"With, um, my uh, rather potentially ah, ironic callsign I am concerned that, well, um, everything that we've done so far with the Society and elsewhere is just going to be, ah, well, flushed rather than um, fleshed out. How do we get remembered in this allegedly, um, brave new setting?"
((Also, does this mean that Heritages for Ancestries will be coming to Starfinder? That'd make a concept I have in SF1 but hard to create viable in an SF2))
EDIT: PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE do not turn SF2 Flight into PF2 Flight ((As currently written)).
"Well, um that's why we, um, er have microtransactions store for Jinsul-themed um bling. They'll start tearing each other to shreds trying to prove who has the right to the Starfinder 'gear'. Oh, and don't forget that site sends a tracer to Cadre Cal who wants his Jinsul Collection back. Urr, even if it's not in the um original plaswrap."
A very bookish Vesk with huge oversized milspec glasses pushes them up her snout.
"Um, is that with a 1 rating Drift Drive or um, a 2 Rating? And, ah, if they're going to the mythical 'Earth' System, then that'd be in, ah, another ah, galaxy so ah, we um, don't uh... have math for ah, how long that would ah, take... right?"
A somewhat under-developed Vesk female with thick glasses and a suit of almost comically over-sized Lashunta Ringwear opines....
Oh, great, now the Jocks got their propaganda out there about how austerity via practical bullying works. Was hoping for just a few more years before they started stinking up the spacewaves....
"So, ah, um, yeah, that's the ah, Veskarium ah, main system. It's ah, almost like they, um, decided to copy the Pact Worlds in some ways. It's really um, ah, BORING place and no one ah, needs to ah, go there."
EDIT: Player thoughts:
Unlike my character here, I for one welcome more information about her home system! Looking forward to learning a lot.
"So, ah, um... life in my um, universe is actually very ah, hard. But if you, um, er, don't have some sense of ah humour then all the 'jocks' win. It is um, er an important part of a well-balanced emotional diet." opines a garishly colored Vesk in a suit of armour clearly oversized for her and thick-rimmed spectacles.
"So, um, er, ah, would it be possible to um, devise some ah, way to ah, acknowledge the hmmm grafts that ah, fellow Starfinders may have had before they were ah, lost in the er, Scoured Stars? Just um, saying?"
*pushes thick-rimmed glasses up her snout*"So ah, um, I ah, get to ah, sit at a table and ah, have ah um, adventure with ah, Star Daddy and ah, I'm worried I ah, might um, well, have to ah, pretend to be a jock or something um again."shudder
"Alright, um, WOOOO!" Flush offers then turns back to repairing the sensors and other systems. "Um, scan the ah, field for ah, anything um, valuable when I"m done in ah, few minutes um, here?"
Given that it's not combat I think Flush can get the systems to a point they can be used?
"Fix the um, engines? Okay, um, sure." The clanging and banging that sounds forth from Engineering doesn't *sound* like Flush is *fixing* anything... but something should be coming back on-line about... now.
Fix the Engines Quickly (Increase DC by 5)??:
Engineering:1d20 + 11 ⇒ (20) + 11 = 31
"That ah, do the um, trick? And um, Dyu, watch out for that um, arcy-sparky bit, that's not um, a design feature!"
"Um, aim to disable. They may um, have ah, additional information we ah, need to er, take back with us!" Flush offers in a moment of panic as she 'calibrates' the shields some more. "Um, and ah, thanks for the ah, help, Dyu! Keep it er, up!"
'Calibrating' shields:
Engineering(Boosting Shields, Take 10):10 + 11 = 21
"EEEEEESH! Um, what are you ah, doing up THERE?" Flush hollers as she sprays an extinguisher on a smoking panel, then pulls out her spanner to 'calibrate' the shields.
'Calibrate' the shields' (Boost Shields) DC 18:
Engineering (Take 10):10 + 11 = 21
5% of 150=7, all going to Arc that doesn't have shields atm.
"Okay, um, let me ah get over to ah Engineering! Um! Hang in there!"
Flush was helping with the Science stuff, it takes one 'turn' to move from a station to another station if memory serves, so this turn Flush is switching to the Engineering station.
Flush, who has been kind of quiet aside from doing the 'butcher's bill', has been working on liberating the remaining big gun so it can be brought back.
"Um, Waste Not, Want Not?" she offers. Willing to grab it on way to ship or on way back, also rigging sled from scraps to drag it.
"It, um looks like, er seven of the eight ah crew are here, but um the last one is ah missing. Maybe eaten maybe wandered off um, somewhere. Do we have the time to search and can we um, actually return the bodies with us? And um, we have the items we um, got earlier so maybe they might be um, handy here?"
