Next chapter of our D&D campaign, remember its kinda hard to get everything right when there's like 8 people talking in different directions. Neko's chapter will be up Tuesday as promised, we may even have an extra chapter up this week. Depends on how much I get done.
We were moving down. Definitely an elevator. My tricorder was giving readings that we were already at a dangerously low depth, and that this elevator could go much further down. Suddenly the radiation spiked, and my tricorder went dead. At the same time the doors slid open and three thin red beams filtered in.
“Hello.” Aiden, myself, and Iona pushed the others to the wall as a spray of bullets entered the shaft. Jase acted quickly, activating some of his alchemy. Unfortunately it backfired, creating a pillar of metal from the floor of the elevator, and launching him through the ceiling. Fortunately this gave us some cover. Marcus moved next, using his own spell to shift the metal from the walls and create a low wall in the hallway.
“Are you still there?” The spray stopped, and we recovered Jase.
“What the hell was that!” Zeroe yelled.
“Looked like some sort of turret defense.” I said. “Using archaic bullets.” My tricorder was still on the fritz so I sighed and checked my pistol. It wasn't in the best of condition, but it was less effected by the background radiation. While I was checking this, Iona and Aiden had mounted the low wall and lept over the two turrets. There was a crunching sound and they waved back to us.
“Well, they're definitely some sort of turret, but they aren't that tough.” Iona said on the other side. There were two white egg-shaped things laying on the ground. Or at least they used to be egg-shaped, one was crumpled the other had a deep dent in one side. Aiden picked it up rolling it over in his hands.
“I think we can use this.” He handed one end to Ceric and they pulled. A chunk of the metal came right off, it was oval and tough.
“Marcus, you think you could attach a strap to this?” Ceric asked. “I could use it as a shield.”
“Hmm, we still have some leather scraps right?” Zeroe nodded quickly.
“Here, donkey skin, but its what we have.” He handed it over and Marcus worked quickly to meld the metal over the leather. Meanwhile Iona focused on bandaging Jase up. I chose to move ahead with Dei, and we came to a blind corner.
“Send the donkey through.” She said quietly. I agreed and we ushered one of our two remaining donkeys through.
“There you are.” There was some machine gun fire and a whinny, then a thump as the poor thing hit the ground.
“Ok, new plan, how do we get past.” Thankfully the others were catching up.
“Well why don't we just make cover?” Jase said, approaching the wall, he scribbled a pattern quickly. This time it worked and a low wall shot out past the blind corner. Ceric peeked over.
“Three of them this time.” He said quietly.
“Well it doesn't seem to take too much to get rid of them. Maybe we should just shoot around the corner.” Riley said, aiming a pistol carefully. With a clean shot he knocked one over, it let out a spray and then was silent. I took the next shot, knocking over the one that was aimed at the door. At this point Ceric slipped out and moved around the corner of the room, knocking the other one over from behind.
With the path clear we moved out. However it wasn't long before we heard the sounds of combat. Iona took lead as we came close to the sound of gunfire. From what we could see there were Armors fighting against both the turrets and a couple of other people who seemed kind of cornered on a table in the middle of the room. One was a large guy in heavy green armor, he had a buster sword roughly the length of his body in one hand, and an ax with a blade roughly the width in the other. He was using one as a shield against the bullets, and the other to cleave through the oncoming ranks. Crouched behind him was a wispy looking girl wearing a white dress. She wasn't doing much more than keeping her hands on the man's legs.
“Let's get in there and help them out.” Iona said quickly, transforming into her panther form to claw at one of the Armors that was nearby. I didn't hesitate and took aim at the nearest turret while the others poured out to join the fray. Myself, Riley, and Zeroe hung around at the entryway taking shots at whatever we could get a clean hit on. Within a few minutes the last turret hit the ground, letting off its death spray. With the battle over, the man turned towards Iona.
“Thank ye kindly lass.” Iona returned to human form, but didn't look pleased.
“What'd you call me?” She growled, almost sounding inhuman. The man just laughed.
“Oh, yea remind me o' soma the girls back home. A true fighter. Name's Odin, this is Cassandra.” The small girl poked her head out from behind him and waved.
“So I take it you live here or something?” Aiden said, walking up.”
“No sir, just here on a mission. Got word that Solarus were around, and sure enough, here they are.” He saw us with blank expressions and gave out a full ringing laugh. “You wouldn't happen to be fighting these things without knowing what they are?”
“Actually, we're not sure how or why we got here.” Marcus said bluntly.
“Really now, Cassandra, can you give 'em a look over?” He said, sitting on the table. The girl hopped over to Iona first, giving her a look over, then moved to the others. When she reached Jase she gasped.
“Your kidney's shot.” She said. “And multiple bruises, some fractures... Hold still.” She quickly placed her hands on his shoulders, a white light surrounded him. “That should do it.” She said quietly, before moving on. “You're right Odin, not only are all of them not from this world, they're all from different worlds.”
“Well I'll be. Think its the same deal as what happened to us? Didja all see a bright light before waking up somewhere else?”
“No, not really. I was just checking my territory and fell through some sort of portal.” Iona said.
“Training in the park, Ceric fell through and I followed.” Aiden said. We continued to recount what happened, most of us had very similar stories.
“Sounds like ol' Avarus has a new trick.” Odin said, pondering. “Well, I'll see what I can do to get you all back, but that'll have to wait until we figure out what's going on here.”
“Hey check this out.” Marcus said suddenly, he was holding a notepad, and flipping through it. “It's notes on some sort of device. It's supposed to make portals.”
“Aren't these those guest passes that we heard about earlier.” Riley said, almost at the same time as he held out a bunch of cards on chains.
“Congratulations on finding the guest passes. Now allow me to escort you to the tour. For Cake.” The mechanical voice came online again, and as soon as it stopped talking the floor of the room gave way, and we all fell.
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