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According to Chamberlain and the floor plans that Lady Zal and Gnaarrg have accessed on the screens, the androids should be lying in some kind of temporal stasis within sarcophagus-like pods on the Life Support deck below. So at around 2:00 PM on Pharast 7th, the adventurers descend to nearly the bottom of the Silver Turret via the service elevator well (the only one granting access to that level), arriving on the Life Support Deck....
Come down and brings light, then looks around.
"Clinger, we need to know nothing bad is down here, but once it is clear do you think you can wake them?"
As the party emerges from the service elevator well into a circular central chamber, they are confronted by six pale-skinned humanoids with bloodshot yellow eyes that peer hungrily at them, bloodstained claws in place of hands, and rotten teeth bared in drooling mouths, from which loll abnormally long tongues! The six beings are clad in ancient, tattered uniforms that might once have been white, but are now grayish and bloodstained. They hiss and moan ravenously as the party emerges, and crouch down as if they were feral beasts about to pounce on their prey!
Um.... I believe the answer to your question about danger has been answered, My Lady!
The ghouls, famished spirits of those who died of hunger after succumbing to cannibalism following the tragic crash landing of the Silver Turret, rush this new source of fresh meat, gibberish hysterically in their eagerness to consume flesh....
One snaps it's greedy jaws at Gnaarrg , but the canny hobgoblin pulls out of reach!
One tries to bite Zed , chomping down on his synthetic forearm, dealing damage, and possibly paralyzing the android !
Another tries to clamp down on Lady Zal to no avail....
A fourth ghoul slobbers as it lunges at Geirmur , stumbling over its own feet in its eagerness to feed on manflesh....
A fifth ghoul springs at Nalket , latching painfully onto her spear-arm with ravenous frenzy, dealing damage and possibly paralyzing the shaman!
The last ghoul jockeys for a position among its fellows, like a runt seeking a teat....
[dice=initiative]1d20+3
Gnaarrg draws her laser pistol and opens fire on the closest one.
[dice=Laser Blast]1d20+6
[dice=Fire Damage]1d8-Posted with Wayfinder
GZZZZAAAAAPPPP!!!!
The sound of molecules crackling in the heat, the smell of ozone and cooking meat, and the bright red flash of the fiery ray from the muzzle of Gnaarrg's blaster sends a thrill through the fear of the undead....
A ghoul jerks and moans as the red laser carves a hole through its rotten shoulder!
"Keep cover from these beasts! I'll support you from afar!
Nalket shakes off the ghoul's paralytic bite and desperately slams at it with her spiked gauntlet.
...to no avail.
Against the Hungry Dead! Round 1! Eeeeek!!!
Geirmur (covering his allies)
Ghouls (sampling the flavors)
Gnaarrg (blasts a ghoul)
Clinger (frets and readies to heal anyone that drops)
Nalket (punches with spiked gauntlet to no avail)
TBD Lady Zal, Zed
Round 2!! Eeeek!!!
Geirmur
Ghouls
Gnaarrg
Clinger
Nalket
TBD Zal and Zed
She sent a lump of junk at the undead.
Nalket continues to flail helplessly at the ghoul, alternating between swatting at it with her gauntleted fist and trying to keep it from wrenching her spear away.
Geirmur will step back (taking a 5 ft step) and fire a shot off at the ghoul attacking Zed, trying to draw its attention away from his ally (Geirmur makes the aid another action for Covering Fire).
Geirmur will step back (taking a 5 ft step) and fire a shot off at the ghoul attacking Zed, trying to draw its attention away from his ally (Geirmur makes the aid another action for Covering Fire).
[dice=Musket]1d20+7
KABOOOOOMMM!!!
The thunder of musket fire echoes in the circular chamber! The lead ball ricochets around the curving corridor that encircles the inner circular chamber madly for several beats before coming to a halt somewhere....
The ghoul attacking Zed jerks toward Geirmur in response, blinking stupidly for a second, its rotting ears ringing and a streak of white manifesting along its scalp where the path of the musketeer's missile passed fractions of an inch overhead....
A ghoul tries to savage Lady Zal , snapping at the air instead! It claws at her missing, and the other claw misses as well....
A second ghoul tries to chew Nalket's ear off but fails, then grabs at her , its blood-crusted claws dealing slashing to the shaman! It's other claw misses....
The ghoul on Zed now leaps at Geirmur, provoking an attack of opportunity from Zed, as it moves away to bite , missing.... claw missing, and the other claw also swinging wide of the agile musketeer....
Nalket suddenly goes completely rigid.
The ghoul that first attacked Geirmur bites empty air, claws at air as well, and claws air again!
The ghoul on Gnaarrg bites hard, dealing piercing and bludgeoning! It claws for slashing, and claws again , slashing for !
