Kraig shines his light through the doors, sweeping the beam around whatever lies inside.
As Kraig shines his light around, Nyssa tries to peer into the murky interior. her Suli-eyes see very well in the dark, but she doesn't bother to mention that fact.
Kraig peers through with his light.
The air is unnaturally cold in this empty atrium. Metal doorways yawn to the north and south, and the slanted floor is strewn with strange bits of rubble and twisted lengths of metal. The ceiling is badly damaged here, its gray metal shells shattered in numerous places, exposing coils of rusty, mold-covered cables and wires.
"Well, let's see what the entry way is like. I can see well enough in the dark."
Čemifobbar will draw his Falchion and then walk in to the entrance, warily.
Kraig steps gingerly into the craft. "Careful guys, this looks like a smaller version of that nest we were at yesterday. Watch out for baby...what was that thing called again? Steve. I think it said its name was Steve."
"Steve? That's a strange name! says Čemifobbar
Kharamell also has darkvision. "I will go in with Cemifobbar. He should not go in alone." Cast Mage Armor.
We should not split
Valt has no darkvision, so he lets Iophiel enter first, and take a look, while casting a protective force field on her.
Then, before going in himself, Valt will cast a light spell on a pebble.
You move further into the building and find a hallway. There are three doors, open to the north, south and east.
"I think we're all going in..."
Nyssa waits until everyone looks ready, and opens the door to the north.
To the north:
The northeastern wall of this blasted chamber was obviously super-heated at some point, for here and there, the walls ran wax-like, forming slag that cooled into puddles of steel all along the floor. Debris litters the floor-it might once have been tech of great value but now is mere scraps of unsalvageable, half melted junk.
To the east:
The eastern half of this room is a tangle of gray metal, strange engine parts, and rubble, all of which was subjected to great heat long ago, judging by the metal’s melted and scorched surfaces. Here and there, softly glowing residues are caked onto bits and pieces of the metal.
To the south:
The air in this compartment is choking and stale. The dust here is inches thick-nothing has disturbed this area in years. To the west, the wall is partially crushed and melted, leaving a five foot-wide, two-foot-tall gap that opens into another chamber beyond. Four large coffin-shaped objects made of glass and metal sit against the walls-one to the north and three to the south.
The northern pod and the central southern pod are partially broken. Each contains a skeleton clad in fragments of strange, bulky armor. The other two southern pods appear to be only slightly damaged. The air is thick with a rancid scent, like old meat gone bad.
Kraig looks around the northern room. "Dragons melted these walls. Damn dragons. Always destroying things." If this room provides nothing else, he moves around to check the other room. When he gets to the southern room he notes "More tube people. Be wary of cannibals."
"Or worse.' Nyssa grumbles.
Drawing her sword, Nyssa keeps watch while Kraig rummages through the rooms. The lesson of canisters disgorging angry people is not so soon forgotten by Nyssa. The carrion stench reminds her of Marrow's undead drill-slingers as well.
Kharamell's curiosity gets the better of him and he moves into the pod room. He surveys the area to make sure there is no immediate threat.
Kraig finds 43 silverdisks, a timeworn large gun with a barrel (heavy weapon) (14 charges), three grenades with white stars, a timeworn pod-shaped device (18 charges), a timeworn bright red cylinder (6 inches by 2 feet) (3 charges), a timeworn egg-shaped device (2 charges), and 3 charges of neon green clay.
There is a passageway to the west of the room with the tubes.
The two creatures in the pods are wearing strange heavy armor that covers most of their bodies.
Valt, feeling curious about the pod shaped device that Kraig found, tries to examine it to determine its fuction.
I wonder what is this for?
Meanwhile, Iophiel looks around, to avoid the group to be taken by surprise.
Take 10 on Knowledge: Engineering (25 total) and Healing (13 total) to figure out what this stuff is.
"Well I'm not carrying this stuff." Kraig nudges the two-foot cylinder with his foot. "We can leave these guys to watch it. They're not going anywhere."
Valt doesn't know what the pod is, but it seems familiar for some reason. This item along with the egg and cylinder have buttons on them.
Iophiel doesn't see anything other than what is visible.
Kharamell takes time to figure out the items.
potions of cure moderate wounds
pod is an emergency beacon
cylinder is an emergency raft
egg creates something...
clay are some kind of explosive?
gun is some kind of heavy weaponry
grenades are concussion grenades
Nyssa waits patiently for Kharamell to identify the new stuff. When he is done at last, she looks into the west passageway.
Using his darkvision, Čemifobbar will keep his falchion drawn and look into the room to the North (P2) and then the East (P3).
Kraig picks up the "heavy weapon". "This looks like it could do some damage. Kharamell! What is this thing?"
Kharamell pauses a moment before responding to Kraig. He then pulls out his pistol to show. "It is to this what a greatsword is to a dagger."
Nyssa glances into the room and sees several chairs and blinking lights, arranged in a strange pattern. She can't see anymore without getting closer.
Nothing happens to Cemifobbar as he checks out the rooms.
Nyssa moves into the room trying to make sense of the lights, and whatever else there may be.
"This isn't very interesting. So far."
Čemifobbar will follow behind Nyssa to see if he can see anything interesting in the room in front of her. Falchion at the ready, of course.
Keep alert, Cem. Something will happen, you can count on it
Alexis casts light on her drawn rapier, in case of need. She looks at the lights as well.
"I prefer dull to deadly, my friend."
GM Demonmoose, is the emergency beacon active?
