After we dealt with the child, we went down a ramp that went down about 50-60ft, and as we went down we began to hear a constant low chatter of echoes. AS we got to the bottom, with no warning an alarm began blaring through the corridors and stopped just as suddenly half a minute or so later (we figured it must not actually be an alarm, but possibly a dinner bell or summons of some sort). With that worry put to rest (mostly), Colleen began to scout ahead as we descended further.
While Colleen is impressively good at going unnoticed, we were not prepared for a wall to drop behind us and trap us with 4 of the Creatures that were farming above, although these had armor, helmets, guns and goggles. Apparently Ziggy's attempts to communicate with the kid were quite productive, as he tried to talk the creatures out of attacking us (the conversation loosely translated to "Not Enemy" "Cattle, Xenomorph, Shit" "Not Cattle" "No. Targets!" before they began shooting). Colleen and Smoke decided that it would be a good time to get into an insult fight. Apparently these creatures have guns that shoot lasers, and after a brutal firefight with them, where they were shouting about some prophecy and doing their very best to kill us with their lasers, we defeated them and took their guns and make Colleen some makeshift armor out of scraps of theirs. Ziggy also cut their throats to make sure they were dead.
The guns are covered in the creatures writing, which I have begun to crack, due to having a decent amount of samples from our exploring and what we have taken from them, and a bit of luck. Apparently the guns have some sort of instructions for how to use them on them.
We went back up the ramp and reached the floor above the strange maze, this floor seemed warmer than the others, which since the caves seemed to be at a constant temperature before this likely meant this floor had something important on it.
Also it's at this point we learned that Smoke and Malady are not the best at sneaking, and what the Actual alarm sounded like, causing many more of the strange aliens to show up with guns and vests covered in their strange heiroglyphics. It did not look good for us. Colleen began to sing a hymn to try and calm them down. Interestingly these Aliens appeared less hostile, and one of them appears enthusiastic to see us (and has a device that can translate our languages, fascinating). I was equally if not more happy to meet a fellow scientist from an alien race willing to trade knowledge with us, so we agree to follow him to his lab. When we got there there was screaming coming from it from a human miner being experimented on, when questioned the aliens seemed to not understand our ... concerns since they were given these people by Kang and therefore there was no problem with it, they also appeared to not know what Morphine or opium was so the humans being experimented on had no painkillers.
I talked to him for a bit longer (It's not the most horrifying thing I have seen, so I can keep up the facade in order to get more information) and he tells us there is a Reliquary across from his lab in passing. At this point Jackie has run out of patience and shouts at the war pleader, who tries to stun her, but she then unloads several bullets in his face, while Ziggy slashes the tube keeping the tormented miner alive to put him out of his misery. We get into a vicious fire fight with the 4 remaining tech priests which Smoke stunned with one of his working flash grenades while Casanova keeps them from getting to the heavy hitters.
I really wanted to salvage some of their tech, such as a belt that allows incredibly accelerated healing when used on someone and the power cells which are used in nearly all the alien technology. Unfortunately, Ziggy begins to attack Waltzing with his arm wreathed in supernatural flame shouting "Enjoy, Magic Man!" and Immolating Malady. I used a (broken apparently) ray gun to attempt to disable the manitou by shooting his body, but it wasn't enough and he pulls out the HoD (Not sure how he got it, the demon can't be trusted) and shouts "YOU WANT THIS STONE!" to our horror.
We managed to finish him off and kill the monster and a tech-priest. Apparently there is a medicine ball that when powered acts as an medkit, at this point Ziggy who is back in control is demanding to be healed although we did not have the time to do so, and to be honest, some of us didn't want to until we were safe (Smoke is now carrying the HoD, since we all know he wouldn't give in to stone for anything). Smoke throws an alien powercell into the hallway filling up with alien soldiers, which explodes catastrophically anihilating the enemy and damaging some of the labs, which started glowing green, purple and light blue. Ziggy grabs and uses the medball and we rush to the reliquary, when we open it the amount of alien tech in it made me giddy. "This is the jackpot!" I said, almost losing sight of the actual goal as I saw the room with rack after rack of the alien power cells, rayguns, vests, belts and an odd chair with a helmet at the far end of it.
At this point several more tech-priests are rushing to the scene to take back their sacred vault, and while smoke began threatening to throw his "patented" "Death grenades" to get them to back off. Meanwhile Ziggy is stuffing as much into the strange Boxlike container he found in the room. Smoke tried to shoot one of the aliens but ends up hitting Casanova. Meanwhile I am looking at the chair, which has a label in their strange language that reads "Main Interface Terminal", but I was needed in the fight so I left investigating that until later.
After fighting off the tech priests we rush to the portal room, which has 10 tech-priests and 10 alien guards all of whom had ray guns. Smoke began to open the door and found that there is a steel plate blocking a laser coming out of the rift. There is also an alien wearing red and white fabric who we concluded was the tech priest's leaders. Ziggy as usual wanted to burn things and pull out a vial of nitroglycerin, which was promptly shot down since throwing highly volatile explosives into a room with alien tech and an unstable rift was a horrifying idea.
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