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Color drains from Reynold’s face. ”...that battery is keeping the force field up. We know what’s inside that forcefield...”
He arms himself with his lethally-configured static arc pistol. ”Well, guess it’s time to put on our big girl panties and get this over with. Check the room for valuables, then surround the battle suit. Those with force batons in front, those with energy weapons in the back. Let’s do this quickly.”
With the battery unplugged there is a palpable hum that suddenly cuts off. For a moment the room is quiet and still as the body of the Kasathan in the power armor lies there.
Then a great spectral form explodes out of the body, coalescing into the form of a howling kasathan, clearly dead from some sort of explosion that melted its right half. The face is a horror show of anger and pain and hatred so strong you can feel it cutting into you!
Round 1:
P-K and B4B2
Terrible Undead Thing
Xenal, Piggy, Reynold and Da'at
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"By Triune, my mind is steadfast! But, what is this?"
Pangea tries to recall some knowledge from its memory banks, relative to undead and such monsters as this one.
Attuning itself to Solarian powers, of light--
--Pangea launches itself into the fray, drawing an attack from the monster as the android passes it by--
--and moving around its comrades to come in from the other side.
Pangea strikes at the un-dead Kasatha with its Solarian Weaponized Fist.
B4's shot goes right through the incorporeal creature! It snarls at P-K, but cannot attack! P-K swings at it and misses by inches as the ghostly creature writhes!
The driftdead kasatha howls with rage and launches itself at Da'at, seeming to prefer to slake its rage on a kinsman. for slashing damage!
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Piggy starts freaking out as the ghost ERUPTS FROM A DEAD GUYS BODY!
He sits atop Porkers, slackjawed. "HOLY MOH-LEY WHAT THE FRICK IS THAT ACTUALLY A GHOST I'VE SEEN THEM IN MOVIES BUT NEVER IN REAL LIFE IS IT GOING TO EAT OUR SOULS I'VE ALWAYS WONDERED IF I HAD A SOUL OH WHAT WILL IT DO IF I DON'T HAVE A SOUL WILL IT STARVE I WOULD HATE FOR IT TO STARVE BUT WAIT I ALSO WANT TO LIVE I HOPE THAT IT STARVES TO DEATH TO DEATH-ER DEATH I MEAN HOLY COW ARE YOU GUYS SEEING THIS IT'S A FREAKING GHOST MONSTER THING."
Thankfully, Porker's metal excuse for a brain cares little about the corporeal-ity of his enemy. Just that it is an enemy. The metal contraption ignores it's master's blathering, drops it's jaw and spits out a blob of green energy.
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Da'at's head spins, as the unatural aura of the creature unleashes the mental strain of the past hour... But out of the confusion, a moment of clarity, induced by pain: That spirit must die. Again.
"আমি আপনাকে একটি টর্নেডো আপনি যাও ফিড যাচ্ছে!"
Both B4B2 and the enraged Da'at's attacks land hard on the spirit, who howls with rage. Reynold performs his self-abuse and Piggy babbles!
Round 2:
P-K and B4B2
Terrible Undead Thing
Xenal, Piggy, Reynold and Da'at
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Pangea sighs, and, having understood his attacks will not deal damage, the android once again provokes the creature's retaliation as Pangea moves to the end of the room, where, suddenly, it spins around and charges the undead creature... doing so, Pangea's body erupts in stellar flames that burn all around, and, as the android crashes into the creature, bashing it hard-- the flames engulf the creature and burn it.
• Move action: go 2 squares "north" - which provokes AoO I imagine
• Standard action: I use "Stellar Rush" (Solarian Power) which states:
Stellar Rush (Su)
As a standard action, you can wreathe yourself in stellar fire and make a charge without the penalties (see page 248).
When you are attuned or fully attuned , you can substitute a bull rush for the melee attack at the end of the charge. Whether or not you succeed at the bull rush, the target takes 2d6 fire damage (Reflex half - see above for DC).
Bull Rush (+4 att.)
Knock the target back 5 ft +5 ft per 5 above KAC + 8. If obstacle in the way, target stops at obstacle.
P-K crashes like flaming comet into the driftdead, but passes right through the thing! It seems to take some damage, its essence burning away at the edges, but it still persists!
for slashing damage!
The driftdead howls with fury and pain and lashes out at B4B2! for slashing damage!
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Piggy snaps out of his frightened state. A wave of anger rushes over his face. "Be cool guys. It's just an undead monster from a plane which shouldn't exist. Geeze." His large cheeks wiggle as he swallows a great big ball of fear.
He pulls out his rifle and levels it at the ghost, eyes white. "Yippeekayaye!"
Porker makes a mechanical grunt. His pea sized circuit board warms with happiness that his master is slightly less of a blithering idiot. His mechanical jaw drops again and he makes a burping sound as two laser blasts head towards the ghost.
Reynold's shot lands, as does Piggy's. Porker misses twice and Xenal's baton whooshes very close to the driftdead!
P-K readies himself, while B4B2 manages to whack the ghost with the force baton!
The driftdead howls again and lashes out! B4B2! for slashing damage! The ghost is less substantial than it was when the battle started, but still full of rage and pain at its fate!
Da'at's swing goes wide as the specter screams. Reynold moves into position!
Porker's speaker emits a gravelly sound which may have once sounded like an oink. It's metal ears bend down as it switches firing modes.
Piggy and Porker, now recombined as a team hit the ghostie hard! Xenal follows up with two solid whacks and with a last scream of rage the driftdead explodes into mist, which dissolves away, leaving only the quiet of the ship.
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Kappa stops just at it was about to charge... and let's the dark-fires subside, even pushing the energy back from its fist to the small mote circling the android's head - though he will reform the energy-fist weapon when the leave the room again.
"Let us pray, Triune and whom you wish, for the soul of this poor Kasatha. May it make its way to in the Boneyard".
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B4B2 with a painful expression on his face turned his head to see what is hidden in the room and whether there is any useful things in the room.
And then he turned to the team and said, "I think most of us will have a good use of little break. If something is waiting for us on the bridge, we might be sorry if we do not rest a bit. I know that storm is near but..."
Xenal spots a hidden trigger on the captain's bed's base. Inside is an holo-photo viewer displaying a short loop of video of a female Kasathan holding an infant, with the legend 'Kieran's First Birthday' under it. A credstick also sits here, displaying 500 credits, with a sticky note attached that reads 'For Shore Leave Celebration.' A couple of spent batteries and a broken chain from a necklace roll around in the bottom.
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Da'at quietly grabs the holo-photo viewer, snaps it shut before pocketing it, the spent batteries and the broken chain. And without another word he grabs the dead kasatha's moldering body, stowing away the ritual baton. "Unless the gods did something for that family, they can go circle f#$$ right off into the void. As for interlopers..." He grabs the machine gun with his other hands, cyan kasatha blood running down them, and racks the slide loudly, a statement as pointed as any he could make. "Let's go. Give me a few minutes to grab the other bodies and avoid shooting my face off if I catch a couple worms."
The captain's armor does contain a Purple force field upgrade, which can be removed easily now.