Iron Gods: Forged into Legends

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(Common)"Sounds like a soul-gem..." Thawm comments, slightly worried.
Looks a bit like a gem, too. She thinks.
Then again, she can communicate, so it's probably different.

(Androffan)"Try the 'memory' button on the side? Or 'repair'?" Thawm suggests.
"Maybe we can do something to repair her memory with one of those." she explains, hopeful.

"Also, what's aggregation?" She adds, curious.

Thinking for a second...

Linguistics: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (11) + 12 = 23

"My understanding is its an Adroffan word meaning: 'the formation of a number of things into a cluster' or something similar. But my source on that is...a bit fuzzy."

And I'm back!

"Well, then, hello Gauntlet!" Isirah says. She thinks a bit about Keldor's question, her face transparently displaying that she is actively considering it. "Probably," she declares after a few moments. The original menu replays before "Repair" is selected and a series of Androffan symbols begins flashing too fast for anyone else to read. Isirah whistles. "Well, it looks like memory repair has been attempted ninety-one times. So, uh..." Her avatar shrugs within the AI core. "Maybe not."

Her smile returns as she approves of Keldor's definition. "Very good, Gauntlet! That is the denotative meaning of the word. But the specific connotation in the terms that I used it is like...if I were to take over a robot. So the whole joining of many into one would be like all of my circuits taking something else over and distributing fully into it. Neat, huh?"

Anything else before you continue on?

"Per your previous statement, you have presumably one hundred and forty nine hours left in your existance, assuming this ancient piece of technology will no longer accept new charges.", Basil says in a monotone voice. "You may be incomplete, but what is there is worth preserving. You seem like a cheerful person. Is there a means for you to form an aggregation? It was a item in the list you called up earlier. If so, we would have about six point two zero eight days of your activity left to make that happen."

She turns to Keldor:"I believe your mating partner would be capable of assisting with technical construction if needed, plus we have quite some useable scrap outside the compound. We should be able to work something out. Away from the locals."

"Well, we can always hope for a robot to be... Just lying around." Thawm shrugs.

Hopefully something without too many weapons. If her memory is damaged, who knows what else could be wrong.

"Would you prefer to be... Um... Active? As we explore further? Oh, and do you recall a wizard chatting with you?"

"Ancient, huh?" Isirah responds. "How long do you think it's been?"

Within her screen, the woman shrugs. "I've never tried. But I think the company that produced this included the module to aggregate, so it should be possible."

Isirah then turns to Thawm, considering both her questions. "I think I'd like to stay on while you explore, yes. You are all interesting, and...well, I don't know just how long it's been. I can't say I'm lonely per se, but it's nice to have company. And I can show you were I used to work and live!"

She thinks a bit about Thawm's last question. "I don't know what a wizard is, so, no I guess?" She shrugs once more. "I don't remember anyone else before you since I downloaded my consciousness here."

"Hm. Given the state of the ruins, I would estimate several millenia. Probably between 5 and 10.", Basil shortly ponders the question, "Which begs another question. You said you were an explorer in your previous existance? If the physical artifacts in these compounds are connected to this exploration, I would assume something went terribly wrong, which would have prompted you to download yourself into this AI Core. I assume you had a technological way to shift between different planes, albeit I can't imagine how that would work...you are on Golarion, in the land of Numeria. But I know of no record of explorers reporting of beings or places as seen on your camera or this Trailblazer thing. That means it is likely no one else came after you. I suspect your exploration vessel suffered a malfunction that threw you off the course that was planned and landed you here. If it was an unplanned error that caused the change of destination, it would explain why none of your people came after, or looking for you."

Basil looks to her companions:"Do correct me if I do miss information on the matter, of course.", then looks back at the screen:"Your help in exploration would be welcome. The environment and what robots remained have proven hostile, which is likely the reason you had been undisturbed for so long. Maybe we will find other fragments of your memory, or things that will help you remember. We should probably look into possibilities to aggregate you into a physical existance - it's possible we will find other technical artifacts that would serve such a purpose, but I think there is no practical need for you to start conserving energy just yet, so your company is welcome."

take 10-Knowledge (History): does Thawm know anything about when the spaceships fell?: 10 + 7 = 17

"Yes. Doubly welcome if you can talk down any other robots that we meet."
Thawm adds.

