Agreed, Astri. I'll pick up see invisibility and go after the big bad.
Cueta will be expending everything she's got. Hopefully with that and a few buffs she's not out of the fight in a couple of rounds :)
Okay Astri is leveled up.
Skill Expertise increases to 1d8+2, picking up expertise in culture cause why not (guess I should have done that before I rolled to identify that stuff)
Feat: Extra Resolve (+2 resolve points)
+10 skill points I'm too lazy to list
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Anyone want any loot off of the mohrg? That white force field is nice!
Astri is taking the Shock Grenades.
I didn't upgrade Leila over the weekend and I'm busy monday/tuesday evenings too :/
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At a glance most of the loot looks too bulky for Operatives. I'll double check though!
Mid level Starfinder! You guys will have to let me know what it's like from the player's side.
Prospero-4's level-up is somewhat unexciting...
+6hp, +9sp, +8 skill points
Your custom rig’s computer functions gain a bonus firewall countermeasure (see page 217). This firewall has no additional cost, does not count against the maximum number of countermeasures your custom rig can have, and can block off a module or group of modules already protected by a firewall.
In addition, you can use your custom rig to communicate over an encrypted channel with your ship, allowing you to access the ship’s sensors, control its security systems, and prepare its engines for takeoff (as well as use the encrypted communications functions of your expert rig) at a range of 50 miles. If you have a drone, you can issue commands to or directly control your drone over an encrypted channel at the same range.
feat: Technomantic dabbler (gonna get the BBEG with cantrips and lvl 1 spells!)
Spells:
0 - Transfer Charge, Mending, Detect Magic, Detect Affliction
1 - Akashic Download
And since we were given the heads-up about the invisible enemy, I will change the exocortex mod from flight system to echolocator. I wonder how that work in-game... Nanites?
I don't think there was anything I was interested in the baddies' loot. Except for batteries - you can never have too many!
From the artifacts the runeworm is really good, even if the application is rather unpleasant. GM should have rolled for those in secret, so we wouldn't know the rolls... Then sticking an alien worm found in corpse fleet mothership into one's ear might not sound like such a good idea... :)
Or maybe it's Culture still?
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Anyhow! Found time to update Leila; not terribly much happening at level 13. Though ... As Prospero pointed out I probably need to grab a feat as well :)
(Class features are +1d8 on trick attack as well as acquiring quad attack)
And since we were given the heads-up about the invisible enemy, I will change the exocortex mod from flight system to echolocator. I wonder how that work in-game... Nanites?
Nanites, son.
Good, looks like we have the invisible baddie covered.
Astrianna might take the inevitable eyes, but she's sure as hell not putting them in her eyesockets. Nor is she getting anywhere near that rune worm.
Will try and move on tomorrow but work's real busy.
I'm totally swamped through tomorrow, so please bot Cueta if needed.
Leveled up and ready to rumble. Biggest thing is a new revelation (Gravitic Reinforcement) and a new feat (Versatile Fighting). Vek can get Blind-Fight for 1 minute once a day via Adaptive Fighting, but he already used it today (against the worms of all things. XD). So for the low low cost of a resolve point, he can do it again now!
As an FYI Astrianna can use 2 of her resolve points to give any of you 1 resolve point to immediately power an ability. So don't be shy about using resolve, especially now.
Work was real hard today. We'll see about tomorrow.
Okay!
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Resolve points - Leila doesn't have any super helpful uses for that one in class (for a generic combat situation at least). But I'll look up the default abilities just in case!
Also still need to pick a feat. Contenders:
You are particularly skilled at attacking surprised targets.
Benefit(s): When you act in a surprise round and attack a target that has not yet acted in the same combat, you gain a +1 bonus to your attack roll and a bonus to damage equal to half your base attack bonus.
You can use your melee weapon to deflect attacks.
Prerequisites: Base attack bonus +8.
Benefit: When you would be hit by a ranged attack from a weapon or Spell that deals energy or kinetic damage, you can spend 1 Resolve Point as a reaction to make an attack roll with a nonarchaic melee weapon that deals the same general category of damage (energy or kinetic) with a +5 bonus. If your attack roll is higher than the attack roll that hit you, you deflect the attack with your weapon, and it misses. This doesn’t work against area attacks, even against area attacks that have attack rolls like blast weapons, and you can’t use this reaction if you aren’t capable of making an attack with an appropriate weapon.
You have increased training in a particular weapon type, making it easier to hit your target.
Prerequisites: Proficiency with selected weapon type.
Benefit: Chose one weapon type (small arms, longarms, heavy weapons, etc.). You gain a +1 bonus to attack rolls with that weapon type. If your base attack bonus is at least 3 lower than your character level (or your mechanic’s class level, if you are a Drone), you gain a +2 bonus instead.
+2 to hit seems most useful. Deflect sounds really cool and all, but Leila doesn't get shot terribly often. And it needs to be a kinetic weapon while she has her dagger out ... Ambuscade is pretty cool and all but I'm not sure how often it'll come up (and numerically just having weapon focus seems better ...)
Oooooff.. let's just attempt Monday.
Aight! Take care and let's hope things are better then :)
Wow that spear is sick. It's got Cueta written all over it.
Everything else is not immediately useful, though great in its own right. I'm a bit concerned that pilfering the items would warn the bridge, but nothing has warned us that they displays have alarms on them so it might be worth the risk.
GM, did we get our rest in? Unless we want to try pilfering the spear it might be time for the (probable) Definitely Final Battle
Cueta would be interested in the spear.
If nobody else wants to use it or hold onto it for later, Vek can commune with the general's spirit. No worries if anyone else wants it though!
