OOC:
Hm. I'm a little stuck on what to do next, so I'm just going to put some random thoughts out there.
We've got the gate on one side of us with a pile of what's likely half-eaten trash on the other. We're in a strange cavern that's dimly lit through an as-yet-unseen entrance and the other end of the cavern is filled with quintpods of varying size that would like to turn us into weird skin strips if they saw us. There are a lot of them, so we probably would become said strips.
We've come to shut down the gate by either disabling it, blocking the entry completely, or some other method we haven't discovered yet.
While I don't believe we've tried talking to the quints, it seems like a fool's errand and might get us killed. We could try to find something to help us in the pile of trash, though Emmett would be the worst choice to look for us. We've got the other device we found and it's possible to find a way to speak into it, but I don't know that we can, given we already all rolled on it.
Anyone have anything I've missed?
Stuck without any option that's immediately helpful, Emmett decides to look around. Trying to remain unseen, he creeps around the pile of wasted parts to find somewhere to go that isn't directly into the mandibles of quintpods.