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"Say hello to my icy friend!" Kit steps away from the wall and levels his carbine at the protean, his shot leaving an icy gash on the doorframe.
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You really should let me do the aiming.
"Shuddup! You take too long!"
Puzzle slips his rifle from his shoulder, lines up the protean and squeezes the trigger.
"Your defeat is almost certain."
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Seeing the shifty creature easily side step his attack and Nomyra taking a big blow from a slam by the fiery creature Wyrd decides to shift focus and moves a bit to the other side of the room as he starts to gather energy from deep within himself as he channels a reality in which this ship lost it's heating system and protection from the cold outside of space. As he's gathered enough of that possibility he releases it just behind the fiery creature feeling the area there with mind and body numbing cold.
DC 12 reflex save to negate
"I know it's a bit late to ask, but what's that fiery thing hitting Nomyra?"
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Over the party comm line a soothing voice mentions
"I've been monitoring you and my program indicates a rise of stress levels. Is everything going alright with you?"
You recognize this creature as a small magma elemental, an extraplanear elemental of both the fire and earth types. You know that it is immune to fire but also vulnerable to cold. It can also explode with lava once per day, covering it and all adjacent squares with fiery lava that's hard to move through.
The fiery creature takes a hit from Nomyra and tries to dodge out of the way of Wyrd's cold.
It fails and takes additional damage!
The fiery creature hisses and swings back at Nomyra.
Unfortunately, it connects with a crackling thud.
Meanwhile, the rifti protean shifts form again into a metal red sphere. It fires another acidic energy ray at Vedrir, shouting in an excited voice "Tag!"
Wyrd
Vedrir
Kit
Puzzle
Nomyra
Round 4 start
Fiery creature
Rifti Protean
Vedrir is hit with the 3rd acid attack causing him pain. Till now the acid attacks were simply an inconvenience but now it begins to hurt.
As he aims at protean he throws:
"Nomyra, how are you doing there?" Just to see her fall to a hit from the Fiery creature.
Again he selects quickly few options at his micro lab and turns towards Nomyra. A dart with quickly selected medicine hits Nomyra at her leg.
The Vedrir turns back to protean shooting dart at it.
"Maintain our attacks on the sphere. We have it surrounded!" Puzzle calls to their companions before firing another round from their rifle at the creature.
"Nomyra!" they call, seeing her fall to the ground. "How is she, Vedrir?" Puzzle asks the kasatha, noticing his ministrations.
"I know you mentioned this wasn't a good time Wyrd, but since you asked what that fiery thing was I've been studying heat emanations and I've come to the conclusion that the "fiery thing" you mentioned is most likely some sort of fire elemental"
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"Ah, yes now that you mention it...those dark spots in it's fiery form threw me of. It must be some sort of mix..fire and....earth? It must be a magma elemental. It's only small....but I remember reading about those, you're supposed to be careful around them because not only are they immune to lasers they also.."
Wyrd's eyes open up wide in shock as he remembers something
"Be careful people! That fiery thing can explode into lava, covering the terrain around it!"
"It's vulnerable to cold though, so I might be able to distract it..at least to get it away from Nomyra"
Wyrd focuses the energies both within himself and of the cosmos around him into connecting the space right behind the fiery creature to some place far, far away, forging a connection between that location and the surface of an ice covered planet summoning forth more cold to freeze the elemental.
Reflex save DC 12 to negate
Wyrd launches a blast of cold at the magma elemental. It tries to dodge.
And manages to avoid the cold.
Vedrir's dart strikes the rifti protean! It sphere breaks apart, revealing the deceased creature in its normal form.
Kit
Puzzle
Nomyra
Next round start
Magma elemental
Wyrd
Vedrir
"Nomyra is as good as she can be. I used the very soft drug to keep her from dying. My data shows that she is stable. "
Says Vedrir through his comms in his armor.
"Protect Nomyra!' Puzzle directs the crew. "Focus our attacks on the magma elemental. And heed Wyrd's advice."
Knowing their laser fire will be ineffectual, Puzzle opts for a different approach. "I will try to distract it."
"This weird thing in my way! I can't get to it!" Kit slaps himself in the head and shouts "you so good at aiming, then aim, Nofun!"
His shot once again misses badly, and stomps his feet, shouting at his own head. "See! You no good, and you no fun either!"
