They decide to take
revenge on the cannibal hamsters. Naida hires half a dozen henchmen: Amberto
Azul, a flamboyant Greenlander, Katusha, a fellow Yellowlander with spikey
armor, Aina, the Great Folk city guard, and Ten, Twed and Ven, all of them
Great Folk bone farmers, seduced by the prospect of getting rich.
The Lurid Pines
While the Great Folk
farmers carry the Gatling gun up the mountain, Azul scouts out the cave and
stumbles upon bloated Zombies standing eerily still between the ferns. Azul
draws them out into the open where they are cut down by a hail of bullets and
explode in a shower of blue goo. The bone farmers start carrying the
crates of Biomantic gear out of the cave when suddenly three hamsters rise
swiftly from the ferns and attack. Ven gets killed by friendly fire and Azure
severely wounded before the heroes decide to retreat. In their murderous frenzy
the hamsters pursue them almost catching up to Hamish who in the last moment
dives and exposes the cannibals to another barrage of gunfire. The last
surviving hamster manages to flee back into the cave but fails to hide behind
the ferns who part and expose him to the swift justice of more bullets. Clearly
Naida had made some friends among the motile ferns.
Just add Diesel
They take out the heat
ray nodule in the maintenance tunnel by throwing bone grenades and send Azul to
explore. He finds an old diesel engine down a shaft and another way out of the
cave. Ajax reconnoiters the other tunnel and makes contact with cybernetic
prairie dogs who would rather be left alone. Following Ajax the heroes find
the Autofacs production floor where Naida strikes a deal with the prairie dogs:
They will tolerate their presence if in return the diesel engine is
refuelled.
Schematics of a cybernetically enhanced dog
In the control room
Azure - desperate to revive Saffron - connects the crystal snail via Cataract
to the motherboard. Who will emerge from the undeath of stored data: Saffron,
Johnny-7 ... or something else? They switch on the machine.
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