OutPost 1: GM Kate's Sanctuary of Drowned Delight, Table 2 (Inactive)

Game Master Kate Baker

Keskodai adds, "I'd be happy to do so if all of you would like me to.... I believe I know exactly what to say without arousing hostility and opening meaningful two-way dialogue. We may just want to get into proper position first...just in case things go south."

Guess we get to do this the hard way...

Mikkazuki checks Bucket of Bolt's camera and then gets ready to broadcast the feed for anyone to subscribe. It isn't exactly Strawberry Shortcake, but in it's own way this is likely to capture some attention locally. I hope they are like other races, accessing their datapads over a meal.

"Although I don't like losing the element of surprise, I'm ready if you want to do this Keskodai. Hope you don't mind if I broadcast it."

Rahm nods and slings muncher to a ready position, just in case negotiations happen to fail.

Keskodai agrees to Mikkazuki broadcasting the impending interaction. Once everybody is ready and in position, giving Keskodai the go ahead, Keskodai speaks out to Oshessa...

"Hello there Miss Oshessa! Please pardon our intrusion, we are not here with any hostile intent. We're simply looking for our kalo friend who appears to be restrained in a cage and would just like to speak with you.

"So yes, if you can do these two things, one, give us your side of the poisoning rumor and two, show us the signed consent form, then we can probably be on our way - no harm, no foul. Okie dokie?"

Diplomacy: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (18) + 8 = 26

Chk Chk immediately facepalms - and does so multiple times.

Keskodai responds telepathically to Chk Chk saying, "What's wrong now? I didn't use the word: 'yowza.' Was it my use of 'okie dokie'? Is that not a word used by 'cool' people? Well don't worry, I'm sure Oshessa will not get riled up by my choice of diction and she'll speak to us like a civilized sentient being..."

Chk Chk's facepalming continues...

Mikkazuki makes sure that Oshessa’s reaction is caught by BOB’s camera. She was glad she had recently installed an upgraded sensor package, allowing her to adjust for the light level.

“Yes, we would all like to hear your side of the story.”
Aid Diplomacy: 1d20 ⇒ 4 Again demonstrating why she needs a face person with her...

At the very least, we should be able to show we gave them a chance to explain...

Hawthorne swims over the journalist and the gnome, taking cover behind a stone formation. He rest his hand on the stock of his rifle in anticipation of failed negotiations.

Athletics: 1d20 + 5 - 2 ⇒ (14) + 5 - 2 = 17

Everyone turns as Keskodai starts speaking. The kalo waves her arms about, mouthing "HELP ME!" Oshessa's face twists into a rictus of rage.

"How dare you come in here. I should have known there wouldn't be hope for any of you. I'm still trying to get this one to appreciate His Glory." She gestures to the kalo. "We'll just have to do this the hard way."

And...initiative.

Hawthorne
Rahm9
Charli
Keskodai
Mikka
Antoine
Green Morlamaw
Oshessa
Indigo Morlamaw

And Team Starfinder gets the drop on them!

"Oh balls.... says Keskodai as the fighting starts...

Keskodai casts Mind Thrust (lvl 2) at Oshessa, bombarding her psyche with awlful rantings that cause her mental harm!
Damage, DC 17 Will for half: 4d10 ⇒ (4, 8, 5, 2) = 19

Will save: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (4) + 8 = 12

The terrible joke makes Oshessa wince in agony!

Waiting for Rahm9 to move, so BOB doesn’t get in their way.

" I am sure Oshessa, baits Antoine in a sarcarstic tone, That the other morlaws would love to know what you are doing to convert people to your god that you don't even know his real name!"

Please take it, you Cultist!

Antoine's camera flashs the Indigo one as this is the limit of effet of his light.

bluff: 1d20 + 1d6 + 10 ⇒ (6) + (1) + 10 = 17
attack kinetic merciful: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (18) + 5 = 23
damage: 1d10 + 5 ⇒ (5) + 5 = 10

reroll bluff cunning liar: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (14) + 10 = 24

"What is your name, Indigo one?"

