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As Mincey watches the explosions from the impacting projectile light up the hull of the undead ship, she comments, "Ditz iz likes shute 'n bonez inna bahrel." She resumes firing of the coilgun.
"Awwww, youze jus' HADZ ta say sumptin'!" she remarks, smacking herself in the head after her shot goes wide.
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"Well I didn't realize they could just 'turn me off' if they didn't like my first greeting.
Well Mincey, you look like you are shooting up the fish in a barrel shall we say. I hope that my words of encouragement will help you align your target and finish this resistance to the society's work....Oh well perhaps next time!"
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Tamon focuses his scans on the enemy's defensive measures
And his continued scanning pays off:
2.Defenses: AC, TL, total and current Hull Points, total and
current Shield Points in each quadrant, and core PCU value.
AC 11; TL 11
HP 82 out of 100; DT —; CT 20
No shields
3. Weapon: Information about one weapon, including its firing
arc and the damage it deals, starting with the weapon that
uses the most PCU. Repeat this entry until all the starship’s
weapons are revealed.
AC 11; TL 11
HP 100; DT —; CT 20
Attack (Forward) heavy laser cannon (4d8)
Attack (Port) light laser cannon (2d4)
Attack (Starboard) light laser cannon (2d4)
4. Load: Information about how the starship’s expansion bays
are allocated and any cargo the starship might be carrying.
No load.
Undeterred by his failures, Keskodai remains determined and fires again. This time his persistents pays off as he scores a solid hit aided by Skees diverting of power causing
one of the sensor arrays to fall off.
Mincey fails to hit, even though Flashbang manages to encourage him.
Shadius getting a bit overconfident managed to steer the ship through a rather predictable turn.
The Endless Threnody just hangs there taking the beating without returning fire
Before continuing their turn hoping to catch you in their weapons arc(s)
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"Well Mincey, you look like you are shooting up the fish in a barrel shall we say. I hope that my words of encouragement will help you align your target and finish this resistance to the society's work....Oh well perhaps next time!"
"Whatz dat youze wuz sayin', Flashey?" Mincey screams over the comm. "Doan chu know dat I'ma tryinz ta shutez ovah heer!?"
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After a few minutes of intense space combat - which get real dicey at one point as you are a bit slow to react to a turn the enemy freighter takes and manages to fire it's main forward guns at your ship, straight blowing through your shields and blasting a hole in your hull you manage to get on track and keep running circles around it slowly, but surely blasting it into submission.
Eventually he Corpse Fleet ship lists to one side and its power core overloads, covering the ship with coruscations of negative energy. As you survey your own ship’s damage, you can congratulate each other on dispatching a wounded—though active—threat to living creatures everywhere.
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The crippled hull of the Corpse Fleet starship, Endless Threnody, lists in the open space of the Drift. Like many Eoxian vessels, the Endless Threnody is constructed of metal and supernaturally dense bone, with jagged protrusions that crackle with necromantic energy. The interior of the ship is more like a lattice of bone and steel than typical bulkheads.
The Endless Threnody drifts just outside the forward viewport.
The enormous Corpse Fleet starship bristles with bone spurs, and a baleful red lens at its fore resembles a swollen and bloody eye. Crackles of dark energy leap across the bone spurs, discharging from the ruined ship’s necromantic power source.
With a burst of static and a flash, a blue-hued hologram of Venture-Captain Arvin appears at the Loreseeker’s communications station. “Excellent work. The Endless Threnody is incapacitated, but not pulverized. I need you to board that vessel, access the main computers at the bridge, and recover the coordinates of the missing Starfinder vessel’s crash site. That energy signature looks dangerous, and those discharges can damage your hull. Dock at the cargo bay at the rear of the ship and make your way forward to the bridge. Wear space suits if your armor can’t protect you from vacuum—there are a few suits in a storage locker aboard your ship. Eoxian ships do not have life support and are often exposed to space.
Any questions?”
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With a burst of static and a flash, a blue-hued hologram of Venture-Captain Arvin appears at the Loreseeker’s communications station.
