While they pass through, one of the machines' eye opens up, looks at them, and...the machine doesn't move at all, following them by sight, until they reach the end of the chamber. Stairs are placed into the wall, leading out.
Near it, there's the contraption. It turns out to be a tube, its diameter as big as a cantaloupe. Judging by the opening facing up and at them and the usual blue glow of something allowing action, they're mean to introduce something there. Ah, and how fortunate! Right to the side of the tube there's an indentation of the ground, where a sphere of the right size is at!
Or should be at.
The by now expected noise of the guardians coming to life echoes in the chamber, and when Bradley and Sheila turn their heads, they notice two things:
One is that among the boulders, rolling around leisurely, there's the sphere they would need to get into that tube, glowing with arcane lines.
The other is that the guardians are on the move -- one running in direction of the sphere, chasing it! And the other charges a laser, aiming at Sheila's chest, a dot signaling where it will hit. It seems one of the guardians will try to keep the sphere they need away from them, while the other attempts to murder them!
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While they pass through, one of the machines' eye opens up, looks at them, and...the machine doesn't move at all, following them by sight, until they reach the end of the chamber. Stairs are placed into the wall, leading out.
Near it, there's the contraption. It turns out to be a tube, its diameter as big as a cantaloupe. Judging by the opening facing up and at them and the usual blue glow of something allowing action, they're mean to introduce something there. Ah, and how fortunate! Right to the side of the tube there's an indentation of the ground, where a sphere of the right size is at!
Or should be at.
The by now expected noise of the guardians coming to life echoes in the chamber, and when Bradley and Sheila turn their heads, they notice two things:
One is that among the boulders, rolling around leisurely, there's the sphere they would need to get into that tube, glowing with arcane lines.
The other is that the guardians are on the move -- one running in direction of the sphere, chasing it! And the other charges a laser, aiming at Sheila's chest, a dot signaling where it will hit. It seems one of the guardians will try to keep the sphere they need away from them, while the other attempts to murder them!