GM Silbeg's SFS 1-01 The Commencement (replays) (Inactive)

Game Master Silbeg

Velocity continues shooting in Ratrod's general direction as they drive.

Piloting: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (3) + 14 = 17

Kinetic vs. Ratrod: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (8) + 5 = 13

Round 5 actions!
Velocity (Ivan): Pilot (13), K vs Ratrod (13)
[[zLira: Pilot (16)
Monty: Aid STIK (20)
Peri: Fire Energy at Ratrod (4)
STIK: Fire Kinetic at Ratrod (?)
Twich: Aid Peri (16)

Keeping things moving...
STIK fires at Ratrod!
K at Ratrod: 1d20 + 4 - 2 + 2 ⇒ (4) + 4 - 2 + 2 = 8

Ratrod vs Laboni vs EAC12: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (5) + 5 = 10

Nyizin vs Laboni KAC13: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (9) + 5 = 14 Hits
LemGem K vs Laboni EAC12: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 1 = 3
LemGem E vs Laboni vs EAC12: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (9) + 1 = 10
Orsis K vs Laboni EAC12: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (4) + 3 = 7

While the group's marksmanship was less than stellar, only Nyizin is able to land a shot on the Laboni's racer.

ratrod pilot: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (3) + 10 = 13
Nyizin pilot: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (18) + 6 = 24
velocity pilot: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (6) + 14 = 20
LemGem Pilot: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (11) + 6 = 171d4 ⇒ 4
Orsis pilot: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (1) + 8 = 9
Laboni Pilot: 15 - 4 = 11

In a surge of speed, LemGem passes up both Velocity and Laboni. For the moment, Velocity stays with LemGem, while Ratrod, Nyizin, and Orsis close the distance!

After Round 5!
Velocity: 2200’
LemGem: 2200’
Laboni: 2100’
Ratrod: 1925’
Nyizin: 1850’
Orsis: 1750’

Round 6 actions!
Velocity (Ivan): Pilot (?), K vs Ratrod (?)
Lira: Pilot (?)
Monty: Aid STIK (?)
Peri: Fire Energy at Ratrod (?)
STIK: Fire Kinetic at Ratrod (?)
Twich: Aid Peri (?)

Peri wheels their gun around to level it at LemGem, and takes the shot.

Gunnery vs EAC: 1d20 + 3 - 2 ⇒ (11) + 3 - 2 = 12
"Grrrr.... There's no way you'll beat us!

aid Peri: 1d20 ⇒ 7

Lira concentrates hard. As she pilots the racer.

Pilot: 1d20 + 9 + 3 ⇒ (5) + 9 + 3 = 17

"Wait, why is Velocity passing us?!"
Gun aid, STIK: 1d20 ⇒ 14

[spoiler=Monty]You can tell that he is staying as close to you as he can... he could have been going much faster[/ooc]

Pushing.

Round 6 actions!
Velocity (Ivan): Pilot (?), K vs Ratrod (?)
Lira: Pilot (17)
Monty: Aid STIK (14)
Peri: Fire Energy at LemGem (12) Hits!
STIK: Fire Kinetic at Ratrod (?)
Twich: Aid Peri (7) [(17)]

STIK fires his gun at Ratrod
K at Ratrod: 1d20 + 4 - 2 + 2 ⇒ (14) + 4 - 2 + 2 = 18 Hits!

Velocity fires at LemGem!
K at LemGem: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (10) + 5 = 15 Hits!

Ratrod vs Laboni vs EAC12: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (9) + 5 = 14Hits

Nyizin vs LemGem : 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (15) + 5 = 20 Hits
LemGem K vs Velocity : 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (20) + 1 = 21Hits
LemGem E vs Velocity : 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 1 = 2
Orsis K vs LemGem: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (12) + 3 = 15 Hits!

ratrod pilot: 1d20 + 10 - 8 ⇒ (6) + 10 - 8 = 8
Nyizin pilot: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (3) + 6 = 9
velocity pilot: 1d20 + 14 - 4 ⇒ (5) + 14 - 4 = 15
LemGem Pilot: 1d20 + 6 - 12 ⇒ (11) + 6 - 12 = 51d4 ⇒ 1
Orsis pilot: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (20) + 8 = 28
Laboni Pilot: 17 - 4 = 13

Velocity barely holds onto a slight lead, only inches, as Laboni's faster vehicle catches up! At this point, with a little more than 500' to go, Velocity and Laboni are effectively neck and neck!

