniri did to open the first door; flippantly waiving his pistol pointing between the two doors, asks in his accented lisp.

Miniri, be a dear and demonstrate how you opened that door on one of these two, could you please?

What do you do?