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"Thank you for telling me the truth. You are not in trouble from the Starfinder Society, although your father may be concerned that you were down here alone. What else can you tell me about your pet? Did it ever nip you, or just gnaw on the cables?" Chirrk will also examine the door leading to the children's trapped pet.
"Hmmm. The fire extinguisher are rigged to discharge when anyone walks underneath them. Vargouzal, can you do something about these?"
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"Yes, the pet. Sounds fascinating. Small, you say? Large teeth or small? Long hair or short? Talkative or quiet? Placid or frisky?" The Prof eagerly tries to obtain as much information as he can from the hopefully by now friendly children in order to identify the creature in advance of the likely encounter.
At mention of the extinguisher trap, Lenik's ears prick up and he completely loses interest in the alien creature."Oh, very sneaky! Most likely a early detection device. Perhaps the creature is as wary of us as we are of it? Either way, better off just to disarm it, I'm not in the mood for a bath!"
He diverts his attention to trying to disarm the device.
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The creature is centipede-like and climbed in and out of the vents, leaving tracks on the walls and vent covers half open.
"Tube shaped! and lots of legs! and it can walk on the walls!"
But Lenik has no idea what kind of creature it is, he is with the help of Vargouzal easily able to disconnect the thermal sensors from the foam spreading nozzles that cover the entry way.
If you wanted to you could enter the next chamber and look for the climbing centipede like creature
*Whirl, whirl, whirl, click, click, click*
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As you enter the next room you see that the area consists of two adjoining chambers. Four large containment capsules fill the fore room, three of which hold stasis-locked objects, including a tablet, a strange curved sword, and an odd spiral of bioluminescent coral. A crack leaks fluid from the fourth capsule, which displays a foot-wide breach near the bottom. The aft room contains several desks, each hosting a deactivated computer terminal.
It seems the alien dropped several pieces of shielding, which
flooded the area with minor radiation.
CRUD enters the air ducts and goes on a hunt, but the creature is too fast to easily be caught and it keeps slipping in and out of different air duct.
Vargouzal spots some movement out of the corner of his eye..but before he can turn around to focus on where it went it's moved on already.
You think you could more easily caught the creature if you managed to block more of it's escape routes
CRUD continues to harry the centipede thing.
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"Radiation!" The Prof exclaims as they enter the room. "Or, as one more accurately could say, the emission...or possibly transmission...of energy in the form of waves or particles through either empty space or a material medium...er, but yes we probably don't want too much of it here. Let me see if I can whip something up"
Lenik then follows Onda's example and tries to help corral the centipede creature by also hacking into the computers.
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Chirrk slowly approaches the creature, one empty hand in front of him with thumb and pinky extended. A high-pitched hum comes from the kasatha as he stares the creature down.
Obviously, staring down a Triaxus sabu is different than a centipede-like alien...
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Pulling his eyes away from the computer screen, The Prof turns to look at the creature. "Oh my word...it is quite stunning isn't it?" He then tries to employ the standard techniques taught in life sciences lectures when dealing with animals out in the wild.
Kneeling down and averting his eyes from the creature slightly, he opens his palms out in a placating gesture.
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Chirrk tries to stare down the creature..but as he looks closer at it..it seems to not have eyes..or at least not at the location Chirrk is looking at.
Vargouzal tries to lure it with a bit of food, but the creature backs of and seems to quiver more now..not less
Lenik manages to get the creature to calm down a bit..
but it's still too wary to be caught and moved anywhere at the moment..unless you plan to do so by force. Lenik estimates that doing so will most likely cause it's heart to fail and kill the creature.
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Lola joins Lenik and tries to calm the creature by slowly approaching the Prof and using calming words and with the aid of Vargouzal manages to get the creatures calm enough to be picked up as Onda looks on.
Carrying the creature with you you need to travel to the bridge of the Master of Stars for a formal debrief by Fitch.
With the alien gone, engineers can move back into E-Deck and fix the damage. Fitch turns the alien over to an assembled team of experts in hopes of learning more of the alien’s language and culture—glad to see you managed to catch the the alien alive, the ratfolk is satisfied and pats you on the back for a job well done.
Fitch gives you a credstick with 400 credits on it. The Wayfinders’ leader thanks you for their diligence, but is quick to get back to work on repairing the ship.
On your way a man runs towards you and hugs the 2 small children. The man then introduces himself as Kieu Kein and rewards you for rescueing his children with a mk 1 ring of resistance.
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Once all four faction leaders report to Guidance, the Society intelligence summons you back to the Lorespire Complex. The intelligence once again presents itself in a holographic form—this time taking on the appearance of a wizened male korasha lashunta—to congratulate you on your successful missions. It goes on to state that in the aftermath of the Scoured Stars incident, the Society needs killed agents more than ever, and that it sees potential in you as they start you new careers as Starfinder field agents.