[SFS_Aerondor] 01-09 Live Exploration Extreme! [tier 1-2] (Inactive)

Game Master Aerondor

In that case, Saryn will do the same as above and toss down some cable to help Fuskee climb up.

And to keep things ticking over, we'll have the last two take ten on the climb up.

The Starfinder team makes it to the top of the incline, some with more grace than others.

Jed, if you wanted to try a risky ascent for the cameras, that is still an option for you, we can just retcon that.

Several crewmembers fire grapplers and adeptly hoist themselves and their equipment up to join your team.

The region beyond is a large cavern that sparkles with phosphorescent fungi represented by the trees on the map whose caps span as much as 10 feet in diameter.

The goblins’ explosion from below has buckled the cavern floor here, leaving a concentric impression in the ground where there appears to have just been unaffected stone before. These buckled rings are about 1 foot high. stepping across one costs 1 extra square of
movement

As you look around there is a small shudder, not as an explosion, but more like (for thost of you have spent time planetside) a small earthquake.

Three dwarves appear on the other side of the cavern. They look at your oddly and then one steps forward to speak.

A diplomacy or other social check maybe helpful with whoever speaks...

Status, (damage)
Saryn 1HP; 1RP
Kato 5 STA
Chaiyek 3 STA
Mobius
Jed
Fuskee 3STA

Saryn looks to see if any of the others understood the dwarf. He looks to the ghast and her crew, but realizes how futile that is. If no one understands them, he calls back in common. "I'm sorry, but we don't understand." He makes a show of shrugging his shoulders and raising his hands. "Do you speak common?"

A look of recognition crosses her face as Saryn speaks. "Critical Error!" she smiles by way of greeting.

"Critical Error? He returns dubiously.
He turns to the others. "Tell me one of you have a translator.

"System Reconfiguration!" she tries again, looking slighlty perplexed.

Kato doesn't say anything but instead looks around for anything odd or interesting. He also looks closely at the cracks in the cavern to see what might have caused them.

Perception: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (15) + 5 = 20
Physical Science: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (1) + 7 = 8

sorry for the delay works been crazy

Jed seeing that the cameras are watching each of them as they climb up the pile will try to do some fancy acrobatics to get up it.

acrobatics: 1d20 + 12 - 4 ⇒ (19) + 12 - 4 = 27

After getting to the top and running into the dwarf.

"what is this critical error. Sorry but we just dont understand."

Fuskee stays at the back of the group and just shrugs as he sips at his flask. "I don't know... System Reboot?" he tries some computer lingo since he's good with computers to see if that gets them to do anything.

"Computer talk? OK? So system reconfiguration could mean try something else." Saryn turns back to the dwarves and says, "Troubleshooting., while indicting the buckled cavern floor.

Her eyes light up as Fuskee and Saryn speak back.

"Configuration resync?" she tries hopefully, buyt is obviously getting a bit frustrated.

Now that he knows they share a language if not an understanding of that language, Saryn will attempt to use his Telepathy. "Hello. I am Saryn, we are here to explore."

I'm not even going to pretend to be savvy enough with computers and machinery to actually do this, but if the telepathy doesn't work, Saryn will use computer and engineering jargon to at least be able to impart some rudimentary ideas to her. Anyone is welcome to to give their input.

Culture: 1d20 ⇒ 17
Computer: 1d20 ⇒ 4
Engineering: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (10) + 6 = 16

Remembering some of his computer lingo Kato puts in his two cents "Let's try this: Query: Identification." He looks at the dwarves hopefully.

Don't know if I need to roll anything. Also, did I notice anything with my perception and physical science?

If Saryn doesn’t get anywhere, Chaiyek can help with his telepathy and knowledge of computers.
Computers: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (11) + 8 = 19
Engineering: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (2) + 7 = 9

Saryn quickly comprehends that while the dwarf might know the sound of some common words, the actual meanings are totally uncomprehended.

Frustrated, the dwarf tries some other languges.

If you do speak one of them, plesae let me know which one..

@Kato, nothing of particular note from your checks.
Chaiyek you do notice that mostly what she speaks are the type of things that a computer might say if it encountered an unexpected configuration or error.

Fuskee shrugs, "I know a couple languages but I have no clue what they're saying."

Kato looks over at the undead crew "Any of you understand these guys? Could we get a translator down here?" How did I forget to pack a translator. This is the exact same thing that happened on Tooineta with the Raiders of the sand. Kato, sometimes you can be a real idiot.

If the crew can't do anything Kato will walk up to the Dwarves and tentatively reach out a hand saying "Hello," pointing to himself, "Kato"

Fuskee looks over to the cameras, "Are we back from the commercial break yet?"

