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Pytho-7 watching and see the commotion going on in front of the cameras, almost shouts a warning about the need for composure and quiet in fight, but decides against it. Instead he runs behind the set of cameras and crew, to try and find a nice quiet, dark spot, offering some cover. Yet from this spot, Pytho-7 computes, that the chances of an aggressive coming in range of his rifle is 76%. He can survey the likely battle and pick off the enemy.
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Grinds makes short work of the goblin in front of him as it lets go of a strangled cry and falls over in a heap of green goblin flesh. Meanwhile the other goblins and the weird creature seem to take their actions as well. One of the goblins takes a shot at Verus since he is standing in the open while one of the other ones moves and takes a shot at grinds and both shots seem to miss the 2 starfinders
#LEE! Shots fired by some sort of green creature... don't seem to pose a... Oh wow! 1 of them got smashed into the ground by the one called Dusty! #LEE!
Meanwhile the weird creature makes his way towards Grinds and takes a swing at the Haan, exposing himself as he does so to allow the Haan to make an attack on it. As it shows itself the one of the camera crew turns and puts the Haan and the creature in blinding light.
#LEE! A new attacker enters the fight, taking on the massive Haan, who will prevail! #LEE!
Initiative
Verus
Rora -1 SP
Lynn
Doc Kemple
Pytho-7 (stealth 15)
Grinds
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Space goblin Green
Creature Yellow
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Space goblin Blue
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Lynn holds onto her headset with one hand and puts her heart into singing. As she does so, she winks at the weird creature that approached Dusty. The air around her condenses into semi-solid ripples that pulse in time with her singing. With a broad sweep of her free hand, the ripples condense into hard spheres of force that fire in arcs towards the weird creature!
She does an elaborate flourish for the camera and snaps her fingers.
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With the blinding light illuminating Grinds and the area around, Those lights, only a 5% chance to stay in the shadows. Pytho-7 turns round to the camera crew and shouts "There's a 75% chance I will take these tools and turn your lights out permanently, if you don't dim them. There is work to do and being in the spotlight is not the way I do my work. If you want to watch me, use infrared holocams!" Even though an android, anger is building up in his voice modulator as the connections in his head turn from green to purple. His bag of specialist electrical tools is clearly visible, attached to his backpack. Sewed onto the pack is the triangular yellow label with a black symbol of lightening, indicating the electrical components. On the label is scrawled in capital letters, Property of Pytho-7.
He leaves Grinds to deal with his immediate threat, he can't get a clean shot at whatever Grinds is fighting and Grinds seems invincible after the way he dispatched the goblin.
Now out of the shadows, Pytho-7 marches, in an exaggerated fashion across the battle scene. The rifle's butt poised against his shoulder, his glowing green eyes looking through the sight, searching for targets. He moves his torso from left to right, in a pastiche of a soldiers careful search for targets in a hostile environment. 67.5% chance an audience will believe this is how all Starfinders behave, but 0% chance that is correct. the disgruntled android thinks as he crosses the combat zone.
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The good Doc presses herself against the wall to let Verus and Rora slide past into the fray. She starts to peer around, eyes alight with purple color to fling a second pebble into the room at one of the goblins... only to miss Pythos's approach. One of the android's knees bumps into her arm and knocks her aim off, sending a stone flying off into the distance of the room.
"Well this is not going exactly as I'd hope, personally. But the noise by Grinds sounds more promising." She rubs at the elbow that was struck.
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As Verus takes a swing at the creature it seems the goblin sidesteps him and seems to give him the finger, as it is mocking Verus it is Rora's shot that takes away the grin as the goblin falls over on the floor, dead. Kemple her shot seems to go wide as she misses the creature
#LEE! So far Dusty seems to be striking well followed by the ever flamboyant Rora, who will win the deathcount! #LEE!
Grinds his attack strikes the creature well as blood spurts from the cut, covering Grinds face with a good amount of it before it gets hit in the chest by the magic Missiles from Lynn and taking it down.
#LEE! Oh my! the sheer amount of damage from these starfinders! seems like Lynn is stealing the show, we might have to start a new show just for her.. Dating with Lynn! #LEE!
The rant Pytho is giving the camera crew seems to fall on deaf ears, if not they follow him even closer to see where he is going.
#LEE! what will the angry droid do? he seems like to suffer from a nervous breakdown, is that a good thing for a Starfinder? #LEE!
