Act 1: Let's get out of here

"Where's Johnny?"

"Uh... I don't know?"

"That's right, Mr. Golem. You wish you had moves like mine!" Steve continues his dancing.

Steve keeps dancing like the silly man he is while Konrad casts Scan on the golem. As soon as the spell hits the construct, it turns around to face the red mage and stare directly at him. It then stops moving, but its eyes are locked onto Konrad.

The worker is a little freaked out.

Scan results:

"Hope you got something, because i don't think it'll like a second shot."

Konrad steps back when the statue turns. "More scans won't give me anything. Runes allow it to move flexibly. Runes in the body are connected with the head. The design of the eyes is beyond the scope of my expertise. They've obviously been carefully crafted for the purpose of observation. Someone might even be watching the surrounds using this golem as a proxy. And this is just speculation, but there appears to be...an orb in its head? Less complex, not advanced enough to be the same size as what we've seen so far."

Konrad leans in close to the statue. "Who...are you? Can you hear me in there? Nod or shake your head for yes or no."

It keeps staring at Konrad.

He steps back, and goes back around to talk to the group. "I don't like it. It's watching people, watching the town. It's uncooperative, if it's even autonomous. I recommend that these things be dewoven."

Diplomacy 18
Hoping to get a reaction from the statue when I say this.

It doesn't react to what Konrad is saying. It keeps staring at him however, without moving from its spot.

Mihai sighs - "Hope i don't regret this."

He pulls the Orb from his pouch and shows it to the Golem.

It doesn't react to the orb.

Meanwhile, the guard seems almost entertained by the party's experiments and has got back in his chair to watch all of it. He seems intrigued by the orb, but doesn't dare to say anything to the three armed party members.

"What will that do?"

Konrad shrugs and turns to Steve. "How quickly do you think you can wreck this lump of stone with a quake spell?"

Steve stops dancing and pulls his staff into hand. "About as fast as I wreck anything, assuming it isn't strong to earth. If it is, I can try air."

"We really gonna start wrecking face in the middle of town? I don't think your client would be too happy."

He holds up the Orb, stares at it, then at the party - "One way to find out."

"From Breeze when we rescue her, duh. Get back, sir. This might get hairy." Steve say to the guard. "As soon as he's clear do it Mihai."

Mihai nods - "Sorry Konrad, you've been outvoted."

Mihai waits for the guard to get clear, then carefully tries to insert the Orb into what would be the Golem's head.

The young man nods nervously at Steve, stands up and decides to stay close to the doors; just in case he needs to bolt out of here. Mihai approaches the golem and puts the orb against its forehead. The construct doesn't even react to him. The orb slowly goes into its head and then disappears.

For the next few seconds, nothing happens.

"...Is that good?" the guard asks.

Suddenly, the golem begins to jerk. Its head twists sharply in one direction, then another. Spasms make the limbs tremble, and its body jolts in an unnerving manner.

"Not good!" Galarian's employee cowers behind the party.

The head makes a full rotation on itself and the fingers start to bend in the wrong directions. The right leg attempts to take a step, but the golem falls forward instead. The blue light in its eyes have already disappeared.

The humanoid-shaped statue lands on the floor with a loud thunk, and at the exact moment it does, the orb rolls out of its head and stops at Steve's feet.

"Uh...." - Mihai stares at the Golem's corpse - "...shit."

He quickly picks up the Orb and stows it back in his pouch.

Konrad jerks back when the thing starts to spasm, and draws his weapon. When it falls over inert, he raises his hand, fizzling with the energy of Yellow magic.

"No one move."

Scan 5

Steve complies and continues standing ready for battle. "What do you see Konrad?"

"It...'malfunctioned'. The energy signalling the presence of an orb is gone. The runes have disintegrated, as have the eyes. It's just a lump of stone, now." He stows his blade and walks over to the warehouse door. "Well we did it, run along and tell Galarian the good news."

"......................"