Session eleven; an appointment with Doctor Theopolis

The cadre and their mercenary allies are confronted with an automated energy weapon protecting the doorway to their potential fortunes.

Beorn determines that it seems to track movement so they stay as still as possible.  Lawrence slowly goes for his gun.  The Scraver lines up a shot as the nerve of some of the mercenaries breaks and they are wounded in response.

Lawrence fires and hits the device, damaging it but not destroying it.  Hasimir then rushes forwards, standing below it he strikes upwards with his sword, rendering the weapon inactive.
They take stock and find that while Maurice and two more of the mercs are injured there are no fatalities yet.

The Scraver gets out his Thieves Keys and Scrambler pad and gets to work on the doorway. Unfortunately it seems to be beyond his ability and he almost triggers a second blast door to descend. He signals Crazy Maurice and the prospector gets to work on placing charges on the door.
Everyone takes cover as the door blows but Maurice must have miscalculated as he gets caught in the back blast and is killed.

As the smoke and dust clears, and lamps are relit the group moves forwards into the gaping hole left by the explosion.

They find things to be much as Maurice had described to Lawrence: the room appears to be an ancient security C&C station with supply bins mostly full of dust and decay but some with dozens of Genelocks in sealed boxes. They organise a chain and start to load their carts with gear. After a few minutes a morbid disembodied voice breaks through the gloom.

"I don't think you should be taking those..."

Lawrence engages the voice in conversation and it transpires that this is "Doctor" Theopolis, a Second Republic Think Machine tasked with advising on city security.  Over the last thousand years it has dwelt here alone and may be quite mad. It warns the group that it will need to take action if they don't desist and all of Lawrence's attempts to talk it round seem to have no effect.  As they continue to load the wagons Beorn hears a mechanical grinding, "cupboard" doors slide open and a group of three security "golems" emerge.  Hasimir is caught by surprise and immediately knocked out by a stun blast from one of them.

Beorn, Hemlock and Arcadia draw swords and engage in close combat with the robots while Lawrence and the mercs open fire. The golems take down most of the mercs in short order, two appear to be armed with stunning rifles while the third has a lethal assault blaster (and targets more pressing threats). The cadre manage to damage the golems but their tough outer shells and mechanical construction make it hard work. Beorn is knocked out and the remaining mercenaries drop to the floor. Hemlock manages to finish off the blaster armed Golem and Lawrence disables another.

Eventually only Lawrence and Arcadia are left conscious with a single Golem adversary.  Arcadia manages to get the final strike in and Dr Theopolis warns that he will just build more...