[SFS_Aerondor] 01-05 The First Mandate (Inactive)

Game Master Aerondor

@Revvy The scenario states chronicle with the characters name, so I'm good with it being on hold.
@all if yo uare using the "tell a tale of a scenario you have been on" can you just include as OOC the scenario number, I can guess mostly, but it will save on confusion for me.
@all I think the exact DC, number of success required and such things are not supposed to be public knowledge. You'll get a chance half way through to find out how you are standing with folk.

Zo! Looks less than impressed at I5s acrobatics. "I'm after the exotic. The exceptional! Not a school-level talent show." he explains gently.

Revvy has much more success with I177 who nods, asking about what you were doing on the planet to begin with..

The party continues on as more drinks emerge and tongues get further loosened.

Status, third round of drinks at the party, bold may chat!
Revvy,
I5
Waiola,
Vikrahn,
Mordin,
Pangea-Zeta

What you have learned/influenced!
I177 - (2) Bluff; Diplomacy (no penalty for repeated stories from unique chronicles (01-00; 01-02);
Naiaj - (1) Computers(used once); Engineering;
Royo -(1) Culture; Life Science; Mysticism (used once);
Ykris - Culture, Life Science
Zo! - (1) acrobatics(used once); athletics(one fail); bluff (to feint); Automatic success if you have Claim to Salvation chronicle and talk about it.

There may be other ways to influence some of these folk that you havn't discovered as well by the way.

Athletics: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (11) + 8 = 19

Continuing on his Acrobatics routine on Zo!, Waiola switches to Athletics to add a variety of new moves to attempt to impress him.

Zo! claps and applauds at Waiola continues to amaze those around him with leaps and bounds, one over the drinks tray!

Status, third round of drinks at the party, bold may chat!
Revvy,
I5
Vikrahn,
Mordin,
Pangea-Zeta
Waiola,

What you have learned/influenced!
I177 - (2) Bluff; Diplomacy (no penalty for repeated stories from unique chronicles (01-00; 01-02);
Naiaj - (1) Computers(used once); Engineering;
Royo -(1) Culture; Life Science; Mysticism (used once);
Ykris - Culture, Life Science
Zo! - (2) acrobatics(used once); athletics(used once; one fail); bluff (to feint); Automatic success if you have Claim to Salvation chronicle and talk about it.

There may be other ways to influence some of these folk that you havn't discovered as well by the way.

Well, guys, this all Waiola can contribute to the group here, the two successes for Zo!. He has only done a single other SFS scenario (into the unknown), so can't help elsewhere with that either. Good luck!

Waiola, perhaps if you get the opportunity you could try some more Sense Motive checks.

Mouth's eyes lit up at the mention of EMP protection. Now Naiaj was speaking on his level. When the servers came around with more snacks and drinks he couldn't pull himself away from the gnome. He quickly flipped over his comm and undid the back to display some of the modifications he had been making to the circuitry.

Engineering: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (4) + 11 = 15

Pangea-Zeta resumes talking with Ykris, and chats about how its own company, PANGEA, has been tackling hooking IAs up with body, and about what Zeta knows about symbiotes and hosts, and the philosophy of working together to be one and such...

Culture: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (18) + 8 = 26

Pangea-Zeta and Ykris become deeply involved in a discussion about bio-engineering with symbiotic AI enhancements and how that would affect the social-economic prospects of societies underclasses..

Status, third round of drinks at the party, bold may chat!
Revvy,
I5
Mordin,
Waiola,
Vikrahn,
Pangea-Zeta

What you have learned/influenced!
I177 - (2) Bluff; Diplomacy (no penalty for repeated stories from unique chronicles (01-00; 01-02);
Naiaj - (1) Computers(used once); Engineering;
Royo -(1) Culture; Life Science; Mysticism (used once);
Ykris - (1) Culture(used once), Life Science
Zo! - (2) acrobatics(used once); athletics(used once; one fail); bluff (to feint); Automatic success if you have Claim to Salvation chronicle and talk about it.

