With a shrug, Gregory goes for the single door.
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This room reeks of stagnant water and decaying vegetation. A long trough of water runs along the walls of this room; a layer of brown scum and algae grows on the water's surface and on the walls. A single workstation sits in the middle of the room connected to a large machine made of tubes and bubbling tanks of water.
Seated on a mold encrusted chair like a throne, is a slightly larger, tougher-looking vegepygmy, who stands as the door opens, and hefts a glowing hammer, gesturing threateningly at Gregory!
This figure charges forward, and takes a swing!
Slamming it directly into Gregory's torso with enough force to knock him back a step.
Round 1: V, Gregory(-9)
Okay! This one is *significantly* more dangerous!
Not wasting any time, Gregory attempts to slice and dice the vegepygmy.
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Surprisingly, the vegepygmy manages to brush aside Gregory's claws, and only his bite manages to hit, dealing a (relatively minor) wound.
He responds by swinging at Gregory with his hammer, and clawing at him.
However, this time, his hammer blow is turned aside by Gregory's armor right at the last second.
Round 2: V(-6), Gregory(-9)
Gregory continues to rip into the vegepygmy.
Gregory continues to attempt to rip apart the stubborn plant-man.
With a shrug, Gregory adds the hammer to his pile of loot, and, after healing himself...
...heads off to inspect the double doors.
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Amusingly, these doors do not open to any of Gregory's access cards.
However, by working his way around to the other double doors in the corridor to the south of where he encountered the medical drone, he discovers that his Black Access Card *does* work here.
A row of beds sits along the southern wall of this well-lit room. Glowing screens and metal desks sit on the opposite walls, and splatters of blood adorn the floor and several of the beds. To the east, a large metal device that is the size of a large bed hums softly.
However, Gregory is quickly distracted by three things - two more robots (another medical drone, and a multi-limbed robot hovering in the air, held aloft by four circular rotors (which emit a soft whirring noise), its arms and hands which dangle below ending in spindly, multi-jointed fingers); and screaming which echoes faintly from inside the humming metal device.
The medical drone utters an incomprehensible phrase in a calm tone, and charges forward to attack Gregory...
...but fortunately misses him completely.
Round 1: Medical Drone, Gregory, CR
I wonder what the floating robot does?
With a shrug, Gregory attempts to eviscerate the medical drone.
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In an awesome display of power, Gregory quite literally rips the medical drone into two unequal pieces, cascading hydraulic fluid and anaesthetic serum across the floor.
Unperturbed by its colleague's destruction, the floating robot fires a sonic blast at Gregory...
...scoring a glancing blow.
Round 2: Gregory(-1), CR
Gregory responds by pouncing forward, and attempting to repeat his success!
Gregory winces, both from the pain, and upon realising that his attacks *really* aren't doing much.
"Let's try a different tactic..."
He then attempts to grapple the robot!
"Damn it!"
Gregory tries again.
Once again, Gregory tries to grapple the robot, but it avoids him with laughable ease.
Emboldened, Gregory decides to have one more shot at the robot.
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In desperation, Gregory attempts to pin the robot.
Frantically, Gregory draws a coil of rope, and attempts to tie-up the robot.
Frantically, Gregory tries to grapple the robot.
Okay, you can do this!
Once again, Gregory tries to pin the robot.
Gregory reaches out, and grapples the robot.
Starting to get a little desperate, Gregory once again attempts to pin it.
This is swiftly becoming an interminable wrestling match!
This just isn't working!
Deciding that discretion is the better part of valor, Gregory goes into full retreat.
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Gregory decides to run away, leaving the person trapped in the tank screaming frantically.
Unfortunately for Gregory, the robot proves to be surprisingly sprightly, and flies after him!
Fortunately, the robot does not manage to drop him.
Battered and bruised, Gregory makes it back to Torch, chastened, but alive.
Gregory tries to fix his injuries.
He then goes in search of a Scroll or Potion of Lesser Evolution Surge.
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Gregory's return to the complex is uneventful, although his heart is in his mouth for his journey through the metal dungeon, expecting to find the robot around every corner.
Once outside the robot's 'room', he casts the spell, causing electricity to crackle across his form, and then opens the door!
Inside, the robot whirls to face him, and fires up its sonic gun...
Round 1: Gregory, CR
Throwing caution to the wind, Gregory pounces forward!
Gregory continues his assault!
Once again, Gregory's physical blows serve as little more than contact points for the powerful current arcing through him.
Now looking quite busted-up, the robot nevertheless continues to shoot at Gregory.
Round 3: Gregory(-7), CR(-28)
Sensing imminent victory, Gregory attempts to finish off the pesky robot.
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This time, the electricity blows off one of the robot's arms. All four rotors stop spinning, and the robot falls to the ground, inert.
Searching the room reveals the following:
A box with a dial on the front, attached to a stubby metal wand via a length of cable.
A hollow needle with a button at one end.
A gun-shaped object that, instead of a ammunition chamber, has a round ball attached to the back.
Two canisters of a strange, silvery fluid.
Two small lancets containing a red fluid.
Additionally, the humming metal box proves to contain none other than Khonnir Baine!
However, the man looks half-mad, and his legs have been marred by nasty surgical incisions.
Recognition crosses his face when he spots Gregory, but the best he can manage.
"Help... Mind... Wrong... Pain..."