Nomyra's eyes go wide.
She stands, and takes a Guarded Step out of the way.
The magma elemental takes a guarded step forward, hisses, and takes a swing at Vedrir!
Wyrd
Vedrir
Kit
Puzzle
Nomyra
Magma elemental
Kit continues to fume and stomps back another few feet as another shot misses . "Bah! This thing too shifty!"
Perhaps if you stopped throwing a tantrum after every miss and started looking at the targeting data I'm sending you...
Kit does not seem calmed by whatever he's hearing in his head.
Nomyra swings her fist around at the magma creature before stepping back.
Nomyra's punch downs the magma elemental! It hisses and falls.
As the magma elemental crashes to the floor, Puzzle immediately grabs something from their pack. Offering it to Nomyra, the object is revealed to be a serum of healing. "Well done. You should take some rest."
Puzzle continues past their recuperating colleague, to better examine the room that housed the magma elemental. Pausing just beyond the threshold, the android looks around.
Nomyra leans against the wall, still wobbly on her feet.
"Can we take...a couple of minutes...to catch our breath?"
Vedrir takes the hit and is relieved that the fighting is over.
Vedrir takes his micro lab and is doing some tests on Nomyra and himself in an attempt to heal some of the wounds that they have taken.
But to no effect.
Vedrir sits to the side and rest for 10 minutes
Nomyra shakes her head slightly at Puzzle as she struggles to catch her breath. She pulls out one of her own and drinks it.
"Ah, that's much better. Thank you, though. What do you suppose this thing was doing here?"
Puzzle looks around the room. They realize that, despite minor damage to the room, the place appears unused. Headsets and hologram projectors have no media loaded, and the hookahs are empty. However, some of the stations have been prepared for future use; Puzzle finds a variety of mild intoxicants for smoking collectively weighing 1 bulk .
One of the two blast doors to the north has taken a beating from the small magma elemental. It looks damaged, which would make it (relatively) easier to break. It also has a place for a keycard to be inserted.
Vedrir after the rest says to Wyrd:
"Yes I will collect the samples and do some more tests when we come back on the station."
After he collects some and hides to his backpack he asks:
"Where do we go now?"
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Wyrd glances this way and that
"If we trust that shifting creature there's someone behind that door"
Wyrd points at the door Angry Abs is rumored to behind
"and the magma elemental was trying to get into there.."
Wyrd indicated the banged up door.
"If we go by a general ship layout and assume the cockpit will be in the front we need to keep heading forward..if we want to reach the cockpit"
"Personally I'm kind of curious as to what the magma creature was trying to reach"
Nomyra smiles wryly. "So, Wyrd, what you're saying is that there could be danger behind every door? Sounds about right. Yeah, let's see what the magma creature wanted so badly."
Wyrd and Nomyra investigate the two sets of blast double doors heading forward/north in the ship. Both sets are locked. The one damaged by the magma elemental looks like it would be relatively easier to get through, but the blast doors still look sturdy.
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"Outtatheway! I open!" Kit comes bounding up to the locked and damaged door, pausing just a moment to scratch his head as he looks it over. He nods once and sets to work trying to get the door open.
Kit works on the locks to the blast doors but can't seem to find a way to get them open. However, in the attempt he realizes that if the ship's power were temporarily shut down, emergency overrides would be engaged that would make the doors somewhat easier to open.
"Perhaps this door over here?" Puzzle suggests, making their way to the single door on the northern wall. "It appears to lead in the same direction."
The a droid attempts to open the door.
Puzzle touches the regular door heading north. It slides open.
The ceiling of this long room rises in two almond-shaped domes, their crystal emblazoned with a slowly shifting holographic fresco of efreet warriors in gleaming powered armor. One wall holds a couple shallow alcoves with charging hookups, while the other is lined with clear-fronted lockers holding a variety of armaments. You can't make out what armaments are in each locker from the room's entrance, though both armor and weapons appear stored in various lockers. Two airlocks cover most of the forward wall.
The room has two airlocks on its northern/forward wall and a regular door to the north facing east. Puzzle and Wyrd hear a faint thudding coming from the room behind the western airlock - sort of what one might expect if one was moving heavy pieces of equipment or furniture.
