GM Tyranius Dead Suns AP (Starfinder) (Inactive)

Game Master Tyranius

What's the plan?

"Well, we know their router is nearby. Let's talk to the locals and see the easiest way over there. Might be we fly the ship closer and walk." he suggests.

"Well, we know their router is nearby. Let's talk to the locals and see the easiest way over there. Might be we fly the ship closer and walk." he suggests.

Vetch yawns, most of his magics used.

”Are you sure it’s not time for a nap? It’s been a long long day already.” Vetch looks to see how the others are doing.

"Let's at least get our plan in place. We might rest at the ship and fly over in the morning, but if we're walking, we might get started today. I dunno just how far it is really - or what lies between us at the router."

"But sure, we can rest after we have a plan. I need to do some work on Messalina anyway, she's still a little dinged up."

Setting a plan in place the group decides to head back to speak with Herald Tzayl and formulate a plan. As you return to the Cloudside Condominiums you find the Herald patting a smaller, younger Kish on the head as they continue to play their game in the rubble strewn yard, using portions of the collapsed building as obstacles in their game. The children give a small cheer as they notice The Zane again and rush to have him join. He gets more than a peculiar look as many begin to notice his extra eye floating about on his forehead.

Herald Tzayl approaches. "I trust that all went well in the House of renewal and Maze of Ghosts. Your pilgrimage brought you healing and my ancestors answered your visions?"

slight rewind[ At the museum, when everyone is done, Zane moves back into the entryway. He looks at his sharpie, then at the blood oozing out of the snake-like creature. He starts to reach down to maybe dip his sword in the blood, but then looks back at the thick tipped sharpie.
Making some internal decision, he goes to the wall and scrawls something فريق الدم و الغضب ويسمع

After an off setting and pregnant pause.

He does eventually grab a ball and start onto the court.
He doesn't even realize it, because his mind is thinking about celebrity and celebrity status, but he says the words to the kids in Kish.
التوقف عن التحديق ولعب الكرة

Though the plastic smile never leaves his android features, Dash is annoyed. The crew has flown across the galaxy to a backwater planet in an endless search for missing emails, or something, the locals wouldn’t know good music if it poked them i their third eye, and no one even thanked him, and his enhanced intellect, for figuring out the flaw in the Mayor’s programming and deleting the runaway homicidal hologram.

With all the focus on a little snake and a suddenly indivisible drone, it’s like he wasn’t even there.

Ignoring Herald Tzayl, Dash thumbs in the direction of their ship.

”I’m taking a shower, then a nap. Then, if the local tree huggers don’t mind, let’s fly to the next location. I don’t know if my sanity could handle another jungle safari.”

Resolve to rest, then maybe a full rest for spells of possible.

Vetch agrees with the rest, but is uncertain about Zane’s new found predilection towards graffiti.

”Zane? Whatcha doing that for? Can’t you paint the outside of our ship instead of ruining this town with your graffiti. That ain’t nice. And Abe has at least washed the ship in past few weeks...maybe you want to do your ‘art’ there?”

”I’m taking a shower, then a nap. Then, if the local tree huggers don’t mind, let’s fly to the next location. I don’t know if my sanity could handle another jungle safari.”

"Sure thing captain. We'll leave in the morning, yeah?"

Herald Tzayl approaches. "I trust that all went well in the House of renewal and Maze of Ghosts. Your pilgrimage brought you healing and my ancestors answered your visions?"

”Ah yes, we learned much. Uh, do you have a map of the area by chance? Something current? Particularly off that way.” he gestures in the direction of the router, hoping Herald has something useful. If he produces something, Abe tries to triangulate the location of the router and locate a decent landing zone nearby.

When he’s sorted out the map situation, hopefully successfully, he too heads back to the ship. He tinkers with Messalina a little, fixing her up further before getting some rest himself.
Spend Resolve over ten minutes to heal drone another 17hp to 74/80hp.

As most of the crew heads back to the ship to rest Abe listens to Herald Tzayl as the elder Kish looks over the map. "That there is what is known as the Broken Lands." Located in the Tactical Maps upper north west corner. He taps on the maps area and motions for you to follow him up to the roof.

