Odyessy Adventure Session 2

Princess Guard - The New Era 2018/02/01 	 Titan Wolf Tali Harlequin Unix Artemis 56

''Log supplied by Artemis. Thanks.''

Security Mech Woes
Titan starts flying toward the mech. He has nothing to push off of right at the moment, so he can't leap toward it. At the very least, he can draw its fire. "I'll try to keep its attention."

Unix sees that they are probably going to fight and sighs. Walks to some of the nearby containers, she would start throwing them... Tali runs in to the robot in accelerated time and attempts to age it rapidly so as to break it, then withdraws to a safeish distance to catch her breath.

Tali actually misses, the robot having dodged out of range even in the fraction of a second of her attack!

The Security Mech slips to the side to avoid Tali's unique attack, and as it does the red glowing plasma ring around the rim brightens and spits out three bolts of hot energy. One bolt toward Tali, one toward Titan, and a third at Artemis. Titan is struck by the beam, and he's sent tumbling, "Alright...that's going to be an issue." He works on trying to get himself oriented again.

Artemis sidesteps lightly to let the blast pass her. She smiles eagerly at the sign of a fight. Artemis brings up her shield and draws her sword. Her rear foot digs in, and then she surges forward in a charge straight for the security mech, leaving her companions behind her. Did anyone expect any less from the bloodlit Battle Maiden? She twists the blade in her grip, and suddenly the sword starts to come apart in segments, connected by a glowing, crackling string of cyan energy as it turns into a bladed whip. She whirls the whip overhead once, and then swings it out to snap towards the security mech. Hit by Artemis' sword whip the Mech is knocked 4m back. The blade segments penetrate the force field but are slowed sufficiently they fail to mar the tough composite material of the body.

Harlequin, upon hearing the fight break out over the comms, in order, sighs softly, raises his defenses, and then teleports 'outside' to the combat. After taking a moment to orient himself, he raises his hands in supplicating manner as he chants something in a dark language. The result? A gigantic immaterial bone hand appears next to the security mech and then gently touches it. All of this is accompanied by a brief cold wind and a faint hint of dry decay.

Unix sees Artemis attacking the machine. Taking a leap (megaleap) she intends to land nearby the containers within a couple seconds.

The Mech side slips away from the magical attack. Furthermore, the glow of the force field brightened on the side of the Mech closest to where Harlequin's magic struck.

Tali walks in again in accelerated time to try to age the mech to breakdown, then walks back to rest again.

Tali thinks. o O (Shick, this thing is fast! I might have to try something else!) The Security Mech glides forward in a deceptively fast motion, closing the range on Tali, Artemis, and Titan. Then another three plasma bolts shoot out from the ring of plasma around the rim of the Mech. Tali proves no less good at dodging than the mech. Artemis brings up her shield, hardly feeling the attack save for the heat from the plasma. It doesn't even push her back in the air. "Those slain creatures never stood a chance against you. What sort of slaving ship is this?" she demands as she lowers her shield and flies at the Mech. Her sword suddenly retracts, shortening as she closes the distance. She thrusts her sword out and it expands again to strike at the mech. Harlequin tilts his head as he looks at the security mech. "Intriguing. Technological defences against magick. I wonder though..." The mage then makes some sweeping gestures with his hands as he murmurs something soft and low. From outside an area around the mech, it is like a light veil of light with images of the heroes on it has descended around the security mech. From the inside, hopefully, the security mech is now sensing all the heroes as being a meter or so to the side of where they truly stand. Of course, so will the heroes inside a 6m radius area. Harlequin thinks to himself <>

Tali still hasn't come up with a better plan that trying to age the bot, so she runs in to do the same thing again, withdrawing to a distance of 30m - as far from other heroes as she can.

Tali finally tags the bot with her rapid-aging power - and withdraws to a safer distance to see if it's effective

Titan rights himself from spinning and flies down to the ground to get a solid surface to push off of.

