Log:The Secret of Skull Island, Scene 3

The Secret of Skull Island 2007/12/09 	 Akeno Bonker Ellbeth Skysabre Sword Dancer 3

It was maybe ten minutes ago that the corridor split into two separate paths. This is a stone hall, ten feet wide with ten foot ceilings. It's eeriely quiet until a voice breaks the silence. "Dr. Wyrd I'm familiar with, but you others..." A hologram flickers to life. It's the red-robed man, the Dungeon Master.

"I am Air Commander Skysabre." The machine replies to the hologram. "You are advised to stand down and surrender and once."

Akeno shrugs, "Read the news sometime." He glares at the man, "I'd advise you give yourself up while you can and return her friend, but it never works that way."

Sword Dancer says, "Am Kihzra daughter of of Pfarok and Jungre from city of Jhorbagh in rand of Brun, descendent of Brun King and Socererbane. What is your name and rineage?"

"Where's the excitement if I just surrender? No fun in that." The hologram says.

"There is a future in surrender." Skysabre replies. "The only other possibility is total defeat."

Sword Dancer says, "Enough talk. Where is Harry?"

Akeno frowns and looks at Skysabre, "Air Commander, I'll remind you that we don't kill on this planet." He looks back towards the hologram.

The man continues, "I am the Dungeon Master. That's all that you need to know for now. The man that you're looking for lies ahead, and if you heed my words, you may stand a chance of seeing him again. I'm not optimistic, though."

Skysabre glances at Akeno. "Blame the clumsiness of your language for your misunderstanding." The Air Commander replies. "I am forbidden to take sentient life. Do not jump to conclusions about my speech." It starts to drift forward, past the hologram.

Sword Dancer too walks to pass the hologram. She takes a swipe at it with her sword in passing for good measure, too. You never know.

Akeno shrugs, "I'll listen and play your game, Dungeon Master. What's your rules?"

The hologram flickers as people and objects pass through it. It begins to fade away to nothingness, but as it does, the man speaks:

Forged of steel

My teeth part wood and stone

All must find me

Before the return home

Akeno hrms and thinks on it as he follows the others, turning his senses on to get an idea of what's ahead more than anything.

Skysabre is again utilizing nightvision to get the best image possible of the cavern.

Sword Dancer says, "Cha, hate riddre."

Skysabre reaches up to pull some cobwebs off its chassis before entering a large room. "Be careful. There are possible obstructions ahead, but nothing severe.

Sword Dancer as crouches on the alert.

Akeno hmms. "Steel... teeth of wood and stone..." He frowns.

This next room is another square one and it has the look of a throne room that looks long since abandoned. At moldy carpet runs the length of the room through the center, leading to a throne. In the throne, there is a skeletal figure. It's the remains of a humanoid figure, nearly eight feet tall. There's a crown perched atop the skull, and a sword in scabbard in it's hand. It wears a shroud of cobwebs. If the skeleton is the king, the rest of the court surrounds him in the room, skeletal, and covered in cobwebs.

Sword Dancer says, "Is bad."

Skysabre switches to x-ray and then to thermal, looking over the skeletons.

Sword Dancer says, "Skeretons. Hate skeretons."

A door slides down from the ceiling to block the entrance into the room.

"These skeletons are artificial." Skysabre comments. "Mechanical constructs. The walls are shielded against my scanners, so I am unable to recommend a course of action. However, the skeletons may become animated."

Sword Dancer throws herself at the door, bending almost in two to pass under it as only one so limber can do, making sure not everyone is trapped inside.

Once the door shuts, the skeletons begin to animate, shrugging off they cobweb shrouds and slowly drawing weapons. The King Skeleton rises as well from its throne, drawing it's sword. The blade is scaled to the King's height - a giant claymore with a straight edge on one side and jagged edges on the other.

Sword Dancer, finding no way open the door, tries to smash it instead.

Kihzra's blade bites through the stone facade of the door, revealing the metal beneath. The metal is nicked, but not much worse.

