A large multi-legged construct hangs from the ceiling. "Good afternoon," it greets you with a strange, almost metallic voice (SFX). Two of its three eyes glow blue for a moment before making an unusual sound (SFX).
"Please indicate your designation and current command protocol."
Knowledge (engineering)
"Are you designated as maintenance units? Maintenance request—please assist. Begin command protocol. Open Forge power core access doors. End command." (SFX)
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Barth looks at his mechanics outfit, "Yup! Maintenance! That's us!"
Barth looks around at the exits to see which might be this "Forge power core access door".
"Come along... Maintenance Unit Shorty and Maintenance Unit Blondy... And Maintenance Unit Tin Man... You, too, Tessa."
"My designation is Tig-Zero. My primary protocol is oversight of Forge power control systems in service of Lord Karamoss." Tig-0 explains, walking down the wall to stand before Harmonius.
He then scans the aasimar's scimitar with his bright blue illuminated eyes. (SFX)
Tig-0 turns to Bartholomäus and points to the door across the room from the levitator (SFX), "Begin command protocol subroutine. Request priority ONE; override all previous designations. Begin new designation: return with director unit Tig-0 to Forge power control station. Complication: main access route malfunction—please assist. Immediate objective: clear access route. Confirm new designation? End subroutine." (SFX)
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Whispering to the rest of the group, "I think it wants us to clear the path ahead. Maybe just some fallen debris?"
Cocking his head to the side but standing rigidly, Barth lets out a mockingly static imitation of the robotic voice. "New designation confirmed. Beginning new objective."
Barth wanders over to the door, drawing his double-barreled pistol as he does so. He leans up against the wall, next to the access console.
"We ready for this?"
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Psycho Mantis strains to try to uncover some useful information from this strange creature. Because it is so foreign to him and acting strangely on top of that, he keeps coming up just short of discovering anything.
"A strange creature...does he think we are robots like him? Interesting...."
Psycho Mantis's eyes narrow, and a faint smile can be heard in the pitch of his voice.
"Maybe he wants us...to clear something...more sentient...."
Barth and Psycho Mantis understand that Tig-0 is asking for help opening the door.
The door seems to be unpowered, the palm pad does not respond. A Strength check (DC 25) will be required.
With the aid of his trusty e-pick, Barth is able to reroute power to the access door. (SFX) The door opens part way, then stops with an alarm (SFX) and a shower of sparks (SFX).
Beyond the door, junk is piled up blocking further passage. Small creatures can pass through the opening, and Medium creatures can do so with a DC 10 Escape Artist check. Large creatures—such as Tig-0—would have difficulty continuing down this passage.
You believe it would take several minutes to clear away enough of the junk pile for Tig-0 to continue down this passage.
Tig-0 steps forward, examines the work of Barth, and issues a new directive. "Primary objective: open access tunnel door: terminated. Secondary objective: remove Forge level debris. Begin new command subroutine: Maintenance Unit Shorty, Maintenance Unit Blondy, Maintenance Unit Tin Man, Maintenance Unit Tessa; remove Forge level debris. Clear access to Forge core. End subroutine."
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Tessa looks around. "I think even I understood that. We need to clear the passage. Any of you modern technology boys have any ideas on how to do that other than brute force? That'll take a good long while to clear, I think."
Tess waits until another goes first, then tries to squeeze through the opening behind them.
Escape Artist, take ten if possible for a 13. If not, then
Harmonius, Tessara, and Psycho all squeeze through the rubble.
Harmonius looks things over and believes it will take a little while—maybe ten minutes or so—to clear this junk out of the way of the doors. The hallway continues beyond for maybe 100 feet.
While squeezing through the gap, Tessara notices a skymetal coffer shoved carelessly into the pile of scrap.
- Three small metalic cylinders—one yellow and two blue. Each has a dial at one end with a red button in the center of the dial.
- A strange black metal rod, about a foot long, with a crystal on one end and a black button on the other.
- A surprisingly light pair of slender, silvery bracelets.
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"Ah guys, it'll only take like 10 minutes to clear the way, we should do it for our little buddy. He probably misses his factory."
