PbP Gameday VI; Quest Starfinder [lvl 1] (Inactive)

Game Master Revvy Bitterleaf

Drops prone for cover and brings her laser up.
Ranged azimuth laser pistol +3 (1d4 F; critical burn 1d4)1d20 + 3 ⇒ (18) + 3 = 21 DMG 1d4 ⇒ 1 / 1d4 ⇒ 3 1d100 ⇒ 79
cover chance high is good

Gear keeps moving along the side, keeping her head down as she punches buttons in boytoy's control panel.

The drone shows a slight burn mark, but the heavy armor plating reduces the damage done by the strike as it unloads laser blasts on blue again.

laser: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (11) + 1 = 12
fire: 1d4 ⇒ 4
miss chance: 1d100 ⇒ 92

laser: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (18) + 1 = 19
fire: 1d4 ⇒ 4
miss chance: 1d100 ⇒ 81

Sorry about that. I thought I had hit Submit, but clearly not. Better to be on the bulk Initiative anyhow.

Obozaya drops the cannon and slides down the rails into the vat garden. She swings her tactical doshko out of the harness as she advances on the red belted mercenary. With a growl, she swings the weapon.

Tactical Doshko vs. KAC: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (14) + 4 = 18
P: 1d10 + 3 ⇒ (10) + 3 = 13

Xanthis pulls a pistol and fires at the mercenary in red armor but misses wide.
Xanthis then drops to prone to grant some additional defenses.

Lady Onyx brings her laser up and fires it at one of the mercs I'll go for blue and leaves a fist sized hole it both the mans armor and his chest..he goes down.

Gear keeps moving along the side, keeping her head down as she punches buttons in boytoy's control panel.

The drone shows a slight burn mark, but the heavy armor plating reduces the damage done by the strike as it unloads laser blasts on blue again.

Who after getting hit twice goes down as well.

Obozaya drops the cannon and jump down over the rails into the vat garden. She swings her tactical doshko out of the harness as she advances on the leader of the mercenaries. With a growl, she swings the weapon hitting her opponent.

Changed your target to the leader since you can just walk across the open path to get there. You could have gone for the last merc, but I made a judgement call on that one

Up close Obozaya can see that the woman is very pale as an unnaturally long tongue and has way to many sharp teeth to be a human.

The woman hisses at Obozaya and tries to dig her teeth into the side of Obozaya's neck

to hit KAC: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (19) + 4 = 23
biting down hard
Damage Oboyaza: 1d4 + 2 ⇒ (3) + 2 = 5 and a DC 12 fort save as you can feel your muscles stiffen and movement becomes difficult for you

if the save is failed she moves away, if the save is made she keeps standing where she is

"I don't get paid enough for this...working this graveyard shift ok..but fighting against competent opponents...not my cup of tea"

The last merc seeing his 2 companions gunned down in front of him slowly backs away before turning around and full sprinting away

He's out of the combat unless someone wants to give chase

init
Party
Enemy woman

Damage:
Woman: 13
Blue and Red down, Green running away

As the woman looks at the 2 fallen mercenaries and the third one running away she seems to think about something and then says

"Maybe we can talk this through...if you are willing to not kill me, I'd be willing to surrender to you"

Stands still pointing her pistol at the woman.

"Now that is better, We could have done this without the unpleasantness. Now we want to ask you some questions about some pathfinder insignia you sold not long ago. And please be truthful I will know if your lying."

Fortitude: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (10) + 3 = 13

Obozaya's vesk physiology counters the ghoul's venom.

"I'm not sure we could or should have done without the unpleasantness, but, yes, talk."

Gear and Boytoy slide down the ladder, Boytoy hitting the ground with a bit more of a resounding "THUD!" than Gear. Tapping at her rig, Boytoy raises both lasers, taking aim as Gear speaks simply.

Do talk quickly. I don't like getting shot at, and I have programmed Boytoy here to kill anyone who tries to hurt me, so i might just... slip on the manual override and let him default to automatic if I'm not given a good reason to leave, and soon.

Xanthis stands and moves into the discussion.. Holding up the starfinder badges she asks.. "Where did you get these?"

Once the others have her covered, Lady Onyx goes over to the two dropped Merc's checking to see if any still have signs of life. If dead she takes their weapons and IDs. She keeps an eye on he ghoul while she does.