Ok, it's going to be sporadic posting from me for the next few weeks based on how work is going.
Go ahead, both of you!
(On that topic; none is too thrilled with the ichy necrotech bits right? Let's hope our cunning tactics of shooting them in the face will make up for lacking it :p)
Re sporadic posting. Understandable. As someone surely has noted, it's kinda the same here. But mostly heat wave related :/
Re plans - having the +10 from the computer in the back pocket is really nice. Should look up exactly what it can be used for! Same with the science/engineering actions, though I don't think we can use those for any advantage in the upcoming fight?
I'm open to creativity...
Good luck getting the work sorted, GM!
Well large scale permanent alterations is probably not on the menu.
We could probably go for small things to disrupt and annoy the enemy.
Like randomly firing boosters and jerking the ship here and there - we'd get warned on our heads up display of course!
Or trigger the fire suppression on the enemy (if boneships worry about that? Probably. If not, we can find some good oxidizer and burn it all :D)
Turning up the brightness of the illumination to the max to ruin their mood? Maybe one or two even have some sort of weak eyesight!
Make all the cyborg computers chant our themesong just for fun? Definitely!
Perhaps some sort of false flag shenanigans if we can start some infighting?
Trigger all the maintenance/check engine lights :D
Diverting power from the engines and/or defenses would also be a cause for alarm. I think I recall Astrianna needing a bit more juice for getting those close-up shots of her face - I'm sure a ship as big as this won't mind lending a bit of processing power for such an important cause. XD
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I don't have any ideas how to give us an advantage in the upcoming other than putting the bridge lighting into disco-mode, cyborgs and loudspeakers chanting our themesong, and using security cameras to record the whole fight for Astri's vlog.
It is a very big ship, the control deck is very well protected, and any such obvious things will alert the deck that something is wrong I'll say.
While GM makes a good point, for pure style point Prospero's idea is perfect IMO. Maybe we could kick at least the disco lighting, theme song, and recording action if/when we take out their leadership?
LOL I love you guys, you've really embraced Astrianna's narcsicism.
I'm going to vote for Cueta's idea. After we take out the leadership and secure ctonrol of the bridge we fire the thrusters and accerlate the whole ship into an uncorrectable crash-course with the stellar degenerator. We make our escape while our theme song and disco lighting blasts through the entire ship!
Not that we have any idea how we're getting off the ship, but we can also solve that problem once we have control of the bridge.
Cueta can try to grab the spear, not sure how the cases work.
Not that we have any idea how we're getting off the ship, but we can also solve that problem once we have control of the bridge.
A problem for future us!
Agree, let's take the bridge first, then mess with the controls.
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Plan to be back tomorrow!
Make sure to list your pre-battle spells or abilities cast. I assume Cueta will use See Invisibility like we discussed.
Astrianna has a spell gem of Flight, who wants to have used it?
I'm on vacation, and might miss a day of checking the thread. Please bot if needed - Full attack with the laser is probably a good choice.
While the villain and Astri are monologuing, do the rest of us have some time to buff?
I'd say we have plenty of time to buff before we open the door, but that's up to the GM.
Yeah you started the fight on your terms. But, I will roll initiative lol. Also family weeding over the weekend so be back Mondaayyy.
Edit: Annnd you guys won initiative after a bit of a bad streak on that front. So all your actions go off, call uout if your're attacking purple cape or hulking monstrosity please and list all your buffs also. Makes it easier for me!
Oh yeah I fully expected you to roll iniaitive, it's only fair to the bad guys. But I was also gambling on being LUCKY hell yeah.
I think everyone but Vek is attacking purple cape. Cueta is ascending, literally and figuratively?
Yesterdat didn't work! Tomorrow looks hopeful!
OK. Plan to get up early tomorrow and get this started! Apologies for the delays.
No stress! If things are busy right now I don't mind waiting for a better time. Seeing as this may be the last epic showdown and all :)
Bold of you to assume this is the last encounter Leila.
But I think it's important to post "I'm still around!" messages even if nothing else. I think the mental burden of going invisible is so high that it becomes harder to harder and come back as the guilt builds. Better to post one liners explaining what's happening.
^^ Yes, absolutely.
It does have final boss energy to it :D
And yes that's understandable :)
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Getting walloped at work - hope to be back tomorrow.
Well this is turning out to be a banger :D
(the sonic pistol has that for it's critical effect unless I misremember :p)
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Fi was our original pilot, whom got tazed by the Sunrise Maiden as we were leaving the driftrock. Just in case someone needed a refresher! ...I sure didn't, I just spent an hour reading our old post because we're all so awesome :D
Oh yeah @invisiblity:
By picking up on subtle clues and hidden traces in your immediate surroundings, you can see things as they really are. As a full action, you can spend 1 Resolve Point to gain the effects of true seeing for 1 round with a range of 60 feet.
Leila is well stocked with resolve points so far, so she can use this liberally when we want to ferret out the mage. But I figured we've got more immediate problems to shoot right now? The cost, in rp and actions, is quite hefty ...
New music and pictures up.
The wall of force is a bit of tactical complexity in our theatre of the mind. Seems fitting though.
Oh and Finah didn't dab on Leila, she dapped her. Typo!
That's a relief :D
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I'll look up exactly how full attacks and haste works for my next turn. Together with weapon focus and astri's to hit bonus and the pistol with actual damage dice found earlier, that may actually be a better idea then trick attack .)
Oh! Haste! Sec ...
The Guarded Step takes up the Move Action from Haste it seems, so needed that for this to work it seems!