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Sorry, Alice..no souvenir for you yet. The rooms so far seem pretty devoid of gifts to take back to the ACN-1"
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Wyrd holds up a finger in front of his to indicate silence and then quietly whispers across the team comm.
"I'm hearing some sort of faint thudding coming from the room behind the western airlock - sort of what I'd expect if one was moving heavy pieces of equipment or furniture. I think it might be the surviving crew trying to barricade the magma elemental out? Do we want to announce our presence and try to resolve this diplomatically?
Wyrd glances around with a raised eyebrow at the rest of the party questioning if they agree with his reasoning and it's some of the danger(s) Nomyra is expecting behind every door
In a slightly disappointing tone of voice Alice replies
"That ok, I do appreciate you taking the time to think about the souvenir. Even if you haven't found anything yet."
Then following that in an upbeat tone of voice
"..But if you do happen to run across something you'll bring it back right?"
Vedrir pulls out with his 4th hand Hail pistol responding to Wyrd:
"Sure, let us try the diplomatic measures. I am ready for whatever might come out of there."
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Wyrd takes a few deep breaths and centers himself
He then walks closer at the door he heard the noise behind and speaks loudly
"Hello, this is the crew of the ACN-1. We drove of the Fire Whale attacking this vessel. Are we addressing the crew of this vessel?"
and waits for a response as he nervously hops from one foot to the other ready to jump out of the way and glancing across his shoulder at Vedrir and the others to make sure he's got his back in case it's not a friendly response.
Nomyra leaves the talking to the talky ones, but stands alert in case the noise comes from something else dangerous.
The party enters the room, following Wyrd. As they walk in, they notice the following items in the clear-front lockers:
*A suit of black basic iridishell armor with the appearance of cooled magma.
*A tactical dueling sword and two assault hammers.
*An azimuth laser pistol, an autotarget rifle, and a light reaction cannon.
*Three extra batteries, 50 longarm rounds, and 24 heavy weapon rounds.
Wyrd calls out toward the room where the noise is coming from.
A few moments later the airlock door opens. A short female humanoid (about four feet tall) with fiery hair and brass-colored skin steps through the airlock, holding a maul.
She speaks with a loud voice in Common.
"Interlopers! My name is Koshnar. You might have come this far, but your efforts to capture this ship end here!"
With a shout, she raises her maul and prepares to rush forward!
Koshnar steps forward at Wyrd, spitting out something in a language you don't understand. As she swings her maul, it ignites in flame!
Koshnar's maul crunches into Wyrd, dealing both freezing and burning damage.
15 Koshnar
13 Puzzle
10 Kit
09 Nomyra
04 Vedrir
03 Wyrd
Round 2 start
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"Well..that's not how I hoped this would go...."
Wyrd grunts between his teeth as he absorbs the impact of the hammer and notices the flames lick harmlessly past his skin as his thick hide insulates him from the cold
"We aren't trying to take you ship! We just saved it from a giant fire breathing space whale!"
"...well, I'm seriously considering taking away the ship from you now..." Wyrd thinks to himself before saying with just a hint of sarcasm in his voice
"Everyone, meet Koshnar, an Azer..as you can see she can make her weapons ablaze with flames. It seems she can't be reasoned with right now, but maybe try to take her alive and we can try again later?"
Wyrd then takes a step back to allow others to get closer and opens the pathway between the freezer back on the ACN-1 filled with frozen one person dinners and the space around Koshnar causing an area to fill with enough cold to freeze meat solid in just under 5 minutes.
Reflex save DC 12 to negate
A look of surprise crosses the azer's face as she spits out a single word that sounds like a log popping.
She tries to dodge out of the way of Wyrd's cold.
And does.
"Hold! We do not wish to capture your vessel!" Puzzle shouts, extending their hand, palm out toward the azer as she challenges them. "We came to check on the health of your crew. Your communications systems appear to be malfunctioning."
The android moves into action once it seems Koshnar intends to let her maul do the talking. "Spread out and use our range to advantage," Puzzle announces the tactic over the comms.
Attempting to lead by example, Puzzle fires a single shot of their azimuth rifle at the azer.
Kit takes aim at the onrushing azer, then pauses a moment and rolls his eyes. "Fine, you do it!" After a moment, he crouches down, raises his weapon again, and fires between Vedrir's legs at the azer.
"Nofun, you nogood shot!"