I think NPC die once they reach 0 hps in Starfinder and you didn't knock them out..but I'm not 100% sure. You can loot them even if they are alive..so the end result will be pretty much them same

The woman answers your questions;

"I was only recently recruited into the Corpse Fleet and know little of their activities. I traveled aboard a vessel called the Endless Threnody that picked up the distress call of a Starfinder vessel. The Corpse Fleet ship traveled to the Starfinder vessel’s crash site on a desert planet and acquired several treasures, including the Starfinder insignias. Before the Endless Threnody could get into the Drift, it was surprised and crippled by a pirate ship identified as the Lawblight. The Endless Threnody now floats in the Drift, unable to leave, and I was dispatched to acquire repair materials. Here let me show you"

She very slowly and carefully takes out a datapad and shows the Endless Threnody’s current location.

I don't know the coordinates of the crashed Starfinder vessel (or even the name of the world it was on), I know those coordinates are in the files of the Endless Threnody’s navigational computer."

"Well, that was helpful," Obozaya says.

NPCs live or die at 0 based on GM fiat: basically, if you want the PCs to be able to rescue them, they're unconscious/dying, if their survival adds nothing to the scenario, they can be dead.

The mercs living or dying doesn't matter for the story..so they died, unless someone really wants to try to save their lives, in which case you manage to bring them back from the brink of dead

I'm assuming that you guys are done here and will report back to the Venture-Captain? Or does anyone have something that they'd like to do now?

Good to go back..

Ready to report

As you return to the Lorespire to report to Venture-Captain Arvin and tell him everything you discovered from the woman you just fought;

"I am pleased with you for following up on this lead so quickly. I'd like you to follow-up on this mystery and find the Endless Threndoy."

"I also encourages you to keep the Starfinder insignias for now they can be usefull

He explains their basic function;
Although it appears to be an ordinary medal showing the symbol of the Starfinder Society, this insignia can store as much information as a common tier-1 datapad. Unless told about this secret, a non-Starfinder must succeed at a DC 20 Perception or Sense Motive check to realize the insignia is a storage device.

This concludes the first quest. In case someone wants to opt out;provide me with your reporting info and I'll send you a chronicle with only the first quest checked, other wise moving on to the next quest

Assuming you accept the Venture-Captains proposal in investigating further you meet him the next morning back at the Lorespire after recovering from your fight at the Vat gardens.

Venture-Captain Arvin stands next to the entry ramp of a sleek-looking starship. He waves his hands over the side of the starship affectionately.

“This is the Loreseeker, a Pegasus-class ship that’s one of the fastest and lightest in the Society’s fleet."

“We know that a lost Starfinder vessel, the Unbounded Wayfarer, was discovered by undead creatures from a starship called the Endless Threnody. We’ve pulled some strings with our more reputable Eoxian contacts to get more information, they’ve disavowed knowledge of the Endless Threnody entirely; this likely confirms our suspicions that the Endless Threnody is connected with the Corpse Fleet, a group of Eoxian separatists who refuse to work alongside the living."

“We have the location of the Endless Threnody in the Drift, courtesy of that ghoul you tracked down. Its Drift engine is incapacitated, so it’s unable to escape the Drift. Take the Loreseeker into the Drift, cripple the Eoxian ship—as a Corpse Fleet vessel, they won’t be open to negotiations—and recover the location of the lost Starfinder vessel.”

Gear makes a disgusted face.

Yuck... Undead are disturbing. Why get so bound to rotted flesh with beautiful metal awaits if you have no intention of dying?

She kisses boytoy on his mechanical viz screen and it shows a flushing smiley face.

Right Boytoy? You ready to go fry some nasty undead?

The soft beeping sounds about as close to a "Yes" as can be expected.

"Got it," Obozaya says with a nod. "Find the Endless Threnody, disable it, take out everyone on board, hack their computers to find the location of our ship."

"Point me toward the gunner's seat."

I call the engine room!

Says Gear. Not shockingly.

Gear makes a disgusted face.

Yuck... Undead are disturbing. Why get so bound to rotted flesh with beautiful metal awaits if you have no intention of dying?

She kisses boytoy on his mechanical viz screen and it shows a flushing smiley face.

Right Boytoy? You ready to go fry some nasty undead?

The soft beeping sounds about as close to a "Yes" as can be expected.

::"I must agree I would much more be reincarnated into a Synthetic body over a dead one"::

She looks over the ships layout on her PDA.

::"I have my space licence so if no objects, I am happy to take the Captains seat"::

"I will assist as best I can.."

