Is there more to hacking then what's covered in the computer skill?
I also have no idea. Neither does Cueta. She'll happily smash stuff though.
It's fairly homebrew skill checks lol.
More tomorrow. That's all the time I have today. Feel free to RP a bit and queue up any questions you have for Osteth. But.. combat is over!
Anyone else need any healing? I've got one healing touch left and spells, lots of spells!
EDIT: Great fight GM!
Who wants what from the group loot?
sintered longsword
advanced lashunta tempweave (haste circuit, jump jets, targeting computer)
advanced shirren-eye rifle with 8 sniper rounds,
red star plasma pistol with 1 battery (20 charges),
Prospero said he was going to take the golemforged armor. Astrianna could use the advanced Lashunta tempweave, but that would probably go better for Leila or Cueta. Astrianna can take the plasma pistol instead.
Thanks for the kind words. It was definitely a long fight so I hope everyone was entertained. First time there's been an enemy spellcaster too... lot of status effects flying around.
Yep, status effects added a new wrinkle. Multiple locations was nice too.
Cueta probably needs to update her armor, and with her ability to fly now, is less tied to light armor to fill a striker role. I'm happy with whatever others don't want and can take hand-me-downs.
Vek's good to go equipment-wise. Targeting Computer could be handy, but he doesn't have the slots for it currently. And he's feeling alright about the adventure throwing so many Haste Circuits at us after using his to some good effect these last few fights, so he doesn't want to swap that upgrade out.
Sorry, I'm confused by the last post- Are we talking to Eltreth or Osteth? I thought we were talking to Osteth and Eltreth is trapped in the other room.
Also are we leaving that ysoki in the other room? It's locked in there for now at least.
To be perfectly honest, that's probably my bad. I get the two mixed up all the time. You are talking to the good one, and the bad one is locked up.
And Osteth is the good one and Eltreth is the bad one.
So what are your plans? A bit of a transition point.
Hmm. Hmmmm. For a start I'm going to try and stop slacking; the heat and lack of fixed schedule lately have made me really lose track of routine.
Some options:
1) Fly to the control moon, kill them cultists and bring back the control board (the default option?)
2) Intercept the cultists when they are flying back, starship combat, hope the control board survives
3) Ambush the cultists here, fight & steal the control board
4) Let the cultists bring back the control board, Osteth pretends to be Eltreth and destroys the weapon. We intervene if the cultists figure out what's happening
5) Destroy cultists and the control board, leave the stellar degenerator into its demiplane for the next millenia
Any other ideas?
I like 1 and 4 - though I'm fairly sure 4 will turn into 3 really fast. And tbh I'm not sure if we want to trust the fate of the universe on this new ai friend of ours? (Though we might do just that anyhow ...)
Yeah, sorry, been really busy lately planning a trip. On Thursday I will be incommunicado for a week in the mountains.
I highly suspect the Corpse Fleet is lurking in the system waiting for us to open up the demi plane to the stellar degenerator. The moment it's open they're going to swoop in and beat us to it.
While I like option 2, a bunch of nihilists might just break the board so we can't have it.
Option 3 is actually pretty cool, though they'd see our ship when they were landing and know what's up pretty fast... or just blow up our ship before landing and come after us.
I'm honestly all for downloading Osteth or retrieving their memory banks or whatever and then blowing up whatever magitech keeps all these suns in perfect alignment... the orbits will destabilize and the whole system will destroy itself, and then no one can access the demiplane ever again.
That's PROBABLY not what the adventure path wants us to do though, so I think we're going to have to do option 1. After that we can search for the Corpse Fleet before plugging in the board.
In any discussion Osteth will be of the opinion that the gate of 12 suns is just the gate, destroying the gate to the pocket dimension doesn't mean someone else won't be able find some other way to get into the dimension and retrieve the weapon especially since the secret is out as well.
Enjoy the mountains Astrianna.
Work is being mean at the moment. Be back ASAP.
So what do you guys think, is there a consensus on approach?
I'll push ahead with 1 by end of day or over weekend if no other comment. :)
I think option 1 seems like a good approach.
Mm I think we can go with 1 :)
Yeah, I think that's an easy choice!
Sorry guys, Friday was nuts. Will try and update on Monday.
You and me both, GM. No worries.
Well today was a heck of a day...
Ouch? I hope the next day will be less heck and more better :)
Cueta, go ahead and take the Advanced Lashunta Tempweave (haste circuit, jump jets, targeting computer) from the group loot, BUT Astrianna would like to take the jump jets for her own armor. She's going to swap it for her Electrostatic Generator, if you'd like that instead.
Sounds good, Astri, thank you!
Put up new music as well.
Is the party still affected by Vek's Stellar Acceleration? It only lasts for 1 minute, but it's difficult to tell how much distance we had to cover between encounters. Asking here because the increased speed could make quite the difference with the distance to reach the cultists.
This is like 1 round later, so please let the group know how many rounds of the buff is left.
Wow - it's good for 10 rounds, so we have 8 rounds of haste left. Let's do this - and quickly! XD
Can the cultist be shot over/through the barrier, or the barrier destroyed by shooting?
They just have cover so can be shot from where you are with that penalty. It would take a few grenades to blow apart the cover I would say. It's basically upturned furniture and you can see them peeking out of it.
The idol reroll was mentioned when cyber-combating the AI - but since it was hand-waved (iirc?) it might still be available. Or not! But figured I might as well try to remember to use it :)
You guys hit the exact damage needed to drop one in the first round! Computer Idol not needed by the way.
Lashunta Tempweave, Advanced]
Source Starfinder Core Rulebook pg. 197
Level 8; Price 8,500; Category Light
EAC Bonus +9; KAC Bonus +10; Max. Dex Bonus +6
Armor Check Penalty —; Speed Adjustment —
Upgrade Slots 3; Bulk L
Woah it has 3 mod slots!
It'd be an upgrade for Leila and she could slap something in next to her jump pack.
Not sure if we have time to redress (and get it down to halfling size :P) right at this moment though ...
We'll still take it along after we've cleaned the place out.
If no one else wants the armor, I'll volunteer :) But Leila might benefit more from it.
Also interested in the force field upgrade.
So... you guys lost initiative and I'll try to get the top of the first round posted soon. Just thought you should know...
also Leila the bots are pretty standard robots so you know they're vulnerable to electricity and critical hits. In fact everybody probably knows that.
3 rounds of Haste left. Maybe 2. BUt let's go with 3.
Traveling tomorrow through the weekend. Will post when able.
New music, New pictures, A lot of destroyed robots.
The Ysoki was surprisingly cute for a doomsday cultist...
Busy weeked from you guys! Cueta to go.
Back. I'll get caught up and post this morning.
BTW Cueta your elecrtrostatic generator gives 5 electric resistance!
I... forgot I had that. Nice, and thanks for the reminder, Astri!
I also forgot to update Cueta with the tempweave armor. Sigh. I'll do that after this combat.
Hmm. Regarding the fleeing ysoki, we could easily catch up and continue to full-attack them given our freshly-renewed haste. Vek wouldn't be thrilled about it, but recognizes that neutralizing a threat now could prevent it from growing into a much larger threat later - such as that parked ship in the garage. What does everyone else think?
Yes, going after the ysoki would make sense. We wouldn’t want to have a Devourer cultist on the loose