Skysabre flies up to the top of the ceiling to escape the skeletons, hoping to get a better perspective on the battle and perhaps a way to end it without engaging all of them.

The Skeleton King stalks forward for Skysabre, with it's eight foot stature, it has no problem reaching Skysabre. It tries to hit Skysabre with a horizontal slice. Akeno gets swarmed by Skeleton Warriors.

Sword Dancer curses. Trust the others to be too slow and get caught in there.

Skysabre gracefully avoids the swipe and readies itself for battle since it cannot escape. Its wrists shift to expose its plasma launchers.

Akeno frowns as he looks around, then moves forward at the first skeleton that closes in and tries to literally just knock it's block off.

Akeno knocks the skeleton into bits of sparking metal. He calls up to Skysabre, "I've got these! Seems they're as tough as a pile of bones!"

All of the skeletons attacking Akeno miss their mark.

Sword Dancer hits the door with all her might this time. Not that breaking into a room full of skeleton seems like a good idea to her, but the others may need her.

Akeno spins on his heel, sweeping out a leg that breaks apart the skeletons easily. "Wow... weak skeletons..."

Skysabre nods to Akeno but doesn't say anything. As weak as the little skellies might be, the king may present a problem. It raises its arms and targets the king, unleashing a full plasma barrage in an attempt to annihilate it.

The blast of plasma passes through the ribcage of the King Skeleton, barely singing them.

It's the King Skeleton's turn, and it tries to slice through Skysabre with the jagged side of it's blade.

Three Skeletons flank Skysabre and three step up to replace the three that had gone down.

The jagged sword edge tears through Skysabre's armor, rending a deep gash down the Air Commander's front plating and exposing the plasma workings beneath and momentarily sending its systems reeling.

Akeno manages to stay a step ahead of the skeleton's blades.

In the close quarters fighting, one skeleton manages to bury it's sword into another's skull.

The additional skeleton attacks break the Air Commander's armor open further, plasma venting visibly. Its optics go dark as its systems shut down, sending it clattering to the floor.

The door stays anchored in place. It's still standing though barely, and Kihzra's blade has taken a large enough chunk out of the door to see that actions inside.

Sword Dancer attempts to squeeze through the hole in the door and get into the thick of the action while dodging any attacks that may come her way.

Sword Dancer weaves her way through the hole in the door and into the thick of battle with ease.

The King turns and tries to swipe at Kihzra with the jagged blade of its sword.

The King holds for now, waiting to see what the newcomer will do.

Sword Dancer flickers her sword around herself protectively - and then just as it looks like she's not doing anything offensive tries to flick the skeleton king's sword from his hands.

Sword Dancer underestimates the king's swordsmanship.

The Skeleton King steps back and tries to run Sword Dancer through with it's blade.

Sword Dancer strikes the skeleton king as he get past her guard - but takes a nasty wound herself, cut deep.....

The remaining five robots attack Akeno, climbing over the junked remains of their comrades to get to him.

All of them miss, however.

Skysabre's optics flicker as it comes back online.

Sword Dancer tries to disarms the skeleton king again, fighting more defensively this time.

Akeno drops another three and frowns. "Wow... this is too easy."

Sword Dancer sends the giant skeleton's sword clattering across the stone floor.

Skysabre gets back to its feet, holding a hand over its twisted armor. It decides to hold for now as its systems fully recover.

The Skeleton King marches across the room and retrieves its sword.

The last two robots try to stick Akeno with their blades.

Akeno manages to evade their swords.

Akeno has been busy with all of those boneheaded robots it seems. He finally gets down to the last two and gives a grin, apparently deciding to show off a bit as he kicks one away, circles his leg around and literally nails the other hard enough that it smashes into a wall and bursts into pieces. "That was fun. Next?"

Sword Dancer forgets disarming and goes for a mighty blow on the skeleton king himself - uncertainl she'll live long enough for another chance if not.

The King parries the blow. The force of the sword-clash sends the robot toppling backwards.

The Skeleton King climbs back to it's feet, using it's giant blade as a crutch for a moment to get up.