After Round 6!
Velocity: 2450’
Laboni: 2450’
Orsis:2250’
LemGem: 2200’
Ratrod: 2200’
Nyizin: 2100’

Round 7 actions!
Velocity (Ivan): Pilot (?), K vs ? (?)
Lira: Pilot (?)
Monty: Aid STIK (?)
Peri: Fire Energy at ? (?)
STIK: Fire Kinetic at ? (?)
Twich: Aid Peri (17)]

Lira concentrates as hard as she can, and pushes through.

Piloting: 1d20 + 9 + 3 ⇒ (10) + 9 + 3 = 22

Velocity works their gun to swivel around and fire on the closest "unfriendly," leaving most of their focus on steering.

Piloting: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (12) + 14 = 26

Kinetic vs. Orsis: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (12) + 5 = 17

Monty doesn't make a sound as time slows and he watches the photo finish!
Gun aid, STIK: 1d20 ⇒ 19

STIK fires at RatRod!!!

Kinetic Attack!: 1d20 + 4 - 2 ⇒ (15) + 4 - 2 = 17

Watching Orsis dart up from behind the pack to take third, Peri trains their gun on the racer and lets loose.

Gunnery vs EAC, Orsis,aided: 1d20 + 3 - 2 + 2 ⇒ (8) + 3 - 2 + 2 = 11

Round 7 actions!
Velocity (Ivan): Pilot (26), K vs Orsis (17) Hits!
Lira: Pilot (22)
Monty: Aid STIK (19)
Peri: Fire Energy at Orsis (11)
STIK: Fire Kinetic at Ratrod (17) [(11) (22) (9)] Hits!
Twich: Aid Peri (17)

Ratrod vs Laboni vs EAC12: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (1) + 5 = 6

Nyizin vs Velocity: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (9) + 5 = 14 Hits!
LemGem K vs Velocity: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (19) + 1 = 20Hits!
LemGem E vs Laboni: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (6) + 1 = 7
Orsis K vs Laboni EAC12: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (20) + 3 = 23Hits!

ratrod pilot: 1d20 + 10 - 4 ⇒ (7) + 10 - 4 = 13
Nyizin pilot: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (5) + 6 = 11
velocity pilot: 26 - 8 = 18
LemGem Pilot: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (5) + 6 = 111d4 ⇒ 2
Orsis pilot: 1d20 + 8 - 4 ⇒ (13) + 8 - 4 = 17
Laboni Pilot: 22 - 4 = 18

After Round 6!
Laboni: 3150’
Velocity: 2950’
Orsis:2750’
Ratrod: 2475’
LemGem: 2450’
Nyizin: 2450’

Crossing the line first is Laboni!!!

As she gets out of here winning junk racer, Laboni walks over to Ratrod, and starts profusely apologizing. He seems to accept her apology, but the gesture is not unnoticed by the Salvage Union, who offers Laboni some extra payment in the form of collected gear, on top of the race’s prize
money.

Laboni offers the team a set of graphite carbon skin armor and 400 credits from the race's prize.

Radaszam seems pleased by the results.

See slide #5 for Fitch
The station’s Armada can be seen from the shuttle’s view screen as it takes off, gleaming figures standing out against the emptiness of space.

The Master of Stars immediately stands out from the rest, as layers and layers of scaffolding obscure its hull. Tiny lights flicker among the metal beams as distant figures weld plates and heat shields to the ship’s exterior. The shuttle smoothly glides closer until it reaches the starship’s docking bay, slipping through the magic field that keeps the hold pressurized with breathable atmosphere. As the shuttle doors open, a small drone flies in and pops up a holoscreen, displaying a harried-looking ratfolk.