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Space goblin Green
Creature Yellow
Space goblin Red
Space goblin Blue
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Verus
Rora -1 SP
Lynn
Doc Kemple
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Grinds begins making loud annoyed clicking sounds at all of the chatter. This was really no way to have things be. Murder on demand.
And people say the haan are the monsters. We at least only kill to eat and defend ourselves.
He drops his pike and produces a starknife as he moves chucking it at the final goblin.
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Pytho-7 looks at the battle zone, or should I say skirmish zone and quickly computes, Unless there are any more foes, the fight 100% doesn't need my further involvement. Time to clean up. Pytho-7 slings his rifle on his back and starts to pull the goblins corpses aside. The camera goes overhead here says "Can't leave dead bodies all over the place, very untidy." checking them for any indication of what there were doing here and why? "Grinds, what was that thing you were fighting there?" he asks.
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With Grinds throw the last goblin dies with a knife in his left eye, one of the camera crew can be seen licking his lips at the sight of the carnage. With the area slowly settling in a relative calm Wazasha can be seen to motion to some of the other crew who are setting up a booth of some sorts. Wazasha looks at the team and then motions to Pytho-7 to take place in the booth on one of the chairs. She then turns to the rest of the starfinders and gives them a charming smile. "Seeing as we have a moment respite, we will use this to give some more info to our viewers about who you are, we will start with Pytho-7"
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"What!" Pytho-7 utters in android disbelief. The green lines on his head turn dark, a dark purple. He walks, slowly towards the booth, "I said turn those damn lights off, some of us react badly, say about 8% of us react badly, to spotlights." He follows Wazasha, remembering that This is a payment, for funds to The First Seeker. Hmmmm, hope she got a lot of credits and UPC for this Be nice and informative.
After tidying up some of the goblin bodies, his hands are covered in goblin gore, their blood still drip slowly from his index finger, though it is rapidly congealing. "This booth, I expect you have cleaning facilities? Or does your audience revel in the sight of this carnage?" he asks the producer as he raises both bloody hands.
Still he walks in the booth, still covered in the blood and flesh, "You have 100% clarification as to my android heritage. I have 80% knowledge of the electrical circuits found in Pact space stations. This skill is essential to the Starfinders in maintaining their starfleet. As you can see from these tools, I have been an electrician droid for hire. See this positron wrench, now that is really useful. I picked this tool up when visiting the Diaspora region. I guess if I can get out of the Diaspora region, I have a 92.7% chance of getting out of anywhere. But that's is not a very useful fact, what is useful is the wrench." Pytho-7 begins to give electrical engineering lessons, using the tools as props, going into the history of his acquisition of each individual tool.
This quickly gets Wazasha to move onto other subjects, about the mission and the Starfinders group. "I compute that we can successfully deal with 35.2% of most known unfriendly creatures. We do not know what we will find here, I hope you have contingency plans for your camera crews. Despite the strange behavior of Rora and Lynn, in setting themselves up as targets, which give them a 54.3% chance of being killed first, Grinds seems indestructible and my initial analysis concludes he deals with challenges by force, very successfully, though the exact probability is not easy to complete, with so little data I can access. Verus is much the same as Grinds, they will provide your viewers with 87.$% of the kills from the group, though this figure will change as more data becomes available. I have no data for Doc, he is for my current analysis useless, except he is part of Grinds. No I mean friends with Grinds."
When asked about his own ineffectual contribution to the last fight, Pytho-7 replies, "It was not necessary for Pytho-7 to be involved in combat, Grinds and Verus dealt with the threat. Pytho-7 was hampered by the bright lights of the camera crew which interfered with the response. Turning off lights, is requested, to aid identification of threats and targeting. Please comply!."
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Lynn finishes her song with a spin and a little bow. She flips the switch on her headset, letting the music fade away for now. While Pytho handles the interview crew, she makes her way over to the rest of the group.
"That was great guys! Those goblins didn't stand a chance! Hopefully there aren't any more of them." She gives the group a thumbs up and then wanders over to the corpse of the weird creature (though still keeping a distance from it).
"Oh my gosh, poor guy. I think the goblins were using him like a guard animal..." She sighs sadly.
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Wazasha continues the interview with Pytho-7 and some of the film crew eye the remains of the goblins and the blood on the android with veiled interest, one of them can be seen to lick his lips as if to being able to taste the blood. Once the interview is done the booth is slowly being dismantled and allows the starfinders to move on. The team comes up on wreckage that they will need to climb up [DC 10 climb check].
for those keeping an eye on the infosphere and the twitter feed...
