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Letting the Ioun Stone dissipate as Aldon gets back his Power Point, Jamaardi replies back with a nod and grin of his own, ::"Glad to be of service. We'll probably know more once Anna can get back in touch with us."::. The Xeph tries fiddling with the alien electrical intercom/speaker components some more. . Seeing that he's not accomplished much with the intercom, Jamaardi will use his last two Aegis customization points to gain Fortification:25%, taking a minute of his time to activate it. If any of the Younglings are peeking out from behind their door, Jamaardi will smile and give a friendly wave to them.
"We will return as soon as we are able. If somebody or something other than Anna or any of us comes looking about in this room, it might be best to keep yourselves hidden and to not open the door on your end." Once the Younglings agree to care for the Gravity Slime in Jamaardi's stead and to stay put in the room that they were all hidden in (prior to Volita closing the door) and after the party gets all the necessary equipment/weaponry, as directed by Anna, Jamaardi will then hand his dull gray Ioun stone over to Aldon. ::"You can absorb some psionic power that is embedded within this burnt-out Ioun stone, Aldondrick. It will return only a small portion of psionic power to you without the need for rest but it may be of help in our task ahead on Anna's behalf. Once we're back on Golarion, it should be easy to find more unused Ioun stones to replace this one."::
While Volita goes to confer with Anna about the party's newfound discovery of all these minors, Jamaardi will give a gentle head-pat to "Rena" while she's crying. Once she subsides with her crying, the Xeph will take out the second folded paper (the one asking if her name was Rena) from his pocket and hand it over to Rena. He will quickly add in with "You won't have to knock on the door to answer, of course. Anna thought that would be your name but we wanted to make certain. The door makes it difficult to speak through it," in that strange alien language of theirs. "Can you point me to the Youngling designated as Tory?". If Rena does so, Jamaardi will go and hand over the first piece of paper (the one that Rena read through the door glass) to "Tory", saying "You can hold onto this; it'll be yours to keep.". Turning to Rena, the Xeph will also add, "Your paper will be yours to keep too."
Once Volita informs the party of what Anna wants to have done with them, via the ever-present mind-link, and returns to help encourage the oldest male child who is present among the gathered younglings, Jamaardi will return back to Rena's side and tell her, "You have done well in keeping your fellow younglings safe in the room. Anna will be busy in directing us to where we must go next but if you and the others don't mind, we'll borrow some of equipment in this room to help Anna with emptying out any enemies that might be present. In return..'" Jamaardi will then take out the iron flask containing Endeca's Gregarious Gravity Slime. Opening up the flask, Jamaardi will let the gravity slime pour out into his open hand, letting it make strange giggly noises as he pets the slime. He will then motion to Rena (or to another willing Youngling if Rena is reluctant to hold the Gravity Slime) to take the Gravity Slime and flask, saying "This is known as Endeca's Gregarious Gravity Slime, it is a favored pet among many younglings in other distant worlds. It's fairly hardy, harmless, and easy to care for. This one's a baby version of the gravity slimes. Just make sure to not stab it with anything too pointy or throw it against anybody; if you do either of those more than three times, it will shrink and disappear for good." Then the Xeph will take out the cheese wedge from his backpack and break off a small piece of cheese, which he then will feed to the Gravity Slime in Rena's (or another's) hand, much to the slime's tribbling happiness, complete with noises of cooing and such emanating from it. "They can eat any food scraps that you care to feed them safely."
Looking to Rena and the other younglings, Jamaardi will say to them, "We will have to leave soon to help secure this whole place; it might get dangerous, so if all of you wouldn't mind in helping to keep yourselves and this friendly neighborhood gravity slime safe, it would be a very big help to us" with a reassuring smile to all of them.
Guys just had a 5 day work trip dumped on me, getting ready to fly out in 8 hours, rush rush time. If I get time and net while on trip ill post but its unliking going out to look at sites,. No worries, gotta deal with those RL stuff before they get outta hand. Have a safe trip to and from though. ;)
This is rather unexpected. Anna's going to be in for quite a surprise... Letting his mind-formed moonrod fade away, Jamaardi glances about at the crying youngling girl in front of him and then at all the other younglings milling about from behind the weapon racks.