“Finally, fresh meat!” the ysoki exclaims over the screen, sounding pleased. “Name’s Fitch—pleasantries over, time to get to work. I had some trouble earlier with the lights flickering on the ship, and now both the lights and computers have suddenly gone out on E-Deck. No idea what’s causing it, but you work this job long enough and—” Fitch’s attention flicks to something offscreen, and she shouts “Kirkath! The welding torch is not a toy! You wanna go in the toddler’s pen with the other kids?” She snorts dismissively before continuing, “Sorry, some of these little ones would cut off their own heads if I let them. Anyway, it could be some lunkhead screwed up the wiring, but that’s a pretty big system failure for a simple electrical short. I’d prefer to send in some people with combat training to scout it out, just in case someone or something is sabotaging the ship. If it’s nothing, great, get the power back on if you can. If there’s something suspicious, use your comm units to report in to me. I’ll give you the access codes, so— Selicha! If you touch that panel I will staple you to the hull!”

The screen on the drone cuts out, then flashes to display the ship’s schematics and the passwords for the computers on E-Deck.

Twich nods to Fitch, makes sure everything looks right with her comm unit, and then goes with the rest of the team to E-deck.

Peri will download the schematics and passwords to their comm unit, grab out their laser rifle, and will also move to go to e-deck.

"So, Twitch. What do you think it is? I hope it's something interesting.

Twich, distracted from her fun memories of the trouble she got into as a young Ysoki in magic school, startles slightly when Peri talks to her. "I'm not sure what we'll find. I hope it's not just a boring mechanical malfunction."

Lira looks at amazement at Fitch. "Would they really staple the young one to a wall? she asks Twich.

She'll follow the gang into E-deck. "Can everyone see in the dark?"

Twich smiles at Lira. "Ysoki young ones are quite a handful, and usually numerous. Many ysoki parents are driven to make such threats, with no intention of actually carrying through with them. Fitch might very well make an older one go sit with the toddlers, though."

Ivan is pleased with the race's outcome, and congratulates Laboni along with the others.

The dwarf shakes his head at the childrens' antics while still intently listening to the predicament. "We'll help however we can, Miss Fitch," he agrees. "I'd rather it was somethin' technical, mind. Means more sinister things ain't at work."

"Maybe there'll be a race or something down there? Some underground hovercraft circuit zipping through the gutted ship level." Monty's adrenaline is still up from the race. "Well, let's go check it out! Hopefully there's someone to talk to and not just computers or machines."

STIK draws out their reaction cannon.

"Let's do this!"

The Master of Stars is the largest starship in the Society’s arsenal. Even before the events of the Scoured Stars, it was the pride of the fleet. Years of neglect required an extensive retrofit during the events of the Scoured Stars incident, inadvertently saving the flagship. The repairs are still ongoing, hampered by the lack of any senior Starfinders familiar with the ship’s myriad and esoteric systems.

E-Deck is a heavily underused section of the Master of Stars, consisting of various primary access corridors and adjoining chambers. Most side rooms are crew quarters or communal living spaces—far less important locations due to the recent shortage in personnel. The Wayfinders recently started using some of these chambers to store nonthreatening alien objects.

The E-Deck is in total darkness when you arrive. This would make restoring power your first concern.

Computers or Engineering to restore power

Twich sees what she can do to get the lights on.

roll is spoilered in case anyone wants to aid

Lira looks over Twich's shoulder, and attempts to aid with the Engineering check.

Ivan points at crucial points in the power network to help, but the nodes in question were pretty obvious already.

Twich is easily able to restore partial power to E-Deck. While many of the cameras are still not working, you are able to see two human children hiding in an empty storage room.

You can easily make your way to the room. (see slide #4).

Twich contacts Fitch to ask for background on the children, if possible.

Fitch believes that the children are Kieu Lan and Kieu Si, the daughter and son of one of the ship engineers, Kieu Kein. What they are doing down there she has no clue of, though.