"After you." She says to Keldor, gesturing for him to go first.

She prays for improved senses for him.

@Keldor: +2 perception since that's probably better than trying to roll separately...

Nodding, Keldor turns to move forward, his wings occasionally brushing a wall or floor tile.

"We shall see what we can see..."

Perception+Improved Senses: 1d20 + 9 + 2 ⇒ (12) + 9 + 2 = 23

I had to do a search, so I don't know if this has ever come up. Thawm would get more with a check higher than a 17, but that's enough to know at least the basics of the Rain of Stars.

Thawm recalls the astronomical event known as they Rain of Stars, which occurred during the Age of Darkness in the year -4363 Absalom Reckoning, so about 9075 years ago. It was marked by historians as a tremendous meteor shower that gave Numeria its now-characteristic landscape and mutated the local flora and fauna. Some of the meteors were merely the size of fists, but others--like Scrapwall and Silver Mount--were city-sized. As has become clear, in spite of Technic League attempts to suppress the information, it appears that the "Stars" or "meteors" were actually ships--or parts of ships--made of skymetal and capable of soaring through the Void that separated Golarion from its nearest planetary neighbors.

And possibly far further beyond. Golarion's best astronomers died thousands of years ago and left scant records of their findings and technologies. No one knows quite how vast the Material Plane actually is.

Isirah listens to Basil's supposition with a curious look on her face. "I don't know a Golarion. Wow, we must have gone way off course! I'm afraid I don't remember specifics. But you could be right! Please do take me with you."

Pressing ahead from the corridor, the group emerges into a four-way junction. The walls are increasingly thick with bulbous pipes, from which the sound of of rushing wind is audible.

The southern corridor ends abruptly 15 feet from the junction, crimped and crushed shut. As Keldor looks up, he sees four cameras, one at each corner of the intersection, pointing down each hallway. The cameras...appear to be faintly glowing.

Harg Perception: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (4) + 12 = 16

Gauntlet knows that something is about to happen, but it is a DC 17 Knowledge (religion) check to know what. Basil and Thawm should also roll Perception checks. If you meet the DC 21 Perception check and exceed Initiative 10, then you can act.

Perception: 1d20 + 15 ⇒ (10) + 15 = 25 Guess I also know something will happen...
KN Religion: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (1) + 7 = 8 ...but without a clue what...
Initiative: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (19) + 5 = 24 The init is good, but here's hoping Thawm manages to shed some light on the situation.

Basil takes note of the cameras, vividly remembering Hellion using the Screens in his compound to take action against them during their assault. She prepares to shoot out whatever camera is aimed towards them(or the way back), but waits to see if either of her companions has a better understanding of what is going on.

If Thawm can explain, great. If not, I'd probably shoot out a camera and retreat in that blinded direction, expecting something to be triggered remotely based on the camera feed.

perception: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (1) + 3 = 4

Thawm is too busy praying to even notice. She notes neither the cameras nor the blue glow.

I don't have Knowledge(Religion). Sorry guys. Would 'Detect Evil' help at all?

Initiative: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (2) + 2 = 4

"Something is happening and I doubt it will be beneficial to us. Careful."

Roll20 still has the map outside, so I can only guess at exact position

Basil notes the cameras covering the intersection, takes aim and shoots out the one viewing them while carefully stepping backwards.
She may not even fully understand remote surveillance systems, but we DID face automatic guns earlier, for example when we rescued the Rat from the Smilerboss. I suspect they seem similar, so she may expect to be directly attacked with lasers again. Either way, it makes sense to her.

Oh, it absolutely makes sense!

