Roll 83
Amatin prepared himself. He started by asking Varron roughly how thick the door was. Varron said about a foot... that's 30 cm, and 7.8g/cm³ times around ten thousand centimeters... that was around 81 kg of steel to be detonated, if he did his quick rough calculations correctly. He thought he'd have to limit the amount at a time to avoid killing everyone, so he started with 7cm slices. The first one evaporated as he activated his powers, releasing energy into the surrounding area, but Amatin's heat suit protected him, and the others backed away from the door. The next slices started throwing molten metal everywhere ([6] Amatin takes (10-5)*6 damage!) until he got all the way through, creating a rounded rectangle, bordered with glowing steel and drops of it slipping down the sides.
Behind the door, there was a large alien battlemech (!). Amatin, Milia, and Varron grabbed their weapons and aimed at the machine, but it didn't seem to activate. Zakroff then walked over and put his hand on the machine, remembering it's composition and structure just in case.
Varron gently pulled the two sides of the door open. The slabs moved almost effortlessly--Amatin must have obliterated the lock. He then gently dragged the mech out of the way and set it down on its two feet in a corner.
The next chamber was extremely high and cylindrical. The lighting came from the walls this time, with the ceiling being too far upward to see before the light dissipated. In the center of the room there was a round pedestal with a round slab of stone on top, larger in radius, which housed a black iridescent sphere. Below the sphere, there was a button, which, Zakroff, being sure it was not a trap, pressed immediately.
The sphere lit up, emitting green light as well as metallic dust. Slits on the room's walls opened, allowing lasers to shine through the dust, dispersing their light. The lasers then split, creating a floating image in the center of the room.
The image was animated, depicting an expanding light--one that repeatedly expanded then instantly shrunk back to its original size, and something else around it--a ship, apparently, of alien design, flying to it, then being pushed away in a straight direction, towards a small flashing light.. There was a map of nearby stars around the white light. There was also something that resembled a cross-hair near the expanding light.
"That's us..." Zakroff noted, pointing to the cross-hair thing.
"And the light is something..."
In the back chamber, Milia heard footsteps. She notched an arrow and turned around (+1 to next roll) to see Van Buren and a Cyrian officer with him.
"Oh Milia, I must say, you've made this harder for yourselves than it has to be."
Van Buren forged a telekinetic sword, while the Cyrian officer holstered his pistol then drew... liquid metal out of his backpack, which turned into a huge metal blade at his command.
--------
Kayle and Jaffar watched the thing begin speaking.
"Huh, you're still unchanged."
"I won't be. I came here to kill you."
"Oh ho, you can't do that while infected."
"For humans, maybe. I'm more than that, though."
The thing appeared frustrated.
"Ross, you're dead and you know it. And thanks to the partial infestation, I'll be able to locate every single one of your hivemind buddies. Your naive attempt at screwing over the Centauri backfired."
He pulled out a weapon that looked kind of like this:
While the thing drew a 9mm pistol. Winfield rushed forward and decapitated the thing before it could react, then mutilated the head with two more strikes.
He then cleaned the blade and put it away, then looked at the river.
Thinking aloud, he muttered something about not being sure if the water was safe to enter, and that he had to kill the developing ones there.
...
[2] Caplus electrocuted the water, but he saw that the bolt only took the shortest route to a pipe illuminated underneath the water with each shot.
He took the north route until he ran into Adiun!
...
Aduin had already been directed to the lab where he picked up the detector--a vacuum cleaner, by the looks of it, with knobs and chambers on the top half. Dr. Kleyn had instructed him to check the waterworks first, because infested personnel retained their intelligence. Since the fungus spread through water, it would be the first target, despite the fact that there were multiple layers of filters and the water was super-heated then frozen and thawed before consumption. The Doctor didn't expect infested thralls to know that.
Aduin headed down into the maintenance hallways. On the route to the waterworks, he encountered a positive match for the fungus enzyme in one of the water transport routes. He followed he flow of the water, continuing to pick up matches until he saw something bright in the way. He identified this as Caplus Orange.
"What are you...?"
"I found some fungus."
"It's going in the direction of the water?"
"Yup."
"Isn't that normal? That means the source must be in the opposite direction."
"It also means the infested personnel could be heading closer to the waterworks to sabotage the purification system."
"Wait, I'm hunting PsychoRoaches... don't tell me the fungus affects them too."
Author
Topic: Space Wizard RTD: Rolls. (Read 87215 times)