Chapter 3
Roger’s drones report back info and video footage of the elf and dragon folk. “Okay life forms found both of the intelligent variety. Hmm, should I sit still and open my doors so I can trick them into entering inside? Heheheheh maybe I can capture both of them in the medical bay”
Roger soon opens the door to the driver's seat and the back ramp door to let people in. “okay time to attract them..” roger sounds his horn scattering the nearby birds in the tree.
Reeza slowly sneaks up on roger “what's this…. The beast is opening its head… and but?” she says watching Roger. She flenches and hides behind a tree when roger honks his horn “the beast roars….. Is it a challenge or a cry of pain” Reeza thinks as she crouches low to the ground using bushes and trees to cover herself as she approaches. Roger watches from the cameras chuckling to himself
Meanwhile, the female elf slowly approaches the crash site after hearing the strange beast roar “it seems I might be too late most of the star rock is gone… a frost dragon might of took it…” she thinks picking a handful of bolts and one large panel “iS this is from the falling star?” while still thinking to her self, she opens up a small pouch that quickly sucks in the items. “Im not armed enough to take on whatever beast that was.” the elf quickly heads back the way she came and slowly disappears as she casts a concealment spell on herself.
“Aw the elf ran away… well it looks like I caught myself a dragon folk maybe…. I hope the plan to lower their guard works hehehehe ”roger thinks to himself as Reeza takes her spear and stabs a metal panel “take this monster! You shall bow to my might!” her spear harmlessly slides off the panel only scratching the panel. Reeza freezes releasing her attack was ineffective and quickly takes a defensive stance. “I wonder what they are saying..” roger thinks to himself only receiving sounds of growling, and hissing with his camera's audio.
Roger stays motionless as his secret weapon on board is secretly deployed “are you dead?” Reeza says tapping where she last stabbed, she then slowly approaches the door looking at it with wonder “wait is this crystal? I can only see through it one way” Reeza looks from one side of the entrance to the other, Reeza’s tail moves around happily as she observes the door.
From deep inside the vehicle a bowl of freshly cooked chile sits inside a medical chamber as the internal vents slowly drift the smell throughout the vehicle Roger thinks to himself “mwahaha my ultimate trap southern-style chili with cheese…”
As Reeza sticks her snout inside the cockpit about to clime in she freezes smelling the food “what is this…. Is smells…. Similar to fathers cooking…” Reeza slowly investigates the smell climbing into the vehicle. “Come on follow the scent I even hacked the medical bay equipment to print synthetic meat and vegetables, it even has spices in it!” patch thinks to himself as the vents slowly stop blowing the food smell around the ship.
Reeza climes inside the driver's cabin while observing the room she carefully pokes the driver seat and jumps slightly when the seat rotates from her poking it.
[system notification: achievement achieved .. trespasser on board, you gain 15 xp]
“Father has one of these in his cell but sadly my tail doesn't fit,” she thinks to herself placing her hand on the seat and admiring the synthetic leather.
As Reeza is rubbing the seat thinking about it not fitting her tail Roger receives another system announcement.[system: an organic being has been sensed being unhappy aboard your craft... A new mission goal has been assigned and the reward on completion is 150 xp and a tech level 8 thought reader will be received]
New goal: appease the passenger on board.
Roger looks at the goal and mission thinking to himself “okay from what I can tell… it seems they like the chair…. Humm wait … it has no tail hole…” roger looks at the chair through his cameras and pulls us the stats on the chair.
Advanced chair: can be adjusted to fit the needs of the occupants as long as the species specks are uploaded to the chair.
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“Humm you don’t have to worry about that I can adjust it myself,” Roger thinks and begins altering the seat to fit Reeza. “What the…” Reeza says out loud as she sees the seat slowly change as she was rubbing it. “Is this magic… if so is the rest of this beast magic?” Reeza slowly sits down in the seat, then slowly spins it around for fun thinking to herself “if this is magic it be nice if it can hold my tail off the floor and be warmer”.
[System: congratulations you have completed your goal and mission dispensing the rewards]
Roger gets happy once he received the rewards and is amused to be able to read a few of Reeza's thoughts “oh not comfortable enough well you are in luck that seat is one of the best seats in this world! it is not a blob seat but I can adjust it and the cabin to the preference of the driver…. Be glad I'm an O.L.I.F.O.B. me and my guild made them comfortable hahaha” Roger thinks to himself and slowly changes the floor to rise to support her tail while activating the heat pads in the seat and floor holding her tail.
Reeze is shocked that as soon she thought about what she wanted the chair changed shape to what she wanted. “Wait is this place really magical… I can enjoy this…” Reeza lets out a few happy chirping sounds as she leans back into the chair.
