CHAPTER 12d: Across Motter's Realm

[Norjax]

Gam’A Zone, Motter’s Realm 260D/81 (Morning)

Morning arrives without incident despite the ominous glow from the east.

Sha’oul Third of the Nine-Twenty and Jan’ort Fifth of the Six-Fourteen bid their farewell before departing to the west and dissolving from sight.

“Perhaps one day our paths will cross gain,” Sha’oul proclaimed. “We can’t travel north in our world, for a great corrosive sea lies in our path. Your destination may align with an island group in this body of water. If the temporal streams cooperate, we will cross back over there.”

Denslow explains, in detail, the circumstances of the purple flash, teleportation and original mission in Motter’s territory.

Another uneventful, dry and mundane day into night passes in the Gam’A Zone.

Gam’A Zone, Motter’s Realm 261D/81 (Afternoon)

As the sun reaches its zenith a visage pans before you to reveal the familiar shape of a tower, silent and unadorned with any light or motion a mile ahead.





OOC: Next update is Saturday.

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Hit Points [Luck Point Recovery - 360D]:

Denslow – 42/42 [12/16]
Silvestri – 60/60 [11/14]
Kurot – 50/50 [8/15]
Max – 28/28 [11/15] Glowburned AGL 2, STA 3
Anton – 43/43 [8/11]
Saiph – 25/25 [5/11]
Podo – 63/63 [13/14]
Urlando – 75/75 [11/17] Glowburned AGL 2, STA 2

[greyarea]

We must be cautious, says Denslow. It appears inactive but I still say we give it wide berth.

[greyarea]

Let's investigate, says Max. We might find more folks they experimented on, like Urlando here. If they've got living folks who need rescuing, I say we rescue them.

He mutters to himself, rubbing his palms together, and stage whispers, And if we can get more of their secrets, all the better. My patrons love it when I interface with the ancient creations...

[GrapeApe]

Let's investigate, says Max. We might find more folks they experimented on, like Urlando here. If they've got living folks who need rescuing, I say we rescue them.

Podo
"It might not hurt to take a look, perhaps if any of the knights have been captured and are being held inside we could release them and gain favor."

[shaidar]

Silvestri

"We should be careful, it might be a trap, but we should take a look. I'd like another chance to study the devices inside."

[GrapeApe]

Silvestri

"We should be careful, it might be a trap, but we should take a look. I'd like another chance to study the devices inside."

Podo

"And if it is truly abandoned, perhaps we can learn how to shut down or overload the main tower." Podo readies his spear and begins to advance toward the tower cautiously.

[Zhym]

”Am I the only one who remembers how we got into the last tower that looked like this?” asks Kurot. “We don’t have another Bruce handy to blow a hole in the wall again.”

“I’m with Denslow. Let’s give it a wide berth and move on.”

[Norjax]

Gam’A Zone, Motter’s Realm 261D/81 (Afternoon)

There are those who wish to investigate the seemingly inactive tower. There are those who want to steer clear and move on. Podo makes a command decision and advances, with caution, down the slope and across the plain towards the structure some 500 yards in the distance.

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Hit Points [Luck Point Recovery - 360D]:

Denslow – 42/42 [12/16]
Silvestri – 60/60 [11/14]
Kurot – 50/50 [8/15]
Max – 28/28 [11/15] Glowburned AGL 2, STA 3
Anton – 43/43 [8/11]
Saiph – 25/25 [5/11]
Podo – 63/63 [13/14]
Urlando – 75/75 [11/17] Glowburned AGL 2, STA 2

[greyarea]

Denslow trods along with the others saying, Kurot's words are well rooted, how shall we gain entrance. We cannot rely on a magical opening like before...

[greyarea]

Max pshaws the tree's observation: We've got Saiph. He can do the thing he did to get us out last time. So long as you and Podo can help with luck, we should have this. Anyhow, if we loot it good we can take the findings with us and maybe make up for not establishing a friendship route with the Knights.

[GrapeApe]

Podo

Depending on any hostile response, Podo will approach as cautiously as he can watching for movement or any kind of noise from activities, and trying to stay in the cover of any rock formations or low areas of the terrain. If able to reach the base of the tower unmolested, he will search the surrounding area for tracks or other recent activity and explore the base of the structure for an entrance.
Maybe these tower has some type of recognition that allows the doors to open for an approaching 'robot', what if we waved the whip around in front of the thing?

Urlando "Podo!" he whispers. "Look for a small hole or a vent. Maybe I can try to enter in my the rat form of my ancestors and check it out."

"Yes, that's an outstanding idea! That could be just the advan... YOU CAN TURN INTO A RAT!?!"

[Anton_E_Gregor]

Anton snaps on the sun visor of his helmet. "I guess we're doing this. If there's prisoners again maybe we can save them this time."

[doppelganger]

Urlando
Urlando hurries forward behind the sentient fungus Podo. "Podo!" he whispers. "Look for a small hole or a vent. Maybe I can try to enter in my the rat form of my ancestors and check it out."

[Norjax]

Gam’A Zone, Motter’s Realm 261D/81 (Afternoon)

Despite concerns on how to gain entrance, Podo and Urlando move forward buoyed by comments from Max and Anton. As they approach, recent signs of activity are abundant. Tracks made by carts or skids and footprints made by people or smart metal are scattered about along with piles of debris from destroyed smart metal entities.

Dark, regular openings are centered at the bottom of the rectangular blocks, near the structure’s base, visible from your line of sight.

OOC: Red dots in picture.



There are no sounds or movement save some dead foliage propelled by the dry, light wind.

OOC: Next update is Tuesday.

Action Details:

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Monsters:

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Hit Points [Luck Point Recovery - 360D]:

Denslow – 42/42 [12/16]
Silvestri – 60/60 [11/14]
Kurot – 50/50 [8/15]
Max – 28/28 [11/15] Glowburned AGL 2, STA 3
Anton – 43/43 [8/11]
Saiph – 25/25 [5/11]
Podo – 63/63 [13/14]
Urlando – 75/75 [11/17] Glowburned AGL 2, STA 2

[GrapeApe]

Podo

Podo advances cautiously with his spear at the ready. Looking over the piles of debris and robot parts, he looks to see if he can recognize anything that might serve as some kind of identification, allowing the metal beasts to come and go freely through otherwise sealed doors. If nothing like that is immediately visible, he will do a visible check for any pieces that were the robot's head.

(next action?)
He then moves forward after lighting a torch and examines the opening, peering inside and calling back to his companions quietly "It appears they may have abandoned this tower. Perhaps when we partially destroyed the other, the creatures stationed here were called back to reinforce it?"

[greyarea]

Denslow advances with the mushroom, helping guard his six. He has his giant axe at the ready.

[greyarea]

Max races to the jumble of robot bits and starts rifling through them to find things of interest. Especially anything he thinks will open or close doorways (something like a garage door opener?)

[Anton_E_Gregor]

Anton helps sort through the pile, looking for anything that might be useful

[shaidar]

Silvestri approaches while others look through the pile.

"Perhaps this is the work of the Knights. It's the most obvious reason."

[shaidar]

Saiph joins Podo in peering into the opening.