Soren narrows his eyes at the Balthazzar's efforts across the short span between him and the binary cipher's case. The little skull produces a pair of eerie, spindly hand-like manipulators from its mandibular undercarriage, and with a few sub-voxed commands, pries up the alarm-device's most obvious panel and plucks out the wires instructed. With a minimum of disgruntled sparking, the neutered device yields; and Balthazzar is free to grasp the frame of the treasure in its spindly hands and begin hovering ponderously upward, bobbling and wobbling, getting some clearance from the firefight of the floor.

With that, Soren receives and parses H3X's warning, and his eyes swivel to the gunplay going on between the opposing machine-men. He has often wondered why Tyrus didn't consider his proposal to get H3X fixed with a sub-cortical slang-chip to permit him to communicate more efficiently in the tongue the Emperor himself spoke; but the time is not now for such things. Reiterating the call for help to his fellow acolytes, he finally clears leather with his Laspistol. Gaspar, now adjacent two a pair of bleeding nobles, oscillates with an impatience subroutine that could be mistaken for surgically-inspired excitement.

"Let's frag that borg and bounce."

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Soren Tech-Uses to remotely operate Melchior to disable the alarm on the cipher case, then uses his other half to ready his pistol. If the Tech-use is a full round, he'll hold off on the draw.

Balthazzar uses his half action to receive remote commands for Tech-Use, then 'readies' the case. At the described weight, it's encumbering him slightly; but not enough to make him slower than the bipeds.

Gaspar holds off, waiting for either Matthias or Dyveke to be ready for treatment, and holds an action to follow them if they move.

Melchior continues trying to track the nid. Vs41 - (1d100)[27]