#LEE! Not sure what to make of Pytho, he seems to be useless to the team! #LEE!
#LEE! Looking for an electrician... seems like I found my new handy man! #LEE!
#LEE! Does anyone have more info from Rora, she is hot, asking for a friend! #LEE!
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Lynn takes another look at the creature and then scurries after Grinds. She waves for Pytho to rejoin them. Once he gets close she gives him a nudge and quietly says "How was it Pytho? You were spooked by the camera earlier. Are you alright now?"
As they come up to the wreckage, she looks down at her still-immaculate outfit and then glances at the camera crew with a wink. "OK! Time for rough and tumble Lynn to show her strength!" She accompanies her boast with a pump of her fist.
HYYYYYAH! She zooms up like a total expert, long braid bobbing behind her!
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While the cameras are on Pythos Doc will examine the weird creature with Lynn, and after some consideration and prodding with a pair of tongs from one of her kits she nods. "I think we should keep it. I wonder if I can convice Grinds or Verus to carry it back to the ship for me... or... some of the crew." She gets an idea in her head and wanders off to one of the less preoccupied film crew.
"Excuse me, since you have all this gear and means to transport it, could you toss this creature's corpse in with it all for me? I have an associate who would be interested in examining it." She'll adjust her glasses and then give the undead a friendly pat on the knee before wandering off with a thanks.
When the group reaches the wall of wreckage she eyes it dubiously. Then frowns further when Lyyn and Grinds climb it as if it wasn't there. She gives the now famous Pythos a moment of attention. "This isn't really my forte, but we better follow her before she causes trouble." Then the little doctor will manage to skitter her way up the wall, bits of debris being knocked free by her climb.
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The vesk tucks his weapons away after the last creature drops. He sizes up the wreckage while Pytho is on camera. He decides to get up it quickly so he can aid any Starfinders that might have trouble with it.
He looks down from the top of the wreckage, ready to aid anyone who has trouble with the climb.
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Rora eyes the wreckage, then she gives Grinds a grin. "Give me a boost?"
Once Grinds gives Rora a boost, she climbs up the rubble and reaches out for Verus. "Lend me a hand, pal."
Once she's safely at the top Rora winks at the camera. "And that's why you always hang out with a big, strong friend or two."
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Pytho-7 makes his way back to the group, his lines returning to the normal green activity. On hearing Lynn's welcome, he waves and replies, "How terrible, they weren't at all interested in these tools I use as an electrician. No all they really wanted to hear was my analysis of the mission so far. Even so, I don't think they were really bothered by my analysis. It's a bit pointless that booth, but given your activities so far, both you and Rora have an 80% chance of really enjoying it."
He climbs up distractedly, his android mind still confused by the encounter with Wazasha and the 'Booth'. He almost bumps into Rora as she climbs up in front, and is just about to push her up and over the last little bit, when she is suddenly is whisked upwards by Grinds out of Pytho-7's helping hand. His green lines start to moves quickly round his head as he computes Grinds statement, "There is only a 2.6% chance Pyhto-7 is a dead weight, Grinds." His eyes shine up towards the Haan, almost as though he was happy to see him.
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Rora was about to lose her balance till the Haan managed to catch her and pull her up. While the other starfinders climb up the filming crew can be seen filming the whole ordeal, zooming in on Rora as she nearly falls. Once the Starfinders are on the top the camera crew can be seen shooting grapplers and cable lines and make it up easily and without any issues. Kemple is dragging a nice corpse with him till one of the servants takes the corpse of the Young Spicodranth from him and transports it back to the entrance of Salvation's End.
The region beyond is a large cavern that sparkles with phosphorescent fungi whose caps span as much as 10 feet in diameter. The goblins’ explosion from below has buckled the cavern floor here, leaving a concentric impression in the ground where there appears to have just been unaffected stone before. These buckled rings are about 1 foot high
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The android's green eyes sparkle and revolve around his head as he sights the cavern, "Interesting, fungi and some mystic or technological finds. Best go in and discover what secrets this holds. Analysis of the rings and fungus is called for." Pytho-7 looks back at the cameras and lights, "Turn off those lights for 10 seconds so we can get on with our work". A scowl in his voice, as he crouches and slowly moves forward looking for the shadows to keep his presence hidden. Pytho-7 looks around and ventures forward, his rifle in his hand.