+1 against indigo

Rahm spins up muncher and closes with the morlamaws, intending to spray them all with the machine gun.

double move to get closer and out of the way

Mikkazuki fires her underwater sonic pistol, trying to prevent the enemy from getting a good shot at Rahm9.

Covering Fire for Rahm9: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (17) + 2 = 19

Then she guides the actions of BOB.
Move and Swift to BOB

BOB moves forward as far as it can, holding the pike out in front of itself.

Double Move

“Wait, we’re here for the final showdown and you can’t even give us a proper villain monologue?” Charli sighs. “Get her!”

+1 Get em vs Oshessa

Bang! (Underwater Merciful Called Huchket Rifle): 1d20 + 6 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 6 + 1 = 9
Piercing Damage: 1d10 + 2 ⇒ (7) + 2 = 9

She shoots so mercifully that she misses horribly.

Sophia activates combat tracking and locks onto the closest morlamaw. Hawthorne rests his arm on the rock and lines up a shot at the (light purple) morlamaw.

Tactical Acid Dart Rifle (UW mod), Get 'em: 1d20 + 7 + 1 ⇒ (18) + 7 + 1 = 26
Acid & P: 1d8 + 3 ⇒ (5) + 3 = 8

Rahm, do you auto-succeed at the DC 15 Athletics check to swim?

Antoine and Hawthorne drop the indigo morlamaw! Mikka provides covering fire to protect Rahm9's advance.

Green swims up and strikes Rahm9, but can't connect.

tusk vs KAC: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (12) + 5 = 17

Oshessa glares at Rahm 9. "How dare you approach me."

Rahm, DC 17 Will save, please.

Hawthorne
Rahm9
Charli
Keskodai
Mikka
Antoine
Green Morlamaw
Oshessa

Keskodai moves forward at quarter speed and messages, "Didn't like that one, did you? Well, this image will haunt you to the end of your days!!

In character, I like to think of that image as being interpreted as a morlamaw forever trapped in a horrific plane of existence called 'maths books' where the world is constantly warming up a degree or so every year...

Keskodai casts another level 2 mind thrust at Oshessa!
Mind Thrust Damage, DC 17 Will for half: 4d10 ⇒ (9, 8, 8, 3) = 28

Athletics: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (10) + 6 = 16

Mikkazuki swims forward. As she does that, she updates BOB on what to do.

Move, give other move and swift to BOB.

BOB moves forward as fast as it can.

Double move yet again.

Will save: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (9) + 8 = 17

"You'll pay for that!"

DC 15 Will save from Keskodai, please!

Will Save: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (12) + 8 = 20

"Better luck next time!

With a wink, Keskodai shoots finger guns at Oshessa.

At least, they will know that she think highly of herself.

Antoine changes his Target to green.

"We dare Oshessa! Because you are just a Mortal! Surrender!"

bluff: 1d20 + 1d6 + 10 ⇒ (3) + (1) + 10 = 14
attack kinetic merciful: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (6) + 5 = 11
damage: 1d10 + 5 ⇒ (3) + 5 = 8

reroll bluff cunning liar: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (5) + 10 = 15

"What is your name, green one?"

+1 against green

With both remaining morlamaws in range, Rahm lets loose with muncher in full auto. Even underwater the sound of the squad machine gun is near deafening.

Full round action to attack with muncher in automatic mode, catching both in the cone. This may provoke from Green.
vs Green 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (18) + 4 = 22
vs Oshessa 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (20) + 4 = 24
damage 1d10 + 3 ⇒ (8) + 3 = 11

Atheletics: 1d20 + 5 - 2 ⇒ (13) + 5 - 2 = 16

Hawthorne swims to the next closest stone outcropping.

"Focus. I need the telemetry to make these shots."

He aims at the (green) closer morlamaw and pulls the trigger while still waiting for Sophia to initiate tracking on Oshessa. She appears to be distracted by the banter.