At the sudden appearance of the Venture-Captain's hologram, Mincey jumps back. "Yeesh!" she squeaks as she wipes a bead of sweat from the fur on her head. "I didn'tz reelerize dat da Venchore Cap'n wuz monitrin us so closely" The ysoki freezes for a moment. Oopz. I hopez 'e didn'tz heer me!
In an effort to act casual, the ysoki straightens herself up and asks, "So, any ideas what we mitez find on dat ship udder dan da cowordinates?"
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"Considering what we did to their ship, hopefully they won't be greeting us at all. Because we did a lot of damage which could have caused explosions in the interior spaces which would be very bad for the crew depending on what kind of emergency systems are in place but at least if there was a hull breach they don't have to worry about atmosphere."
Skeek seals his suit against vacuum and opens up his comm unit.
"Check, check. You have to do that to make sure your comm is working. Everybody ready?"
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Thanks to a nearby drift beacon relaying the information real time there's no delay in the response.
At Mincey's question and Keshkodai's following answer the holo image nods and then adds; "“Other then that it's hard to say; information about Corpse Fleet ships is sparse, as they modify their ships beyond standard Eoxian designs. I would expect that any surviving—or should I say, remaining—crew members might try to make a last stand, and they might have rigged some traps. Be ready for anything.”
Maneuvering the Loreseeker to align with the Endless Threnody’s rear cargo bay is tricky
Neb tries to expertly pilot the ship to connect it with the Endless Theonody.
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As Neb learns that flying a spaceship and drinking do not go together like peanutbutter and jelly he manages to dock the ship..but not before scraping against one (or more) of the bone spurs on the hull of the Endless Threnody, luckily some assistance prevents things getting too out of hand and your shields are able to deflect most of the impact before your hull gets scratched.
After you dock and put on your space suits you depart your vessel on your boarding party and when you look around you see that you in a empty cargo bay. It's been stripped of everything that could be useful in the repair of the freighter. The only thing of note is a wall mounted touch screen monitor. Upon furtger examination it's predominantly used to store manifests and access basic ship systems.
You can't access the bridge from it, but there's a protected sub-menu that seems to have something to with the cold fusion engine that powers this ship.
If you want to try to manipulate the energy output of this strange engine you can try to do so
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As Mincey exits the ship, she looks around the empty cargo bay until her eyes set on the monitor. "Well, zit aint flowahz or candiez, but zat least itz aint Exozeeanns!"
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Tamon with the help of Skeek manages to shut down something in the engines which lowers the energy output.
As you move further down the ship;
The branching corridors inside the Endless Threnody are not made of solid bulkheads of metal and plastic, but of a lattice of enchanted bone and steel. A metal grating on the floor provides stable footing, but the walls have gaps large enough to fit a fist.
The passages split and recombine in a manner eerily reminiscent of being inside a giant rib cage.
The remaining undead crew members—reduced to near-mindless skeletons—lurk within the halls here. As they see you approach down the corridor they start to move to stop you. They don't seem to be carrying weapons.
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Tamon
Skeletons
You guys
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Keshkodai remembers that skeletons besides being immune to cold also heal in cold environments (fast healing 1 (supernaturally cold environments only) and that even if they don't carry weapons have wicked sharp claws and having no eye's can still see- even in the dark (darkvision)
Tamon moves into the left corridor to head off the skeletons there, and fires his rifle at one of the skeletons but ends up hitting on of the overhead beams
All the skeletons surge forward (double move) while their teeth clatter..or maybe that's some of their other bones
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You guys
Skeletons
Neb moves to the left and trick attacks and fires at Skeleton [blue].
"It's Showtime"
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Flashbang bounds forward to assist Tamon. Unfortunately that side of the corrider is cursed or something as Flashbangs attack only manages to miss his target and strike the floor beneath it's feet.
Neb follows in Flashbangs footsteps and his tricky attack manages to explode one of the skeletons skull causing the rest of the body to fall into a pile of bones on the floor.
The remaining skeletons extend their arms forward and moan"...skullssssss"
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Tamon, Skeek, Mincey, Keshkodai
Skeletons
*Beep!*
Spider-pig shoots at the same target.
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When she saw the others draw their weapons , Mincey drew her trusty knife. Having neither been trained in mysticism nor having encountered skeletons before, Mincey never considers beforehand choosing another weapon.
