The skittermanders move off in different directions and leave Nako standing by the baggage airlock door.
Nako follows Quonx. "Lets go make that computer a nufriend!"
Gazigaz opens the door to the crew quarters and takes a look inside.
The crew quarters are sparsely utilitarian. Three sparse cots occupy the three niches in this room, each with a locker built into the wall at one end.
Quonx and Nako begin walking down the hallway. It's lined with a series of doors that open into the passengers' quarters. Two wall sconces, shaped like wiry saplings springing from a pine cone, and holding small glowing globes of light are mounted on the aft bulkhead. Locke had told you to twist the pine cone on the left hand sconce.
Gazigaz walks inside and first looks under the beds, then tries the lockers.
Nako approaches the left light, her eyes dazzling in the glow. "So shiny..." she remarks absentmindedly, but then recollects herself. She grabs the pine cone and twists it.
Two lockers are open, but one is still secured with with a digital lock.
Moving forward from the intersection, you hear a soft hissing from the air vents.
Gazigaz turns to Dakoyo. "Let's check the baggages next! They sure will be happy if all their things are still there!"
Quonx and Nako smell something with a hint of elderberries. Quonx notices a barely visible, pale blue mist drifting down from the ventilators.
Dakoyo and Gazigaz step back into the hallway to see their companions staring up at the vents.
"What is it? It smells funny?" Gazigaz goes inside room 9 and looks around.
"Nufriend or nufoe, anyone here?"
"Mmmm... elderberries..."
Nako and Quonx can get to the pine cones.
Gaz takes a look in the baggage airlock. He sees that this sparse chamber has functional steel walls that are slightly scratched and dented. A large airlock door leads starboard, presumably into space. A display panel next to the door flashes red.
He approaches to read the display panel.
Gaz can see that the door has been locked closed, and the controls locked out, by M2.
He goes back into the corridor. "Nothing fun in there either!"
The secret door at corridor's end opens to reveal the engineering compartment. The ship’s power core hums pleasantly in the center of this wide room. To the port and starboard, banks of conduits and wires line the walls. The tang of ozone fills the air and the lighting overhead makes shadows dance across the floor.
There's a burst of static from the aft starboard corner.
"Oooohhh!"
"That's where we turn off M2? What are we waiting for, let's go!"
Nako starts looking around the room.
She mostly gets distracted by all of the dancing shadows.
"Look at that... it does... smell... funny... in here..."
Just inside the door, Nako can see a hand, attached to a ship's uniform covered arm, presumably attached to a body which is out of sight to the right of the door.
Behind Quonx and Nako, Gazigaz and Dakoyo slump gently to the floor, overcome by elderberries.
"Greed!" Nako says, and turns around to go help Gaz and Dakoyo.
"...zzz... just five more minutes...zzz..."
The green and purple skitters wake easily enough from the shaking, but they're groggy and a little disoriented.
Seeing Gaz slump to the ground again, Nako starts shaking him again. "Come on! Get up!" She also takes the opportunity to look around.
Dakoyo and Gazigaz both slump back to the floor, unconscious. Dakoyo snores loudly and the faintest of blue clouds spreads from his nose over his chin only to be sucked back in when he inhales.
Something tall and white and mechnical is standing in the engine room doorway.
After hearing Quonx's warning, Nako turns around, her hand on her doshko.
The security 'bot is six feet tall with gleaming white plate on the broader portions of its body while the joints are wasp-narrow black mechanisms. A small Trendsetter logo is on its left breast, like a badge.
Quonx easily identifies it as a Patrol class security robot, a model commonly used by security firms and law enforcement.
One of these things easily overmatches any single criminal.
Patrol-class security robots have integrated armaments that keep the robots’ limbs free to apprehend offenders and engage in close combat. This model is currently used by Absalom Station's security force.
[ooc] Since your Engineering check is so high, you're playing with house money on the knowledge check. In addition to this spoiler, you're guaranteed to open one of the spoilers below. For every 5 by which you exceed 12, open another.
Built to ferret out criminals the robots have : darkvision, low-light vision; Perception is good.
To survive encounters with violent criminals, KAC hard to hit EAC slightly easier.
Flexibility requires they be re-programmable for multiple tasks. (Will save is weakest.)
Weaponry is lethal, but of low enough power that it requires a few hits to put down criminals.
vulnerable to critical hits, vulnerable to electricity
Bleed, death effects, disease, mind-affecting effects, necromancy effects, paralysis, poison, sleep, and stunning.
Ability damage, ability drain, energy drain, exhaustion, fatigue, negative levels, and nonlethal damage.
Any effect that requires a Fortitude save (unless the effect works on objects or is harmless).
Jolting Arc (Ex) Periodically, a patrol-class security robot can shoot an arc of electricity at up to four creatures within 40 feet.
Once per patrol, a patrol-class security robot’s nanites can heal a great deal of damage.
Nako runs forward and attacks the robot with her doshko.
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Status Round 1:
Nako (16/16 SP 18/18 HP 4/5 RP remaining)
Robot ( 8 damage )
Gazigaz (the stylish picture of slumbering vitality and health)
Quonx (14/14 SP 10/12 HP 3/4 RP remaining)
Dakoyo (8/14 SP 10/14 HP 3/5 RP remaining, snoring away)
"But I don't want to do the dishes!...Zzz... hmm, what? What?"
Nako swings at the robot again.
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Nako's doshko flares on the robot's armor again. It responds with a flurry of strikes. One is deflected by the doorframe, but the other connects hard with the skittermander's shoulder.
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Status Round 1/2:
Robot ( 13 damage )
Gazigaz (prone)
Quonx (14/14 SP 10/12 HP 3/4 RP remaining)
Dakoyo (8/14 SP 10/14 HP 3/5 RP remaining, snoring away)
Nako (5/16 SP 18/18 HP 4/5 RP remaining) a
“That looks like it hurts, Nako! But I bet it didn’t hurt as much as it looked!” Inspiring Boost on Nako, 8 stamina points back.
“Ah, it’s the robot the passengers told us about! It looks really cool! Let’s see how good it is!” Get’em on the robot (+1 to attacks).