Standing on the roof the Herald points to the distance where a cluster of a small chain of islands floating in the area, separate from the metropolis proper. "Only foolhardy kish youth wishing to impress a potential mate make the perilous journey across the shattered hunks of land. The buildings in the Broken Lands are “angry,” Kish entering them are never to be seen again." Her warning must be dire indeed as She recently told you that both the Maze of Ghosts and House of Renewal would pose no threat or harm and yet both tried to kill you in it's own misplaced way.

He takes a tight high-res picture of the map and makes his thanks to Herald Tzayl and heads back to their ship. He lets everyone know what he found before locking things up and turning in to get some sleep.

In the morning, he'll display the map on the main screen so Dash has a reference as he guides the ship. He superimposes a marker nearest where he thinks the router might be.

He then takes up his position in engineering and checks the ships systems and long range scanners.

Abe leaves the Herald's Sanctum and sees Zane still on the playground. But, he's not playing. He's squatting down with a circle of Kish kids around him. His hand swirling around with that good ole' Sharpie marking up the concrete (off the playing field of course as a playing field is a holy consecrated sanctuary).
Abe hears him say,
As soon as Team B&F gets youz some internet here on Planet Kish, you will want to use this Galacast address to go to Draka's Streamcast of Team Blood and Fury. THEN, and this is important for you, use this code to bypass those stupid parental controls that they have on the site.
giving an aside, he speaks in a different language, and waves to the younger children.
aldawabit al'abwayat biqate kl eamal 'arwae aldam walshajaeati. sakhifat , hasirat ghabiat. hdha alramz yueti ruyatan kamilat.

Herald Tzayl watches in fascination as Abe takes high resolution photos of the area and marvels at such a feat. "Please, if you do manage to return I would wish to hear of your travels." The Kish smiles.

The children look confused at The Zane. "Internet?" They obviously have little clue of the vast technology surrounding them as it seems to have been forgotten numerous generations ago.

Heading back to the ship he finds the crew resting comfortably and begins digging through Draka's collection of scarves and hats. Unfortunately all he can find that fits his human head, as her much larger Vesk frame makes it difficult, is a large adjustable pirate eye patch from an old Halloween episode of the videocast.

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Come morning the crew looks over the photos and inlays. Fortunately, the router signal seems to come from one of closer islands of the Broken Lands, and a number of small, rocky islets lead up to it. The first islet is 40 feet from the “shore” and 5 feet higher in altitude. The next two islets are each 30 feet from the one before, though each is 10 feet higher in altitude than the last. The island with the router is 50 feet from the last islet, but at the same elevation.

While the floating chunks don't look near big enough to land the Sunrise Maiden it could possibly be brought close enough to the floating island for a brief period for the rest of the crew to leap from the airlock below. Though then the pilot would have to figure out how to get to the router island themselves and also how exactly to extract the crew when the time comes. All of this will come with planning in the morning.

The Three Eyed Zane

Vetch looks over the photos and tries to make sense of it all.

”It’s like they had no central planning, no sense of digital architecture at all. Who puts the digital randomizes right next to the pattern interference matrix!?” Vetch’s tiny palm runs down his face. ”And these routers...these routers seem to be designed to be the in worst possible alignments to allow them to actually...you know...route.”

He looks again at the inlays.

”I think we go this way, then that way, right? But I’m not sure i can both fly in and get in with you. What we need is something...” Vetch looks for ideas.

That is brilliant Dash!

Abe looks at the lay of the land and worries. "Yeah, I don't see a way for all of us to make it together. Unless one of you can fly?" he looks to the spell casters, wondering if such a feat is possible.

"What this ship needs is a flying car for this sort of thing. Something small we can store in the cargo hanger, but which lets us scoot around on this sort of mission." I don't see anything like that available - do any of you?

"I can access the ships computers over a decent range, but I can't fly remotely. I wonder if a control module would allow for such a thing in the future. Might be possible..." Abe drifts off, dreaming of remote piloting the Sunrise Maiden.

The distances are possible for Zane to jump.... well some or most of them.
Draka has jump jets right?
Maybe Zane can pilot Sunrise to drop you off and them land and jump to the location?

He whistles when thinking of a 50 foot jump!

