Inside, they find the room again upside down. There is a big clear pillar in the middle, along with some work shelves on the sides. A Big, hulking, metal figure stands there. His arms are two shields, and he has two knives as arms. He says in a robotic voice, "How dare you defile the chamber of Mosck."
Leora attempts to show him the medallion, but instead he charges. Jasmine siphons his power, The others attempt to attack it, but all fail to cause any appreciable damage. The robot stabs at both glaves, Quinn deflects, but hector is stabbed in the gut. Hector activates a cypher that will disable electronics. Medea jumps on the robots back.
Leora uses numinera and realizes that the robot is stuck on loop of it's last program, and was probably damaged by a nano. She calls the information to Medea, on the robots back.
The attacks continue, the company making no damage on the robot. The robot phases and solidifies with it's sword in Quin and Jasmine. They are injured. Medea quickly works on the damaged head, and the robot suddenly stands still.
We learn that the big clear thing is a reactor for the blue crystal we just came down.
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We find a door on the sides of the reactor chamber, but which the eon Priests called the Guardd Chamber. They enter into the Twisted Tunnel. Again there are light fixtures along every 10-15 feet on the floor. Laora lights them with her touch as she passes. Suddenly all the adventurers find themselves shooting up to the ceiling as gravity switches. The ceiling becomes the floor, and the floor the ceiling--the light fixtures are now in their proper places.
At a T in the tunnel the explorers argue over which way to go. They did not get clear enough directions from Boas, and didn't know which way to go. After fiddling oddly with her fingers Jasmine walked to the right. Everyone except Quinn and Hector decide to go right. We look in to a very large room--100-200 feet. There are several birdlike shapes, or manta ray, and we begin to think that when Boaz said "Vessel" he may have meant things that can be ridden or flown in. They all appeared to be wrecked as if from an explosion. One vessel does not seemed wrecked, and the hatch is open. Jasmine marches up inside the vessel.
Keltack runs back to find the others to let them know that the room of Vessels was found, and they decide to rejoin the others instead of exploring the other room.
The midnight Templars are a group of priests dedicated specifically to studying the "night" or "space"The inside of the ship seems very comfortable. There are couches and some orbs floating in the air. Along the ceiling in the control bridge there are complex wires and controls. In the middle there is a red synth keyboard thing. There are seven pillars filled with rolling gas--the ships engine. In another part of the ship there are several sleeping chambers--they would fit a human but seem to be designed for something larger. There is something that looks like a shower, with an orb suspended.
As the company is looking for cyphers, Jasmine grabs an orb and attempts to syphon it's power. She is thrown back because it is too powerful. Again.
Hector examines the red synth _____ he realizes this is the weapon control. Up to 4 people can man the weapons. It has a range of about 20 miles.
Medea looks at the control panel realizes that it is a communication panel that allows for telepathic communication with one person at a distance of up to 100 miles. (level 5 communication ray)
Quin accidentally bumps a panel in he ship and discovers a hidden compartment full of different five canisters. She stuffs them in her bag. She takes them to the nanos, and they realize it is for coating any living being in an organic night (space) suit. It would process the air and protect frm the void of space. Quin gives them Medea, Hector, Jasmine, Keitorga, and kept one for herself.
Jamine checks out the shower. There is a vibrating sensation, and all the dirt on her body falls off. Several of the others also shower.
The company leaves the ship and heads down the tunnel at the other side of the chamber. We come to the second guard room. Inside there is a large console, but it is not a control panel. Jasmine marches right in. The console flickers to life, and displays a robotic starfish shape. "Welcome, Travelors."
Before the creature can continue, Keltak bows down to it. He continues bowing through the entire conversation.
"You have come a long way to see me. What is it that you want? I am Mosck. I am the intelligence that inhabits this Night Ship. I crashed here many years ago. The midnight templars have been helping me with that, and I have helped the people of Evernight with power in return."
We ask about the dead pillar.
"You mean one of my propolsion arrays? Something must have gotten past my security. If I loose another I won't be able to continue protecting Evernight. If you head back through the other direction, and take the other turn, it will take you to another guarded chamber. If you can stop the sabatures, I will see what can be done about the damaged--what did you call it?--pillar."
He also tells us that the ship crashed upside down, hence the artificial gravity.
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We return to the other chamber. On the floor is the remains of the guardian. His armor hasbeen taking. Around the center of the room we can see that the reactor is damaged, and a piece is obviously missing. Hector realizes that it is a magnetic capacitor. It helps to retain the reactor field. Without it, the reactor field will quickly destabilize, possibly explosively.
The company decides to adapt Keitorga's magnetic shield to take the place of the magnetic capacitor. Leora begins work on it, with Medea's help. After she starts work the wall behind her flickers out of phase. In come three figures, on one side is Adjuct Rast, on the other is ___, and they are lead by Karner, who is wearing the Guardian's armor.
Keltak says, "You may have a tail, but I have frog eyes! HA!" Quin insults his hair.
Adjunct Rast looks at them. "Karner, kill them."
Karner attacks Keltak first, but misses by a little. He also aims at Keitorga with his bladed staff, but she dodges. The nano attacks Leora, and she sits up frozen, unable to continue. MEdea starts working around her. Agent Rasct attacks Quin, but she parries the attack.
Kietorga hits the nano with a dart in the side of the head. He raises a hand and says a word, and there is a blast of red energy that hits Kietorga in the chest. (there are other attacks, but all dodged.)
Karner jumps toward Quin and Keltak, phasing out and then phasing in when he hits them. They are badly hurt. Recoiling in pain and fury Keltak stabs at Karner, but it doesn't do as much damage as it should have because Karner is wearing the Guardians Armor.
Agent Rast sprays Jasmine with something, and it makes her limbs feel heavy. She starts to slow down.
Quin uses her bladestaff on the nano, and cuts Karner deeply. Hector does mental onslot, and causes Karner to stagger back.
Jasmine attempts to attack Karner with the metal drill, but he is able to dodge. Despite so many spent XP. Quin dodges an attack, Hector is frozen by the nano.
Leora comes out of her trance and starts working with Medea on the device.
Ketorga hits the nano in the eye with her dart gun. Etolas pulls the dart out of his head, "You aren't paying me enough for this!" The wall shimmers and the three of them leave.
Medea, with Leora's help, is able to finish the device and the control panel comes to life.
Jasmine uses her wall phaser and unphases the wall in pursuit of the three. There is a narrow room with an open door. we go through the door. Head down the hallway, and the leave the gravity field and fall toward the ceiling--which is actually the floor. Jasmine starts to land hard, but Keltac grabs her before she hurts herself.
The party comes to an area where the light fixtures are all glowing. They realize they are near thebegining. After a quick consultation, they decide to go back to Moszk.
He gives them thanks, and they inquire about the ship. The previous operators communicated through color shifts and hand signs. He plans to scrap it for parts eventually, but considers the request of the party and says that he will give it to them if he ever gets the hangar door open. HE suddenly says, "Oh-the city is under attack. I must go." And disappears.
The party returns to the rope and all successfully ascent the 300 feet to the top. They hear massive explosions outside. The priests enclave seems to be deserted. Out over the plane leading to the city we see hundreds of large mechanical spiders, and they are shelling the settlement. Hundreds of bombs are being aimed at the settlement, and with each hit the protective field shimmers.
