Action 2:
Kamiya held out her hand. "I'll take the grenade if no one else wants it."
Action 3:
Kamiya breathed a sigh of relief as the akata went down without ever getting near her. "Your aim is improving, Robert. You'll be a marksman yet. Hopefully we don't run into any more reasons for you to prove yourself."
Action 4:
Kamiya was mildly surprised when the door opened. She used her telepathy to say to the others, "I thought you locked all the doors."
Recovering quickly, she regarded the space goblins warily but her demeanor was friendly. "The promise of help needs to be bought with answers to our questions. How did you get on to the Acreon? Where is your ship? Why are you here? Begin with those answers and we'll decide how to proceed."
Action 2
"Are we very certain that the Eox package was involved in the disappearance of the crew? It seems there are lots of things that could have gone wrong other than assuming the ambassador's parcel is the cause."
"We aren't certain about that at all - so far, we have zero hard evidence about what happened to the crew, except that they do not seem to be here anymore. Both the Akatas and that goblin might have wandered in after the crew disappeared and left the door open for surprise guests," Robert said, casting a sidelong look at the camera drone following them.
Action 3
Kamiya breathed a sigh of relief as the akata went down without ever getting near her. "Your aim is improving, Robert. You'll be a marksman yet. Hopefully we don't run into any more reasons for you to prove yourself."
"Yeah, hopefully," Robert muttered as he shouldered his rifle. A miscalculation, believing all the Akatas would have attacked in one group. Which meant that if one had lagged behind, so might others. The mission was fast turning from mysterious to downright lethal, but it was too late to back out now and try to negotiate.
John nodded "Good shot. We need to get better armour for those in the front line though. Those things have a nasty bite."
John blanked "More goblins?" he asked. After a moment he decided the two troublemakers were well in hand "I'm keeping watch for more Azatas. Robert, keep that rifle ready in case the goblins cause trouble."
Hey guys,
I'm not sure if there will ever be a good time but I think that immersing myself in a make-believe world will probably help so I'll be taking up the mantle of GM again.
I'll recap and move things along soon.
Game on!
Glad to hear you will be back, Fabian.
John scowled over his shoulder at the noisemakers, glanced at Kamiya, then quickly returned his attention to guard duty. 'The best course of action is for everyone to do their speciality. Kamiya's specialised for interrogation. I'm specialised for guard duty - unless we suddenly need a contract.'
Rolf nodded, “Yes, yes. He can. Just give it to him; you’ll see.”
'Make it better by having the right person point it at the right target, he means,' Robert thought sourly, taking half a step back to maintain some distance and kept the muzzle pointed at the goblin. "I think the rifle feels right at home where it is, thank you," Robert growled. "Now, if you don't want it handed to you one bullet at a time and at some speed, I suggest you keep your hands where we can see then and yourselves a couple paces back from us."
"So you EVAed your way here, not knowing what awaited? Gutsy, or desperate," he said, hoping Kamiya's golden tongue could help get some straight answers from the creatures. "How long ago was this? Were the Akatas here before you or did they follow? Can you tell us anything useful about the ship?"
Just some OOC replies for now.
The doors can be locked from the outside but you can't lock someone inside (i.e., someone inside could still get out unless you barricade the door or take some other measures).
"How about you? How did you get here?"
"We walked," Zadie answered drily, keeping her hand near her laser pistol as she waited for Rolf and his friend to answer Robert. Unlike akatas, goblins were flammable.
Action 2:
Kamiya smiled at the space goblins and slipped into her diplomatic role. "You must have been so scared when the akatas appeared, I know I was. Is it just the two of you left?" Then her face grew sad, "I'm sorry for the loss of your friend."
She tried to find out a little more about why they were there. "I understand that a broken ship is inviting but why did you come here? Who told you that this ship was broken? Didn't they also tell you that the ship is under quarantine and off-limits? How did you plan to get off the ship?"
John sent a quick text. "Do we take them with us while we explore? Hire them? Try to lock them up? They seem quite adept at lockbreaking."
John sent a quick text. "Do we take them with us while we explore? Hire them? Try to lock them up? They seem quite adept at lockbreaking."
"I don't trust them out of our sight," Zadie replied to John's text. "If they got on board the Hippocampus, they might take off without us. If we get away from here safe, we should drop them off with Clara; they deserve one another."
The goblins both pleaded again, “So, can you save us from the akatas?”
"We have killed three so far. How many of the things did you see?" Robert asked. He wasn't sure how far these two could be trusted, but would they lie about that? 'Unless they hoped we and the beasts would finish each other off and leave them to free to pick our corpses' pockets,' he answered his own question.
"I don't trust them out of our sight," Zadie replied to John's text. "If they got on board the Hippocampus, they might take off without us. If we get away from here safe, we should drop them off with Clara; they deserve one another."
"If we can't lock them in, better march them ahead of us at gunpoint. We get to keep an eye on them and they might just come in handy if they were to set off some booby trap left by the original crew or someone else who wandered in after the spoils," Robert said. He didn't have anything in particular against goblins in general, but these two were an unknown element as well as a distraction, and they didn't need either at the moment.
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I recapped but still need input to move things along...
John texted in response "Not sure we can trust they're still in there. I don't want to get stranded here."