Tactical Acid Dart Rifle (UW mod), Get 'em: 1d20 + 6 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 6 + 1 = 8
Acid & P: 1d8 + 3 ⇒ (5) + 3 = 8

8/10 darts

Antoine and Rahm 9 take down the green one!

Just Charli left to go; Oshessa is down 44 hp.

Charli moves forward five feet along the bottom to get within ‘Get ‘em’ range. Charli thinks to Keskodai, Can you stabilize the downed morlamaws? Although we’re defending our Kalo friend, we still don’t want to kill anyone on a first contact mission!

Then Charli aims for Oshessa. “Oshessa, you’re charismatic, and your people love you. It’s even clear that in some ways you’re a good leader, because your people are well cared for and happy. I’m glad that you led your people to a new sanctuary, but you’re deceiving them, and you’re guilty of torturing and murdering our friends. You will stop NOW.”

Bang! (Underwater Merciful Called Huchket Rifle): 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (17) + 6 = 23
Piercing Damage: 1d10 + 2 ⇒ (3) + 2 = 5

No get ‘em, since I had to move!

Oshessa swims closer to the party.

"You will not deign to tell me what to do! You will FEAR ME!"

Will saves from Rahm 9 and BOB.

Rahm, I think you still owe me a Will save from last round too.

Oshessa at -49 and everyone is up!

Whoops, missed that. Will save: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (11) + 3 = 14 - he is wracked by pain!

Second Will Save: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (8) + 3 = 11 - and cowers in fear!

Retro-active Athletics check: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (11) + 11 = 22

Dropping muncher, Rahm is overcome by Oshessa's magic. All he can do is cower before her might.

Environmental data and tactical data flood Hawthorne's mind, subconsciously guiding his aim as he raises his rifle over the rock and fires at the priestess.

If you insist on engaging with these psychic opponents, I'm am going to have to insist that you build yourself a firewall at the first opportunity, Sophia quips as she observes the android suffer under Oshessa's onslaught.

Tactical Acid Dart Rifle (UW mod), CT: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (15) + 7 = 22
Acid & P: 1d8 + 3 ⇒ (6) + 3 = 9

7/10 darts

Keskodai moves up at quarter speed and fires off a level 1 mind thrust!

Keskodai yells, "Hey Oshessa, quick! Look down!!!"

Mind Thrust, DC 16 for half: 2d10 ⇒ (6, 9) = 15

Will: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (20) + 1 = 21

Are drones even affected by fear effects? It is a construct.

It seems that self-preservation is something Mikkazuki left out of BOB’s AI.

“Get HER!” Charli points, meaningfully!

Bang! (Underwater Merciful Called Huchket Rifle): 1d20 + 6 + 1 ⇒ (3) + 6 + 1 = 10
GM Nova Re-Roll (Underwater Merciful Called Huchket Rifle): 1d20 + 6 + 1 + 1 ⇒ (13) + 6 + 1 + 1 = 21
Piercing Damage: 1d10 + 2 ⇒ (8) + 2 = 10

Athletics: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (4) + 6 = 10

Mikkazuki continues to swim closer while directing BOB.

“You aren’t nearly as scary as some of the things I’ve sent BOB against!”

Move, rest of actions to BOB

BOB continues its relentless march across the chamber.

Double Move

The acid dart and the Mind Thrust together finally take down Oshessa.

Suuhlu-Huur yells from her cell, "Watch out! There's another one behind you" as Irtrine follows you in.

Out of combat!

Mikkazuki looks behind her, then says "That one helped us find you."

She slowly makes her way forward and tries to stabilize any of the three who are still alive.

As she is doing this, she says "I don't know if you remember me, but I was one of the team members on the Clutter Collector. Your team was on the Promise of the Future and we traded some stories. I believe you were eager to spar, should any of us ever meet you in person." With a grin, she adds "I believe we will need to put that off for a short time though."

Looking over at her, she asks "How badly are you hurt?"