"If, ah, those things are attracted by ah, sound, then we should um, probably hurry because we just made a lot of ah, noise. And ah, someone should um check to ah, see if there's um, anything useful from um, it. NOT IT." Flush offers as she tries to examine the site for useful material or larger crash debris.
Flush is down SP but not sure if there's enough time to spend the RP to recover it...
Unfortunately, it doesn't look like there's anything to clear Encumbered, so... meh. And after I planned carefully to AVOID that sort of thing by not loading up on gear. Since spending an RP won't help with Encumbered, going to hang onto it for when it starts catching up.
Life Sciences(on Skitter):1d20 + 7 ⇒ (9) + 7 = 16Or can add +4 for an Engineering roll, if that's desired instead though I think we have the Engineering side covered better?
SFC, pg 274 'Encumbered' wrote:
Encumbered Speeds are reduced by 10 feet, maximum Dex bonus to AC is reduced to +2, and you take a –5 penalty to Str- and Dex-based checks.
Well, at least it doesn't hurt AC too much, but the Str and Dex puts me out of commission for a fight?
...you can choose a ready guide in some Celestial voice! If you choose not to decide you still have made a choice! You can choose from phantom fears and kindness that can kill! I will choose a path that's clear! I will choose Free Will!
Flush's 'Take 10' is 18 for Computers. Do we get any additional information if we were to let Dyu roll it and her auto-assist? Otherwise, we could just go with everyone getting the info via Flush?
The science-y Vesk took most of their trip back to Absalom station fixated on repairing the rend in her armor to factory spec. Every so often she'd give a nod to folks before turning back to her job. Duct tape is fine, but I'd rather have fixed armor than stuff falling apart.
She won't argue with the rest of the crew, finding a quiet bunk to study and read when not on watch, and sharing what she was able to glean about Ulmarid from the ship's computer.
"We ah, can't all be jocks like you, um, Obo. Everyone um, has their um, place, right?" Flush offers both in a slight bit of defiance and in acceptance of that very key Vesk philosophy.
One last little tweak while X5s doing the other thing...:
Computers (changing the last data search to 'something else' not the place we're going to):1d20 + 8 ⇒ (18) + 8 = 26
"If ah, we've got everything we need, can we rig it to go when we get out of here and get the um, heck out, then? I mean, if we're ah, in the system... shouldn't be too hard, right... either that or send them to some other spot on the ah, ship, but ah, act fast?"
So either tell the ship to blow up in true 'finder fashion and leg it or confuse the arriving defenders to go somewhere else to allow a quick sweep of the area before getting out? Either way, Flush can assist with a Take 10
EDIT: That is, unless we've gotten everything here and it's time to boogie?
It's why I asked the question about the expenditure of RP, assumed it was a given, sorry. Didn't realize it needed to be stated explicitly when the rest of the party was doing it as well.
Previously, while 'working at the computer' previous to the trigger event or immediately thereafter:
"My name is Flush, and ah, I uh know what I'm doing. I was um, trying to mitigate it with a virtual ah, play-through of shortfalls we might encounter, um, theorycrafting as you um, would."
Computer:1d20 + 8 ⇒ (12) + 8 = 20
"Um. Let me guess. They ah, had Password as Password?"
Now at Current time
"So, watch that ah stream there, it's moving pretty fast and looks ah, 'hot' in comparison to others, it ah, smells countermeasure-y"
"Okay, so um, team huddle here. Before we ah touch any keys or um, try to finagle the thing, let's ah, brainstorm what our likely options are and do a 'dry run' first, kind of trouble-shooting the simple stuff before we actually put it to the ah, test? It is um probably ah rigged to um wipe if we mess it up too much."
Flush slaps a quick piece of duct tape across the rent in her armor as she moves down the corridor to catch up with Sal and make sure that her fellow mechanic isn't moving forward without support. Fluff, suits have bunches of redundancies, etc.
"Flanking Maneuver: Ill-advised solo effort: Rendering Assistance." she utters in that strange tone while unlimbering her pulse-caster rifle.
Flush has armor on, just fyi! Heavy armor, even! But if the claw went through that's just how scary these things are.
"Target: Skull: Already Taken: Cannot Have." Flush says in a strangely youthful yet mechanical tone as she sweeps around with her tail to bash at the target in front of her.
"Aaaaaaahhhhhhhh!!! Flush bellows as she flails frenetically at the skeleton that comes within reach using everything that isn't trying to reach for a weapon.
Experts may identify this in some future time as Vesk Nerd Style
However, it does have a historical antecedent in 'Flurry of Misses', an ancient style utilized by a long-deceased order of sentients on Old Golarion that extolled ironically the same sort of order that the Vesk typically do.
"...even better, it um, helps the ah, reprocessing units not um, have to ah, labor so much trying to convert them when you use them ah, homeopathically."
