Hexacombs

An ancient buried stronghold. It's purpose is entirely unknown.

> "*Tens of thousands of souls... locked in esoteric cages of their own design*." - Watcher Blackhat
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## Geography

### Surface

It is partially buried deep under Katabasis, the Sea of Dust. It is so deep that not even the Senerona find it during their tunneling prior to the events of Finchat. However, 7 Pillars pierce the surface of the desert wasteland, with the 7th being the Coil Efferus resides at.

The main entrance is far off the coast, on a waterfall on an island. The waterfall is on the innermost island within an island within an island (Concentric islands).

### Pillars

The 7 Pillars have text etched on them similar to the writings in the Hexacombs.

### Misc.

It has numerous switches and channels for water to flow. Various patterns lock and unlock different doors to rooms.

Many rooms have various gilded birdcages with the skeletons of songbirds in them.

Some walls have hundreds of butterflies painted on them using blood

### Archive Library

A section of it holds thousands of scriptures detailing information from the most mundane to words of otherworldly beings. Retrieving any sort of document here seems like a momentous task in itself.

The library is a massive circular room, where a bridge leads to each floor. Each "floor" of the library rotates. There are 5 layers of floors.

> "*An endless lake of rotten flesh, the liquified corpse of a dead god. That is what I found."* - Watcher Blackhat
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The bottom of the library is the flesh water (The “sixth” layer filled with a forbidden substrate able to hold and transfer data- flesh and blood).

Due to some optical effects it almost looks like the library repeats, when looking into the blood lake. It gives the illusion that it’s infinitely deep, slowly turning into darkness (like atmospheric diffusion) (under the blood it appears to have 5 more layers of library, then another “blood” layer, which is slightly more opaque. This repeats until it fades into opacity)

### Vessel Rooms

There are four rooms that primarily consists of vessels that hang from the ceiling. Certain volumes of liquid can be stored here, and its weight can be directly fed into the master nexus- as opposed to flowing through the various switches to get that volume.

Rooms 1 and 3 seem to work fine, while the 2nd and 4th rooms seem to be out of commission, as some of the pipes that connect them aren't fully connected. It appears that if not all the pipes are connected from each Vessel Room to the Nexus, no water will flow at all. In the 2nd Vessel Room, in one of the empty vessels is the Hexadecimator, which Watcher Blackhat procured the sword from.

## Lore

Many sections of the walls have text chiseled onto it. Every few sentences reference two beings as the "**Programmer**" and the "**Figurehead**".

Many of the scriptures in the archive portion reference the two as well.

## Automatons

The various robots/horrors of the Hexacombs run off of **Generative Processing Tonic**, and **Necrotic Arcane Infusion** (what the blood flesh lake is filled with). The Tonic is what the robots run calculations with, while the Infusions store and hold the data needed

### Nexus Sentinel

The big machine protector of the nexus. The final boss.

### Pillar Drones

Each of the seven pillars have a drone that once guarded it. Now they can be found around/on their respective pillar, their internals silenced for a millennia. Only Os, the Spire Sentinel is ripped apart, decimated to pieces.

#### Os, Spire Sentinel

This drone is a massive, hulking machine with multiple arms and legs, each equipped with powerful mechanical claws. It is designed to climb and navigate the center coil-shaped Pillar of the Hexacombs with ease, and is equipped with energy-based weapons, including a plasma cannon and a flamethrower. Its thick, armored plating provides excellent protection against attacks, and its advanced sensors allow it to detect and track enemies through even in the darkest and dustiest ash storms . It is also equipped with powerful magical abilities, including the ability to cast spells and harness magical energy.

It's strongest two extra-long tendrils wield a massive saw and a thin blade.

It has 3 forms, Os-W, Os-M, and Os-L

This is the one that is actually physically destroyed, and Dusty is at the coil where it’s remains are.

#### Voxal, Sky Sentinel

This drone is a sleek, aerodynamic machine with wings that can fold out from its body, allowing it to soar through the skies. It is armed with energy-based weapons, including laser cannons and plasma missiles, and is protected by a powerful energy shield. Its powerful processors enable it to analyze and respond to threats in real time.

It's signature/strongest weapon is a cannon that fires bombs.

#### Khroma, Antenna Guardian

This drone is a massive, hulking machine with multiple arms and legs, each equipped with powerful mechanical claws. It is designed to climb the pillars of the Hexacombs with ease, and is equipped with energy-based weapons, including a plasma cannon and a flamethrower. Its thick, armored plating provides excellent protection against attacks, and its advanced sensors allow it to detect and track enemies even in the darkest corners of the dungeon.

It's signature/strongest weapon is a detachable set of spears that it uses in both close combat and far.

#### Bleda, Aerial Protector

This drone is a small, agile machine with wings that can fold out from its body, allowing it to fly through the skies with great speed and maneuverability. It is armed with energy-based weapons, including laser blasters and particle cannons, and is protected by a powerful energy shield. Its advanced sensors allow it to detect threats from great distances.

It's signature/strongest weapon is a fully automatic crossbow.

#### Foscha, Spire Sentry

This drone is a small, dense machine. Something about grid data. Ability to quickly map out and layer positions of both friend and foe on a grid basis. Has a very wide variety of weapons, each with a wide array of minor/major modifications. It also able to cast large area-of-effect effects.

It's signature/strongest weapon is a flamethrower.

#### Zuite, Skyward Avenger

This drone is a large, intimidating machine with wings that can fold out from its body, allowing it to soar through the skies. It is armed with powerful energy-based weapons, including laser cannons and plasma missiles, and is protected by a powerful energy shield. It is also equipped with powerful magical abilities, including the ability to cast spells and harness magical energy.

It has a set of whips as it's signature weapon.

#### Torra, Aerial Watcher

This drone is a small, agile machine with wings that can fold out from its body, allowing it to fly through the skies with great speed and maneuverability. It is armed with energy-based weapons, including laser blasters and particle cannons, and is protected by a powerful energy shield. It is also equipped with advanced cameras and sensors, allowing it to gather intelligence and monitor enemy movements.

It's strongest weapon is the ability to open up, uncovering a massive thick blade that it uses to ram into enemies.