[2025/07/28 14:26] Sapphire: /me sips water. "Alright, let's get this going again."
[2025/07/28 14:26] Sapphire: --------
[2025/07/28 14:26] Sapphire: Logs from last session: http://81.133.27.194/Dungeons&Kittens/logs-2025shr/20250721.html
[2025/07/28 14:29] Sapphire: Last time you delved into the Lake Spire, your various wounds and streses wrapped in thin bandages, and discovered a security room in the front of the structure, with hidden passages for defenders to move around in. You had needles shot at you, and Robin managed to sneak their way up through an access hatch into the defense passageways, chasing down your assailant: a tentacle cluster bearing several different weapons and spookily humanoid eyeballs quavering in panic as they are beset upon by enemies on all sides.
[2025/07/28 14:30] Mecha: Is Robin still invisible?
[2025/07/28 14:31] Sapphire: Yes
[2025/07/28 14:31] Sapphire: At least, your Vanish power still has duration remaining
[2025/07/28 14:32] Mecha: Robin sneaks in and moves to the jello mold.If we wanted you dead, you would be now hear us out. we come in peace
[2025/07/28 14:34] Mecha: She is pressed in close, even with tendrils it's gonna have a hard shot to make
[2025/07/28 14:34] Sapphire: "I'm not falling for that one again!" They unfurl and start squidding their way around the structure and firing another burst of needles int he loose direction of Robin's position. Roll Speed Defense higher than 3.
[2025/07/28 14:35] Sapphire: (or if you spend effort don't even have to roll)
[2025/07/28 14:35] Sonja Bikergrrl: Novaya: "Wait, wait! You haven't fallen for it the first time yet!"
[2025/07/28 14:35] D20: Mecha rolls 11
[2025/07/28 14:37] Mecha: "There is nothing to fall for."You can't see me, it would have been easy but I am still trying to talk to you."
[2025/07/28 14:37] Mecha: For all you know I am throwing my voice
[2025/07/28 14:38] Sonja Bikergrrl: Novaya: "For all you know, you're imagining this whole thing."
[2025/07/28 14:38] Sapphire: The needles dig into the wall perhaps two armlengths away from you. "Aaaah!" They don't fire needles this time, but seem to be clacking metal contains together, possibly unscrewing something.
[2025/07/28 14:39] Mecha: okay what will it take to prove we're not here to attack you?
[2025/07/28 14:40] Sonja Bikergrrl: Novaya: "I ain't attacking anyone..."
[2025/07/28 14:40] Sapphire: "Leave the doors open so I can get away!" They call back.
[2025/07/28 14:41] Mecha: okay. How do I do that? Is there a button to push or something?
[2025/07/28 14:41] Sonja Bikergrrl: Novaya: "Can we at least talk before you go? You just shot me, it's the least you could do."
[2025/07/28 14:45] Sapphire: "And you shot me! Fair is fair!" They call back, moving towards the access hatch Robin snuck in through, holding up.... it looks like thermos festooned with tiny nozzles. "Let me go, I'm warning you!"
[2025/07/28 14:45] Sonja Bikergrrl: Novaya: "Hang on, hang on, hang on! YOU shot us first. How was that fair?"
[2025/07/28 14:45] Mecha: okay, go on you go through there and pick a door. if you are capable of opening it bon voyage
[2025/07/28 14:46] Mecha: Robin: IS this really the conversation we want to have or do we want to get through this easier?
[2025/07/28 14:47] Sonja Bikergrrl: Novaya: "Well, the EASY conversation is Hi, I'm Novaya, followed by Hi, I'm...."
[2025/07/28 14:48] Mecha: Well we passed that point now we can make this the easy end if we lett whatever their name is leave.
[2025/07/28 14:48] Sapphire: "Don't confuse me!" They shout back, rattling the themos menacingly, several of their tentacle arms working the hatch, eyeballs scanning frantically around the room. "You'll never take Tho'lok'ol'namis alive!"
[2025/07/28 14:48] Sonja Bikergrrl: Novaya: "Oh come now, they can still tell us their name."
[2025/07/28 14:49] Sonja Bikergrrl: Novaya: "Hey, that's a mouthful for me, can I just call you Tho?"
