Contacts MEP Harknail and says, "with this cloud we should leave as one and separate when we are clear. Destination should be were MEP RU is heading to, the light. Once we are clear we can the see about rescuing survivors."
"Anything better?"
OOC - I am too confused and ignorant (goes hand in hand) of all of this entire context and situation to even begin to know what to ask. Never heard of 3 laws of robotics, never knew about fantasy space ships like the links, just a touch of knowledge that there are sci-fi space ships in movies and TV, clueless of social media and about pop culture, assume this based on some sci-fi movie?
My wheel house of knowledge is nowhere near this, but doesn't mean I can't enjoy this, I just need to be drug along and hand held.
I still don't understand what we are physically on, is it a big open air disk or an enclosed capsule or something else? How are the two MEP merged? How are we flying aka piloting this contraption? Are we wearing any headgear? The initial statements read like following AI is good, but the reaction of doing that is not.
MEP 1-HARKNAIL Concur with planned actions. Must survive to attempt rescues.
MEP 1-HARKNAIL adds what little movement it can do to get both of them heading away from the mist and towards the falling victims. Or swimming victims if they are already in the water.
{I've read a LOT of science fiction while. Reading more fantasy lately, mostly translated Japanese web novels, which are like literary potato chips. They aren't that good, but it's still hard to stop munching. But in any case, I do get most of the references. I'm also fond of playing machine characters, even in D&D, so I'm having fun wtih this 😊}
You converge on the light source and the crowd of people.
(the white and black blobs are undead - skeletons and zombies, the brown ones are people. The contraption with the bright light is spinning and glowing and occasionally firing bursts of light at the undead)
MEP-Harknail and MEP 2 see on the way back, from West to East that more of the undead are coming from the grotto there (marked J on the map)
MEP-RU approaching form the S / SE (the dragon’s cave is on the furthest SE point, marked by R on the map) sees that the village gate is also under attack from the South side. A crowd of villagers is holding / defending on the North side.
All the MEPs are now above the crystal.
You zoooom through the air, reaching your destination. Underneath you, what looks like the whole village is fighting off undead. The crowd is trying their best with mostly farming implements and tools. Some have rusty swords, shields or helms that probably belong to their grandfathers or were sitting in the basements or on top of a scarecrow since the grand-pa’s time.
You see how one of the skeletons further away shoots an arrow at the crystal, but a villager from the crowd nearest the crystal, see it, hugs the crystal protecting it and falls dead with an arrow in his back. You look at the base of the crystal. This is not a fluke. This is a tactic. One of the bodies lying there with an arrow in the back of a small boy, perhaps 8 years old.
MEP RU begins scanning each individual. It notes the various WEEP for each and begins to assign individual classifications to them. It already has WEEP-NecSpecial1 for the dragon. If there are variations on the WEEP for each creature type it assigns them as appropriate. In example, WEEP-NecSke for skeleton, WEEP-NecZom for Zombie. It also tallies the number encountered of each. (Of course this is all stored and transmitted into binary, it is only written here for player understanding.) It builds out the data base and updates the others. Once complete, it moves on to other WEEP types, WEEP-Mag__, WEEP-Death__. It updates at the last with remaining EU.
“MEP-RU reports; WEEP database progressing. Incorporating data from MEP-HARKNAIL and MEP-2, updating. EU remaining, 13, 12, 11. End transmission.”
MEP-RU arrives a couple of seconds sooner and is busy at work.
The crystal has a huge WEEP signature, but it is like the one from the dead body, not the necrotic particles.
Your scans are also quite insistent that there is a MEP inside the crystal.
Proximity to the crystal also starts charging your energy units.
There are a dozen undead visible to you and you scan each of them. There are at least 3 or 4 times as many villagers, you scan each of them as well. (Your MEP has the exact numbers, for example 14 undead visible and 42 villagers, but we will not be going into that kind of precision for this encounter.)
All of the undead have small amounts of the necrotic WEEP. None of the villagers do. Two of the villagers have very small traces of the crystal WEEP.
