No hidden passages.
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When TG adjusted the Joro production soft, giving it more pragmatic and closer to defaulst settings - he sees that Stell found another obstacle. He decides to followe team a bit back.
- I like it to work with professionals, mates. Contnue. I am sure we a close. Let the lazer remain warm, Kuozar.
TG seems to be in a better mood now.
Stell finds that the cloning pods are currently empty. Nothing of interest in those two rooms.
The drone is waiting down the hall. It fires at Kuozar when the door opens, but the shot is a little early and hits the still-opening door.
Init
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Kuozar's artillery laser lances burning coherent light back at the drone. ... F; burn 1d6; penetrating 1; 120 ft.)
Afraid of hitting his comrades, Idir blasts the doorframe over their heads.
Thundergun looks at the cluster of Starfinders by the door, and decides a tactical pincer movement is the best plan.
Kuozar lases the drone again. It falls from its perch on the wall and wobbles as it retreats down the corridor. Thundergun does not even get a glimpse of it.
... F; burn 1d6; penetrating 1; 120 ft.)
Somewhere a door clicks shut.
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Thundergun takes a look around the corner and starts to think. How they can be seen? They turned off cameras and he made with the console everything posssbile. So seems like somewhere sits an admin.
- We need to find and administrator. Hm...
May somewhere in consloe or just attached to a wall schematics of evacuation in case of fire emergency or something as useful to be a map or a facility plan?
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"Stell's suggestion is good. I suspect that drone will return to harass us once our...interlocutor gets bored, and chasing it will probably just cause us to blunder into more of those traps," Idir says with a nod. "We'll encounter them regardless, but I think we'd all prefer to deal with them eyestalks open."
The party advances along the hall and starts to assemble around the door in a relatively well lighted intersection under the watchful eye of a camera....
Thundergun approaches the light, like all of them there's a camera underneath, and a little nozzle that swings toward the izalguun. There's a flash and a burning sensation on Thundergun's skin.
.... F nonlethal; critical blind AR
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Thundergun elevates onto his hind legs and snips the wires to the camera, effectively blinding it.
Meanwhile Kuozar steps up beside Idir and addresses the locked door. It slides open. The nuar frowns. "Not sure I did that."
Gallons of reddish fluid swirl within a giant vat dotted with small dials and computer screens. A large tube protrudes from the vat and extends into a collecting chamber beneath a steel grate to the west. A second vat filled with a light green gas stands between two starship-grade sealed containers, the thick glass barriers rimmed with black-and-yellow striped motifs to indicate caution. Tubes from each vat enter each of the two secured chambers, where they combine into a dark green semigaseous gel. A vacuum tube pulls the gel into a vent at the back of each chamber.
Three lights mounted on the far wall illuminate the doorway. The dazzle from the lights makes it hard to see.
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Stell studies the equipment, nodding as she figures out what is going on.
"Looks like this is where the finished clones will emerge. All of them look identical, for reasons we've established." She documents the set-up with her camera.
Assuming the operator is watching them and can hear them, Stell says loudly, "We found a bug in the program that is telling you to make all identical clones. Many studies have shown that diversity of individuals is essential for a healthy social fabric. Why don't you admit your mistake and adjust your programming? Or if you can't do that, let us help correct the code?"
"THE PROGRAMMING IS CORRECT! YOU ARE ALL BUGS TO BE QUASHED AND ABSORBED INTO THE GREATER JORO-SPHERE! Kill them, my minions! "
Something begins to ooze out of the machinery around the big tank. Two blobs of dark green biomass flow onto the floor and rise to adopt an approximate humanoid shape. They resemble melted wax sculptures of Joros smashed together and lacks any distinctive identity. They move forward, intent on attack.
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Stell sighs as she draws her static arc pistol, set for stun. "So much for the easy way!"
She pretends to be intent only on getting away, only to level the arc pistol and give it a blast of electricity.
Trick Attack
DC: 20 + Targets CR; success: Target is flat-footed against the trick attack; if attack hits add Trick Attack Damage
(range: 50')
Stell totally fakes out the Joro amalgam and blasts it. Kuozar also lands a solid hit despite Stell being in the way. It practically explodes with bits of greenish goo and small pieces of Joro tissue flying everywhere.
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Thundergun follows team and follows Stell's clues, researching data inside and wondering the bio-productional machinery..
The technomancery has enough quialification and suddenly he's coming to some conclusions.
-So this is machinery ...
He falls back in hoar seeing the CAPS LOCK message and understanding the system administrator still has control. The technomancer fights back though
Perhaps we already understood how to deal with these creatures?