Once Mikkazuki has seen to the three morlamaw, she then goes over to where Suuhlu-Huur is caged. She will open the cage and then check on her health.

Medicine skill is +10. I don't know how you would handle triage to choose who to treat first.

"No worries Mikka, I got 'em. Hey wait, that's normally Charli's shtick, isn't it? HA! 'Get 'em!!' Get it? Get it?" Keskodai walks over and casts stabilize on everyone.

"I can also do a channel if we wanna wake them up. Maybe restrain them first though...

Keskodai looks over at Suuhlu-Huur and says, "Rough day, eh?"

With Keskodai having stabilized everyone, Mikkazuki turns her full medical attention to Suzhou-Huur. As she does so, she says “Yes, we will want them restrained and then we will need Irtrine to tell us how to proceed.”

“This isn’t a Pact World. They likely have their own system of justice.”

"The are exiles from their own communities on top of that," Hawthorne adds as he swims over to the cage and assists Mikkazuki with freeing the kalo.

Engineering, Aid Another: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (4) + 10 = 14

"You don't know the half of it, shirren. I'll need a rain check on that sparring match, Mikkazuki, I'm hardly in fighting shape. I'll be okay after some rest in a medical bay, but I've definitely been poisoned a few times. Thank you for coming after me. I didn't know if they'd send a team." The kalo looks much weaker than when some of you saw her previously, but still able to walk on her own.

Rahm, recovering from the pain and fear, but clearly shaken by the experience, takes a moment to shake it off once the battle is over.

He nods to Suuhlu-Huur and says "I'm afraid we found the remains of the rest of your team. My condolences."

Engineering, open cage, Hawthorne assists: 10 + 11 + 2 = 23

“Don’t worry, I’ll get you back in shape so you can kick my tail!” she cheerfully replies.

“Right now I just have my Medkit, but that will be enough for me to provide some treatment. We were dropped off in a submersible and will have to wait for the ship to return.”

Looking around, she asks “Any idea where your armor is? If not, we can probably make a replacement up in the workshop.”

Mikkazuki has the Medical Expert feat, so she can provide long term care with just a Medkit.

Suulhu-Huur's personal belongings are piled in a corner.

"We've got to be careful though. There's still one more who's bad. A big teal one."

Irtrine, "Yes, that makes sense. That's Teltham; he's Oshessa's second-in-command."

Mikkazuki checks to see if anyone is viewing BOB’s feed. What sort of viewer list have we got here?

She then has BOB do a slow pan over the table of knives.

“Would Teltham be at dinner with the others?”

"So the way I see it, we have two options. One, we slip out through the crack in the relic room and get outta Dodge. This would really be doing Irtrine a disservice though.

"Second is we drag Oshessa out onto the stage right outside her quarters and address the entire cult... errr... Address the entire commune and expose their leader for what she really is. I get the feeling this option two is going to lead us into a fight with Teltham though, unless we manage to rally the entire cult... errr... the entire commune to our side before Teltham does. Speaking of which, I need to sit down a moment."

Can Keskodai spend a RP and short rest to recover SP?

Irtrine nods. ”Yes, he always gives the blessing.”

"With Irtrine as a witness," Hawthorne says, projecting through his helmet's speakers as well as the comm unit, "hopefully, it will not come to a fight."

Charli looks somber for a minute. “I’m so sorry about what happened to the rest of the Manta team,” she says to Suulu Huur. Then she turns back to the rest of you. “We helped cook that dinner. Isn’t it about time we showed up? Once you’ve recovered, Keskodai, it’s time for us to go in and give our dinner speech.” There’s a determined look in the gnome’s eyes. “Irtrine, will you come with us?”

“I suppose that is a possibility.” Mikkazuki says in reply to Hawthorne as she taps at her wristcomp. She doesn’t sound very convinced.

Let’s see what I’ve got in my library. This really doesn’t feel like it will be a Strawberry Machinecake sort of encounter. Maybe something classical? Needs a beat that you can fight to.