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Vyviane, not willing to rush the discussion along, gives the woman a flat level look. She does, however, let go of the barrel of the blue man's gun and try drop the cover off her sword cane, while chatting all the while. "You know, you guys weren't very hard to find! It just took a few questions here and there, and a few arm twists. I mean were you trying to hide your activites? ...Anyways, it'd be best if you stopped and thought about it, you're outnumbered and we have one hellauva brusier that you ust heard crashing through the trees there! I'd rather not have to kill you, but he'd probably wring your necks and tear them clean off. I don't like it, way too bloody, but the only thing that'd stop him is your surrender. Immediate surrender that is!"
With her sword cane free she mentally prepares herself to respond to any shots that get fired in case this doesn't work out.
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The woman who is digging stops, stands up and in a voice that is clearly from an undead shouts, Well boys, isn' this why I am paying you? Let's make this one fast. She then crouches behind the cover of the fountain and takes a shot at Alzandre. Despite the trees making hard to get a clear shot, she hits him hard with shot from a laser.
When the shot goes off, Buscador tries to melt the mind of the purple guard. He shouts in agony as the full effect of the mental attack hits him.
Vyviane makes her cane into a weapon in the blink of an eye. Unfortunately as swift and cool of an act as it is, the swing landed on the ground and not the guard.
Knowing that it melee works better with the concealment from the plants, the purple guard (whose nose is now trickling blood) approaches Alzandre while pulling out an assault hammer. But the hit to his head really messed with his aim as he misses miserably.
The blue guard drops his gun and also pulls out an assault hammer and swing at this talkative halfling. Look, babe, we are getting paid to do a job... how would it look for us to just leave? He has better luck than Vyviane and the purple guard as his hammer finds it's mark.
Lastly, the red guard advances on the non so stealthy Captain Dex. He also pulls out his assault hammer and swings. He strikes Dex in the shoulder, causes a bit of pain, but Dex knows he was inches from doing some real damage.
The floor of the Vat Garden is 15 feet lower than the walkway surrounding it, and the foliage is so thick that creatures in the vat have total concealment (50% miss chance) from creatures up on the walkway. Within the vat, the orderly rows of plants provide concealment (20% miss chance) to opponents more than 10 feet away; enemies closer than this do not benefit from concealment.
The two ladders and steep staircase leading down into the vat are easy to navigate, but the PCs can also climb down the plants themselves with a successful DC 15 Athletics check.
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Vyviane gives the guard a disgusted look. "Wait did you just call me a 'babe'? Ewww, you're like double my height and have a giagantic nose! You don't happen to have some size fetish or something god awful like that? Ugh, just thinking about it makes me want to puke!" Gagging slightly, Vyviane doubles over slightly before pivoting and bringing her sword cane around to the side of the man point first.
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Buscador knows this to be a ghoul. It is a medium sized undead that has a nasty paralyzing bite.
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Ak runs up to the ladder. Raises his Laser rifle reads the text scrolling on the screen covering his left eye. then in his head he hears a sultry voice relaying information. Distance, Angles, weak points in the targets armor. Ak takes a deep breath, takes aim with his right eye. and slowly squeezes the trigger. [dice=ranged attack vs. "Purple"] 1d20+4+1 [/dice]
Vyviane and Buscador both have bad luck hitting the enemies. Fryie's shot finds a nice plant to hit. Luckily, Kitty was able to hit someone but only knick him. The bad luck continues through Alzandre's turn as he misses the injured guard. Ak is the first to land a solid strike hitting center mass on the injured guard. Lastly, Dex also misses his guard. What is unfortunate for Dex is that the blue guard is ready to take advantage of him shooting so close. But bad luck seems to be the theme as he misses Dex by a hair.
The ghoul shouts, Press the attack! As she takes another shot at Buscador. He shot finds its place on the strange alien.
Seeing the boss go after the Barathus, the purple guard follows suite. The extra plaiting does not seem to do much good as the hammer strikes hard into him.
The blue friend smiles at the mouthy halfling, You can always give it... I might be willing to forgive you... He winks at her. He also swings his hammer at her. This time, he must be distracted because his swing misses by a long shot.
Lastly, the Red Guard takes a swing at the pesky robot. But the robot proves to be too elusive for him and his hammer finds the ground instead.
Ak gets another solid shot with his rifle on the purple guard and this time, he drops to the ground hard. When Ak sees his target drop, his tail starts waving wildly.
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Vyviane gives the man a confused look. "I have no idea what you're talking about. But given that it's you, it's probably something horribly lechrous and I DON'T want to know..."
She stops talking for a second as she catches sight of something behind the man. The surprise on her face melts into an angry protecive glare. "Francios! Back off! He's mine!" As the man in Blue hopefully turns around to look, Vyviane brings up her sword cane again and tries to stab the man.
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The blue man's head just about bursts with the sudden force within. Blood starts to trickle from his nose and eyes. Just as he is trying to recover from that, Vyviane takes a final slice at his throat, dropping him to the ground as well.
Kitty shoots at the last guard, burning him pretty badly, while Alzandre lunches missiles at the boss lady!
