Yeah girl u crazy go back to the surface there's no reason for you to be here

There's TREASURE~

Yrr'a 2010/10/20(Wed)17:06 No. 246377 ID: 8c0848
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These bats do not seem like a good meal, they are mostly bones and teeth. Anyway, you are not particularly hungry at the moment.
You return to the pillar hall and look down the hole. It is not very deep and seems to lead to the interior of a structure, as if this was the roof of a building.

>>246377
Do we have enough rope now to get down there?

We should rap enough rope to reach the bottom around the base of the pillar to the left and explore the hole.

Try to avoid getting eaten by a grue.

>>246377
Use ROPE on HOLE.

>>246377
So before you venture any further, let's get to know more about you, Yrr'a. Why are you coming down these caves? Short on cash? Need to make payments and not keen on the landlord's 'alternative' methods of payment? Or are you down here for other reasons?

>>246377
How good are you at throwing ropes upward, and do they have grapples? Since our exit route is a teleporter, could you just drop down and use a rope to get back up here later from below if we find something to power up the bridge?

>>246478
Will you knock it off already?

Yrr'a 2010/10/22(Fri)20:02 No. 246989 ID: 8c0848
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You use a rope to climb down into the structure. The ceiling has crumbled, but there still seems to be power.

down the stairs, rifle ready.

get out a torch, light it, and go left.

>>246991

Do this.

>>246991
Pretty decent advice. A flare or a light is only likely to make you more of a target and destroy any darkvision you have.

>>246989
Go left!

Yrr'a 2010/10/30(Sat)11:14 No. 250264 ID: 8c0848
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You creep down the stairs, rifle ready. You can not see anything at the bottom.

>>250264
Shoot the darkness.

>>250264
Stand there and let your eyes adjust.

Yrr'a 2010/10/30(Sat)13:12 No. 250300 ID: 8c0848
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You fire into the darkness. The area lights up in a flash, but it is hard to make out any detail.

Descend.

light a torch.

Why did you not bring anything to shed light when descending into ancient buried ruins?

>>250306
The ruins are actually pretty well-lit so far.

Yrr'a 2010/10/30(Sat)18:32 No. 250422 ID: 8c0848
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You climb down the stairs an enter a room with a large, metal door. The console next to the door is blinking with strange text.

>>250422
Examine the console.

see if it has anything you can use to decipher it a little.

>>250425
>>250430

Also, poke it with a stick :3

Yrr'a 2010/10/30(Sat)19:17 No. 250446 ID: 8c0848
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The console has text displayed on the screen. You cannot decipher it.

>>250446
Damn right we can't decipher it! Only one character repeats!

Unless this is an Art Fail moment; non-alphabet fonts should be pixel-arted.

>>250446
Are those buttons down there?

If they are, push the one on the left.

Yrr'a 2010/10/30(Sat)22:00 No. 250479 ID: 8c0848
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>>250446
You press the button on the far left. Something is different.

>>250479
Oh goodie. Push the far left button again, then the far right, and finally the middle.

Yrr'a 2010/10/30(Sat)22:08 No. 250483 ID: 8c0848
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>>250480
The buttons light up and the door hisses and begins to slide open.

Step away from the door so you don't get ambushed by whatever's behind it. Get out your halberd.

>>250483
Move away from the door. Unsling the halebard and make sure it's within easy reach. Then get out the rifle and prepare to fire if anything hostile shows up.

We are so lucky the door opened and we didn't trigger some sort of horrible trap.

Of course we probably triggered some horrible security system.

Equip halberd, looks like we might not have much room to maneuver and use the rifle should something bad pop out.

>>250484
>>250921
You both know that a halebard is bigger than a rifle right? If we got enough room to swing around one of those then we definately got enough room to use the rifle. And if we place the halebard standing within reach then it's a simple thing to squeeze off a shot or two, drop the rifle and then grab the halebard if it gets close.