When Tali manages to touch the Mech, the force field turns red, then green, then blue as her fingers push though to make physical contact. A tiny spot of tarnish appears where her fingers touch but Tali thinks somehow the force field negated much of the effect.

Tali thinks. o O (Shick. Ok. Less cleverness, more brute force, I guess!)

The Security Mech accelerates fast darting in a zig-zag motion toward Harlequin, and co-incidentally Tali. When within close range of Tali it fires out three plasma bolts, one at Harlequin from a distance of 30m and two in Tali's general direction. One at where Tali appears to be visibly and one where its mass sensor detects her.

Artemis gives chase after the Security Mech, unsure of why it's attacking them. The battle maiden is quick and agile as she zigs when it zigs, zags when it zags. She cuts up above it as her whip solidifies into a sword again. With a burst of speed, she swoops down before it and raises her sword in a thrusting strike as it speeds ahead.

The plasma bolt knocks Harlequin back and down to the ground, but he doesn't seem stunned. But does seem annoyed.

The Mech gets caught by Artemis' sword thrust. The front edge dips, the searing hot plasma cutting into the floor of the cargo bay. The Mech fips and tumbles, flipping completely three times before it stops. Since there's no difference to up or down sides who can tell if the same side is top as before. Going to be easier to tell from now on. There's a small but noticable dent in the surface of the Mech.

There's a ragged melted hole in the floor of the cargo bay through which air is hissing out into space.

Tali acts as soon as she's aware of the hull breach: in an instant she pushes a container over the hole to block it - indeed so quickly she can't be seen to move! There's now only a slight hiss of air escaping under the container. Unix picks up a large container to lob at the large machine. The hard thrown container from Unix's hands slams into the already destabilised Mech and puts another dent in the case. The Security Mech flips over and stabilises in the air. Then the plasma rings glows as plasma condenses into just two bolts. One at Artemis, and the other at Unix. Artemis gets blasted by the Security Mech, her shield only deflecting part of the torrent of energy. She braces against it, getting pressed back only a meter as she resists the force brought against her.

Wolf stops concentrating upon seeing Harlequin fall. Rushing over, Wolf *noses* Sasha back up to a sitting position, and Sasha's burns begin to Heal on contact. ..

Titan leaps over near the robot, not wanting to try his initial plan...which was to just plow through it. Apparently that outer wall of this larger ship is more fragile than he'd like.

Harlequin nods his thanks to Wolf, and quickly creates a barrier around the shuttle. Too many energy bolts flying around. Tali runs in to the mech once again - but this time she studies it carefully looking for the weakest spot then kicks it there as hard as she can before retreating to 30m distance again.

Tali strikes true against the damage mech!

The carefully aimed blow from Tali adds another small dent. The Security Mech turns in the air, a slightly ragged motion compared to the smooth movement it had at the start. It fires off another three plasma bolts, one at Tali, one at Artemis, and One at Unix. Wolf gets Sasha back up on his feet, then heads on over to help Unix next! Wolf *noses* the disoriented Unix ((who is recovering from CON-stun)) so that she's facing in the proper direction, and Unix' circuits begin to re-knit on contact. . . Wolf then remains at Unix' side to block any further bolts of Plasma headed Unix' way. . . Artemis brushes off another blast from the mech, this time the energy is diverted enough by her shield to have it avoid pushing her back. She dips under the security Mech and tries to strike it from below, driving her sword up.

Titan doesn't want to smash the bot into the floor, so instead he goes to grab the thing. Sure, it might hurt a little, but it'll make it easier for the others to hit it too.

Titan doesn't even wince as he takes a hold of the robot and squeezes it. The plasma sears his clothing, leaving his skin unharmed though. The mech crumples and the plasma extinguishes. "Huh. I kinda figured it would take more than that."

Tali says, "Can somebody weld my patch tight or something?" and then disappears on another scout of the room. She wants to see if any of these containers are openable so she can get a look at the contents. It might be important to know what's here.