There may be other ways to influence some of these folk that you havn't discovered as well by the way.

"A school-level talent? I explored the false moon known as Salvation's End and brought back the means to further explore it. Would you call that school-level?"

I have 1-00 on this character

Revvy senses something about the atmosphere in the room
Sense motive: 1d20 + 7 + 1d6 ⇒ (7) + 7 + (4) = 18

Revvy then telepathically contacts the others to let them know that Vikrahn seems to be losing Naiaj's interest a bit...and could use some help an aid-another may be helpful

Seeing how I-177 seems interested in hearing stories Revvy tells another one The Commencement 1-01

"Well..if you think those mine carts moved fast...you haven't experienced fast till you seen a junkyard race up close, the speed of those modified racers..it's incredible how fast those things can move, even the ones with added armored plating to protect them can still go pretty fast..but the ones that are tricked out for speed...those can really move. It's almost unbelievable that the pilots can steer them across the track without hitting every pile of rubble they encounter"

Diplomacy: 1d20 + 12 + 1d6 ⇒ (9) + 12 + (6) = 27

Mordin makes his way to the bleachling. "Good evening, Venture-Captain," the dwarf greets Naiaj then waits for the chattering ysoki to finish his demonstration. "Dwarves have a long and storied history as engineers. We do a few things differently that what you see everywhere else. Our ships are constructed in..."

Engineering: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (19) + 4 = 23

Arghh.. I thought I had posted here this morning.
Zo! is entranced by I5s recollection of the events on Salvation's End. "I almost wish I could have been there."

Likewise I177 in suitably impressed with the story of the Junk racer. "And you won? Marvelous!"

Naiaj starts to lose interest in Vikrahn's idea, saying something about "Not proven to actually work though, is it?" However Mordin does capture her interest. "Spaceships, now there is some serious technology!"

Status, last round of drinks before a show. Bold may post
Revvy,
I5
Mordin,
Waiola,
Vikrahn,
Pangea-Zeta

What you have learned/influenced!
I177 - (3) Bluff; Diplomacy -no penalty for repeated stories if from unique chronicles (01-00; 01-02; 01-01);
Naiaj - (2) Computers(used once); Engineering(used once; one fail);
Royo -(1) Culture; Life Science; Mysticism (used once);
Ykris - (1) Culture(used once), Life Science
Zo! - (3) acrobatics(used once); athletics(used once; one fail); bluff (to feint); Automatic success if you have Claim to Salvation chronicle and talk about it.(I5)

There may be other ways to influence some of these folk that you haven't discovered as well by the way.

Pangea, seeing how I177 is eating up all these tales of adventures, goes over to talk about 1-03 this space travel adventure to a distant solar system where strange food is dropped in gobs in plates, and proof was given that war is a bad thing, but sharing knowledge might not always be good--"and that's how we finally made it home!".
Diplomacy: 1d20 + 9 + 1d6 ⇒ (13) + 9 + (6) = 28

Sensing that Zo! may be tiring of his acrobatics routine, Waiola backs away from the crowd. He knows, deep down, that keeping an eye on everything and being alert will be of more use to the group then gossiping it up with various dignitaries.

"I'm afraid I'll have to leave for a bit, it doesn't seem fair to hog all your attention. I'll go mingle for a bit and perhaps we will meet again"

Revvy bits his farewells to I-177 and moves through the crowds until he ends up close to Zo!

Almost bumping into the alien he addresses Zo!

"My apologies for almost bumping into you like that. It reminds me of the time of being caught in a tractor beam near Salvation's End...."

Revvy then continues to tell tales about what happened on Salvation's End

Life Science (2 rank): 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (19) + 6 = 25

I-5 walks towards Ykriss

"Isn't it amazing, how many different life forms there are out there in the vast? Just think what we can learn from them and what we can then duplicate as augmentations for our own bodies. Is that something you are working on?"

