Dytabail finishes off Orange robot.
Purple extends its hydraulic suspension and rolls over Dytabail and Azara.
Green does the same against Claptrap and Kiff.
Round 2:
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The floor is difficult terrain.
Purple robot 26 damage
Orange robot 81 damage
Green robot 48 damage
Azara 7 hp damage plus trample for 11
Sprocket 7 hp damage
Claptrap II plus trample for 15
Round 3:
Shokil 14 hp damage
Dytabail 11 damage 14 hp damage plus trample for 11
Kiff 15 hp damage plus trample 15
Oddman 14 hp damage hanging from the ceiling
Neither Sprocket nor Claptrap manage to hit the green robot.
Round 2:
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The floor is difficult terrain.
Purple robot 26 damage
Orange robot 81 damage
Green robot 48 damage
Azara 7 hp damage damage plus trample for 11
Sprocket 7 hp damage
Claptrap II 5 damage
Round 3:
Shokil 14 hp damage
Dytabail 11 damage 14 hp damage plus trample for 11
Kiff 15 hp damage plus trample for 15
Oddman 14 hp damage hanging from the ceiling
Oddman hits his target!
Round 2:
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The floor is difficult terrain.
Purple robot 50 damage
Orange robot 81 damage
Green robot 48 damage
Azara 7 hp damage damage plus trample for 11
Sprocket 7 hp damage
Claptrap II 5 damage
Round 3:
Shokil 14 hp damage
Dytabail 11 damage 14 hp damage plus trample for 11
Kiff 15 hp damage plus trample for 15
Oddman 14 hp damage hanging from the ceiling
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Shokil takes a careful step backward, and then fires at the purple robot that seems to want to roll over him as well!
But totally messes up the shot at he backpeddles.
Smith cursed his footed as he slipped. Fortunate really as the enemies chain-saw swung clearly over his head which would otherwise have been handily severed. Hmm, heads... Squeezing his HMG he waited for the enemies head to explode. But it didn't. A jam! At a time like this.
Smith changed to cursing the minimum wage robot who assembled the ammunition and the quality control supervisor and...
The robot takes an attack of opportunity as Shokil retreats, just barely managing to hit him.
His own shot misses.
Azara also narrowly misses the robot they attack.
Round 2:
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The floor is difficult terrain.
Purple robot 50 damage
Orange robot 81 damage
Green robot 48 damage
Azara 5 damage 7 hp damage
Sprocket 7 hp damage
Claptrap II 5 damage
Round 3:
Shokil 12 damage 14 hp damage
Dytabail 11 damage 14 hp damage plus trample for 11
Kiff 15 hp damage plus trample for 15
Oddman 14 hp damage hanging from the ceiling
Kiff strikes the creature as it runs him over. His follow up strikes unfortunately miss.
Dytabail strikes green, destroying it.
Purple scans Azara and then strikes at them. Fortunately it misses.
Round 3:
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The floor is difficult terrain.
Purple robot 50 damage
Orange robot 81 damage
Green robot 76 damage
Azara 5 damage 7 hp damage
Sprocket 7 hp damage
Claptrap II 5 damage
Round 4:
Shokil 12 damage 14 hp damage
Dytabail 16 damage 14 hp damage
Kiff 15 damage 15 hp damage
Oddman 14 hp damage hanging from the ceiling
With a toss of his mighty trident, Oddman destroys the last of the robots.
Examining the destroyed robots, you find that you could salvage their armor and weapons. With some hacking, you could also attempt to retrieve their most recent activation logs.
It would likely take about 10 minutes per robot to salvage the polycarbonate plating, integrated corona laser pistols and batteries.
Accessing the logs shows the last activation before your group arrived was many years ago, and it depicts a harrowing battle between a feathered monstrosity wearing an ocular visor and a bloated, toad-like behemoth. Initially, the robots rushed to meet these aggressive creatures, but their scans identified them both as izalguuns, and so the robots returned to their security center without intervening.
It only takes Sprocket a minute to salvage the equipment from the first robot.
The room is an immobile recharging station. You could charge your own batteries here if you wished to. There does not appear to be anything out of place or worthy of investigation here.
When in the room, the panel that opens like a door is very obvious.
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Shokil doesn't feel a need for a rest yet.
"If we do want to take a longer break, could I suggest we retire to the shuttle to do so. Resting in a radiation field for a prolonged period doesn't sound good." suggests the author.
"Why do you think the izalguuns transformed into those creatures? Were they shapshifters? That log makes me think this was unexpected."
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"Well, I think we're getting a clearer picture of what happened. I just wonder if the man and woman are still allies or if the woman really did kill him," he comments as the video runs.
"I'll take the corpse we found in the tub as a hint," Dytabail says as she leans against the wall.
(OOC, down 16 SP and 8 HP, I can handle going ahead, I can handle resting. If anybody says they need a rest, I say we take one. But I don't think we need to go back to the ship yet, considering what a pain that entrance was.)
Sprocket releases the magnetic seals on all doors in the complex. You go to the southern door that had trash piled in front of it and check it.
darkvision
Opening the door, you find a ransacked storage room filled with trash. They really need some cleaning drones here! There is a set of stairs along the eastern wall and another set of doors. Fortunately you have already dealt with the magnetic seals.
As you are moving through the room, Oddman notices a mk 2 null space chamber in amid the clutter.
darkvision
A small landing ends at a 10-foot wide conveyor belt that leads east and slopes slightly downward. The belt leads to others, all descending into a bank of greasy black smoke 60 feet below. There is a gap in the railing that lines the landing, but only the top two rungs of a ladder remain; the rest of the ladder is missing, providing only a vertiginous drop. The wheezing and clanking of machinery echo up from somewhere within the smoke.
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"Well, something is still operating down there." notes Shokil.
He peers down into the darkness.
"Did you say there was lighting controls? Can you turn them on in this section? Or even better, slave those controls to a datapad, so we can use them as we explore?"
He pauses. "Do they have even sections? If so, can you see what the lighting and temperature is set to in different areas? That might give us a clue about if the other creature is still around."
Searching the storeroom, Dytabail doesn’t find anything else of interest.
Lights are still off. You can set them to dim or normal illumination.
All of the doors it controls have had the magnetic seals released.
The temperature is slightly higher that normal, but not enough to be dangerous. A human would consider the temperature uncomfortably warm.
Oddman checks the inventory list and finds the Null Space chamber is empty. He then verifies that there is nothing in it.
Sprocket has no problem linking his datapad to the computer in the complex.
Dytabail with Shokil’s help determines there are hatches along the conveyor that are pressure activated. Through the smoke they are just barely able to make out the shape of a yellow case wedged where the converyor belts turn a corner.
You think that someone with enough engineering could probably prevent the pressure from opening the hatches for one round.
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"Those trapdoors might be a quick way down... but a one way trip.."
He makes sure his Force soles are activated to avoid accidently tripping the trap, as it looks like the team will be heading that way eventually.
"If someone was agile, they could carry less, flight worthy, folk in that null space chamber.." he also notes brightly.
"As long as they were not too claustrophobic."
He gestures back toward the entrance. "Did you get your line back?"
Then finally the halfling goes back to the main room to find some junk to drop down into the smoke. "Shall we see how deep it is?" he asks before pointing to the wedged box. "Or try to see what is in that first?"
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Azara uses his cable to anchor Shokil, tying one end around his own waist and letting the halfling do the same with the other end.
"It's a shame we can't get that ladder. I'll bet it's laying around here somewhere and we could just climb down it," he says, nodding to where it is broken off.
"I'm not too fond of the idea of a jump when I don't know how far it is."