GM Bret's Outpost I: Claim to Salvation (Inactive)

Game Master BretI

"Yes, it is good to be a part of this tribe! And it looks like our way down is likely an elevator behind that door?" Raia says making the same sweeping motion.

She then examines the door for how to work the green god.

Perception: 1d20 ⇒ 17

The door is obviously locked and has a retinal scanner on the lock. Looks like the same sort of security system the other doors had.

You could use Engineering skill to deactivate the locks, or access the computer to unlock it. I assume someone remembers to use the computer to unlock it.

As you open the doors, a thick plume of steam rolls out. After a moment, the steam evaporates, revealing a marked transition into an entirely different area—a section of an entirely different starship. Where the hangar bay had straight lines and smooth plastic walls, this elevator has exposed cords and wires in varying dark shades such as charcoal and umber.

As you enter the elevator, a singsong voice greets you in an alien tongue. Soft lights wash over a smooth, wet surface at the elevator's southern wall. Scores of holographic glyphs appear in three spiraling patterns foreign to the Pact Worlds.

"Touch three hearts, eh." Obozaya recalls the strange comments from Grubhammer which now makes more sense. She studies the 3 spirals of glyphs, looking for heart-shaped patterns on each of them.

Will update later tonight, but the elevator works.

When Obozaya enters the sequence, the elevator doors close and it rockets down toward Shantyspire's base.

The lift swiftly decelerates and comes to a smooth stop before the doors suddenly open into a rectangular storage room that shares the same design as the hangar bay above. A mesh grating just beyond the western elevator door overlooks stacked crates below. An adjacent set of stairs descends to the floor. A second set of stairs continues to a separate, stone chamber to the east.

"Ugh I smell like a burnt rug!" he says in the Elevator looking at the others and then coughs.

When the door opens he looks at the others and then out in the darkness."Maybe I should send out Scout?"

I have placed your figures in the elevator for Slide 3. You can change your positions around if you want. You had time to move as the elevator descended.

Navasi reloads her tactical pistol and holsters it keeping her tactical dueling sword in hand and at her side as they descend ready for anything. "Maybe not the worst idea Quig."

"Right Okay head out there a bit Scout" Quig says sending the Drone out as far as he can and reading through the comm system what Scout reports.

He sends out the Drone and grips his pistol hoping Scout will find an empty room or at least have decent cover.

A Shot from the Dark: 1d20 + 13 ⇒ (18) + 13 = 31
Piercing damage: 2d6 + 6 ⇒ (1, 2) + 6 = 9

You hear a shot ring out! Scout is hit!

The flash of the muzzle came from the southeast corner of the room.

Start of Combat

Round 1:

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Iseph
Quig
Obozaya
Altronus
Raia
Navasi
Enemy

Obozaya quickly lifts up her weapon as she moves tactically into the room, trying to keep to the cover of the boxes, while firing back in return.

attack: autotarget rifle vs enemy KAC: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (14) + 7 = 21 P dmg: 1d6 + 4 ⇒ (5) + 4 = 9

How did Obozaya move that far? Did you count in the time to climb down the ladder?

You can’t shoot through the boxes at ground height, they are stacked 10’ high.

Edit to add: The platform is 20’ above the floor.

Pieces of dust and dirt from the air and ground slowly start to fall towards Altronus as he is now attuned to graviton mode.

Move: Altonus moves out of the elevator as he draws his tactical semi-auto pistol and to the edge of the platform, trying to determine where the shot came from.

If I can see where the shot came from I'll take a shot. Otherwise, I'll use my second action to gain DR from Dark Matter.

If I can see the target:

Iseph hurries out of the elevator behind Obozaya, but heads to the side of the platform where they hope they'll find a better view.

Trick: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (19) + 14 = 33
Attack: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (7) + 7 = 14
Damage: 1d6 + 2 ⇒ (4) + 2 = 6
Trick Damage: 1d8 ⇒ 3

You can see them, but they have cover.

Altronus misses the huge person.

