Dead Suns AP by GM Cellion (Inactive)

Game Master GM Cellion

very good

Ted's spell bouncing off the barrier would suggest that I can't heal Isu through it.

The map shows double doors that lead north from the room to our right. Did we try those before?

It would be extremely dangerous to go into a new room to get around the wall of force. If there was any encounter in there, that would mean death of the party.

Did anyone with a +15 or higher in mysticism make the check for wall of force?

In any case, we all know it is there now, so if you have a dispel magic you could try it, of course, it will take a greater dispel magic for it to go away but you would only know that if you succeed on the mysticism check.

Could also teleport through it, or the like, if anyone had that.

Ted's spell bouncing off the barrier would suggest that I can't heal Isu through it.

Correct, you no longer have line of effect.

You didn't try any of the other doors.

The number of times I failed saves in this battle, including natural 1's was just ridic.

So...should I shift the serum toss to a trickle?

I'm dying at 0 HP, so yeah, a heal would get back up... but in anycase, without a substantial Jelico heal, and I am just going to be bouncing up and down in consciousness. I honestly don't know what the right thing to do is--- your time spent better just doing damage? You should decide yourself.

That's just it, my options for damage are limited: the enemies are so spread out if I go for one I leave myself open for the others to take me down.

If you spend your turn healing me, I could burn a resolve to get another 2d8 healing everyone. Does that buy us another round for the others to get the wall of force down?

I'm really at a loss of what to do here. I can't do anything about the wall of force but do I risk trying to go through the other rooms to avoid it?

Jelico,

I think given that you and I are stuck and the others are in a tough spot, we have no choice but to risk going through the other room. I'm going to see if there's a computer I can hack within 50' that might get it down, but if not, I think you and I need to face whatever else there is.

To be clear, there's a door into the bridge from the central room you've already visited (the one that was museum-like). So the risk is only in the time it's take to get there, hack it open, and get through.

(Just wanted to mention in case you were under the impression that you had to try to un-revealed room all the way on the right)

Okay, thanks for the clarification. Jelico, if you would move and open the door, I'll move and try to hack the door open.

To be clear, there's a door into the bridge from the central room you've already visited (the one that was museum-like). So the risk is only in the time it's take to get there, hack it open, and get through.

(Just wanted to mention in case you were under the impression that you had to try to un-revealed room all the way on the right)

that was my impression indeed! I didn't see the main door.

I don't want to hold up this nail biter moment. If Arc heals me, I will spend my turn doing a healing burst for 2d8 for 1 RP.

If Arc goes a different route, I will stabilize for 3 RP.

Just to be clear I don't know what the right answer is so no worries, Arc. You do you. I don't feel like we did anything wrong here tactically. We were undergeared probably by a lot coming in here but there was nothing to be done about it. It is a bitterness I have against this AP and Starfinder actually (have since stopped playing Starfinder). Power armor is broken and spellcasters are screwed in DCs. If we had an operative this battle would be done already. That being said, I'm going to keep going until Isu is at 0 RP and dead, and maybe we can still pull it off.

2d8 healing: 2d8 ⇒ (3, 7) = 10

I'm gonna give you the serum, save you them RP.

yeah Spec, roll those 20s!

Overnighting at the hotel I work at due to a snowstorm, so my posting is limited to my phone. Please feel free to bot me if necessary.

No problem Arc.

holy cow that invisibility is screwing us up so bad.

All,

I'm off to Mexico for the next week. I may post occasionally, but please bot as necessary. Merry Christmas and happy New Year!

Wow! Enjoy the trip and have a great Christmas and New Year!

Merry Christmas all! I'll be taking it slow the next couple of days, but will kick back into gear on Monday.

Let's see if the party can close this fight out or if Serovox will somehow manage to turn things around!

Awww, winning this fight on Christmas would have been a fun present!

Merry Christmas!

Go Ted! That hit puts it above 200 damage, maybe that's enough!

So...I presume I'd be best equipped to do a Gunnery check?

In past battles, we both are on guns.

So two gunners. Lets make sure everyone else is good to go. Once we get started with this starship combat, we'll be going fast to the finish line.

Are the stats for our ship posted?

Yep, check handouts.

It's a little late, but I'm incredulous that we survived that last battle. I was sure we would all take a final pot shot and succumb to Serovox.

@Cellion

I see it now. Sorry about that. I was looking at the Maps slides for it for some reason.

@Ted

I figured that was a TPK for sure. It was certainly one of the hardest battles I've been a part of.

Well, and Cellion gave us a heads-up that no punches would be pulled.

I couldn't hit anything that fight. Anytime I scored a hit, it was negated by concealment.

Glad we made it.

Just to clarify, I can only pick ONE of the guns in that handout to fire each round? As I said earlier, that statblock is kind of overwhelming...

The simplest gunner action is to fire one gun, yes. But at this level you have access to multiple other actions, as described here. Broadside for example lets you fire multiple guns at once, so long as you take the penalty and pay 1 RP. Take a read through.

That battle... stacked after...what... 3,4 battles before it? Again, I don't really want to get into it, but I think it mostly showed off how tremendously undergeared we were. We haven't been allowed to spend credits since two books ago. I do like the epicness of it all, the storyline is neat, I just wish this AP was written more fair to the characters.

I do think a meaner GM could have splattered us, tbh. Because there were multiple chances to take me down and Cellion was spreading damage around rather than concentrating in specific people.

Will negative energy guns DO anything to these enemy ships? They don't have living crew.

Our port and starboard weapons are exactly the same. We've got that big cannon in the forward arc so I'll do my best to keep us pointed straight at something.

We've also got 35 medium ships in a hanger bay. Does that help us out at all?

Must...resist...urge...to quote...STAR WARS!

Cellion, didn't we leave the Maiden back with the Pact Fleet? We took a commandeered Corpse Fleet ship to get on here, so we're not abandoning it if we make our escape though the escape pods, right?

Yes, I'm dumb! No Maiden, so you'd only be leaving the Corpse Fleet ship behind. I managed to confuse myself because when I played through this as a PC, we managed to get through with the Maiden.

I think we programmed the maiden to be available to board when we called for it...

Cellion's post about Maiden

Didn't we program the sunrise maiden to come get us?

Quote:

Working together, Ted and Jelico program an autopilot path for the Sunrise Maiden, sending it off far from the battle with instructions to return upon receiving a signal

time to call it! we blast out a window and jump ship!

Why do you think I asked if there were windows, Isu? >.>

I got a better idea, tho! Get out (either through a window or escape pod), get aboard the Maiden, and then use its guns to shoot the bridge at point-blank range before they can turn off the self-destruct!

nice!!!

It's been my DREAM to play through an entire AP, and it's just been achieved! Thank you, Cellion, for running such an awesome experience, and the rest of you for being such great personalities to play with! I'M SO HAPPY! (˃̣̣̥ w ˂̣̣̥)

We do need to decide who gets what treasures from Serovox's stuff, only Isu actually claimed anything (the badass spear he named after me!).

thank you Cellion! A lesser GM would have caused this adventure to break up 2 years ago. We owe you a debt of gratitude for sticking with it and being the glue holding us together. Sorry for being difficult at times.

What an incredible journey and definitely thanks to Cellion for keeping it going, doing all the hard work, not giving up on us, and for making it FUN!