Chyro's Outpost game: Voice in the Void (Inactive)

Game Master Chyrone

Guys?

Waiting on someone a little more skillful to do something. I doubt the box will react well to me punching it!

If you don't have the skills to interact with the box, it's probably best to post that you're not going to take any action with the box. I've been waiting for everyone else to post before I have Brady do anything more, so at this point, we've been waiting for each other....

"I have an uneasy feeling about this box. I think it's trapped somehow, but I'm not sure how, and I don't know how to disable. Does anybody have any ideas?"

"If the box isn't important, we can always leave it behind," Darren says as he gives the box a little push. "This place is freaking me out." He eyes the walls, feeling as though they were about to swallow him and his comrades.

- This place - is freaking you out?
I tossed tentacle monsters in boxes, infested terrans, eldritch dominated/fused monks, aberrations and a cult at my players at a playtest. :P
Ftaghn!!!

"This place is trying to eat me and calling me Hawk!" Darren yells out in his drug addled state, looking around for mouths so he could see where the voice was coming from.

"Perhaps we find out what is behind the curtain and hope that the key to defeating it isn't in the box we are so afraid of..." Armik steps into a martial stance toward the curtain.

Reapplying shield if time is running down on the last cast

UMD for shield wand: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (4) + 9 = 13
UMD for shield wand: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (2) + 9 = 11
UMD for shield wand: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (17) + 9 = 26

If there is nothing else, i'll continue with the rest when i get home.

I almost forgot..

As Darren gives the box a push...a sound, which dies down 5 seconds thereafter.

Anything before opening the curtain

Monty blinks.

That... was a scary music box... well, whatever might be behind that curtain knows we're coming. Ready when you guys are...

Armik will cast Shield of Faith and Divine Favor on himself

"Let's do this." and pulls the curtain when everyone is ready.

Brady joins Armik at the curtain, and nods to the tiefling.

Armik pulls the curtain quickly, in knowledge their arrival has already been made clear.
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The walls and ceiling of this chamber bulge outward, continuing the grotesque architectural style of the antechamber, as if you were standing in the leviathan’s stomach.

Queer, glowing nodules protrude from the walls at seemingly random intervals, bathing the room in their sickly green glow. A tall, free-standing, almost organic-looking archway carved from a strange, glowing blue-green stone stands atop a low dais in a wide alcove at the far end of the chamber.

The center of the arch is empty, revealing the wall behind it, but the space occasionally flickers with curtains of starry darkness, as if somewhere else lies just beyond the portal.

A susurrus of ghostly whispers seem to issue from the gate, their language and meaning unclear, but fraught with a sense of wrongness.
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A young woman, with distinct Osiriani features, of long dark hair and light brown skin, wearing a weathered explorer’s outfit.
She stands in the back near the arcway. Near her, stands a cilinder, transluscent, containing some sort of mass. She is connected to the gateway by five disgusting, fleshy, fungoid umbilicals attached to her hips, shoulders, and the base of her skull.

Five humanoid figures slowly turn their fetid heads towards you. Their eyes milky, their skin deathly pale. One has its nose bitten off, others dried up gore on their mouths. Chunks of missing skin accompany the bite marks on a neck or two and arms.

But what links them together, is they are all wearing the same uniform the corpse in the library was wearing.

"So, [b] the woman speaks, with..an unusual ring to her voice, [b]the world above sends more people to their doom? I'd be happy to oblige, more victims mean more servants."

"As you'll meet your demise here anyway, i'll enlighten you.
I've returned after so long, thanks to the young miss here, to finally establish a means to travel between the stars. Such knowledge it holds."

I have marked the cilinder on the map.

And so the final fight down here begins....

The gateway, round 1

Brady
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Imrizade Blakros
Orange & Red
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Darren
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Green, Blye & Cyan
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Armik
Faliana & Monty

Perception DC 14: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (11) + 8 = 19

"Something's watching through... from beyond... that veil. Let's hope they don't come through and join the party, or this could get dangerous."

Brady focuses inward to recall some former training, refreshing himself in a style of fighting focusing on hard jabs combines with nimble moves. He steps past the curtain, but no further, taking up a readied stance to await the advance of their foes.

As Brady assumes a battlestance, Imrizade moves along the south, drawing a stick as she goes.

She points at Brady.
"You two, kill that one."

The zombies approach Brady, but orange is on the receiving end, as Brady's punch comes in with such force, that he punches a hole in the face. The zombie drops to the ground, leaving Brady with a gore and pus covered fist.

