Iron Gods : Double Characters (IC)

[Continental Op]

Kallak turns back to the others. He says in common, "I don't see that we have a choice. I'll go first, please cover me."

Kallak then walks with a measured, deliberate pace past the robot. He still has not drawn a weapon, but is prepared to defend himself if the robot moves or attacks.

Edit: Yarro, standing next to Thony in the first doorway, puts her access card away in her pouch and gets ready to mix a bomb, if necessary.

[Sleepy Shade]

Kallak walks past the robot it watches him but does nothing else. The northern wall of this otherwise empty metal room is a tangle of what look to have once been strange cages of some sort. Tangled amid the metal ribs of these cages are ribs of a more Organic nature—the ancient bones of some sort of alien creatures.
Smaller mounds of rubble lie against the opposite wall.
It looks like previous groups have cleared a path to the door but little else.

If you want to search any of the rubble: Perception Dc 20
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[u-b]

Observing that the robot has no immediate objections to Kallak just moving past it, Thony decides to do the same. But first, he asks the robot a question: "Say, robot, can you inform us about other guests present in the area? We have reason to believe some of them might be in danger."

Getting whatever answer the robot is willing to give, Thony then proceeds to search the room while Sarina, who follows him there, scans it for magic.

[Sleepy Shade]

The robot repeats it's lines when Thony asks the question "Warning to all Staff and guests the immediate area is in heavy disrepair. You are asked to vacate the area and to not interfere with repairs. Failure to heed will result in possible injury and security will be initiated. Repairs to be completed in 9999999999 years. Thank you"

As Thony proceeds to start looking around the junk a pile of scrap slides off one of the destroyed cages tumbling to the ground and making a loud clanging sound. This is apparently enough for the robot to start moving towards Thony. The robot fires a Net at Thony but he manages to dodge out of the way

No more talk it's time to fight!
Your in a battle!

Spoiler: Imitative order

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1. Robot 17
2. Sarina 15
3. Yarro 14
4. Thony 13
5. Kallak 7

Map here

[u-b]

Sarina gets ready to cast grease under the robot as soon as Kallak is to attack it. She's willing to step away from the robot to get some range. Thony is also willing to get some range, but he shoots right away. He then quickly reloads with a paper cartridge.

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Grease: ref DC 17 or fall prone.

[Continental Op]

Yarro quickly mixes and tosses a bomb at the robot, trying to hit it squarely in the back. The bomb is Yarro's special mix, designed to damage the mteal and circuitry that makes up most constructs.

Kallak, cursing his slow reactions, unsheathes his greatsword and closes with the robot. "You are creating more damage, not repairing it, you stupid bot," he mutters, as he swings for its voicebox.

[Sleepy Shade]

Yarro is the first to go and hits the robot in the back with her acid bomb and melts a considerable chunk of the robots back side. Thony takes aim and fires off a shot hitting the arm of the robot. Sarina then fires of a grease spell sending the robot tumbling to the ground. Kallak goes next trying to finish off the mech he expertly navigates the grease area Sarina put down and lands a solid hit almost severing the robot. The robot is not done however. It tries to stand up and hit Kallak with one of it claws.

Kallak gets a attack of opportunity vs the robot while it stands.
If you do 5 or more damage it's dead if not it attacks you dealing 7 damage.

Spoiler: New imitative

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1. Robot
2. Yarro
3. Thony
4. Sarina
5. Kallak

Map here

[Continental Op]

Kallak tries to hit the robot while it stands up, but he looses his footing in the grease and the blade swings wide.

Yarro sees the robot attack Kallak, and she responds with another bomb at its back.

[Sleepy Shade]

The bomb doesn't hit the bot but enough of the caustic juice gets on it that the Bot's eye powers off and it stops moving. The bot is destroyed.

Combat over every one get's 150 Xp
You can still search the room and you can loot the robot for stuff if you want to.
Loot from the robot :5 polymer mesh nets

[Continental Op]

Kallak gingerly sheaths his greatsword and winces. "We should see if we can use any parts off the robot. I'll look in this trash heap over here."

Yarro shakes her head. "First we need to heal you. It's why we bought this wand, right? Which was an excellent idea." She directs the last comment to Thony, as she uses the wand of Cure Light Wounds on Kallak.

Once she is done, Yarro searches the robot and Kallak searches one of the piles in the room.

[Sleepy Shade]

Yarro doesn't find much on the robot just a few polymer nets. Most of the circuitry has been melted or destroyed from their attacks.
Kallak on the other hand finds some items that the other groups missed in the rubble near the blocked door. You find what looks to be a set of blacksmith tongs, two batteries and what looks like some sort of tool.
Yarro know the Blacksmith tongs are Grippers
Identify the Tool:( Know: Engineering DC24)

Spoiler: Grippers

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Price 100 gp; Slot none; Weight 5 lbs.; Capacity —; Usage —

DESCRIPTION
Grippers are powerful, long-handled tools that resemble a blacksmith’s tongs. Once they’re set, they can be locked into place to grip an object. Used when attempting to pry open a stuck object (in a manner similar to the use of a crowbar), grippers grant a +2 circumstance bonus on Strength checks. When used to attach two devices, a set of grippers holds on with an effective Strength score of 24. Applying grippers to a creature and then locking the grippers to crush flesh and bone is a standard action that provokes an attack of opportunity and also requires a successful melee attack with an improvised weapon. Once locked, the grippers deal 1d4+7 points of damage.