When the last guard sees his friends fall to the ground and they do not seem like they are getting up, he shouts Okay, okay, I surrender! Clearly we were not cut out for this job.
When it seems like she has no guards left, the ghoul also gives up. You pesky humans... I am done as well....
Both them drop their weapons. The ghoul approaches and drops to her knees. I give up. This wasn't supposed to happen like this. What do you want from me? Why are you trying to stop me from robbing a few bones?
The hired thug, tries running away. He doesn't get very far since the only way up are the ladders.
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AK pushes the barrel of his rifle into the back of its head forcing her to lean forward. I strongly suggest you answer him or someone will be digging up your bones AK looks over to check on Vyviane to make sure she wasn't hurt to bad. AK gives her a wink when he sees she is just fine. Speak He pulls back the barrel so the ghoul can sit back up straight, but again rests it on the back of its head.
My ship was attacked by a pirate ship! I was sent on a small shuttle to the station to retrieve bones for the repair ritual.
The red guy looks at Buscador, Look man, I have a family to get back to. I was a hired guard. Just let me go! You already have my weapon
That's odd... you are pretty sure you just saw Ak trying to discreetly pick a few flowers.
The Guard runs off as fast as he can.
Yeah a blasted big one! It was called the Lawblight. We managed to jump into the Drift as it started its assault, but the damage was done and now my ship is now trapped in the drift. I needed these bones as part of the repairs.
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AK looks shocked at Dex your going to just let him go? He tried to kill us again shacking his head in disgust and murmuring under his breath who have they assigned me with? there going to want to let her go to i bet boohoo space pirates, that makes trying to kill us perfectly fine AK give her another nudge to the back of her head with the barrel.
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Dex holsters his weapon as the man runs off. "Yeah man! He's just some guy. All he did was take a swing at me, you know, his job. I am not killin' some rando person for that. He might have kids or a family. I ain't livin' my life looking over my shoulder because I got trigger happy. Killing to save you, fine. Killing to save face, no thanks."
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As her sword slices through the neck of the man in front of her, a momentary look of horror flashes over Vyviane's face. Dangit, I didn't want to kill him! He was a good source of information! She soon wipes the look away and quickly cleans off her blade before putting the cane back in its sheath.
She joins up with everyone else around the ghoul and listens to her sob story. "Quite frankly, I don't care why you were digging up bones or that your ship got attacked by pirates. What I want to know is why did you have these Starfinder insignias?"
She gives AK a quick glance as he advocates shooting the unarmed man. "AK, he's unarmed and it was his job! I wouldn't hate someone for doing their job. Anyways, we don't even know if they were trying to kill or just incapacitate."
After a moment she turns back to the ghoul a sparkle in her eye. "You know, the company I represent might be able to help get your ship back on its feet, or drift engines as the case may be. For a price of course!"
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Ohhh you are after me over those trinkets. I knew there must be a reason you were interested in me. Well, keep this on the down low, but I am new to the Corpse Fleet. They destroyed my own ship and gave me the option of flying with a new crew or being dead. I pick the new crew. Well... I work on the ship Endless Threnody. Everything was okay for a bit. Then we heard a distress call from a Starfinder ship so we went to investigate. We traveled to the Starfinder vessel’s crash site on a desert planet and acquired several treasures, including the Starfinder insignias. It was too late for us to make any "new recruits" so we were getting ready to move on. Suddenly the Lawblight attacked. They must of been what dropped the starfinder ship as well.
If I had enough money for a new drift engine, I would of quickly bought one and left. I got enough money to fuel up head back with the bones from selling the insignias.
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Vyviane frowns slightly at the mention of the 'Corpse Fleet.' "You're Corpse Fleet? Uh, no! We would have been fine with working out a loan arrangement with you, but I doubt that my employers want to get involved with them. Hmmm, if you'd rather, we do have business interests on Eox and could always use more people who can live there without a hefty cost of living... or unliving as the case may be. The benefits are great and if you stress the 'strongarmed into it' angle, we could easily downplay the whole 'Corpse Fleet' connection. What'day say?"
Vyviane extends a hand with a business card in it, a bright smile on her face.
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Can you offer me protection in case the Corpse Fleet comes after me?I am happy to abandon my post, but I am scared of the repercussions...
I don't know where the ship was, navigation wasn't my job. But I know where my ship is and I know that the coordinates are within the ships computer.
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Can you offer me protection in case the Corpse Fleet comes after me?I am happy to abandon my post, but I am scared of the repercussions...
I don't know where the ship was, navigation wasn't my job. But I know where my ship is and I know that the coordinates are within the ships computer.
"We'd hopefully help you build an identity where they wouldn't come after you in the first place! They don't have anyway of tracking you, right? If so, you should be fine, I mean people disappear in Absalom Station ALL the time! What difference is a single ghoul from an illegal organization going to make? It's not like they can come here and investigate openly, is it?"
She then turns and gives Alzandre a nod. "Right, if you don't have the details on where the ship was, then we'll have to go retrieve it ourselves. Any details on what we should be looking out for?"
She sends the coordinates to you through her data pad. The ship is out there in the drift.
I would greatly appreciate the opportunity to start a new life away from the fleet.