From the journals of Havarti Quickquill
At the grate we saw a great cavern - two huge flat trees dominated the room, and what looked to be shelves for giants were far off to the left. According to the map from Bucky, one of those flat trees was where he was rescued last year. There was no sight of him yet. An odd, flat round thing was whirring on the floor far away from us. I think it was cleaning this area for it was cleaner than some long abandoned place should be. And the lights hurt my eyes - bright flat white lights high up in the ceiling cast multiple shaddows on the floor.
Finster got to work on opening the grate a bit more so that Bisquick and Vishy could fit through more easily. After that, with a spike from Jasper, Finster started in on jamming the spider doors. While he was doing that, John jumped up on the shelves. But somehow he must have triggered something as one of the spider trap doors opened up and a spindly, yet still quite large, spider came out.
Vishy, remembering how effective the rope trick was last time, leapt up and managed to neatly lasso the metal spider. He landed on the shelf near John but on the other side of a box. These spiders must have been a bit stronger, as he was immediately pulled off the shelf as the spider went to attack Bisquick. While John shot at it with his pistol. Jasper moved into position and was also shooting at the thing. Finster managed to find it and kill it off with a blow of his pickax, leaving more holes in the metal carapace as smoke drifted out. And another spider from another hole came out - it scuttled right over to Bisquick and launched one its nets at the elderly rat, capturing him neat as a pin! Finster was trying to cut through the netting as the spider was dragging the struggling rat towards that northern door. John opened one of the metal boxes and saw it was full of glass vials and had had some Forerunner script on it. Jasper started shooting at it as John hopped over to a closer flat tree so he could shoot it. It too was finally defeated, more smoke coming out. Bisquick was at the northern door, partially blocking it. And then it started to rain inside!
That round thing seemed to hurry over, and small arms came out to life the first spider to its back. Forerunner tech is in high demand, so we tried to keep that platform from stealing the defeated spider. The rope was still tied to it, so Vishy was trying to hold it back. It got halfway to the door when it was also finally defeated. The floor was slick with water, but the rains finally stopped. I think it had to do with the smoke but have not shared my theory with everyone else.
Bisquick shrugged out of the net but held on to it, thinking it may be useful. As soon as he did that, though, another of those round things came out from the end of the hallway in front of Bisquick. He used his staff to keep it from stealing our 2nd spider. And then I could hear Bucky's voice from the other chamber.
We killed off that second round thing, then started looking into the next chamber. Bucky was up high, in a metal cage. John climbed up, and Bucky complained about being trapped the last two weeks. He had some sort of dried food in a bowl, and water was in this transparent tube that had a metal tube sticking out - he had to lick a ball in the tube to get water!
John was befuddled by the lock, but Jasper apparently has some interesting skills. Climbing up and tying a rope to free his front paws, he had Bucky's cage open in moments. Getting out of the cage, Bucky told us that Miss Fay was taken a few days ago to another room. There was a door at the end of these shelves that had the same symbol that was on the odd thing hidden behind Miss Fay's mirror. There was no obvious place to put that thing. However, Jasper noticed a large square area that had a different color, and putting that thing up there made the door open up.
Inside, we saw that Miss Fay was in another cage, but getting picked up by some strange, huge thing on wheels or treads! It was a giant silver monster unlike anything I've seen before. I'll add some drawings when I have time.
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And stopped there as that was as far as my notes went. And it was 8:30 or so, and as I get up at 4am, getting past my bedtime! Still need to think about where we are going next - a lot of possibilities if I let myself be open to more fun stuff. It has been noted I am pretty literal about things. While that is part of being a good developer, it is not so great in games sometimes! But I do have ideas, but it also depends on what the players want to do. Not sure if Pinky's ornithopter will be able to take two more passengers, and possibly more spiders.
Anyway, the flat thing is made of plastic and is an RFID key card. The characters have no idea about plastic or RFID. And one of the players mentioned Gog the robot when I described a silver robot with arms. So we are going with Gog! Maybe I should watch it this weekend.
The question also came up as to how old these Forerunner structures were. Honestly Brass Rings is pretty bare bones in terms of that sort of thing. But it is 1000s of years old, but the technology is beyond what we have. Behind the scenes / meta-gaming, systems are being maintained but entropy will win out eventually. While Gog seems to be working fine, there may be glitches in its system. Though not going to move over to horror, there could be rodent skeletons in this lab! For this is a lab, and has basically spiders for cleanup/pest control, and the Roombas for keeping the floors clean. No one rode the cleaning machines I am sad to say. Had someone rolled up "ride the lightning" as an objective, that would have counted!
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