Overcoming Meyanda's possibly devastating spell, Chakha fells the android with a mighty swing of her sword. The thundering of the giant machine keeps on going endlessly, but the fight is over. Meyanda, the group met her only half a minute ago - but looking at her, they know they have been on her trail for quite a while - since they first met Sef:
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Sef nods sternly, the situation being very serious for her. "I don't know of a flame, but yes - we have met many people coming in here. The first was a woman with purple hair, she had many others with her - orcs, humans, and rodent-people we have not encountered before. She met with then-chief, and payed him so we would attack anyone coming after her. They have not been here after, only others trying to go the same way."
...and more recently, they met her direct subordinates, the orcs in the warehouse:
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The conversation can be heard as the group slowly makes it up the stairs, but it stops as soon as Chakha and Ren set foot inside the warehouse.
"Lucky bonto that Meyanda told what to do, else it couldn't have been working again, eh?"
"Ye, what now though, I'm eaten and matt, now. An' job is done. Think we go back down ta Meyanda?"
"Not sure, she might want big vicken and rutt in guarding here, seems them others were killed? Weak Torches, them!"
On the topic of the warehouse, what was found inside it and guarded by first Garmen Ulreth and then by the strange orcs, was a relay...
Nameless:
Nameless considers many things in the span of a few seconds:
- This thing is drawing energy and transmitting it afar
- It is getting continuous energy from something nearby
- The Torch they had been sent to fix emitted continuous energy
- The Torch is now emitting greatly reduced energy
As carefully as possible he will shut down the machine.
Furthermore, the relay was transmitting the energy to somewhere in the vicinity of the town Scrapwall. More detailed studies of this device and of maps could yield a more accurate position and information on the location.
More of Meyanda's thugs soon come rushing to her aid. Far too late. Each of the ratfolk and orcs who were apparently holed up in the north part of this
engineering deck, as it was labeled in the elevator, is killed, captured, or driven off by the group.
The group has yet to earn the reward of 4.000gp for reigniting the torch atop the Black Hill. And what then? In light of what has happened below the town, is Torch safe? Perhaps Khonnir or any of the other town councilors have something to say about that, unless the group does.
Panels of blinking lights and machinery line the walls of the chamber Ren, Chakha, Nameless and Daken are currently in; but the true spectacle here is the massive machine of metal that looms against the far wall on a ten-foot-high platform. Two immense cylinders of pulsing violet light throb at the machine's core, while above a thinner cylinder extends through the ceiling. Ladders to the north and south provide access to the machine's platform, while at the center, a smaller machine with several metal spikes protruding from its heart extends from the larger one. The entire room vibrates with a roaring thunder, and the air in it feels strangely alive, almost as if it were vibrating as well. On the floor in the middle of the room lies a robot, one of the same type that the group fought about a day ago when finding Khonnir. A flying robot. Except this one is lying on the ground, motionless. It must be going through a
reboot</>, some sort of process that Nameless initiated at the <i>Robot Command Core.