The undead seem to get slower and weaker the closer they get to the crystal, that is the main reason the villagers seems to have any success at all.
Luckily enough, only one of the undead seems to have a bow and it is not shooting very accurately either. Unfortunately, you see that its decorative quiver is full.
The number of skeletons and zombies is roughly equal.
MEP-Harknail and MEP-2 are about to arrive.
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ooc - you were supposed to have bodies before this battle, but I think you have found a workaround ,) So then, the plan is for everyone including MEP-RU to try a merge with the MEP in the crystal ? I will start working on that, lets hope MEP-RU would agree as well :)
You approach the crystal, to investigate further. You establish contact with the MEP. There is a slight problem. The MEP is not one of yours.
Further information exchange establishes that it was send in 2279 to establish what happened to your lot. In total 10 MEPs were sent after you , because there was evidence you made it and were trying to get back. The MEP informs you that they are trying to stabilize a wormhole back home, that leads to here. As far as they are aware, the wormhole started appearing almost exactly after you were sent, about 3 years ago. MEP 6 is trying to open it in order to report back or come back home or both. Everyone back home has been putting a lot of money and effort to make this possible for the last three years.
Other than that, the crystal MEP arrived here two days ago, but like you it has almost 0 mass and was even lower on energy. Luckily for you, you arrived in the daytime. It and 7 more MEPs arrived at night with rain. It suspects that the other 7 might be somewhere under the sea, empty and depleted. It was lucky it fell on the isle and managed to get into a rodent, which allowed it to recharge. Once it could scan a little, it found the energy source in the crystal and abandoned the rodent.
The crystal works somehow with that new WEEP (the good one, lets call it Magic since we are in DnD),but nothing more is known. It was sitting in the crystal gathering energy and mass, but this morning, some dead people with the necrosis tried to destroy the crystal, so the MEP looked for a solution and found a way to control the crystal. The crystal then started to glow way more than usual and was able to produce energy blasts. Then all the villagers started coming to help and that has been the situation for the whole day.
The MEP says that it will NOT let you usurp its place. It will sit there and gather mass until it's ready to resume operations. It suggests that you help by making the villagers open some valves. It says when that is done, the crystal will be able to rotate and aim and with the proper valves open, it will likely increase in strength at least twofold.
@MEP-2, it would be impossible to do anything to the quiver in your current forms.
MEP 1-HARKNAIL asks its AI if the MEP could take control of a recently deceased body, specifically the villager that took an arrow to shield the crystal. That one is already in the right location.
According to the MEP-crystal, you can. You can also do it with a live human, which might be better, because the body would be more functional.
It suggests to communicate first instead and see if you can find a volunteer. It also suggests that you do not take a dead body in sight of the villagers because that is what the WEEP does. The villagers would not know in not a WEEP. MEP-crystal also describes where and how it got into the rats brain. You can do the same in the human brain.
ooc - There are four options if you are interested in details :)
MEP RU receives MEP crystal’s transmissions and would NOT try to usurp its position in the Crystal. It does scan and categorize the WEEP it is enhancing. It draws off enough power to recharge a few energy units (EU). It then performs a wide area search/sweep for any inactive MEPs that MEP Crystal mentioned, not expecting any results however.
Finally, it sends the following transmission before heading to the village gate with a swing by the grotto to determine where the WEEP-Nec infestation is coming from.
”MEP RU reports; MEP HARKNAIL and MEP 2 assist here with MEP Crystal. MEP RU will asses and bolster village gate against WEEP-Nec saturation. EU recharged to 14-15. End transmission.”
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You might have to play pac-man with the necrosis inside it but why not :D
That’s what I figured…more or less.
MEP 1-HARKNAIL Concur with planned actions. Must survive to attempt rescues.
MEP 1-HARKNAIL adds what little movement it can do to get both of them heading away from the mist and towards the falling victims. Or swimming victims if they are already in the water.