The Xeph quickly does a brief count of all the children present, as he gives a brief, tentative wave of greetings with his right hand to all the younglings looking anxiously at him from their hiding places. Jamaardi will then step back aside so that Aldon, Eisen, and Volita can get a view of the younglings and they, the younglings themselves, could get a view of all of them in turn.
Taking a moment to compose himself, Jamaardi then proceeds to speak to them in their alien language, albeit in that strangely enunciated way. . "Greetings, Younglings; my friends and I were sent by Anna to help with things out here." Jamaardi will then look towards Aldon, Volita, and Eisen and give a brief mindspeak, ::"There seems to be a lot more younglings than we first thought; there's at least thirteen of them in that room."::
Shaking his head to Aldon's query about the girl possibly being a monster in disguise, Jamaardi replies with ::"Without any magical powers or enchanted items working, we wouldn't have the capability to determine a creature's true form via mere eyesight, unless we had a very powerful Psionicist from the Temple accompanying us with the strength to pierce the veils. There is an alchemical means of determining if somebody is who they truly are or not but it does require access to the person's body part taken beforehand plus we'd need to solicit the services of an Alchemist to do so within touching distance of the subject.":: Once Anna's answer is revealed and relayed back to us, Jamaardi will nod towards the others and will proceed to write down in the alien language,
right below what was previously written down. On a second, separate piece of paper, Jamaardi will then write down,
but the Xeph will fold this second note about Rena, once the ink has dried up, into a nearby pocket. Once all the writing is complete, Jamaardi will place the quill and ink inside his bandolier. Then taking the first piece of paper (once the ink has dried out), the Xeph will then dismiss the small table/desk and replace it with a mind-generated moonrod (similar to a sunrod but not as bright) from his psychic toolkit ability. Jamaardi will expend one of his two focuses to activate his Conceal Thoughts ability while letting the others know via the mindlink, ::"I've added in asking if her name is Tory, plus I've let her know to answer by knocking on the door...three times for yes or five times for no. I'll place this first note up to the door glass for her to see with the moonrod providing some light to read by from behind the paper. We'll find out more once she's answered.":: Placing the first paper, mentioning Tory, directly onto the glass part of the door with the mind-generated moonrod, now activated, directly behind the paper so that it provides a dim glow to read by, Jamaardi will wait to see how the girl behind the door responds.
Once the foul chaos creature expires, Jamaardi will poke at the body with his mindblade- trying to ascertain if there's any holy symbol marks anywhere on it's bulk in the same way those devils were marked. . When attention is called to the youngling girl's face openly peering out from behind the next door, due to both Volita's and Aldondrick's respective alertness, Jamaardi will answer back, "I may not be able to contact this youngling via any direct psionic power per say but if all of you can give me a few moments to grab some items of mine, I believe I can transcribe a written note to her in her language." As the Xeph goes rummaging through his pack for paper, quill, and ink, he pauses thoughtfully before adding in, "If Anna is unable to communicate with us inside of this room or the one containing the youngling girl, it might not be a bad idea to have somebody or two step out from here and head over to another nearby area where our erstwhile Dhampir associate can be alerted to another possible survivor." Once Jamaardi gets the paper, quill, and ink from his pack, the Xeph will again activate his mindstone at -3 PP to be able to speak, read, and write the alien language. He will also temporarily get Know:Dungeoneering as well once the mindstone activates. Jamaardi then lets his mindblade disappear, causing a mind-shaped personal bedside table to appear in it's stead. He will then proceed to write out the words of:
in large, easy to read letters upon the paper placed on the mind-shaped mini-table. ::"I've written that she should not be afraid, that we are here to help, and that Anna is our friend. Anything else that I should write down?"::
What kind of a God or Goddess would associate themselves with such a creature as this? . Jamaardi will also move in and attack this representation of chaos when he can. Despite his heavier medium mind armor being presently materialized, his 30' speed has not been too diminished and the Xeph easily keeps pace with the others as they make their move. . . . .
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After confirming that magic is no longer present in the room that Anna's in, Jamaardi will pickup and place the ioun stone back into the container where he had kept it sequestered away. As the group reaches the red door where something is behind it (making some kind of ruckus), Jamaardi will take the opportunity to form his two handed mindblade in one hand (the tip of the mindblade balanced against the ground) while using his other to take out his force screen dorje and activating it on himself before putting the dorje back into his bandolier. Nodding in response to Volita, Jamaardi replies with "As ready as I'll ever be for our unknown threat." as he prepares to take his mindblade into a more active position.