>>250483
Equip rifle, take a few steps back, crouch, aim towards the door. Be ready to shoot whatever comes through.

Yrr'a 2010/11/05(Fri)13:10 No. 252817 ID: 8c0848
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You ready yourself for a surprise attack, but nothing comes out.

>>252817
Damn, that's really fucking dark. You need something to light up the way or make you able to see before you can go down there. Lets head back and see if we can find something useful. Hmm, maybe some cloth, wrapped around a bone that we can set fire to with the laser at a low setting.

>>252817
Enter.

>>252817
Get in there. Looks like the floor's lit.

Yrr'a 2010/11/05(Fri)19:13 No. 252910 ID: 8c0848
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You enter the hallway. The light is pale, but that seems to be consistent throughout the ruin. There is an object in the middle of the hall.

slowly walk towards it, while keeping the gun lined up with the dark circle near the top, different color makes is seem important.

>>252910
Hmm, looks like it could be a construct of some kind. Go back and pick up some loose rocks. Toss a few near it and see if you get any reaction.

>>252910
What's that to the right of your head? (Slightly above-left from camera POV.)

Yrr'a 2010/11/05(Fri)19:47 No. 252918 ID: 8c0848
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You examine the wall carvings. They appear to be purely decorative. The figure does not respond to any of the pebbles you flick at it.

gun out and walk towards it. it may be out of power, or may only respond to live things.

>>252918
Hmm, don't like the looks of that thing. Call out to it and see if it will respond to verbal queries.

Poke robutt with Halberd from as far away as you are able.

>>252921
Call to it. Don't go near it. Look for traps around you.

Yrr'a 2010/11/29(Mon)18:45 No. 260723 ID: 8c0848
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>>252921
>>253334
>>253336
You call out to it, then tap it with your halberd. It does not respond. It does not seem to be metal, maybe some kind of plastic or ceramic. You are not sure.

>>260723
Go around it.

Yrr'a 2010/11/29(Mon)19:50 No. 260739 ID: 8c0848
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You decide to walk around it, while keeping a close eye out for activity. Was that glowing before?

>>260739
DUCK AND RUN GET AWAY FROM IT RIGHT NOW

Just run. Shoot at it while you run, maybe. But most importantly, run.

Investigate glowing.

Yrr'a 2010/11/29(Mon)20:14 No. 260751 ID: 8c0848
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You dodge away from the machine and investigate the glowing. It appears to be glowing because it activated when you tried to pass.

>>260751
Can ya shoot it with the rifle? Preferably in the head.

>>260751
Start backing away from it, if it starts looking threatening then run like fucking hell. If you're going to fight this thing then don't do it in a cramped corridor when it's close enough that it could easily rush you.

Yrr'a 2010/11/29(Mon)23:12 No. 260793 ID: 8c0848
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You backpedal and fire at the robot. It is not stopped by the single shot and continues toward you.

Well good to know this thing's slow. You've got good range with the halberd, how about we smash it?

>>260795

Uh, no, let's just run and see if we can find a big rock to crush it with, then blame it's lack of swimming ability on it's scrawny little arms.

>>260795
You did see where a full force halebard swing to the head had no effect, right?

>>260793
Backpedel faster. Need to get to the rope and get away from it with time enough to climb without the robot getting to it.

>>261075
I didn't see that at all. We haven't done that.

It looks like it is going to close with you, switch to the halbard and try to at least keep it back.

>>261104
Yeah, no, don't let it get close.

On second thought, just keep shooting it in the head. Repeatedly. Over and over.

>>260793
Back up all the way to the doors and use them to cover your centre of mass. For all you know that's a laser eye.

Yrr'a 2010/12/04(Sat)16:14 No. 261791 ID: 8c0848
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You decide to run and make a dash for the door. There is a whining hum coming from the robot and it's eye is glowing much brighter now.

Roll 1d20

rolled 19 = 19

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Let's see.

