The vegepygmies behind both curved desks turn their heads to hiss menacingly at the adventurers emerging from the starboard airlock....
As Geirmur passes between the flanking silvery poles with a diagonal shift to the space just north of the easternmost pole, a metallic, wailing siren resounds repeatedly throughout the area, and a booming feminine voice intones alien syllables.
A slowly-rotating image of Geirmur's musket appears on the magic screens behind the curved desks for a few seconds, followed by a slowly-rotating image of his longsword....
Listens to the talking with intarest.
Listens to the talking with intarest.
Using her Linguistics kills and deductive reasoning Zal working on the meaning of the words being repeated at them.
"Humm interesting, the same words, repeated over and over, Also with insistence as if commanding or informing, add to that the images of two weapons Geirmur has when crossing that threshold, show as if triggered by his movement. as the images are specific to items its not a general warring of intruders humm. I would suspect with a high level of probability that the words being said mean Illegal Contraband, items, weapons found or detected! some thing like that, yes that would be my assessment"
The six vegepygmies (three behind each desk) rise from their seats in the high-backed chairs and pluck primitive-looking javelins from buckets behind the desks, prepared to hurl them at the intruders!
"Convenient that the watching-spirit of the place only cares about the weapons carried by us, and not by the vegepygmies," says Nalket dryly.
"Convenient that the watching-spirit of the place only cares about the weapons carried by us, and not by the vegepygmies," says Nalket dryly.
Saissha prepares to blast the first vegetable creature to come out from behind cover with her water blast.
Zal gos for cover away from the little green monsters.
Zal gos for cover away from the little green monsters.
Moves to one side of the air lock.
Gnaarg will raise her crossbow and fire a bolt at the aggressive vegetable people as they ready to throw their spears. Her aim is spectacular.
She'll then move behind the other side of the inside airlock door from Zal, so they have nothing to shoot at while she reloads.
Gnaarg will raise her crossbow and fire a bolt at the aggressive vegetable people as they ready to throw their spears. Her aim is spectacular.
[dice=Crossbow Shot]1d20+3+1
[dice=Crit Confirm]1d20+3+1
1d8
1d8She'll then move behind the other side of the inside airlock door from Zal, so they have nothing to shoot at while she reloads.
Just as one of the vegepygmies is about to hurl its javelin at Geirmur, Gnaarrg fires a bolt that sinks deep in its chest! It drops to the floor behind the desk, a pool of greenish fluid expanding beneath it....
Zed grips his morningstar as he quickly dashes towards the desk in front of the airlock.
He then brings down his morningstar in both hands in a low arc at a plant-creature. As he strikes out, a swarm of nanites flow down his arms, coating the morningstar. His circuitry-tattoos glow with light.
Zed grips his morningstar as he quickly dashes towards the desk in front of the airlock.
He then brings down his morningstar in both hands in a low arc at a plant-creature. As he strikes out, a swarm of nanites flow down his arms, coating the morningstar. His circuitry-tattoos glow with light.
[dice=Attack]1d20+1+4+4
[dice=Damage]1d8+3
As soon as Zed dashes between the silvery poles, the booming feminine voice repeats the alien phrase that Lady Zal-Azra translated as "contraband detected".... On the screens behind the two curved desks, images of Zed's morning star rotate, rendered by some otherworldly magic....
The squat green creature barely dodges Zed's nanite-amplified swing....
Geirmur will dash 30 ft across the room at a diagonals (ending near the left edge of the reception desk, about 5 ft away). He lifts his musket and lets fires a shot at the target of his challenge (the vegepygmy Zed is attacking). As he fires, Geirmur joins the sound of the shot with a war cry.
Geirmur will dash 30 ft across the room at a diagonals (ending near the left edge of the reception desk, about 5 ft away). He lifts his musket and lets fires a shot at the target of his challenge (the vegepygmy Zed is attacking). As he fires, Geirmur joins the sound of the shot with a war cry.
[dice=Musket]1d20+7
[dice=Damage]1d12+2
Geirmur's aim is true, and an explosion of green mist bursts from the hole blasted by his musket round in the vegepygmy's chest! It falls to the floor behind the desk, twitching and flopping momentarily before falling still in an ever-expanding pool of green fluid....
[dice=shot]1d20+3
[dice=bolt]1d8-Posted with Wayfinder
Gnaarrg's bolt takes the last standing vegepygmy behind the nearer desk in the eye, and it falls motionless with only a death gasp....
The weapon-detector announces contraband detected as Gnaarrg's bolt flashes between the silvery poles....
On the screens appear the dart-like bolts of Gnaarrg's crossbow, delineated by some artistry beyond the ken of Golarion's natives....
Nalket keeps her longspear gripped tightly as she advances through the airlock behind Geimur, keeping close formation with the front wave of the group.
As Nalket darts through the weapon-detectors, the feminine voice of this place's "spirit" repeats its amplified announcement, and an image of Nalket's longspear briefly flashes across the screen....
"I wish that Machine Spirit would shut up, so hows it going" She says from cover.
"Three down. Three left." Gnaarrg replies curtly.
-Posted with Wayfinder
Saissha follows the meatshields melee combatants.
"What are these stupid vegetables even doing in here? Didn't look like they were looting..."
"Perhaps they live here."
"From what I could see they where having a good look at the images on show over where they where. I would suspect they are attracted to them. They may even have basic minds beyond animal level and been interested. The light at night I suspect has a part to play to. O buy the way, we really need to get past that fungus, while we have sunlight to keep it at bay. So I think we may need to hurry and get past this space to the next one as fast as we can."
All said from cover.
Zed raises his hand and utters a spell. Directing toward the closest batch of fungus.
He then moves to take cover behind the planter.
Zed's acid splash lands squarely in the center of the patch of russet mold, and the fungus sizzles as the sorcerer's acid dissolves it.
The three vegepygmies behind the westernmost curved desk rush out from behind it and move to a position just south of the large central cylinder between the russet mold planters, javelins poised for a volley....
Simultaneously, a brief hissing of escaping air comes from the valve door in the south wall of the starboard airlock as it swings open, revealing a cluster of four more vegepygmies brandishing primitive spears!
"More incoming." Gnaarg reports, drawing a metal device from her bandoleer. She twists the top half, and a sharp hissing crack is heard as the device starts smoking. She throws it right into the creature in the center of the newcomers in the other airlock.
.
"Nevermind."
-Posted with Wayfinder
Gnaarrg's incendiary alchemy blasts the central-most vegepygmy, completely incinerating the squat, green creature! The adjacent three vegepygmies are caught in the flaming splash, and quickly shrivel in the alchemist's fire!
SQUEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!
HIIIISSSSS!!!
The four vegepygmies in the chamber just south of the airlock doorway collapse in a charred heap....
Four more vegepygmies take their place!