Between removing his suit, helping Aldon to remove his old deactivated suit and getting into Jamaardi's suit, the Xeph will take the opportunity to take out his dull grey ioun stone and test to see if it floats.
Nodding to Aldon, Jamaardi replies, "Much appreciated- my Elven associates may be without magic back on Golarion but that doesn't make them any less dangerous if crossed.". With that, the Xeph summons up some medium mind-armor while keeping to his astral skin, for now. Jamaardi will follow alongside the others, sans the smartsuit and flamer weapon. He will still keep his mindblade unactivated until it's needed again.
::"As much as it pains me to admit, if the gods will truly look upon those of us with our special gifts as being nothing more than abominations to be exterminated... I will have to agree with the rest of you. My own kin are among such that would be targeted by these gods, even if they're not actually native to Golarion. Now, admittedly, I was sent to your Temple of the Mind by the Elves in the hopes of restoring magic to what it once was; you could say that their tried and true survival-based "exit strategy" was dependent on such happening, if it was possible. Luckily, Elves are just as capable of gaining our special gifts as any other- and they need not be made aware of the ramifications of our choice. Still, I would hope that you three will bear in mind that if the Elves were ever made aware of our agreement to helping our newfound ally to do away with magic... they'd be most likely to be...unhappy... with us."::
As Jamaardi finds himself more able to better articulate things conversationally after all of the revelations given, he then begins to attempt at finishing with the removal of his vacc-suit on his person. Once I'm out of this intelligent... artificial intelligent suit, I'll have to check on my Ioun stone- see if it will float here in this base. .
With Eisen and Volita focused on helping Anna to the strange red-door room, that left Jamaardi to either help with assisting Aldondrick (now that his intelligent suit was, for all intents and purposes, deactivated but still physically worn by the Elan) or keeping a quick lookout for more unwelcome astral interlopers. As the Dhampir is lowered onto the strange table-like device, which led to all the further information that was eventually provided to the group, Jamaardi, being somewhat uncharacteristically silent (both verbally and mind-linked-wise), was busy at getting his own intelligent suit manually removed from his person, as well as internally processing through what has just happened in his own way. Do the Gods, or at least two of them known, really see those with our... gifts as being abominations? If that were true, I would've never been allowed to step through the Elfgates in Castrovel to Golarion in the first place.
Of course, once the entire story was underway- with the appropriate prompting from Aldondrick, the task of removing Jamaardi's intelligent suit was left undone about halfway/partway, as the whole implication of what Anna's people had accomplished (no doubt helped by all the scenic/historical moving images) finally sunk in to the Xeph. ::"You could say that something did happen...":: was what Jamaardi could initially reply to, after the entire presentation was given and Anna presented her question of So tell me, did it work, did we ^"&"* the ^"&"*"( up?? but upon a bit of a pause, the Xeph doesn't elaborate any further to Anna other than to change the subject. ::"In answer to your first line of questioning, once we gained access inside, we had found two burnt bodies inside of the statu...mecha sent by your group. It was definitely hell-fire that did them in; after it had begun the journey to your hidden base, we found evidence of a third- a female youngling- that must've been with those other two but as of yet, we've found no trace of her at all. It maybe possible that she got left behind when it flew off."::.
Checking in; had some RL stuff come up on my end, hence the delayed posting since my last. Still, all the background being revealed (thank you for that, btw); quite a bit to digest through.
Hi guys I am going on a Biz trip until 4th, Ill post after then. No worries and have a safe trip. ;)
. While Jamaardi still isn't sure of what type of magical power the Angel tried to use on him, the Xeph does get the familiar sense of magic being used... having had arcane magicks being used on him before on many occasions by both friend and foe.
Just managed to make that will save. ;) p.s. Here as well. :)
Seeing the Angel pointing straight at him, Jamaardi is surprised when the Hold Person spell hits him directly. . Feeling the instantaneous paralyzation effect subsiding away, the Xeph announces to the group thought-mind network, ::"This being somehow retains its' ability to do magic;everyone... be careful.":: No mistaking that feeling, that definitely was magic right there; may have to ask our Dhampir ally about it when she wakes up.