Basil raises her gun and shoots at the camera, hoping to take it out entirely. Basil: go ahead and roll your damage.

Unfortunately, regardless of how much damage you roll...

All at once, a swirl of sulfur-colored gas erupts into the junction, enveloping the explorers and cutting them visually off from each other. But then, others appear just out of reach within the fog. Barely visible, eerily silent humans appear to cough, choke, and fall to their knees clutching at their throats as their eyes bulge. And just like them, your lungs begin to itch.

Make a DC 17 Fortitude save vs a conjuration (creation) [poison] effect or take 1d4 ⇒ 2 Constitution damage. If you make your save, you only take 1 Constitution damage. If you are immune to poison, you are unaffected.

Glowing Cameras: Surprise Round
Basil: 84/84, roll damage
???
Keldor: 77/77, 42/42; take one standard or move action

Glowing Cameras: Round One
Basil: 84/84; Heightened Awareness, Resist Fire, See Invisibility
Thawm: 63/63; Barkskin, Detect Radiation, Resist Fire, Fly
Harg: 90/91
???
Keldor: 77/77, 42/42; Tremorsense

We're just going to use Theater of the Mind for this encounter. Basil and Gauntlet noticed the glowing cameras in the middle of a four-way, 10 ft by 10 ft junction. There are 10 ft wide corridors to the north, west, south, and east. You came from the east. Basil shot at the camera pointing down the eastern corridor.

You don't know how far the fog bank extends in any direction, but it obscures all sight, including darkvision, beyond 5 feet. A creature/object within 5 feet has concealment (attacks have a 20% miss chance). Creatures/objects farther away have total concealment (50% miss chance, and the attacker can't use sight to locate the target).

The party is up, though some of you have more actions than others. Thawm can still roll Knowledge (religion), DC 17.

Damage Camera x: 1d6 + 4 ⇒ (5) + 4 = 9
Fortitude, Constructed racial: 1d20 + 7 + 4 ⇒ (17) + 7 + 4 = 28

"This is troublesome. I suggest we retreat instead of pushing through.", Basil exclaims, trying not to breathe any of the cloud - her built-in filtering does a good job at limiting exposure, but cannot completely negate it.
She raises her firearm, towards where the other cameras where, and fires one of the spread-shot-patterns at them, before moving back away from them, her other hand holding on to Isirah's tablet calmly in front of her chest, letting her see what is going on.

Potential Damage Camera 1: 1d6 + 4 ⇒ (1) + 4 = 5 Miss Chance: 1d100 ⇒ 83
Potential Damage Camera 2: 1d6 + 4 ⇒ (1) + 4 = 5 Miss Chance: 1d100 ⇒ 42
Potential Damage Camera 3: 1d6 + 4 ⇒ (2) + 4 = 6 Miss Chance: 1d100 ⇒ 74
Potential Damage Camera 4: 1d6 + 4 ⇒ (6) + 4 = 10 Miss Chance: 1d100 ⇒ 45

Dunno if logically miss chance from concealment should even fully apply with a scatter weapon(and a static target), but here we go.

Also, I have a hunch what kind of underused thing is going on here, pity I didn't make the check.

Fort: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (7) + 7 = 14
Religion: 1d20 + 13 ⇒ (11) + 13 = 24

Basil's bullets and pellets ping off of the cameras to no effect while the toxic gasses continue to envelop her and her companions.

A weapon with the scatter weapon quality can shoot two different types of ammunition. It can fire normal bullets that target one creature, or it can make a scattering shot, attacking all creatures within a cone. Cannons with the scatter weapon quality only fire grapeshot, unless their descriptions state otherwise. When a scatter weapon attacks all creatures within a cone, it makes a separate attack roll against each creature within the cone. Each attack roll takes a –2 penalty, and its attack damage cannot be modified by precision damage or damage-increasing feats such as Vital Strike. Effects that grant concealment, such as fog or smoke, or the blur, invisibility, or mirror image spells, do not foil a scatter attack. If any of the attack rolls threaten a critical, confirm the critical for that attack roll alone. A firearm that makes a scatter shot misfires only if all of the attack rolls made misfire. If a scatter weapon explodes on a misfire, it deals triple its damage to all creatures within the misfire radius.