Life Science to identify the creature. It is big and has two heads.

Life Science Roll: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (15) + 5 = 20: (reduce the DCs of Life Science checks by 5 when recalling knowledge about xenobiology)

Iseph's attack misses.

Round 1:

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Iseph
Quig
Obozaya Action invalid because moved too far and can't shoot from where he is.
Altronus
Raia
Navasi
Enemy

Raia steps up next to Iseph and sends out two missiles of arcane energy towards the foe.

"This will flush him it out."

Damage: 1d4 + 1 ⇒ (4) + 1 = 5
Damage: 1d4 + 1 ⇒ (4) + 1 = 5
1st level spells remaining: 2

"@#*@!!!" Quig says as he moves Scout into a more protective postion.

"Its okay buddy, I'll fix you up, once we get these guys" He says moving Scout into some cover.

Navasi comes out of the elevator and quickly heads down the stairs, drawing her pistol as she does ending up behind the boxes just past Scout's location (double move).

She calls out, "You're outnumbered! Give up!"

Navasi will be ready to use her "Watch Out" ability to help the AC of any of her allies who are attacked between now and her next turn.

Raia’s spelll hits the giant humanoid.

Quig moves their drone to safety.

Navasi quickly goes down the elevator and then finds cover.

Waiting on Obozaya, needs to move less or not shoot.
See here for issues.

Round 1:

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Iseph
Quig
Obozaya Action invalid because moved too far and can't shoot from where he is.
Altronus
Raia
Navasi
Enemy

Navasi also calls to her team through their comms "anyone know what the heck we're fighting over there?"

Sorry busy day at work. And sorry, thought they were stairs. :P

Obozaya moves to the edge of the ladder and fires.

Using rolls from previous post.

attack: autotarget rifle vs enemy KAC: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (14) + 7 = 21 P dmg: 1d6 + 4 ⇒ (5) + 4 = 9

Obozaya barely misses their target, the bullet ricocheting off the edge of the crate right next to one of the heads.

“Bago, shoot the little one with antenna! I will take care of the big scaley one!”

Bago shoots at Raia.
Semiauto pistol: 1d20 + 13 ⇒ (13) + 13 = 26
Piercing damage: 2d6 + 6 ⇒ (3, 6) + 6 = 15

Borgor casts a spell at Obozaya!

Round 2:

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Iseph
Quig
Obozaya Need Will save first!
Altronus
Raia
Navasi
BagoBorgor -10

Obozaya feels her muscles tightening up. She wants to roar in anger, but her jaws clamp shut.

will: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (1) + 4 = 5

"Bago?! We are here on behalf of Livewire! She mentioned you..." she sputters after taking a serious hit.

She also weaves a sheath of invisibility over herself and moves into a better position to speak telepathically if needed. It has yet to dawn on her Livewire was in love with one head of a creature...

Standard Action: Invisibility. Move Action: Move

Obozaya freezes in place.

Raia calls out to Bago and then disappears.

Round 2:

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Iseph
Quig
Obozaya Paralyzed until round 8, new save each round
Altronus
Raia Invisibile!
Navasi
BagoBorgor -10

Bago... Ah yes, I remember the audio logs. He wants to be 'seperate' from his brother, but he's an Ettin!

Bago! We can help you, if you help us!, then to his team. He's an Ettin, they both control their body equally. We need to try and take them alive. I'm going in.

Altronus continues towards gravitron attunement, and double moves as he draws his solar weapon. I believe I can get to there(see slide), if not please move me as close as I can. Thanks

I am not sure of the exact location you were originally at, but I believe you can easily make it to your current location. You probably could have done that with just a single move.

Altronus informs the group of what they are facing and moves closer to the Ettin.

"How you people know my name?" the Bago head asks in response to Altronus and Raia both having addressed him.

"Maybe because I used it when telling you what to do, stupid!" the Borgor head replies.

"No need to call me names! I was just asking." Bago replies, obviously with hurt feelings.