A ghoul that has been desperately trying to get a piece of the action shoves its fellows aside and thrusts itself into Zed, provoking an attack of Opportunity from Nalket as it moves in to bite but snaps down on nothing!
The ghoul that lost its place in the fray savagely vents its rage on the usurper! Bite chomps down on his brethren ghoul's rotting shoulder, dealing damage , claws for , and claws once more , missing....
Round 1
Zed calmly activates his Chain-Sword and prepares himself as the ghouls rush in combat.
The Chain-Sword roars to life in his hands.
Round 2
As one of the ghouls leaps toward Geirmur he swings the Chain-Sword at the creature. Zed's circuitry-tattoos glow with light as he swings.
Zed then steps forward and brings down the Chain-Sword upon the ghoul near Nalket that just struck her. Attempting to draw attention from her motionless body to himself.
... provoking an attack of Opportunity from Nalket...
Nalket refrains from taking the attack of opportunity and remains motionless.
Zed shears through the torso of the ghoul in front of him, and the unholy fires in its hollow eye sockets flicker and burn out as the upper half of its rotten body slides off and falls to the floor, its legs still wobbling a second longer before also falling over!
Zed then presses forward, sawing deeply into the shoulder of the ghoul attacking Nalket! It shrieks in agony!
YYYEEEEEAAAAAARRRRGGHHH!!!!
Gnaarrg stumbles back from the onslaught of claws and teeth, her alchemically-treated body already fighting off the paralysis. She draws a thin vial from her belt with her free hand and swallows its contents.
Geirmur hurriedly reloads his rifle.
The ghouls hiss in fear at Zed's roaring Chain-Sword, and momentarily back off, uncertain whether or not they have bitten off more than they can chew....
"Ha!" Gnaarrg cries out at their retreat, chucking a bomb into the middle of them. "Chew on THIS!"
Splattered with flaming oil and seeing their fellow sawed in half by the roaring Chain-Sword, the ghouls quake with fear that trumps their nagging hunger!
They scurry away from the adventurers, leaping into a nearby gravity well and flying up and away....
Zed gives chase to the fleeing ghouls the roar of the chain-sword echoing through the gravity well.
He shifts his grip momentarily to utter a spell and fires a glob of acid at the ghoul he has already injured.
Acid
The fleeing ghouls shriek and gibber as they rocket up the shaft, chased by Zed and his Chain-Sword.... The sorcerer's acid splash sizzles on the hind quarters of the straggling ghoul nearest the bottom of the pack, eliciting a yelp!
Reaching the Embarkation deck, the ghouls clamber onto the floor and race for the exit....
Zed chases the ghouls out of the Silver Turret! So terrified are the undead of the buzzing, growling Chain-Sword in the hands of the emotionless sorcerer, they brave the hated rays of the sun to flee across the rubble-strewn crater, clambering spiderlike up the sloping sides and away into the atomic mists that shroud the wasteland....
Gnaarrg is able to target and incinerate them with the laser cannon before they escape its range, if she wishes....
As the ghouls flee out of the Silver Turret the roar of the chain-sword ceases, as Zed calmly slows down and powers it off.
He then makes his way back to the life support deck.
Upon reaching the deck he takes his time, spending a few minutes, searching around carefully.
Exploring the Life Support deck, the adventurers discover many sarcophagus-like crystal pods in which androids lie in stasis, seemingly asleep, 30 in total....
"Should be able to awaken them, if I can get the controls to respond." Gnaarrg mutters.
"Should be able to awaken them, if I can get the controls to respond." Gnaarrg mutters.
[dice=Engineering (Technologist)]1d20+12
Gnaarrg manipulates an array of apparatus on the lid of a sarcophagus, resulting in a hiss of escaping air and fog as the lid glides gently open.... A few seconds pass before the lovely young maiden within opens her eyes and gasps her first breath of air....
Geirmur will rush to the edge of the sarcophagus, and offer a hand to help the woman.
"Are...are you alright?"
Zed stands nearby the crystal pod as Gnaarrg begins to open it.
He looks intently as the android awakens. Taking a moment to look at her...the first time he has seen another of his kind.
Nalket shakes off her paralysis with a shiver and moves cautiously to join the group. She peers over the cylinders full of androids with a combination of curiosity and distaste.
Helps Gnaarrg reading off info from her slate.
Then trys the Androffan she has been learning.
"Zed you want us to start next one?"
Gnaarrg will wait somewhat impatiently to see if the newly awakened android is friendly or not before she moves to open the next chamber (unless they're unfriendly, then she will wait until they've done some troubleshooting).
The maiden smiles at Zed and blushes....electric blue....as she emerges unclothed from the crystal sarcophagus....
I am Andromeda Jane. It's very nice to meet you, Zed.
What world is this, that we meet upon, Zed?