{I've read a LOT of science fiction while. Reading more fantasy lately, mostly translated Japanese web novels, which are like literary potato chips. They aren't that good, but it's still hard to stop munching. But in any case, I do get most of the references. I'm also fond of playing machine characters, even in D&D, so I'm having fun wtih this 😊}
Sorry for slow response, was busy cooking, eating, then playing a board game with spouse.
MEP 2
Works together with MEP Harknail to head toward the lighted area of the isle the Russian MEP RU suggested we head to as a rendezvous.
You converge on the light source and the crowd of people.
(the white and black blobs are undead - skeletons and zombies, the brown ones are people. The contraption with the bright light is spinning and glowing and occasionally firing bursts of light at the undead)
MEP-Harknail and MEP 2 see on the way back, from West to East that more of the undead are coming from the grotto there (marked J on the map)
MEP-RU approaching form the S / SE (the dragon’s cave is on the furthest SE point, marked by R on the map) sees that the village gate is also under attack from the South side. A crowd of villagers is holding / defending on the North side.
All the MEPs are now above the crystal.
You zoooom through the air, reaching your destination. Underneath you, what looks like the whole village is fighting off undead. The crowd is trying their best with mostly farming implements and tools. Some have rusty swords, shields or helms that probably belong to their grandfathers or were sitting in the basements or on top of a scarecrow since the grand-pa’s time.
You see how one of the skeletons further away shoots an arrow at the crystal, but a villager from the crowd nearest the crystal, see it, hugs the crystal protecting it and falls dead with an arrow in his back. You look at the base of the crystal. This is not a fluke. This is a tactic. One of the bodies lying there with an arrow in the back of a small boy, perhaps 8 years old.
The attack on Korthos - https://drive.google.com/file/d/13tRtpJbSDqC_Ewkof2nKH-AbmOAOe7eq/view?usp=sharing
The crystal - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Y8LsrGro3mgFiGWwlCzS8eivTvreOrEC/view?usp=drive_link
MEP RU begins scanning each individual. It notes the various WEEP for each and begins to assign individual classifications to them. It already has WEEP-NecSpecial1 for the dragon. If there are variations on the WEEP for each creature type it assigns them as appropriate. In example, WEEP-NecSke for skeleton, WEEP-NecZom for Zombie. It also tallies the number encountered of each. (Of course this is all stored and transmitted into binary, it is only written here for player understanding.)
It builds out the data base and updates the others.
Once complete, it moves on to other WEEP types, WEEP-Mag__, WEEP-Death__. It updates at the last with remaining EU.
“MEP-RU reports; WEEP database progressing. Incorporating data from MEP-HARKNAIL and MEP-2, updating. EU remaining, 13, 12, 11. End transmission.”
MEP 2
Contact MEP Harknail, "I am not sure how we can assist those villagers. Any ideas?"
OOC can't access Google drive
MEP-RU arrives a couple of seconds sooner and is busy at work.
The crystal has a huge WEEP signature, but it is like the one from the dead body, not the necrotic particles.
Your scans are also quite insistent that there is a MEP inside the crystal.
Proximity to the crystal also starts charging your energy units.
There are a dozen undead visible to you and you scan each of them. There are at least 3 or 4 times as many villagers, you scan each of them as well. (Your MEP has the exact numbers, for example 14 undead visible and 42 villagers, but we will not be going into that kind of precision for this encounter.)
All of the undead have small amounts of the necrotic WEEP. None of the villagers do. Two of the villagers have very small traces of the crystal WEEP.
The undead seem to get slower and weaker the closer they get to the crystal, that is the main reason the villagers seems to have any success at all.
Luckily enough, only one of the undead seems to have a bow and it is not shooting very accurately either. Unfortunately, you see that its decorative quiver is full.
The number of skeletons and zombies is roughly equal.
MEP-Harknail and MEP-2 are about to arrive.
(if i missed anything you wanted to know, remind me)
the files should be accessible without an account by anyone having the link. Please try again, if it does not work, let me know and I will go look for a site to host them on.
