January 26th

A few members are at the behemoth and a few are still outside the mouth of the cave. Joe comes barreling out of the cave still invisible shouting, “He’s Dead, He’s Dead.” Hikari see’s bolts of laser bolts flying down the corridor as hearing Joe’s voice. Flea goes to the mouth of the cave to see what is going on and gets thrown back as Joe comes out of the cave still shouting. Flea says that he not going to be the only one. Joe explains what happened. They throw a rock in the cave to see if the robots are still there. Joe goes back in to get Xestro’s body. He grabs the body by his leg and goes barreling back down the corridor. Hikari and Flea see a decapitated body with one leg up in the air go bouncing out of the cave. They go back to the behemoth and Flea tells everyone that Joe got Xestro dead. Joe tries to defend himself. Billy Bob gets out his camera. All Hikari can do is stare at the sword. Blaze and Allison are questioning the facts. Cilyn asks if everyone wants to stay here and get more people shot. Allison and Blaze are ready to go and Hikari and Davis want revenge and they’re curios as to what is behind the door. We sleep on it and then we decide that we are going to go ahead and explore the building. We throw another rock into the cave. We have invisible Joe go into the cave. Blaze puts a globe of daylight in so he can see. Blaze puts armor on and starts going toward the burnt room. Everyone else goes in and Joe and Allison recuperate from vertigo. At the room everything is charred but the fire alarms are off. The fire doors are still down though. Hikari shoots a door and punches a hole in the door. Blaze sticks a globe of daylight on the other side of the door and looks through the door. It is a lit corridor. Joe pulls the door off the hinges by using the hole as leverage. We go down the corridor. There are no doors, lots of dust and it ends in a cave in. We go back to the other door. Hikari shoots it and dislodges it from the frame. There is a short corridor and then another security door. We try swiping the card and nothing happens. The light is off. Joe opens the door. We see a room, so we throw the rock in. We try to turn the light on, but it isn’t working. The globe of daylight shows a really large room that looks like a control room. It is a lot bigger than the lab room. There are huge monitor screens and stair step levels. There are no other doors in the room, but the right side wall is plexy glass. Joe turns into a flaming parrot and goes through the glass. The wall is two stories high. On the other side of the glass there is a long narrow room. Dominating the room in the center is a large steel cylinder with wires sticking out of it. On the end of the door is what we assume is the other side of the door that got us in so much trouble. Blaze notices at the bottom of the cylinder there is a little green blinking light. On one side of the cylinder there is a key board. Allison finds a small book called Origin Myths and their Modern Meanings. She gives it to Blaze. It is by Lethatus Lasil. One chapter is about the myths of the seven items. It is two pages and it is the story that we read. The myth was found on a wall in a temple in the middle east. Each capitalized word seems to mean something significant. Portions of the story are missing. Light and Dark are more than alliteration but two sides of a war with good and evil as pawns in the game. They also find a beanie and they hide it to give to Flea when he is being annoying. Allison grabs a smiley face pen with hair. One of the plastic light bulb covers falls on Allison’s head. She has bad luck. Allison suggests for Flea to go in the narrow room so Joe makes the hole in the glass bigger by getting in the whole and then starts to turn into bigger birds. Joe is now an emu. Flea starts typing on the keyboard. Joe and Allison suddenly have terrible headaches and collapse to the floor. Flea says oops and starts typing again until the headaches stop. Allison tries to use bio regeneration to make her head feel better. It ends up doing damage to her hit points. Maybe it is not a good idea to use psionics. Blaze says that this must have been center to research defenses against psioncs. Flea types some more and the alarms go off. He thinks that he turned it off. The light on the cylinder is now amber. We want to leave and as we turn, there is a hiss of air and the outer casing of the cylinder starts to rise up. We see a large kind of humanoid figure in a shiny black with wires going into it. Most of them are going into its head. We don’t sense evil. We realize that the thing is strapped in. Its head is elongated and about the size of Flea. We go up to the figure. Allison tries to use telepathy and comes up against a mind block. Allison can also not see the aura which is a sign of a mind block. So, we know it is alive. Joe wants to burn its toes to wake it up. Joe turns back into a dragon and we all have to dodge him and yell at him. Joe taps him in between its eyes. Joe turns back into a parrot. We tell Joe to pull out a wire. Nothing happens so he keeps pulling out wires. Suddenly the thing moans. When half of the wires are pulled out the eyes open a deep blue glowing. Joe says, “Hello.” An opening in its chest opens and a tentacle with teeth starts slowly moving toward the flapping Joe in front of the thing’s face. We all yell, “Watch out Joe!” and Joe flies away. Hikari asks if he has a name. The figure is trying to get out of its bonds. Three blades come out of its hands and try to cut the bonds. Hikari is still trying to talk to it. It says, “Release ME” in a really deep voice. Allison tries to use empathy, but the mind block is still there. Blaze asks if he will promise not to hurt us and so she pulls out all the wires and tries to find a way to release him. Hikari helps with trying to release them. After a bit of sawing, they release him. Now that Allison and Blaze can see more of it, they realize that it doesn’t look like a natural creature. It looks like it might be something made by the Sploogorth biowizards. We don’t know how he got there if the building is a prerifts place and the Splugorth came after rifts. We ask him how he got here, but he isn’t paying any attention to them. He is stretching. We ask again, but he doesn’t know. All he knows is that he is hungry. The creature steps down, through the glass and into the big room. Hikari finally gets him to state his name and it is Crom. He knows that he once killed a lot of people like Hikari and we ask why he fought them and he says because they wanted to fight. We all affirm that we don’t want to fight. He doesn’t know how old he is and is still hungry and says that he would eat what we eat. We head out of the room. We throw a rock around every corner before we go around it. As we make our way to the cave mouth. We are about 30 yards away from the cave mouth and we hear the patter of one pair of feet followed by a lot of other feet. He says, “Boy am I glad to see you! I just wanted to see if they were still there.” Laser bolts start flying toward us. Joe turns invisible and charges down the corridor as well as Crom, shooting and Allison, Blaze, and Hikari are all running toward the cave entrance. Crom shoots Joe right in the back. Allison dodges a laser blast. Hikari has made it level with the cave mouth and goes jumping out. Joe flies down toward the robots. Davis jumps on Big Dee’s back as he goes charging toward the robots and shoots over his shoulder. The robots are getting really close to the entrance of the cave. Crom is almost to the robots. Hikari blasts a hole through one side of the robots and amputates one of its arms. Joe gets to the robots, changes form and flames on the middle robot. Flea shot Joe. Crom was flying through the air when Joe materialized so he lands on Joe and pushes off to the right. Joe is getting a beating so he turns into an invisible flying parrot. Crom goes to hit one of the robots, and misses it and back hand’s Joe and sends him flying back toward the air toward everyone. He lands on Flea’s face, but he is still invisible so he isn’t blocking his view. Crom then is able to land some blows on the robots. Flea peals him off his face and says, “Joe is that you?” Big D starts shooting now that the way is clear. Hikari is also continuing to shoot arrows. Blaze gets out of the cave. Joe becomes visible and says, “Let me go.” Flea drops him and he starts toward the door of the cave. Allison gets out of the cave. Blaze is now firing too. Big D and Flea shoot at a robot and one finally goes down. Crom is in the way of the two robots left now, but it doesn’t last long. Crom gets one more. The last one standing is the one that Hikari shot the arm off of. Everyone keeps fighting until they all go down. Davis goes running toward Crom and gives him a big hug and says, “Oh, my big black teddy! I love my new teddy. I shall call you Thadius.”