You struggle to your feet and grab the datapad. You hear the sound of metal striking against metal, the sound of droid's footsteps getting closer. You force yourself to dash away. A moment later you hear the clatter of the droid punching through the grate. Hearing that only makes you want to run faster.
Item gained: Workshop Datapad (broken?)"-sues with their programming. The only ex-"
"Pursuing." the droid states as it comes after you.
As you run you retrieve your flashlight from your pack, as running with only the dim light of the datapad is sure to lead to you tripping on something and falling. That would be a very stupid way to die.
"-caution the Captain has asked all combat models to be locked in-"
With the flashlight on you stuff the datapad in your pack, where it continues its disjointed narration.
"-Captain and me have a keycard to Droid-"
You run through the room, the droid somehow managing to keep up and follow in your footsteps despite occasionally stumbling on the debris and overturned shelves. You reach the half-open door and exit into the short hallway.
"-at least we'll be landing soon. End of message."
You jump across the gap, land on the other side and turn around to face the door. You'll hold your ground here. If you're lucky it will fall down on its own, but even if it doesn't, with a strong enough push you should be able to send the droid sliding down the hallway towards the Main Elevator. Even if that doesn't take it out of commission, it should at least buy you some time. You're hoping that its grip on the floor, while good, is not as good as the one granted to you by your claws and your wings.
"-strange is going on. The elevator is on lockdown and the bridge isn't-"
The droid's hand grips the doorway, forcing it to open the rest of the way with a terrible screech of complaining metal and mechanisms. It emerges and quickly moves towards you.
"-my keycard so he can try and lift the lockdown-"
It's about to step into the gap, but then it freezes and takes a step back. It stands there on the edge for a few moments, waiting. You stand on two legs too, ready to use your hands to defend yourself.
"-pulled a droid from storage and put in a brand new logic core-"
Suddenly it bends its legs and jumps towards you, its arm extending to punch you. But you are ready. You have the advantage. You simply move out of the way and punch it back and down, the punch on its hard metal torso making your joints hurt. It falls back onto the inclined floor of the hallway and starts sliding away, its arms flailing wildly. One of them manages to grab you. With a surprised growl, you find yourself hanging from the corner.
"-should keep me safe while I examine this device they-"
The droid is relentless. It starts using you like a ladder, climbing you to get up. The damn thing is heavy. You lift your leg and kick it on the head. It stumbles for a moment but keeps going. You change targets and go for its hand instead. One hit. Its grip is loosened. Another hit. It finally falls. It desperately tries to grab something but flips and tumbles before it can do so. You hear it sliding and clonking on things long after it disappears from view, the sounds echoing down the hallway. With the droid temporarily dealt with, you get up on solid footing and take a minute to catch your breath.
"Hey, wait, what are you-"
"Engaging." comes a new voice from the datapad. It's heavily distorted but sounds awfully similar to the droid you just faced.
"You piece of trash! No! Stand do-Argh!"
There's a series of fwooshing and screeching sounds interspersed with sounds of struggle that eventually die down. The datapad falls silent and doesn't speak again.
Age: some months (wyrmling)
Size: about the size of a human (if bipedal)
Status: dirty dragon
Health: somewhat bruised
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)
- Workshop Datapad (broken?)
- 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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