She heads onto the ship, throwing her bags onto a bunk. She checks over the systems then walks to the pilots seat. Slipping into the webbing.

::"We may have to double up rolls, I will Pilot as well, seeing as we only have so many seats."::

She Powers up the nav displays and starts to punch in the flight data.
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::"Xanthis could you control science, and censers station, Blake do you mind taking on Guns and running back up on any of use who needs a hand."::

Lady Onyx ; Captain
Obozaya: Gunner
Gear 2.0: Engineering
Xanthis: Assisting where he feels it might be most needed that round (or you can just try to scan and hope for the best)

Once the Loreseeker departs Absalom Station, you travel into the Drift. The Drift is an immense, empty plane of swirling colors.
Travel within the Drift to the site of the Endless Threnody takes 5d6 ⇒ (1, 5, 6, 2, 6) = 20 days during which time you get to know the ship and it's controls.

When you arrive at the coordinates provided by The ghoul you defeated, the Endless Threnody is not present.

You need to do a scan to try to locate the enemy ship

The science officer of the Loreseeker should attempt a Computers check, applying the +2 modifier from the Loreseeker’s sensors.

Since you currently have no science officer (unless you want to place Xanthis there by default)..anyone can abandon their current station/position and move there to do the scan. You could even use assists since you are not currently in combat you won't loose your action for the round for doing so

On the trip she gets the know the small space they have to live in. The craft is a small fight scout and as such was no luxury yacht.
Her buck was with Gear 2.0 who did not seem to use her bad other than to sit sit on.

Do Androids sleep and if they do, do they dream of electric sheep?
She thought one day.

The food stock was simple and the systems the same but lots of Back up on back up.

She checked out a Red-Vacc-Suit.

She got the ship to the coordinates provided by The ghoul for where the Endless Threnody should be but there was nothing showing up close.

::"We will have to find the Endless Threnody with a scan"::

Gear runs over to the scanning bay and slides into place.

Now where oh where, has our little friend gone...

computers: 1d20 + 8 + 2 ⇒ (4) + 8 + 2 = 14

Aid Computers: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (8) + 2 = 10 ha.. +2 to the roll.

1d20 + 7 ⇒ (4) + 7 = 11

It seems the ship you are after is trying to move around by it's thrusters alone and it takes a few scans of the area to track it's exhaust fumes but when you do you see;

The Eoxian freighter is a massive vessel made of bone and steel. The front of the ship is a single enormous red lens, appearing as a sullen, bloody eye. The ship bristles with bone protrusions, as though it were some horned, skeletal beast.
Some of the bones are charred and broken, indicating past battle damage. Laser cannons protrude from the front and sides of the freighter; but its rear weapon mounts are a twisted wreck. Gaps between the bones show the ship’s interior, but this is not from battle damage—this ship was never intended to accommodate living creatures.

You also identifies some significant damage sustained by the Endless Threnody in its fight against the pirates.

3d6 ⇒ (2, 5, 5) = 12

I haven't found a better way to indicate facing yet..so on the map you are the red arrow, the enemy is the blue arrow

Since you managed to locate them with your scan before they saw you, you can decided the facing of both ships.

Gear shouts and runs up the stairs to the bridge, swinging from a safety handle into the pilot's seat, clicking the seat belt in place.

I got em captain! Let's show them how pathfinders handle things!

Gear slams on the gas like a madwoman, and everyone is jerked back at the sudden acceleration.

HAHAHAHHAHAHA!

She seems to be enjoying herself.

Piloting: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (15) + 6 = 21

There are 3 phases to space combat as you can see in the link on the top of the page called: combat

1: engineering
2: helm
3: gunnery

You can see what your roles does in the link: ship roles

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As gear 2.0 slams on the gas the enemy ship takes notice and starts to slowly turn in response.

So first up is engineering; no need to repair anything right now so I think we can skip that this round

Then Helm, based on piloting we determine we moves first, I'll use Gear's check for initiative

Init enemy ship: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (9) + 8 = 17

You win, so enemy ship moves first..it starts to turn about and head in your direction.

So you can move now, and then we start firing on each other

Note that the captain can try to aid someone in any phase (but only once/round)

Xan tries to aid someones shooting..

1d20 ⇒ 19 and does so, +2 to hit..

Not sure what the stats are in our ship, but Gear would just make a beline to close distance and bring as many guns to bear at this point as possible.

