If Zera is camping, Tintoretto will get out some food and settle down to take watch. He's not particularly great with old world devices, so he'll wait for the experts.
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Vigan decides to say good bye to the group and Zera rests for about 8 hours.
After 8 hours, she feels a bit better and the group looks over the trove of ancient treasures on the table. There is a velvet curtain and what looks like a spiral staircase that goes off behind it. There are also computer terminals.
Zera sees that everything is still where it was before she slept and is somewhat surprised, but she feels a lot better than she did before and starts in on examining things.
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2. She leaves the can opener alone. That was pretty obvious.
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4. Zera examines the skinny rectangular box made from no-grain with many rubber buttons on it, nine of the buttons have numbers on it and under the numbers are three letters.
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6. Zera cleans off the belt buckle so she can read the writing.
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12. Ah, a stapler. This needs no more analysis, but possibly could use some staples.
13. Zera reads the side of the aluminum can with a pull top to see what it says, and hefts it (if it isn't obviously open) to see if it is empty.
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15. Zera examines the pistol made out of no-grain to see if it is loaded.
16. Zera tries writing with the metal pen to see if it still works.
17. Zera attempts to read the book with animals on the cover.
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(19.) Zera also examines the weird pistol with a strange glass display with circles on it and numbers, to see if there is anything to read before she tries it.
P'Reena can't read and knows little of the artifacts, so she waits for Zera to identify as many as she can.
1.) You fiddle with the metal turtle shell with knobs on the top and after twisting the right one it opens a little door at the top and the left one locks said door. You smell the inside of it and you smell of long used ash.
3) You get the idea that this rubber rope would be used to conduct electricity from the two prongs to the other side where there are holes that when you insert the front end into it they fit.
4.) You understand that this device would work on one of those screens back at headquarters that the ancients used to spend time watching programs on (TV remote)
5) You see buttons on this machine that have same numbers as on the remote control but they have the letters underneath (abc) with 1 (def) with 2, etc... up to 9. There are buttons that say "Write" "Allocate Number" and "Copy" on it.
6) You clean up the engraved belt buckle and it says MArNG, B CPY, 1 BTN, 125th IN Reg Cpt. R Lake, CO
7.) You clean off the screen and it says something about fish and depth and a bunch of buttons
8.)electronic street map and it has touch screen displays with different names of town a few of which you think sound familiar,
9.) You put your finger in in the ring and you depress the button with the opposite hand and you get a minor shock.
10.) You turn it on and there is what looks like a die on the screen and you press the button and it rolls it...electronic die roller
11.) You press the button on the electric serrated knife and the blade breaks and wedges itself into the floor.
13.) Inside the can you find three blue rubber balls,
14.) You try to clean off the mirror and it seems to get more distorted the more water and grime you remove
15.) You shake the pistol and you do not see a cylinder like a revolver or a breech big enough to load or a muzzle where you could stuff shot into you do see a no-grain cap to it and you open it and you smell rancid water on the inside, you squeeze the trigger and water shoots about 20 feet out of the pistol.
You write Zera on your skin with the ballpoint pen and it has green ink.
You read the book, "See Spot, See Spot run" and it continues with pictures that go with it.
You wind the clock and it start to work.
The device has no writing on it, do you try to turn it on?
Zera puts items 1, 4, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 14, and 18 back on the table.
Zera cleans and pockets the extension cord, the water pistol, and the green pen, thinking they might be useful at some point.
She offers the See Spot Run book to anyone in the party that doesn't know how to read, hoping it will help, and willing to help teach if they want that.
She cleans up the belt buckle and tries to figure out what it means, but it is mostly incomprehensible. Maybe a badge honoring some ancient military unit. She lays it back on the table as well.
She tells the others what everything does to the extent of her knowledge, recommending the clock, which might help keep time underground if they need it.
She then tries turning on the pistol (19) with the glass display to see if anything happens.
Zera Use Artifacts check
Zera turns on the device and sees various blips on the screen that describe distance with some of them moving, you also see 4 different concentric circles with the numbers 10, 100, 500 on them.
Zera wonders what the blips on the screen mean, especially since some of them are moving. She turns the device off for now, but keeps it handy to see if she can track one of them down. Were the blips other people down here, or something else?
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Now, the group is a little more healed up, you pull back the velvet curtain and you walk down the stairs which curve downwards. Until you get to the bottom and there you a door with a hefty latch.
The party opens the door and the room is dimly lit, with red and
orange shadows painted across the far wall. A
stationary figure tucked away in the corner
seizes your attention. Live metal! Seated behind a desk, like a scribe at rest, is a man made of metal.
A huge, curving window dominates the dimly lit room. On the other side
of the window is a scene of terrifying beauty.
The land is barren dirt and rock, as far as the
eye can sec. Low, jagged mountains thrust up
into the black, star-studded sky. Overwhelming this bleak landscape is a huge, banded
orb. It fills up fully half of the sky, like a swollen, painted moon. Bands of red, orange,
and yellow cut across its surface, broken only
by the large red dot wedged between two of
the bands.