Zane goes out and tries a bunch of test high jumps and broad jumps to see how the gravity affects him.

athletics+ speed bonus: 1d20 + 16 + 4 ⇒ (8) + 16 + 4 = 28 long jump
athletics= speed bonus: 1d20 + 16 + 4 ⇒ (2) + 16 + 4 = 22 High Jump

On his first attempt, he long jumps about 30 feet.
For his obstacle that he jumps over, he doesn't do well, stumbling and getting only 10 feet across and four feet up.
GM- are my #'s correct?

”We need to teach Messalina some basic pilot routines.” Dash says as he looks over the map of the location. When the Zane suggests jumping the gaps, he shakes his head. ”Nice distance, but you’d still come up way f@#%ing short, and jump jets don’t have the range either. Knew I should’ve upgraded to a jetpack. We have a spellgem of flight, but we only have one spellgem of flight. I’ve got a titanium cable. Maybe Messalina can anchor it for us to shimmy across the largest gaps?”

Dash raises an eyebrow at Abe.

S@#!, sounds like Coach has a plan! Remember that time, Coach? When The Zane was free climbing the statue they later called Zane's Warden. This will be like that- But BETTER! Messelina can record it this time.

All those Advertizers will slobber over Titanium Cable Action Shots. The Zane can still be a spokesperson for Castrovelian Travel Agencies with footage like that.

The last part doesn't make much sense, as Zane is inside his own mind and his own memories of that glorious challenge.

Unfortunately all he can find that fits his human head, as her much larger Vesk frame makes it difficult, is a large adjustable pirate eye patch from an old Halloween episode of the videocast.

Draka was eager to share her fashion items and tips, but seems disappointed The Zane didn't add a neon-bright feather boa to his new style. Regardless, the vesk gives her co-star a scaly thumbs-up. The reptilian thinks the shiny dome is a nice improvement.

"Draka can jump high. Draka have jump jets." To illustrate her point, the vesk flies up 30 feet into the air for 6 seconds (one round) then lands back on the ground. Draka's lands gracefully, bending her knees slightly on impact. "The Zane and Draka jump high enough?" Draka lifts a pointed claw to her mouth. The red paint matches her generous lipstick. "Maybe The Zane use Draka jump jets?" The vesk offers her equipment in an outstretched hand and pulls out her Comm unit to record in the other. She's seems interested in watching The Zane carry out more reckless tasks.

The vesk is lost on some of the lingo Dash and Abe use. Draka is immersed in her fashion and make-up. She isn't interested in computers or technology, but knows enough to make a living as a VidTube star. Therefore, Draka remains largely tech-illiterate during the conversation. "Too bad Draka can't call Yoober. Draka have app," she adds lamely.

”I can stay behind and pilot the ship. Might be good to have someone manning the guns while I hover nearby. Knowing *The* Zane’s ability to trigger ambushes, might be nice to have some air support,” Vetch suggests.

Knowing *The* Zane’s ability to trigger ambushes

Yeah, Yeah. The Zane is good at everything.

"Yeah, Messalina doesn't have arms at the moment, so I'm not sure she could attach it to anything" Abe shrugs, "But we can jump there from the ship and then lower a cable to the landing site. Vetch, you can then join us using the cable. I think that works." (Does that work?)

"I don't want to leave you behind if we can help it Vetch. We might need your mouth-grenades."

Abe wonders if they could find anyone loyal enough to be a guard/assistant on the Sunrise Maiden. He rather doubts it - not without paying an arm and a leg for it.

He works on something that'll work to get them where they need to be, and be safe.
Engineering: 1d20 + 17 ⇒ (11) + 17 = 28

The burly, yet femininely-styled vesk observes at the tech-savvy members do their work.

GM Tyranius: Is there any reason why Vetch can't pilot and man the guns from the air? Nuking things from orbit is the only way to be sure.

Vetch shrugs, thinking that air cover better than his blaster.

You can manage the guns from the air Vetch.

With a plan set in motion and the group decided Vetch takes to the controls and begins to pilot the Sunrise Maiden towards the Broken Lands. It only takes a few moments as the floating islands come into view. Vetch slowly swoops in between the islets, though it becomes quite difficult as they shift in the air.

