[2025/08/04 14:16] Sapphire: our overall logs so far: http://81.133.27.194/Dungeons&Kittens/logs-2025shr.html
[2025/08/04 14:25] Sonja Bikergrrl: At least you're referencing the game log page, albeit still absolutely
[2025/08/04 14:28] Sapphire: -------
[2025/08/04 14:28] Sapphire: Previous Session Logs: http://81.133.27.194/Dungeons&Kittens/logs-2025shr/20250728.html
[2025/08/04 14:28] Sapphire: ( Gain 2 XP for good attendance )
[2025/08/04 14:28] Sapphire: With basic rations imbibed, and time to sleep, your many wounds are patched over, your bodies largely functional.
[2025/08/04 14:28] Sapphire: Below the earth and water, the lower portions of the Lake Spire await your exploration. The trail of the strangely paranoid octopus person have been washed away by the tidal flows.
[2025/08/04 14:29] Mecha: Should we head back in?
[2025/08/04 14:30] Sonja Bikergrrl: I guess, we still need stuff? And the effort getting this far suggests we should
[2025/08/04 14:31] Mecha: Sounds good to me
[2025/08/04 14:31] Sapphire: It's up to you if you want to head down or to town.
[2025/08/04 14:31] Sapphire: or some other location, I suppose
[2025/08/04 14:31] Sonja Bikergrrl: Let's go kick some ass
[2025/08/04 14:34] Mecha: Then off we go
[2025/08/04 14:34] Sapphire: who's ass do you plan to kick?
[2025/08/04 14:35] Sonja Bikergrrl: whoever is fucking stupid enough to stick me with another needle
[2025/08/04 14:37] Sapphire: /me makes a note of that. "So.... downstairs is your intention?"
[2025/08/04 14:37] Sonja Bikergrrl: guess so
[2025/08/04 14:38] Mecha: Yes.HEy Something, be careful what you try to poke Mistress with.
[2025/08/04 14:40] Sapphire: The stairs back into the spire are as they were last night, dark and with small glowing lines along the edges. is the glow weaker now, or just washed out by the sunlight? in any case, you return to the area with three hallways that stretch out and curve downwards.
[2025/08/04 14:40] Sonja Bikergrrl: three hallways, you say
[2025/08/04 14:42] Sapphire: yes, more less evenly spaced from each other
[2025/08/04 14:42] Mecha: Wait. I saw this." As she shows the map she drew from the other side of the caged room."Can you make heads or tails of it?"
[2025/08/04 14:42] Sapphire: Each curves downards and counter-clockwise
[2025/08/04 14:42] Sonja Bikergrrl: so, like an equilateral triangle arrangement
[2025/08/04 14:42] Sapphire: yes
[2025/08/04 14:42] Sonja Bikergrrl: uhm... map...?
[2025/08/04 14:43] Mecha: Damn it, thought it was the design of a new cake for birthday parties
[2025/08/04 14:43] Mecha: I meant what can you make of possible safe routes and where to go
[2025/08/04 14:44] Sonja Bikergrrl: is there a map to see or is this figured by a skill check?
[2025/08/04 14:44] Sapphire: Let's see if this helps
[2025/08/04 14:44] Sapphire: ```
[2025/08/04 14:44] Sapphire: N
[2025/08/04 14:44] Sapphire: |
[2025/08/04 14:44] Sapphire: |
[2025/08/04 14:44] Sapphire: / \
[2025/08/04 14:44] Sapphire: D / \ D
[2025/08/04 14:44] Sapphire: / \
[2025/08/04 14:44] Sapphire: _________
[2025/08/04 14:44] Sapphire: D
[2025/08/04 14:44] Sapphire: ```
[2025/08/04 14:44] Sapphire: ugh, the whitespace got stripped
[2025/08/04 14:44] Sapphire: let's just do it with skill checks
[2025/08/04 14:44] Sonja Bikergrrl: NIINDADYD
[2025/08/04 14:45] D20: Mecha rolls 20
[2025/08/04 14:45] D20: Sonja Bikergrrl rolls 18
[2025/08/04 14:45] Sonja Bikergrrl: woohoo!!!!