Mordin makes his way through the crowd to find I-5 and Ykris in discussion. He pauses and smiles, waiting for an opportunity to break into the conversation.

"Greetings, I'm Mordin," he says. "You're Ykris from CeriCorp, right? CeriCorp in biotech, if what I've heard is accurate. Do they deal in medicinals? Long ago, my ancestors used to make use of all kinds of fungi and slime to make food, lighting systems, and medicine. We even used to harvest the parts of mighty beasts to make all kinds of wonders--though not as amazing as our metallurgy. I bet the same can be done with the alien beasts we encounter on our explorations. Just the other week, I had to help take down a giant chicken that could modulate its feathers to resist energy hazards. Who knows what could be crafted out of that bird."

Shot in the dark, as I'm out of trained applicable skills.

Medicine: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (16) + 4 = 20

Pangea thrills I177 with tales of new cultures and alien species.

Waiola works the crowd, he chats with the gnome Naiaj for a while, and sense that she might also be interested in some kind of demonstrating of his piloting skills.
Waiola, if nothing else, you can always do a sense motive to try and pick up extra skills that could be used on the guests

Revvy picks up the tale of Salvations end, much to Zo!'s pleasure.

Mordin then engages Ykris with talk of medicine in a convincing manner

Status, last round of drinks before a show. Bold may post
Vikrahn,
Pangea-Zeta
Waiola,
Revvy,
I5
Mordin,

What you have learned/influenced!
I177 - (4) Bluff; Diplomacy -no penalty for repeated stories if from unique chronicles (01-00; 01-02; 01-01;01-03);
Naiaj - (2) Computers(used once); Engineering(used once; one fail); Pilot
Royo -(1) Culture; Life Science; Mysticism (used once);
Ykris - (3) Culture(used once), Life Science(used once), medicine (used one)
Zo! - (4) acrobatics(used once); athletics(used once; one fail); bluff (to feint); Automatic success if you have Claim to Salvation chronicle and talk about it.(I5, Revvy)

There may be other ways to influence some of these folk that you haven't discovered as well by the way.

You guys are acing these rolls.

After Mordin takes his leave from Naiaj, Vik tries one more time to impress the bleachling gnome. "You like spaceships, huh? He pulled out his comm again, "Well I've been dabbling in piloting and even creating some simulation programming to help train new, green behind the ears, pilots. Here take a look..."

Engineering: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (7) + 11 = 18

Naiaj looks briefly interested, but the topic of conversation has moved on in her mind. "They are of course very important, but not a match for getting into an actual seat."

A troop of holo-jugglers enters the room and the the party goes quiet for a bit while the crowd watch their innovative and surprisingly funny act.

While everyone is distracted your com units go off with a message to join Luwazi on stage.

"It looks like you are doing a great job out there." he says.
"I think you have I177 and Zo! where we want them, so you might want to put your efforts into the others. I think you almost have Ykris, both the other two are a long way from convinced."

He ushers you off stage again just before the jugglers finish their act.

Status, A round of canapes. Bold may snack.
Vikrahn,
Pangea-Zeta
Waiola,
Revvy,
I5
Mordin,

What you have learned/influenced!
I177 - complete
Naiaj - (2) Computers(used once); Engineering(used once; one fail); Pilot
Royo -(1) Culture; Life Science; Mysticism (used once);
Ykris - (3) Culture(used once), Life Science(used once), medicine (used one)
Zo! - complete

There may be other ways to influence some of these folk that you haven't discovered yet

Taking some canapes, Pangea goes over to Royo, and, looking at each of the finger-food types, starts discussing them with the yoski, expounding on where each comes from, and the cultures that created them and such...
"What about this little rice patty with squid ink? Would this be considered near-cannibalism on aquatic words, do you think?"

