Raia draws her azimuth laser pistol as well!
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Steev' grins. He unshoulders his doshko and strolls forward, narrating for his camera. "This right 'ere is a load of gangers. Gangers live in packs, eking out a living doing odd jobs for food and credits. Gangers are naughty little monkeys! But they're basically good people in a bad situation so I won't kill them. I'll just give them a good ol' whack with the naughty stick here. Let's watch!"
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"Dats right you ain't gunna kill us," yells Mr Pink, "Cause we gunno keel you!" as he points is pulsecaster at the Starfinders.
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- => Patterson
- => Fixit
- => Aegis 9
- => Raia
- => Steev
- Gangers
x - acted
Z - Dazed
U = Unconscious
S = Surprised
D = Delay
=> Active
Conditions:
Aegis 9 6/6 SP, 10/10hp 3/3 RP
Fixit 12/12 SP 14/14 HP 5/5 RP
Patterson 7/7 SP 11/11 HP 5/5 RP
Raia 5/5 SP 9/9 HP 4/4 RP
Steev 8/8 SP 13/13 HP 4/4 RP
Enemies:
Pink:
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"Jubair! Ceren! Come away from there, if you can. Allow us to handle this!" Aegis-9 shouts as he approaches the thugs. He is reluctant to shoot his firearm with the civilians still on the bridge.
Scanning the thugs more closely now, Aegis-9 realizes that any one could pose a threat to the two ambush victims. He chooses an opponent at random.
Then, pointing at the one thug , he encourages the team, "The one behind Ceren. Take him out so she can get away!"
Raia aims and shoots at the first thug!
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Steev moves up, and slaps Pink in the face with his Doshko!
Patterson and Raia both miss their target. Fixit manages to hit his target.
Fixit shoots Red, causing him some damage.
Pink takes a cautious (guarded) step back, and shoots Steev!
Orange and Red seem to think this is a good idea, as they do the same, and fire at Steev as well.
Luckily, Steev is only hit the one time, and for minimal damage.
Ceren and Jubail are on the ground, in the fetal position.
- => Patterson
- => Fixit
- => Aegis 9
- => Raia
- => Steev
- Gangers
x - acted
Z - Dazed
U = Unconscious
S = Surprised
D = Delay
=> Active
Conditions:
Aegis 9 6/6 SP, 10/10hp 3/3 RP
Fixit 12/12 SP 14/14 HP 5/5 RP
Patterson 7/7 SP 11/11 HP 5/5 RP
Raia 5/5 SP 9/9 HP 4/4 RP
Steev 7/8 SP 13/13 HP 4/4 RP
Enemies:
Pink: -8
Red: -8
Raia aims and shoots again!
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Pink takes a cautious step back, and fires again at Steev!
Orange steps back and fires his weapon at Patterson.
- => Patterson
- => Fixit
- => Aegis 9
- => Raia
- => Steev
- Gangers
x - acted
Z - Dazed
U = Unconscious
S = Surprised
D = Delay
=> Active
Conditions:
Aegis 9 6/6 SP, 10/10hp 3/3 RP
Fixit 12/12 SP 14/14 HP 5/5 RP
Patterson 3/7 SP 11/11 HP 5/5 RP
Raia 5/5 SP 9/9 HP 4/4 RP
Steev 6/8 SP 13/13 HP 4/4 RP
Enemies:
Pink: -9
Red: HE’S DEAD ,JIM!
Raia aims and shoots at the thug that is battling Aegis-9!
You are on fire. As long as you have this condition, at the start of your turn each round before you take any actions (or attempt the Reflex saving throw described below), you take the listed amount of damage as fire damage (or 1d6 fire damage, if no amount is listed in the effect that causes burning). Fire damage from multiple sources that inflict the burning condition is cumulative.
At the end of each round you are burning, you can attempt a Reflex saving throw to remove this condition. The DC of this saving throw is equal to 10 + the amount of fire damage you took this round from the burning condition. If you succeed at this saving throw, you lose the burning condition. You can attempt a new saving throw each round you have this condition, and you receive a +2 bonus for each previous saving throw you’ve attempted in consecutive rounds.
You can also automatically end this condition by jumping into enough water to douse yourself. If you don’t have enough water on hand, you can spend a full action to roll on the ground or otherwise smother the fire to attempt a new saving throw with a +4 bonus (plus any bonuses from previously failed consecutive attempts) to end the condition.
