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Darkrunner identifies the malfunction locations in the port bow hold.
Seggas gives Amy a smile as the human passes by. "Thank-you for coming back here with me." She leans in a bit closer and then whispers something into Amy's ear with a wink.
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Gava takes the east side corridor, followed by the delegate. He'll ride on the ground, blocking her from any harm (except area attacks) - if things go terribly wrong, his mount can take the beating as they escape on foot.
"Alright, we're in position - y'all can move forward!" he sends via comm unit.
"These fellas are extra-cautious! Must've seen some rough times before! But I doubt this will amount to much" he whispers back to the delegate, making small talk.
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With everyone in position, Sturmvanger moves forward, heading through a pair of double doors, squeezing along the hallway beyond until it opens up, slipping through a single door, then across some sort of sitting room before ducking quickly through another door, crossing a cargo bay then getting to another set of double doors.
He checks his Doshko again then opens up those doors, ready for whatever is beyond. If it's nothing, he signals El'zar and heads toward the cargo bay near Gava, waiting for everyone to gather up before throwing those doors open.
It takes Amy a bit to uncover the panels in the auxiliary control room, and as she works the rest of the party advances. Sturmvanger is just approaching the double doors in the north end of the central hold when he thinks he hears a grinding sound, followed by a thin, high-pitched giggle. El'zar and Seggas hear the sound of doors opening up ahead, grinding to a halt partway through their opening cycle, followed by the same tittering noise the dragonkin heard. The lights flicker.
Round 1:
Initiative order
Darkrunner
Gava
Seggas
Enemy
El'zar
Sturmvanger
Amy
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Seggas starts to move forward and the realizes that Sturm isn't moving yet either. She gives a small alert along the group comms. "Sounds like there's something in there. I think we might have to fight something up ahead, look sharp."
She then loads something into her gun and fires it into the rump of Sturmvanger. A small glob of acid lands on his scales and then slips into the spaces between them, rapidly getting absorbed by his blood stream. As it does, his skin underneath the scales seems to harden for a few moments.
Gava hits, the nonlethal discharge making the creature shriek in pain and anger.
The ysoki can see a trio of small, winged humanoids, with lampreylike mouths and three large blue eyes.
Round 1 (ongoing):
Initiative order
Darkrunner
Gava-acted
Seggas-acted
Enemies
El'zar
Sturmvanger
Amy
Seggas boosts Sturmvanger and Gava hits one.
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Seeing his teammates indicate the direction of the spotted creatures, Darkrunner grins and taps some quick commands into his datapad. He causes some lights over their heads to flicker while he speeds down the hall with his laser pistol in hand. Stopping right at the entryway as the effect dies down, he tries to catch the nearest one off-guard...
Round 1 (ongoing):
Initiative order
Darkrunner-acted
Gava-acted
Seggas-acted
Enemies-acted
El'zar
Sturmvanger
Amy
Gava hears a disapproving tut! from the delegate at the sound of a lethal weapon activating. The android manages to take his target unawares and wings it, but the laser appears to do it no damage. It instead glances off of the creature's wings and into a bulkhead, where it apparently damages an important conduit in the power distribution network for the ship. Debris cascades down between the android and his target. All three of the creatures emit high-pitched giggles, and chitter back and forth in a language that none of you understand.
The red one flies towards Gava and looses a cone of intense heat at the ysoki, incidentally catching the delegate! The delegate manages to avoid the worst of the blast. The other two send twin electrical discharges at Darkrunner. The operative avoids one, but is struck by the other .
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Amyis trying to get the cameras in that corridor going in order to see what's going on.
Assuming she does,
Ship glitch gremlins she reports. They're extreme nuisances - they love making ship system's fail.
Maybe the Guardian should duck in here with me. Less crowded.
And now we have a main bus B undervolt. Compensating
Amy recalls that these creatures are immune to fire, and resistant to both cold and magical spells.
Round 1 (ongoing):
Initiative order
Darkrunner-acted
Gava-acted
Seggas-acted
Enemies-acted
El'zar
Sturmvanger
Amy-acted
Amy identifies the enemies, and realizes that she can't correct whatever happened to the ship's power core.
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"Ow! That stings...tingles," Sturmvanger says. He looks down at his body and sees the thickening of his scales.
