Janzi opens his mouth to object, but quickly finds he doesn't actually have any objection to blowing the ship up. Still...
...life forms? Okay, we may need to fetch those, Janzi says to everyone, before opening a private line to Booker.
He whips off his headset and taps the vesk on the shoulder. Let's suit up, Dunk, and go play fetch.
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Dunk slides back from the console. Frack, but I don't mind dusting these guys, but we're sorta going in blind here. If there's one or two of them alive over there, might it be worth our while to beat some answers out of them. We can kill them after.
I don't mind running point, no matter what we do, but it might help knowing how many of them are down there, what they're up to, and all that.
You don't even have to go over, Booker. Just pull us up close. I'll jump across, tear in to the hull, and extract one of those clowns. We can keep it in the airlock. Once we have our answers, we can space him.
Booker offers a low growl in reply. Eventually, he pipes up. "Fine. But I'm comin' with ya. They're probably armed an' waitin' fer us."
He steers the ship in close, doing a loop around the broken hull and shining the exterior floodlights on it, looking for weak points. At length, he lays the Maiden alongside.
"Let's get this over with." He shoulders his artillery cannon and heads for the airlock.
It doesn't take long to override the airlock alongside the Singularity. Booker, Janzi, and Dunklezahn break on board and find themselves in the airlock.
Booker comms to Janzi and Dunklezahn through his helmet. "I'm bettin' that door's trapped. Janzi?"
Wouldn't surprise me, Janzi concurs, holding up a hand to Dunk. Hold up, muscles. Lemme take a look.
”Booker, can you use some backup from your favorite Ysokis? I hate to see you guys get into a pickle without us.”
Janzi doesn't detect any traps or counter measures...
Booker comms back to Gig. "Yeah, that'd be good. One of you should stay at the con, though, 'case they try something."
Hack-It enters the commands necessary for Hum to transform into his trusty jetpack. "I'm coming. If it can be salvaged, I want that ship. If not, I'm going to yank out what I can as upgrade components. But I want that ship."
"Oh good, you're here. Did ya tell Sputter the story about last time?" Booker needles. He punches the button to open the airlock door with the butt of his cannon.
Booker opens the door with the butt of the canon while he looks back at the faces of the party. They all see what's behind him. He sees in their faces that it's bad.
On the other side is a floating shadow, roiling with the darkness of oblivion!
Behind it, and off to the side is the strange looking man from the viewer screen.
Round 1:
Dunklezahn: Go
Gig: Go
Janzi: Go
Hack-It: Go
Booker: Go
Hostiles: TBD
"Gig!" Booker comms to the bridge. "Get down here! We need back-up! I hope you got more o' them missiles!"
The veteran takes a parting shot at the thing as he retreats.
Booker turns and connects with a lucky shot which had no business hitting.
Round 1:
Dunklezahn: Pending clarification.
Gig: Go
Janzi: Go
Hack-It: Go
Booker: Hit
Hostiles: TBD
Black: 13
Dunklezahn's blade cuts through the void-stuff, leaving a trail of destruction!
Janzi has only heard of an oblivion shade spawn before, but he does know
Round 1:
Dunklezahn: Hit
Gig: Go
Janzi: Go
Hack-It: Go
Booker: Hit
Hostiles: TBD
Black: 18
Oblivion shade. Fracking undead. Incorporeal, so use energy or magic, though it'll be less effective. Like most things, try not to let it touch you.
Janzi has only real way to target the shade's weak Reflex save, so he steps up and lets a force blast fly.
Gig heads down to join the others as they enter into the enemy ship.
"I hope we are dealing with one of those near indestructible near dead fiends! Those missiles aren't unlimited you know."
The flying ysoki doesn't respond to Booker, who keeps referring to Hum as Sputter. When it becomes apparent that they're stepping directly into a fight, he levels is pistol at the shade and takes a shot
The creature just barely flits away from the blast, also barely avoids getting pushed back. Hack-it scores a solid hit!
Round 1:
Dunklezahn: Hit
Gig: Go
Janzi: FB
Hack-It: Hit
Booker: Hit
Hostiles: TBD
Black: 26
Gig moves his hands in somatic gestures and draws forth arcane power. Like a keyboard solo that builds in intensity, he ends it with three magic missiles shooting unerringly at his target, the shade.
Gig's missiles are by far the most potent attack yet! The creature reels backward from the hit.
The strange man immediately flees, though it looks like he's headed for the bridge, "YOU COME WITH ME. THE REST OF YOU KILL THEM!"
You can't see what or who he was talking to, but TWO more of the oblivion creatures pass into the airlock!
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for
for
You hear the sounds of a turbo lift towards the bow.
Round 2:
Dunklezahn: Go
Gig: Go
Janzi: Go
Hack-It: Go
Booker: Go
Hostiles: TBD
Black: 35
"On your right!" Booker warns, but he keeps his fire on the first shade.