[2025/08/04 14:45] Sonja Bikergrrl: we ACED that!
[2025/08/04 14:45] Mecha: Have a good one See you tomorrow.
[2025/08/04 14:46] Sapphire: Later!
[2025/08/04 14:46] Sapphire: You quickly determine that all three hallways arc down to a single large chamber below, and that the most dangerous element of traversing them is the mix of smooth stone and flowing water rather than a particular trap.
[2025/08/04 14:47] Mecha: ... He does understand why this one nicknamed him something right?
[2025/08/04 14:47] Sonja Bikergrrl: that doesn't sound too dangerous
[2025/08/04 14:47] Sonja Bikergrrl: huh?
[2025/08/04 14:47] Mecha: moving carefully down
[2025/08/04 14:50] Sapphire: The water flows around your shoes as you descent, arriving to a large, triangular chamber with a whirlpool in the middle as the water drains away through a flickering green glow, a spherical hole in the air occilating as water falls into it.
[2025/08/04 14:52] Sonja Bikergrrl: Anything... else...?
[2025/08/04 14:53] Sapphire: Ah yes, the walls of the chamber are adorned with several concentric circles of glowing lines, their color matching the glow of the tear in the air. The scent down here is like burning copper.
[2025/08/04 14:53] Sapphire: Do you have any special senses?
[2025/08/04 14:54] Mecha: not Robin
[2025/08/04 14:54] Sonja Bikergrrl: viciousness?
[2025/08/04 14:55] Sapphire: A quick review of your enemies notebook does not reveal any sort of glowing spacial distortions that have insulted you in your past.
[2025/08/04 14:56] Sonja Bikergrrl: /me eyes you, then re-reads the notebook, then pens in "DM"
[2025/08/04 14:57] Sapphire: :D
[2025/08/04 14:58] Sonja Bikergrrl: anywhere else to go here?
[2025/08/04 14:58] Sapphire: The water continues to flow through the spacial anomoly. Perhaps that's how the water level stays so low in here.
[2025/08/04 14:58] Sonja Bikergrrl: Anything to toss in?
[2025/08/04 14:59] Sapphire: if looking around for loose bits, Intellect (perception) against 6, else whatever is in your inventory
[2025/08/04 14:59] D20: Sonja Bikergrrl rolls 2
[2025/08/04 14:59] Sonja Bikergrrl: ...a 2 is good, right?
[2025/08/04 15:00] Sapphire: It looks like all the loose bits have fallen through the spacial tear long ago
[2025/08/04 15:01] Mecha: Going to go and try to look through the tear, see if there is an other side to it
[2025/08/04 15:04] Sapphire: There does seem to be an other side, large and metallic in structure, a big sphere of it even. Other structures float and drift through there, the flow of water breaking up into a conical spray once it's through.
[2025/08/04 15:04] Sapphire: Do either of you have ropes?
[2025/08/04 15:04] Mecha: Not on this one
[2025/08/04 15:04] Sonja Bikergrrl: not that I'm aware of
[2025/08/04 15:08] Mecha: So, not diving into the tear at the moment
[2025/08/04 15:08] Sonja Bikergrrl: Not until we're sure we won't be shredded first
[2025/08/04 15:08] Sapphire: Likely wise to check that out. The water seems to be fine, but that only tells you so much.
[2025/08/04 15:08] Sonja Bikergrrl: yes, but, water is infinitely deformable
[2025/08/04 15:10] Sapphire: *nods*
[2025/08/04 15:11] Mecha: So Robin is going to step back from the tear... carefully
[2025/08/04 15:11] Sonja Bikergrrl: anywhere else to go looking?
[2025/08/04 15:12] Sapphire: The edges of the room and the other hallways perhaps, but it does seem like.... well, Intellect (perception)
[2025/08/04 15:12] Mecha: We can look around. we know there are three doors down here but what else?
[2025/08/04 15:12] D20: Mecha rolls 11
[2025/08/04 15:12] D20: Sonja Bikergrrl rolls 4
[2025/08/04 15:12] Sonja Bikergrrl: /
[2025/08/04 15:14] Sapphire: The corners of the room, just under the water, have what might be levers and buttons in a language you don't recognize. It does seem like the spire is built around this spacial anomoly, overall.