Need a piloting check to bring the ship close to the islet without damaging it, leaving a 15 foot drop for the crew.

With the entry hatch down, and instructions that Team Blood and Fury is going to drop down into "THE THICK", Zane lets out a hearty!
YYYYYEEEEEAAAAA BOY!

He is leaning against the hydrolics and the ramp springs, nestled in an exposed but mostly safe spot on The Sunrise Maiden.

When it is time, he jumps down and tumbles to warrior position. Gun out, bended knees and ready to roll left or right should an enemy counter attack with laser fire.

acrobatics: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (7) + 14 = 21 for the 15 foot drop.

Dash looks out over the island, sees the Zane ready to jump, and offers some last advice.

”Aim for the bushes.”

Activating his jump jets, Dash follows.

Very nearly his worst skill in military school, he always feared the more acrobatic tasks - and leaping. He just hopes he doesn't break any bones on his landing...

Acrobatics: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (16) + 4 = 20

Messalina glides easily from the ship to hover over the party 20' or so. Her camera is recording, both the jumps and a birds-eye view of the immediate area.

Vetch uses his ace piloting skills to avoid blowing up the ship while giving the team a chance to jump.

1d20 + 20 ⇒ (10) + 20 = 30 Piloting

"Thank you for flying Vetch Air, the rattiest ship in the skies. Next time you're ready to book flights to kish infested hell holes, I hope you'll consider Vetch Air," Vetch comms to the cabin before people jump.

Draka reapplies a line of lipstick around her mouth, then activates her jump jets to follow. Her tail extends behind her for balance.

Your destination is an establishment called SecuriTech.

Draka and Dash dive out of the aircraft and glide gently to the ground along with Messalina. The Zane and Abe are a bit more cautious as they tumble and roll to the ground as Vetch safely pilots the Sunrise Maiden within range without scraping any of the larger chunks of isle against the hull. Though many smaller pieces continue to clink against it like drops of rain.

A smooth path runs past an overgrown lawn to the entrance of this drab building. The knee-high blue-and-green grass smells sweet, like honey warming in the sun. The structure’s walls are shot through with barely perceptible white filaments webbing across the entire surface.

This is a tiered check.

Can Vetch help with those checks? I assume there is video/audio feed between us at this short distance, right?

It appears I calculated my Resolve incorrectly. When I took a level in operative Dex became a primary stat. Resolve should be 10 now.
Culture: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (13) + 10 = 23
Life Science: 1d20 + 17 ⇒ (19) + 17 = 36
Engineering: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (4) + 10 = 14

”Stay away from the mold.” Dash gestures vaguely at the hazard. ”Our suits should filter out any spores, but it’s a f@#%ing big colony, and it might be able to defend itself if it perceives an attack.”

Can't make the culture, and the life science is covered, so engineering...
Engineering: 1d20 + 17 ⇒ (18) + 17 = 35

"Huh. Those white filaments are structural supports of some kind. They're keeping the thing from collapsing. I wonder who put them here and why?"

Abe draws his weapon as he avoids the mold and checks the feeds to his rig and the ship.

(My rig has a range of 5 miles for Messalina and contacting the ship to "communicate over an encrypted channel with your ship, allowing you to access your ship’s downloaded data sets and transponder". I assume I can live stream Messalina's video to the ship, but let me know if not.)

Zane looks over toward Dash and Abe. He's been given info to avoid the mold..... but doesn't exactly see mold. He sees grass, so is assuming that's the baddy-badness that should be avoided and not threatened.

Zane's good with not toking the Jamaican Blue-Green grass.

Okay, Coach, So The Zane will move around the area in a wide arc and head towards the doors of the Stadium. Zane's assuming there's a crowd of hostile fans inside. Right?

Given approval to move, he progresses to avoid things and heads to the doors. Bubba out, in both hands, and aimed.

I would think that would be enough to process video throughout this complex back to the Maiden.

Also Happy 1 Year Anniversary Zane! Time sure flies. :)

As the group investigates the mold The Zane moves to the front doors and tugs on them. He finds that the filaments have grown over it in spots. While unlocked it is effectively stuck and would take someone quite strong to wrench them open. [/ooc]Need Str check to open.[/ooc]

As The Zane jiggles and stretches the filaments on the mold spore encasing the building Vetch watches from a higher vantage point as a pair of large, floating, living sacs of gas that vaguely resemble jellyfish seem to have gotten too close to the filaments and gotten caught in them. The Zane's disturbance gives them the jolt they needed and they squirm free.

