As Ethan lay unconscious, ensconced in power armor Night owl walked over to the Albino scorpion with a knife. The queen, severely weakened by her fight with the thrashing Albino, had retreated into the deepest part of the crevasse to better recuperate, and defend her eggs with to her gas exchange if necessary.
The Albino had long since stopped moving. Its body laid limp on the ground. Night Owl began taking the knife to the massive tail of the scorpion, detaching the tail from it's body before dragging the massive stinger over to the team. Another member of the team grabbed the other end to better carry it. And two of the team grabbed the still unconscious Ethan, grumbling about the ones who decided to put him into full, heavy power armor, and dragged him to camp. The armor making him too heavy to lift, but keeping his body, and especially his arm stiff enough to prevent it from getting worse.
As they arrived back in the tribal camp, the Chief went up to the group, with a small group of his warriors, when he saw the tail they were carrying, he allowed the, begrudgingly to enter the village center. The shaman then stepped out of the tent standing immediately in front of the RobCo building. The magpie from earlier sitting comfortably on his head. When he came up to the team the magpie flew over onto Ethan laying on the ground, awake, but delirious from the pain and the medication his teammates had given him to manage it. "Hello" Ethan said to the bird on his chest. The bird cawwed back to Ethan, who in his delirium interpreted it as a response. As Ethan began having a conversation with the bird on his chest. The Shaman chuckled at seeing this and turned to the rest of the team, looking at the massive white tail.
"I see you succeeded, much praise to you. This will make the coming ceremony one to be remembered." looking Demeter in the eyes he spoke directly to her. "As we discussed, you may enter the temple. Your companion, does not look able to follow you, we have men who have much skill in medicine." He turned to Ethan, still casually chatting with the bird. "He has aided our tribe for the coming ceremony, we will be happy to help him. If I might add one request though, a young girl of our tribe has seen sixteen winters, and is of the age to be considered an adult. It is tradition for those who have reached her age to enter the temple and retrieve something from within that will aid the tribe. However there are many dangers inside, many of the great metal monsters. One of our older warriors go with the young ones, but, as you are already entering yourselves, would you allow her to come with you?"
However there are many dangers inside, many of the great metal monsters
"Fucking great... Robots" Dead Eye thaught to himself as he walked outside to speak to Knoxx
"Well one of the Tribal leaders just said the building is full of robots, were down a man, and we have to babysit one of them for some initiation quest. This keeps getting better and better."
"Well this is going to be fun, robots, turrets and traps, who knows what else might be in there, Mr House really needs to stop leaving his stuff in such backwater places, do people ever lose things anywhere pleasant?"
"Ah, we might have a advantage here." said Alex. "Being brotherhood means growing up around tech and computers, as such I may be able to hack some terminals and shut down some robots."
Sorry for inactivity, went to a party last night and was in hospital this morning. Won't be here much of the weekend either so I apoligise for that now.
"Yeah, at least I can see and hear them coming long before they start firing, a lot of them are easy to avoid as well because of their set patrol routes, with any luck this part of the mission at least shouldn't be too much of a hassle."
-----Tribe-----
The shaman called to a young girl that was hiding behind the opening flaps of one of the teepees and waved her over. She approached the group slowly, her hands at her side, indicative of her shyness.
"h-hello" she stammered out. She was in awe, She had never seen any outside of her own tribe before, and all these men looked so big and strong, It was no wonder they killed the sacred white insect, they looked like they could handle a hundred of them. Even if one of their group was hurt. And he had been chosen by the Uracca, he was even talking to it. And now they would be taking her into the ancient temple. She had heard stories from her friends that the metal monsters were frightening things, and the only way to get by them was to be faster, and, like all of the young ones of the tribe, she had heard the stories of the children who were not as fortunate inside the temple.
"This is Aasebun" The shaman said to the group, placing his hand on her shoulder to calm her enough so she wouldn't bolt in the face of the intimidating strangers. "She is the child of a good friend, I hope you will keep her safe." He pushed her in the direction of Demeter, the least threatening looking of the team.
With their new companion dutifully, albeit nervously, in tow, the team opened the door of the rob co building and stepped into the lobby. A wide reception desk was at the far end, with a set of computers sitting on it. To the left were the bathrooms, and to the right, a large door frame, sans doors. The lobby area was more better presented, significantly cleaner than the majority of pre-war buildings. Walking over to the lobby desk, they could see a series of signs in the hall next to them.
