PasqalThe altar is adorned with gilded skulls. Threads of metal that used to be electoos are fused onto the bone. Once majestic, the altar has now been desecrated with blasphemous images of blue-green suns. Some of its levers and buttons have been pried from their sockets, but the mechanism still glorifies the Omnissiah with its operation.
Pasqal"I identify this as the safety system control altar. For our diversion to succeed, this blessed machine must be executed — and may its spirit forgive us."
YOU"Forgive us, honoured machine spirit. We are obliged to interrupt your work."
PasqalA mournful binharic requiem pours forth from Pasqal's vox.
YOU"Forgive us, honoured machine spirit. We are obliged to interrupt your work."continues where this line first appears above
YOU[Stealthily sabotage the machine] "There was a young Navy officer on my old bridge who once disabled a whole relay grid this way..."
PasqalAs would any veteran officer of the Imperial Navy, you discover a fatal vulnerability in the machine's design — exposed connectors under a thin metal plate. You slide your dagger into the crack and cause a short circuit that halts the flow of the Motive Force.
Pasqal"May we be granted the Omnissiah's forgiveness for this act. I am registering a general shutdown of the security system."
end of branch
YOU[Cause the altar to overload]
YOU[Break the machine with brute force]
YOU[Step away]
end of branch
YOU[Stealthily sabotage the machine] "There was a young Navy officer on my old bridge who once disabled a whole relay grid this way..."continues where this line first appears above
YOU[Cause the altar to overload]continues where this line first appears above
YOU[Break the machine with brute force]continues where this line first appears above
YOU[Step away]continues where this line first appears above
Entry point 2 of 5
PasqalPasqal offers a short binharic prayer, then enters command after command to set up a trap for the machine spirit inhabiting the altar. The code born out of the Tech-Priest's tinkering causes the spirit to flutter confusedly in a snare of impossible commands, heat up the altar's circuit boards, and perish forever in the showers of sparks that burst forth from the melting wires.
Pasqal"May we be granted the Omnissiah's forgiveness for this act. I am registering a general shutdown of the security system."continues where this line first appears above
Entry point 3 of 5
PasqalPasqal offers a short binharic prayer, then enters command after command to set up a trap for the machine spirit inhabiting the altar. But the Omnissiah refuses to give His blessing for the killing of His angel, and the Tech-Priest fails to beguile the keen servant of the Machine God.
YOU"Forgive us, honoured machine spirit. We are obliged to interrupt your work."continues where this line first appears above
YOU[Stealthily sabotage the machine] "There was a young Navy officer on my old bridge who once disabled a whole relay grid this way..."continues where this line first appears above
YOU[Cause the altar to overload]continues where this line first appears above
YOU[Break the machine with brute force]continues where this line first appears above
YOU[Step away]continues where this line first appears above
PasqalAn alarmed cry is heard from the crowd of heretics. It looks like your tampering with the altar has caught the attention of someone too keen-eyed to be fooled by your disguise.
end of branch
Entry point 4 of 5
PasqalUsing a pried-out switch as a lever, you move the altar's platework aside and rip out a bundle of wires from inside it with one brutal jerk. The maimed machine cannot survive such a desecration.
Pasqal"May we be granted the Omnissiah's forgiveness for this act. I am registering a general shutdown of the security system."continues where this line first appears above
Entry point 5 of 5
PasqalAs soon as you touch the altar's inner wirework, the stern machine spirit sends a powerful electric discharge into your fingers. The spirit will have none of this blasphemous violation of the Rite of Operation.
YOU"Forgive us, honoured machine spirit. We are obliged to interrupt your work."continues where this line first appears above
YOU[Stealthily sabotage the machine] "There was a young Navy officer on my old bridge who once disabled a whole relay grid this way..."continues where this line first appears above
YOU[Cause the altar to overload]continues where this line first appears above
YOU[Break the machine with brute force]continues where this line first appears above
YOU[Step away]continues where this line first appears above
PasqalAn alarmed cry is heard from the crowd of heretics. It looks like your tampering with the altar has caught the attention of someone too keen-eyed to be fooled by your disguise.continues where this line first appears above