"Are ... are we really aiding and abetting them with looting the ship?" Zadie asked. "I mean, this stuff belongs to someone: the Collective or Astral. If Astral ends up with the stuff, I guess the goblins might as well have it, but I don't want to rob the Collective. And something here belongs to the ambassador, if it's not the akatas."
Action 1:
We already got some stuff from the previous owners."
Kamiya's eyes lit up. "We're supposed to find out what happened to the previous owners. Can I see what you found? It would help us and maybe make us more likely to help you."
Action 2:
Kamiya shook her head, "It's much too dangerous for you to be going anywhere without us. You'd probably end up like Parwan. We can't have that." This would be so much easier if they could just lock them up somewhere but if they had to keep them with them then at least she could keep them friendly.
To the others she spoke into their minds, It looks like we're stuck with these goblins but I don't trust them out of our sight. And they shouldn't be allowed to take anything.
To the others she spoke into their minds, It looks like we're stuck with these goblins but I don't trust them out of our sight. And they shouldn't be allowed to take anything.
Robert nodded in answer to the silent communication. They had already tried to lock the door once and failed, so he didn't put much faith for a second attempt working much better. So might as well keep them where they could see them.
John nodded, then texted "Agreed. Bridge next." to the group chatr.
Action 1:
Kamiya kept a polite smile on her face. "Even junk can be illuminating when looking for answers. I'd still like to see what you've found already."
Action 2:
As soon as the door to the bridge opened, Kamiya threw her stickybomb grenade at the lead akata of the group of two.
“Are ... are we really aiding and abetting them with looting the ship?” Zadie asked.
”May I point out we have already done a bit of looting ourselves on the side, and I don’t intend to stop now,” Robert added with a hint of a smile. ”Shouldn’t preach what you don’t practice yourself, hmm?”
Action 2
”Three of them?” Robert groaned as he took a step back and quickly considered his few options. The damn things were all too resistant to any of his few offensive reality manipulations, and holding the door against the soon-to-come rush didn’t appeal. So no other options but to shoot and hope for the best.
... and keep on hoping, as the bullet shot over the Akata's head and richoretted off the bulkhead.
"My laser still won't hurt these things!" Zadie reminded everyone testily. Keeping in mind Kamiya's instructions, she backed a few steps down the corridor, trying to keep an eye on the goblins and see where they ended up. She kept a baton in one hand in case an akata came close enough to fend off and her laser pistol in the other in case the goblins turned on them. "Akatas won't burn, but goblins will," she muttered.
So much for shooting back, Robert sighed as he took a step back to get John's body between him and the roomful of sharp teeth. His options were limited, but perhaps an illusion would buy the brawnier members of their little group time to do something about things. There were limitations what his minor light manipulation could achieve, but then again, these were mere animals. Surely he could weave something that would keep them guessing for a few seconds at least...
"Illusions incoming," he murmured on their suit channel, then concentrated on his efforts to bend and shape light around them, whispering mathematical formulae that helped him concentrate his will just so, to bend the laws of physics to his will.
From the corridor behind them, a group of five space-suited goblins rushed in, running boldly past John, shooting their crude makeshift weapons from the hip in the general direction of the Akatas. The bullets and coherent energy beams all missed, leaving behind scars or scorch marks on the walls and consoles they did hit, but the small horde didn't seem fazed by their ineffectiveness, as they jumped behind this console and that chair, constantly on the move towards one Akata and then immediately turning tail after a hail of almost-random shots fired to rush towards another foe.
Action 1:
Kamiya nodded, "Thank you for showing this to me. You have quite the collection in your bag. Very useful items. Which ones did you take from the previous owners? Did you find anyone on the ship when you arrived."
John? Zadie?
"Can we lure them to the airlock? Trick them out into space?" Zadie suggested. "Or at least into one of the rooms we've already checked and lock the doors? These things don't look to have opposable thumbs."
John slammed the barrel of his cannon into his other hand and fired. Round after round slammed out, past the dodging Akatas and into delicate machinery. 'While I SHOULD try to avoid the instruments... I'd rather not get killed.' "Don't stand behind me" he warned "I'm going to need to back up."
Turn 090 – Illusionary Goblins
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"Quick beasties," Robert muttered as he allowed his illusion to disperse. He would have hoped the creatures would have been distracted a bit longer but such was life. Instead, he focused his attention to the one offensive reality manipulation he had that was not tied to presence or absence of heat. A starship was fortunately a hotbed of high-energy physics and crisscrossed with miles and miles of energy conduits large and small. And even though they were naturally shielded they could be put to use by a mind powerful enough to do so.
Robert concentrated on the first Akata he laid eyes on, twisting probabilities to generate a surge in a power cable running under the floor panels directly beneath the space-born creature, causing a bright blue-white spark of electricity to arc out and shock the beast.
Well, you wanted a real illusion and real goblins have KAC of 11 and the lowest to hit roll was 14 so I figured all of them bit into a 'real' goblin.
Questions?
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The goblins went directly behind to the 'engine room'.
Questions?
Game on!
Zadie cursed under her breath. "Goblins are doing a runner!" she warns the others. "You want me to follow them? They're headed toward the Ess-Aich-Eye-Pee!"