GM Dinketry and the Dead Suns AP (Inactive)

Game Master dinketry

August sweeps the room with his rifle.

Can I see around the corner or do I have to step in front of Telion?

"Looks like we found one of the crew. Not sure if his suit just ran out of power, or something got to him though." Telion's antennae flicked, and he reached out with his mind to push the weightless body towards him.

I think psychokinetic hand can work since we're in zero gravity?

You sure can, Telion. August, you'd need to step around Telion to see all the way around the corner, but you can see the body from where you are.

The solarian extends his antennae towards the corpse, willing it to propel towards him. With a few moments of concentration, the body slowly drifts in mid-air across the cavern to Telion. The corpse is that of a human male. It’s still wearing an estex suit with a patch that reads “ACREON,” identifying it as a member of the mining ship’s crew. It has a grip on what appears to be an empty flare gun. You note that the armour has a backup generator upgrade on the back.

Perception: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (7) + 9 = 16 Wooo! Lucky 7.

Telion caught the body and rotated it around. "Well, I think we can rule out his jumpsuit running out of power. As long as he was able to move around properly, this generator should have kept it running. That leaves the quick version, like our android friend back there, or any of the slow ways to die stuck out on a rock in the void. Either way, I doubt he minds if we make better use of his generator."

I'll disconnect the generator. If anyone has anything that needs power, we can hook it up now or just hold on to it for now. Auto-recharging armor mods and such seems pretty cool.

Diamaante grimaces as she looks at the grisly corpse. "Poor guy. Let's try not to suffer the same fate as him, yeah? Let's keep moving."

Telion disconnects the backup generator as August sweeps the room.

"We move, yes?" Idar suggests.

Please move your icons on the map.

The crew moves slowly and silently through the eerie zero-gravity rocky chambers, guided by the light emanated by Telion. A single exit tunnel from this chamber can be seen at the far end.

As a note August has darkvision 60. Because Androids are awesome (actually a little too much in my opinion, but why argue with RAW?)

"Not a huge fan of the floating corpse but that's one crew member found at least. What are the chances of us finding someone alive given the akata you think? Or of finding more akata down here?"

Perception: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (19) + 9 = 28

"Considering the akata probably came from this thing to begin with... probably high," Telion replied dryly.

Diamaante follows behind August.

A chill of disease activity sweeps through the crew previously bitten by akata.

Diamaante Fortitude Save: 1d20 - 1 ⇒ (19) - 1 = 18 SUCCESS!
Jaxom Fortitude Save: 1d20 + 0 ⇒ (17) + 0 = 17 SUCCESS!
Telion Fortitude Save: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (16) + 3 = 19 SUCCESS!

Diamaante and Jaxom shake off the disease, but Telion seems to look a bit peaked.

Telion, you are weakened. You have the sickened and fatigued condition.

Diamaante shivers a bit, a chill running through her despite her armor's environmental protections. She feels like her body has fought off some invisible assailant, but Telion looks a little green around the gills.

"You don't look so well, big guy. We need to get you some proper medical attention when we finish here," she says to him telepathically as they make their way through the tunnels.

Moving us along on the map.

August and Diamaante move past the ailing Telion to the front of the pack while Jagjug and Jaxom languish near the rear. August looks through the rocky tunnel up ahead.

GM roll: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (3) + 9 = 12

Four tunnels exit this cavern to each of the cardinal directions. Strangely, however, while the lower most passage (and yours) is hewn rock, the upper and opposite passages are finished and lined with some sort of polished, metallic plating on the walls, floors, and ceiling. A single figure in a space suit bobs slightly in the weightlessness near the opposite passageway, its back to you.

Medicine: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (19) + 7 = 26

”You know, that dead guy likely died of a head blow,” interjects Jaxom.

Jaxom also has a battery that could stand to be juiced up.

I can help Telion with this, right? Treat Disease under the Medicine skill?

August looks at the corpse distrustingly.

"What are the chances these corpses are some sort of trap? Would they really all come down here and die in separate chambers? They'd stick together for protection and comfort wouldn't they?"

"It depends. They could have been traveling together and been picked off one by one, abandoning the dead as the rest continued on. Or as you noted, intentionally left as a trap."

August cannot see much of the second body, as it is 50 feet away across the new chamber.

Just a reminder that the squares on this map are 10 feet in area.

Actually I have low-light vision and darkvision at 60 feet so it's within my sight range. Androids are awesome.

August will advance cautiously into the chamber but he knows better than to be a hero. He trains the rifle on it and nods for the others to advance under his covering fire if it should come to that.

Perception: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (14) + 9 = 23

He looks for any creatures burrowing into walls, ceilings and floors or any traps set up by desperate spacers hoping to slow a pursuer down.

"I have a bad feeling about this."

Diamaante follows behind August, laser pistol held up and at the ready.

Jaxom, follows, a few steps behind Diamaante with his pistol at the ready.

Idar steps into the chamber and fans to the other side of the entrance tunnel, his rifle similarly trained on the floating body on the other side of the room. Jagjug scratches at his backside with his zero pistol and moves some of the way up, though not into the chamber.

The figure continues floating on the other side of the room.

Can I shoot the corpse without an attack roll or do I need an attack roll?

"I've got a bad feeling about everything right now..." Telion stayed with Diamaante.

August, you can shoot the corpse with an attack roll.

