Moving quietly, the lowlanders and the adventurers managed to sneak past three nests of Ursadders. When they passed through a particularly crowded section of the wrecked space elevator, Zaphod cracked his armored foot off of a crystalline plant, causing a lot of noise.
An Ursadder in the corner of the room they were traversing, seemed to wake and while it watched them, it coiled its long serpentine body around its large bear torso. Everyone carefully watched and moved past the creature which appeared to be perfectly happy with letting them pass without aggression.
As the adventurers traveled further into the concrete and metal wreck of the space elevator, they once again were stopped by Gila as she scouted ahead. In the corridor the adventurers were approaching, three Ursadders stalked something.
Seraphina spent a few minutes putting together a flashing weapon to hinder the Ursadder eyes that had no ‘bang’ to avoid attracting attention from the other creatures they passed. After rigging the entrance to the section they were hiding in, with a trip wire to set off the flash weapon, they used the silent needle guns they stole from the corpses of the RAM assassins in the lowlander village, to quickly dispatch three Ursadders.
A fourth Ursadder came from a dark corner to try and consume the adventurers, but Fynn and Zaphod were waiting at the entrance for the creatures. As the flash weapon went off, Fynn drove a spear into the creature, while Zaphod slashed at it mercilessly with his mono sword. The creature shuddered to a stop, dead.
WIth the threat of rending death averted, the adventurers continued down the path they were on. Gila pointed out the acid frogs that the Ursadders had been hunting, and through careful calculation, Zaphod and Seraphina determined they had made it through the wreck to the place in the wall that would be adjacent to the RAM base.
Gila and the other lowlanders watched the end of the hall for more signs of the Ursadders, while Seraphina prepped some explosives with Zaphod’s help. The two shaped a charge in such a way that it would carefully cut through the concrete and metal structure into the dome adjacent to it. Proving the adventurers knew what they were doing, the charge detonated and a rush of non swamp air pushed out of the pressurized dome into the wreck of the space elevator displacing the humid muck that they had been previously occupying.
Hurriedly, the whole group moved into the dome and the lowlanders began to pile rubble behind them to ensure that they could easily get out, but to give them a barrier between the swamp, the Ursadders and the interior of the base.
Once inside, they found themselves in a storage area containing many kinds of home goods. Cabinets of plates, bedding and other things meant to comfort and serve were stacked floor to ceiling in neat rows. Zaphod attempted to convince Fynn that staying here was a good idea, but Fynn was not willing to entertain the idea and insisted that he needed to explore the base with the adventurers. As the rest of the group evaluated if the things in the room were worth pilfering, a startled scientist opened the door to see what the explosion and commotion were all about.
Gun fire chased the scientist into the hall where a number of other doors connected a central room to the rest of the dome. The scientist ran into an area that held a security guard, who was startled out of his recreational enjoyment of a portable computer, only to be stabbed in the chest by Fynn, while Buzz gunned down the fleeing security guard.
Continuing their normal mischief of placing dead RAM personnel in sexually compromising positions, Alex set the pair of dead men up in the bathrooms nearby, while the group investigated the remainder of the dome they were in. Zaphod discovered some autodocs in a room nearby and easily hacked them so that they would cause whatever wounds they were asked to heal.
Moving into the next dome Eastward, the group found another guard who was quickly dispatched. A locked door into a parts storage area was easily defeated along with a lock on a door to a room that held a number of lowlander scientists.
Seraphina spent time 'droneifying' her robot arm to create a ‘thing’ that would follow her into battle, while the others interrogated the lowlanders. The scientists explained they had been captured and were working with RAM to protect their families. The lowlander scientists handed off plans and research about the retinal lock pick to Max, once Max was able to hack the computer that the data was stored on.
The adventurers attempted to get the scientists to leave with them through the space elevator, but the scientists were worried because RAM would know they were missing and would kill the leader of their group, who had been taken elsewhere in the base. Unable to assuage these fears, the adventurers agreed to try and liberate the scientist's leader. Fynn for his part recognized one of the scientists and was ready to continue the assault on the base.
Moving West and South, the adventurers continued opening doors and surprising guards and personnel. Alex encountered one guard who was waiting for ‘Jacob’ to bring him water, while Alex attempted to not kill an administrator, only to end up in a shoot out with him.
Eventually, they found themselves murdering a group of scientists and soldiers who appeared to be enjoying some down time in the arcade, while trying to determine where in the base they should go next.
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