[2025/07/28 14:49] Mecha: Robin pauses."Tho'lok'ol'namis?" She says it slowly."You're free to go, just no shooting or whatever you plan on doing with that thermos thing
[2025/07/28 14:49] Sapphire: ....roll Intellect (Social Interaction)
[2025/07/28 14:50] Sonja Bikergrrl: moi?
[2025/07/28 14:50] D20: Mecha rolls 11
[2025/07/28 14:50] Sapphire: Novaya also
[2025/07/28 14:50] D20: Sonja Bikergrrl rolls 14
[2025/07/28 14:50] Sonja Bikergrrl: a 14 is good?
[2025/07/28 14:51] Mecha: This one thinks rolling high is a positive
[2025/07/28 14:52] Sapphire: They slip through the hatch and pause at that question, tentacles squirming and brandishing a mix of needlers and disk spitters as well. "...sure. If that makes you happy, Novaya-machine, may we not have to meet again." Before they start squirming their way towards the door to the lake.
[2025/07/28 14:53] Sonja Bikergrrl: Novaya: "hey! That was rude! And we just got onto first name terms! Well, fine, I won't tell you the message i came to bring you, then."
[2025/07/28 14:53] Mecha: As soon as they are gone Robin collapses against the farthest wall
[2025/07/28 14:54] Sapphire: They're halfway through the door, and slow down, before suddenly squishing themself against the wall to put the door frame between themselves and you two. "What message? Don't... no lies!"
[2025/07/28 14:55] Sonja Bikergrrl: Novaya: "The message. No lies. But I'm not sure I should tell it to you, so, I'll need you to confirm your identity. Like, why were you hiding in there shooting people?"
[2025/07/28 14:56] Mecha: While they talk Robin looks over things in the room but not touching anything
[2025/07/28 15:00] Sapphire: "Defending myself! From your kind!" They shout back, brandishing the thermos-thing again.
[2025/07/28 15:00] Sapphire: Robin can see the wall is mostly the black stone and a few glowing lines, perhaps energy conduits, and a few hallways deeper into the complex, each of them taking a clockwise turn at a downwards angle.
[2025/07/28 15:01] Mecha: Hey, when you're done with whatever this is I found some things
[2025/07/28 15:01] Sonja Bikergrrl: Novaya: "Okay, that's the right answer, but, it's two factor authentication, anyone could know that. You'll get the advice i bring soon enough, but, what exactly -is- my kind?"
[2025/07/28 15:05] Sapphire: There's a long moment of quiet to that question, before a response with an acerberic tone, "Crazy murderbots, invasive world eaters, can't even remember who they are," replies the unearthly mass of tentacles.
[2025/07/28 15:06] Mecha: Wait, we're not murder bots... as far as I know. I know I have no desire to eat the world
[2025/07/28 15:07] Sonja Bikergrrl: Novaya: "Hey, I get it, you know? I only woke up a few days ago and literally everyone has been trying to eat me or shoot me. Wouldn't it be nice, Tho, if we could just... I don't know... not do that? Be friends? What would you say to that?"
[2025/07/28 15:09] Sapphire: "....can't be, they're trying to trick me, stalling for time while they surround me again...."
[2025/07/28 15:10] Mecha: For fucks sake there are only two of us you paranoid whatever you are. We couldn't surround you if we tried! *Robin tries to draw out the stuff she sees
[2025/07/28 15:10] Sonja Bikergrrl: Novaya: "Think about it. What if it could be? Think of all the things the three of us could achieve together. No more being alone. You'd have company."
[2025/07/28 15:11] Sapphire: Intellect (Social) against 15 to talk them into it
[2025/07/28 15:11] D20: Sonja Bikergrrl rolls 8
[2025/07/28 15:11] Sonja Bikergrrl: an 8 \o/
[2025/07/28 15:13] Sapphire: Rather than an answer, there's the soft squishing sound of their movement up the stairs, followed by a startled "AAAH!" and the rapid firing of several needlers into something. "I knew it! You'll never take Tho'lok'ol'namis alive!" followed by a few more blasts before they make good their escape.