The red on comes up close, and makes a swing at him.
Slam: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (2) + 4 = 6 1d6 + 3 ⇒ (5) + 3 = 8
Brady leans back, and slaps the incoming fist aside.
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Darren
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Green, Blye & Cyan
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Armik
Faliana & Monty

Wait, how come no one told me there were precursors to Starfinder in season 1! I didn't realize Triune was in the habit of controlling people, though...

AS the gate way is revelaed, Faliana gives an urk and Moke forces his way to the top. "I TOLD you there was demonic influences going on here! That woman is CLEARLY being controlled. Let&s kill the damnable thing!" His singular focus on the obvious demon, however prevents him from seeing anything but her and even realizing that the fight has started until after the demon-zombie things have started moving.

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Perception: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (1) + 6 = 7

Perception: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (13) + 1 = 14

"That's very strange!" Darren exclaims, but decides to leave that up to the more knowledgeable folk in the party.

Rolling up on the zombie that attempted to slam Brady, Darren lashed out with the machete he wielded.

Machete: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (4) + 8 = 12
Damage: 1d6 + 6 ⇒ (3) + 6 = 9

Darren's machete hacks into a collarbone, slightly shaking the zombie's head, as its dead eyes look at him. With a sickening crunch, it twists its shoulder, releasing the blade from its lodging.
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"You three, block the pass and get ready. Do not let them get close to us."

The other three zombies move to in front of Imrizade.
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Armik
Faliana & Monty

Monty shudders at the sight and shakes his head.

Yuck... terrible. Everyone, I don't think the girl is in charge of her own mind. Try to knock her out, not kill her... I think whatever that THING is the real culprit.

He dodges around to attack the red zombie (Can't move token, if someone else wouldn't mind, avoiding the AOO.)

Quarterstaff: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (18) + 6 = 24
Strike Damage: 1d6 + 2 + 2 ⇒ (5) + 2 + 2 = 9

Monty crushes the zombie's brain with a solid whack to the skull, it no longer fit for further desecration.

Armik & Faliana

Armik races across the floor to the nearest zombie, nodachi outstretched to run him through.

nodachi to hit with charge and power attack: 1d20 + 6 + 2 ⇒ (17) + 6 + 2 = 25
nodachi cold iron damage: 1d10 + 9 ⇒ (3) + 9 = 12

AC is 20 until next round

Oops, that zombie didn't have 12, but 14 AC, so only Monty hit it.
I don't think with a 3 vs 1, Armik's actions would have changed, though.

Armik arrives close enough to strike the zombie, which turns out to be what Imrizade was waiting for, as she aims the stick at him.
A cone of bountiful colours bursts from the tip.

Willsave Armik: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (4) + 2 = 6
Surprised by this, Armik's mind is momentarily overloaded.
Armik is blinded & stunned for 1d4 ⇒ 4 rounds, and stunned for 1 round thereafter.
He drops his weapon, and just stands there.

You three, block the pass and get ready. Do not let them get close to us.

The team now notices these aren't your typical zombies, as these seem agile enough to attack after walking.

Faliana

Both stunned and blinded impose a -2 penalty to AC, as well as negating Dex to AC, which is why the confirmed and 2 strike hit, if you were wondering.

Any chance I could use my t-shirt reroll for the will save?

will save: 1d20 + 2 + 4 ⇒ (7) + 2 + 4 = 13

Yes.

Armik -seems- to have been affected, but doesn't turn out to be after all.
He does take the 1st hit in the face though, after which he separates the zombie's head from its torso.

Faliana

On my phone so I can't move around but could someone move me so I'm behind Darren?

Moke gives a growl as the zombie like things start moving about. He steps up behind Darren and drudge up a few memories of when he was alive and the tactics his tribe developed to handle spears in tight formation. With a growl he then stabs through the area between Darren and Brady.

"These zombies are nothing but a distraction! We need to handle the woman over there. Faliana's legs aren't strong enough for that though. Why do you people insist on heavy metal armor?"

After a moment of actually examine the zombies he pipes up again. "These are faster zombies! They like swinging with both fists, but are easier to kill."
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Knowledge religion: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (6) + 4 = 10
Mwk longspear, spirit bonus: 1d20 + 6 + 1 ⇒ (9) + 6 + 1 = 16
Damage: 1d8 + 6 + 1 + 2 ⇒ (5) + 6 + 1 + 2 = 14
Five foot step, move to grab Phalanx formation and standard to attack.

