Bartja leads the others toward the south door toward the wall.

They cry out as though they are about to hit a wall, but then Bartja opens a door.  Inta, Frisky, Becka, and Lerku had been under some sort of delusion, while Dulob, Bartja and Desiraye seem unaffected.

Everyone sees that were under some sort of mental derangement, probably caused by the crystals in the room.  They had seen an endless corridor that went on and on, and as they tried to follow it, they were actually walking in circles.  Bartja destroyed the illusion by taking them to the door.  They now see:

You are actually in a room 30 meters by 30 meters square.  Along the left wall are a large number of shaped crystals that are pulsing with light and perhaps some other form of energy.  There are two doors exiting to the south.  (You are in room 5.)


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"Why don't we try to the left door and please, don't anyone touch anything!  We've had some real bad luck with crystals and fungus," Desiraye says to everyone in the room.

OOC: The left door to you (walking south) is the right door on the map (southeast).  Is this the one you mean?

Door in the SW corner, bottom left in room #5

OOC: I've archived the separate threads, so you can read the other people's thread for your amusement to see what was happening.  The crystals (called a programmed insanity machine) caused a delusion in about half of you...those who didn't pass the intuition check after modifiers.

As you descend into lower levels underneath the ruins (down another 30 meters or so), you find that now there is very little moss and decay.  The walls are lit with some sort of crystal lamps, whereas before they had not been lit at all.



You open the door and enter into the chamber marked 8.  As you enter this chamber, you see two strange devices that look like combinations of crystal and metal.  They begin to move slowly toward you. There are blinking lights of all the colors of the rainbow shining from the front of these devices.

Way too loudly, Lerku cries, "What in <EEEEeeeeeergroooOOOOoosshhhhhhhhh> are those??" before running to the back of the group and hiding behind everyone else.

Dulob raises his gun and prepares to fire, if necessary.  "Uh, is this a good time for the robot to do its thing maybe?"  He looks over at Bartja.

Desiraye raises up the laser rifles setting to 6 SEU/shot and takes aim at one of the robots.  "Umm, grenades to the far side of the room behind them may not be a bad idea," she says looking over the rifles sights.
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Becka tries to snag Lerku as he moves past.  "Hey, you have a weapon... here is a good chance for target practice.  You CAN do this, Friend," she says, attempting to encourage him.
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Lerku still hides in the back, although he does prepare the needler rifle to fire.  He waits to see how the others fare when they shoot those things.

"Very well, friend Becka."

Still peeringover her laser rifles sights, Desiraye will say to Lerku, "Just aim for the robots center of mass, it's the biggest target you'll have to shoot at!  There should be hardly any recoil so don't jerk your shots!"

Inta pulls out a grenade. She keeps her sights behind the creature watching  the way it came in.

Lerku raises the rifle, aims at the thing's chest, closes his eyes and pulls the trigger.

Opening his eyes immeditely afterwards, he loudly asks, "Did I get it??"

Desi winces when she hears the needler rifle discharge and then quickly tries to re-focus on her sights to see if the needler round hit or not.  She flips the laser rifles safety to 'off' and says ina low voice, "Steady!  Steady!"

Becka takes cover wherever possible and tries to spare her ears from the loud sounds.

Desiraye will wait to see if the robots attack while she maintains her aim at the closest robot.

"Maybe....", Inta breathed. "We are looking for our friend Jameson, can you help us?"

Frisky had been standing back behind the others, waiting to see what might transpire.  Now he raises his weapon and takes aim but waits to see if the robot thingy is really hostile.  He fires if the others do or if attacked only.

"We come in peace," he says weakly.

OOC: We'll move on a bit without Bartja.

The two robots step to about the center of the room and stop.  The lights on their bodies begin to glow and pulse rhythmically, but otherwise the crystal robots do not move.

"Those lights!  Don't look at them!  I think they're trying to hypnotize us!!"  Lerku tries to line up another shot at one of the heads without looking at the lights.
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"Oh hell. If they wound us do you think they will then heal us?" Inta asks this while raising her rifle into a firing position.

"Listen to Lerku, do not look at the lights!"  Becka calls out, convinced that her friend is carrying a good warning.  She hopes her rescuers can avoid succumbing to the dance of the lights.