Round 2:

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Iseph
Quig
Obozaya Paralyzed until round 8, new save each round
Altronus
Raia Invisibile!
Navasi
BagoBorgor -10

Iseph shifts over to get a better look at the creature.

Trick: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (19) + 14 = 33
Attack: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (2) + 7 = 9
Damage: 1d6 + 2 ⇒ (2) + 2 = 4
Trick Damage: 1d8 ⇒ 4

Since I have another action left then, I'll gain some DR via Dark Matter.

Altronus also gives himself some resistance to the expected attacks from the creature.

Iseph manages to catch the creature off-guard but fails to aim properly in order to take advantage of the opportunity.

Round 2:

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Iseph
Quig
Obozaya Paralyzed until round 8, new save each round
Altronus
Raia Invisibile!
Navasi
BagoBorgor -10

I don't know if +4 to AC would help Raia, but I said I was going to use my Watch Out power if anyone got hit...

Navasi will call out to her lashunta companion "Raia, hang in there!"

Inspiring Boost (Ex) As a standard action, Navasi can signal an ally who has taken damage since Navasi’s last turn. The ally must be able to see and hear her and be within 30 feet. The ally gains 11 Stamina Points, up to the ally’s normal maximum. Navasi cannot target that ally with this ability again until that ally takes a 10-minute rest to regain Stamina Points.

She'll also call out while moving up diagonally behind Altronus I'm at wor kon my phone so if someone could move me diagonally down and left? thank you!!

"We're friends of Livewire! Please don't make us fight you, Bago!"

Navasi will also use watch out if anyone else gets shot going forwad

Watch Out (Ex) When a foe makes a ranged attack against an ally within 60 feet of Navasi, she can warn the ally as a reaction. The ally can use a reaction to gain a +4 bonus to AC against that single attack and then falls prone.

The game mechanics for Watch Out do not work well in PbP.
Doing it in face to face or VTT, you can just ask the person each time if they are willing to take it. It takes under 10 seconds to resolve it, no problem.
If we tried to do that in PbP, it could easily take over a day to resolve.

Since I do not like retconning combat, this is a real problem.

I will repeat what I said before.
Since it uses up the person’s reaction and makes them prone, I will ask that any players who want to use it say they are willing. Quig most likely will be since he has a racial ability that helps him stand. Others may not want to go prone because they would then have to stand,

A ysoki can stand from prone as a swift action.

In this case, I am willing to allow Raia to decide if she wants it. The reason is that I don’t like telling a player they can’t use an ability and it doesn’t require a lot of retconning as she can cast from prone. I do not want to do this again,

EVERYONE please state if you are willing to take a Watch Out. You can even put it in your header when you are willing to take it.

Raia shouts a warning to Raia. She then explains to Bago that the group knows Livewire.

Avarar moved.

Bago’s head frowns. Then he says “If you friends with Livewire, what his nickname for me?”

Round 2:

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Iseph
Quig
Obozaya Paralyzed until round 8, new save each round
Altronus
Raia Invisibile!
Navasi
BagoBorgor -10

I won't take it for the ease of not ret-conning and saving my action economy.

With scout back at his side he pulls his weapon and watches the others."Whats going on"

Quig hears Bago, and the fact he asked for the nickname, Quig steps out. "HAIRLESS MONKEY" He says looking at the others.

Bago: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (19) + 5 = 24
“You do know Livewire!” Bago says. Then he angrily looks at Borgor and says “You lie to me!”

The Ettin starts fighting with itself!

Are you going to do anything with Scout?

Round 2:

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Iseph
Quig Still has Scout’s action
Obozaya Paralyzed until round 8, new save each round
Altronus
Raia Invisibile!
Navasi
BagoBorgor -10 Fighting with self

Just letting Scout rest for a minute while the Others regroup

Borgor struggles to control the arm with the pistol so he can shoot Iseph.

