Xaikon backs to the entrance to use as cover as she aims another arrow towards the doorway from where the sounds are coming from.
You all take over and hide and shortly after three men holding primitive rifles come in. They don't spot you right away and instead notice their fallen guard. One of them runs to check on him while the other two look around.
You can get a surprise round.
Jayla takes aim at the man checking out the fallen guy.
This will be your last day on this world.
Val Charges in a rage on one of them
Crit
Confirmed
She takes aim at the closest human foe letting the arrow fly true.
Pharysene remains hidden, readying a healing spell just in case.
Valeria drops a guy and Jayla and Xaikon injure the other two.
They step back and shoot at Val in panic but they have terrible aim.
Your go.
Val changes another one and swings her greatsword
Jayla shoots at the man again.
Xaikon draws her sword and moves into the room towards the closest injured one ready to finish him off.
Kinna whips her staff at the furthest of the men, firing another trio of energy bolts at the most remote guard.
The two remaining guards go down and lucky for you they didn't close the door behind them when they came in.
For now the way is clear.
"They are down. That went efficiently."
Jayla checks their bodies for any useful equipment.
They carry normal leather armour and muskets along with a few rounds of ammunition.
Jayla takes their muskets and ammo.
"If anyone wishes to use one...", as she straps one on her own back, holding up the other one afterwards.
Cautiously invisible, Pharysene peeked through the open door.
"I prefer what I know best." pointing to her greatsword.
You move on to the next room.
Well over a dozen large glass tanks sit against the walls of this oval-shaped chamber. The tanks themselves are semiopaque with condensation, grit, and filth, but several of them seem to contain some sort of figure within. Each tank has a metal-rimmed door on its front allowing the contents to be accessed, and one tank to the north has been wrapped with several coils of rope.
A set of double doors lead to the next chamber at the north-east corner of the room.
Jayla inspects the tanks.
The beings in the tanks are all humanoids of various races that appear to have been experimented on and surgery altered. You see scars from multiple surgeries on all of them and they all have a circular scar around their skulls (like the top of their skull was removed and put back) Surprisingly they appear to be still alive and upon noticing you begin to bang on the glass of their tubes.
Lacking any compassion, being an android, Jayla calmly turns towards the other girls.
"These are all still alive, subjects to unknown surgeries."
"I think there is a 60% of individuals who might be able to aid us in some way, 20% fleeing the immediate area, 10% to suffer a mental breakdown, and 10% needing motivation to do anything at all."
Tapping the nearest tank with the tip of her dagger...
"Opinions?"
The tank at the end which is wrapped in rope contains a wererat who seem to have not been surgery altered yet. The wererat is scratching awaits the tank and motioning wildly for something. He seems to want you to get away from the other tanks.
Jayla comes closer to the wererat's tank.
"This one is making wild motions. Ah, i recall this from my earlier 'work'. This rat is trying to warn about something."
Jayla goes over the locks or controls of the wererat's tank.
She tries disabling it/unlocking it.
"It's horrible! These people have been experimented on. The surgeries on their heads left scars!
"Are any of these the girl we were to rescue? Or Dinvaya?" Pharysene asked, wary of getting too close just yet.
"A moment, please. Let me see if I can retrieve information about these subjects before we release them." Kinna examines the control board to see if she can pull up any data about the experiments and patients.
Jayla believe it should not be too difficult to free the wererat she would simply need to remove the rope around it and open the glass tube.
As you begin to take apart a panel a monitor lights up on a nearby wall. "Well this is a surprise test subjects don't usually come here willingly." says appears to be a hobgoblin with in a labcoat. "However I am not one to waste such and opportunity. Let's begin the first test." The tubes begin to open (all except the one with the wererat that remains closed)
Jayla ignores the tone of the hobgoblin.
"We will add extermination to this day's review.
People?", she asks as an invitation to commence the fight.
Jayla works on the ropes as a move action.
2nd move action, open the tube.
Hearing Jayla giving warnings about the tubes, she stands near the door from which they came in, and raises her bow with a notched arrow.
Assumes a Total Defense stance, casts Shield of Faith.
AC24
The surgery modified humanoids move forward with blank expressions.
Since you have a lot of warning before they attack you can each take and action before they do.
@Pharysene casted shield and went defensive and Jayla is working on freeing the trapped wererat what do xaikon, kinna and Val do?
Xaikon takes aim at human zombie and lets the arrow loose.
Feral focus bonus
Are kinna and val still around?
Been having a crazy two weeks...
Kinna types into the glowing panel on her forearm, sending a matrix of lines up at the ceiling to swirl into a perfectly circular gateway to a dimension of clouds and soothing light. Belying the peaceful nature of the place on the other side of the gate, a huge spider crawled out to perch on the ceiling.
8 enemies, white x is tubes that had them and green x is the tube with the prisoner.
"Should be just blast them or take them down the old fashioned way?"
"Elimination by conventional means has worked in the past, Val.
Have at it."
"Might be best to soften them up first"
Val moves a bit closer to them and lets them get near her then she'll use her breath weapon.
Val manages to hit the 3 targets to the north without hitting Jayla
Somehow they are surprisingly nimble and avoid most of the flames. They do not even fling as the flames burn and seem to not even notice. (it did damage they just don't feel pain)
They attack the three Val burned go after the her and the rest attack however is closest swinging their arms like clubs.
Jayla manages to get the tank open but the ratman is still tied up
your go again.
Jayla draws her dagger, and slashes at a weak spot on the rope.
Pharysene steps five feet north to (G,2).
She opens her mouth and emits a flash of lighting that connects the three enemies north of her dealing damage, a thunderous BOOM occurring at the same time. Half is sonic.
She's visible now!
She draws her sword and swings at the one directly in front of her.
She curses in her native language at missing the zombie.
Harika grunts as one of the lab subjects hits her and takes a step away from the melee. She gestures at the floor and another gateway in space opens up, this one directly underneath two of the attackers.
As she does this, the giant spider on the ceiling spins a web at the pair of creatures against the southern wall.
Sorry for the delay.
lightning breath
Pit
The ratman now freed jumps on the closest experiment biting it.
A few go down and a number of the experiments have taken severe wounds that would fell a normal man (they are at negative hitpoints) but they do not fall and instead seem intent on continuing to fight.
The hobgoblin on the monitor seems to be taking notes.
"resistance to pain is working better than expected but targets lack proper motor control to do battle. Best used as meatshields to more skilled combatants" he mutters.
Those that remain continue to attack the closest targets.
Your go again.
Fending off the creatures attack, Pharysene steps back to (G,2), then winds up her sling to attack the guy at (I,2).
for a possible bludgeoning and magic and electrical damage.