Heroes, Inc.: Aftermath

Dyria sighed. "I don't really know either. A vacation, probably. Something to get away from the stress and responsibility of having tens of thousands of lives depend on your actions."
 

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While some of yuo guard the door, others rummage through the room. There is a lot of really disturbing art of Calicos and Calix, but also a great many valuable items of precious metals and jewelry. Calicos carries almost nothing. He summons it all, but you got the jump on him so he couldnt.

Alethia goes to examine the ball, but Naverone stops her "Do not touch it. It is a trap. It is intended to be used telepathically...Interesting. Much of the goings-on of this ship, er, whatever it is, can be controlled here. The device communicated in a constantly-changing language that seems be be drawn randomly form various ancient tounges. No one could be smart enough to keep up. The only way is to have a telepathic ability that can communicate with anytihng that has a language. This ability is common to powerful outsiders, but not ordinarily available to mortals." Naverone connects and translates for Alethia.

Looking around in its virtual mind, Alethia and Naverone try various commands and find some useful things. A couple bookshelves move on their own. Behind one is a chest, apparently full of interesting treasures. The other turns around to reveal another book shelf, with quite a number of ancient and magical-looking tomes, including spellbooks and a number that seem to relate to Cronos.

She also finds information about how the whole place works. It is in fact run by vents to and from the plane of steam, regulated from the room in the bottom Alethia was previously made aware of. What you did not previously know., however, is that immediately above you, in the top section, is a device that draws magic from alternate universes to power the entire place. The flow of magic can be regulated by some valves and levers up there. If deactivated, the place will begin reabsorbing anything based on Cronos' dimension-crossing magics to stay afloat, until finally it will run out of energy. Alethia also finds maps. Through the door to the center area is a small round hallway that leads to a couple other rooms on this floor. In the middle is a door to an enclosed circular stairway. The power room is only two floors up, and the control room is a long way down, but still directly accessable by means of that tube. She also finds tha tthere are perhaps dozens of metal men like the one you met on Rianna's ship here, as well as numerous humans as well.
 


Do you think we can fake an order to keep those soldiers away? Something they'll believe? Alethia asked the demon. After all, they may be good, but both of them are very, very sneaky when the situation calls for it.

"My friends, company is coming, be ready," Alethia warned calmly, though her expression and the glow around her betrayed just how 'uncalm' she was.


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Are there any sort of defenses they can bring about through that metal ball thingie ? One's that they can actually use without being you know, durned for all eternity? If the orders fail and Alethia and Naverone can use it without the loss of exaltedness, they'll turn the ship against the enemy soldiers and metal men.
 
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Do you think we can fake an order to keep those soldiers away? Something they'll believe? Alethia asked the demon. After all, they may be good, but both of them are very, very sneaky when the situation calls for it.

"My friends, company is coming, be ready," Alethia warned calmly, though her expression and the glow around her betrayed just how 'uncalm' she was.


ooc:
Are there any sort of defenses they can bring about through that metal ball thingie ? One's that they can actually use without being you know, durned for all eternity? If the orders fail and Alethia and Naverone can use it without the loss of exaltedness, they'll turn the ship against the enemy soldiers and metal men.

None of the devices on the ship so far seem to radiate any evil. In this room, only a few of the books and Calicos' dead body radiate evil. However, there are no internal defenses that can be operated from here.
 

So are you going to take up positions in here? In the hallway? In the stairwell? Or are you going to try to go down? Or up? Or something else?
 



"If they're guards, maybe we can get them to surrender if we show them that we've just decapitated their commander," Dyria said, moving into position.
 

A knock comes at the door. to the room "Pardon the interruption, my lord, but there are reports that the balcony wall temporarily failed and loud noises were heard coming from your quarters. Is everything alright?"
 

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