Round 1

Dash (SP 50/50; HP 42/42; RP 10/10)
Zane (SP 80/80; HP 54/60; RP 8/8; DR/5-Cold/Fire; DR/8 Kinetic)
Abe (SP 56/56; HP 52/52; RP 8/8)(Messalina 80/80)
Vetch (SP 56/56; HP 50/50; RP 9/9; Elec/Fire/Cold Res 5)
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Strange Jellyfish (Life Science)
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Draka (SP 53/53; HP 30/59; RP 7/7)

1d20 + 13 ⇒ (16) + 13 = 29 Culture
1d20 + 10 ⇒ (13) + 10 = 23 Life

Vetch has nothing to add from his vantage point with regards to the local inspections.

Can Vetch see the combat from above? Enough to shoot the bad things or nuke the cite from orbit?

Round: 1

Remember, the ship also has an antipersonnel weapon mounted at the air lock. So if the ships weapons are aren’t precise enough to shoot these things, he should be able to use that weapon I think. It’s just an azimuth laser rifle, but it’s something.

Abe looks up at the jellyfish, trying to figure out what they are.
Life Science: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (8) + 5 = 13

Messalina will reposition to get a clear shot, but she’ll just video the creatures for now as Abe isn’t sure if they’re dangerous.

Zane moves back and starts shooting laser beams at them.
He does take a moment and checks them out... after shooting.

attack Bubba: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (10) + 14 = 24 Bubba
damage: 2d8 + 8 + 1d6 ⇒ (4, 3) + 8 + (5) = 20 Damage and viscious

Zane damage: 1d4 ⇒ 2

Life Science: 1d20 + 0 ⇒ (11) + 0 = 11 Ready for Anything special skill gives one more bit o' info.

Life Science: 1d20 + 17 ⇒ (18) + 17 = 35 *If knowledge falls under bioengineering the DC of skill checks to recall knowledge is reduced by 5

”Oh great, a couple of f@#%ing (blankety blanks)! Focus fire!”

With a snap of his fingers Dash summons his Diasporan rifle and trains it on one of the (blankety blanks) and fires.

Rifle: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (9) + 11 = 20
Laser Damage: 2d8 + 8 ⇒ (1, 7) + 8 = 16

You certainly can see them Vetch.

Dash and Vetch both recognize these creatures as Daelns. Similar to the barathus that live on Bretheda and Liavara, daelns are large, floating, living sacs of gas that vaguely resemble jellyfish. They drift through Nejeor VI’s upper atmosphere, absorbing the minerals within the clouds
and secreting concentrated masses of materials they can’t digest; these droppings look like fist-sized stones and are sometimes laced with valuable metals. Daelns have animallevel intelligence and were considered pests by the kishalee cloud miners, though modern daelns are several magnitudes smaller than those from many millennia ago.

A barathu’s body is extremely mutable and can adapt to respond to virtually any situation. Extreme adaptations ranging from DR to increased damage to increased reach.

Barathus can combine to work together as parts of a larger organism. They can merge together combining HP and increasing in size. Alternately they can split, redistributing hp evenly once again.

Finally Barathus are Amorphous. The creature’s body is malleable and shapeless. It does not take double damage from critical hits, but it is affected by critical hit effects normally.

Dash and Zane both get a clear shot into the sac of gas. The laser beam ingites a portion of the gas as a spurt of fire bursts free sending the Daeln spinning in a circle.

Round 1

Dash (SP 50/50; HP 42/42; RP 10/10)
Zane (SP 78/80; HP 54/60; RP 8/8; DR/5-Cold/Fire; DR/8 Kinetic)
Abe (SP 56/56; HP 52/52; RP 8/8)(Messalina 80/80)
Vetch (SP 56/56; HP 50/50; RP 9/9; Elec/Fire/Cold Res 5)
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Daelns (Green -36)(Red)
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Draka (SP 53/53; HP 30/59; RP 7/7)

Round: 1

Seeing everyone else light up, so do Abe and Messalina.
Abe corona laser rifle: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (16) + 11 = 27 damage(F): 2d6 + 5 ⇒ (4, 5) + 5 = 14

Messalina frostbite zero rifle: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (2) + 11 = 13 damage(C): 1d8 + 5 ⇒ (4) + 5 = 9

Round 1

Vetch targets the twin laser turrets at the giant, bloated airbag (the daeln, not Zane), having the computer help him aim the turret. When he gets lock, he fires.