[2025/08/04 15:14] Sapphire: ...didn't one of you have a rope production module?
[2025/08/04 15:15] Sonja Bikergrrl: I got a plasma cannon
[2025/08/04 15:15] Mecha: Visage changer and density nodule
[2025/08/04 15:15] Sapphire: as regular inventory, I might be thinking of someone elses character though
[2025/08/04 15:19] Sapphire: the water continues to flow, burbling around your shoes as it goes
[2025/08/04 15:20] Sonja Bikergrrl: anything removeable or breakabe?
[2025/08/04 15:20] Sapphire: The buttons and levers that Robin noticed, you migth be able to find seams in the walls
[2025/08/04 15:21] Sonja Bikergrrl: need something bigger I think
[2025/08/04 15:21] Mecha: Robin is going to go check under the water and look at these buttong and levers
[2025/08/04 15:23] Sapphire: It seems to be a bank of two rows of eight buttons, each with a small label above it, in a language of swirls and dots. There are three levers above the bank of buttons, two in the middle position, the last in a high position.
[2025/08/04 15:24] Sonja Bikergrrl: could fuck with those and see what they do
[2025/08/04 15:24] Mecha: Robin puts her head above water and describes what she just saw.
[2025/08/04 15:25] Sonja Bikergrrl: put that last lever into the middle positon?
[2025/08/04 15:26] Mecha: Robin Shrugs and does that
[2025/08/04 15:26] Sapphire: roll a d20 for luck please
[2025/08/04 15:26] D20: Sonja Bikergrrl rolls 4
[2025/08/04 15:26] Sonja Bikergrrl: lucky 4!
[2025/08/04 15:26] D20: Mecha rolls 15
[2025/08/04 15:27] Sapphire: Hmmmm. I'm going to offer you both a GM intrusion here, +1 xp each for an event happening.
[2025/08/04 15:27] Sapphire: Or you can pay back an XP to prevent it
[2025/08/04 15:27] Sonja Bikergrrl: do we want to be intruded, Mecha?
[2025/08/04 15:28] Mecha: Yeah lets intrude
[2025/08/04 15:28] Sonja Bikergrrl: let's do this!
[2025/08/04 15:32] Sapphire: As the lever slides into the middle position, a loud hum starts up, and the spacial twist expands outwards, filling up the room and partway into the hallways. The both of you are pulled into the spherical portal, and discover that gravity is now failing you, the walls of the spire falling away and leaving you suspended in a loose mixture of stray water and black stone cubes.
[2025/08/04 15:32] Sonja Bikergrrl: well that's not good
[2025/08/04 15:32] Sonja Bikergrrl: Why the feck did you do anything I said?
[2025/08/04 15:33] Sapphire: In the distance, there's a flare of light as three humanoid figures made of black crystal ignite thrust packs, floating over in your direction, currently they are a Long Distance away
[2025/08/04 15:34] Mecha: She shrugs, before trying to swim back through portal
[2025/08/04 15:34] Sonja Bikergrrl: we can take them.
[2025/08/04 15:35] Mecha: Take them where? We are kind of the intruders here
[2025/08/04 15:35] Sonja Bikergrrl: yeah? With a plasma cannon
[2025/08/04 15:36] Sapphire: Robin, as you attempt to swim, you find that the thin, zero-gravity water mist offers you very little mass to push off of. It'll take you a pair of successful speed rolls against 15 to to get to the portal before the other beings arrive
[2025/08/04 15:36] D20: Mecha rolls 4
[2025/08/04 15:36] D20: Mecha rolls 20
[2025/08/04 15:39] Sapphire: The first couple of tries you find your motion tricky, but you manage to pull yourself to the edge of the portal, hooking one shoe around a floating cube as the black crystal entities come into Medium Range. "Present your Authoritzations!" "Identify yourselves!" "We come in peace!". Crackling white energy is gathering around their arms.
[2025/08/04 15:40] Sonja Bikergrrl: "Hey! Peace, you say? I come in peace too, whaddya know?"
