[TECHNOHELL]
Spider on down to the heat and machinery. Try to figure out what the machines do.
You crawl all the way down to the point where the vertical shaft takes a 90 degree turn and follow it a while. The place is hot. Very hot. Hot enough to be fatal to an unsuited person, and only getting hotter. The machinery is...well it's quite odd. The room at the end of this tunnel is shaped like a wide, stout cylinder, and the machinery they saw is emerging up through the floor of the room. The machine, if that's the right word for it, appears to be an enormous sphere, though only a small section of it is visible, the rest is down below this room. The sphere itself is metallic and is covered in deep grooves, so that it looks as though the sphere is made of many individual metal plates standing vertically with a small amount of space between each. And the entire thing is rotating, spinning erratically at high speeds, and glowing red hot. Steam is pouring out around the edges of the circular hole the convoluted sphere is peeking up through. It's like a metal ball bearing jammed in the spout of a tea kettle, with steam pounding against it. There are two service exits out of this room, or at least two doors that look like they fit that criteria. Neither is giant robot accessible.
[TECHNOHELL]
Random side-passage, go down it a short ways, come back to the group if it's more of the same. either way I'm making sure I stay oriented.
You take a pathway at random. It looks an awful lot like the main one, complete with other random side paths.
[TECHNOHELL]
"I'll send drones down to scout with you spider-mecha-man"
Send two drones down with NAV and have them cover directions he isn't looking in to warn in case of ambush, if ambushed have the drones attack whatever it is from NAV's rear flank above so they don't freindly fire him.
((PW can I get rough explanation of what the drones are equipped))
I have no idea what these drones are. What are these drones? Where did they come from? Did I give them to you? Is past piecewise sabotaging me again?
[BRANCHING FUCKERY]
"Careful. I hear that mercury absorbs magic."
If there's anyone standing about, keep them free of outside interference with white hot club if it comes to that, whether that be beating away attacking organisms or batting away incoming projectiles.
If there's nobody standing about and either firing or magicking, approach closer to chromoebas as they are no doubt ruthlessly attacked and see if in the oncoming fire I can maybe save some of their matter.
[Branching Fuckery]
Start firing the crystalline projector at the ambeoa's again, if they get close enough then stab them.
[Branching Fuckery]
Let the others have some fun while I begin cutting ameoba statues free and rolling them into my pocket dimension. If my genehacked strength isnt enough use my dragon for transportation.
Aside from that keep my dragon on ballistic gem overwatch in case my team cant deal with the new threat.
[BRANCHING FUCKERY]
"Do we need a sample of one of those light sources? We could try to cut some away from the rest of the lattice, then just shove it towards the portal..."
Assist with Amoeba statue cutting using the pimpknuckle's circular saw blade function. Beat a hasty retreat if the second wave gets close, preferably on dragonback. View one of the light sources: would it be possible to cut one away from the lattice using explosives, melee weapons, and a material corrosion round?
Ok so we got 4 people here who all see a giant flood of alien life forms coming at them. 50% of them decide to ignore it and just start looting dead enemies while the other 50% start shooting. Alright. So The first bit of good news is that you guys manage to gather a few corpses. Or, rather, you gather a large chunk of gold that probably contains several corpes. Problem here is that you can't gather individual corpses because you can't see those corpses because someone embedded them in a frankly stupid amount of gold. And you don't have the time to sit around and slowly probe your way through it.
Second bit of good news: the attempts to ward off the new, chrome amoebae are successful. Cthunkan (sp?) manages to save a chunk of their matter before then having to rapidly retreat while defending himself with his club. The crystalline projector shots from his teammate are enough to bring down the rest of the horde, though at the cost of an entire magazine worth of ammo.
As per the question of cutting away a lightsource, it's hard to say. The source of light is way deep in one of the thick parts of the lattice. You see the light of it like a bulb hidden behind several layers of metal mesh; the glow is visible but the source and any details of it are unknown. You'd have to penetrate deeper into the lattice and the large structure that is created by dense overlapping sections of it.
Of course THAT is gonna be kinda hard because now there are even more amoebas coming down towards you and they now look like strange droplets of multi-color oil and are noticeably larger.
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