1d20 + 8 + 6 + 2 ⇒ (11) + 8 + 6 + 2 = 27 to hit;
5d8 ⇒ (6, 2, 8, 1, 6) = 23 laser damage.

if starship weapons are ever brought to bear against buildings or people, they deal Hit Point damage equal to 10 × their listed amount of damage. However, starship weapons are never precise enough to target a single individual (or even small group). Let's say 50% miss chance.

Miss chance; low is good: 1d100 ⇒ 7

Abe's laser rifle pierces the wounded Daeln's gas sac causing another gout of flammable gas to escape. These flares show on Vetch's screen and he is able to lock onto the Daeln furthest away and sets his sights on it with the twin laser turrets. The turrets rip right through the creature, nearly disintegrating it as a sizzling pop is hear. Small bits of blackened flesh float down to the filaments below.

That was 230 damage from the twin laser turret.

Floating high overhead the wounded Daeln craps a pellet from it's underside down onto Abe.

Pellet vs Abe KAC 24: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (6) + 10 = 16

The cowpie pellet of minerals plops down at Abe's feet, missing him by several feet.

Round 2
Dash (SP 50/50; HP 42/42; RP 10/10)
Zane (SP 78/80; HP 54/60; RP 8/8; DR/5-Cold/Fire; DR/8 Kinetic)
Abe (SP 56/56; HP 52/52; RP 8/8)(Messalina 80/80)
Vetch (SP 56/56; HP 50/50; RP 9/9; Elec/Fire/Cold Res 5)
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Daelns (Green -50)
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Draka (SP 53/53; HP 30/59; RP 7/7)

Round: 2

Abe winces as the ships guns are brought to bear on the poor beast. He watches it get vaporized and shrugs. ”Should’ve left us alone!” he shouts as he takes fire at the next one that tried to s##% on him.

Abe corona laser rifle: 1d20 + 11 - 4 ⇒ (3) + 11 - 4 = 10 (two shots) damage(F): 2d6 + 5 ⇒ (4, 1) + 5 = 10
Abe corona laser rifle: 1d20 + 11 - 4 ⇒ (1) + 11 - 4 = 8 (two shots) damage(F): 2d6 + 5 ⇒ (6, 4) + 5 = 15

Alas, he shoots wide. Hopefully Messalina can bead in on the target...
Messalina frostbite zero rifle: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (12) + 11 = 23 damage(C): 1d8 + 5 ⇒ (6) + 5 = 11

”Triune’s left lugnut!” Dash exclaims when Vetch totally overkills the cosmozoan “space jelly”. Activating his iComm, he transmits to the ship. ”Careful of the structure Vetch, it’s covered in mold that I’d rather not piss off.”

He then takes aim at the other jelly and tries to make some jam.

Diasporan Rifle: 1d20 ⇒ 19
Damage: 2d8 + 8 ⇒ (2, 1) + 8 = 11

Messalina and Dash cross beams of fire and ice as the remaining escaping Daeln falls from the sky.

Combat over.

Vetch is about to aim and fire again, but then logs off the combat computer when the final foe falls.

”Roger that, Captain Spacepants,” Vetch comms back. ”Let me know if you need me to nuke the area or anything. This reminds me of shooting womp rats back home.”

Zane puts a " half" chalk mark on Bubba, and slings it back into his shoulder holster.
He then saunters up to the doors. With two free hands. Pulling at it, to open the stadium to his team.
While doing all this, his mouth opens and he lets out a peppy rhyme that cuts short.
When there's a need to fetch
Just call on Vetch
When there's a need to do some raid'in
Just call on the Sunrise Maiden!

To just open the door...
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Awe nuts. Ran out of rhymes.

strength check: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (14) + 5 = 19