[2025/07/28 15:14] Sonja Bikergrrl: Novaya: "Wait, wait! You didn't get the message!"
[2025/07/28 15:15] Mecha: Are there doors to the room besides the hatch?
[2025/07/28 15:16] Sapphire: The center of the room has one door out and three hallways deeper in, plus the hatch to the security cage that Robin is in
[2025/07/28 15:16] Mecha: that's what this one meant the security cage. is the hatch the only way in or out?
[2025/07/28 15:16] Sapphire: What are your Pools at?
[2025/07/28 15:16] Sonja Bikergrrl: I got Intel 12
[2025/07/28 15:17] Sapphire: Might and Speed at 0 for ya, Novay, last I recall?
[2025/07/28 15:17] Mecha: intel is sitting at 9
[2025/07/28 15:17] Sonja Bikergrrl: MMhmm
[2025/07/28 15:17] Mecha: speed is 3 and might has not been used so 12
[2025/07/28 15:18] Sapphire: Silence returns, followed by the distant hum of energized devices below and the ripple of water along the floor. Robin, your search locates a thin seam in the wall that looks like it could be a door or hatch, but appears sealed from your side.
[2025/07/28 15:19] Sonja Bikergrrl: Novaya: "Oi! Tho! Remember - where ever you go, you'll be there!"
[2025/07/28 15:19] Sonja Bikergrrl: /me shrugs. "Jerk."
[2025/07/28 15:19] Mecha: then just going through the upper hatch and out."Hey, do you think we sleep? I dont remember us doing that and I am getting worn out."
[2025/07/28 15:20] Sonja Bikergrrl: Novaya: "Sure. You sleep first, then me."
[2025/07/28 15:20] Mecha: Yeahhh how about we find a safer place for sleep first?
[2025/07/28 15:21] Sonja Bikergrrl: Novaya: "I thought you'd found somewhere."
[2025/07/28 15:22] Mecha: I found some things but it is a path mainly not sure what is in them. I mean we could rest here but is the paranoid slime is any indication I'm not sure how that will go.
[2025/07/28 15:22] Sonja Bikergrrl: We got any weapons.... guns of any kind?
[2025/07/28 15:24] Mecha: I think we still have the stuff fromn the ship, but not sure about guns.
[2025/07/28 15:24] Sonja Bikergrrl: Novaya: "How about out on the shore."
[2025/07/28 15:25] Mecha: you mean like head back outside? Wasn't there a beastie that wanted to hurt us out there?
[2025/07/28 15:26] Sonja Bikergrrl: Novaya: "Well, just inside the forcefield sphere."
[2025/07/28 15:26] Mecha: Sure, why not. I'm kinda feeling at the end of my rope and rather grumpy about it
[2025/07/28 15:27] Sonja Bikergrrl: Novaya: "If anyone can tell. Let's go, then."
[2025/07/28 15:27] Mecha: Robin sticks out her tongue and then follows Novaya
[2025/07/28 15:27] Sapphire: Indeed, your bodies feel cracked and and generating a a stream of warnings that scroll along the sides of your huds from the accumulated stress and damage.
[2025/07/28 15:27] Sapphire: Heading back up the stairs?
[2025/07/28 15:27] Sonja Bikergrrl: /me was going to follow Robin :P
[2025/07/28 15:28] Sonja Bikergrrl: out to the inside of the force field
[2025/07/28 15:30] Mecha: /me nods
[2025/07/28 15:30] Sapphire: AS you head up the stairs you pass by the remains of the broken down serpant guardian, now fresly full of needles along it's frame, and two of the arm cannons pulled off it's body. One remains, currently leaking some sort of green gel.
[2025/07/28 15:31] Sapphire: As well, Novaya, the machine control implant you installed early tickles faintly as you pass it, the one on the serpents head glinting in your vision.
[2025/07/28 15:31] Sonja Bikergrrl: while Mecha rests, maybe I can try and "liberate" one of those
[2025/07/28 15:31] Sonja Bikergrrl: They can connect together?
