As we began to fly to the top of the tower, we spotted what looked like a military base that most likely belonged to Kang, the local Crime lord (member of the Triad) of the area who was working on building a railroad through the area. While Eric was navigating away from that we were attacked by huge Devil bats that appeared to be a monstrous combination of a bat and a huge shark.
They went directly for the ropes keeping the passenger basket attached to the plane itself, forcing Eric to angle us to at least crash into the top of the tower. I braced myself against the basket and managed to take out 2 of them with my rifles, while Ziggy attacked them with a stream of sparks. Unfortunately that left two of them and they grabbed onto Vudulady and myself (causing me to drop one of my rifles) and began flying upwards. I shot the Bat holding Vudulady and Malady and Casanova shot the one carrying me, although this led to us falling. Ziggy heroically jumped out of the basket and onto the roof to catch Vudulady, while Waltzing Buffalo turned into an albatross to catch me.
After we fixed up our wound we saw a devil bat nest with 2 young devil bats in it, which we quickly eliminated before they called in more devil bats. In the middle of the nest was a bizzare and freaky skeleton, and on its arm was a metal cage with claws and a cable that reached it's back, we also found a hand torch, which would glow if held. Mal decided to put the metal cage onto his arm, and it quickly bonded with his skin and the cable impaled his back. After Waltzing healed his injuries Mal found he could extend or retract the metal claws and it enhanced his strength. When Jackie saw the arm cage and the hand torch she commented that it was far beyond the technology of her time, which was distressing.
We looked for a way into the tower and found an air vent hidden behind some bushes that were moving weirdly. The vent extended for nearly 100ft before we reached the bottom which had a stone path leading further into the tower. When we entered the tunnel we were attacked by flying manta rays, but as if that weren't weird enough, they exploded when they were shot (possibly due to using an explosive gas to allow them to 'fly'). Eventually the tunnel ended and opened up into a well illuminated room, with very well groomed plant life in neat ordered rows, the garden was being tended to by creatures that resembled a combination of pig, rhino and monkey, who were probably angry and shocked by our intrusion (although it was hard to read their facial cues). There were also foot long worms flipping through the dirt, and quite a few large wasps flying around.
Ziggy tried to convince them we weren't hostile, while I prepared for combat and braced myself against a tree to reduce the recoil of using both rifles. After a bit of attempting to communicate with the creatures becoming increasingly Smoke fired one of his newest inventions (flash rounds), however like many of Smoke's inventions it malfunctioned and instead of blinding the creatures it exploded and incinerated several of them, causing the worms to immediately begin eating the corpses. I took this as a cue to open fire, and killed two of them, and in response they hit me with a strange weapon (a staff with two ends crackling with energy) which felt like being hit by a sledgehammer attached to a live wire. Lucky for me Waltzing used his healing magic to save me from becoming worm food. The creatures then attacked us again, and I was knocked out again (They didn't seem to want to let me shoot my rifles at them). Casanova protected me when I was down, and the rest of the creatures were killed, and then the wasps began attacking, although they were taken care of with smoke (and fire).
After I regained consciousness we examined their weapons, which we named 'Stun' Sticks, and found that they were powered by strange batteries, with a dial on each side that had 6 symbols which were presumably the amount of power that was being used to 'Stun'. And another button, that we found was what switched the stun sticks from stun to lethal. The batteries themselves have 30 different symbols on them (one of which was glowing slightly), which we speculated was probably how much charge was left in them.
After was finished experimenting with the stun sticks we heard muffled sound similar to the creatures from the far side of the room. Ziggy investigated the sound, in the hopes that he could still try to gain access diplomatically. The noises led to a room with chemicals tanks, sewage and other gardening equipment. Ziggy found a small child like version of the creatures we fought in the garden. Ziggy tried to calm it down and communicate with it, while I used the supplies to make a torch for us. After a bit of calming him down, and when we started to discuss what to do with the kid, it began catching on and glanced at Jackie and I and then at the ropes (I suspect he may have be a bit afraid of us). So we tied him up and hid him, figuring someone should find them when they investigated the farm.
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