adding notes for 08-18

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+# Numenera 08-18-24
+- We head to the shiny pedestal and investigate it.
+- Tadej tries to open its access panel with his hammer, but sets off a defense system. He is zapped for 3 damage and sits down. He begins to count upward. 1,2,3,etc.
+- Logan searches the panel. It contains: 20 shins and a bunch of keys are in the panel. After about a minute, the keys change shapes. There are approx. 12 keys on the ring.
+- Logan and Tubora try to get Tadej to stop counting. He shoves a raw egg into Tadej's mouth. Tubora uses her healing to halt Tadej's counting.
+- Logan looks for keyholes in the surrounding area.
+- We head over to the northern unknown area, and find some recent corpses that have bite marks out of them. There is damage to the area, with some sort of force damage.
+- On the bodies, we find 11 shin, 3 explorer's packs, a pair of small floating cubes (an oddity) that cool down the whole room to a lower temperature.
+- Ozzi gets 1 shin. We each get 10 shins. Tadej takes two glowglobes out of an extra pack. Logan takes an explorer's pack.
+- Ozzi is kidnapped in the pyramid -- he is Princess Peach.
+- We fly over the city to the southeast, and investigate the robotic thing we saw. As we are flying, Logan hears a voice cry out telepathically from inside the pyramid saying it is trapped in the tubes(?) and has been there for centuries.
+- We come across a series of small but precise holes on the top of the automaton sphere, which is deactivated at the moment. It is a large sphere that is approx. 60 lbs heavy.
+- Tubora uses the horn as a wand to put the sphere up to the pyramid's impression. It does not seem to take.
+- Logan looks through his pile of keys to try and find the correct one. After inserting one, more holes appear on the sides of the sphere, similar to the top. Tubora investigates them and finds that we may need to connect the holes together somehow. It seems the sphere has not been activated somehow.
+- We take the sphere to the first pedestal and try to re-energize it. We find another panel higher up and Logan opens it with a key. It looks like another control panel for the pedastel.
+- Tadej throws the sphere against the panel to try and energize it. Out of 4 holes, 8 ft long tubes spring out and act as legs. It begins to run towards us, runs past us, and heads towards the tower and up it. We follow behind it.
+- Two more legs pop out of the top of it and it begins to climb upward. As it climbs, it reaches the pedestal and all 16 tubes extend outward and plug into it. Then the door above us opens on the pyramid.
+- Tubora levitates a glowglobe up into the pyramid hatch. We see a series of more tubes on the ceiling of the room, and metallic arms moving around that seem like some sort of grip.
+- Logan tries to re-connect to the voice from before. He cannot reach it. Tadej uses his telepathy to connect and talk with the being, who cannot feel or see like us, but seems stuck in a tube and moves around the pyramid seemingly at random.
+- Tubora rises us into the building. There is debris and metal around the floor. We travel down the corridors while avoiding the metallic claws on the ceiling. We suddenly hear voices and head towards them. Three people dressed as scavangers are there.
+- Logan moves forward and confronts the three mercenaries. They balk at Logan's discussions. Tadej uses telepathy to try and throw them off and turn themselves against each other. As one begins to leave, Tadej pays him 50 shins to fight his teammates and says he will give 50 more after.
+- We enter combat next week! With one ally.