Manic Mammets
((Character: R’jhet Nunh))
E’er since we took down Grimm Lynn, work has been kinda slow. Sure, the Grand Companies seemed ta really appreciate us an’ gave us some much needed fundin’, buh that wasn’t gonna last forever. Ah finally got a hook fer some work, but it seemed really fishy. Usually Ah’d pass on work Ah din’t trust but...it’d been a bit an’ we needed the work. We rented out an airship from the Flames and bore our colors into Ishgardian territory.
Ah brought along two veterans...an’ Ah use tha’ term loosely mind ya, an’ two of our new folk. Didi an’ Mirara were as eager fer the work as Ah was. We recently hired a new engineer named Zwight, and as soon as Ah mentioned this job involved experimental mammets he was ready ta go! A fella bah the name of Nevi also joined us fer his first mission.
Once there we met up with a machinist named Doctor Lumenaux, our client. He explained tha’ he hired us as a third party cause his work wasn’t illegal, but would be frowned upon bah his countrymen. He was tryin’ to artificially recreate the echo in mammets, an’ claimed he had succeeded not once but -five- times! He introduced us to one of ‘em, a lil’ warrior named Wibble. Wibble told us the other four had been stolen by a rival; Doctor Surly. With no sign of funny business, we set out to find the missin’ mammets.
We found the tower easily ‘nuff thanks to a small drone that was able to track one’a the mammets. We still had to get past the tower’s automatic defenses though. Luckily Zwight was -easily- able ta sneak up an’ disable them all. Ah don’t regret hirin’ him at all! He even managed ta do somethin’ to the mechanical door leadin’ inside an’ got us inside safely.
Not far from the entrance we got stuck in a trapped hallway. Again Zwight’s quick thinkin’ saved the day. He pried off a panel of wall and fiddled with the wires n’ doodads, somehow deactivatin’ the trap. While he did that, Mirara managed ta use some peanut oil to unlock the cage walls keepin’ us from progressin’. The team is really comin’ together.
We finally got to the rival doctor, an’ between Nevi an’ Mirara he was knocked out cold bah a few well placed sleep spells. We saw one mammet being worked on, buh it wasn’t one’a the four we needed. Zwight found -those- in a store closet. While they were thankin’ us, Nevi searched the doctor’s pockets...and looked confused. He showed us a note and explained that it seemed we’d been duped. Dr. Surly had invented the mammets, and Dr. Lumenaux was the thief! Suddenly the mammets grew hostile...and Nevi uttered a code word, which caused their brain washin’ to wear off. They then verified Surly’s story, and said this research was fully sanctioned by Ishgard. We agreed to check it out, and Surly even volunteered to be brought back in chains if needed. We indeed brought him in, and Ishgard’s knights confirmed the story. When we went to confront Lumenaux both he and Wibble were gone! Somehow they’d been tipped off. Zwight managed to figure out the drone, which belonged to the mammet named Demo Legion, had been rigged to send information back to Lumenaux. Both the guards and Surly said they would inform us the moment they had a lead. For now though, we were allowed to return home and get some rest.