Culture: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (9) + 8 = 17

Life Science (2 rank): 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (20) + 6 = 26

I-5 joins Pangea and Royo "Isn't it amazing how many new agents are flocking to the ranks of the Society after the Scoured Stars incident? All these different races working together is a magnificent act. I even heard that the forum established some specialized teams where the members work together well because of their biological background. Was that something you had a hand in?"

Waiola wanders over to Royo, keeping his distance, he observes what is being said and what he can discern about his conversations.

Sense Motive Royo: 1d20 ⇒ 17

Mordin circles back to Naiaj. He smiles at the bleachling as he waits for the jugglers to finish.

"So, have you ever had the chance to pilot an interceptor? I've been in the cockpit a few times in the dwarven fleet..."

Piloting: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (17) + 1 = 18

Pangea and Royo have a fascinating conversation about different races and cultures views on dietary suitability. I5 joins in and steers the conversation around to physiological dietary requirements and how they might feed into the picture. Waiola hovers near the outside of the conversation, watching for cues from the old Ysoki. He realises the scholar is interested in all sciences, including the physical sciences, but that people associated with high tech solutions will have a harder time influencing him.

Mordin tries his luck with the stoic Naiaj. "I've not been in a dwarven spacecraft... tell me about them." and quickly gets her interest.

Status, A round of canapes. Bold may snack.
Vikrahn,
Revvy,
Mordin,
Pangea-Zeta
I5
Waiola

What you have learned/influenced!
I177 - complete
Naiaj - (3) Computers(used once); Engineering(used once; one fail); Pilot (used once)
Royo -(4) Culture (used once); Life Science(used once); Mysticism (used once); Physical science; Dataphiles members will be at a penalty;
Ykris - (3) Culture(used once), Life Science(used once), medicine (used one)
Zo! - complete

There may be other ways to influence some of these folk that you haven't discovered yet

I'm hoping diplomacy in general will work, seems to make sense since we are here to schmooze

Revvy walks up to Ykris

"I hope you are enjoying yourself? Could I interest you in getting some drinks and talking about what interests you in the Starfinders in general and in this party in particular?" Revvy says with what he hopes is a charming smile

Diplomacy: 1d20 + 12 + 1d6 ⇒ (4) + 12 + (2) = 18

Ykris nods politely, but simple diplomatic intiatives are not sufficient to win him over.

Status, A round of canapes. Bold may snack.
Vikrahn,
Revvy,
Mordin,
Pangea-Zeta
I5
Waiola

What you have learned/influenced!
I177 - complete
Naiaj - (3) Computers(used once); Engineering(used once; one fail); Pilot (used once)
Royo -(4) Culture (used once); Life Science(used once); Mysticism (used once); Physical science; Dataphiles members will be at a penalty;
Ykris - (3) Culture(used once), Life Science(used once), medicine (used one) ; Diplomacy does not work;
Zo! - complete

Apologies for delay in response, was busy over the weekend.

Vik frowned when yet again he made no headway with Naiaj. Might as well try one last attempt at impressing her. He chattered about his actual experience with piloting. In fact he was one of the top Ysoki pilots from his home-nest. He was sure to tell her so as well.

He relayed to her some of his successes on his first time behind the controls. "Weaving around asteroids even!"

Piloting: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (10) + 8 = 18

Vikrahn finds that while his story is good, Naiaj has already heard a very similar one earlier in the evening.

Status, A round second of canapes. Bold may snack.
Vikrahn,
Revvy,
Mordin,
Pangea-Zeta
I5
Waiola

What you have learned/influenced!
I177 - complete
Naiaj - (3) Computers(used once); Engineering(used once; one fail); Pilot (used once; one fail)
Royo -(4) Culture (used once); Life Science(used once); Mysticism (used once); Physical science; Dataphiles members will be at a penalty;
Ykris - (3) Culture(used once), Life Science(used once), medicine (used one) ; Diplomacy does not work;
Zo! - complete

Abandoning his observations of Royo, Waiola moves on to Naiaj.