Thundergun's pulse gauntlet jabs air because the creature melts downward. It flows under the izalguun's torso before rising up and reassembling behind him and striking out at Kuozar with an arm-like psuedopod. It's gross, and, suddenly warm, Kuozar feels his gorge rising.
... B plus biomass assemblage)
The thing's motion is too strange and uneven. Thundergun's punch misses while it reassembles itself.
Idir screams some pretty good advice.
Striking Kuozar, the thing morphs. It sprouts dark patchy fur and oddly angled horns. The speakers blare, "HA! You felt that I bet. Welcome to a normal life you horned freak!"
At the thing's touch, Kuozar is suddenly sickened. He feels queasy and weak. Nevertheless, he's able to land his shot.
Stell is marvelously deceptive, but still can't land a hit.
Thundergun lands a heavy blow on the largest nuar-like portion of this thing. The blow would fell an Oxolian horn-beast, but this thing isn't made of normal tissue. It feels more like punching pudding than flesh.
"AND you, my pretty! Feel this! And your big friend too!" Needle sprays erupt from two of the three light/camera fixtures on the far wall.
And you do feel it like a sandstorm on your armor. Thundergun's armor holds up and protects him fully. Stell's armor does a creditable job, but maybe because she's closer to the nozzles some gets through. She feels a thousand little cuts.
The thing moves purposefully, carefully, toward Kuozar and Stell. It a well-formed fist drives toward the nuar, smashing into his face. In tones quite like Kuozar's, it says, "Give me my gun!"
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Stell needs 3 more saves.
Weakened
The victim takes a –2 penalty to Strength-based ability checks, attack rolls, damage rolls, and skill checks, and the DCs of his spells and special abilities decrease by 2. The victim’s total carrying capacity is reduced by two-thirds (minimum 1 bulk), and he gains the encumbered condition regardless of how much he is carrying.
Disable Engineering DC 19 (jam injection mechanism)
Trigger touch; Reset manual (Engineering DC 19) Effect dart +13 ranged (6d6 P plus Joro morphogen; critical
injection DC +2)
Type poison (injury); Save Fortitude DC 12 Track Charisma (special); Frequency 1/round for 4 rounds Effect progression track is Healthy—Weakened—Impaired— Pliable (end state)
Special Hit Point damage inflicted by Joro morphogen is nonlethal damage. Joros are immune to this poison.
... B plus biomass assemblage)
The thing's motion is too strange and uneven. Thundergun's punch misses while it reassembles itself.
Idir screams some pretty good advice.
Striking Kuozar, the thing morphs. It sprouts dark patchy fur and oddly angled horns. The speakers blare, "HA! You felt that I bet. Welcome to a normal life you horned freak!"
At the thing's touch, Kuozar is suddenly sickened. He feels queasy and weak. Nevertheless, he's able to land his shot.
Stell is marvelously deceptive, but still can't land a hit.
Thundergun lands a heavy blow on the largest nuar-like portion of this thing. The blow would fell an Oxolian horn-beast, but this thing isn't made of normal tissue. It feels more like punching pudding than flesh.
"AND you, my pretty! Feel this! And your big friend too!" Needle sprays erupt from two of the three light/camera fixtures on the far wall.
And you do feel it like a sandstorm on your armor. Thundergun's armor holds up and protects him fully. Stell's armor does a creditable job, but maybe because she's closer to the nozzles some gets through. She feels a thousand little cuts.
The thing moves purposefully, carefully, toward Kuozar and Stell. It a well-formed fist drives toward the nuar, smashing into his face. In tones quite like Kuozar's, it says, "Give me my gun!"
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Stell needs 3 more saves.
Weakened
The victim takes a –2 penalty to Strength-based ability checks, attack rolls, damage rolls, and skill checks, and the DCs of his spells and special abilities decrease by 2. The victim’s total carrying capacity is reduced by two-thirds (minimum 1 bulk), and he gains the encumbered condition regardless of how much he is carrying.
Disable Engineering DC 19 (jam injection mechanism)
Trigger touch; Reset manual (Engineering DC 19) Effect dart +13 ranged (6d6 P plus Joro morphogen; critical
injection DC +2)
Type poison (injury); Save Fortitude DC 12 Track Charisma (special); Frequency 1/round for 4 rounds Effect progression track is Healthy—Weakened—Impaired— Pliable (end state)
Special Hit Point damage inflicted by Joro morphogen is nonlethal damage. Joros are immune to this poison.
... B plus biomass assemblage)