FYI, I'll be on vacation from this Wednesday to the next Wed. and will have limited ability to post. Bot me as needed. Have a Safe and Fun Vacation then. :)
Listening to the Dhampir essentially admitting to being a party to the occurrence of magic's departure from the face of Golarion, Jamaardi internally notes, with some sense of ruefulness, that his mind seems to be a bit more preoccupied on the rather comparatively insignificant fact that the missing youngling who had been aboard that mysterious statue was apparently called "Little Mirlon" by the very self same Dhampir who had previously mentioned about "Lina" and "Kliff". Jamaardi ponders upon these latest developments in the back of his own mind, while answering in reply to Aldondrick's private thought conference with the others in the party (excluding Anna) with, ::"So we've finally found our culprits in the problems facing the disappearance of all supernatural effects from the lands, apart from our own special gifts... quite alarming but very intriguing nonetheless; I do have to wonder how Asmodeus seems to fit in all of this though. Our rescued Dhampir does makes it almost sound as if there are other forces involved in all of this.":: Almost on cue, the Angel makes his very timely but terribly inconvenient appearance at that point, which somehow ends up with an escalation of more explanations being uttered, powers being thrown about, and one very distressed Dhampir being knocked unconscious by the Angel and in very real danger of being killed by this supposed servitor of the Goddess of Dreams and Travel. Alarming that our gifts would seem to draw out such hatred from a planar creature of goodness; and for one such as Desna to be allied with one such as Asmodeus!. The Xeph finds himself scarcely able to contemplate such a turn of events; Luckily, Jamaardi is able to have enough presence of mind to respond accordingly to the threat that the Angel now poses to everyone present. . . Jamaardi tries to recall something about Desna's faith as there had been quite a few adherents of her faith among the Elves that he had worked with in the past. Nothing much seems to come to mind at that moment, apart from the incongruity of a Goddess of good openly working with a God of evil.
Fidgeting a bit uncomfortably while our newly rescued Dhampir weeps aloud upon learning of the unkind fate of "Lina and Kliff" and lamenting of her people's alleged failure upon distant Golarion, Jamaardi pauses a bit before chiming in, ::"Our condolences to you about your... friends, if I take it correctly that they were? Those names aren't familiar to us but you obviously recognized their... suits":: Processing through the Dhampir's revelatory thought-words, Jamaardi, not wishing to distress her any further than she already was, decides that a slight change of subject is in order. ::"I'm not entirely sure what you meant by "Lyrock", but we'll take your word for it. Perhaps you might know of a more secure location that we can speak more safely at length?":: The Xeph then thoughtfully adds, ::"You may want to get armored up in your own suit though... no telling how many more devils are out there roaming about."::
No worries, I'm still about... didn't want to screw up our major in-game "first contact" scenario like an "anti-boss". ;)
Raising an eyebrow at the woman's fear-filled mental declaration, Jamaardi glances back over to his comrades once again before answering back via mind-speech this time. ::"Ah, erm... yes- it's probably better this way to communicate in this manner; no pesky worries about language fluencies, comprehension, and all that- plus all of us can communicate with each other directly. Firstly, we can assure you that we're quite mortal and cannot be considered as deities- or even their planar servitors, for that matter. I can personally assure you that we have no intentions of "god or goddess-enslaving" anyone in the very least. As to why we are here, well... our arrival here was kind of... inadvertent; we were exploring the interior of your giant statue which happened to appear nearby on our world. We never once imagined that your giant statue could traverse the void between worlds. Erm... you do possess some interesting craft-work, like your intelligent, sealed armor and your intelligent weapon of...diverse lethality- which we...scavenged before we entered your void-rock...structure.":: After thinking through to what he just mind communicated, Jamaardi will hastily add in, ::"Well...maybe more along the lines of borrowed rather than scavenged; we've no other real means to otherwise operate this close to the void- not for any long periods of time, at least. Plus we didn't want to startle anyone with our appearance, in case your people weren't familiar with other races."::
The battle with the massed devils being a foregone conclusion, Jamaardi watches on with interest showing on his face as the dead Devils melt away into a messy pile of dark goo. ::"Melting away instead of exploding- that's something new; I have to wonder if it was because of their choice of...."::,the Xeph stares briefly but pointedly at the half-eaten corpses strewn about,::"um,...dietary considerations.":: . When Aldon points out that the group is not alone in the room, Jamaardi nods in concurrence and adds, ::"I'll try to speak to whomever it is that's hiding in their strange alien language; it should help to reassure that person..."::
Looking towards Volita, Eisen, and Aldondrick, Jamaardi queries via the group mind-speech network, ::"Is there anything else I should mention?"::
This second blast of Hell-Fire easily catches the Xeph within their conical burst, as Jamaardi tries to dodge against those fell flames a second time. . . .
