The Duke:
The Duke shrugs slings the cooler onto his back and enters the titan unbothered by all the things his companions fear and just trying to satisfy his curiosity.
(Yes, Alyn gets 1 new xp... and...)
The motley crew marches up the stairs... up, up, up the stairs... and then...
The vertical passage they're in opens up considerably wider... must be in the torso.
There's still a lot of machinery taking up the place, but there's a little more room to move around. There's also a little light glowing now and then, here and there, in the walls... but next to each light are signs written in an unknown language, so there's no telling what they indicate. (Also, is a red light bad? Is a green light good? Is an amber light a warning? What about the little blue and purple lights? There's no way of knowing.)
And then, a static-y, over-echoing, stuttering voice: E_RG_ F__LD DET__ED-- INTR__R-- UNA_TH__IZED-- DEF__E
Cylinders pop out of the walls in four places and begin shooting ray beams of some sort.
Their aim is very bad, but if you had to guess, they seem to be aiming at Alyn-- and they can (partially) penetrate his shielding! (Actually, the first hit against Alyn does no damage, but then they seem to learn from that, because the beams change color from whitish to sort of blackish, and the second beam
does get through...)
(Alyn loses 1 health level.)
So far no one else gets hit-- so far, anyway...