[Continental Op]

Kallak shows the group what he found. Yarro says, "That large tool is called grippers. It has a very strong grip when set, and can be used to keep two things together, for example." She hands the grippers back to Kallak and looks at the other tool, but does not know what it is. Kallak lets her keep it, along with the two silver discs, and stwows the grippers in his own backpack.

"Well, shall we proceed? Down this passage here?" Kallak asks the group, pointing south.

[u-b]

"I think so. Just... do we want to make sure it does not get better and spring back at us like the first one did?"

Thony is not quite sure if something has to be done about the robot, but Sarina decides not to take any chances. She shoots a dozen globs of acid at the motionless thing and sees if they have an effect.

[Sleepy Shade]

Sarina fires a few globs of acid and now the robot is more a hunk of junk than it was a minute ago. The entrance to the south is blocked with rubble but if you spent a few hours it could be cleared but nothing indicates other groups went that route. The entrance to the east is closed but from scratches and dents on the surface it's been forced open a few times.
Also you see that the creatures in the cages seemed to be some six limbed creatures.
Identify the creatures: DC 14 Know: nature
To open the door: DC 25 Strength check

[u-b]

Having estimated the effort required to remove rubbe, Thony turns to the door and the surroundings thereof. Is there something where a key card could be applied? How exactly it opens (push, pull, slide or otherwise; any visible locking mechanism or hinges)?

[Sleepy Shade]

The door is made up of two halves and you guess that before they would slide apart to open and close. A card scanner is next to the door on the left but as you swipe the brown card over it it doesn't respond their appears to be no power in this part of the complex so forcing the door open seems to be the only option.

[Continental Op]

Yarro examines the creatures remains in the cages. Kallak also glances at the cages, but has no idea so he moves on.

Kallak then takes out the gripper and looks to the door to the east, trying to figure out if the tool can help open it. "Thony, want to try to help open these doors?"

Spoiler: Edit: OOC

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Even with the grippers and Thony and Kallak working together, we may need to take 20 to get the doors open.

[Sleepy Shade]

Yarro recognizes the bodies as a Pilo. Pilo are strange carnivorous marsupials that look more like large insects than mammals They are often called Tumble Spikes. They are aggressive to the point even most predators leave them alone. They are also covered in sharp poisonous spines and can roll into a ball like an armadillo. The bones however are ancient even moving a few to get a better look causes the remains to shatter into dust.
If you take twenty to open the door it takes twenty minuets. The room beyond the door opens inside their seems to be two strange machines sit to the north and south against the walls here, their faces appear similar to coils of metal tubes with several nozzle-like protrusions pointing into the room itself. however like the rest of the complex you have seen they are unpowered the door to the west is open forced like the previous door. The door seems to lead into a more natural environment you can se rock walls and a sandy floor.
You take about 10 minuets to rest after forcing the door open to collect your selves.
The time is 1:05 you have 5 hours of water breathing left.
Everyone gets 50 Xp level up.

Map here

[u-b]

Thony does not quite like to be pointed at by those nozzle-like protrusions. He stops in the doorway leading to the room with the machines and takes a good look inside. If there are no obvious sensors, triggers and suchlike, he will walk past the room with the machines and through the doorway leading to the sandy floor area, where he will sneak to the end of the narrow passage and take a good look at the area beyond.

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I've leveled up both Sarina and Thony. Sarina got a new spell known, which, I think, applies right away, and one spell slot, which, I think, applies in the morning. Also bunch of skills, hitpoints, etc.

[Sleepy Shade]

Thony spies two panels on the inside of the room next to the doors one on his side the other on the opposite wall. Other than that no obvious switches and the floor is smooth. the machines he's not sure about but he can guess that the nozzles on them were meant to spray something into the room. Moving out of the room you see that it is a narrow cavern looking back the the obvious metal doors stand out against the natural looking rock. You move to the mouth of the cavern but suddenly you have trouble moving as if the ground was covered in glue. Suddenly from the rocks to your left two large tentacles come out whipping the air nearly hitting you.
Thony is entangled
Your in a fight!
Map Here

Spoiler: initiative

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1. Thony
2. Sarina
3. Yarro
4. Monster
5. Kallak

[u-b]

Thony tries to move outside of the sticky area. Successful or not, he then shoots at the attacker, whatever that is. Hearing the shot, Sarina comes quick to Thony's side, leaving some space between her and the monster and readies a spell.