"Wow, I am happy that Ceren is unharmed. And we were successful. Let us wrap up the mission. Now that we have ensured Ceren's safety we can return to Historia-7." Raia says with some relief.
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Ceren stands up, and dusts herself off. "Guess we should get out of here, and you can show me what you have... "
The Starfinders show her everything they have, and she seems satisfied with their work. She then transfers her data to the Starfinder Society.
The Starfinders are then contacted by the head of the Dataphiles. Historia-7 relays that Ceren feels comfortable enough in her new identity to risk a return to public life. The aged hacker claims this is the most alive she has felt in ages and offers to assist the Dataphiles if they ever require her skills
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Once he believes that Historia-7 has been satisfied with the party's efforts, Aegis-9 suggests that it is time to take on another task, "I suppose it would be logical to visit those on the station, before catching transport out to the Armada. I have heard there is a junk race coming up. If we complete our assignments quickly enough, perhaps we will have an opportunity to watch the race."
"That is fine with me. To be honest I heard that some of the Acquisitives are quite shady figures with only glory and renown in their heads. Being a Pathfinder is so much more, right? The good that we can do for our own but especially other civilizations. We have to be careful with these Acquisitives ... I think." Raia says with some doubt in her voice.
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As Patterson asks about letting Guidance know, he gets a message on his comm unit. 'Guidance knows.'
The plain white doors of the office slide open to reveal a stark, dimly lit room. The chamber is bleak and expressionless in its emptiness—no vanities line its smooth black walls, and no signs of use mar its smooth black furniture. The only occupants of the suite are a bug-eyed tadpole wriggling in a glowing blue aquarium and a reptilian vesk seated behind an onyx desk. The vesk gestures to a number of chairs in front of him, his features sharply illuminated by the light of his desk’s green holoscreen. “The new graduates,” he greets, in a low and pleasant voice. “Good day. I am Radaszam, though since you are here, I should hope you already knew.
“I trust you are aware of our Society’s traditions, so I will cut to the point. I have a minor situation that needs resolution. One of our members, a human named Laboni, had a rather public altercation with a junk scavenger from the Spike. You might be more familiar with the scavenger than I, actually; he is a ysoki who fancifully calls himself Ratrod. I am told he runs a popular racing competition that has, hmm, several hundreds of thousands of viewers on the station’s infosphere. For some reason, Laboni felt the need to tell him that any ‘real’ mechanic could easily beat the garbage that Ratrod and his associates slap together. Now that Ratrod has issued an infosphere-wide demand that she race him and prove it, Laboni doubts she can back that claim up.
“Embarrassing, isn’t it? Not really the sort of troublemaker that suits our Society. Perhaps she would be better suited to the bottom of a trash compactor... Well, we cannot afford to throw her out, not after so many Starfinders were lost in the Scoured Stars. Besides, we can’t let people think we are so weak that we can’t control our own members, or that we cannot stand up to a scrapyard junker. No, I would like you to assist Laboni in winning this race. Show our detractors that even the least of our Society is not someone to be trifled with.”
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Radaszam gives the PCs directions to the race’s location in Botscrap and hands them badges marking the you all as Laboni’s official pit crew. He suggests that you do not delay, as you need as much time as you can to help with the race.
Ratrod’s racing circuit is a hollowed-out section of a mountain of spare parts in Botscrap, the track specifically sanctioned by the ysoki-dominated Salvage Union that controls most of the yards. When the PCs arrive at the competitors’ entrance, a small robot informs them of the basic rules of the race: racers and their pit crews are to build and improve their vehicles from the available scrap around the racetrack. Vehicles built at previous junkraces can return. Racers can fire upon other competitors during the race, but firing into the audience is grounds for immediate disqualification; racer weapons must be nonlethal and may affect only opponents’ vehicles.
Laboni (CN female human mechanic) is easy to find in the crowd due to her paisley clothes and bright white lab coat.
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Making his way through the crowd to Laboni, the larger-than-average android has to be careful not to step on any smaller feet. Upon reaching the human mechanic, he makes a quick introduction, "We are fellow Starfinders! We are here to help. My name is Aegis-9. We've been told that you may have gotten yourself into a bit of a bind."
He steps aside to allow the others to make introductions. As he does so, the android considers the young woman, trying to ascertain if she is on board with Radaszam's plan and whether or not she will be accepting of any help or if the overconfidence that got her into her current predicament is still in control.
"Yes, I believe that you should start by telling us everything you know about your racing car and about the drivers and their racing cars!" Raia says.