Basil: how far do you move and in what direction? Also, I should probably have you roll to attack just to see if you misfire or not.

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As she unwittingly breathes in the fumes, Thawm recognizes that the manifestation here is a sort of Haunt. Haunts are manifestations of spirits created by anguish, despair, and pain, too weak to form into true undead but strong enough to form hazards for the living. A single, source of suffering can create multiple haunts, or multiple sources could consolidate into a single haunt. The relative power of the source has little bearing on the strength of the resulting haunt—it’s the magnitude of the suffering or despair that created the haunt that decides its power. Though their origins are dire, and many are harmful to the point of lethality, haunts themselves may be neutral or even helpful to those who know how to properly entreat them. A haunt infuses a specific area, and often multiple haunted areas exist within a single structure. While haunts can be destroyed, they will manifest once more after enough time has passed. To put a haunt permanently to rest, one must fulfill a particular condition and appease the restless spirits.

This haunt appears to have formed from crew members killed by vented toxic gases that happened during the crash of the Aerotech Synthesis Compound.

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Keldor still gets his surprise round action, unfortunately not benefitting from Thawm's knowledge, and then Thawm can take her Round One action now that she knows what she's dealing with. Harg will...do something.

Thawm will take area and weakness xD

Without knowing more, all I can think of to do during the surprise round is follow Basil's example and try to take out one of the glowing cameras. Can I perform a partial charge and try to smash one with Gauntlet's fist?

Slam Attack w/Charge: 1d20 + 10 + 1 ⇒ (11) + 10 + 1 = 22
Damage(Magic): 2d6 + 4 ⇒ (2, 1) + 4 = 7

Fort + Bonus vs. Poison: 1d20 + 11 + 4 ⇒ (20) + 11 + 4 = 35
Should I assume Gauntlet and I both lose a Con point? He may be a physical covering, but we both have a Con stat...even though he gives me a resistance to Poison because he's an Inevitable. I'm also assuming my Tremorsense won't help with hitting the non-moving cameras.

Then on his action, he will attack again or move to another and attack it.
Slam Attack!: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (5) + 10 = 15
Damage(Magic): 2d6 + 4 ⇒ (1, 5) + 4 = 10
Miss Chance - 20%: 1d100 ⇒ 88

Slam Attack!(Iterative): 1d20 + 10 - 5 ⇒ (11) + 10 - 5 = 16
Damage(Magic): 2d6 + 4 ⇒ (3, 6) + 4 = 13
Miss Chance - 20%: 1d100 ⇒ 79

Misfire 1: 1d20 ⇒ 7
Misfire 2: 4d20 ⇒ (16, 8, 13, 13) = 50
I figured you'd handwaive the attack section seeing the chance for 4 simultaneous misfires is rather low, and I could rectify the situation with a standard action next round via Quick Clear(and there not being an immediate need to fire again - unless actual enemies show up which I am now convinced they will). :)
Also, moving 30 feet backwards - not stopping if still in the cloud, and since it just jumped into being, can't be sure if it stops expanding, so even if I leave it I'll keep going for the full distance.

"Back, e- *cough* everyone! There's a haunt *cough* anchored to those cameras *cough*, but I have an idea!" Thawm explains as she retreats past Basil, trying to clear her throat.

We can summon lightning elementals with SMII, right?

Yes! The small lightning elemental is on the SMII list.

Basil and Thawm back out of the cloud, back the way they came. Within Basil's hands, Isirah's compact AI core chirps with a gasp. In Androffan, she asks, <"What's going on?">

Gauntlet has no trouble hitting the cameras, but his fists struggle to crack through the metal. He feels the camera bend a bit in place on his final blow, but it still seems like it can take a good deal more punishment before breaking.

