Gene lets the group's leader take care of the question while he peeks through the bathroom looking for clues or signs of anything that will help.

OOC: Sorry for the delays.  Life at work got so busy I had to actually cancel some vacation plans!

The bathroom itself is quite messy from dust, molds, and overgrowth of vines and plant materials.  Part of it is because this little scrub bot is not working correctly, and part of it is because something is seemingly overtaking the facility with plant growth.

Vilfred attempts to pacify the robot, but fails miserably.  (Roll failure.)  The scrub bot turns off and is permanently disabled, short circuiting and turning a pirouette before flopping down on its side on the dirt covered tile floor.  "Oh, the humanity!" are its last words as this robot dedicated to cleanliness dies in a pile of dirt in a filthy bathroom.

Your guide robot backs up a step.  "Well, that was rather mean-spirited.  Are you normally robot killers?  Is that what the Computer orders you to do now?  I had better alert EVE immediately."  It begins backing up toward the far room.

Gene does not find anything of significance.  You can exit the bathroom the way you came or continue into the locker room ahead (where the robot is retreating to).

Gene ignores the robot and looks in the locker room.

Justin hears the bot is going to warn EVE, so he steps in, lowering his clone prod and attempts to reason with the bot, to persuade him it was an accident. (Roll Oratory 12)

Dearest Mechano-Man,
Your forgiveness we do beg.
For our leader, yes, has found a precarious life
And knocked it off its leg.

Remember, we are but feeble-minded
Creatures of flesh and bone.
We pale in contrast to Almighty Computer's glory
For which we must atone.

Unlike you, fabulous automaton!
So close to Almighty Computer you are!
I see perfection in your steely gaze
And in your structure of rebar.

I wish devoutly to be thus:
A construct, perfect, just like you.
But until Gracious Almighty computer deems it good and so,
This is all that I can do:

Forgive our meager trespasses
For we a fumbling, smelly lot,
You are a reflection of perfection,
And we, are decidedly, not.

(Success.)

The robot stops to listen to Justin, and then says, "I gather you are here to unite EVE and The Computer.  Is that a correct interpretation of your purpose?"

Gene peeks inside the locker room and sees that it is fairly overgrown with vines, moss and other green foliage.  The lockers are propped open, and some have been completely knocked over by the overgrown foliage.  There are uniforms of various colors (i.e., various clearances), from red through blue (red, orange, yellow, green, blue), but they are covered in dirt and grime now.  The showers in the far corner have been left on and they slowly trickle, but now they "water" a large patch of dirt and mud, as well as vines and orange flowers sprouting from the center of the shower area.

At one corner of the showers, you see the remains of a yellow clad clone, half buried in the dirt and mud and not much more than a shriveled corpse now.  In one arm, it clings to something metal that it holds tightly to its chest, but you can't tell what it is.  The other hand holds the handle of some sort of small metal briefcase that is closed.

Justin nods, willing to say anything to placate the robot and keep him on their side...

"That is correct," Vilfred says, moving to the corpse, to examine the object clutched to its chest and the briefcase.

The vines whip around Vilfred as soon as she touches the corpse, wrapping around her...[roll]...right thigh.  They begin constricting immediately.

Then the unbelievable happens.  The orange "flowers" appear to detach themselves from the ground and begin walking on their roots toward Vilfred.  There are five of them doing this, with others still planted firmly in the dirt.

Drawing her laser pistol, still fitted with a red barrel, Vilfred fires at the vines in an attempt to free herself. "Unhand me, you... creepers!"

She will also try to slip free of the vines, regardless (hopefully parlaying her Fit Into Dangerously Narrow Spaces 12 into being able to squeeze out of one, as well). If she's able to get free, she will Distract Others Long Enough to Start Running 12 and leave the room.

Gene says, "This looks very unsanitary," but he runs into the locker room, firing randomly at the flowers but staying out of their reach.

Justin also enters the room, firing at the flowers...

Mark decides to follow the others and also goes in with laser gun blazing.

Copper moves in close, camera rolling. "And now," he says, narrating the action, we see the true underbelly of this structure coming to life, literally.  Will they survive?  Will our heroes defeat the moving killer flowers?  Only time will tell."

OOC: Sorry for the delays.  I was communicating with some players about whether they will stay in the game.

A firefight breaks out.  Well, mostly just a bunch of firing of lasers from your group.  One of the flowers is hit, and its flowery exterior dissolves, showing a skeletal robotic structure underneath.

Justin also misses by a wide margin, hitting Copper.  Unfortunately, Copper's clone is hit in the back of the head.  He falls with a splat face down into the dirt that layers the locker room floor.  He is KILLED.

The other four flowers are moving on "roots," walking toward Vilfred.

Vilfred fires, hitting the vine around her leg and miraculously not blowing off her own foot.  The tentacle loosens, and Vilfred begins slipping out.

As she begins crawling and moving back to escape the room, the flowers turn in your direction.  They begin to spin, and petals fly like Chinese Stars (whatever those are) directly at you.  One hits a locker just inches from Justin's face.  One hits Gene in the stomach, WOUNDING him.  The others stick into the walls around you.

The corpse in the corner of the room still clings to something metal that it holds tightly to its chest, and its other arm still clings to a metal briefcase.  Curiosity certainly makes you stop a second and wonder what could be so important that a scientist clone would cling to it even as he is dying.

In case you have forgotten the injuries and combat rules, see here: link to a message in "Paranoia: They Really Are All Out to Get You"

If she can, Vilfred grabs the two objects held by the corpse and skedaddles out of the room.

OOC: She can try, but that will require her going back in the direction of the flowers and tentacle, since she was trying to retrieve them in the first place before being attacked.

Given that she was crawling, I figured she hadn't moved far yet. If Vilfred needs to go back slightly to retrieve the items, she will try to do so, firing at the tentacle or a flower, whichever is most immediately threatening.

Gene fires at one of the flowers.

Cursing quietly at his miss, Justing targets the flower better, and fires again...

Mark orders the robot to attack the flowers and save them all.  He also fires at an approaching flower.

Vilfred grabs the stuff and...miraculously escapes being caught in the tentacle.  Flying lasers make the flowers cautious, and they move back into their positions near the showers, appearing deviously harmless...for now.

You step back into the main restroom, unharmed except for one death among you.  Luckily, like the rest of you, he was just a clone.  But now you have no one to videotape your heroic exploits.

Gene says, "Let's never, ever go in there again.  I'm sure I'll have nightmares about flowers after this.  By the way, Vilfred, what did you pull off the corpse?"  Gene is looking over at Vilfred.  "Anything hygeine related? Hmmm?"

Justin picks up the recording gear on his way out. No sense in leaving Computer's valuable resources in the hands of a dead man...

Picking up on Justin's good sense, Mark goes through Copper's personal items and pockets to make sure no valuable Computer items get left behind.

Vilfred catches her breath, then sets down the metal object and briefcase to examine them, with her comrades.