Gig recasts Magic Missile again against blue.
”Hang in there, Hack! Booker will take out these shades!”
Gig's missiles continue to drive the horror back. Booker requires two more hits, but the oblivion horror is destroyed on the second!
Round 2:
Dunklezahn: Go
Gig: MM
Janzi: Go
Hack-It: Go
Booker: Kill
Hostiles: TBD
Black: 58
Hack-It floats back, then takes aim with his pistol. "You know, this whole 'going through walls' business is just a little unfair."
Janzi Steps into the corner and lets fly with a hurl forcedisk spell, its circle becoming a star with seven points as it sails toward Blue, but it sails harmlessly into the wall behind it, bouncing to Purple.
Janzi's force disc flies forth, missing the first shade, but slamming into the second!
Hack-it follows it up with a shot right in center mass!
Round 2:
Dunklezahn: Go
Gig: MM
Janzi: TRON
Hack-It: Crit
Booker: Kill
Hostiles: TBD
Blue: 13
Purple: 10
Dunklezahn swings with such precision and force that a large chunk of shade vanishes!
The shade lashes out in return at Dunklezahn:
MISS
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The other follows Hack-it:
for
Meanwhile the power fluctuates a bit, which is odd for a dead-in-space ship.
Someone is rerouting power...
Round 2:
Dunklezahn: Go
Gig: Go
Janzi: Go
Hack-It: Go
Booker: Go
Hostiles: TBD
Blue: 13
Purple: 30
"Watch out, folks! Somebody is rerouting power to this ship! It they keep it up, the ship will not be dead for long!"
Gig, feeling the urgency to put down the two shades, continues with his effective use of Magic Missile against Blue.
Somatic Gestures. Sharp Command. Missile fly!
Gig's missiles plunge into the closer shade, but without enough force to undo the creature.
Round 2:
Dunklezahn: Go
Gig: MM
Janzi: Go
Hack-It: Go
Booker: Go
Hostiles: TBD
Blue: 25
Purple: 30
Janzi repeats himself when under stress...
Janzi casts another hurl forcedisk, a seven-pointed star sails toward Blue, with poor results.
Hack-It floats back once more, aims his pistol at the same ghost, and let's fire!
Booker swivels to open up on the nearest shade.
In a blur Dunklezahn slashes, moves and slashes again. Both slashes hit, but the shade reaches out as he retreats: and the hand passes through his chest!
Janzi's disc misses both targets, though the first was a close call.
Hack-it's shot though is on target! Booker scores a single hit, missing with the second by a hair's breadth!
The remaining shades close in on Dunbkelzahn!
MISS
for
MISS
That's when the klaxon turns on! Red slashing lights and a siren blare out "MAYDAY MAYDAY!"
Round 3:
Dunklezahn: Go
Gig: Go
Janzi: Go
Hack-It: Go
Booker: Go
Hostiles: TBD
Blue: 58
Purple: 47
”Somebody has got enough power hooked up to send a distress message. We might get into some trouble if reinforcements arrive! Let’s send these shades home quickly!”
Gig recasts Magic Missile at Blue to continue chipping away the unlife from the uglies.
Gig's warning comes just as he blasts a second shade back to the oblivion whence it came!
Round 3:
Dunklezahn: Go
Gig: MM Kill
Janzi: Go
Hack-It: Go
Booker: Go
Hostiles: TBD
Purple: 47
"Workin' on it," Booker grunts, swiveling his cannon to the last shade.
Booker's first shot is wide, but the second strikes. For a split second it looks as if it'll end the shade, but it's not quite enough.
Round 3:
Dunklezahn: Go
Gig: MM Kill
Janzi: Go
Hack-It: Go
Booker: Hit
Hostiles: TBD
Purple: 58
The third shade is return to oblivion, but the klaxon remains!
Round 3:
Dunklezahn: Move action
Gig: MM Kill
Janzi: Go
Hack-It: Go
Booker: Hit
Hostiles: TBD
Hack-It activates his haste circuit, quickly taking flight after Dunklezahn. Once he's beside the Vesk, he opens the door.
Fracking frack, Janzi barks, following suit with his haste circuit and keeping his corona laser pistol out. C'mon, Gig, we've got an encore performance!
Most of the party rushes forward, skipping the control room of the cargo area and heading towards the lift. There are only 2 decks on the ship, so there's no question of the possible destination.
Round 3:
Janzi: Move
Hack-it: Move
Round 4:
Dunklezahn: Go
Gig: Go
Janzi: Go
Hack-It: Go
Booker: Go
Hostiles: TBD
Round 3:
With Dunk and Janzi with him, Hack-It activates the lift. "The others can catch the next one. Let's go!"