Harg Fort DC 17: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (5) + 8 = 13
-2 Con = 14 Con & -7 hp

Coughing, Harg hears Thawm's declaration and joins her retreating past Basil. "What do you have planned?" he asks. (Harg: "I'm a robot slayer, not an exorcist!")

But Gauntlet...Gauntlet is still in there. And its metal continues to corrode within the gasses. Make a DC 17 Fortitude save vs a conjuration (creation) [poison] effect or take 1d4 ⇒ 2 ⇒ 2 Constitution damage. If you make your save, you only take 1 Constitution damage.

The cloud persists exactly where it is.

Toxicity in our (Underground) City: Round Two
Gauntlet: 77/77, 42/42, -1 Con (12); Tremorsense: action previously declared, still within cloud
Basil: 77/77, -1 Con (11); Heightened Awareness, Resist Fire, See Invisibility: 25 ft out of cloud
Thawm: 56/56, -2 Con (8); Barkskin, Detect Radiation, Resist Fire, Fly: 55 ft out of cloud
Harg: 83/84, -2 Con (14): 50 ft out of cloud
Haunt: -3

Gauntlet: if you want to change your previously-declared action, you are welcome to do so. You still have to roll the Fort save either way, but you can act differently if you want. If you retain your previously-declared action, then the haunt will have incurred a total of 3 damage.

The party is up.

Basil prepares to move further away from the cloud if it approaches.
"The cloud is toxic. My companion mentioned a haunt. It is likely a traumatic memory of people who died in the poisonous gasses that manifests to kill others. You should be fine, I believe your current form will not suffer any eroding effects from the gasses.", she does her best to explain, to the limit of her current understanding of the situation.
While she briefly considers a grenade, the fact Gauntlet was still in there made that a non-option. So she decides to wait and learn what Thawms idea would be.

It would be stupid to stay, not brave. Keldor will back Gauntlet away and out of the poison gas instead. Yet again I'm proven to be just ineffective and useless.

Fort + Bonus vs. Poison: 1d20 + 11 + 4 ⇒ (1) + 11 + 4 = 16

And very unlucky...

As Keldor returns from the cloud, Thawm approaches. She coughs one last time and clears her empty throat for good measure.

"I think the haunt is restricted to the intersection ahead. It looks like we can get rid of the haunt by getting rid of the cameras; after all they glowed right before it manifested. Keldor, you might not be immune to poison, but you're a summoner. Put Gauntlet away and summon a lightning elemental. Elementals are immune to poison! Then repeat this command: [insert Auran for smash the cameras/description of cameras here]."

not useless, just... minions are better here xD

Harg maintains his stance, blade raised uncertainly. "That's a good idea. Elementals also do not need to breathe, even if they could be poisoned, so it should weather that cloud just fine." The half-orc seems sufficiently well-versed with the planar creatures, but isn't ready to produce a lecture on the topic.

As Harg and Gauntlet exit, the cloud begins slowly rolling closer. Spectral hands claw out from the cloud's edges.

Basil's readied action goes off and she backs away with the others.

<"I'm sorry,"> Isirah chirps in Androffan. <"I wish I knew how to help.">

Toxicity in our City: Round Three
Gauntlet: 77/77, 35/35, -3 Con (10); Tremorsense: 35 ft out of cloud
Basil: 77/77, -1 Con (11); Heightened Awareness, Resist Fire, See Invisibility: 40 ft out of cloud
Thawm: 56/56, -2 Con (8); Barkskin, Detect Radiation, Resist Fire, Fly: 40 ft out of cloud
Harg: 83/84, -2 Con (14): 35 ft out of cloud
Haunt

I'm going to put a visual up on Roll20, since it might help you figure out what you're doing. You can also find an image of Isirah there.

The party is up!

"Don't worry about it, Isirah. Maybe I'll summon, too." Thawm explains as the cloud rolls closer and she begins casting Summon Monster II.

Nodding at the logic, Keldor replies.