Seeing no help from the ghast or her crew and at a total loss for how to advance with the dwarves, Saryn begins to inspect the blast crater.
Engineering: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (6) + 6 = 12

"Uhhh, hard drive crash?" He asks the dwarves "Or maybe goblins?"

That we are

Showing signs of frustration, the dwarf points to you, to her and her two companions, and a passageway. She then starts to move toward it, gesturing for you to follow her.

Lets have a social encounter with first level characters and specifically have them not speak common, and then not really provide a way around it.

Following? She doesn't seem very happy with you, so a pantomimed diplomacy check might be helpful here. If you do so, it will be at -4

As you move along, Wazasha pulls Chaiyek aside into The Booth.

Saryn follows.
Diplomacy: 1d20 + 1 - 4 ⇒ (18) + 1 - 4 = 15

Chaiyek, feel free to include your booth session in your next post

The dwarf nods, seemingly happy at Saryn's meek following. She points to herself "Ylga"

With Ylga's help, it only takes about half an hour to navigate down into the tunnels. However, you arrive at her Camp to see that the settlement is in distress! You can clearly see that that there are bursting pipes (strangely built to resemble rocky outcroppings) and a fissure split down the middle of the settlement’s cavern, dropping a massive chunk of stone to crash into a Temple facade. Numerous dwarven corpses line the cavern, and a few dozen survivors are struggling to break through the boulder or one of the reinforced walls to get inside the temple, where you gather one of the dwarves is trapped inside.

Ylga quickly introduces you all to her clan and coordinates the dwarves in their rescue effort. After some examination, she determines that there are two likely ways to get in and help the trapped dwarf remove the boulder or send in a small group through the fissure. Several dwarves determine that the fissure’s trajectory should lead to its intersecting with the temple’s rear rooms, but the trench has partly filled with an unknown, viscous fluid.

Once it’s clear to Zo! that there are multiple ways that the you might enter the temple and launch a rescue, he booms over the feed: "How will our heroes rescue whomever is inside? Let's have you help decide!""

Wazasha lets you know that the audience is voting on what you should do next, and the pulls up a holographic display from her wrist computer to show the votes as they’re cast. Every time the dwarves identify one option’s difficulty, painfulness, or uncomfortable circumstances, the voting for that option surges. Ultimately, though, the audience votes for you all to clamber through the strange fluid-choked fissure to sneak into the temple from behind.

The ghast shrugs and adds, "Of course, this vote is non-binding, but defying the fans can anger them..."

Mobius steps toward the fissure and tries to assess the surroundings. "What do we have here M.I.C.H.?"

Saryn has his minicomp take some scans to try and figure out the best way to proceed.

Engineering: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (7) + 6 = 13
Perception: 1d20 - 1 ⇒ (4) - 1 = 3
Physical Science: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (17) + 4 = 21

You look and scan the fissure. The camera team directs lights and telephoto lenses down there too. It cuts through the cavern wall and curves around as it finds seams of stronger stone. The fissure itself is only about five foot tall, and unfortunately mostly filled with an oily liquid.

Saryn quickly identifies it as a synthetic lubricant - similar to what you mind find in a mechanical engine or a hydraulic system. Apart from being very slippery it has to immediately harmful properties.

If you wanted you could brace against the walls and try to stay clear of it... that would look good for the cameras..especially if you took a bit of risk for them..

At seeing the scene Kato feels sympathy for this community and excitement at meeting a new society. He tries to remember if he ever met another society of dwarves before.

Culture: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (17) + 11 = 28

"Well, the people have spoken." he walks to the edge of the fissure, inspecting it to see if there are any immediate dangers.

Perception: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (12) + 6 = 18
Physical Science: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (1) + 7 = 8

If not, "Saryn, I'll be right behind you big fellow. Keep your guns up. We need to hurry and get whatever is in there out" Kato will jump the full 5 feet right into the fluid.

What's the other way?

In the booth
"It’s weird to not be able to talk to someone telepathically. I get so used to it, it’s like suddenly having to write down everything you say and hold it up on a board."
"But just because they don’t speak Common doesn’t mean that I can’t trust them. None of us speak Dwarven, but that doesn’t mean they can’t trust us."

Afterwards
Chaiyek jumps down into the fissure, stooping over so as not to bang his head, and follows behind Kato with his rifle drawn.

I wasn't very clear in that last post. I meant what's the other way to rescue whoever is behind the rocks?

Jed seeing that the people want them to go through this fluid filled crater will try his best to stay along the wall and not touch the fluid.

"will good luck with that fluid but I rather not be jumping into it. I'm not that tall to start with."

With that he slips down onto any ledge that he can find to try and stay out of the liquid.

not sure what checks I would need for this. I intend to take the risk and try not to end up in the fluid.