Harmonious gazes down the hallway, wondering what is beyond the edges of his darkvision.
Already I miss Saranrae's warmth, I'm not cut out for these underground missions
Tessara does not find any traps.
Neither Harmonius nor Psycho see any traps either, upon first glance in the direction that Tessara is pointing.
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"I doubt it's trapped, its a pile of rubble!"
Harmonious will walk over, have one final look while acting out being an investigator, using a round of performance to inspire competence for a bonus to perception.
And since it looks overwhelmingly clear that it is not trapped he'll motion for his allies to stand back a bit and pluck the coffer out of the rubble.
A grenade is a small, cylindrical device that is designed to be thrown as a splash weapon or fired from a grenade launcher. Before being thrown by hand, the grenade must be primed with a quick twist of a dial at one end and then armed with a click of a button at the center of that dial. Priming and arming a grenade is a free action; a grenade launcher primes and arms all grenades it fires. The grenade detonates at the beginning of the wielder's next turn, hopefully in the area targeted. When a grenade detonates, it damages all targets within a 20-foot-radius spread. A successful DC 15 Reflex save halves any damage dealt by a grenade.
Flash Grenade: Blinds creatures for 1d4 rounds (DC 15 Fortitude save negates).
A grenade is a small, cylindrical device that is designed to be thrown as a splash weapon or fired from a grenade launcher. Before being thrown by hand, the grenade must be primed with a quick twist of a dial at one end and then armed with a click of a button at the center of that dial. Priming and arming a grenade is a free action; a grenade launcher primes and arms all grenades it fires. The grenade detonates at the beginning of the wielder's next turn, hopefully in the area targeted. When a grenade detonates, it damages all targets within a 20-foot-radius spread. A successful DC 15 Reflex save halves any damage dealt by a grenade.
Zero Grenade: Deals 5d6 points of cold damage.
Slot none; Weight 1 lb.; Capacity 10; Usage 1 charge/8 hours
When activated, a flashlight creates a beam of normal light in a 60-foot cone. It also increases the light level in the area beyond this initial cone by one step, out to a 120-foot cone. It does not increase the light level in normal light or bright light. A flashlight has no effect in areas of magical darkness.
Slot wrist; Weight 1 lb.; Capacity varies; Usage 1 charge/minute
Force fields are powered by a surprisingly light pair of slender, silvery bracelets. When activated as a standard action, dozens of tiny biofeedback needles pierce the wearer's arms to interface with the nervous system; this process is somewhat painful and the wearer must succeed at a DC 15 Fortitude save to avoid being dazed for 1 round as the force field is activated. Once active, the device generates an invisible and intangible field of force around the target. The force field blocks solids and liquids, but not gases or light (including laser beams). The user of a force field can still breathe, but she cannot eat or drink.
Activating a force field is a standard action that consumes 1 charge, after which point the field consumes 1 additional charge every minute it remains active. While a force field is active, the user gains a number of temporary hit points that varies depending on the force field's power. All damage dealt to the wearer of a force field is subtracted from the temporary hit points it grants first. As long as the force field is active, the wearer is immune to critical hits (but not precision-based damage, such as sneak attacks). A force field has fast healing that replenishes its temporary hit points at a fixed rate each round, but if the force field's temporary hit points are ever reduced to 0, the force field shuts down and cannot be reactivated for 24 hours. Force fields are automatically reduced to 0 hp by disintegration effects. A force field can be deactivated as a free action.
Brown: Capacity 10, Temp hp 5, fast healing 1
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Dimble successfully identifies the remaining items.
Tig-0 pokes its head through the gap. "Maintenance units: resume clearing main access tunnel." It then looks at the coffer and its contents, "The flashlight and grenades are not tools required for directive request. Resume subroutine."
You don't find anything else here.
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After Barth squeezes through and takes a breather he scans the rubble.
"Oh, man, this'll be about as bad as that one time we had to comb through the desert..."
He sets to doing the minimum work possible so as to clear a path for Tig-Zero.
"We should bring him with us! Or, her? It? I mean, think of all the information that's compiled in that... Body. We could learn a lot about this place! Robots aren't so bad once you understand them."