Sense Motive: 1d20 ⇒ 15

Waiola, the effervescent Vesk has an easy time talking with Naiaj.

He sences that dunning words may also work on her, but be harder (Diplomacy, but much harder than the others); She is deeply impressed by cooperation. and those who do an aid-another will give a +4 bonus rather than the normal +2

Status, A round second of canapes. Bold may snack.
Vikrahn,
Revvy,
Mordin,
Pangea-Zeta
I5
Waiola

What you have learned/influenced!
I177 - complete
Naiaj - (3) Computers(used once); Engineering(used once; one fail); Pilot (used once; one fail); Diplomacy (hard); Aid-another gives +4
Royo -(4) Culture (used once); Life Science(used once); Mysticism (used once); Physical science; Dataphiles members will be at a penalty;
Ykris - (3) Culture(used once), Life Science(used once), medicine (used one) ; Diplomacy does not work;
Zo! - complete

Pangea-Zeta strikes up a conversation with Naiaj, talking about how it is interesting that androids cooperate with themselves via AIs and bodies and how this is something the Starfinders have been teaching: "That is what I like the most: knowing I am not alone, and that my shortcomings will be covered by a comrade, just like I will be able to help out my friends!"
Being a slick costumer, Zeta then adds some tidbits about engineering and computers, and how androids are built by many people working together, but they are even greater than the sum of all that.

Naiaj is very impressed!

"That is what I am talking about. Together we are much more than just the sum of our individual parts. Emergent Systems, they are the way of the future."

Status, A round second of canapes. Bold may snack.
Vikrahn,
Revvy,
Mordin,
I5
Pangea-Zeta
Waiola

What you have learned/influenced!
I177 - complete
Naiaj - (4) Computers(used once); Engineering(used once; one fail); Pilot (used once; one fail); Diplomacy (hard)- used; Aid-another gives +4
Royo -(4) Culture (used once); Life Science(used once); Mysticism (used once); Physical science; Dataphiles members will be at a penalty;
Ykris - (3) Culture(used once), Life Science(used once), medicine (used one) ; Diplomacy does not work;
Zo! - complete

Vik finally threw his little arms up in exasperation. He was getting no where with Naiaj. Are you serious? He thought, Might as well try my luck with the creepy parasite again.

He snagged a canape off one of the waiter's plastic trays and scurried over to the half-elf-host again. He stared up at top of the half-elf's head until he was looking directly at the parasitic being. "I guess I'll be blunt. Word around here is you like talkin' medicine. This ysoki right here," He thumbs towards himself, "Knows a thing or two about medicine, let me tell you."

At which point Mouth goes on a schpeel about some natural ysoki home-rememedies which have roots that lay in actual medical science.

Medicine: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (6) + 7 = 13

Mordin circles around to Ykris again, listening to the ysoki talk about home remedies interests the dwarf. He tries to interject in the conversation to keep the flow moving and increase the parasite's interest.

Medicine, Aid Another @ Vik: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (20) + 4 = 24

LOL. Of course...

You'll need a lot more aid-anothers to get that medicine to work!

Mysticism (2 rank): 1d20 + 5 + 1 ⇒ (10) + 5 + 1 = 16

I-5 decides that his best bet is with Royo "Can I ask you about your stance on the place of religion in the Starfinder Society? Do you think one can serve both a deity and the first seeker?"

I don't think I can assist on trained skills skills I'm not trained in.....could I bluff that I know what I'm talking about?

Revvy tries to make up that he knows what Vik is talking about

Bluff to persuade Ykris: 1d20 + 10 + 1d6 ⇒ (5) + 10 + (3) = 18

"I can back-up my collegae on that statement, he clearly knows what he's talking about..as does everyone here, we are quite knowledgeable in a variety of different subject matters"

With the conversations starting to repeat themselves and the evening wearing on, the team realises they will have to pull out all the stops to convince Ykris.

