Game Master S's "Live Exploration Extreme!" (Inactive)

Game Master Chris Marsh

Gideon's power begins to really show itself as he crushes the goblin to death! While it gets some nods from the camera crew, your producer, Wazasha doesn't seem impressed, "They can see that anywhere..."

Noble-44, who for SURE had a sure thing, tripped a bit on the delivery, spoiling his best laid plan.

Round 1
Smikk: Go
Noble-44: Miss
Zed: Go
Spacey: Grammy award
Hostiles: TBD
Gideon: TBD

DM:

Smikk takes a few steps and slides towards Gideon, taking aim and firing at the final goblin on the way.

Attack, Risky: 1d20 + 5 - 4 ⇒ (4) + 5 - 4 = 51d8 ⇒ 6

Zed holds up his laser rifle in triumph and looks at the camera with a cheesy wink. Told you that was going on my wall!

He then sees the Goblin out of the corner of his eye and focuses his attention over there. The g-nome seems waaaaay too excited and keeps the gravy fire train going.

Full action for two shots.

Azimuth Laser Rifle: 1d20 + 6 - 4 ⇒ (11) + 6 - 4 = 131d8 ⇒ 1
Azimuth Laser Rifle: 1d20 + 6 - 4 ⇒ (18) + 6 - 4 = 201d8 ⇒ 1

Smikk tries to make for some good viewing, but the attack is all sorts of off target.

Round 1
Smikk: Miss
Noble-44: Miss
Zed: Go
Spacey: Grammy award
Hostiles: TBD
Gideon: TBD

Zed's rifle zings holes in the goblin's rather large ears, but the little beastie keeps fighting!

He charges forth, ready to make a glorious death, hoping to take as many of you longshanks as possible.

He closes quickly; five strides, four, three...

Then he remembers he's a goblin, alone.

He surrenders.

All the cameras turn to you.... It looks like Wazashi is about to say something. You've likely got just a second before she speaks...

Meanwhile:

Gideon turns to the nearest camera. "You come at a Starfinder, you best not miss."

The flames around him die quietly. He walks over to the surrendered goblin and lifts it bodily off the ground by the lapel. "What brings you down here, my short green friend?"

Gideon, make a check (which skill you choose is up to you, based on your tone.)

Oh, and I ask that you not check other people's spoilers in the Booth, and then reply to them in a spoiler in turn.

Gideon's interrogation gets off to an expected start, "Booty, treasure, praeda, creds, money, moolah."

Charisma Check vs Camera: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (7) + 3 = 10

Gideon does not lower the goblin, but his tone is calm. "Oh? What have you found?" Diplomacy: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (18) + 8 = 26

Spacey feels like he NAILED it! Gideon, not so much with the camera, but definitely with the goblin. "We break and broken into many areas and found lots of technology, wires, scrap metal, and more! This area is NEW! And that means everything on the other side is untouched and unscavenged and would have been ours except for you pesky kids."

It does appear that there's a clear way up and forward, but before the party can handle planning, Wazasha jumps up with an idea. She jumps in front of the camera, "Since the space goblin gave up all it knows, there's only one thing left to decide on.... What to do with the prisoners! The voting is live now. If you want them to kill the nasty little beast, choose option 1. If you think they should set him free, choose options 2. You can write in with your vote too!"

"And the voting is in!!!!! In a SHOCKING turn of events, the winning options is...."

Oh my.... It appears that a write in option won."

"It appears that the infosphere has spoken, and the goblin prisoner is to be renamed Gobby McGobface and commissioned as your new mascot!"

"Huh."

She turns to see how you react to this news.

Gideon releases his grip on "Gobby McGobface" and drops him unceremoniously onto his green ass.

"Let us being going then." He advances without looking back.

Anyone else want to weigh in?

Noble-44 quick steps over to the goblin after Gideon drops him and presses his gun into his forehead. ”The tentents of Savain dictact that any foe left alive on the battlefield is a potential enemy in the future. It is very prudent to eliminate them to ensure your own safety. Nothing personal.”