Bonker appears at the crack, his arms grabbing the edges of the hole. The steel claws hold onto the stone as two of his arms split apart, and his feet grip the edge as well as his two extra arms reach inside his chest, pulling out the two buzz-sticks which crackle into existence with the blue sparks zipping up and down the ends.

There's a whirring sound as around the room sixteen elevators activate, previously hidden as tiles in the stone floor. The elevators carry sixteen more skeletons.

Probably unnoticed in the frantic confusion of confrontation with the skeletons is the opening of a hitherto inobivious panel in a wall of the chamber. It opens and then closes without appearent cause as Ellbeth, cloaked in an invisibility spell, arrives.

Akeno leans over on his knees as he looks around, "Oh, come on..." He frowns, "Sword Dancer! Skysabre! We've got trouble."

Sword Dancer says, "Forget rittle skeretons! Only troubre is king...."

"I agree with the Sword Dancer." Skysabre's gravelly female voice communicates. "My armor is not sufficient to deflect its blows."

Bonker rolls and unfolds into his full form, the two sticks held in two arms each. He then crouches and begins sprinting across the cave, grabbing one of the other robots as he moves towards the King.

Sword Dancer continues her assault on the king, though now too tired to use such powerful blows.

Sword Dancer strikes true, but her the force of her blows seems to be ebbing with her blood.

Bonker runs along into the cave, spinning his two buzz sticks into his left hands and reaching out, grabbing one of the extra robot peons with one of his right arms and then using his extra arm to reach up and grab it by the head, crushing it and letting sparks fly everywhere. He now seems to have little more than a five foot large hunk of metal in his hands.

Skysabre seems to have recuperated enough to send another volley of plasma the king's way, hoping that this time it will be able to do more damage.

The King is struck by the blast of plasma and is knocked backwards. It climbs back up to its feet and waits, preparing itself for the next attack. It holds it's oddly shaped sword at the ready.

Ellbeth assesses the situation determining that the heroes appear to have decided the Skeleton King is the major threat. She thinks quickly. It's likely the Dungeon Master is an obsessive, as most gamers tend to be. She can therefore reasonably expect he will have programmed the robots in accordance with the standard fantasy RPG conventions. Dropping her invisibility spell she lifts her staff on high and incants.

Akeno spins and takes out one. But he telegraphs that practically and the other two just duck. Akeno blinks at that, "Odd... ah well."

The skeleton warriors press their attack on the heroes without much effect.

Sword Dancer strikes once again at the skeleton king, using the edge of her blade - not least because of all her attacks this is the least tiring. "Forget rittre skeretons," she repeats, "herrp wiv king!"

Kihzra's sword lands with the loud clash of metal hiting metal. The King felt that attack. The skeleton stagger backwards. It finds its feet and then retaliates with a sword swipe of its own.

The King, still off-balance from Sword Dancer's blow, misses.

Bonker turns and spins, whirling his two buzz sticks and holding onto the mangled robot body all at once. The two buzz sticks flash out at the two robots which just attacked him.

Bonker brings one of the electric-charged sticks down on the shoulder of one robot, cutting it in half as he spins the two arms on his left side, and in a flash of lightning the second robot explodes in little more than a spray of sparks and metal flying everywhere.

Skysabre says, "Skysabre holds back as the skeleton's blows bounce off of its armor. From within it appears to glow as its plasma works redouble their efforts to provide power to its frame."

Ellbeth :curses under her breath as she mispronounces a word and feels the spell come apart around her. Clearing her throat with a cough she hurriedly tries again.

Sword Dancer encouraged by her solid hit presses on with her attack.

The Skeleton King seems just as fresh as it did during the start of the fight. It swings its sword at Kihzra with robotic precision.

Ellbeth is stunned the force of the sword blow.

The skeletons seems to be pressing the advantage of their numbers now.

Bonker crouches slightly before leaping up into the air and gripping the roof, hanging from the ceiling by one hand and curling one of his feet up to grip it with one foot, then the other. He still holds two buzz sticks and one of the robots, and hangs just in front and above the robot King.

