(Zeke's in here cause his drones are.) <> (You said we're on like a cliff of some sort?) (Yup.) (Let's hit the cliff!) (In what extent hit?) (Lexi could fly everyone down assuming no one weighs more than 220 lbs but it would take a while) (The spiders are good to climb!) (I'd rather hit the sea.) (there a ramp down or something?) (Lexi: That's fine, I can fly myself down. *win*) (If you gon argue, argue IC. And no, no ramp until you head west a ways.) (true) so where're we headed? I'd like to at least have a look at the red water. * Lexi looks over the edge. "Well I could float us down if you want. At least I could float one of you down at a time." * Zeke communicates, ~The drones can climb down the wall with no problems.~ I can float myself down if you want to take Tomas down. (Oh right I forgot the comm thing) (How far down is it?) * Lexi nods. ~Right. Okay.~ (75ish feet. Short cliff.) * Lexi shrugs. ~That okay with you, Tomas?~ (Gimme a second. Consulting the judge.) (Too long to jump, just have Lexi levitate you?) <> (le sigh.) ~That sounds good, Lexi.~ (Sorry, Tomas. Splitting channels makes for slow GM at points.) * Lexi nods. ~Right then.~ She floats a few inches off the ground as does Tomas and she hovers them both off the cliff and slowly descends. * Zeke 's two drones skitter over the edge, walking down the cliff walls as if they were the ground. Skitter skitter. * Kyle hovers right behind Lexi, carefully following along. <> * Tomas reaches out and touches the rock as they descend, not knowing what to make of it. * Lexi looks around as she descends. Are there any loose rocks? (Scratch the look around part actually) (She doesn't have to. I keep forgetting that) (Because I do, obviously.) * Kyle keeps heading down. ~Any idea on what kind of rock this is?~ ~Looks kinda like obsidian of some kind.~ <> (Is it officially obsidian?) (It's close enough to call it such.) (How I roll visual?) 2d6+9 (19) ~I could do a decomp if it weren't for the suit.~ (Usually it's mind stat + heightened awareness) (2d6+MIND) (we need dice) (Oh or roll in the other channel) (Yeah.) (15) (14) (btw Cham, I see what you're doing there with the inhospitable atmosphere.) * Lexi floats over one of the loose rocks in front of them and spins it around as they descend. <> (Do I miss the flock to? I bet I do.) (No.) ~I think we know which way we're going now.~ ~WHOA! Those things are like bizarrobats!~ ~Awesome.~ (I think Lexi's wiki page will end up with a Lexi-con) * Zeke comms, ~These life forms draw upon metal for themselves. A strong capability.~ ~Let's land and get moving south after those things.~ (Also, Lexi-con ftw) * Lexi smiles inside her suit. "Sure thing!" * Tomas searches through his rucksack for a butterfly net as they descend. (Kyle needs to line out his Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap page) * Kyle concntrates on the creatures as they descend. <> * Kyle rubs his head. ~Man, those things are weird. Yeah, they're using metal like we use, well, carbon really.~ (About how fast are they flying?) (What's it like around where we landed?) * Zeke says, ~The others have found land creatures that are similar. The trees also use metal in them. It seems to be the natural growth of this planet.~ (Can we still see the bizarrobats?) <> ~I don't know what they're wanting to do, if they're being defensive or agressive.~ * Zeke says, ~They do little if they are trying to be aggressive.~ * Lexi laughs. "They're kind of cute in a way." ~Hmmm, I could try and knock one out for further study, but the others might take offense.~ ~They seem a bit skeptical. Any way we could herd them somewhere a bit more accessible?~ ~You heard meatcubes by scarin' them. Usually with claps.~ ~I could move them down here. But they may not like it.~ ~Although the bigger ones need electric prods~ <> ~Bingo.~ * Tomas readies his butterfly net, ~Let's try for one of them in the tree over there.~ * Lexi nods. ~Okay. Fun.~ She heads over towards the tree. ~Want me to lift you up there?~ (Is it watching us or minding its own business?) <> ~We need to find a way to distract it first. It's not going to let us just walk up there and snag it.~ * Kyle 's eyes move around a little bit, and he takes a few pictures with a camera he pulled out. ~Okay.