The zombies prove to be just that, distraction.
Faliana thrusts her spear's tip forward, causing Darren's heart to skip a beat as it comes very very close past his vision.

The spear heads into one eye socket, protrudes from the back, before Faliana/Moke pulls it back. Another one goes down.
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The gateway, round 2

Brady
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Imrizade Blakros
Orange & Red
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Darren
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Green, Blye & Cyan
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Armik
Faliana & Monty

Brady moves up to the wall of zombies; he lets the momentum of his move guide his arm as he swings, but finds himself a little off-balance on his approach, failing to connect.

Fun fact of the day, Brady's a sheep on google docs. ;)

The zombie is (momentarily) spared permanent destruction.
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Imrizade aims the stick again at Armik.
Willsave: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (4) + 2 = 6
This time, his mind does indeed get overloaded.
Blind & stun: 1d4 ⇒ 3 rounds.

"Now, servants, move to the side and pummel that crazy tiefling!"
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Darren
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Cyan & Green
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Armik (blind & stun 3 rounds)
Faliana & Monty

Fun fact of the day, Brady's a sheep on google docs. ;)

Google docs has some interesting anonymous characters! I've seen an anonymous Nyan cat before, among other things

Good grief.... now that you mention it, i've seen that before. ^^

"Going after the woman, sure," Darren says as he begins moving. He gives the fight a wide berth, running around so as to provoke no attacks from the zombies. He ends his movement behind the woman.

Double move.

"You unshaven non-intellectual, get away from the gate!"

The two zombies step closer to Armik and swing away.
Slam: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (19) + 4 = 23 1d6 + 3 ⇒ (5) + 3 = 8
Slam: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (9) + 4 = 13 1d6 + 3 ⇒ (5) + 3 = 8

Slam: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (19) + 4 = 23 1d6 + 3 ⇒ (4) + 3 = 7
Slam: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (3) + 4 = 7 1d6 + 3 ⇒ (2) + 3 = 5
Armik gets beaten badly, and the zombie woman wobbling after her first strike is all the luck he needed to remain upright.
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Armik, blind & stun 3 rounds

Faliana & Monty

Brady is probably going to try to start attacking the tendrils next round to free the woman from... well, whatever's going on there. Any special rules for that, or just make normal attacks?

Sunder maneuvers for the tendrils.

Monty dashes up to the zombies that are pummeling on Armik.

Fali! Get those things off the girl, I'll try and save Armik!

With that, he swings his staff at one of the zombies.

Quarterstaff: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (19) + 6 = 25
Strike Damage: 1d6 + 2 + 2 ⇒ (4) + 2 + 2 = 8

Snake Style - AC vs first attack in round =
Sense Motive: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (13) + 12 = 25

Can't move token, if someone wouldn't mind I'd appreciate it.

The green zombie wears a helmet, which doesn't particularly protect it from Monty's strike.
A sharp clanking sound is heard, and a dent is on it, a dent probably extending inwards for head trauma.

==> Faliana

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The gateway, round 2

Brady (can post ahead)
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Imrizade Blakros
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Darren
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Green (-8) & Cyan
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Armik (blind & stun 2 rounds)
Faliana & Monty

Brady moves around the zombies to come up near Ms. Blakros, stepping into a flanking position opposite Darren. "How are things looking for you now, Darren? Still seeing visions? If you're wondering about the lady crazy lady with the tendrils... she's real! You're not hallucinating that!" He strikes out at the tendrils holding her attached to the cylinder, hoping to break the influence that's controlling her.

Work stayed busy almost all day, no good chances to get a post up. Sorry for holding things up.

Moke gives a nod and a wiuld grin at Monty's words. "I like how you think Monkey Man!"

He drops the spear and pulls out Fali's Lucerne hammer much better suited to sundering things and starts to rush forward. After running a few feet, he comes up to a stop near one of the zombies. With a curse the man stops to catch his breath. In a pissed of sounding Polygot, he starts cursing the fates that the person channeliong him has suich pitibaly weak legs.

With a look of frustration, he brings the hammer in a giant arc around his head and tries to smash the helemt on the zombie in front of the monkey man into the ground.

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Lucerne hammer, spirit bonus and flanking: 1d20 + 5 + 1 + 2 ⇒ (8) + 5 + 1 + 2 = 16
Damage, seance bonus: 1d12 + 4 + 2 + 1 ⇒ (3) + 4 + 2 + 1 = 10
I realized since my last post that I added Moke's seance bonus into her damage twice, she should have only done 12 damage! Sorry I thought her base damage was a +6 for some reason.

