Alldur seems distracted for a moment, staring into the middle distance, before he shakes it off and notices the door before them. 'Let me take a crack at it' He says, readying his tools and setting to opening the door.
There is a click as Alldur manages to open the lock.
This grand hall is ten feet wide and twenty five feet long. A large metal door stands at the west end of this entry, while three other metal doors stand in the walls at the opposite end. The middle door is slightly smaller than the others, and a metal wheel is mounted in the centre of each door.
Poshment shouts as he enters the tower.
"Who puts big turny things in the middle of the door? What a dummy!" He chuckles to himself.
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Nothing seems to respond to Poshment's shouts.
Poshment frowns. "What terrible hospitality..."
"Eny, meany, miney, THIS ONE!" he calls out, pointing at the middle door. Once it has been searched and is determined (or made) safe, he opens the door.
Zimdoz thoroughly searches the threshhold for traps, etc.
Zimdoz you recognise that the hatch to the east is a false hatch and is actually a trap
Zimdoz will approach carefully and try to disable it, if it's possible to do so.
Zimdoz manages to disable the trap, behind the trapped section is just a false hatchway in the wall.
"That means this one must be perfectly safe!" Poshment spins the metal wheel mounted on the middle door and tries to throw the door open. I bet I could be a really good helmsman! Maybe I'll join the navy after this!
The middle door opens into a hallway. Schematics of incredible complexity, each mounted in an elaborate wooden frame, decorate the stone walls of this curving hallway. The schematics feature images of metal monsters, strange vehicles and technological wonders. The hall curves north at the eastern end, rising to the upper floor in a staircase.
"Hmmm... That looks like progress. Does that look like progress to anyone else?" Poshment asks as he moves to the remaining door. "Unless there's progress behind this door, I think that door is the winning door!"
He spins the wheel of the remaining door and pushes it open.
Zimdoz takes careful note of all the schematics and then looks around for something valuable.
"Alldur, look, this is how they designed things."
You do not find anything valuable. The schematics scheme to be descriptions of various androids and how they work but not in any real detail.
Opening the third door you find a wedge shaped room containing several storage racks and crates, as well as a sickly odour. A door leads to the north and a large alcove to the southwest contains a wrought iron spiral staircase, leading up.Inside the room are 2 robot like creatures.
Alldur pours over the schematics breifly. 'It's a start.'
He presses on, following the bouncing cleric. He stops short, seeing the robotic creatures. 'What are you?'
Alldur you recognise the creatures as a variant of a clockwork soldier, they are vulnerable to critical hits and electricity. They take the full impact of the electrical bolt and they seem to take significant damage.
Grezzag draws his weapon and steps into the room, ready to bust up some robots. "Leave some for me, haha!"
Poshment showers the party in Milani's divine providence. "Go forth and destroy!" he cheers.
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Zimdoz moves behind poshment and loads his dragon pistol with a tanglefoot poisoned ordnance and a bullet.
Block 1: Riot suppressors
Block 2: You guys
[i]The riot suppressors move forward to attack Grezzag.
Alldur draws a familiar wand and launches a salvo of missiles at the nearest automaton.
Grezzag grits his teeth as he takes the blows. As Alldur's magical blasts create an opening, he tries to spin his axe heads into it.
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"Woah there big fella, don't worry, the power of our undying, eternal, forever, infinite love will allow us to share the pain!" Poshment cries as he taps the ring on his finger and it starts to glow.
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Alldur's missiles strike the nearest automaton, it is slightly damaged.
The next moment Grezzag comes along and destroys it.
Having loaded his pistol, he takes a shot and reloads at one of the riot suppressors..
[i]Zimdoz's shot strikes the automaton and it is stuck to the floor.
It then tries to break free of the sticky substance
"Enough of this charade, you've had your chance," Grezzag declares before he starts up his buzz saw again.
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With two blows Grezzag destroys the remaining robot.
Loot: A box containing 11 batteries
"We've seen these before!" Poshment says, scooping up the batteries. "Wonder we can put them in this time! Ok, where to go, where to go... I see some stairs and there was that hallway of progress from earlier! I kinda want to go up the stairs now though..."
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'The stairs ARE right here...' Alldur muses.
The stairs lead up into a servant's hall. The majority of the doors are open with the exception of the doors to the northwest which are closed.
'Huh, looks like nobodies home? Should we go back and finish up downstairs or start looking through these doors?' Alldur says, looking about the room with disappointment.
Poshment paces back and forth. "On the one hand, we're here, but on the other hand, we haven't cleared our rear! Haha! I think the wise thing to do would be to go back down, but I think the more exciting thing to do would be to press on!"
While the others deliberate, he pokes his head into some of the open rooms. It is clear which way he prefers.
Peeking through the open doors each of the rooms contain a narrow bed stripped of bedding, a dresser and an empty clothes rack. Otherwise they appear abandoned.
"One of them is closed, let's fix that!" Poshment suggests. Once he gets the approval from those with better eyes than his, he throws it open with a smile. "Allll better!"
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Alldur gives the door a once over for any signs of traps, detecting magical auras for good measure.
Alldur, you do not find any traps
Poshment opens the door. The room is filled with crates and boxes, the walls covered with shelving holding linens, cleaning supplies, and other mundane tools. A strange cocoon like object made of tightly wound strips of wire and metal ribbons, is affixed to the highest shelf on the curving northern wall.
Poshment tugs on Aldur's robes. "Hey pal, are we about to be eaten by a robo-moth or something?" he asks, pointing at the cocoon. "I'd rather not, so maybe you could get with the zappy-zappy? Or we could get Grezzag to do that twirly ax thing he does?"
'Let's have a look...'
Alldur used his varied forms of perception to give the cocoon a careful once over for mecha-mothras.
Zimdoz takes a look as well, for anything out of the ordinary.