Upon seeing the oncoming undead, she places the blade in her mouth and hunches down on all fours. Springing around in a zig-zag pattern, sticking to walls, and shadows, she makes her way to the nearest skeleton, leaps into the air, pulls the blade from between her teeth, and strikes!
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Tamon takes a final shot at the remaining skeleton in that corridor and manages to hit. It cracks some of the skeletons ribs, but it's not out of the fight yet.
Skeek fires his rifle at the skeletons closing in, but it turns out the skeletons are just a tiny bit harder to hit with bullets than with lazer and his shot is harmlessly deflected away.
Spider-pig manages to blast Skeet's target away with one shot.
Upon seeing the oncoming undead, she places the blade in her mouth and hunches down on all fours. Springing around in a zig-zag pattern, sticking to walls, and shadows, she makes her way to the nearest skeleton, leaps into the air, pulls the blade from between her teeth, and strikes! Her blade hitting and nicking some of the skeletons bones, but it's not tricky enough to take the brainless skeleton unaware.
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Keshkodai
Skeletons
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Keskodai moves forward and waits to see the battlefield develop over the next round.
The skeleton in front of Mincey tries to claw his way to the Ysoki's skull
and seems to do a decent job of it
One takes a careful step closer to Flashbang
The last 2 skeletons round the corner and make attacks against Spider-Pig
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You guys
Skeletons
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Mincey suffers a moment of disorientation as the undead's claws rip flesh and fur from her head sending a flood of pain through her skull.
But the sudden surge of positive energy from Keskodai satiates the pain and spurs the feisty ysoki into action. Emboldened by her brush sudden lack of injuries and overcome by a rush of adrenaline, the ysoki decides to lay into the creature with all she has, without regard to the fact that doing so may make little tactical sense and actually make her strikes less accurate and effective.
“Why…” Mincey whirls around as if to threaten the skeleton with her tail. ”doan’ …” She continues to spin, her threat with the tail a feint in an effort to stealthily bring her knife to bear. “chew…” She strikes the skeleton through the ribcage, stabbing at its spine.
But missing! Undeterred by the failure to connect, she continues, "jus’…” Pressing a second attack, she nimbly turns the knife handle around in her fingers so that she can bring the blade back across the creature’s jawbone before it can anticipate another strike,“stay…” Slashing across the skeleton’s face, Mincey punctuates her inquiry to the Eoxian crewmember, ”dead!?”
Neb moves five feet to the right and trick attacks Black (assuming Yellow is dead).
-2 AC to Target due to Flat-Footed
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Keshkodai summons some inner resolve and channels power out into the corridors
The 2 already damaged skeletons explode in a shower of bone shards, quickly followed by one of the other ones
Leaving the last one standing with a large hole blasted into it's left side..it's barely standing.
Mincey moves forward but the ysoki's blade harmlessly passes between the spaces of the skeletons ribcage
Neb then quickly finish it off as Tamon shoots at it, but doesn't want to hit Mincey in the back so his aim is a bit on the high side.
Going over the remains you find nothing other then very old decomposing clothes and bone(shards) of varying sizes
When you pass further through the corridors, you arrive at the Endless Threnody’s bridge.
The bridge of the Endless Threnody is located behind the enormous crimson eye at the front of the ship, bathed in a blood-red glow. The crew stations are fabricated from bone and steel, apparently grown from the floor and walls of this room. Battle damage is evident throughout the bridge, but it is now empty and utterly silent—truly a ghost ship.
No creatures remain here now, and the only impediment that you face in recovering the coordinates of the crashed Starfinder vessel is the computer security.
Step 1: Access the system
once you've managed to do that
Step 2: Bypass security
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"An' stayz down!" Mincey huffs as the bones of the last of the Eoxians hits the floor.
Once the party makes its way towards the bridge, Mincey has a sudden shiver. "Letz 'urry up 'n getz outta dis place! Itz giv'n me da creeps!"
"Iffit helps anyz, I'dz recroemends tryin' ta yuze a passwoid in sum variasheeun uv Zanzgrit, as Ize understandz dat dat is one 'a dem dead langrigez." suggests Mincey.
"Den tryz youzin sum of dem remainz of da crue dair to fool da securitry syst'm." she adds.