His finger wavers slightly on the trigger... He starts to pull the trigger...

”But others have purchased your life for the moment. I’ll resolve you later...”

He lowers the gun.

Blips on comms immediately start lighting up. Gobby McGobface plushies flood the infosphere, as do bets on the over under of his survival time.

Before the party can advance, the crew grabs Gideon for the Booth:

Spacey has a big smile on his face at the name. I think that name is perfect. There is great history in the naming convention of adverb mc adverb.

Then he types something on his mobile device and holds it up.

For the fan who suggested that first, I shall send you this one of a kind tshirt with the image of our group and new logo of the goblin's face and name.

Surprisingly, the logo is the picture of Gobby ripping out the inside of an old server, with cables and other wire strewn around like intestines.

Imediately bids for the amazing shirt go astronomical (SIX DIGIT CREDITS!) +1 Fan favor for Spacey.

Putty aside his desire to kill Gobby, Noble-44 snaps out of his dour opinion and grins ”Unknown area, potential enemies, a tag-a-long-potential-betrayer, our talents, countless eyes watching .... all fun!” He points forward, ”Shall we?”

Okay, I'm back! Sorry about that.

Getting further in the ruins requires the party to climb up some rather loose wreckage. The camera crew sets up to get some good action shots of the party being awesome....

Make a DC 10 Athletics check to get up the slope. If you fail by more than 5, take d6 damage. If you fail by less than 5, you dont take damage, but the entire Pact World System will still see you fail a mundane task...

Noble bounds up the slop, pulling a close impression of Legolas on the snow...

Athletics: 1d20 + 6 - 4 ⇒ (12) + 6 - 4 = 14

Indeed, the lithe android has no problem.

Spacey: Go
Smikk: Go
Zed: Go
Gideon: Go
Noble-44: Up

Spacey takes 10 to climb up the slope for a 10. He bides his time, holding back puns, allowing his teammates to take the media focus.

Smikk attempts to follow Noble in a similarly impressive fashion.

Athletics, risky: 1d20 + 4 - 4 ⇒ (14) + 4 - 4 = 14

Spacey's technique is ...pedestrian, but Smikk bounds upwards with sheer artistry! +1 Fan Favor

Spacey: Up
Smikk: Up
Zed: Go
Gideon: Go
Noble-44: Up

Zed's knees start to knock together before attempting the climb, looking obviously nervous.

Athletics: 1d20 - 1 ⇒ (2) - 1 = 1

Aaaaaand tumbles down the cliff, landing on his face taking 1d6 ⇒ 6 points of damage!

Wiping the blood off his face, he'll jump on the back of Gideon. "You're stronger than I, you can carry me up there! After all, it's about cooperation, right?????"

Zed's failure is spectacular. Half the infosphere is posting things like "Poor Zed, he's always messing up." and the other half is posting "HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!1!!!! That dude SUXXORS, he's the WOURST!"

After a long pause, Gideon growls, "Fine."

Athletics RISKY b/c CARRYING A GNOME: 1d20 + 7 - 4 ⇒ (17) + 7 - 4 = 20

With Gideon's magnanimity, Zed get's up the rocks. The entire scene with Gideon quickly becomes the number one meme on the sphere. the most popular caption is "Master Blaster 4 lyfe!" +1 Fan Favor for Gideon

Wazashi shouts up at Zed, "Booth after we're all up there!"

You get patted on the head.

"Thanks Gideon!! <3"

Zed will hold his head, massaging the faceplant spot on his forehead as he walks over to the booth.

They send the hexapod up to Zed:

Once the party struggles up the scrabble, the film crew uses their high end grapple guns to build a simple cable set up to easily ascend the slope (they do not film this part.)

The region beyond is a large cavern that sparkles with phosphorescent fungi represented by the trees on the map whose caps span as much as 10 feet in diameter. The goblins’ explosion from below seems to have buckled the cavern floor here, leaving a concentric impression in the ground where there appears to have just been unaffected stone before. These buckled rings are about 1 foot high, stepping across one costs 1 extra square of movement.