You move down the hallway and then behind a box sits a humanoid creature of live metal and says to both Zera and Tinteretto, "Welcome to the Sagow Panchilate Enstoot, which used to be one of the leading sites of panchilate research in the Lake Mitchigloom region. Today it is an interactive museum. Would you be interested in taking a tour of the enstoot? Please put your pet on a leash" when it looks at P'reena.
And then from behind the desk it hands you a leash for her.
Zera is a little intimidated facing unknown live metal, but best to comply just in case.
Thank you.
Zera takes the leash and attaches one end to one of the metal loops on one part of P'Reena's makeshift armor, keeping the other end in her hand until they get past the robot.
She thinks about what the live metal said and then asks
Do you have a map of the museum that we could refer to for the tour?
The live metal being behind the desk says, "Sure, do you have a portaview that we can onload the map to? Shall I summon the guide?"
We don't have a portaview, but thank you. We'll tour on our own.
Zera is worried that having a guide will force her to keep P'Reena "leashed" the whole time.
She slowly moves past the live metal, ready to turn back if it has an objection. If there is no objection, she motions everyone forward.
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Tintoretto will roll along after. ::Perhaps it thinks I'm a child or luggage.::
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P'Reena is a bit incensed at being considered a "pet" but defers to Zera's judgment and allows herself to be leashed.
The robot says, "Well, the best experience of the tour is provided by the tour guide. However, you must keep your pet on a leash the whole time within the museum. The tour is 2 domars per participant. So your total shall be 4 domars."
As the robot speaks another live metal machine rolls into the room and says, "My name is Jeb, I am the tour guide for the Sagow Panchillate Enstoot. I can answer all of the questions you have while on the tour."
Zera rolls her eyes and looks at P'Reena apologetically. It shouldn't interfere with anything they wanted to do, but it was stupidly demeaning. She didn't want any of the living metal getting angry though, so she kept the leash in her hand, and handed over 4 domars, wondering what kind of tour this would be.
Jeb says, "Alright, great, as I had said my name is Jeb, what are all of your names? And we will move onto the first exhibit. Delightful."
My name is Zera. This is P'reena and this is Tintoretto.
The robot says, "Ok, great. Let's get started shall we?". Jeb rolls over to the door to left and you follow it into the next room.
This bare room contains only a window
(The planet off in the distance you saw in the last room can barely be seen on the left side) and a
podium in the center.
As you are ushered in the door wooshes closed and Jeb starts to speak, "Welcome to the first room of the tour of Sagow Enstoot. Each of the Arduva in our Mycray Vaxus has a unique environment. Here, you can experience first hand what it feels like to stand on Dekud or Earlum, or on a moon of Jakiolite. Each of you can choose one environmental experience before we move on to
the next exhibit." motioning towards the podium.
On the podium there are 9 buttons on the podium: Orange, White, Blue, Grey, Red, Black, Orange with a red dot in the middle, Yellow with a brown stripe and Dark Blue. Each button has a name next to it. The orange one has "Dekud" as Jeb had said, The red one says Earlum. The Orange with Red Dot says, Moon of Jakiolite, The yellow with a brown stripe has three names you do not recognize plus Jakiolite.
Zera steps up to the podium and presses the white button.
The room becomes hot and
damp with acid vapors. The acid inflicts . The vapors form a fog that completely obscures vision.
Tinteretto COn Sav
The robot says, "Mr. Tinteretto, please push another button. What you just witnessed was the atmosphere of Zerulan."
He pauses, not quite ready to face another "atmosphere". "Just a moment, I am still contemplating the experience of Zerulan"
He's wondering what the robot's reaction is going to be.
The robot says, "Yes, Zerulan is a fantastic experience, if you liked that you surely will love this next one. If you stay on Zerulan too long you might become incompacitated"
GM rolls
It presses the button moon of Jakilite and the The room hologram expands the holowindow
scene perfectly.
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Tinteretto you notice that your teeth have become more pointy and you have increased your bite attack to do 1d6+14 damage and when biting a creature with flesh you regain half that in HP.
The Robot says, "I hope you enjoyed that exhibit and we should move on to the next one."
Zera follows the robot into the next room of the tour, but writes the location of this room in her notes in case she has a chance to come back.
She tells the robot Lead on.
You walk into the next room and you see that the floor, walls, and ceiling of the room are heavily padded, making it difficult to walk normally.
The robot goes in first and then stands next to the door you just entered from. On the west wall there is an emergency exit
door, outlined in red, with a panic bar to open
it.
The shuts behind you and the robot turns the dial next to the door, you indeed start floating in the air bumping into each other and the walls, as it says, "Hatwick can only be felt on
Gorlab surfaces. However, it varies
from Gorlab to Gorlab. "You
are currently experiencing weightlessness, just like the Vorvanools of ancient times."
Tintoretto grabs on to his cart for dear life and uses his telekinesis to at least keep himself oriented correctly.
Zera tries to enjoy the sensation, experimenting and seeing if she can find a way to "swim" in a certain direction.