You're not going to let the droid damage your loot. Sure, it might have been in your possession for less than a minute, but that's more than enough time to make it yours!
"-models so old you can barely find the parts to-"
You wait for the droid to get close enough and then pounce. It doesn't react to you, doesn't turn its head to face you as you slide through the air, not until it's too late. Maybe it really is blind. You slam into it, raking your claws across its torso as you do so. Its armor is too thick, too sturdy, your claws do nothing more than leave a few small scratches. The force of the impact is enough to make it lose its balance. It lands on its back and you land on top of it, doing your best to keep it down.
"-least the damn things are sturdy. End message."
You try to close your jaws around its neck while holding its arms down, but it reacts with surprising strength and speed, twisting out of the way, freeing one of its arms.
"Engaging."It wastes no time, throwing a punch powerful enough to knock the wind out of you and throw you off it. You are left on the floor, coughing and gasping for air. The droid on the other hand easily twists around, gets on its knees and starts rising to its feet. There's nothing in its motions that betrays pain or any other sort of emotion you'd expect from someone who'd just been ambushed. This isn't going to be an easy fight.
"-ake any sense! I've checked and-"
You could just grab the datapad (and maybe a few tools if you're very quick) and run. Or maybe you could use a weapon or some other trick to defeat it. Or maybe you should just try again and try to do better this time.
Age: some months (wyrmling)
Size: about the size of a human (if bipedal)
Status: dirty dragon
Health: fine
Weapons: claws and teeth
Armor: scales
Abilities:
- Flight: You can glide in order to survive falls and quickly move great distances. You can even fly upwards, though not for very long distances. You can use favorable winds and updrafts to increase your flight time.
- Basic Human Language: You are able to understand many of the most common words of the human language, including some that express more abstract things, though there are still a great many words and expressions that you have yet to learn. You can also read, though it takes you some time to understand the words. You can also speak, though it's sometimes hard for others to understand you.
- Communication: You have a knack for understanding other beings, even those whose language you don't know.
- Basic Nursing: You know the basics of caring for patients and preparing and maintaining equipment used in their care. You can also administer certain simple treatments. However you still lack much of the knowledge necessary for you to be able to determine what said treatment should be.
- Magic: You can cause supernatural effects, though doing so consciously and with any level of control is hard. You know of some of the effects you can cause, but there might be more you have yet to discover or unlock. See Magic section for more details.
Inner Fire: Ashes
- Burn Self: Gain a level in hunger or tiredness and in exchange gain a level of Inner Fire.
- Sense Inner Fire: You can sense the inner fire of other beings, allowing you to detect most living things in your surroundings. This also gives you an indication of the danger they could pose and the amount of fire you could gain from consuming them.
Cost: Minor - Cleansing: Direct your inner fire to a part of your body to cleanse a debilitating status effect.
Cost: Low-Medium - Fiery Strength: Direct your inner fire to your muscles and bones, granting you supernatural strength.
Cost: Medium
- Maintenance Tunnels:
- Large Sonic Rifle covered by old torn clothes
- 2 holdout blaster pistols (roughly 20 shots each, effective range 20m, HSB-200)
- Low quality vibroknife (low battery)
- Eiwhyl's Clinic:
- 576 credits (5 orange, 11 blue, 7 red, 4 grey, 6 cyan, 4 pink)
- 2 packs of smoke sticks
- small can of droid oil
- small metal toolbox
- Warm blanket
- Datacard with human medical information
- Datacard with human language dictionary
- Datacard with dragon info compilation
- Datacard with story about hunter of dragons
- small glass statue of bird
- Large hooded cloak
- 1 bottle with red liquid and unreadable label
- Pack with plastoid tape modifications
- 1 medpack
- 1 half-used medpack
- 2 food packs
- 2 water bottles
- Purse with credit-reader:
- 235 credits (2 orange, 6 blue, 1 red, 1 grey)
- 45 slightly burnt credits (1 blue, 5 grey)
- half-used roll of plastoid tape
- flashlight
- pack of smoke sticks
- lighter
- keycard with symbol
- 2 stun grenades
- 2 fog? grenades
- 1
grenade - 2 grenade thrower mines
- Basic Datapad (contains datacard with encrypted files)
- Ali's Apartment: A tiny 2 bedroom apartment. The little human Ali lives there with Dad/Jobal and Mom/Ania. Room 327.
- Ali's Apartment Tower: Apartments arranged in a circle. Clean, bright, mostly locked doors, few hiding places. Little traffic during the night.
- Eiwhyl's Clinic (Lair): Sells medpacs and other healing items and provides treatment. Warning: stabby. Room 509.
- Streets: Dirty streets, parked hovercars, shops, building entrances, street vendors, little traffic during the night.
- Maintenance Tunnels: Interconnected tunnels, small and large, going low and high. Connect various streets and buildings. Wires and pipes. Dark, dirty, with old machines constantly rumbling. Scavenger-vermin and hunters-of-vermin.
- Garbage Pit: A large room with mountains of garbage half-submerged in a sea of sludge. More garbage frequently arrives from holes in the ceiling. A monster lurks here, may pull prey underwater.
- Hydroponic Pool: A room with a large pool filled with plants. A ceiling full of bright lamps. A spherical gardener-droid takes care of the plants. Patrolled by hostile gunmen. A corridor leads to other rooms. Storage room. Processing room. Other rooms are unexplored.
- Iyran Grower Shop: A store located deeper into the tower's streets. Operated by a cephalopoid. The grower sells cheap synthetic meat, amongst other things.
- Upscale Cafe: A small place with tasty but somewhat expensive food and hot drinks. The bartender is nice but the waiter droid is annoying.
- Upscale Streets: A section of the tower mimicking a suburban neighborhood, including a fake sun. Most buildings guarded.
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