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HP 17/17 AC 18 Fort +4, Ref +9, Will (boost to emotion effects) +8 Hero points: 1 Effects: "Something's hacking them," cries Jaedana as she moves to cover, then draws her rifle and fires!
"The fingerprints and fibers don't match up!" Jaedana interjects. "Do I look like I wear velour?!" Unfortunately, she's much more comfortable behind a spaceship controls -- or actually out doing something, anything -- than she is trying to speak in public.
Jaedana continues to search for information about the transistor relic or the 'orb' or 'piston'
Jaedana's mind is already used to dealing with tons of information, and she barely blinks at the fake dragon's data dump. She jabs at the projector and then fires a quick laser blast at one of the hardlight constructs.
"Well, that plan didn't work!" Jaedana says, ducking the worst of the lasers. She steps toward the projector and tries to disable it.
Jaedana tries one of the panels. "Where is the transistor relic?" she asks, being sure to enunciate each word. Hopefully this works, but I'm sure I'm going to end up yelling 'real person' at it over and over...
Jaedana crosses both sets of arms. "This place is huge," she says. "No way we're going to find the transistor relic or the 'orb' or 'piston' without help!" She looks around to see if there's any archivist they could get to help them.
Jaedana shrugs and decides to head in with Tapkey before sneaking away later once inside.
"How could someone route that to spam? That seems really powerful," Jaedana says.
Jaedana stays right where she is, safely distant from the sharpwings. Pulling her rifle, she takes aim and fires, blasting away at white!
"What'd you find?" Jaedana asks, glancing at the beads. "They look kind of junky."
Jaedana, having not really known Prof Tierny at all herself, wanders around the memorial, trying to see what she can learn about him. Her eyes skip over the junk on the ground just long enough to make sure she doesn't step on it.
"They just started shooting!" Jaedana exclaims. "It was awful! I thought we were all going to die!"
Jaedana pulls out her laser rifle, quickly aims, and then fires a shot toward the second biomechanoid, blasting it with the laser.
"They definitely didn't tell us downloading it would mean we'd have to do work. Someday I'll learn to read the fine print..." Jaedana grumbles. That said, she easily moves around the catwalk, even though she really is too sexy for it.
"But they're trying to pass it off as the real thing? Maybe Prof Tierny found out their scheme?" Jaedana says, thinking out loud.
"Can you tell us about the relic you wanted? Was the replica the same item?"
"We want to know what was happening with Prof Tierny" Jaedana demands. "Someone killed him! Who were you fighting with?!"
"Who?" Jaedana says, playing dumb.
"Yes!" Jaedana says with a sigh of relief. "Vazylyza! Do you know where we can find her?"
Jaedana decides to give the gambling a try. Her parents would never have let her do this, but if they didn't want her to, they shouldn't have left her on this planetoid with no one but a professor who was destined to be murdered for company! She manages to lose all her credits almost immediately. "I don't think I understand. Why does the jack have to be black?"
"Whoa, shiny!" Jaedana exclaims as she looks around with wide eyes.
"I hope we get a chance to spend some credits here before we go..."
Jaedana shakes her head. Then shrugs and decides to download the app. If Vorza thinks it's useful, she's willing to try. She can always get a new one if she has to.
"Who's Zirem?" Jaedana asks Vorza. "And what's Preluria?"
"What's that memorial all about?" Jaedana asks.
[b]"No, we're actually looking for someone who invited us to meet him here: Prof Tiery?"[b/] Jaedana responds.
"Yeah, this would be an awful place for tourism," Jaedana points out. "So clearly we're not tourists and it's fine we're here."
In the cafeteria, she listens in to surrounding conversation before Eruco shows up.
"And why did you approach us? How did you know we were looking for Prof Tierny?" She's curious if Eruco was the person on the other side of the message, or whether it's another attempt at obfuscation.
Witchwarper seems really cool. I just need to think of a good character concept.
Jaedana nudges Nitpick aside. "Let me try!" she says, tapping on the nearest keyboard. She finds the desired information easily. "See! Like that!"
I'm fine moving along (but also fine if someone wants to narrate!).
"I can't find anything," Jaedana complains -- almost a whine, "and my head hurts."
"Who, or what, was that?" Jaedana asks, looking around. She's hurt, but too impatient to wait to see if there are any clues.