Pistol: 1d20 + 13 - 2 ⇒ (12) + 13 - 2 = 23
Piercing damage: 2d6 + 6 ⇒ (6, 4) + 6 = 16

Round 3:

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Iseph
Quig
Obozaya Paralyzed until round 8, new save each round
Altronus
Raia Invisibile!
Navasi
BagoBorgor -10 Fighting with self

"Hang in there Iseph!" Navasi calls out to the android!

Inspiring Boost (Ex) As a standard action, Navasi can signal an ally who has taken damage since Navasi’s last turn. The ally must be able to see and hear her and be within 30 feet. The ally gains 11 Stamina Points, up to the ally’s normal maximum. Navasi cannot target that ally with this ability again until that ally takes a 10-minute rest to regain Stamina Points.

Next she'll try to get Borgor's attention on her. "Hey, ugly! Not you Bago you're real sweet keep doing what you're doing. Yea you Borgor!"

Bluff improved feint: 1d20 + 9 + 1d6 ⇒ (9) + 9 + (1) = 19

Improved Feint As a move action, Navasi can attempt a Bluff check against a single opponent (DC = either 10 + her opponent’s total Sense Motive skill bonus or 15 + 1-1/2 × the opponent’s CR, whichever is greater) to cause that opponent to be flat-footed for the next attack she makes against it before the end of her next turn.

Through comms "Make it count Altronus!"

Diversion When Navasi successfully uses Bluff to create a distraction, she can allow an ally to attempt a Stealth check to hide (instead of attempting to hide herself). She can attempt to allow multiple allies to use Stealth to hide, but she takes a –5 penalty to her Bluff check for every ally after the first, and on a failed check, no ally can attempt to hide.

Navasi gives Iseph a little pep talk and then distracts Borgor enough that Altronus has a chance to sneak up on the creature.

Round 3:

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Iseph
Quig
Obozaya Paralyzed until round 8, new save each round
Altronus May attempt a Stealth check thanks to Diversion from Navasi
Raia Invisibile!
Navasi
BagoBorgor -10 Fighting with self

Altronus now fully gravitron attuned, circles around to avoid giving the ettin a free hit as his tries to disarm the giant.

Bab: +4, StrMod: +2, I don't think there is any other plus/minuses. Here goes!

Disarm vs KAC+8: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (7) + 6 = 13

"Eh... grr... He's more agile than I expected.... eh ugh..."

When Altronus moves past Borgor, he attempts to strike at him with his superior reach. Fortunately for Altronus, Bago prevents it!

Altronus then tries but fails to disarm Borgor.

Please note that in addition to the pistol, BagoBorgor has a LFD Pulse Gauntlet on one fist and has demonstrated the ability to cast spells.

Round 3:

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Iseph
Quig
Obozaya Paralyzed until round 8, new save as full round action each round
Altronus
Raia Invisibile!
Navasi
BagoBorgor -10 Fighting with self

will: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (5) + 4 = 9

Obozaya continues to struggle to no avail.

Raia closes the distance and tries to communicate with Bago telepathically.

"Bago, keep it up. Livewire would be thrilled to reunite with you."

Double Move.

Obozaya continues to struggle against the paralysis.

Raia moves closer to the Ettin while encouraging one of the heads to continue fighting the other.

Round 3:

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Iseph
Quig
Obozaya Paralyzed until round 8, new save as full round action each round
Altronus
Raia Invisibile!
Navasi
BagoBorgor -10 Fighting with self

It has been all weekend and over a day without any posts. Time to bot!

Iseph continues to shift in and out of the shadows.

Trick:: 1d20 + 15 ⇒ (13) + 15 = 28
Attack: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (8) + 7 = 15
Damage: 1d6 + 2 ⇒ (6) + 2 = 8
Trick Damage: 1d8 ⇒ 4
Debilitation: Off Target, -2 Attack rolls

They hit with their trick attack!

Quig moves up near Iseph so he can better see what is happening. He then directs Scout to get closer and shoot at Borgor. The little robot flies up near the ceiling so it can shoot down over the crates.

Attack: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (14) + 7 = 21
Damage: 1d6 + 2 ⇒ (5) + 2 = 7