>>261791
Get ROUND the door arch, ideally to your right (the side with the panel).

>>261791
Dodge girl! Dodge like the bitch you are!

>>261791
Dodge like a motherfucker.

rolled 4 = 4

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Dodge. :V

If you are looking for something more specific, try to run along one side, then if you hear something behind you, fling yourself at the other wall. Just get out of the damn hallway.

rolled 7 = 7

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>>261796
(Rollan for this, then.)

rolled 17 = 17

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Take off an article of clothing and throw it at the eye so it can't follow your movement.

>>261791
Run for cover!

rolled 12 = 12

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Don't duck in case it's a) one of many shots or b) a shot that lasts, so it just angles it down and fries you. Instead, weave to the side and try and get around the corner of the door.

rolled 6 = 6

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Yrr'a 2010/12/05(Sun)07:32 No. 261986 ID: 8c0848
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You dodge around the corner, barely avoiding an energy blast emitted from the robot's eye.
The monster is still slowly thumping down the hallway toward you.

Yrr'a 2010/12/05(Sun)07:34 No. 261987 ID: 8c0848
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>>261812
You pull off your skirt and throw it over the robot as it approaches the doorway. The fabric drapes over it's head and blocks the glowing eye.

>>261987
Smash the control panel in an attempt to make the door crash down.

Hells to the YEAH, Stab the FUCK out of that control panel!

>>261999
...or just press a button on it so that they're not all lit up any more.

>>262036
I support this course of action. Maybe time it so the door shuts on its head and crushes it.

>>262037
...for the sake of clarification, my suggestion is to press it right now in case those doors are slow or have a weak mechanism or---heaven forbid---a safety device.

Just close those bloody doors. This isn't a movie, smashing the console won't do anything.

Close the door with the control panel

SMASH THE ROBOT WITH YOUR WEAPON.

>>261987
You know, if it came out here we could probably just go around it.

>>262105

Then we'd have it following us back around, with laser beams of DEATH shooting at us.

Push button, receive smashed robot.

Yrr'a 2010/12/05(Sun)17:09 No. 262247 ID: 8c0848
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You press the button on the console and the door slides shut. You seem to be safe for the moment, but there is still a large laser robot blocking your progress.

Let's see. Is that the only way forward? If not we'd probably be better off trying to find a better weapon before we take him on. Otherwise we need a plan. Robots are pretty dumb, how can we trick it?

>>262278
There's a laser bridge we seem to need a glowy thing for, a dead end, and back out.

The least terrible plan I can think of is trying to drop one of the bits of pillar on it from the gap we descended here: >>246989 . We totally wouldn't get lasered in half trying to lure it there and climb the rope, only to miss.

That's discounting plan "leave with a total takings of one second-hand laser rifle and one medkit, which may not even pay for the ropes and replacement dress".

>>262280
The rifle would actually be fairly valuable, if it's still in decent condition and nobody finds out/cares that it was taken of a fresh set of remains.

That's assuming we could even easily make our way back up. Didn't we do some jumping? How many ropes have we got left?

>>262247
Lets go back and try to figure out the bridge.

>>262325
(The rope between here and the bridge looked entirely climbable. The ones higher up, less so, but we have a recall beacon for when it's time to cut losses and flee for our lives.)

...Yo, guys? I just remembered... Don't we have, like, three detpacks? Can't we just blow it up or something?

>>262396
>dental plan
>Lisa needs braces
>dental plan
GENIUS. Plant detpack, open door, run like the dickens?

>>262407
Well, maybe wait a little while (on the side of the room with the exit, not the dead end, in case it opens the door) before openning the door again, maybe it'll go wander back to its former position and go into 'sleep' mode again. It should be a sitting duck if it does.

>>262393
True.

>>262396
YES. Set 'em. Put one down by the door, one further along in case that's not enough to take it out, and... but hmm. The console's on the other side. That might mar our escape.