I suppose we take this back to the ship correct Telin? Seems appropriate
Telin pauses to think for a moment. "I think that's probably for the best. Let us be off."
Telin seems to be deep in thought.
Gilly bucks wildly for no reason.
Eleven had stood and lissoned to the whole tail, some of it make no sence to her as it was magic talk. Now they where going to move again she nodded at Devic Zaitsev.
"Is always good talk to you Devic"
Gilly grasps the cube-mass. It’s cool and smooth to the touch, but with a faint heat that fades as the bariaur continues to hold it.
”Ah 11-z-α. Good, audio software no damage. Still use Manifold-Irving components for vocal? Ehh. Test. What happen to other part of group? Was told five. See only four.”
Devic already had most of the cybernetic augmentations when Eleven first met her, but the eye-plate is brand new. She was serious when she said she had "a big planning” for more changes as things would seem.
Magni is also a new addition, and this rat isn’t the social type. Odd, but maybe she’s been getting better about social behavior?
It starts slowly at first, some might not even notice it. But moments later it becomes obvious that the ground beneath the parties feet is shaking. But how? This is a large suspended platform. Suspended in the air at that.
”Chto? Kolyarut no do that.”
“There it is. I knew we weren’t gonna get peace and quiet for long. *Sigh* I’ll get the dane axe again.” Devic and Magni respond with suspicion to the disturbance as they look about. The lights in the room shift to a warm red.
"Ooh! Da, da. I get guns."
Gilly's muscles glisten in the light as he carries the mithral box. He presses it with one arm and then the other seemingly effortlessly. He flexes afterwards.
Gilly pulls out a basket from his bag that has not right containing it and looks at it fondly stroking it's gray reeds, lingering on what vaguely looks like a misshapen cat face. He sets it on the ground but comes back for it a moment later.
He says to Devic hopefully, "Big guns?"
"What is going on?" Telin asks nervously. "Guns, those are weapons right? Should I get my bow?"
Gilly leers at Telin, "Leave the bow! But don't forget your towel!"
Pulls from her belt holsters her two big guns and checks them.
"what about your new optics, any good and long wavelengths? "
Guns are like better Crossbows Telin, more difficult to use. Alchemy created them i think, either that or gnomes. They're loud and no good for infiltration, can't arc the ammo either Tak seems rather critical of guns, negative opinion
Gilly gallops to the exit to see what the disturbance is with a giant grin on his face.
"Where I am from, Engineers and scientists design and make them. They fire rounds faster, longer and harder than any bow. Mine a people stoppers so slower than most. But the rounds still go faster than the speed of sound."
She flicks a switch on each and a red dot lazar comes on, on each, then winks off again as she's sliding the mack into there holsters she follows. Then she strides over to follows Gilly
Telin follows, pulling out his bow regardless of Gilly's comments.
”Ha! Big guns blyat. Whole collection need to be moving. Vision ehh, infrared waiting on list. Ehh, on waiting list.”
As Gilly opens the door to the front room, Devic and Magni turn to enter the door with the metal overhang Magni brought juice and water from.
”We’re gonna start packing, let us know what’s going on out there.”
“Da. Or if guns you like.”
And as the next door opens a shadow looms over the ground. An alarm in the distance perhaps redundantly alerts residents of this neighborhood in Aetganos to the danger above. In the distance a ship seemingly designed for the sea hovers in the sky against the sun as small dots descend from the craft. It’s difficult to note much detail in the craft from here. Smoke rises down at the nearby neighborhood.
The ship begins to turn starboard.
Eleven looks up to see if she could make out what they where.
looks at the packing two.
"You have anything like a las-gun or excelerator rifle with a scope, here?, even a pair of binoculars would help. Let me see who they are."
And walks over to see if she can find something that ever shoots far with a scope or some binoculars/Telescope.
Telin looks to see what he can but the glint of the sun off a passing ship blinds him momentarily.
"Can you see anything?" Telin asks no one in particular.
Gilly charges as fast as he can towards the smoke and where the dots are descending. "Heeeey!", he yells, "those modrons can't hog all the fun!"
"Gilly?! What are you doing?!"
Um.. Fellows should we investigate that smoke in the distance? uses his axe to point it out
"You have anything like a las-gun or excelerator rifle with a scope, here?, even a pair of binoculars would help. Let me see who they are."
”Feh! You forget who you talking to? Davai, meet new friends.”
Devic and Magni enter the overhang door with Eleven ducking in behind them. The next room is entirely unimpressive at first glance. The ceiling is overrun with pipes and pistons and barely high enough for Magni to stand straight, never mind the curious android. The rest is furnished in the sense that there are two milk crates (One concave from use) a bare plastic table and a refrigerator. With cots against the wall to the left of the door finishing the room to complete the bare industrial look.
Magni reaches for something behind the refrigerator and Eleven hears a crank in the walls. The walls shift ever-so-slightly.
