"There's the chest!"They weren't the only one with the idea! As Key kicked the chest opened, one of the escaped prisoners, a young blonde woman who looked suspiciously familiar to Bianca also arrived at the scene to pick up her gear. No problems there, Bianca is more than happy to help everyone find their stuff, tossing items as needed up until the point they themselves were complete. There it was, the important bag, and with it the metal framework which was designed to sit on her shoulders. With an electric hum, a strange construct took to life, crawling itself over the young scientists shoulders and hooking into place, a single extendable servo arm clicking and clacking as it booted up.
Key likewise dragged her item from the very bottom. It was like an oversized chain trencher, far to large for a girl like her, but she hefted its weight with ease.
"It's still fueled up! I'm ready!"What about the others? There was a few more people here, right? She tossed the last few items and turned to pose to no one in particular.
"All set!" Team Bianca is back in action!
"Everyone please evacuate!" Key implored, jogging up ahead in the opposite direction of the flow of water coming in. Bianca followed suit, but something was wrong.
Something was in her head.
She glanced back. Crystal? There was a strange rock on the ground that shone with a baleful power. It displayed images which were intriguing as they were concerning. In her home world, the object was clearly defined. An SCP, an anomalous object of interest, a magic item or artifact of great worth and unpredictable, often baleful natures. Such were the nature of her strange Lovecraftian homeworld. A normal person would wisely leave such abominations be, letting it sink to the bottom of the ocean where none shall find it again.
Unfortunately, she was a scientist.
Unfortunately for the crystal, she was a scientist. She's no fool.
"Key wait, that rock!""What? No time for shiny rocks!""Not that, it's an SCP, I'm experiencing contact from a possibly memetic artifact. It's not compulsory, but sure does want me to pick it up. Offer me knowledge. And fuse. Not too keen on that, but it might be sentient, we'll study it later. Come on, we're Scientia, and it might help to reverse engineer that. You ready?""This is reckless!" Key scolded, but she was already opening a spare bag. The first rule when dealing with unknown SCPs,
never touch them! Especially when they outwardly showed interest in doing spooky fusion techniques with you. A
Mage Hand should be enough to move one spooky rock from here to the safety of a self contained sack without actually interacting with it. When they are not in immediate threat of drowning, they can figure it out later.
And speaking of out...
CRACK!"I'm pretty sure that was something important buckling, let's go!" Key shouted. Bianca and Key are making a beeline to the deck, to the nearest escape boat, or barring that, right off the edge. Once a flotation device is obtained of course. This boat better be up to OSHA code or she'll sue!
Now that it's relevant, time to determine today's spell selection. I've randomly removed a few, on the presumption I burned them while pissing off Clever Circuit. Today's build assumed exploration and minor defense.
0-Detect Magic, Ell's Magic Timepiece, Mage Hand, Prestidigitation, Sponge
1-Benign Transposition, Chaos Blaze, Instant Locksmith, Parachute, Summon Bot
2-Albedo Armor, Force Bit, Scan, Summon Bot
Prebuffed with Ell's Magic Timepiece. It's all day long.