Wyxeltrax droid factory

John left Nyxx with Nissa and found his pets playing around on their own just a while later. Now, armed with his new bow and after inspecting his gear just to be sure, he was ready to try out another barrier. Ilis showed up midway through his inspection, dressed in what looked to be a smith’s apron, many pockets lining the leather which caused John to cock an eyebrow at her.

“This is your battle gear?” he asked her, only for her to wink at him mysteriously, not answering him. Instead, she took out a few cogs and some metal casing and went back to fiddling with them.

“If you’re ready to head out, so am I,” Ilis said after one of the cogs broke between her fingers and the casing cracked from trying to put the cog in with too much ****.

“Well, about that, what kind of barrier do you want to do? I can make…” John started to explain the kinds of barriers the skill showed him he could make. Illis stopped him about halfway through.

“Did you say mechanical? Let’s do that. I’ve been dying to get my hands on some new parts, and you can’t tell me that something created by your random powers is anything but interesting. Let’s do mechanical!”

John, not one to turn down the bubbly dwarfette, nodded and grinned. He wrapped an arm around her shoulder and stepped out of the barrier with her, invited her to his party, and then, they were off.

You have entered Wyxeltrax droid factory, you can only leave when a boss has been defeated
Current bosses defeated: 0/4

The four of them (Jack and Toph had appeared the moment they entered the barrier) found themselves in a pit. Everywhere they looked they saw shades of brown, the sky was filled with thick dusty clouds, and rust particles whirled around as free as birds. Their feet rested on more than a few broken and rusted mechanical appendages. The sun was blotted out, the smell of heavy machinery was thick in the air, and their eyes stung from the heavy metals in the air. John’s first reaction was to take off his mouth guard and hand it to Ilis, but his dwarven engineer had taken out a pair of goggles and a mouth guard of her own. John next checked if his pets could breathe, but both of them just blankly looked at him until he realized neither of them were actually breathing, elemental heritage it seemed.

After getting their bearings, Ilis gestured to the top of the pit, gesturing for John to go up. John nodded, and after covering his cloak in some of the dark rust to prevent the green from sticking out to any and all enemies that were no doubt around, John took out his climbing axe and dagger and started to, one step at a time, climb on the wall. When he popped his head above the pit, he was treated to the sight of hundreds upon hundreds of smokestacks reaching for the sky from somewhere underground. Off in the distance, John could see a train of carts moving between some openings in the walls below. His attention was then caught by the soft creaking of something approaching: a robot, arms and legs mismatched, was pushing a wheelbarrow towards the pit, broken pieces of heads and legs sticking out like a metal porcupine.

As John locked eyes with the robot, the creaking slowly stopped. One of its eyes was dim, the other flashed with a soft glow, first bright then dull as if it was trying to blink. When John didn’t move, the robot continued its path, unsteady steps bringing it closer and closer. Then, when it reached the edge of the pit, it visibly strained its arms to dump the contents of its wheelbarrow into the pit. At this time John struck. John pulled his climbing axe out of the wall, still using his dagger to stay in position, and when the droid reached the edge of the pit, John lashed out with it, pulling it down into the pit, leaving the wheelbarrow just short of the pit.

“Incoming!” John called out, Jack and Toph baring their claws as Ilis looked up bemusedly. Half falling, half sliding, the droid tumbled into the pit, letting out a surprised, “Oh dear,” before Jack and Toph descended on him. A few seconds later, John got an exp notification indicating the droid was no longer functioning.

John waited a few seconds longer, then hoisted himself up from the edge of the pit. He pulled himself upright, looking around before he anchored his climbing axe and attached a rope to it, allowing the trio in the pit to climb up. As John extended his hand to help Ilis climb out of the hole, a loud crack echoed through the air, a glint in the distance, and then, John fell backwards.

-98 hp

John felt a pounding in his skull as blood soaked the ground below his head. Toph popped up from below the ground and started to create an earthen shield around her toppled master. Ilis, hiding behind it, waved her hand in front of John’s eyes. “By Hemet, are you alive?” she asked as John slowly lifted his hand to his chest, a small hole slowly closing up as a few more drops of blood seeped onto the floor from the hole at the back of his shoulder.

“I’m alive, yeah, but that bloody thing just took off more than a third of my health!” John cursed as he heard the loud crack again. Then he saw the wall Toph made shudder, Jack snarling next to him as he went to help Toph reinforce the wall, the leopard creating a thick black tinged ice wall as more cracks appeared in the stone.

“We need to get to cover. I think I saw some caves just now. Whatever the fuck that thing is, it’s using bullets and it has quite the aim on it,” John grumbled.

G'day. Izix speaking. The medical issue is finally starting to disappear, with a bit of luck, the updating schedule should become more consistent now that my mind is clearer for writing our little smut story. I want to say thank you to all those that still hang around to read the story of hunter John, and hopefully, we'll get this show on the road again soon enough!