Those in the fissure who want to stay clear of the oily liquid will need to make an athletics check

@Saryn aside from the fissure there are some large boulders that you may be able to roll aside

@Chaiyek can you include a diplomacy check with your next post to see how you come across to the audience.

Fuskee follows at the tail end of the group and goes into the fissure, seeing if he can manage to avoid the oily liquid.

Athletics: 1d20 - 1 ⇒ (15) - 1 = 14

Fuskee quickly falls into the oil. While very slippery it doesn't appear particularly harmful. A nearby camera armed micro-drone captures the moment and the ghast gives Fuskee the thumbs up from the audience.

Eager to please the fans, Mobius attempts to cross the fissure as well.

Athletics: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (11) + 5 = 16

If you are trying to play up for the fans, remember to include a -4 penalty to your check on your roll...

Saryn is trying to figure out how best to roll the rock aside when he realizes that he's the only one still there. He shakes his head and goes into the fissure. He calls up telepathically "No one light a match or fire a weapon."

Athletics: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (6) + 5 = 11

He tries to keep out of the fluid, but finds the walls to slick to navigate.

@Mobius I'm assuming you were showing off for the cameras. If not then you would have made the check.

Jed athletcis, showing off: 1d20 ⇒ 9
Saryn, Jed and Mobius joins Fuskee in the oily liquid.

Kato and Chaiyek - an athetics check if you want to stay out of the oil, and Chaiyek, a diplomacy check still for your booth session.

Kato is walking in the oil.

Diplomacy: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (6) + 2 = 8
Apparently, Chaiyek got through most of it telepathically before realizing he needed to switch to audible speech, leaving what appeared to the audience to be ten or twelve seconds of silence.

Yup, I was trying to show off so Mobius joins the oil party. We have ourselves a WIPEOUT! Starfinder version here. LOL.

A slippery team of starfinders works their way down the fissure. You emerge, wet and slippery in the entrance to what appears to be a temple. A dwarf lies trapped under a large rock. Nearby a patch of oily liquid seems to be seeping toward him with intent. Further back there are some other area of unusually moving liquids...

Status, (damage)
Saryn 1HP; 1RP
Kato 5 STA
Chaiyek 3 STA
Mobius
Jed
Fuskee 3STA
Things

Map has been updated

Kato assesses the scene and checks or any danger or loose portions of the building. He looks curiously and the liquid and tries to figure out if he has ever seen anything like it before.

Not sure what check to make. Life science or survival.

If nothing looks immediately dangers he will rush over to the dwarve and get the rock off him in order to treat his wounds.

Life sciences check for the moving liquid

"Look alive, people. We have work to do. Kato, help me with the rock, the rest of you keep those things off us." Saryn goes up to the rock by the dwarf and starts trying to roll it off the dwarf.

Str: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (13) + 3 = 16

"Right behind you." Kato runs over and aids Saryn lift the rock.

Aid Saryn Str: 1d20 ⇒ 9

Mobius lets the more muscular members of the party deal with the trapped dwarf. He starts to move towards the strange fluid and tries to identify it with the help of his exocortex. "We got a situation here M.I.C.H. Tell us more about this fluid. Is it dangerous? What does it do when it comes in contact with flesh?"

Life Science: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (13) + 8 = 21

Not knowing what else to do with this strange moving liquid he let's his instincts take over and shoots at the moving liquid.

Trick shot, moving 5' to the right and using stealth. shooting at blue

stealth: 1d20 + 18 ⇒ (7) + 18 = 25
atk: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (15) + 4 = 19
damage: 1d4 ⇒ 2fire
trick damage: 1d4 ⇒ 4

Chaiyek aims his rifle, taking a moment to let Talos get a lock on blue, then fires.
Laser Rifle + Tracking: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (12) + 3 = 15
Damage: 1d8 ⇒ 3

MICH identifies the puddles as a variant type of autonomous synth fluids. Effectively nano bots within a fluid that are programmable..to a degree. They are sighless, without critical organs within their body and probably resistant to acid.

Kato and Saryn bravely move between the trapped dwarf and the fluids, shifting the rock to allow him to slither back.

Jed takes a shot at the nearest fluid, burning away a little bit of it. Chaiyek joins in.

The blue coloured fluit slams into Kato, while two others flow into the room and spray acid at Chaiyek and Jed.
attack Kato: 1d20 ⇒ 8
attack Caiyek: 1d20 ⇒ 9
attack Jed: 1d20 ⇒ 13
Kato dodges the slam at the last moment, while Chaiyek performs a similar step aside. Jed is not quite so lucky, taking a facefull of acid.
jed damage: 1d4 ⇒ 3

Status, (damage), bold may post
Saryn 1HP; 1RP
Kato 5 STA
Chaiyek 3 STA
Mobius
Jed 3 STA
Fuskee 3STA
Badly injured dwarf
Fluids -
blue 5 damage
red
green