[2025/08/04 15:40] Mecha: Going to try and slide through
[2025/08/04 15:42] Sapphire: Novaya, the one that claimed to come in peace responds by opening fire with lances of energy, roll speed defense against 12. They are threatening an unclear amount of damage.
[2025/08/04 15:42] D20: Sonja Bikergrrl rolls 2
[2025/08/04 15:42] Sonja Bikergrrl: A 2 is good?
[2025/08/04 15:42] Sapphire: Robin, as you reach the portal, you realize you are now swimming upstream to try and get through it, it's resisting your Might
[2025/08/04 15:43] Mecha: Fleet of foot?
[2025/08/04 15:43] Mecha: kidding
[2025/08/04 15:43] Sapphire: Novaya, the lance of white light crashes into your arm, dealing 4 damage immediately and setting your gemstone skin glowing an alarming pink tone
[2025/08/04 15:44] Sapphire: ....Fleet of Foot would actually apply here, come to mind, forgot you had that
[2025/08/04 15:45] Mecha: But Novaya is in trouble so Robin turns around and uses fleet of foot to try and slam into the guard bot trying to knock them away
[2025/08/04 15:45] Sapphire: a zero-gravity tackle, then?
[2025/08/04 15:46] Mecha: Yeah with hopefully a spin to disorient them
[2025/08/04 15:46] Sapphire: sounds like a melee attack, roll against a difficulty 12,
[2025/08/04 15:46] D20: Mecha rolls 20
[2025/08/04 15:47] Sonja Bikergrrl: Mecha to the rescue!
[2025/08/04 15:47] Sapphire: "Take us to your lead- DOOF" as they take a shoe to the face, tumbling backwards and spinning, energy lance spraying off into the distance.
[2025/08/04 15:49] Mecha: Robin is going to go back to check on Novaya."Not sure if this will work again, but swim for the opening."
[2025/08/04 15:49] Sonja Bikergrrl: I'll be right after you.
[2025/08/04 15:50] Sonja Bikergrrl: Novaya aims plasma cannon at the one who shot her. "Hey! You! I'm coming in peace, and I'm shooting to kill!"
[2025/08/04 15:51] Mecha: Robin grabs Novaya from behind and tries to swim and if need be try to fling Novaya towards the opening
[2025/08/04 15:52] Sonja Bikergrrl: D'ya mind, I'm busy coming in peace?
[2025/08/04 15:53] Mecha: Yeahhh willing to bet there are more of them, and you are the only one with a gun
[2025/08/04 15:53] Sonja Bikergrrl: there's be more of them minus one in a minute
[2025/08/04 15:55] Sonja Bikergrrl: so, what do I get to roll?
[2025/08/04 15:55] Mecha: Robin just keeps trying to haul ass as best she can worried about how long she has left with fleet of foot.
[2025/08/04 15:55] Sapphire: Are you trying to talk them into standing down, Novaya?
[2025/08/04 15:55] Sonja Bikergrrl: With my plasma cannnon, yes
[2025/08/04 15:56] Sapphire: Intellect (Social) against difficulty ... would be 15 but you have an asset from the weapon so 12 before any skills you have.
[2025/08/04 15:56] Sonja Bikergrrl: good, let's blow that guys' head off!
[2025/08/04 15:56] D20: Sonja Bikergrrl rolls 6
[2025/08/04 15:56] Sonja Bikergrrl: ...6 is good?
[2025/08/04 15:57] Sapphire: ....are you talking or firing the cannon?
[2025/08/04 15:57] Sonja Bikergrrl: Firing.
[2025/08/04 15:57] Sonja Bikergrrl: Always reply in kind.
[2025/08/04 15:58] Sapphire: the Ray Emitter doesn't actually use an attack roll, it just hits for it's level in damage, which was...?
[2025/08/04 15:58] Sonja Bikergrrl: 6
[2025/08/04 15:58] Sonja Bikergrrl: wait, 8
[2025/08/04 15:58] Sapphire: I thought you max rolled on it?