Attack (Shirren-Eye Rifle): 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (18) + 5 = 23
Damage (Shirren-Eye Rifle): 1d10 + 3 ⇒ (5) + 3 = 8

August lines the rifle up on the corpse and then fires a round through it, hoping to trigger whatever trap or disaster might be lurking within.

He slaps a new round in and slams the bolt home to reload the rifle with moments of firing, peering over the sight to see what happened.

The android fires a bullet straight through the back of the motionless spacesuit across the chamber. A cloud of brown coagulated blood billows out from around the body...

GM roll: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (4) + 10 = 14

And then the body pushes off the wall, twirling around in mid-air to reveal the bloated-blue tongue jutting from the broken jaw of a void zombie!

I'll let everyone (August - you, too) get a surprise round off on the creature before it crashes into August.

Laser Pistol: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (11) + 2 = 131d4 ⇒ 1

"Ah!" Diamaante screams, instinctively firing her gun!

"I knew it!

The triumphant android fires another round.

Attack (Shirren-Eye Rifle): 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (13) + 5 = 18
Damage (Shirren-Eye Rifle): 1d10 + 3 ⇒ (2) + 3 = 5

Then he drops the rifle and pulls his arc pistol. As move action.

August, you can drop the rifle as a free action, but because this is a surprise round, you don't get to pull out your pistol....yet.

Idar breathes in and out slowly, exhaling and focusing his attention solely on the writhing undead void zombie and the bullet he envisioned puncturing its skull.

Ranged Attack: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (3) + 6 = 91d10 ⇒ 9 MISS!

The bullet misses high.

"Zgggrt," the kasatha curses in his home tongue.

Awaiting Jaxom as the last person who could take a surprise round shot.

Awaiting Jaxom.

I've got a gun too, for zero-g acrobatic gun fights, and for cowardly fighting while vomiting. Unfortunately, this is the latter case...

Pistol: 1d20 + 4 - 2 - 1 ⇒ (12) + 4 - 2 - 1 = 13, Damage: 1d6 + 1 - 2 ⇒ (6) + 1 - 2 = 5

Jaxom fires off a shot at the creature...

Azimuth Laser Pistol: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (7) + 4 = 111d4 ⇒ 2 Fire, Burn 1d4

Jaxom gets a shot off, grazing the void zombie. Unfortunately the void zombie reaches August, its hideous swollen blue tongue shooting out at the android's head!

Melee Attack on August: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (2) + 8 = 101d6 + 5 ⇒ (6) + 5 = 11 MISS!

A split second later, the zombie's body crashes into August, rocking the two creatures' orientation!

Void Zombie Athletics Check: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (15) + 10 = 25 SUCCESS!

The zombie grabs onto the wall roughly, breaking its spin as it lines up to claw at August again.

August, I need you to give me an Athletics or Acrobatics check - DC 20.

Telion, you don’t have a clear shot from where you are on the map, and since it’s a surprise round, you cannot move and attack.

Acrobatics: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (17) + 11 = 28

August smoothly sidesteps the void zombie - no small feat in low-G.

Oh, ok. Sorry I can't see the map ever since work blocked the page.

The void zombie swings its arms, and most importantly, its tongue, at August, trying to quench its insatiable hunger.

August, Jaxom, and Idar may act!

Jaxom fires off two shots at the zombie.

Azimuth Laser Pistol: 1d20 + 4 - 4 ⇒ (19) + 4 - 4 = 191d4 ⇒ 2 Fire, Burn 1d4

Azimuth Laser Pistol: 1d20 + 4 - 4 ⇒ (10) + 4 - 4 = 101d4 ⇒ 1 Fire, Burn 1d4

August will withdraw as a full round action, circling away from the void zombie to avoid AoO or blocking anyone else's shot.

Not willing to be attacked by a slavering undead monster August dodges away and runs around the room past Idar to get in a better position to attack the zombie next turn.

I need an Athletics or Acrobatics check from you, August, to attempt a withdraw in zero-gravity, please.

Acrobatics: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (15) + 11 = 26

I'm not going to lie - operative is the best.

Idar breathes out, concentrates, and squeezes his trigger, realising that his laser rifle doesn't fire bullets.

D'oh!

Ranged Attack (EAC): 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (5) + 6 = 111d10 ⇒ 8 HIT!

The laser pierces the void zombie's head, exploding the once-member of the Acreon's crew's head in a stellate cloud that mushrooms around the now-inert corpse.

COMBAT END!

"Is our new policy to 'shoot first' then?"

That's what you have to do with newborns, Jaxom. Boo-yah!

"On this Rock, I'm inclined to say yes. Especially if it seems to be dead. Even odds say it's not."

Diamaante searches the zombie for anything of value before gesturing for the others to lead the way to the next chamber.

The envoy checks the now-truly-dead ex-Acreon crew member, finding a similar space suit to the body in the other chamber, but nothing else useful.

Four tunnels exit this cavern. Strangely, however, while your passage and one other are hewn rock, the other two passages are finished and lined with some sort of polished, metallic plating on the walls, floors, and ceiling.

Where to?

The goblin wrinkles his face in disgust at Diamaante as she checks the dead body over.

"Gross. Looting dead bodies. Ick," Jagjug says with incredulity.

"They struggle a lot less than trying to loot the live ones."

August shrugs, ignoring the goblin who has obviously never had to feed a corpse into a recycling chamber.

"I say we head south - if there is a structure built into a natural cavern I'd prefer to determine its exterior before heading in."