Okay, sorry for the delay, but we are back!
>>5742850“Let’s take a short break to go over our options, group huddle, comms open, and see what mom and Pantea’s groups have been dealing with first, because it sounds like it was a lot.” There’s a general murmur of agreement, and you all take a bit of time to catch up. The good news is, everyone’s okay so far.
Pantea’s group went through two of the areas in the mechanical jungles… which from the sound of things technically sounds like it functions almost like a power station complex? Almost like a hybrid solar farm and water collection area. Still local fauna there too, but more importantly they’d fought some intelligent Metal Beasts there that were trying to siphon energy from the complex, including a massive one with a semi-humanoid shape, one that not only had actual fighting skills, but durability that gave even Pantea and 19 problems. Luckily though they also found three of the Geisters that Tverdokhvat was looking for, a swift pterodactyl-like lady, a styracosaurus-like guy with multiple cannons serving as its horns, and a massive, heavy artillery brachiosaurus-like guy.
Mom’s group on the other hand encountered a… mute ronin skeleton tank man? …A mute ronin skeleton tank man with Shadow Magic?! The revelation that one of those guys can even use Magic is a surprise, but worse is the revelation that the gravitational anomalies seem to be coming from deep within the mechanical mountain itself. They intended to investigate a secondary location in the mountain, but are willing to wait on that.
“Okay… so, our best lead so far is right now that location is the only lead we have on Dummy-Gross. But maybe there are some other priority targets, or places that she might turn to as she attempts to escape? Maybe we could set up a pincer maneuver.” you suggest. “Eagalia, do you know of any labs she operated out of? They might have basement or even sub-basement levels she managed to hide. And maybe some assistants that aren’t robot zombies.”
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