Skysabre is rather unconcerned with the skeletons around it. They aren't doing damage. It notes Bonker's position and tries to set up the King for a one-two and hopefully keep him off Kihzra. It fires a more limited volley, all that its systems can manage.

Zam! The King Robot is blasted back again, by the force of Skysabre's weapon. Is it possible that it's getting a little sluggish?

Ellbeth shakes her head trying and finally succeeding in clearing the cobwebs. "Ugh. If I live through this I'm definitely going to reasearch a flaming fireball spell."

Akeno leaps upwards and... vanishes. Literally. Unless the skeletons can follow super-human speed. He reappears on the ground opposite Bonker before he leaps upwards and launches a mighty punch at the King in an effort to help dismantle it completely and end this.

Akeno nails the King with an uppercut before he growls a bit, "I see why you are having so much trouble... go after the smaller ones and keep 'em off us."

The King gets up one more time and slashes at Akeno with it's oddly shaped sword.

And misses.

Akeno dodges the sword, spinning and skidding a little before he leaps again, this time lashing out with a hard kick at the King's head. Maybe he can scramble however it seems?

Bonker drops the robot he's holding on the King, but otherwise seems content to wait.

Akeno misses the kick, though, and backflips to land on his feet as he settles back into a stance and frowns. "This could be tougher than I thought..." He calls to the others, "Keep the bone-heads off me, Kizhra, and Wyrd!"

The King easy brushes aside the junk that's dropped on top of it.

Skysabre looks towards Akeno and certainly seems like it wants to help, but the Air Commander's power reserves have been taxed to the breaking point. It is forced to hold back, its innards glowing again as it builds up enough power for another shot.

The King tries to impale Akeno again.

Bonker drops down as soon as the King swings, landing right next to the King and opposite the extra robot peons. He then winds up for a big wallop with his buzz sticks. "Keep off any attackers!" he buzzes in his mechanical voice.

Ellbeth fears that the Skeleton King is too well firewalled to affect without more time than seems feasible. She switches attention to the lesser robotic skeleton that clearly still has a mighty strike and tries to reporgram it to attack the King.

The remaining robots attack. 3 on Akeno, 3 on Bonker, 3 on Skysabre, 1 on Ellbeth, 1 on the King.

The King is slammed onto the ground by Bonkers attack. It labors to try and get back up again.

Akeno leaps upwards, then comes downwards as he swings his hand out in an attempt to crack the king's skull.

Bonker spins his buzz sticks more, swinging at the King again with a little less force. He whirrs steadily now as he gets going.

With the King robot deactivated, the other skeletons power down.

Skysabre glances towards Kihzra as the robots power down. "Unit Kihzra is heavily damaged." The Air Commander observes.

Ellbeth looks to Akeno, "Do you get paramedic training in the CBPD? Kihzra is in desperate need to assistance."

Bonker whirrs and lowers his sticks, still crouching slightly in case any trouble is coming. "I can see if I can get him working enough to get out..." he says.

Bonker whirrs. "...Maybe. Unlikely though."

Skysabre fingers the deep gash to its own armor. "I too am damaged, though function is not significantly impaired. I recommend holding here until Unit Kihzra can be stabilized."

Ellbeth heads over to Skysabre, "I may be able to help repair the damage you took. Do you wish me to try?"

Skysabre glances at Ellbeth. "Yes. That would be welcome."

Akeno sighs as he only has a few things to use in order to stabilize Kihzra, so he starts with his shirt and ripping it to pieces to stabilize her and keep her from bleeding to death possibly. He does keep his leather jacket he started this whole thing with on, though.

"My my my... Did we lose the Fighter?" The Dungeon Master appears again, a holographic projection from the ceiling. "At this rate, you'll never make it to Harry."

Bonker whirrs and shuts the two sticks off before folding them up and putting them back into his chest. He stands about and looks at the others. "Should I be filled in?" he asks.

Ellbeth looks around briefly while trying to mend Skysabre and nods. She has come to much the same conclusion. "I'm the one you want." she says looking up at the image. "Allow the others to return with Harry and I'll remain without offering resistance."