Hiding from the Hand |
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Stage 1 |
Location: | Highridge Mines (Rock Layer) (6, 8) |
You arrive in the dimly lit mine shaft, contrary to some of the other area's of Sigma. The shaft bustles with activity. You see huge numbers of Cyborgs milling around, drilling new mine shafts searching for Taulite Ore. As you enter a small open shaft you see a Mine Drill Cyborg bent over doing some adjustments to his robotic drilling arms. |
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The Cyborg looks up, however you cannot really tell from his helmet whether he is looking at you or not. Just as you are about to leave him to his repairs, he starts to speak to you in a very sinister robotic voice, 'You are an outsider, however you do not bare the mark of the Chrome Hand. Perhaps you could help me, we have been in these mines for a great many years hiding from the Chrome Hand.
A number of the mine shafts and tunnels in this sector have been destroyed by others like me to prevent the Chrome Hand from attacking us and harvesting our body's for upgrades to theirs. With the lack of raw materials, repairs to our equipment are becoming more and more difficult.' |
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Stage 2 |
Location: | Highridge Mines (Rock Layer) (6, 8) |
'The rock in this area is extremely robust, as such the mechinism of my Visor Cutter needs to be repaired. If you can help me do this, I can give you access to areas you normally wouldn't be able to visit. I will be able to create tunnels to wherever you like if you help me fix my drill arm.' |
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'Very well, I will wait here and power down until you return. You will need this.' He hands you a blueprint.
You gain 1 x Cyborg Rock Cutter Blueprint. |
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Stage 3 |
Location: | Highridge Mines (Rock Layer) (6, 8) |
The Cyborg powers to life as its movement sensor detects you approach him. He turns to you and says 'Have you managed to create a new Cyborg Rock Cutter?' |
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The cyborg walks over to you and scans the Cutter, he looks at you and says 'This will do perfectly. Come with me, I can now create some new tunnels through the damaged areas. Follow me to the collapsed tunnel just east of here.' |
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Stage 4 |
Location: | Highridge Mines (Shaft) (6, 10) |
After a long narrow winding tunnel you find yourself in what appears to be a large cavern, the Northern wall of the caverns has completely caved in, the scale of the collapsed tunnel makes you believe that whoever lives deeper in the cave has indeed done this on purpose to keep outsiders out. Your cyborg friend, revitalised with his new arm turns to you and says 'Behind this wall once lay a area of rock with Volcanic Deposits, the ore found down there can be used to create especially strong armor and weaponry.' They must have dropped this shaft to cut themselves off from Sharona Rai's minions. If you can find me a gamma ray projector I should be able to examine the damage and locate a safe spot to create a passage way to the North path.' |
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Good, return to me when you have it.
You gain 1 x Gamma Ray Projector Blueprint |
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Stage 5 |
Location: | Highridge Mines (Shaft) (6, 10) |
You return to the cyborg, as you approach him he asks you 'Did you obtain the Gamma Ray Projector?� |
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'Very good, this will do perfectly.' The cyborg plugs the Gamma Projector into his chest piece and starts to scan the collapsed area of the tunnel, without saying anything he approaches it at the west side, you hear the motors in both of his Drills whirring to life. You figure this will take a little time, so as you prepare to set up a small camp and wait.
You awake alone in the tunnel, a few hours must have past, yet there is still no sign of your cyborg friend. Maybe you should go investigate the Collapsed Tunnel. |
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Stage 6 |
Location: | Highridge Mines (Shaft) (10, 7) |
You crawl through the small passageway the cyborg created and emerge in a large tunnel. Your cyborg friend is nowhere to be found, however you see the new drill arm you created lying on the ground, perhaps he moved down into the deeper area. |
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After further examination of the area find shattered Drill Arm laying on the cold floor. With further exploration you suprised to stumble across a Power Drill Arm Blueprint.
You fear the worst, so you head North towards the Volcanic deposits.
You recieve 1 x Power Drill Arm Blueprint |
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Stage 7 |
Location: | Highridge Mines (Volcanic Deposits) (12, 3) |
You approach a number of Mine Cutters, they are gathered around what looks to be the remains of a Cyborg. They turn to face you, the leader of the pack turns to face you 'How did you get down here, this Cyborg must have created a new tunnel! We must defend ourselves, once Sharona Rai's minions discover a new way down here, they will stop at nothing to enslave or harvest us for our parts. Lets get him guys!' |
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As you kill the 5th Mine Cutter you see that they were brutally dis-assembling your Cyborg friend. It looks as if the damage is beyond even your skilled Assembly skills. You salvage through the parts on the ground and find a strange looking computer chip. Maybe this could be used for something.
You gain 1 x Narholt Weapon Add On + 15 skill points and 7,940 XP. |
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