As Nyssa, Cemifobbar and Alexis enter the room, they see:
A massive black window, spider webbed with hundreds of cracks, graces the western wall of this chamber, half-buried under rubble and twisted metal. Curved consoles of strange controls line the walls, with three chairs made of an unidentifiable off-white material facing them. A figure dressed in red fabric of an unusually fine weave sits slumped over the console in the western most chair.
Suddenly, everyone in the building sees a vision.
You are on a flying ship hurtling through the sky towards the ground. Lights blink and flash, and a sense of vertigo assails you. Gravity is wrong as you are pulled upward, people are screaming, you hear explosions.
Then the ship slams into the ground, and you are back in your bodies.
A sound file plays through the building, "This is the final report of salvage module Chrysalis, Captain Yurian Valako reporting. Divinity is lost; the rest of the ship’s crew is presumed dead or worse. The surviving crew of Chrysalis and I are boarding a launch and will attempt an emergency landing but without AI control, the prospects of a safe landing are minimal. I've secured an inhibitor facet-if I can install it into the Unity interface, it should disable the AI’s security long enough for us to reclaim control and perhaps even signal for help from home. I'm boarding the launch now, and will append further reports after our successful landing."
"Perhaps that is why it is considered to be haunted."
Nyssa looks around, uneasy. "That was..." Nyssa's voice trails off as she tries to make sense of the vision and the strange disembodied voice.
"Doesn't explain the fog, nor the feeling of malice that this place seems to have."
Half expecting the red garbed figure to come alive, Nyssa moves closer to have a look.
Tess shakes her head. "Of course people would think it's haunted." Tess gives Nyssa a hand, scanning the figure with detect magic.
Čemifobbar will follow Nyssa to look at the figure in Red. And expecting trouble. Falchion drawn. As usual.
"That was … interesting! I wonder if there were any survivors? If so, maybe ancestors of people around here? If not, that would indeed explain why this area is haunted."
Kharamell prepares the laser rifle in case of trouble.
The vision had a strange effect on Valt, he looks dazed and out of himself, while his eidolon, Iophiel, blinks in an out of existence. The man puts his hands on his head and is barely able to stay stand.
A wave of negative energy fills the building, malevolent and oppressive.
A mass of shadow, a dark ghostly shape with two flickering pinpoints of light for eyes, rises from the slumped body in the chair.
The two bodies encased in the tubes and armor suddenly burst free of the pods, bodies melting and revealing skeletal remains. The undead move towards Kraig and Kharamell.
Alexis, Valt and Iophiel see something invisible stir the air of the hallway. An orb with a skull face appears for a moment, before disappearing, though likely not leaving.
1. Valt, Tessara, Kraig, Kharamell, Cemifobbar, Iophiel
2. Enemies
3. Alexis, Nyssa
Tess goes pale at the sudden onslaught of undead. She whispers a spell.
Čemifobbar passes his +1 Battleaxe to Nyssa. "You'll need this, I'll wager!".
He'll step back slightly so she can get past him, since he's taking up the doorway behind her. He quietly casts a Shield spell to ready himself for the new threat.
"We are not helpless!" he hisses at the undead rising from the chair.
Kraig looks around, dazed by the vision. It was similar to the one that plant-thing induced on them under Torch. There must be another one nearby. He wakes from his stupor by the sounds of shambling and broken glass. The pod people have risen. "Demons! I trusted you to guard our things and you stab me in the back. Looks like it's just me and you, Kharamell. Give me a moment to gather myself, and we'll teach these creatures the price of their treachery. I'll hold them down and you shoot them, huh?" Kraig is glad he doesn't need his hands to fight. He wouldn't want to fight in the dark. He steps back from the monsters to get a brief moment to clear his head, and feels his wounds from the previous day heal a bit more. Weird. Kharamell must be a cleric.
Alexis looks at the undead and says, well that would be the ghost
In her action, alexis starts to sing a song of defience against darkness and the unknown.
(+2 to hit and damage to the party)
Kharamell unleashes a fan of flames against the undead.
DC 16 for half damage
Suddenly, when the threat arises, Valt gets back to himself, and Iophiel finally stops blinking. Then, both of them move to the other room.
Finally, Valt positions himself in one of the corners, and starts casting a spell, while Iophiel engages the nearest undead.
Valt casts Haste to Alexis, Iophiel, Kharamell, Kraig and himself.
Kraig, Tessara, Cemifobbar, Valt and Alexis boost themselves each each other with magic.
Kharamell's flames burn the skeletal creatures. Their pale bones and broken metal armor blackens.
Iophiel and Valt move into the room past the invisible orb and the eidolon strikes at the skeleton. Iophiel's greatsword breaks through its bones and severs its arm. The skeleton immediately falls and crumbles, blue eyes winking out.
A distortion of air moves into the room where Kraig, Kharamell, Iophiel and Valt, and electricity arcs towards the summoner. The remaining skeleton moves up to Kraig and scratches him with a claw. The brawler's quick movements and armor saves him. The human ghost of darkness reaches through Nyssa's armor and touches her with a numbing energy as it siphons her life force.
negative energy
Tessara draws out her blunt arrows, then her invisibility drops as she fires two of them into skeletons.
Alexis steps up, still singing, rapier in one hand, and draws a wand with the second. She aims it at the spook in front of her.
She attempts to activate it
The wand hums with heat and power
touch attack
Nyssa scabbards her sword, to fight with Čemifobbar's battle axe. She moves to the side, letting elemental fire flow into the axe, as her eyes light with flame.
With a two-handed grip, and buoyed up by Alexis' song, Nyssa hacks at the dark ghost.
