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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DM_Matt" data-source="post: 3923435" data-attributes="member: 1213">(Sorry for the delay)The technicians start running towards the warehouse, except a few supervisor-types that go to the research area.  It looks like they are following a specific evacuation plan.Optic  can see that there is a force shield around the unmarked door, much like the one guarding entry to the base itself, but significantly weaker.  Star programs and places a number of orbs, ready to attack the knights when they reappear.Nightweaver and Viridian also prepare to strike the knights.Nitro and Hope recover.  Hope manages to mumble into her comm link: "Optic, the central computer. It's in that unlabeled room!...It has to be!" (HP awarded for figuring that out right away)Scylla is not amused "Eat flames, ice girl!", Scylla shouts as she sends a pot of molten metal her way and dumps it on her.  Hope manages to partially roll away, but screams in pain as it hits her anyway (1 bruise, 1 injury, staggered, stunned, spending that HP to avoid a dying result).Nitro, however, is in range of the welding machines, and they start stabbing him with their hot, sparking, pokers (1 injury, 1 bruise, stunned again.  Does this inturrupt his regening from staggered?)."Squirm, piggy, squirm!, haahhaahaaa" Scylla taunts.The knights DO show up, but this time, you're ready for them.  Nightweaver tries to snare one, but finds that its reflexive blinking makes that quite impossible.Viridian waves her hand and throws that same knight all the way across the factory, damaging the wall of the research facility (crit!,  2 injured, stunned, after a fiat.  HP for Viridian)The other knight manages to blink away temporarily as Star's plasma orbs are about to hit him.  They'll get a couple more passes later, though.But first, the knight goes for Viridian, seeing her as the largest threat now.  He swings his sword, striking her and slightly penetrating her shield, wounding her in the shoulder (1 bruise).  He then blinks away.(Optic still gets a stadard action this round)Meanwhile, as the workers stream INTO the warehouse, a dozen three foot tall spider-shaped robots with guns (mostly rail guns) and sensors of various sorts stream into the room from the warehouse.  They climb on the walls for a better shot and fire up at the non-downed heroes.Star manages to dodge two of her attackers, and miraculously is not armed by a railgun graze.Nightweaver is less lucky, and takes a volley of poison darts, which rather quickly make her sleepy (exhausted).Viridian avoids two of the attacks, but takes a blast from a lightning gun, blasting her back into the hallway (2 bruises, 1 stunned)Optic dodges all the attacks, and the force field takes some hits from the spider-bots, weakening it.One of Scylla's cranes on tracks swings by and tries to pick up Optic, but he deftly wrenches his tough armor free of it (20 on his save).</blockquote>

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