Aasebun was already familiar with the open areas of the lobby floor of the RobCo building, the tribe going inside frequently for water from the still-working bathrooms. But she made sure that she stuck near the team regardless. Although she knew that, in all likelihood, she might have to split off, in order to better find something on the still unexplored levels of the temple her tribe held sacred.
-----Ethan-----
The bird sat on his chest. It hopped back and forth across the power armor that Alex had strapped him into. But with all the painkillers he had been shot up with, he was finding it difficult to mind.
"Geeze kid, you got fucked up."
Ethan spun his head as best he was able, seeing nothing, he called out "H'uh, who's there" Although it was little more than mumbling to any observers. At this the bird on his chest hopped up to the power armors neck plate and gave him a slight tap on the head with its beak. "What, were you dropped as a kid."
"you're talking"
"and you're hallucinating, that's some smart observation dipshit."
"You're kind of rude"
"I'm a bird, the fuck do you want."
"You know, I'm not really sure, I've never thought about what you would say."
"yeah, well, no one does"
"That's gotta be rough."
"you get used to it."
"well, what do you want?"
"you got anything to eat?"
"sorry man, fresh out."
"ah, fuck it, these guys keep me pretty well fed."
As Ethan continued to babble to the bird that was taking an unusual interest in him, the team had walked into the RobCo building. Ethan was dragged, the power armor still to heavy to make moving him easy, into one of the teepees. The armor was stripped off him and an older man, mid 30's began examining his arm, making the occasional clucking noise. he brought out a needle and boiled it, sterilizing it and preparing it for an injection of medx. Meanwhile the conversation with the bird moved on.
"...Seriously guy? you've got to let people in, this closed off shit just won't cut it."
"What do you expect, you show weakness in the wastes, you die, that's not something I'm looking to try."
"Emotion isn't weakness man, but, a shit, never mind, medicine dude's got a needle, looks like you're going under again. Crap!, before you go, there's one thing I was supposed to tell you, 'don't give up.' shit doesn't mean jack to me, but what do I know, I'm just a bird, it's not like they tell me anything."
A few seconds later Ethan was stuck with the needle of medx and a wave of darkness went over him as he passed out again. The bones in his arm were reset, made better aligned by the tribal healer. Then put into a splint made up of a board that was broken off at the end, and a fire axe. It wasn't the most elegant splint, but it would keep his arm from moving and his bones from healing out of place.
Yeah it's small, so I'll make this bit a little easier, These are floors, 1, 3 & 6 and the basement factory level. the green circles are turrets, the red squares are closets for sentry bots (except for the two circles on floor 1, those, I got a little excited with the paint bucket). There are a few protectrons, but they're only hostile past the third floor, or if you fail to hack the security office door.
Demeter looked at the building directory. "Our best bet is to search the offices first. If what we need isn't in there then we can probably find information on where it is."
"I agree, the offices sound most likely, do we want to stay all in one group and head right to the offices or should we try a wider search of the building in seperate groups just in case there is something else of importance here." Night Owl thought for a minute and looked over to their new temporary companion.
"Like whatever Aasebun needs to find to complete her initiation?"
"We are a pretty large group. Not to mention the security office would also be useful. If someone can hack the computers it would probably make this search safer."
"I think hacking is Alex's thing, if he can get up to security maybe he could manage to change the targeting parameters of the robots and turrets, what do we think about checking out any of the other locations? Product display could have something useful and the tribe might be thankful of any supplies we can retrieve from the cafeteria and nurse office."
You guys can go ahead, Aasebun knows nothing about any level above or below the lobby, and won't be any help. And Ethan is hallucinating outside.
This is about you leading yourselves in the area I have established for you. There's enough paths that your choices will matter, but I'm not going to be pushing you to choose one thing or the other.
SO go have fun, give me a little time to respond, or work on a post with me VIA steam, and we'll see how well you get through RobCo.
"This place might get nasty, I'm all for sticking together unless we can find some working security cameras and a intercom or something, for overwatch. If we find a mainframe it would help to have backup while hacking it as well." said Alex, thoughtfully.
Looking around the building, Chaz was impressed by the scale. On the flipside, he wasn't too happy about the prospect of fighting robots - for starters, he had no AP ammo...
"We ought to arrange some sort of comms for future missions", He announced, matter-of-factly.
"I really don't know how prepared we are to fight robots at the moment, I don't have AP ammo so I'd waste huge amounts of ammo just destroying one robot, we need to get to security and try to disable the defenses of this buidling with as little hassle as possible."
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