[2025/08/04 15:58] Sapphire: yeah, it was d6+2
[2025/08/04 16:00] Sapphire: the cannon warms in your hands and erupts once more with hot blue plasma, the lance of power shattering the black onyx entity in a cloud of gem shards and tarry goop, before venting it's own innards forwards as a cloud of molten copper and synth, burned out.
[2025/08/04 16:00] Sonja Bikergrrl: "Who else is coming in peace?"
[2025/08/04 16:01] Mecha: Can we go before we find out?
[2025/08/04 16:02] Sonja Bikergrrl: I'm on a roll here. look, there's one left. "Hey, you! You for meeting in peace?"
[2025/08/04 16:02] Sapphire: The other two crystal entities twitch as their third shatters, before launching themselves forwards with glowing arm cannons to try and punch you apart in kind. "Intruder identified!" "Corrupted Entity Detected! Expunge!"
[2025/08/04 16:02] Sapphire: two left*
[2025/08/04 16:02] Sonja Bikergrrl: okay, we found out, time to go
[2025/08/04 16:03] Mecha: Wait.. Idea. Shoot again. The boost from the canon will help push us forward. But don't aim at them!
[2025/08/04 16:03] Sapphire: The cannon is depleted
[2025/08/04 16:03] Sapphire: well, the big one. Do you have other cannons?
[2025/08/04 16:03] Sonja Bikergrrl: shoot again, with a single shot item?
[2025/08/04 16:04] Sonja Bikergrrl: I can push Mecha to safety
[2025/08/04 16:05] Sapphire: kicking off each other?
[2025/08/04 16:05] Sonja Bikergrrl: Push, 2 Intellect
[2025/08/04 16:06] Sapphire: ....that would do it, yeah
[2025/08/04 16:07] Sonja Bikergrrl: and if I'm holding on, I get dragged along!
[2025/08/04 16:08] Sapphire: Hmmmm.... roll Intellect (Esotery Use), I forget if Nanos are trained in that at Teir 2
[2025/08/04 16:08] D20: Sonja Bikergrrl rolls 19
[2025/08/04 16:08] Sonja Bikergrrl: \o/ 19 \o/
[2025/08/04 16:08] Mecha: Yep hanging on swimming as best she can
[2025/08/04 16:10] Sapphire: You realize that by pushing off the *other* crystal entity, you can punt both of yourselfs through the over-expanded portal, crashing through the water and landing halfway up the stairwell. It seems the portal is *still* big, and the levers to control it are now on the "wrong" side.
[2025/08/04 16:10] Mecha: is the portal still growing or has it stopped
[2025/08/04 16:10] Sonja Bikergrrl: Can we flood this room/level somehow?
[2025/08/04 16:11] Sapphire: As previously seen the water is already draining into the portal. The portal is at a stable size now, just big.
[2025/08/04 16:11] Sonja Bikergrrl: we need to flood this room.
[2025/08/04 16:11] Sapphire: You can see one of the black crystal entities rocketing their way to chase you into the hallway, while the other was left tumbling
[2025/08/04 16:12] Sonja Bikergrrl: push, again, straight into his face and shove him back after his buddy
[2025/08/04 16:12] Sapphire: roll it please
[2025/08/04 16:13] D20: Sonja Bikergrrl rolls 12
[2025/08/04 16:13] Sonja Bikergrrl: a 12 is it
[2025/08/04 16:14] Sapphire: Your push launches out from your projectors, finding yourself in a tug of war with the other entity, their thrusters such a close match for your power they he's stopped in place, but not thrown away, lifting their arm cannon, taking aim....
[2025/08/04 16:14] Sapphire: ( and firing a cliffhanger at you )
[2025/08/04 16:14] Sonja Bikergrrl: yeah? I got a surprise for him
[2025/08/04 16:14] Sapphire: climbing boots?
[2025/08/04 16:15] Sonja Bikergrrl: /me taps her nose
[2025/08/04 16:15] Sonja Bikergrrl: That's the surprise ;)
[2025/08/04 16:15] Sapphire: Nose Goes! a clever surprise, that one
[2025/08/04 16:16] Sapphire: Alright, I hope you enjoyed the session so far
[2025/08/04 16:16] Sonja Bikergrrl: yus