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She seems pleased with the fact the body is being carted off, useful for research and such things. Not really her specialty, but the lab rats seemed to like it went you sent them things like that over gift cards for the holidays. "Well, you go on ahead and check it for anything suspicious. Do keep in mind we have reason to believe there was a vesk other than our own wandering around down here." Doc will follow after, giving the fungus and explosive impacts cursory glances while trying not to get too close in case of spore.
"You would think they'd have cameras that could operate with decreased levels of lighting."
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Lynn follows after Pytho, humming to herself as she looks at the buckled floor, strange giant fungi, and other bizarre aspects of the room they find themselves in.
Once she's reached some conclusions she interrupts her humming to ponder out loud. "We ARE in a giant asteroid, right? How are also these weird mushrooms growing in here? Like, where does the food for them come from? This is super weird. Even the floor is weird, like some big impact deformed the ground." She holds her fingers under her chin as she thinks.
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When everyone is standing and admiring the flowers Rora all of a sudden notices something unusual, from the caverns a group of short creatures approach the team. Wazasha setups the the camera crew as they start to film the exchange between the new arrivals and the Starfinder team. From the group a short stocky woman steps forward and looks at everyone in confussion before speaking up.
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"We've got company," Rora tells her team. Then she turns and smiles at the strangers. She holsters her gun and holds out her hands to show they're empty.
"Hey, there. I'm RORA! I don't suppose you speak common, do you?"
She smiles again, hoping to get across that she's friendly despite having no idea what these people are saying.
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Lynn looks to either side at her allies. "No one knows dwarvish? Not even you Rora? Ummm, this could be trouble maybe." She takes a look at the group of dwarves to see if they're armed.
"Well, they look pretty friendly to me! They're not shooting us or anything. That's a big relief after the goblins."
She snaps her fingers as though something has just crossed her mind. Its more than a bit overacted for the sake of the cameras. She zips open the satchel at her hip and rummages about inside for a few seconds before calling out a triumphant "AHA!". She retrieves a sapphire bead inscribed with a complex geometric pattern.
"Time to find out what's going on!" She flicks the sapphire bead into the air and ♪♫ begins to hum ♪♫. The bead catches in place in the air in front of her, and as she hums more loudly, it dissolves.
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With the magic operational, she gasps in recognition. "This dwarf is welcoming us, says she's uhh, Ilga Toolygast, or is that Ilga Tallguest? Daughter of Ulfrodi. She's asking who we are and if we caused the discomfort of the earth, whatever that means. Anyone handy with charades, because we're going to need them. This spell only helps me understand, not talk!"
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"Hmm, hmm." Doc will peek out from behind the safety of the others as they attempt to greet the dwarves. Then peer around further when Lynn starts translating for them, at least partially. "I... well not charades, but I might be able to help if they can't speak common."
The little Ysoki will toddle between the legs of the larger party members and approach the dwarf in the lead. She mutters to herself about hoping she doesn't get a dwarven fist to her face for all of this, then as she gets close she'll point one finger at herself. "Kemple." Then hold out a hand to greet the dwarf with a shake. "Hello."
If the dwarf takes the doc's hand, then Kemple will activate her mind link to communicate with it. She'll shunt the imagery and emotions to the dwarf to let it know that they're explorers trying to discover what this place is and see if there are any exceptional finds, who the camera crew are as financiers, and about their battle with the explosion inducing goblins.
She'll also toss in an apology that none of them can speak dwarven, but one of the group can at least use magic to understand it.
You link your mind to that of a touched creature to swiftly communicate a large amount of complex information in an instant. You decide what the target learns, limited to any amount of information that otherwise could be communicated in 10 minutes. This information comes in a series of visual images and emotional sensations, and it isn’t language dependent.
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Pytho watches on as Kemple shakes the creatures hand. He looks at Lynn, "This language, its unknown? What language do you know? There's a 5% chance we might speak a common language. Have you tried with your language circuit? I can try?"
"Hello, I am called Pytho-7. What do they call you?"
"Hello, I am called Pytho-7. What do they call you?"
"Hello, I am called Pytho-7. What do they call you?"
"Hello, I am called Pytho-7. What do they call you?"
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The dwarf looks at Grinds with a bit of fear in her eyes due tot he being and size of him and mutters in common “critical error” She is regards Lynn as well and mutters in common “sequence initiated.” She is about to approach Kemple as Pytho speaks up Aklo and she turns to him with full interest and answers him in Aklo "Pytho-7, interesting name, I am called Ylga Tulgarst, daughter of Ulfrodi, who are you and have you caused the discomfort of this earth?"
