Our heroes, the De Facto Explorers, investigating Rho Facility, to aid the Hissers of Notex
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Sneaky Pete: A mutated weasel scout. Pete's telepathy and night vision take a backseat when he whips out his electrical powers.
Sonny Helianthus: a sentient sunflower artifact examiner with trusted Restorationist ties.
Slitheran Wurmtail (aka Squiggles): a mutated earthworm scout, in impromptu power armor, looking for trouble, and finding it often. Recently "gave birth" to a litter of sentient earthworm babies.
Lathar Bracken: A pure-strain human from River Bend. He's got the muscle, the face, and a mount for most encounters. Lathar's trusty beast of burden, No Name, travels wherever he does. Looking for trouble in all the right places. Recent jousting champion of Fair-Town and has been awarded... a peacock he has named Chambray.
RHA-9: A lab assistant piece of "Living Metal" that seems to have befriended the group... for now!
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Upon receiving their physical boosts from RHA-9's "laboratory research," the explorers gathered their wits and decided to take the lift further up. Swiping the yellow keycard inside the lift, only
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...showed up on the display. Sonny pressed four.
The door opened up in the center of a large room. The room was littered with desks. Some were flipped, some crushed, others with crushed bodies of soldiers beneath it. Some intact terminals were on the ground, most were smashed. Numerous blast marks and bullet holes covered the walls. The group cautiously stepped out, spread out and slowly worked their way through the carnage.
Pete was first to detect the noticeable path through the debris. It looked relatively recent and had crushed weaker items under foot.
The weasel whisper-shouted to the group, "There's something on the opposite side of the room."
The group hunkered down in position. Pete skulked around desks, barely getting glimpses of a living metal moving slowly through the room.
Sonny asked "RHA-9, are there other bots in this facility."
Silence.
"Squiggles, the damn bot doesn't think I exist, can you ask him for me?"
The worm obliged.
"OF COURSE," RHA-9 replied to Squiggles, "BUT I DO NOT RECOGNIZE ANY MODELS RIGHT NOW."
As Pete continued to track the living metal, his eyes caught a red light that appeared to stare back.Pete scurried for cover back towards the group. A *THUMP* could be heard from the living metal. An object bounced off of two walls and a can-shaped object landed in the middle of everyone.
Lathar managed to roll out of the way, scurrying past the lift doors and catch a glimpse of the living metal. His aim was disrupted by a wild weasel in Sneaky Pete shooting with his blaster. An explosion erupted on the living metal's body. His follow-up flintlock shot went wild, and drew the attention of the machine.
Sonny reloaded and cursed their living metal companion, "RHA, if you could listen to me, I'd ask what to do, you stupid tin can."
Squiggles, still amazed RHA could talk to him again acted as the middle man.
"THAT RHA UNIT IS FOLLOWING IT'S LAST PROTOCOL INSERTED BY PERSONNEL. WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO DESTROY IT BEFORE I DESTROY EVERYTHING."
Meanwhile Lathar turned the remains of the corner and fired a center-mass shot at the enemy living metal. It exploded in sparks and it finally stopped firing.
Combat ended, RHA-9 began beeping faster and faster.
"RHA-9, the threat is over, stop beeping!"
"OK!" and the beeping ceased.
RHA-9 explained that if he taken any damage, his protocol was to detonate his "Yorkum capacitators."
The group went eerily silent. The last time they dealt with a Yorkum resulted in the destruction of Koto damn and the Caves of Ulmin below. They immediately ordered RHA to head back to his lab and initiate any repair protocols he was capable of.
Squiggles expressed his injuries, "I'm a step away from self-destructing myself." He and Pete were given the last of the healing syringes.
Lathar was dead set on opening some of the doors bordering the large rooms. Sonny convinced him to search the desks first before kicking open doors.
The search of the desks revealed four items:
- A call center headset.
- A single glove (left-hand)
- A book of "mechanical engineering"
A picture of furry Squiggles in the style of Dr Seuss. |
GM Notes: Lessons learned (A) security bots know angles (B) Gamma World has death's door rules!
I also don't profess to be an artist, but AI art generators are not having a fun time with Gamma World characters and situations. Not many references for human non-artists to draw a furry earthworm, either.
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