In the first part of this rpg adventure report (you can
find it here), my players ended off in a firefight with a giant robot they had reactivated and a squad of Securitybots. As that battle ranges below, another fight continues on the balcony above. Roberto, the Assassinbot and a player's character (a Benderbot) were locked in a fierce struggle, the two pushing and pulling each other back and forth whilst bullets fly around them. This post continues with what happened next...
The rest of the players fled upstairs and into the robot rumble. Standing there, they didn't know what to do as any attempt to shoot at Roberto could hit Bender instead.
Meanwhile, the firefight below continued to rage with the giant robot shooting lazer beams at the Securitybots, who reciprocated with automatic weapons fire. The giant robot now was smoking, leaking oil and small fires were breaking out across its joints. The players however couldn't see how many of the five Securitybots remained operational. So, they were left guessing as to what would happen next.
Finally, Bender prevailed after a good series of rolls and managed to push Roberto off the balcony. As he fell, Roberto's angry yells of "I'll get you Bender! I'll kill you!" echoed even above the noise of gun and lazer fire. Roberto fled the scene and the PC's were left slightly paranoid as to where he had gone. Clearly, from the fight that had occurred between Roberto and Bender, this major and unhinged NPC wasn't someone to be trifled with.
To some relief, the players saw that there were only two Securitybots left operational. But their newly acquired giant robot was looking far worse for wear. Smoke, small fires and oil leaks were hinting at its internal state and a glow had begun to be visible as its metal plates were heating up.
Finally, three of the players realised what was about to happen to their giant robot and ran back to the other room to take cover. One player, who's character was wearing power armour, remained put. With a deafening boom the giant robot exploded, taking out the last two Securitybots, and the balcony, with it. The player in power armour suddenly discovered the virtues of power armour when it comes to falling landing on his feed unscathed. Fortunately, his armour protected him from the flying shrapnel and the fiery explosion as well.
The team proceeded out of the main building and were set upon by more automatic gun fire. This time coming from a sentry gun located on the roof of the smaller building. Bender decided to play baseball with a live hand grenade and, taking some bullet holes to his main chassis, took out the automatic gun with a brilliant attack roll placing the grenade right next to the auto-turret.
They then approached the building only to have one of the PC's yet again step on another land mine. Quick thinking Bender went and retrieved some of the twisted metal from the giant robot and was able to slide it over the mines pressure plate as the other PC slowly moved their foot off it. It was cleaver thinking, so I allowed it to go without a hitch :)
Then, in single file now, they made their way to the other building only to be confronted near its entrance by an Assaultron.
Bender, in the lead, once again let fly with his baseball bat. As has the Rooted perk, and the Assaultron was coming at him, he had some pretty nasty damage ready behind that swing. Rolling brilliantly, he savaged the head of the Assaultron and a battle that I expected to last several rounds was over in the single one. Damn robots! But hey, it was cool, and the players loved it.
Going into the smaller building, they found a vault door and computer consul. Suddenly it began to make sense to them why the RobCo facility was so small. They were able to unlock the vault using a password they had found in a safe in the main building and saw a spiral staircase descending down to underground.
It was there that we called it quits for this session. The lads next will find themselves in an underground vault. I wonder what they will find.