”Since you’ve apparently met Devic, I’m sure you know what she means when she mentions friends. She means things she made.”
“Da, are reliable. Not like you.”
The rack slides gracefully, almost dramatically even, down the wall as Devic and Magni chide each other. Each moment revealing more of it’s contents as it shifts with metal rods holding their contents up with a holographic display denoting the names of each. Though the names are denoted with serial numbers, Devic introduces them with names like Anastasia and Anatolia and… Charlie.
“Not quite finish with testing yet, but sounding like good time for test outside.” As Devic introduces her other recent projects Magni takes up the axe from before. Held up to the high-concept weaponry being showcased it looks almost comically crude. Nevertheless he takes up arms with a confident bearing.
”These are more reliable than me, are they? Dunno about that.”
“Silence, or I make Alopecia next.”
Outside the rest of the party finds the path to the rest of this neighborhood is unobstructed as of now, but still a few minutes of travel from here.
Yet, there’s the unmistakable sound of warriors in metal clashing loudly to the side past the trees lining this once-peaceful road.
What do we do?
Gilly imagines the guns that he's missing out on and says to no one, "Needs more dakka." Gilly leaps and bounds towards the battle still carrying the mithral cube above his head. He yells back to Telin, "I'm some bust brain-boxes gonna!"
Walks up and pulls the ”Avantasia" off its rack, taking it and the small. Micro slug mags next to it. She looks it over, looking down the scope. Seeing no power she pulls out a cable form the things side and slots one end in into the back of her neck. She staggers a moment as if stunned. Then stands again. Then a blue glow comes form the thing.
"Type 2 rail gun, with full range optical view finder. fires just about anything ferrous you can shape into a slug. But the thing sucks power like a pitch!. Best not shoot anything close. This things designed to shoot throw buildings clicks away. Shot anything close and there body becomes a shrapnel blast. Don't want to get ourselves killed by flying bone going at Mark 6 now do we... Just changing for a shot and then synchronise..."
There is a building winning noise and then A metalic voice comes from ”Avantasia"
"Synchronisation complete"
Her mechanical eyes glow blue. She moves the long gun around holding it at her hip.
"That's better, now I can see throw its optics"
She, hefting in onto she shoulder she makes her way to an observation point, lifting the weapon up and points it and the disturbance.
"Soooo... just who are you?"
She says to herself.
Telin stands confused by the array and even more so as Eleven plugs a gun into herself. "the multiverse is a strange place." He then takes off flying a bit behind Gilly, keeping girly low to the ground.
"the multiverse is a strange place."
Magni nods affirmatively. ”You have no idea man.”
Special: When you make a single attack in a round, Avantasia can be used to target the touch AC of the opponent. Additionally, the sights on the scope function halfway between a spyglass and a telescope. Objects viewed through these sights are magnified to twice their size, and the increase in DC to spot a distant object or creature increases by 1 for every 20 feet rather than ten. Clear weather conditions may permit a better distance.
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After Eleven and Telin check in, Magni moves the fridge more to reveal a panel. This like everything else in this building seems to be more than meets the eye. It features a lever marked in bright red lettering “EMERGENCY EXIT”. After pulling it, a thin wall pulls up, and the air in the room gusts forth. The wall opens to a billowing sensation and the scent of ozone when the open air comes into view. Nothing but space lays on the other side of this doorway as Magni and Devic make last minute preparations to depart, seemingly this way rather than the front door. Devic puts on some vest made of light material and puts a hoodie on over it. Meanwhile Magni lifts Dysphasia strapped to his back and casts something before stepping to the ledge.
”We meet soon, da?”
The ground (well, not exactly “ground” but the manufactured gold-tinted smooth material that serves the same purpose around Aetganos) rumbles again, this time outside. Gilly approaches the audible conflict through some brush.
At the edge of this platform he sees two figures. One, the Kolyarut RD-4D4. Still with his characteristic golden cloak, the only way to tell Kolyaruts apart really. But the inevitable is in combat with another. Not a Kolyarut, but a distinctively azure, angular robotic figure the size of a man. It’s frame is sleek but visibly damaged from this conflict.
A swerve of blades between servants of steel only lasts a moment longer when the shriek of metal slides… right through RD. But not without his own blade puncturing and nearly severing the left arm of his aggressor. From the ledge falls the inevitable, once mighty. And the other robot turns to face Gilly. It’s blade retracts into the right forearm. It’s destroyed arm falls at it’s side as a line of small blue lights on it’s head lock onto Gilly. A static-corrupted voice calls out the blue machines intentions clearly:
This can be heard clear through the distance to Telin and Tak at least.
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Gilly yells as Kolyarut is run through, "Modron Michael Dorn, nooooooo!" Face red with anger at the loss of his dear friend, Gilly charges the robot angel with all his might.
"Take that Mecha-Deva!"
