As the last of your enemies falls, the gases inside the giant crystal sphere begin to flicker and swirl even more wildly than before. The lights flickering at the base of the crystal dim, then suddenly brighten, nearly blinding you. Almost impossibly, the crystal begins to speak to you in low, rumbling tones that echo throughout the chamber.
“I am WARDYN,” it says in the Draconic tongue. “How may I be of service to you?”
Mendas asks:
So our prisoner here… say, what the Hel is your name anyway?
Krymath.
So Krymath here says you can stop the magic worms that are making the outside Dragonborn go insane. Is this true?
The indigent population is experiencing cerebral interference due to ongoing astral-reflect planetary survey, currently at 35% complete. I can stop this program with command-level authorization.
Are you in charge? Can you command the other Ancients? How about the other constructs, do they obey you?
I serve the crew of the Ashardalon under Captain Merykare Setep. I direct the construction of new automations. I update automation programming each 48-hour repair cycle. I can send startup and shutdown commands to all automations with command-level authorization. I can alter automation programming with command-level authorization.
Do you know how many other Ancients there are in this ‘ship’?
The ship's crew consists of 32 dragonborn. 12 crew members are believed deceased. 1 crew member is recorded as missing but is currently present. 12 crew members are in cryostasis, with original scheduled awakening staggered within the next 45 days. Cryostasis awakening has been rescheduled to begin immediately for all remaining members with command authorization.
Tell us about any immediate threats to our survival.
Standing instruction for all crew and automations is the detention or destruction of all unknown phenotypes. Additionally, all crew and automations have received images and decriptions of all 10 of you, with command-level orders for annihilation.
Tell us about that big white dragon in the other room.
Training simulation Elder White Dragon 03 is based on holographic capture from 40-kilometer distant site seven days ago. Last user to complete the scenario was Captain Merykare Setep.
Command-level authorization, huh? How do we get that?
Only Captain Setep can grant command-level authorization to new parties.
48-hour repair cycle? Does that mean all the automations go to sleep every two days? When does that happen?
The automation force has a rolling repair cycle so that some of the force is active at all times. Each automation spends 1 hour in repair for each 47 hours of normal active duty.
Cry-o’-stasis awakening is ‘beginning’? How long does it take to wake someone up?
The first of twelve crew members currently in cryostasis will be fully awake in 17.2 seconds. All remaining crew members are scheduled to wake within the next fifteen minutes.
Images of us with orders for annihilation, huh? That’s… not good. How hard would it be to fool these automations?
Fooling the automations would involve a redevelop of optical recognition subroutines or the possession of dragonborn skin, normal dragonborn body temperature, mature electro-traits, and the correct subdermal implantation.
“Is there anything you can do without command-level authorization?”
I can answer any queries not restricted by command-level authorization.
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