You'd not have flanking by init order, but you hit anyway.

Faliana/Moke demonstrates the swing preferred on fairs, an overhead smackdown on a head.
The zombie's head is utterly crushed, as the part that was dented, is bent inwards by the sheer impact.

Brady plants his fist against a tendril, but he notices the blunt of a fist not dealing any particular harm to one.
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Those close notice more disturbing details on Imrizae's condition.
Her eyes are a milky white, no faded irises whatsoever, and the veins near her eyes are greyish and more defined.

Like this
"Stop that!", Imrizade utters angrily.

She steps 5ft away from Brady & Darren, as her free arm turns longer beyond normal. "You'll all fall before me and replace these lost thralls."

"Zssuk lrna krrzzratt!"
Her hand starts sparking, as she reaches out towards Armik.

Touch: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (19) + 5 = 24 Electric, SA: 3d6 + 1d6 ⇒ (3, 3, 5) + (6) = 17
The sudden electric current running through his body is painful, and the team smells a hint of fried hair in the air, as Armik falls to the ground.

Armik, stabilize roll please.
"You, she commands the zombie, attack that monkey!"
The female zombie's head turns towards Monty.
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Darren
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Female zombie
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Armik (-14/0, unstable)
Faliana & Monty

stabilize: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (10) + 3 = 13

I do have resist 5 electric...so not dead, yet. (-10 hp)

Brady plants his fist against a tendril, but he notices the blunt of a fist not dealing any particular harm to one.

To be clear, does this just mean that Brady's 6 pts of damage didn't exceed the CMD and/or hardness of the tendril, or does this mean that there's also some DR at play that requires a different damage source?

There is hardness, but with this fleshy appendage, slashing weapons would be ideal.

Darren takes a five foot step towards Imrizade and lashes out at the tendrils with both the machete and the klar, both slashing weapons.

TWF Machete sunder: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (1) + 6 = 7
Damage: 1d6 + 6 ⇒ (3) + 6 = 9

TWF Klar sunder: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (4) + 8 = 12
Damage: 1d6 + 10 ⇒ (2) + 10 = 12

Provokes due to no Improved Sunder.

There is hardness, but with this fleshy appendage, slashing weapons would be ideal.

So there's additional DR that prevents Brady's unarmed strike from doing its full damage, above and beyond what we would expect from hardness? Sorry to be so nit-picky, but Brady has some options via Martial Flexibility, but they would be different depending on if I'm trying to overcome hardness or DR.

Darren's 1st strike seems to bounce back, as his grip on his machete wasn't firm enough.
He severs one of the cords on her hips with his 2nd strike. The thing wriggles briefly like a decapitated snake before becoming inert.

Imrizade arches her neck in discomfort.
"You thug! You will pay dearly!"

Dmg to Imrizade: 1d3 ⇒ 1
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The zombie makes two swings at Monty.
Slam: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (7) + 4 = 11 1d6 + 3 ⇒ (1) + 3 = 4
Slam: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (19) + 4 = 23 1d6 + 3 ⇒ (3) + 3 = 6
The 2nd fist comes very close to hitting Monty, but he anticipated the back-swing after the 1st attack, and dodges the strike.
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Faliana & Monty

Armik (-14/0, didn't pass the stabilize check, he'll bleed to death if not stabilized)

I think I'm at -9 due to the tiefling electric resist 5.

Excellent. :)
That buys you some time.
Could you roll checks for the next 5 rounds.
d20 + con mod - negative HP. Result of 10 (or natural 20) saves your bacon.
Though current negatives is -10.

Monty growls.

I'm getting really tired of these things...

Quarterstaff: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (16) + 6 = 22
Strike Damage: 1d6 + 2 + 2 ⇒ (1) + 2 + 2 = 5

Flurry Quarterstaff: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (20) + 6 = 26
Strike Damage: 1d6 + 2 + 2 ⇒ (6) + 2 + 2 = 10

Sense Motive: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (12) + 12 = 24

Possible crit? Flurry Quarterstaff: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (15) + 6 = 21
Strike Damage: 1d6 + 2 + 2 ⇒ (5) + 2 + 2 = 9

He jams his staff into the thing, causing it to bend over as he yanks it out, then spins around and clocks the thing in the face like a baseball bat combined with a charging rhino.