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Seeing that Thony is nore then 5 feet into the glue, I will assume he can move at half speed. If not he will remain stationary, but shoot at the thing anyway.

Thony's desired position is two squares south of his starting position. Sarina's is one square to south-west from that. If Thony is there with her, Sarina readies Color Spray DC 17 to cast as soon as the monster is within its range. Otherwise, it's Acid Splash to cast as soon as it tries to do anything other than retreat.

[Continental Op]

Yarro follows Sarina, getting out her crossbow as she moves up. Seeing the large tentacled creature, she fires a bolt at it.

Spoiler: OOC

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She will move 30' up, behind Sarina so I assume the creature has partial cover. I will wait on Kallak, sine he goes after the creature.

[Sleepy Shade]

Thony senses it's best to get out of the area and tries to tumble out of the monsters range but the monster's tentacles are too fast and slam into Thony. Safely out out of the monsters reach but still close Thony fires his musket taking a chunk or rock and tentacles out of the creature it roars in pain from the blow The monsters secreations continue to impare Thony. Sarina and Yarro are the first to arrive Sarina prepares to hit the beast with a color spray and Yarro fires at the creature hitting one of the tentacles. The monster lumbers forth it's tentacles dragging its bulk forward. Sarina fires her color spray but the creature shrugs it off. The ground under Sarina and Thony grows sticky. The creature attacks Thony not wanting to give up the first prey it's seen in a long time. One of the tentacles hit. The

AoO on thony hits damage 6 Thony is entangled for 3 rounds
Thony hit's the monster for 10 damage
Yarro hit's the monster for 3 damage
The monster makes it's save vs Sarina's color spray
The monster hit's thony for 6 damage
Thony and Sarina make a fortitude check vs dc 14 or become entangled sarina for 6 rounds, Thony must make the check or become helpless for 2 rounds. The glue can be destroyed
Map Here
Info about the monster : Know Dungeoneering Dc 14

[Continental Op]

Kallak runs up next to Yarro, surprised at the sight of this weird creature. He takes his bow and fires an arrow over the head of Sarina at the creature.

[u-b]

Not sure why her spell did not work and even less sure whether a second try would be good or a waste of time, Sarina decides to try something else. She points a hand at the creature, with finders outstretched. A cone of searing flame shoots from her fingertips and engulfs the monster.

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Thony is helpless, I believe. If not, he just defends himself.

[Continental Op]

If the creature is still standing, Yarro quickly mixes a bomb and lobs it to land on top of the creature (not on its front - she does not want Thony to get hit with any of the splash).

[Sleepy Shade]

Kallak let's loose and arrow hitting the creatures tentacles causing it to screech in pain. The creature looks like it has sustained a lot of damage from both the gunshot and the crossbow bolts.Thony rendered helpless from the creatures strange slime covering him and making movement impossible suddenly feels small tentacles from below start burrowing into his skin and flesh. Sarina readies her fire spell fighting through the goo enough and dodging the monster's strike to send the wave of flame at the creature, but the monster's slime extinguish any flames that hit it and the flames only hit the stony carapace of the creature. Sarina also starts to feel the small tentacles reach up from the ground and start burrowing into her legs. Yarro initially tries to think of what this creature is but draws a blank. Yarro quickly mixes a bomb and hurls it at the creature right into the wound Thony created the bomb bursts and fills the monsters stony shell with acid. The creature dosn't even have time to howl in pain as it's body is liquified.
Kallak hits the monster for 3 damage
Thony is drained of blood he takes 1 bleed damage
Sarina succesfully attacks the creature but the fire damage is negated. She takes 1 bleed damage.
Yarro hit's the creature for 16 damage!
You win!
Eveyone gets 150XP

[Continental Op]

Kallak exclaims, "Desna's luck, that was a great throw, Yarro!" He keeps his bow ready, scanning the liquefied creature and what he can see of the cavern for movement. "Thony, Sarina, do either of you need help?"

Yarro nods, slings her crossbow over her back, and pulls out an extract. "I have some healing here." She eyes the sticky ground before approaching any closer.

[u-b]

"Yes! Yes! I think he's barely alive!" Says Sarina doing her best to get Thony out of the glue and somewhere to lie down. Thony looks sort of pale indeed. "To tell the truth, I would have expected the path to be better cleared, what with two previous groups, repair robots and stuff. That said, I was looking. Oh, my!" Thony gets down onto the normal sand somewhere "safe" (as far as this place goes) and is ready to receive some magical healing.

[Continental Op]

Yarro hands Thony her extract. She then pulls out the wand, ready to use it if Thony needs more healing.

Spoiler: OOC

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Thony recovers only 3 HP from it. UB, if (as I expect) Thony needs more healing, go ahead and roll for the wand.

While Kallak continues to scan their surroundings, he asks, "Does anyone know what that creature was?"

Yarro shakes her head, "No. I need to study more about these subterranean creatures."