With your 'guests' unconscious you order the elevator brought back down to the main base to save some time retrieving them, and once they arrive you waste no time preparing them for interrogation. This consists of stripping them down and confiscating their possessions before putting them into some smart gel restraints (it's a really durable solid when you want it to be, and silly putty when you don't) and basic prisoner jumpsuits. To avoid possible perversion given that one of the intruders is a woman, you assign the task to some Joes fresh off the assembly line who haven't developed into full-fledged people yet.
That done, you relocate from the command center into an exam room adjacent to Alien Containment. You and Gioachino get there about 40 seconds before the Joes wheel in the would-be infiltrators on some gurneys. You ask Gioachino "Do you need a charge for the scanning spell?"
Alright guys, roll another round of Fortitude saves. DC is still 23, if you pass the first check, roll again for if you wake up.
Gio shakes his head, before replying "No, they've got more than enough themselves for me to work with." before muttering slightly and gesturing to each of them in turn. Suddenly, green lines of light streak out from his fingers, and you could almost swear you see the prisoners flicker out of existence for the briefest of periods as your hired spellcaster gasps slightly and remarks "Well, that was enlightening." while rubbing his forehead almost like he has a headache.
I passed both checks, yet another reason to love the Paladin bonus to Fort saves. I guess that means I wake up now Dean?
At this you ask Gio what the problem is, and he remarks "Quite bluntly, these are remote-operated avatars that someone else is using. I used something similar for taking down some seriously nasty Torturers a while back. Of course, to save on madness our version was basically a blank figure that was actually inferior to a baseline human in all ways save that it was expendable. Even then we had to round up a half-dozen relatively fresh Victims and we still drained them dry in an hour."
Only once the other two players leave the room, OK Richard?
Gio continues with "This version is almost the exact opposite in terms of how to approach the problem. They're lifelike enough that if I hadn't scanned them I'd think they were actually here, they've got several integrated abilities that a baseline human just can't do, and they've actually got some integrated reflexes to bolster the pilot's skills. They also need enough Madness that I'd suspect whoever made them of having a mental-type Savant tied up in their basement, but if that were the case I'd expect us to have either had to deal with a small army of them, or for each projection to be at least 20 times as powerful as this."
OK I'm awake, so what do I see? Oh, I also try and pretend that I'm still asleep.
You remark "Curiously, have you ever heard of this new casting style called Technomancy? Also, can you trace the control signal?" At this point you get another tingle of instinctive knowledge, and turn towards the gurney containing the 'knight'. You look a bit closer and soon see that yes, he's most definitely awake, going by the EEG readout.
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