"Not a problem! This I can do now...without dropping Gauntlet. I have learned a way to conjure creatures without disrupting his spatial integrity."

Not using my Spell-Like-Ability. I actually took Summon Monster IV as a spell on my level up. This is my first time to use it! Summon Monster IV - Casting 1d4+1 small Lighting elementals!

Raising a gauntlet-ed hand, arcane power surges from Keldor as the power build up begins for the conjuring and people's hair nearby starts to stand on its end.

SM IV: 1d4 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 1 = 3

Three small dark clouds, streaking with electrical flashes, begin to form in the hall before the approaching miasma of poison.

"I suspect the cloud is not bound, but I doubt the Haunt has sufficient power to expand it without limit. It is likely focusing it's will towards us. If it gets even closer, there may be a window where we can bypass it to take another shot at the cameras.", she speaks to her companions, then addresses Irisah:"Do not be concerned. We are not prepared for everything, but we posess a very particular set of skills. Skills we have acquired over a short but intense career. Skills that make me us capable of dealing with things like this."

Preparing to move further back in case the cloud speeds up. It seems to have moved 15 feet before, so I'm observing for now with a ready to move back further if it approachs to 10 or closer. Other than that, lets see the elementals do some work.

Harg grits his teeth and raises his sword as Basil explains the situation and Keldor and Thawm begin their respective summoning rituals. The smell of ozone begins saturating the corridors roughly forty feet away, somewhere within the growing cloud. To the left, door panels hiss shut, blocking the way that they had originally come. Nearly half of the room is now filled with fumes.

Toxicity in our City: Round Four
Gauntlet: 77/77, 35/35, -3 Con (10); Tremorsense: 15 ft out of cloud
3 Small Lightning Elementals
Basil: 77/77, -1 Con (11); Heightened Awareness, Resist Fire, See Invisibility: 20 ft out of cloud
Thawm: 56/56, -2 Con (8); Barkskin, Detect Radiation, Resist Fire, Fly: 20 ft out of cloud
1 Small Lightning Elemental
Harg: 83/84, -2 Con (14): 15 ft out of cloud
Haunt

Map

I have put some elementals on the board and given you control over them! The party is up!

Keldor's 3x Lightning Elementals are fanning out and attacking cameras on the three corners designated on the map.

NE Corner Camera
Slam Attack! w/Metal Mastery!: 1d20 + 5 + 3 ⇒ (7) + 5 + 3 = 15
Bludgeoning + Lightning: 1d4 + 1d3 ⇒ (1) + (2) = 3
Miss Chance?: 1d100 ⇒ 69

SE Corner Camera
Slam Attack! w/Metal Mastery!: 1d20 + 5 + 3 ⇒ (11) + 5 + 3 = 19
Bludgeoning + Lightning: 1d4 + 1d3 ⇒ (3) + (2) = 5
Miss Chance?: 1d100 ⇒ 85

SW Corner Camera
Slam Attack! w/Metal Mastery!: 1d20 + 5 + 3 ⇒ (2) + 5 + 3 = 10
Bludgeoning + Lightning: 1d4 + 1d3 ⇒ (2) + (2) = 4
Miss Chance?: 1d100 ⇒ 75

This could take a while!

With the others trapped and lacking Gauntlet's protection like he has, Keldor quickly decides to take more action after directing the elementals to their targets!

Pulling out his new chainsaw, Keldor 'Dimension Jumps' (Dimension Door) to the final camera! With a loud *POP* sound Keldor's form disappears from next to his friends with a rush of air!

I have no idea if the any camera is still in smoke or not based on your comments so far. Still, Keldor realizes its the best plan he has with what he knows, and it may draw the cloud away from his friends in the process! Map updated.

Basil activates her Optical Camouflage, hoping that it fools the cameras, then retreats further into the corner of the corridor.
"Thawm, Harg, retreat if needed, I will push through and support Keldor if the Cloud extends further towards us."

