No time to marvel at Garrett's bluff, Ithi'Ka only lets a smirk of appreciation cross her features as she moves.  She needs no instruction to recognize opportunity, and moves over the stone and steel like a cat scrambling to snatch a kill from a pack of distracted wolves.  Shadow trails off her night-hexed armor like dissipating, tar-colored vapor.  She perches her bow on a pedestal support and unfurls her tools-- she watches over her shoulder at the melee beyond and fans the fine mithril tools before her, their oiled surfaces grinning up like eager teeth.<br/><br/>Expert eyes assess the gem-riddled surface of the monolith's touch-point.  She recognizes it in the way one knows a person by the sound of their footfalls, or recognizes the hint of familiar spices in a new food-- she has never touched such a console, but she knows its nature.  Psionics are ancient in Xen'Drik, and this kind of device reminds her of the work of extraplanars that ravaged that land with madness and broke the Empire that had kept her people enslaved.  Tools probe the edges of gems and ease facets apart, shifts subtly the alignment of their direction.  She hears bone and steel clashing behind her, can feel through the tough, flexible soles of her boots the subtle fluttering of the floor as battle takes place so close by...<i>just keep them off me...</i><br/><br/>Two stones hiss, their surfaces going dimmer like dying embers.  Steam begins to vent from the panel in small jets, and a bloody pool of fluid begins to leak from around the stones.  She redirects the flow of two crystals.  She thinks she knows what this will do... she isn't certain.  She hopes it will begin the feedback of power from the monolith's vast network of nodes-- from the psionics who tap it, all the way to the lights that feed from it-- to use those outlets as reflectors, to create an amplifying loop of that power, so that it feeds back what power it draws continually, seeking the right source to release that power upon, but unable to find it.  At least, that's her hope...<br/><br/>Disable Device- spending an AP: (10 skill/ability, +5: right tool for the job, +3: synergy bonus, +1d6 action point)<br/>Rolled 1d20+18=33<br/>Rolled 1d6=5.<br/>Total: 38