“Maybe operation southern chili is not needed, if I can get them to visit and explore, I might beagle to get them to wear an external translate. then an internal brain chip or organic to machine control implant,” Roger thinks as he activates a massage function in the seat.
Reeza slowly relaxes when the seat moves suddenly “what the!” she says reaching for her spear when she suddenly realizes it feels good. “Whoa… I am tempted to keep this magic beast as my treasure and part my hoard…” reeza sits for a few more minutes till she remembers the smell from earlier. “I wonder if the small from earlier was from this beast….”
Reeza slowly gets up and watches as the seat splits to allow her to remove her tail from the seat easier. “Okay now I'm going to have to tame and keep this beast…” the door that connects the cockpit to the rest of the vehicle chimes alerting her.” what's this?” Reeza walks up to the door and opens it seeing a hallway with four doors. “Is this a door?”
Roger watches Reeza open the door and enter the hallway “hmmm let's see which door you choose will it be the two bedrooms or the shower and the laundry/crew clothes storage”
Reeza readies her spear entering a new part of the beast, “I think this might not be a beast…. I have seen it move before but this is…” Reeza thinks to herself as she opens the second door on the left revealing a small cabin holding the bed stacked on top of each other. She slowly begins to walk over and test the bed by patting the white sheets “this nesting spot is softer than my spot in the cave!” she says out loud sitting on the bed and staining some of the covers from the grime and dirt on herself.
[System message]
New mission: unauthorized intruder has made a mess in one of the crew cabins please clean it up as soon as possible reward Advance washer and 50xp
“Okay, I'm going to have to clean that up later or replace it if they steal it…” roger thinks as he continues to monitor Reeza. After laying on the bed for a few minutes Reeza slowly gets up to investigate the rest of the shuttle. After leaving the room she heads down the hallway to the large open space which happens to have a ladder going up to the Gatling rail gun turret. Right next to the ladder is medical equipment and a large medical tube that is open with a bowl of chili in it, also beside the tube is a door that leads to the mechanical bay and back ramp.
Reeza sniffs the air and begins slowly heading to where the chili is sitting “hmmm so you are the source of the smell..” reeze tail slowly sways as she raises her hand and chants a spell “wind hand!” soon a gust of wind reaches the bowl and slowly brings it to reeza. “Whoa so that is magic…, I saw it in the game before but not like this…” Roger thinks as Reeza slurps it down “what herbs are in this? IS this chohab meat? They don't migrate here this season till the rain season starts and what is this stringy thing” Reeza says aloud eating happily while enjoying chili with cheese for the first time.
After finishing her meal she looks at the strange crystal tube with a worried look “my instinct told me to not go in there….. You can have THIS back BEAST!” Reeza tosses the bowl at the glass tube at high speed. Roger panics not wanting the tube to be destroyed he quickly deploys metal tendrils that fall from the ceiling of the tube and block the attack. “Whoa whoa calm down you undergrown lizard with wings!” Roger says through the speakers of the medbay.
Reeza quickly readies her spear “ha you reveal your self beast... I will tame you and soon you will be my treasure!” Roger quickly pulls the medical tendrils back inside. “Okay let's see who tames who!” the medical tube shines as roger spends energy to make another bowl of chili appear
“I wish she could understand me! The only thing I can do is read her thoughts and it seems she wants to tame me!” roger thinks to himself as the tendrils reach down moving the bowl out of the tube and setting it on the 8 ft away from her.
Reeza watches the tendrils like a hawk and growls at them “So you were the one who made the food from earlier! The food was good but I don't trust you right now beast!” Reeze slowly moves to the outskirt of the room watching the tube. Reeza looks at the food and is tempted to eat again but she forces herself to leave the way she came. “Okay, beast I will be back! Im going to report to my mother!”
Roger watches as she leaves monitoring her flying and swooping down to grab a panel he did not collect for resources yet. “I might as well go ahead and print an external universal translator.” Roger starts up the fabricator in the mechanic bay to begin printing off a repair drone and a translator.
An hour goes by as reeza suddenly stops flying seeing her brothers Rio,dio, zeo, and hoze coming to where she is. Rio speaks once he lands next to her “BIG SIS mother said to tell you to come back home…. Do you need help carrying that?” Reeza shakes her head no and then speaks “this was part of its shell that it hatched from, I managed to grab it before it has eaten it”
Zeo starts getting excited about his sister and speaks up “Your amazing sis to steal one of its shell pieces. Your so brave to go after a beast that size!” so the others join in on praising their sister. “Let us get back to mother and I will then tell you the story of how I have beaten that beast to obtain this metal shell!” Reeza says as she starts flying toward their cave.