[2025/07/28 15:33] Sapphire: That would be an Understanding Numenera test, in this case against 9
[2025/07/28 15:33] D20: Sonja Bikergrrl rolls 13
[2025/07/28 15:33] Sapphire: as a Nano you probably are skilled in that
[2025/07/28 15:33] Sonja Bikergrrl: \o/ 13
[2025/07/28 15:35] Sapphire: It'll take you an hour with your tools, but you can dismantle the cannon enough to get something that can probably fire once, or use it in a proper construction with additional materials. As well, you realize that by extracting the brain-computer of the robot, you can make that into a Focus Core with the help of the medical bays back on your obelisk. In this case, a
[Commands Machines] focus.
[2025/07/28 15:36] Sonja Bikergrrl: well... let's take that apart for a start.. and extract that thing. Seems we need that
[2025/07/28 15:37] Mecha: meanwhile Robin is making sure it is safe and then getting some sleep
[2025/07/28 15:37] Sapphire: Please roll a D6 while I look something up
[2025/07/28 15:37] D6: Sonja Bikergrrl rolls 6
[2025/07/28 15:37] Sonja Bikergrrl: \o/ 6!
[2025/07/28 15:37] Sapphire: o.o
[2025/07/28 15:37] Sonja Bikergrrl: what?
[2025/07/28 15:38] Sonja Bikergrrl: you said roll a D6!
[2025/07/28 15:39] Sapphire: yeah, iwasn't expecting you to max roll on the "how good of a cipher do you recover" roll :D
[2025/07/28 15:39] Sonja Bikergrrl: yeah? Well. Expect the unexpected, when your Mistress has a die in her hand
[2025/07/28 15:39] Sonja Bikergrrl: I mean
[2025/07/28 15:39] Sonja Bikergrrl: yeah? Well. Expect the unexpected, when Sonja has a die in her hand
[2025/07/28 15:39] Sonja Bikergrrl: :P
[2025/07/28 15:42] Sapphire: Salvaged Plasma Cannon Core
[2025/07/28 15:42] Sapphire: - As Per Ray Emitter VIII
[2025/07/28 15:42] Sapphire: - Wearable arm cannon
[2025/07/28 15:42] Sapphire: - Deals it's level in damage (plasma) to a target at long range.
[2025/07/28 15:42] Sapphire: - Single Use
[2025/07/28 15:43] Sonja Bikergrrl: I'll get a bang out of that
[2025/07/28 15:45] Sapphire: may want to add that and the
[Talks To Machines] Focus core (I'd recalled the name wrong) to your inventory
[2025/07/28 15:45] Sonja Bikergrrl: already done
[2025/07/28 15:45] Sonja Bikergrrl: efficient Sonja is efficient
[2025/07/28 15:46] Sapphire: And you guys are planning to sleep, which means working through each of your remaining recovery rolls up to the ten hour one
[2025/07/28 15:46] Sapphire: anyone have a bonus to recovery rolls?
[2025/07/28 15:46] Sonja Bikergrrl: Yyyyyyyyyeeeeeeeeeeeee.....
[2025/07/28 15:46] Mecha: Nope, not that this one can see
[2025/07/28 15:46] Sonja Bikergrrl: .....nnnnnnnnnoooooo.....
[2025/07/28 15:46] Sonja Bikergrrl: .....YES!
[2025/07/28 15:48] Sapphire: And I think you have the ten minute, and the hour one availibile. I -think- you guys used your action recovery earlier
[2025/07/28 15:48] Sonja Bikergrrl: we did?
[2025/07/28 15:48] Sonja Bikergrrl: /me never recovered nuffin'
[2025/07/28 15:50] Sapphire: in that case let's start with a ten Minute rest, both of you roll a pair of d6 and add your recovery bonus to each. That's how many pool points you recover, distributed to whichever pools you prefer
[2025/07/28 15:50] D6: Sonja Bikergrrl rolls 1
[2025/07/28 15:50] D6: Sonja Bikergrrl rolls 5
[2025/07/28 15:50] Sonja Bikergrrl: so, 10
[2025/07/28 15:50] D6: Mecha rolls 4
[2025/07/28 15:50] D6: Mecha rolls 4
[2025/07/28 15:51] Sonja Bikergrrl: Might & Speed 5 each
[2025/07/28 15:53] Mecha: 4 intel and 4 into speed
[2025/07/28 15:53] Sapphire: Resting inside the energy shield, you find yourselves about knee deep in water as the fluid levels shift, some leaking in through the inside edge of the shield, some of the water draining away. It's covered any tracks Tho might have left, though he does seem to have figured out a way past the shield since he's not here.