. . Making certain to give enough room to Aldon's two constructs so that they may step into the fray, Jamaardi chimes in over the thought network with
. Ducking aside to allow for Volita to toss her Lightning Ball attack at the massed group of Devils , Jamaardi will make his attack on the prone Devil since it would be the only one that he could attack at this point in the combat. . . When the remaining Devils do their breath attacks en masse, Jamaardi will try to avoid the worst of their effects. . The Xeph takes half damage for -1 HP total damage. His Temp HP goes from 5 to 4 total.
No worries; Safe Travels to you though. :)
Volita nods. "That is an excellent plan, Eisen. Jamaardi, please stand a bit back from the door." Volita casts Vigor (6PP, 30hp) on herself, and in 3 rounds she casts Ectoplasmic Sheen (1PP, DC 16 or fall) on the floor directly in front of door. Aldon nods to Eisen, "We should allow them to exhaust themselves by breaking out then strike them". As the creatures seem to get closer to breaking free, Aldon will summon two Astral Constructs to bring the odds in the explorers favor.
Nodding at Volita's request, Jamaardi will scoot further on back, after Eisen but in an opposite adjacent direction , to allow for some space to let the Blue coat the surface nearest to the door hatch in slippery ectoplasmic sheen. Upon the fourth round of the hatch doors breaking down, Jamaardi will spend one of his mental focuses to activate Vigor, cost free, to get 5 temporary hit-points. If there is time permitting during the fifth round, Jamaardi will try to regain that spent focus as a full round meditation action.
Oh! You're right, you're totally right. I was thinking of a terrible book from 3.5 that never was published, so it holds no sway here. Heh, should I be asking about the title of that terrible unpublished book? ;) On a more serious note, I can confirm that the Psychic Toolkit Bladeskill remains unchanged in it's final published form from the Playtest version. :)
They start slamming into the door, blasting it with hell fire, the door is taking DMG but is holding for now. ::"That hatch door does seems to be holding, for now. Just how long it can hold against their strength and Hell-fire... your guess is as good as mine. We could try to wait until they've broken on through, then we could make our attacks. Thankfully they haven't tried to break through that window though."::
::"Seems like they've sensed that we're here; I'll let you know when it tries at slamming into the doorway again.":: Jamaardi will wait with his mind blade at the ready.
Volita frowns. :::Does anyone have any way of lighting the room? I could cast something if I could see clearly.::: ::"Apart from the light that this Alien armored suit gives off, I fear that I have little in the way of lighting, apart from some candles and some flint. I'd imagine that the candles wouldn't be enough though, even if they weren't stuck inside of this sealed armored suit.":: . ::"Anybody else have any ideas?"::
The AC I can put in the action bars; haven't tried to manifest any astral or mindarmor though... in Jamaardi's mind, there's no room to manifest either inside of the suit If somebody does suggested that he try to manifest them, then he give it a go. If he could pull it off (with GM approval, of course), then his AC will be much more higher than in the previous fight. :)
Guided by the light provided by his Psionic blade Eisen follows along, keeping his eyes peeled for any more fiends that might be prowling through these strange tunnels. "How long do you think these suits will hold out while fighting these things?" He asks.
