The Halls of Our Fathers

[Dracos]

Dracos nods silently and gestures backwards for them to head back to the previous room, staying a moment further to more clearly examine with his eyes the machinery of the mechaspider, whether the tripwire lasers are moving, what(if any) damage is done to the spider previous to them encountering it, if there is anything that looks like a sound sensor on it, or any other sensors that he can notice.

Dracos

[Brian]

You don't see anything you'd call a sound sensor.  But then, some of this stuff looks awfully advanced.  On closer inspection, it doesn't look like steel, but highly polished and very compact ceramic.

As far as the tripwires, you don't see them to be moving ... but with the dust shifting, it's hard to be certain.  The actuators are pneumatic, though.  There's a chip on one of the leg struts, but it's very minor.  That's about the sum of what you can see in the way of damage done to it.

Maybe you'll get lucky and find it's wasted all of its ammo on previous targets?

[Dracos]

Dracos moves back following the others, taking only remaining time to look over the body of the other warrior for what kind of damage had been dealt.

Dracos

[Brian]

Well, there's preforations across the chest, and the lower half of the body (skeleton, at this point) is missing.

[Dracos]

Dracos finally heads back into the previous room, gesturing for them to go at least a full room further before stopping to discuss, organizing his thoughts in his head first as he tries not to reveal too much while explaining it.

"We have a problem.  If we engage that thing in combat we will all certainly perish.  It is definitely armed with what, looking at the body, appears to be some sort of very high powered and very fast launching dart system though more powerful than any darts I've ever seen.  It's armor is obviously beyond our capabilities to damage and while I might be able to conceive a plan to take it down, it'd certainly end in the deaths of at least a thousand men.  I do not think it can see normally though.  I think it's eyes are fake and that instead it sees through those light beams coming off of it.  We may be safe if we can navigate the cavern without coming close to touching those light beams.  But...I can't be certain.  It is very dangerous."

Dracos

[Rezantis]

"You do like being dramatic, don't you? I'm sure Paul can work out some good lines for you in your epic, so don't worry too much."

Rez hums.  "In other words, it's a golem.  But it doesn't LOOK very well armoured, I just doubt anyone got close enough to hit it.  We need to make sure it doesn't just work off those lines, you know.  If it was that simple . . ." Rez trails off.

[Brian]

Liandral shakes his head at both of you, and goes to the water trough.  There, he splashes his face a few times (quietly) but says nothing.

[Dracos]

"We can check sound with a rock.   Hm..."  Dracos continued pondering methods to get past it.

Dracos

[Rezantis]

"Ah! Liandral, I heard the loremaster say something to you about the firefly, something about us needing to look for strange things, or some such?  What did he say?"

[Brian]

"He warned that some things you could see, I could not," Liandril clarifies very quietly.  "The spirit likes to see things too, but since it shares my sight, it has to hide things from me to see it.  Like these 'lines' you were speaking of -- I did not see any.  But I did see the ... creature."

[Dracos]

Dracos frowned.  "That's... going to be troublesome."

Dracos

[Rezantis]

"So, basically, we're going to need to take this thing down."  Rez hums. "Well, we've got a bunch of buckets of water here . . ."

[Dracos]

"...Nathan, that's completely insane.  I almost like it, even though it goes against my wont.  Details."

Dracos

[Brian]

Liandral looks skeptical, to say the least.  "You think water will hurt it?" he asks.

[Rezantis]

"Pretty damn sure, given what I know of these creatures.  And," Rez turns to Drac with a cheery smile, "it is, isn't it?  I don't think we're going to get much water over there if we throw it, so I'm sort of thinking walk up and pour a couple of buckets onto whatever looks important."