Dust rolls in with Red and Blue, and the ground keeps pulsing underfoot. Between them hangs a salvaged control unit, scorched black, its serial marks matching the sabotaged boxes. The lie is gone now. The blight is being made somewhere alive.
Red the Colossus
We found the source stamp intact. This came from the factory, not the junkers.
Blue the Colossus
And it was built to keep working. Look at the seams, look at the feed ports.
Green tightens beside Orange, vines braced like clenched fingers. The water behind them shivers with each distant thud, as if the oasis itself is listening.
Green the Colossus
It is not drifting here by chance. Someone is pushing the land to die.
Red lowers the control unit into Orange’s reach, offering proof instead of comfort. The serial plate gleams through soot, a direct trail back to the industrial ruin in the wastes.
Blue the Colossus
If we want the poisoning to stop, we do not chase puddles. We hit the place making them.
✓ Quest Accepted
Confront the factory making the poison
✓ Quest Accepted
Fortify the oasis against the rigs
“Direct the Junkers to reinforce the inlet while i start building an artillery cannon to fire at the factory”
SUCCESS (Superb Repair, rolled +2)
Orange gets the junkers moving at the inlet, and their hands answer fast. Scrap braces, stone wedges, and twisted rebar start locking the channel wall before the next pulse can shake it loose.
He turns the same repairs into a frame for a crude artillery cannon, using pipe, mount, and salvaged feed gears. The barrel takes shape square and heavy, aimed toward the factory on the horizon.
Silas
We hold the water here, and we leave that ruin smoking if we can reach it.
Purple the Colossus
Then the oasis is secured as best it can be. Orange, finish the cannon. The rest of us choose our next move.
Green the Colossus
The inlet settles under the new supports. For the first time, the water sounds guarded.
By the time the last brace bites into place, the inlet stands reinforced and the cannon sits ready, its muzzle fixed on the distant factory. The decision now hangs in the air, immediate strike or defended waiting.
Quest Complete
Fortify the oasis against the rigs
Quest Complete
Identify who manufactured the failing control boxes
New Gift: Master Diagnostician