"Those children. Will they be stapled to a wall for being down here? It's not safe for them." Lira will then make her way into the room.

"Small humans. We know you are there, please come out. We'd like to know why you are here in a dark room. It's not safe."

Diplomacy: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (9) + 2 = 11

"You Pact Worlders are an odd bunch. Stapling children, makes sense why you're a strong society I guess but the cost still seems too high for my liking."

Monty then enters the room and tries to appeal to the children as well. Putting on his silliest expression, "Why, what are the likes of you two doing down here?!"

Diplomacy: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (20) + 6 = 26

"C'mon out, it wouldn' do to have little human kids stuck in darkness," Ivan calls. "We're handin' out candy if ye can tell us what's up."

Aid Monty: 1d20 - 1 ⇒ (20) - 1 = 19

Somehow, this statement doesn't feel out of place coming from the short, hairy, soot-smeared dwarf.

Twich hears the others talking to the children, and knows that would not be her skills. She keeps looking around, seeing if she notices anything.

The kids do not answer the queries.

Lira looks at the children and tilts her head. "Did you do something that you think you will be in trouble for? I can assure you I won't let them staple you, if you tell us what happened. We want to help, and get you to safety."

Diplomacy: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (14) + 2 = 16

STIK surveys the room and environment. Looking for threats, or anything out of the ordinary... Deciding it is best to not get involved and yell at the puny human children.

Perception: 1d20 + 0 ⇒ (12) + 0 = 12

Peri approaches the kids, likely being roughly their height.

Diplomacy, aid Lira: 1d20 ⇒ 17

"There there little ones. What's got you all spooked? Is there some scary monster that has you hiding down here? We'll keep you safe from it! And we won't staple you either!"

"What have you small humans been up to? If you did something you should not, tell us, and we can try to make it right and help you keep out of trouble."

diplomacy aid: 1d20 ⇒ 6

The two children run up to Peri, and hold on to her. The boy, Si, says, "Please don't hurt our friend!"

Lan says, "It wasn't his fault!"

"We only did it to protect him!" says Si.

"Please don't hurt him!" says Lan, looking at all the weapons the team carries.

"Crawly didn't mean to open the steam vents!"

"We hacked the fire extinguishers to keep you from going in!"

"Please save him!"

The children burst into tears after this flurry of talking!

Twich notices that Peri seems to have connected with the children, so after smiling reassuringly, she looks around to see if she can tell what the children mean about the fire extinguisher.

Lira looks at Peri. "Ask them them who Crawly is, and what he looks like."

The kids describe their friend, Crawly, as being about a meter long, with dozens of legs. "It tickles when he walks on you!" says Lan.

As for the fire extinguisher, Twich deduces that they jury-rigged the system to deploy, which would coat everyone in a sticky mess. She does not know where the sensors are (Perception to locate)

Twich looks around for the sensors.
perception: 1d20 ⇒ 20

I'll assume that worked :)
Having found the sensors, Twich tries to undo what the kids did, or else to temporarily disable the sensors.
roll to fix: 1d20 ⇒ 20 +8 if the check is computers, +10 if it's engineering.

Peri pats the kids on the head.

"So, Crawly went in the steam vents? Is that where he is now? Just past what you did with the fire extinguishers?"

They also call out to Twitch "If you give me a moment to finish with these two, I can help you disable that."

Twich finds where the kids have sort of modified the sensors, and is able to turn them off.

The kids confirm that Crawly is in the steam vents, or at least was.

1d4 ⇒ 2

As you move into the room, you see a creature sitting at an instrument panel, apparently trying to figure it out. You could best describe it as a a semi-anthropomorphic centipede, about the size of Peri!

When it sees you, it immediately starts backing up towards an open vent...

Stop please." Lira tries speaking to the creature. She does not have her gun out at the moment.

As you enter the room, you also notice that it is extremely hot, and steamy in here. However, your armor pretty much nullifies the problem, though there is concealment in here.

The critter cocks its head, as if it didn't understand Lira.

Diplomacy, Sense Motive, or Survival (Handle Animal)