Not sure what the stats are in our ship, but Gear would just make a beline to close distance and bring as many guns to bear at this point as possible.

They are listed at the top of the page under combat, they are also located for all tiers of the ships you can use in SFS in the players guide..and for easy reference:

LORESEEKER TIER 2
Starfinder Society Pegasus (Starfinder Society Roleplaying
Guild Guide)
Medium explorer
Speed 10; Maneuverability good (turn 1); Drift 1
AC 13; TL 13
HP 55; DT —; CT 11
Shields Basic 40; forward 10, port 10, starboard 10, aft 10
Attack (Forward) light laser cannon (2d4) - range 20
Attack (Port) light laser cannon (2d4) - range 20
Attack (Starboard) light laser cannon (2d4) - range 20
Attack (Turret) coilgun (4d4) - range 10
Power Core Pulse Green (150 PCU); Drift Engine Signal Basic;
Systems basic medium-range sensors, crew quarters
(good), mk 1 duonode computer, mk 2 armor, mk 2
defenses; Expansion Bays cargo hold, escape pods, science
lab, tech workshop
Modifiers +2 Computers, +1 Piloting; Complement 4–7

Speed is in hexes btw, and how you can move is based on the type of action you take to move (under ship stunt - require a piloting check to see if you pull it off)...but simply moving in a sort of line doesn't require a check. You can turn 1 facing for every 2 hexes you move.

Not sure what the stats are in our ship, but Gear would just make a beline to close distance and bring as many guns to bear at this point as possible.

Let me help you with that. Ideally, we want to be able to fire and not be fired upon, so I moved us 10 hexes with 1 turn to take us past their forward arc and place them in our forward arc.

Obozaya furiously targets the Eoxian ship with the turret coil gun and the forward light laser cannon, firing as fast as he can into their port side.

Fire at Will

Coil Gun, Duonode, Morale, FAW: 1d20 + 4 + 1 + 2 - 4 ⇒ (13) + 4 + 1 + 2 - 4 = 16
Coil Gun: 4d4 ⇒ (4, 2, 1, 1) = 8
Light Laser, Duonode, Morale, FAW: 1d20 + 4 + 1 + 2 - 4 ⇒ (17) + 4 + 1 + 2 - 4 = 20
Light Laser: 2d4 ⇒ (1, 3) = 4

Thanks!

@Obozaya...unless I missed something in the rules..how are you firing 2 guns at once? It's my understanding that you can only fire one gun at a time since they are physically located at different places.
For now I'll assume you only fired one gun, but If you can explain to me how to fire 2 guns at once I'll add the extra damage

Gear 2.0 flies the ship to an advantage firing position

Obozaya furiously targets the Eoxian ship with the turret coil gun and rips through their outer hull unobstructed by any shielding what so ever

The enemy ship returns fire
To hit EAC: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (16) + 7 = 23

hitting you with their port (or starboard..not sure which one is left or right to be honest) side light laser against your forward shields

Damage: 2d4 ⇒ (1, 3) = 4

Damage:
Enemy:
Hull:8
You:
Forward shields 8 (out of 15)

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Engineering
Helm
Gunnery

You are completely right, somehow I missed that part. Adding damage to the enemy ship now

Damage:
Enemy:
Hull:12
You:
Forward shields 8 (out of 15)

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I doubt that anything in the engineering phase will effect your helm phase by much so let's combine those for now

Piloting check for init enemy: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (1) + 8 = 9

Engineering + Helm
Gunnery

engineering to shields: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (19) + 8 = 27
pilot: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (2) + 6 = 8

Damn.

Gear tries to multi-task, yelling at boytoy to divert power to power the shields up, but doing so she looses concentration on her piloting, screaming HOLD ON! As she tries to maneuver the ship behind the enemy to train the front guns on the enemy's ship's rear side and engines.

Even as boytoy manages to bring the shields back online Gear 2.0 get's a bit distracted and flies behind the enemy ship to get a good aim at it's rear side and engines

The enemy does not like that idea at all and turn in place, bringing it's big front guns in line with your starship

To hit front EAC: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (13) + 7 = 20
Damage: 4d8 ⇒ (1, 1, 6, 6) = 14

The enemies heavy lasers almost rip completely through your forward shielding. You are certain that if you hadn't gotten them back online you'd be leaking atmosphere through a huge hole in your hull right now

Damage:
Enemy:
Hull:12
You:
Forward shields 14 (out of 15)

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Gunnery + Engineering

Brings up a tactical display for Gear 2.0

Action Encourage Gear 2.0 Skill = Piloting DC10 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (20) + 6 = 26

Xan assists with engineering again.