~ * Lexi shrugs and slowly floats the rock she snatched over towards it and around to the opposite side of the bat. <> * Kyle concentrates momentarily on the critter. * Lexi tilts her head. ~Zeke. Any ideas?~ * Zeke replies, ~To capture it alive?~ One of his spiders starts to head up to a near tree. ~I can attempt to jump onto it.~ <> ~Go grab it.~ ~Score!~ * Tomas pounces on it with his butterfly net (Dork) * Kyle grins. ~They always said I could drop people with my looks. Okay, not really.~ <> * Kyle looks closely at the creature. ~Hmmm, it didn't take to that too well.~ * Tomas walks back to the group and lifts the net up to have a closer look. ~That was weird. What'd you do to it?~ ~I didn't do anything I don't think.~ ~My SCA mutation. I can knock living creatures out.~ ~We have anything to put this thing in?~ ~We have a container for rock samples, right?~ * Tomas pulls out one of the collapsible pens, "Yeah, I have a couple more if we find anything else" ~Oh, cool. I don't know if we can just leave it in there, though, if we want it to live. I hope I didn't mess it up majorly.~ <> * Lexi moves the rock back over to them. ~We can get it back to the ship if you want. We aren't far.~ ~Yeah, let's.~ ~We should have A-Man take a look at it, but I don't know about going back up that cliff so soon.~ * Lexi moves back to the cliff. ~Hang on.~ She attempts to hover some of that metal out of the cliff and over. ~Bet that red material is an oxidized metal. Like iron. ~ (Err, red stuff in the water ) <> ~If one of you wants to make the quick run back, I'm going to stay down here. It'd be silly to lift me back up there just to come back down.~ (Are there spare pieces of metal that are not in nests?) * Kyle takes a few pictures of the nest, and of the surrounding area while he's at it. (Heck, most likely, he's taking video of the place. After all, the data storage is probably trivial at this point) (There's rock, but not like, chunks of open metal.) (y'know. How far do our comms reach? (Ah. Scratch that then.) (Far enough. I am actually skimming over the parts where you left satellites in orbit to do topographical etc scans, and relay comms (Do I just talk in the other channel for that then?) (Yes please.) (haet kyle the idea stealer.) * Kyle 's eyes twitch as his headputer interfaces with the one in the suit, sending the video of the bat-critter over to Amadeus. ~Lesse if we can't get another one.~ * Tomas looks up into the trees, searching for another erectorbat. <> * Tomas squees. (He's like a little girl.) ~ok. What's our approach this time? Wanna try a lower dose of voodoo or something else?~ ~What I did before worked, but it messes with these things way too much.~ * Lexi shrugs. ~I can try and just grab it and pull it over.~ * Zeke comms to them, ~Larger creatures of unknown intent are becoming evident up above.~ ~Oh? Should we go back and help?~ ~Do you need help up there, Zeke?~ ~Crap. Make a go at it Lexi then let's get up to help them.~ ~Hmmm.~ ~Not yet.~ * Lexi nods and tries to grab the bat thing with TK. * Tomas puts away his butterfly net and readies another pen. (Lexi: Do we have a roll for that?) (Is that going to be the grapple silliness?) (Don't know. I can't find my pdf) * Kyle concentrates for a moment, helping Lexi out. (FUCK no, grapple rules are always retarded, and they're extra so in 3E.) (I have it open. What do you want to know?) (Yeah, it says 'Use normal grapple rules') (Crap. Well Cham, what do you want me to do?) (Which is kinda fucked up for TK, because then it makes good grapplers good TK grabbers.) (And vice-versa) (I don't think the bat-thing's going to be strong enough to get out, so maybe just an attack roll?) (Yeah.) (do I get the -3 defense effect from undetectable as if I was using my actual TK attack or just standard attack? I mean I'm not blasting it with a mind bullet so it's up to you) (You do, I'll apply it to its potential defense.) (Okay) 2d6+6 (Oh right) <> * Tomas holds out the creature pen. * Zeke comms, right after the snag, ~The predators have charged. Returning to the ship immediately is advised.~ His drones both leap from the trees and scamper up. * Lexi floats the creature into the pen while she floats her and Tomas up towards the cliff. ~Roger that.~ * Kyle floats up too. <>