A Goodwill Tour, Part 2

As the party approaches the still-smoking crater, Lim’Dul reflects on his happy memories of that place; enjoying the local kitkat factory… eating kitkats on the porch… and destroying the entire city in anger.  Although the crater is all that is left of the city, it is still inhabited.  Survivors and stragglers spend their days picking through the ruins and searching for remains of loved ones.  Glowing embers and piles rubble are all that remain, thanks to Lim’Dul’s temper.  With the party’s attention focused on the crater, they don’t notice as Horace and Windsor sneak away from the group. 

Standing at the edge of the crater, the party is met by a group of survivors.  They recognize Lim’Dul and greet him warmly. “Lim’Dul, you’re alive!  You must not have been here for the explosion.”  “Uhh, yeah!  I was out on a walk.” Replies Lim’Dul.  The survivors ask him if he knows anything about the explosion that rocked their socks, but Lim’Dul lies, stating that he has no idea what caused it.  Lim’Dul’s lies elicit some strange behavior out of another crater-dweller, though; sparks begin shooting out of his ears and it becomes clear that he is a robot disguising as a human.  In a panic, the robot calls on some robotic allies to help eliminate any witnesses.  The scavengers are quickly gunned down by the robots, but not before they share some parting words with Lim’Dul: “I’ll always remember you as an honest person, who never lied to us even a little bit!”

The party wastes no time in engaging the robot assassin crew.  Lim’Dul quickly obliterates one robot by blasting it with his electrobolt, and Nyridius finishes off another with some thorny projectiles.  Ironically, the beefier tanks of the party (Little Rock, Azkadelia, and Optimus), can’t seem to get the upper hand on their chosen targets.  Their task is complicated when a massive enemy joins the fray; a large, vicious-looking robotic feline the party dubs “Thunder Cat.”  Little Rock tries to throw a boulder at the cat, but it slips from his hand and nails Optimus right in the face.  Little Rock completes his trifecta of fail by whiffing a sure-shot with a prototype powerfist.  Despite these setbacks, the glass cannons of Nyridius and Lim’Dul save the day by peppering the thunder cat from a distance with ranged weapons, destroying it.

The party seizes on a still-conscious robot.  The robot notices that some of Optimus’ memory banks are corrupted, and encourages him to visit The Collective to have them repaired.  The party loots the area, finds some bizarre tech, and heads toward The Collective.