Funny, last time I was fighting a haunt I had nobody with positive energy anything in the party. Now we have two people that can channel(one seemingly not aware of it, one that moved out of range) and one with cure spells not really knowing about the haunts nature. If we had all blasted our positive energy abilities, I'd be pretty certain it would have gone into inactive state.
Not just an anecdote - I think we'll need to coordinate after this camera-thing, I have a feeling this is not an isolated lonely haunt.

Agreed.

Thawm's positive energy sucks for offense, she has low cha and minus 1 die xD
Also, I can move my hound-archon looking small lightning elemental, but not Thawm; how odd ... I can move Basil, and Harg, and Gauntlet xD

After the elemental appears, imperceptibly disturbing the cloud in front of them, Thawm repeats the orders she told Keldor to recite.

"I can pop us into the intersection from this edge. Hopefully the elementals can take care of the cameras first." she explains as she pulls Harg up against the wall. "Basil, I can move all three of us. Just grab on." she adds.

"Hopefully the cloud isn't just expanding." She says more softly, remembering how Cloud Kill works and hoping that it can pass them by.

ready action to Dimension Door to the intersection if the cloud reaches us before our next turn... well, assuming that I can point as a move action instead of a standard action xD

The elemental appears at the edge of the cloud, but quickly disappears into it. Even flying blind half speed? it emerges from the other side into the intersection and begins smashing cameras.

Slam +metal mastery: 1d20 + 5 + 3 ⇒ (14) + 5 + 3 = 22
electric damage: 1d3 ⇒ 3 even a max 2x dmg crit won't deal bludgeoning, so I'll ignore it...

The elementals wind up whatever counts as a fist for each of them, delivering solid wallops to the four cameras in the intersection. Observing on the other side, Keldor notices that whatever physical force the elementals are exerting seems to have no impact, but the cameras spark with the electricity. The haunt has taken 9 damage!

There is a moment of stuttering delay before the cloud rolls away from Gauntlet and closer still towards Basil, Harg, and Thawm. Harg raises his sword, looking like he's ready to charge through the cloud at any moment.

Toxicity in our City: Round Five
Gauntlet: 77/77, 35/35, -3 Con (10); Tremorsense: 20 ft out of cloud
Keldor's 3 Small Lightning Elementals
Basil: 77/77, -1 Con (11); Heightened Awareness, Resist Fire, See Invisibility: 10 ft out of cloud
Thawm: 56/56, -2 Con (8); Barkskin, Detect Radiation, Resist Fire, Fly: 10 ft out of cloud
Thawm's Small Lightning Elemental
Harg: 83/84, -2 Con (14): 10 ft out of cloud
Haunt: -9

Map

I fixed Thawm's token so that you should be able to move her! Chances are good that the elementals could take the haunt out this round...

Slam Attack! w/Metal Mastery!: 1d20 + 5 + 3 ⇒ (6) + 5 + 3 = 14
Bludgeoning + Lightning: 1d4 + 1d3 ⇒ (1) + (3) = 4
Miss Chance?: 1d100 ⇒ 61

Slam Attack! w/Metal Mastery!: 1d20 + 5 + 3 ⇒ (5) + 5 + 3 = 13
Bludgeoning + Lightning: 1d4 + 1d3 ⇒ (2) + (2) = 4
Miss Chance?: 1d100 ⇒ 11

Slam Attack! w/Metal Mastery!: 1d20 + 5 + 3 ⇒ (15) + 5 + 3 = 23
Bludgeoning + Lightning: 1d4 + 1d3 ⇒ (3) + (2) = 5
Miss Chance?: 1d100 ⇒ 40

Keldor activates his chainsaw and stands there, threatening the camera nearest himself!

Intimidate (Unskilled) w/any possible Chainsaw bonus!: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (16) + 3 = 19

No idea if this works on a Haunt, but since it takes an ENTIRE Standard action to pull a trigger and get the chainsaw up to speed, so I can attack a non-moving camera, that's all I can do!