There are more enemies one way, but it's important that the delegate not be harmed further so he moves toward the one menacing her.
He teaks a swing when he's close enough to hit but it's not close enough to hit in return.
The dragonkin's doshko lays the gremlin down for the count, as El'zar closes.
Round 2:
Initiative order
Darkrunner
Gava
Seggas
Enemy
El'zar
Sturmvanger
Amy
Round 2 (ongoing):
Initiative order
Darkrunner-acted
Gava-acted
Seggas
Gremlins
El'zar
Sturmvanger
Amy
The green glitch gremlin gazes glazedly at Gava, gulled by the ysoki's guile. It convulses in shock at the electric blast. Meanwhile, Darkrunner is able to repair the glitch.
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Seggas rushes into the hallways and finally gets a gander of the gremlins. She reaches into her pack and pulls out a small vial of something marked with a pictogram of an unhappy scale less vesk. She pauses her smooth practiced motions and looks back at Sturmvanger.
She dumps the contents of the vial into the mass of biomatter glomped onto her hand that is her gun. She lines up a shot with the gremlin in yellow as a muzzle like appendage extends from the living matter and fires a glob of acid with some kind of spiky fluid filled sack in the center.
As the glob land on the gremlin's armor the acid quickly burns through the material and the sack sticks itself into the creature and drains its contents into the fey like thing. A few moments later the creature's skin starts to thin to the point it becomes translucent.
Round 2 (ongoing):
Initiative order
Darkrunner-acted
Gava-acted
Seggas-acted
Gremlins-acted
El'zar
Sturmvanger
Amy
Seggas tags the yellow gremlin, and it shrieks in pain and frustration. Guardian Shrani shakes her head at Gava's reassurance. "The rest of you are using lethal force. You'll have to explain why that's justified--and it might be, but I'll be interested to hear the rationale."
Still surrounded by wisps of smoke from Gava's attack, the green gremlin flies as Seggas and bites at the drow, but its fangs can't get through her armor. The other one gestures, and suddenly the deck under Sturmvanger turns slippery.
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As Sturmvanger is approaching the next gremlin, the floor abruptly turns slick and his feet go out from under him, sending him crashing to the floor.
He snarls angrily as he gets back on his feet and moves up behind Seggas.
Amy's sonic attack damages the weakened tissues of the yellow gremlin. El'zar's knife is deflected into a bulkhead, where something arcs before the knife returns to the mystic's hand. A moment after the knife leaves the bulkhead, there is a crackling sound, and another several piles of debris rain down in the area. Darkrunner sees the sensor displays in the control room distort, noise creeping into the signal.
Round 3:
Initiative order
Darkrunner
Gava
Seggas
Enemy
El'zar
Sturmvanger
Amy
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Seggas glances back at the Delegate, removing a hand from her gun with a schlorp and patting it delicately. "Little Bii here isn't that powerful and she's not the most accurate with a weaker acid. She also needed to be able to deliver a retrovirus charge so that the better non-lethal forces could get to work. Apologies if the damage was upsetting." She then turns back to the fight as Bii starts to humm with a sound not unlike a purring cat. She moves away from the green gremlin and tries to line up an accurate shot as she fiddles with a few polyps on 'Little Bii.'
She then shoots a much milder look form of acid at the green gremlin, hoping the thing doesn't hit her in return.
Round 3 (ongoing):
Initiative order
Darkrunner-acted
Gava-acted
Seggas-acted
Gremlins-acted
El'zar
Sturmvanger
Amy
Darkrunner easily gets the sensor suite back on line, while Seggas nearly drops the green gremlin. Despite distracting the gremlin, Gava can't quite tag it past the fallen dragonkin. Instead, his electrical attack shorts out something beneath the deck. Plating comes up in shards all around the gremlin, and Darkrunner notices that the targeting system has started malfunctioning. (The vessel no longer has any weapons, so this glitch has no effect.)
The yellow gremlin flies at El'zar and bites the mystic , while the badly wounded green gremlin looses a blast of intense heat at Seggas and Sturmvanger!
Round 3 (ongoing):
Initiative order
Darkrunner-acted
Gava-acted
Seggas-acted
Gremlins-acted
El'zar
Sturmvanger
Amy-acted
Amy wings the gremlin!