From a tunnel on the far side, a pair of dwarves emerge. These dwarves do NOT look normal. They are dressed in inexplicably primitive clothing. Their armor looks like it's hand hammered steel. Their crossbows... are mechanically powered. They look like something out of a history vid.

When they see you they take a step back and raise their crossbows. When they seem the film crew, they cock them for combat.

Whoa.

Gideon does not understand their speech, but their actions are clear enough. Moving slowly and deliberately, he takes a gentle step forward to separate himself from the others, then reaches up and removes his helmet. Charisma: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (12) + 3 = 15

Gideon's dark face gleams in the cameras' glare. His features are broad and powerfully set, and his eyes glint with purpose. He sets the black helm down on a rock, raises his hands to the air to show he means no harm, and takes another gentle step forward.

"I do not know the tongue of the dwarves. Do you speak the Common tongue?"

Diplomacy: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (10) + 8 = 18

Gideon gets a close up from the cameras. The dwarf shakes his head at you. His partner speaks up,

"Critical failure in the hello program."

Frustrated at the language barrier, the first dwarf speaks up again:

"Strange. We appear to be encountering some sort of automated life forms." Gideon turns to the others. "Anyone catch any of that? What about you Gobby?"

Frustrated at the lack of common language, the very biotic looking dwarves point at the camera crew and hiss. They then look at your goblin prisoner and hiss.

She then says, "Torag." then points at her primitive axe and at the goblin.

Diplomacy check Gideon.

Noble-44 does quick take to the crew "He never takes that off....

He then attempts to offer to kill the goblin in Elven, hoping for a better response.

When Noble-44 speaks in elven, the dwarves light up for a moment, but then grow frustrated as they recognize the language, but don't speak it.

They attempt some words in Elven:

Noble-44 can also make a check.

Smikk, awakening from the confusion he experienced seeing the dwarf, responds in Aklo, I speak Aklo. What.... How.... Hello.

The dwarves perk up. I'll assume Smikk translates.

"FINALLY someone who speaks a civilized language. I am Ylga Tulgarst, daughter of Ulfrodi. I speak for my clan. We are small, but capable. The Quest for Sky brings us many surprises, but this one is.... new. Who knew that Golarion had such sights? Is there a reason you cavort with ghouls and goblins?"

Smikk does indeed translate for the group.

In Aklo, Golarion? Golarion disappeared out of the star system hundreds of years ago.... These ghouls have contracted us to explore this... structure you're in. We wish to learn about it. It sounds like you and your clan have an interesting story to tell, and perhaps much you'd like to hear yourselves.

Diplomacy: 1d20 ⇒ 7

"Smikk, if you would be so kind as to translate, though I must question the notion that Aklo is a 'civilized' tongue." Gideon clears his throat, and gestures to the goblin. "This goblin came to raid and loot and steal from you. He is our prisoner. The undead you see arrayed behind us are mere chroniclers, and will cause you no harm. You have my guarantee."

Diplomacy: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (9) + 8 = 17

After a slight pause, he continues. "It seems that you and I are alien to one another. What is your current year? Can you tell me of your Quest for Sky?"

Not sure how much Gideon would know of Golarion's pre-Gap history. Is the Quest for Sky something familiar to the Starfinder Society at this time?

The translation goes... mostly well, though Smikk doesn't seem to win over the dwarves, Gideon does.

Ylga relaxes somewhat, "I recommend bringing you back to my clan’s settlement The Marbleheart clan is large, but we split into smaller groups to seek the surface more than a century ago, from a time before my memories. I now lead a band of 43 dwarves, though we are down to 29 after the orcs and earthquakes returned.”

Wazasha whispers, "Do they think they're on Golarion? Go! Check this out!"

I'll say it's NOT common knowledge. You know that it's certainly not Golarian, and you can tell this area only simulates it.

Smikk looks relieved that Gideon's words have won them over. Can't pass up on a mystery like this! Please, lead the way.