Unix says "I can probably do a quick patch job..." Walks over to where the hole and patch is at, using her scythes and a high electrical charge plus engineering skills to try and weld it closed, it might still leak but it would be a tiny leak, unnoticable... Artemis gives her sword a single twirl to roll out her wrist, then reaches up and returns it to the sheath on her back. "What manner of language was it speaking before? We must be careful on this slaver's ship."

There are a half dozen of the hundred and hundreds of containers that are openable, the force fields having been either blasted down before or blasted down in this fight. One of the newly opened containers is a real find. Food. Fresh food. Meat, vegetables, fruit, wheat, etc. More than enough to last for weeks, if you can find a way to store it. Other containers hold raw materials, fabricated electrical spares, even a smallish container filled with what are probably uniform hats.

Titan says to Artemis, "I think Harlequin identified it as a version of Atlantean."

"Atlantean," Artemis repeats the name to learn it. "What part of your system is that species from?"

Titan chuckles. "Underwater? Thousands of years ago?"

Harlequin nods, "The past. Ancient past. Many tens of thousands of years."

Unix arranges her scythes over and adjusts the fix, bending it as neccesary, before using high voltage to spot weld and momentarily heat the metals together causing a near perfect weld, although leaving an obvious bubbly seam. After small such welds she nods, seeing it would do the job. Not perfect, but it would do.

Titan shrugs, "I don't know the details other than it's likely related to Greek, but...I'll be honest, I didn't understand it. So, probably closer to Ancient Greek than the modern version.

Tali takes the best finds back to our ship - who knows how long we'll be stuck here? - mostly the food, but also a sample of the electricals and such to show to more techy people and ask if they're worth anything.

Unix says, "Hmmm... i wonder if that means i should try and hack the 'source' or not..." Looks back at the ship and the flattened front compartment. "Yep, we're not going anywhere in that..."

Tali copies all the writing she finds and takes it to show Sasha. Faster than him having to go around everywhere!

Artemis looks to Harlequin. "You seem to know the most about these Atlanteans. Perhaps you can read the labels on the containers. What do you call them? Sigils?"

Harlequin takes the copied writings from Tali. He quickly scans through some of the script and tells the group, "This is Atalntean script. And this I recognise too. It's Muean. This... this is a legend. I think... somehow... we are on the Oydessy."

Tali says, "The what?"

Titan raises a brow, "You mean like Odysseus? Getting back from the Trojan War?"

Wolf's ears flicker and point toward Sasha and he sits back on his haunches, awaiting clarification, tail swishing back and forth to sweep out a semi-circle free of dust on the metal flooring of the hull.

Harlequin recalls what Ziand has told him. "Atlanis and Mu were warring empires in ancient times. Their war finally destroyed both civilizations. Every trace of Mu was erased from Earth. But the Mages and Priests used so much of the Earth's Mana during the war they could no longer stop Atlantis from sinking beneath the waves. One legend from that era speaks of a ship of the far skies, a Mu vessel called the Oydessy, said to be able to travel anywhere in time and space in the blink of an eye. It escaped the Atalantean purge, taking away the leaders of Mu and hundreds of Atlantean prisoners and slaves."

Tali says, "So - this is like an Ark? I guess that's why it's so big!"

Tali says, "Or is it just that it was big anyway so a good way to escape when shick got bad?"

Tali thinks. o O (I really have to find out more about other time travellers. But it's kind of hard when most of them seem to think I should never have been born in the first place....)

Harlequin shakes his head, "Either. Both. I don't know. The legend says the Oydessy was the greatest of the Mu vessels."

Tali says, "It's big. Dunno about *great*."

Titan raises a brow, "A spaceship built by ancient people tens of thousands of years ago isn't 'great'?"

Titan says, "Really?"

Titan says, "Assuming that's what we're dealing with here, of course."

Tali says, "Hey, if it's so great then why don't they turn the lights on so we can go Oooh!"