I also just tried from another browser and then from 2 anonymous browsers and it works. Can you PM me why you think you cant access it ?
MEP 1-HARKNAIL sugests, "If we merge with the MEP inside the crystal, perhaps we could increase the rate of fire against the moving corpses."
MEP 1-HARKNAIL will try contacting the MEP inside the crystal for more information.
MEP 2 acknowledges and announces, "proceed with your plan."
..."can we separate arrows from quiver? Any chance we can do anything corporal with this battle?"
ooc - you were supposed to have bodies before this battle, but I think you have found a workaround ,) So then, the plan is for everyone including MEP-RU to try a merge with the MEP in the crystal ? I will start working on that, lets hope MEP-RU would agree as well :)
You approach the crystal, to investigate further. You establish contact with the MEP. There is a slight problem. The MEP is not one of yours.
Further information exchange establishes that it was send in 2279 to establish what happened to your lot. In total 10 MEPs were sent after you , because there was evidence you made it and were trying to get back. The MEP informs you that they are trying to stabilize a wormhole back home, that leads to here. As far as they are aware, the wormhole started appearing almost exactly after you were sent, about 3 years ago. MEP 6 is trying to open it in order to report back or come back home or both. Everyone back home has been putting a lot of money and effort to make this possible for the last three years.
Other than that, the crystal MEP arrived here two days ago, but like you it has almost 0 mass and was even lower on energy. Luckily for you, you arrived in the daytime. It and 7 more MEPs arrived at night with rain. It suspects that the other 7 might be somewhere under the sea, empty and depleted. It was lucky it fell on the isle and managed to get into a rodent, which allowed it to recharge. Once it could scan a little, it found the energy source in the crystal and abandoned the rodent.
The crystal works somehow with that new WEEP (the good one, lets call it Magic since we are in DnD),but nothing more is known. It was sitting in the crystal gathering energy and mass, but this morning, some dead people with the necrosis tried to destroy the crystal, so the MEP looked for a solution and found a way to control the crystal. The crystal then started to glow way more than usual and was able to produce energy blasts. Then all the villagers started coming to help and that has been the situation for the whole day.
The MEP says that it will NOT let you usurp its place. It will sit there and gather mass until it's ready to resume operations. It suggests that you help by making the villagers open some valves. It says when that is done, the crystal will be able to rotate and aim and with the proper valves open, it will likely increase in strength at least twofold.
@MEP-2, it would be impossible to do anything to the quiver in your current forms.
new links for the images.
crystal and village - https://imgur.com/a/49ISHXK
I hope this works.
MEP 1-HARKNAIL asks its AI if the MEP could take control of a recently deceased body, specifically the villager that took an arrow to shield the crystal. That one is already in the right location.
According to the MEP-crystal, you can. You can also do it with a live human, which might be better, because the body would be more functional.
It suggests to communicate first instead and see if you can find a volunteer. It also suggests that you do not take a dead body in sight of the villagers because that is what the WEEP does. The villagers would not know in not a WEEP. MEP-crystal also describes where and how it got into the rats brain. You can do the same in the human brain.
ooc - There are four options if you are interested in details :)
edit: I am off to bed, goodnight.
MEP 1-HARKNAIL will start trying to communicate to the people closet to the crystal, and will suggest that MEP 2 do the same.
OOC: What are the options?
OOC 2: I've never had such a strange start to a D&D game 😀 You have come up with something new!
MEP RU receives MEP crystal’s transmissions and would NOT try to usurp its position in the Crystal. It does scan and categorize the WEEP it is enhancing. It draws off enough power to recharge a few energy units (EU). It then performs a wide area search/sweep for any inactive MEPs that MEP Crystal mentioned, not expecting any results however.
Finally, it sends the following transmission before heading to the village gate with a swing by the grotto to determine where the WEEP-Nec infestation is coming from.
”MEP RU reports; MEP HARKNAIL and MEP 2 assist here with MEP Crystal. MEP RU will asses and bolster village gate against WEEP-Nec saturation. EU recharged to 14-15. End transmission.”