As the undead film crew make their way around the meeting some of the dwarves can be seen raising crossbows at them to ensure the ghastly creatures stay awy from them.
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Doc Kemple blinks and looks in Pythos's direction as the dwarves respond. She seems to be eyeing him up and reassessing the slightly awkward android.
"I have to admit, I didn't expect you to know this language, Pythos. Good Catch!"
Then she turns her attention onto the bizarrely behaving dwarves, trying to communicate with them. She adjusts the front of her outfit and extends her hand again, this time in a more standard greeting.
"Greetings Ylga Tulgarst. Yes, this is Pythos, I am Doctor Kemple. Our large Haan friend is Grinds, the Vesk is Verus, the young woman is Lynn, and the other Ysoki like myself is Rora. We are explorers come to examine this asteroid for exceptional finds. We arrived in time to see some Goblins set off an explosion. That likely caused the damage here, we apologize for not stopping them sooner."
She pauses to consider their weapons, and their archaic nature. "I think something is certainly fishy, Lynn. But let's play along and see what we can learn. They look like they came out of a history book." Then she looks back at the dwarves and spreads her hands to encompass them.
"What we're confused about is why you're here. This place is suppose to be barren and no other explorers are known to be in the area."
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Pytho-7 immediately reassesses Doc, "Now the chances of that were 14.4%, Doc. Glad you can speak to these small hairy folk, Aklo is spoken by 17% of earthy dwellers, more so in the Diaspora."
"So young Ylga Tulgarst, what are you doing here? Are you the keepers of the earth, as you are so discomforted by the explosion? I would like to run some analysis programs on this area, there is a zero% chance it will cause any disruption. So, you will not object?"
Pytho-7 takes out his computer and starts analysis programs to study the geology?
As the lights gather around Doc and the dwarfs, Pytho-7 turns back to the camera crew and as his eyes twirl round in a green light and in a loud voice speaks.
"Lights down a bit, don't blind these hairy children. No wonder they feel more at home with Doc, his height is 105% of the children, mine 195% and Grinds 386%. It computes Doc is best to speak."
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The female dwarf regards the team silently as they speak to each other, once in a while about to interrupt but seemingly patiently awaiting things. Turning to Pytho and Kemple she smiles for a moment “We have always lived below ground, but a generation ago my ancestors answered Torag’s summons—a tremor that called on our people to seek what lies above in the Quest for Sky. There we shall do our god’s will on Golarion’s surface.” looking to her companions for a moment before continuing “Yes, there have always been tremors. They have just become stronger of late. Sometimes cave ceilings collapse, burying bystanders but opening up new passages.” pointing to her travel companions “The Marbleheart clan is large, but we split into smaller groups to seek the surface more than a century ago, from a time before my memories. I now lead a band of 43 dwarves, though we are down to 29 after the orcs and earthquakes returned.”
The camera crew regards Pytho for a moment before focussing back on the dwarves, clearly ignoring the android. Those checking the infosphere can see the following.
#LEE! new race discoverd! what will they name them?! #LEE!
#LEE! The droid is becomming a bit to bossy... maybe he needs to pick a fight with the goblins instead of hiding?! #LEE!
#LEE! putting money down on the Haan picking a fight, warmongering creature! #LEE!
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"I ran a few missions in places where the language was useful before I got out of my old job." Doc nods her head towards Pythos, then turns her focus back to the dwarves in front of her. She becomes momentarily distracted both by Grinds being... well very much his impressive self, and then Rora's smoulder is just smouldering and hard to ignore in its own way.
She coughs and adjusts her glasses while thinking for a moment on how to broach this. After translating for the party of Lynn hasn't already, She opts for blunt.
"I think perhaps you are confused."
Or a robot of some sort, but she doesn't mention that out loud.
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Lynn translates the long explanation for the non-comprehending members of the party, then adds "Hmmm. You guys think we should maybe help them? Guide them back to the start, so they can reach the 'sky'? I'm not sure what going to see the sky has to do with lost Golarion, but maybe they'll realize what's going on once they see where we are."
When Kemple delivers a blunt explanation of the current situation, Lynn hops towards her and puts a hand on the ysoki's shoulder. "Umm, Kemple, I think you might have just shocked them! You might wanna step back!"