Volita peers into the darkness, but looks at the others, silently asking for consensus. "Are we doing this? Al? Shall we send in our servants together?" ::"It might be worth a go. In any event, I'll be ready as I'll ever be, Volita, Aldondrick, Eisen. Oh yes, before I forget, there's at least three of those devil creatures inside that I've spotted- but there might even more of them that I didn't immediately see though. A handful of bodies are also inside, on the ground and in pretty much the same state as Amina Lee was when we had found her, minus the frozen parts...":: Jamaardi pauses momentarily, then adds, ::"Perhaps they too will have their card form of the Crusader's Crosses, as well. There's also another hatch in there; where it leads, one guess is good as any."::
"They do seem to be holding out quite well, all things considered...though it might be difficult to get at something stowed on your person if it's inside of the suit.", Jamaardi replies verbally to Eisen's query. "If they do get somehow damaged in the event of some action caused by those Devils, I think that I could help to mend up the suit; something of a personal knack of mine- I'd just have to have my hand not so covered up though..."
You line up and walk down the space, you have gone only 150' when you come to another hatch on the left. There is a small window, inside its dark, with only odd small likes on the wall some 50' inside the space, as you look [dark vision] you can seen some more bodies on the floor, again they have the simple clothing on, like a once peace uniform. Then one of the lights flickers and another. Something is moving In there, not something, some things. One is bent over the body. Their the size and shape of the other Devil that attacked you. You can't seen much of what is In the room. Just walls with odd small lights and glowing small Panels. There is a swipe card slot by the door, or you can keep in down the corridor. ::It does is no good to move on with unknowns at our back. If you like, I could send my construct in, and we could follow it's entrance with fire from the weapons and attacks? How does that sound? Or we could just close the door, but that doesn't seem needed just now.::
::An excellent idea Volita, I too can summon constructs, shall we send them in to soften up these creatures?::
Jamaardi will helpfully inform the others of what he sees inside of that room of carnage and death. Once he informs the others of what he has noticed, the Xeph will then add, ::"Given that all of the dead victims inside are not wearing their hard-suit intelligent alien armor, it does look more and more likely that they were taken by surprise by these Devils.":: As Volita and Aldon discuss their plan to send in/summon their constructs, Jamaardi will add, ::"Excellent idea, Volita, Aldondrick; Eisen and I can follow them inside to that room to help deal with those Devils. Too bad that the lighting inside that room is insufficient, otherwise Aldondrick could've just directly summoned an astral construct inside of there..."::
Up a head the light is red, its coming from the walls, small light sources. The space in front of you is silent, looking ahead you can seen burn marks on the wall to the left.
You see and hear nothing but the space in front of you. ::"I've no objection to that myself, Aldondrick; alternatively, since there is just about enough room to move forward with two abreast, either Eisen or I could accompany alongside of you if you like- Stealth shouldn't be a problem on my end, though." Giving a nod over to both Volita and Eisen, Jamaardi also adds, ::"Likewise, Volita, you could also choose who would accompany alongside with you, apart from your Astral companion."
::"With Asmodeus involved, this demonic looking creature would most certainly be a Devil of one sort or another. How ironic, in that most everyone back on Golarion considered the gods to be forever silenced with the loss of magic but how many would it have occurred to them that their gods could still act but only in another area distant where they could possibly do so? If we are able to make it back, and if we were to embark to Cheliax as the next on our original itinerary, I'm sure some of the Chelaxians would be delighted...or dismayed...to learn that their patron deity is still active-just not in their vicinity."::
::"If Amina Leea's body is any indication, the likelihood of these people being allied with these Devils would seem remote. It still wouldn't rule out the possibility of charm effects and mind control though being used upon them though, depending on what sorts of Devils are about.":: .