1d20 ⇒ 5 but is unable to help this time..

"I feel useless in this effort.."

Altronus continues to furiously fire at the Eoxian vessel.

As you continue to fire on the enemy ship your hits go wide and leave no impact on the enemy vessel.

Xanthis tries to help out with giving helpful engineering tips he looks up for a book on "how to give helpful engineering tips" but he's reading from the wrong chapter it seems.

Damage:
Enemy:
Hull:12
You:
Forward shields 14 (out of 15)

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Still up; Engineering + Helm phase

Piloting check enemy init: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (14) + 8 = 22 )if you have less then 22 you get to move first)

engineering: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (10) + 8 = 18
pilot: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (5) + 6 = 11

Gear yells at Boytoy to get those shields up!

Stunned by the incredible piloting of the enemy ship, Gear desperately guns it, trying to get the nose of the ship and the forward shields out of the line of fire.

can't move drawing at work, tilting us so that we don't pass through their hex and then gunning it 9 spaces, hopefully that'll be fast enough to prevent them from maneuvering in front of us again.

I think I've moved you where you wanted to go. The enemy can't reach your front, so I'm assuming you'd be fine with it. After this we'll need to move everyone to the center of the map..or add more map. We're a bit close to the edge now

Boytoy manages to bring some of the damaged forward shields back online again

The enemy space ship pursues as Gear 2.0 turns away from them - hoping to protect your vulnerable front and fires it's forward facing heavy laser at your flank

To hit AC: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (6) + 7 = 13
Damage if hit: 4d8 ⇒ (4, 7, 1, 6) = 18
I just noticed there's a difference between the stats provided in the scenario and the ones in the players guide. I've just looked up the clarification and I'm supposed to use the one in the players guide, so correcting some things

A huge laser blasts away your outer shielding on your right side and causes a hull breach at the same time, causing you to vent some air.

Damage:
Enemy:
Hull:12
You:
Hull: 8
Forward shields 5 (out of 10)
Right side shields: 10 (out of 10)

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Gunnery, followed by engineering

Stats that are supposed to be used:
STARFINDER SOCIETY PEGASUS TIER 2
Medium explorer
Speed 10; Maneuverability good (turn 1); Drift 1
AC 12; TL 12
HP 55; DT —; CT 11
Shields basic 40 (forward 10, port 10, starboard 10, aft 10)
Attack (Forward) light laser cannon (2d4)
Attack (Port) light laser cannon (2d4)
Attack (Starboard) light laser cannon (2d4)
Attack (Turret) coilgun (4d4)
Power Core Pulse Green (150 PCU); Drift Engine Signal Basic;
Systems basic medium-range sensors, crew quarters
(good), mk 1 duonode computer, mk 2 armor, mk 2 defenses;
Expansion Bays cargo hold, escape pods, science lab,
tech workshop
Modifiers +1 to any two checks per round, +2
Computers, +1 Piloting; Complement 4–7

Assist: 1d20 ⇒ 10 Adds +2 to engineering this round..

Assist: = Piloting DC10 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (14) + 6 = 20 +2

Obozaya frowns as the ship rocks from the blast. She glances over her shoulder to check on her companions for a moment, then returns her attention to the gunnery terminal. "Try to avoid another hit like that. Maybe some evasive maneuvers?"

Obazaya screams a loud curse in Vesk.

Oboyaza fires 2 series of shots in return to the enemies fire, but ends up firing at some distant star instead of his intended target

Lady Onix and Xanthis try to help out with both the engineering section and the plotting of the course.

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Helm+engineering (both with a +2)

As a tip from me; Lady Onyx might want to try to go to the science officers desk next turn and try to re balance the shields, it's a computers check..and it won't give you more shielding..but it lets you put it where you want it. In case you fail to restore some shields to your damaged side. Or maybe try a scan for information about the enemy vessel - also a computer check. Or even a target system; I'm not 100% sure how it works..but other then giving your next hit a crit range of 19-20 instead of just 20 it also let's you choose what part of the enemy ship you want to deal critical damage too..which as far as I can tell also happens when you deal a certain threshold of hull damage..so if you manage to deal enough damage after a targeting scan..you could damage the enemies heavy laser..instead of a random part (for example)