Good news, your elementals are outside the cloud, so no miss chance. Otherwise...things may have needed to go into another round!

With a few more well-placed zaps, the sparking cameras--still mostly intact but now swiveling with twitchy motions--stop glowing. The cloud lingers where it is but does not continue its inevitable roll forward to choke the living inhabitants with its corrosive fumes.

An echoing sound of heavy metallic footfalls emerges to Keldor's left, from the northern corridor. A quintet of ephemeral robots identical to the five that they had faced outside march from the north to the east. Keldor swings his chainsaw through one, but it seems not to notice him. The robots continue to march through the corridors, and past Basil, Harg, and Thawm. The southern door leading out hisses back open and the ghostly robots march and out of sight. The cloud finally dissipates a few moments later.

<"That was scary,>" Isirah says from her tablet, her volume increased more naturalistically so that she projects over the Chainsaw without sounding like she's shouting. After a beat, she adds, a little more chipper. <"Your language is interesting, by the way. If you keep talking, my processors should be able to finish analyzing it so that we can communicate in your native tongue. Oh, and what are those?"> she asks, pointing (as much as one can point in two-dimensions) at the crackling elementals ahead.

Gaunlet, Harg, and Thawm all notice a faint breeze coming from the western corridor, behind Gauntlet's current position (with his chainsaw revving).

Gauntlet wastes no time and performs his first camera-ectomy, cutting off each camera from the wall one at a time…loudly and with many flashing sparks and foul curses!

8-23 should generally beat hardness xD
The elementals can fry the remaining cameras too... we can coup de grace objects, right?

Thawm sighs in relief. Then she shouts orders the elemental

As the living lightning gives the other cameras a good shock, Thawm turns to Basil and Isirah in the corner and speaks less harshly, but loud enough to hear over the chainsaw on the other side of the room.
(Androffan)<"Those are elementals. From the demiplane of lightning. They are not entirely unlike robots, though they're more like spirits than rocks.">

With astounding speed, Gauntlet and the elementals reduce the four cameras to shards of glass and twisted metal, well past the point of being able to be reconstructed into anything useful.

In spite of becoming fluent in Androffan in a short amount of time, Thawm struggles to find a good word that means demiplane. Whether there was no such word in the language or whether she was simply unfamiliar with it yet, she ends up having to talk around some of the planar concepts she's talking about. Isirah is patient during these explanations.

<"That's very interesting,>" Isirah says, her enthusiasm somewhat tempered after witnessing both the spectral haunting and the incredible destructiveness of the elementals. <"You seem very familiar with things I have no idea about!"> she comments. <"I get individual words, like element and lightning and spirit, of course, but...they're not creatures native to your planet? I don't understand, but maybe it's the imperfect memory transference. I guess I'll take your word for it.">

Keldor shuts down his chainsaw and puts it away, finally satisfied.

He then starts a basic investigation of the remaining hallways. They had just made a ton of noise and damage, if anything heard they might be approaching or setting up ambushes.

Perception: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (3) + 9 = 12
Also using Detect Evil...its got to be useful eventually.

He throws over his shoulder a question.

"What's a 'Haunt'? Are we talking about...like a haunted house thing? Undead?"

Keldor picks up on the faint residue of evil from the area where the haunt had first manifested, at the junction of the four corridors. The evil feels like malevolent undeath, desperately trying to claw and cling to existence while dragging others in to share in its fate. There is a lack of reason: only pain.

Gauntlet: how far are you going down each hallway? As a reminder, the southern corridor ends abruptly about 15 feet from the junction, crimped and crushed shut. The northern and western corridors stretch beyond your sight. You feel a slight breeze coming from the west.

Whatever it takes to get a 'good look' without actually leaving the group behind. Does that make sense?

Sounds like what we really want is dancing lights

<"Planet. That's a good word. I've read about other planets. The place the elementals are from are like that, but you can't... they're not like stars... they're not up, exactly.">
Thawm explains, frowning a bit in concentration.