::"Point well taken on the possibility of the creature being an indigenous life-form to this area, Volita.::, Jamaardi does concede this point to her, ::"And your mention of the possible presence of magic here to summon something does remind me... if we could find a place where I can safely remove this Alien armored suit for a brief period of time, then I could take out my grey Ioun stone and see if there really is magic in this area."::
Through a combination of twisting away at the right moment and letting the unknown creature's claws rake ineffectually across the Vacc-Suit's hardened sections, Jamaardi escapes taking any damage from those deadly claws. As Eisen puts down the mysterious demonic and undead appearing creature with one fell swipe of his mind-formed polearm, the Xeph gives a respectful nod to the Half-Giant, before looking back over in Volita's, Aldon's, and Volita's construct's direction. Once everybody is again ascertained and accounted for, Jamaardi will join Aldondrick in examining the creature's remains, while keeping his mind-blade still materialized, just in case. ::"It would seem oddly appropriate in mentioning about Mendevian Crusader Crosses and having this demonic-looking creature appear just like that from behind the hatchway, although it does seems emaciated enough to appear almost undead-like.":: Glancing towards the direction where the human woman's body still remains laying out on the ground, Jamaardi thoughtfully adds, ::"These Alien Armored suits seems rather impervious enough to that creature's claws- curious that Amina Leea wasn't wearing one; perhaps it does suggest a sudden, unexpected attack where our late victim didn't have time to don one of these suits on... it did took a bit of time for us in getting those suits worn, even with its' intelligence."::. Jamaardi occasionally prods and turns the creature's head from one side to the other with his mind-blade but will take care not to obstruct Aldondrick's own examination of the creature's body. ::"The Hell-Fire may suggest a Devilish origin instead but it wouldn't be prudent to discount a possible Demonic or even Daemonic nature..."::.
When Volita does finally inserts the card into a key-card opening, Jamaardi will wait at the ready with mind-blade upraised and at the ready.
Alternatively, if the demonic bony-like creature is not within Jamaardi's reach due to circumstance, then the Xeph might either try to charge at the creature (he is able to pass through allies in such a charge and he could either roll separately for that or use the previous attack/damage roll with charge bonuses/penalties added on, if permitted to do so) or he would possibly even try to "circle" around the creature so that he's in flanking position with Eisen if he is unable to make any attack on that creature.
Handing the card over to Volita, once Jamaardi finishes reading it's unearthly inscriptions and notices her peering at both it and the wheel over by the hatch opening, the Xeph hastily adds, ::"It apparently is some form of Security Pass as well as a unique form of identifier, not unlike that of a Mendevian's Crusader's Cross, strange as it may sound."::, once the Blue takes hold of said card.
. After hurriedly batting away at the sudden deluge of fire with his arms flailing reflexively, Jamaardi gets a good look at the horned, near skeletal-like figure emerging from the opened hatchway. The Xeph mutters out, "This does explain the Hell-fire from those bodies aboard the statue", as he summons forth his mind-blade into both hands as it materializes in its' bludgeoning form . When the demonic figure is close enough to strike, is hostile in its' actions, and if the others haven't declared it as being friendly, Jamaardi will attempt to strike at it . . .
Jamaardi will turn the card over and begin reading off the inscription upon it to the others. ::"Amina ...Leea, Tactical ...Command, First ...Officer, Engineering ...Division, Second ...Battle ...Unit...swipe card to activate. It looks like our corpse did have a name in life, this Amina Leea person. Must be part of some military group; possibly even an officer- perhaps their equivalent to somebody like 13, back in Eto? Since we've found her out here all alone and mostly untouched, it looks like whomever is living out here in the void hadn't the chance to come and reclaim her. This does sound somewhat foreboding..."::
Jamaardi will activate Guidance of the Ancestors from his Mind Stone for 3 PP to decipher the script written upon the card. Explaining something about the card to the others, Jamaardi telepathically says to the others, ::"Whomever these humans are, they almost certainly made regular use of this odd card; see those fine scuff marks primarily upon this dark striped area? They must've used it by sliding it against something. It might also have something to do with staying clipped upon their clothing though, if how it was attached on the corpse's clothing had anything to do with it..."
::"At least it is certain that we're not the only ones in this place. If they are other humans about, like this poor unfortunate departed, perhaps they could tell us more of what is truly happening back on Golarion.":: . Jamaardi will pickup the card from the body while remarking ::"No artificial limbs on her, unlike those other two back at the statue. This little item looks like something we haven't seen before. Anybody want to take a closer look at it?"::. Jamaardi looks over to Eisen and says, via Aldon's mindspeech, ::"Agreed on both counts. Are you ready to get us through that hatch, Eisen? It's almost a certainty that it might be locked much in the same way that the statue's hatch was back on Golarion."
. Nodding to Volita, Jamaardi attempts to determine anything else peculiar about the body but is unable to learn much more about it other than it's apparent "expired" condition. ::"I fear that there's little I can do to help in determining anything more about how the deceased met her demise..."::.
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