Status, A third round of canapes. Bold may snack.
Vikrahn,
Revvy,
Mordin,
I5
Pangea-Zeta
Waiola

What you have learned/influenced!
I177 - complete
Naiaj - (4) Computers(used once); Engineering(used once; one fail); Pilot (used once; one fail); Diplomacy (hard)- used; Aid-another gives +4
Royo -(4) Culture (used once); Life Science(used once); Mysticism (used once; one failure); Physical science; Dataphiles members will be at a penalty;
Ykris - (3) Culture(used once), Life Science(used once), medicine (used one; one failure) ; Diplomacy does not work;
Zo! - complete

Medicine (Aid Another): 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (1) + 4 = 5

Walking over to Ykris---"See wound? Medic heal!"

Slotted the wrong boon... bleh, should've had the one to add 2d4 to one Culture Check!

Pangea goes over to Ykris and, seeing Waiola talk, Pangea tries to explain a bit about Vesk culture: "I imagine that for Vesks, 'See wound' has a deeper meaning, as in looking into the wound, to trace its provenance...", and so on, trying to share some interesting thoughts.

Culture: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (15) + 8 = 23

Pangea proves he doesn't need any boons to sweet talk the alien symbiotic creature.

All done with the best part of two rounds to spare

The team circulates, enjoying the food and drink, and generally hobnobbing with some of the movers and shakers on the station. Eventually you notice Radaszam gesturing for you to join him.

The burly vesk doesn’t mince words. “We’ve got a situation on our hands. I’ve been following rumors of a somewhat notorious assassin who only recently showed up on Absalom Station. I just heard from one of my contacts that signs point to the First Seeker as the assassin’s next target—and if that’s the case, the assassin will almost certainly make a move tonight."

“Now here’s the thing. I’ve got enough security here that no one’s really in any danger; and besides, Luwazi’s no stranger to a fight. But it’d look really bad for the Society if someone took at shot at her in front of all these high-ups, you know what I mean?"

“On the other hand, if a team of crack Starfinders were to investigate the rumors and unmask the assassin, we’d be able to show that we can still hold our own and add some, oh, let’s say, gravitas to the First Seeker’s announcement tonight. Defeat this assassin in style, impress the investors, make yourselves look good in the process... What do you say?”

"A Fight? Lets go."

"Where do we start peeling the onion?" Mordin asks.

"Good attitude and smart questions." says Radaszam.

"I have traced Triloteya to rented engineering bay in Sparks." he adds

"Here are some things you may find helpful. A joint offering from myself and Luwazi"

He provides two screamer grenades I, a tactical arc emitter, 1600 credits and a set of business stationware armour.

Your coms units all beep with the location send to them. It looks to be about fifteen minutes away.

"Let's go investigate in style!"

Zeta takes one of the grenades: 'Unless one of you needs it?"

"Seems a bit odd to go to a place 15 minutes away...then again, there's a squad of protection here already for that..so I guess we can go check it out and try to shut it down before the attempt gets to far to cause a problem. Let's go"

If someone wants the armor I'm fine with it..but if nobody wants it I'm putting it on, it's better then I have now

"I see you've provided us with a weapon which has a stun setting? Is that a subtle hint you want the assassin brought back alive for interrogation?" Revvy asks Radaszam

"I prefer to fight up close." I-5 responds when the others offer him supplies. "I am ready to go"

I have Freebooter armor, which provides the same bonus as Business Stationwear

Waiola ignores the gear, but pockets the credits (just in case), as he doesn't need anything else, but wants to have some walking around money.

"I need none of the gear. And the grenades are wrong. One should be willing, happy even, to get up close and personal when fighting. See the look of horror in their eyes as you slice and dice."

"Just toss the grenade and their eyes pop out and to come you, all sliced and diced".

Vik grabs the other grenade. "I'd prefer to hang back. Up close and personal isn't my forte."

Not to mention this would be my first fight. Though he didn't say that aloud.