Jaedana winces as her brain suddenly hurts, but takes a moment to aim at the wingbot, then fires! She ducks behind the ornamental plant next to her, still unaccustomed to being in a real firefight. It's not really like the vids or games make it at all -- it hurts!
Jaedana's eyes grow large as she suddenly, unexpectedly finds herself in a fight. She throws a pocket full of lint at the nearby drone, then pulls her rifle off her back and takes aim at it!
Jaedana, who never actually met Professor Tierny, has no such compunctions. She stars looking through the items, trying to see what looks interesting. She pockets one of the grenades and then grabs the starfall pistal, twirling it on a finger. "Always good to have a backup, right?"
"Wow," Jaedana breathes. "He left us a lot of things. But why did whoever kill him even want to?" She carefully handles the weapons, pulling them out of the null space chamber to see if anyone wants them.
Yeah, that all makes sense. Wasn't factoring in the action cost of using it.
As the creature that once employed several of you, Count Haserton Lowls IV, returns from his extradimensional maze, the group immediately attacks, slashing, stabbing and otherwise attempting to permanently end his threat. It's nearly impossible to see for a moment as bits of plant matter go everywhere, followed by a storm of dust when Tristain's spell hits. After a few seconds, when the dust clears, you realize you are alone in the tower heights. The Briarstone Witch remains dead and at long last, Lowls has been defeated and slain! Defeating Ariadnah and the transformed Lowls prevents Carcosa from drawing Thrushmoor into its patchwork form and cuts off any power that Carcosa could have absorbed from such an event. Gathering this power might have contributed to Hastur’s emergence as an Outer God -- a fate that will not come to pass this day! Unless you wish to remain in Carcosa and further attract the attention of Hastur, the first thing you need to do is find a way home. Thankfully, you know you can use the path to the black star occult ritual to return to Neruzavin and from there make your way home. Upon returning to Golarion, you discover that few people there are aware of the horrible dangers the heroes thwarted. There is no grand fanfare when you return and no elaborate reward. Most think Tristain is completely crazy if he speaks of it. However, those who listen to the whispers of the hidden world of the occult could know that a great evil has been stopped. Now that your quest is complete and yours minds are restored (such as it is, with Lothan), you can return to your lives before your unfortunate encounter with Count Haserton Lowls IV (and his former followers). After your journey, many scholars on Golarion would be thrilled to hear of your adventures in the Dreamlands, the forgotten city of Neruzavin, and lost Carcosa. If one of you details your experiences in writing, that tome could fetch a high price to those who study the esoteric and occult. If put into publication, this account would sell countless copies and would earn great prestige for the author.
"Whoa, I've never seen a real corpse," Jaedana breathes, looking more closely at Professor Tierny's remains.
"Did you try shutting it down and booting it back up?" Jaedana suggests
Lothan, making sure you see you're up.
"It looks like someone tried to destroy it," Jaedana says. "What would that mean for an anacite?" she asks Shalalamula. Even as she distractedly listens, she tried to connect to see if she can figure anything out.
Tristain is uncertain what Lowls has become. Some sort of horror from beyond the stars, it seems. You quickly take steps to prepare yourself, and all too soon, the creature returns!
Jaedana follows along with the others, her eyes wide as she takes in the unfamiliar sights. Fully new to anacite culture, she doesn't even know quite what to ask, but is sure her companions can guide them to the right place. As they look, she asks the others, "Did anyone else see anything back there? I wonder what the anomaly the drone detected was."
Round 4:
Albert: 6 (dread decay, 1 round) Kyffin: 17 Tristain: 21 Lothan: 19 Starflit: 23 ???: 11 Not really Lowls anymore: 27 Kyffin and Starflit close on the old witch, the half-orc slicing into her with a vicious cut. Lothan follows up with a barrage of arrows -- that bring her down! She falls, unmoving to the floor. Al meanwhile steps toward your old nemesis -- Count Haserton Lowls IV -- or at least what remains of him and begins cutting away large chunks of whatever it is now. It rears back to batter him -- and disappears, sent away again by Tristain's magic and giving you a few moments to recover. Mechanics:
Not-Lowls: 158
"It looks like someone has been living here on and off for a few months," she says, pointing to the food wrappers and trash in the area. "They created a makeshift shelter out of the tarp, and they’ve been probably been scavenging dumpsters and vending machines to get by. At least that's what I'd do if it were me." She pauses to think, still astonished by the burst of violence that was over before she could even react. "But why would they have pictures of us?!" She starts examining the drone, putting on the microgoggles.
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