As she looked down the scope she tried to work out just what was going on.
She could see an inevitable she new in a fight with an oddly new one.
She tried to work out just what the attacker is or from.
The known inevitable feel but had done arm. Would it leave now? But then it made seemed to be set on attacking Gilly who was rushing it.
She focused and aimed, taking care to track is movements, the scope placed the Robot smack in the middle of her sights. She sent the signal to fire.
There was a kick as the rail gun shot its slug across the space to the Robot attacker.
and fires the rail gun for the 1st time.
The initiative rolls I asked for earlier were for this actually, so everyone’s already rolled. I don't believe studied combat effects your initiative placement, but that's a moot point for now.
"Modron Michael Dorn, nooooooo!"
The armored construct lurches back as sparks fly from the force of Gilly’s ramming speed. It returns to a threatening stance rapidly and just as suddenly lashes forward with the blade in it’s arm! The strikes are rapid, but seemingly off-center.
A shot only an android could make rings out from behind Telin and Tak as a metal slug flies past them and the woody brush between Eleven and her target. (19 damage to “Blue”)
Tak makes his way to the sound of combat as fast as his legs can carry him and his large small axe.. And that’s pretty fast in fact.
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A s~!$-eating grin crosses Gilly's face.
Telin tries to line up a shot, but it's just not happing. Cursing he flies closer instead.
Gilly unleashes his war cry, ”Calculating descriptive hen!” He tosses the mithral cube directly behind him with a melodic clang. He then draws his Madu and shifts into a defensive stance. Suddenly, Gilly rears up onto two legs and tries to kick Mecha-Deva right in the face.
Take her time and lines up another shot.
Seh aimed and fired again,
But the slug just bounced off the target doing little real harm. A true rail gun would have punched a whole throw the thing. She looked down at the rail gun. She had hit the robot with two accurate targeted attacks. But it was clear this was not true rail gun was little more than a cheap weak copy of the real thing. She would has to see if she could make it work better later right now the target was still going. Pushing the pop gun around to her back, on its sling, She pulled her revolvers started to run to the fight.
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Gilly gives the cube a dramatic toss behind him. It unceremoniously slides straight from his hand into the tiling before it even leaves his fingers with a *clang* that deadens as suddenly as it started. The bariaur rears up like a horse about to traumatize a child, but his conscience or the surprisingly nimble legs of his opponent deflect his attack.
Gilly's opponent continues to strike its quarry with bladed jabs and strange audio ramblings.
Tak has 35 ft to choose his remaining movement before his round three action. I’ve moved his token to the appropriate field.
Telin lifts himself into the air and closes in for a better vantage point to engage the as of now, barely visible enemy.
Seh aimed and fired again,
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Gilly changes his stance subtly to favor his arms over his legs for attacking, while planting all four legs for better leverage.
He says, "I've had just about enough of you berk!" and swings with a haymaker. Gilly gives his opponent some breathing room, but still waives him forward.
The weight of solid metal pushes back under the force of Gilly’s fist before the aggressor buckles from the blow. If only momentarily.
The menace takes a pair of clumsy lunging jabs forward to follow Gilly. As this exchange goes on, it becomes clear that despite blow after blow this blue mechanical foe, much like an emotionally healthy relationship is recovering from it all in time. Even the arm it lost in the last fight has begun to rebuild itself from seemingly nothing. Right now though, it’s just a nub. Just a tiny little nub.
The rest of the party finally closes in on the combat to find Gilly actually knows how to fight. How bout that? Unfortunately, it looks like his mysterious opponent does as well.
Telin has 25 feet to go before reaching the mapspace. Eleven has a bit further to go.
Tak closes in first, ready to make a move into the fray.
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Telin will keep "running" into position.
That'll leave him with 95 ft to continue on-map.
Gilly grins wildly and a single tear runs down from his cheek as well, "Betcha didn't know Gilly's fought Abishai!" He stows his madu and lunges at Mecha-Deva trying to underhook it's arm.
Tak moves up to the metal enemy and swings his might ax
Gilly grabs ahold of the blue robots newly sprouted handle. But alas, it’s freshly coated in a layer of grease aiding the mechanical foes escape from his grasp.
Tak rushes into the fray with a powerful swing, however it falls just short of the nimble construct as the thing barely slips away from his axe.
Now surrounded, the bot doesn’t seem to consider it’s actions very thoroughly as it continues to target it’s first opponent.
Including flank
Telin finally descends onto Gilly’s aggressor, swinging down hard onto something cylindrical on the robots rear left shoulder. Who knows what that is but it looks important right? The initial downswing slides off its remaining armor, but telin’s perseverance pays off with a follow-up chop to the same place. An old eldritch curse begins to take hold of the metal enemy.
Eleven continues to approach the growing conflict. The ship in the distance has started moving, and seems to be circling to another floating isle nearby.
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