[2025/07/28 15:53] Sapphire: Resting inside the energy shield, you find yourselves about knee deep in water as the fluid levels shift, some leaking in through the inside edge of the shield, some of the water draining away. It's covered any tracks Tho might have left, though he does seem to have figured out a way past the shield since he's not here.
[2025/07/28 15:53] Sapphire: In the distance, you can see the Obelisk, HUD attempting to reconnect if you stare at it. The winged beasts your other party member is managing seem to be flying around and chasing each other playfully.
[2025/07/28 15:53] Sapphire: Do you intend to rest further?
[2025/07/28 15:54] Sonja Bikergrrl: ...do we...?
[2025/07/28 15:54] Sapphire: (thisis after ten minutes)
[2025/07/28 15:54] Mecha: /me nods
[2025/07/28 15:55] Sonja Bikergrrl: then, yes
[2025/07/28 15:56] Sapphire: Alright. How do you intend to sleep?
[2025/07/28 15:56] Sonja Bikergrrl: As indicated. Robin first, Novaya second.
[2025/07/28 15:57] Mecha: /me nods
[2025/07/28 15:57] Sapphire: Test
[2025/07/28 15:57] Sonja Bikergrrl: Fail
[2025/07/28 15:57] Sapphire: The area is knee deep in water, how does that affect your sleeping plans?
[2025/07/28 15:58] Sonja Bikergrrl: there's a causeway, isn't there?
[2025/07/28 15:59] Sapphire: There is, yes, just above the water.
[2025/07/28 16:00] Sonja Bikergrrl: we're not made of sugar
[2025/07/28 16:00] Sonja Bikergrrl: ....are we?
[2025/07/28 16:02] Sapphire: You haven't been dissolving in water, at any rate.
[2025/07/28 16:02] Sapphire: ok, resting on the causeway then?
[2025/07/28 16:02] Sonja Bikergrrl: I guess!
[2025/07/28 16:03] Mecha: then find the dryest section we can and sleep in shifts
[2025/07/28 16:06] Sapphire: Alright, you don't have all that much in the way of camping gear, but it's a nice day and then night out. The sky darkens as you rest up, the blue fading to a black speckled with bright starts, glittering white and yellow, a glimmering ring of shifting lights high in the sky on the northern horizon. The Moon is at half full, it's light nearly as bright as the irregular lightning strikes in the distance, your obelisk having circled several miles away and slowly working it's way back again around the inside of the mountain range.
[2025/07/28 16:08] Sapphire: The glass snails have moved below the water, irregular flashes of purple light illuminating the surface, followed by splashes and the occasional squak of a bird.
[2025/07/28 16:08] Sapphire: You're uninterrupted and can make your last two recovery rolls
[2025/07/28 16:08] D6: Sonja Bikergrrl rolls 3
[2025/07/28 16:08] D6: Sonja Bikergrrl rolls 2
[2025/07/28 16:08] D6: Mecha rolls 6
[2025/07/28 16:08] D6: Mecha rolls 6
[2025/07/28 16:08] Sonja Bikergrrl: 9 total
[2025/07/28 16:08] Sapphire: Distribute as you wish
[2025/07/28 16:09] Mecha: resources are refilled completely
[2025/07/28 16:10] Sapphire: Fortunately the fabric you got from the obelisk seems to be water proof, shedding water easily even after an overnight soak, and the horizon reddens as the sun once again rises.
[2025/07/28 16:10] Sapphire: (Shall we pick up in the next morning from there? )
[2025/07/28 16:11] Sonja Bikergrrl: yus
[2025/07/28 16:11] Sonja Bikergrrl: good one Sapphire
[2025/07/28 16:11] Mecha: Sounds good
[2025/07/28 16:11] Sapphire: Thank you for playing
[2025/07/28 16:13] Sonja Bikergrrl: I better dash