Paradise Violated
Salo, raises his weapon, and is struck down with a single bullet to the head. His fanatical rants end immediately as his body hits the floor. Alyssa looks at you, and you just nod. The rest of the team relaxes a little knowing that at least this situation has been diffused.
You immediately pull out the coins you took from the Elojin earlier and inspect them, put them on the floor, take Salo's plasma pistol and melt them into nothingness. This damn Xont quest you've been on has fucked up your mind, between the Elojin's syrupy words, Salo's rants, and the overall strange feeling you had since you first got those coins, not to mention this PLACE itself, you only now are starting feel like yourself.
There's still the matter of getting out of here though, fortunately Dobbs may have found a way to do that.
"Um, sir? I think I remembered what some of these symbols were supposed to mean, I think I can figured out how we can turn them on without them attacking us. I remember a Xont legend about "Silver Sentinels", and that's what these things look like. I guess they were created by the Xont primarily to act as guards for scientists, if we don't look like a threat then they shouldn't attack us. In fact they'll probably start attacking those things lurking outside."
"Yeah, but we aren't Xont, won't they attack us anyway?"
"I don't know, but didn't the Xont supposedly have a lot of different races working for them? Maybe the Sentinels will think we're just a harmless subject race of the Xont"
"So what do we do to look harmless?"
"Drop all our guns."
Everyone isn't too enthusiastic about that idea! However, it sounds somewhat plausible. Scientists aren't usually known for their combat abilities and they probably weren't running around with guns because of the Sentinels, and thus weren't considered a threat. You can only hope the Sentinels still don't perceive you as a threat even without guns. Alyssa is particularly skilled in unarmed combat.
"Let's do it. It might be our only chance. Drop your weapons everyone. We'll either live or die, either way; it'll be quicker than waiting in here for certain death."
Your team reluctantly drops their weapons as Dobbs presses a few buttons on the computer. Red lights flicker on in the Sentinels' eye sockets.
"SCANNINGÂ…SCANNINGÂ…ALERT! GENETIC EXPERIMENTS FROM LAB 4 HAVE ESCAPED! THREAT LEVEL 10! TERMINATE HOSTILES!" their metallic voices say in unison.
The Sentinels move quickly to the doorway and begin to open fire on the feeding creatures. You can see the creatures fight back, but whatever the Sentinels are made out of must be strong indeed. Soon the battle moves far enough from the doorway, and you can hear the Sentinels hunting down the rest of the beasts. You climb over the dead creature in the doorway and take a quick look only to see more dead monsters. The Sentinels do their jobs very efficiently.
You could take this opportunity to try to escape or explore a bit more.
You immediately pull out the coins you took from the Elojin earlier and inspect them, put them on the floor, take Salo's plasma pistol and melt them into nothingness. This damn Xont quest you've been on has fucked up your mind, between the Elojin's syrupy words, Salo's rants, and the overall strange feeling you had since you first got those coins, not to mention this PLACE itself, you only now are starting feel like yourself.
There's still the matter of getting out of here though, fortunately Dobbs may have found a way to do that.
"Um, sir? I think I remembered what some of these symbols were supposed to mean, I think I can figured out how we can turn them on without them attacking us. I remember a Xont legend about "Silver Sentinels", and that's what these things look like. I guess they were created by the Xont primarily to act as guards for scientists, if we don't look like a threat then they shouldn't attack us. In fact they'll probably start attacking those things lurking outside."
"Yeah, but we aren't Xont, won't they attack us anyway?"
"I don't know, but didn't the Xont supposedly have a lot of different races working for them? Maybe the Sentinels will think we're just a harmless subject race of the Xont"
"So what do we do to look harmless?"
"Drop all our guns."
Everyone isn't too enthusiastic about that idea! However, it sounds somewhat plausible. Scientists aren't usually known for their combat abilities and they probably weren't running around with guns because of the Sentinels, and thus weren't considered a threat. You can only hope the Sentinels still don't perceive you as a threat even without guns. Alyssa is particularly skilled in unarmed combat.
"Let's do it. It might be our only chance. Drop your weapons everyone. We'll either live or die, either way; it'll be quicker than waiting in here for certain death."
Your team reluctantly drops their weapons as Dobbs presses a few buttons on the computer. Red lights flicker on in the Sentinels' eye sockets.
"SCANNINGÂ…SCANNINGÂ…ALERT! GENETIC EXPERIMENTS FROM LAB 4 HAVE ESCAPED! THREAT LEVEL 10! TERMINATE HOSTILES!" their metallic voices say in unison.
The Sentinels move quickly to the doorway and begin to open fire on the feeding creatures. You can see the creatures fight back, but whatever the Sentinels are made out of must be strong indeed. Soon the battle moves far enough from the doorway, and you can hear the Sentinels hunting down the rest of the beasts. You climb over the dead creature in the doorway and take a quick look only to see more dead monsters. The Sentinels do their jobs very efficiently.
You could take this opportunity to try to escape or explore a bit more.