Obozaya: OK
Rez: Round 1 hit
Altronus: Round 2 hit
Keskodai: Round 2 hit
Knowing that a poisonous storm is incoming, you all (likely) pop in one of the antitoxin plant bulbs provided by the ysoki proprieters of the Vat Garden on Absalom Station. It turns out to be vital for Rez, Altronus, and Keskodai, as each have their suits pierced once by the crystalline poison during the storm...
...and though Rez and Keskodai are only grazed by their suit breaches, Altronus gets a shard solidly through his shoulder!
Nearly as quickly as the storm sets in, however, it recedes. The harsh metallic smell in the air abates, as there is no similar storm pending in the near future, and the sky clears a bit for you.
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"Everyone okay?" Rez runs his gloved paw across the suit breach, and is relieved to see his O2 levels sitting stable, giving him more than enough to wait out the storm. Must just be a surface scratch, armour's fine. Good thing too... might have a breathable atmosphere, but this dust ball's kicking up way too much particulates for my tastes.
Obozaya nods. "Glad I caught wind of that, or we could have been in some trouble." she says. "No injuries here."
If rest is required then she will sit patiently and wait, checking her reaction cannon for damage or dust clogging.
It seems like the weather will hold for the foreseeable future, and you take ten minutes for Altronus to recuperate.
Continuing towards the crash site, you crest a hill and look down on the wreckage from above. It's obvious that it is far beyond repair at this point, though you hold hope that you can route enough power into their data logs to find what you need.
As you begin your descent down the hill, your suit sensors pick up a low rumbling to the south - a large creature appears to be in subterranean pursuit of your group! For a moment, it bursts forth from the ground and rears up to screech at you, before preparing to dive under again and burrow towards your position!
To the east and south, down the hill, you see a large piece of wreckage from the ship. Mounted on a large chunk of the hull appears to be a tactical x-gen gun. It looks well attached to the hull piece, but pivotable to aim against your foe - if you can make it to the gun!
Seeing the big gun and an even bigger gun, Obozaya moves straight towards it, hoping to get to it before the beast can catch up and make a meal of her team.
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Rez sees the large insect, and a chill runs down his tail. He shouts to the group, only to see Obozaya make her way towards the gun emplacement in the wreckage.
"You all get to the gun and set up a defensive perimeter, and I'll cover you! Surely I can outrun this thing!"
He then pulls out his pistol and tries to get the beast's attention by firing at it.
= FAIL
(the -6 due to target being 80' / 3 range increments away)
Altronus moves or doublemoves towards the creature if possible.
Society. As an immediate action when you are struck by a critical hit or dealt at least 15 points of damage from a
spell or supernatural ability, you can check the box that precedes this boon and expend the tattoo’s magic to gain
10 temporary Hit Points that last for 1 minute. You also regain 1 previously expended Resolve Point when using
this boon.
Hit Points are a precious commodity at low levels, and a few lucky attacks from an opponent can sometimes kill
a character. Similarly, Resolve Points are key to using special abilities and stabilizing if a deadly attack takes you
down. Consider this option to reduce the chance that a lucky critical hit will kill you.
To Rez's surprise (and the beast's!), the pistol shot punches through its carapace!
Keskodai steps forward and prepares to heal anyone who is injured.
The creature skitters forward to Altronus, and bites with a massive maw...
...but STUMBLES on a rock on the way, throwing its bite wide of the mark!
Obozaya hops eagerly into the X-Gun and brings it to bear on the enemy!
Altronus enters photon mode and strikes at the creature with his melee weapon
Obozaya's heavy round slams home on the creature...
...but Altronus' strike goes wide of the mark!
Obozaya takes a look at the gun while putting the next round in the chamber, and notices two things. First, that it is very well attached to the hull piece, and unlikely to come off without tools and time. Second, that the current magazine is capable of filling the chamber, but it doesn't look like you can reload it again. The weapon will be a (fancy) piece of scrap after the nine remaining rounds are fired.
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Rez traverses down the side of the sand dune as fast as he can, and waits at the bottom of the hill in the small crevasse between the two plateaus. When he sees the beast strike at Altronus, Rez knows it's his opportunity to strike.
C'mon, give me a soft fleshy spot somewhere in that mass of chitinous plating...
Rez spots what he thinks might be a weak spot, and squeezes off a round.
Rez's bullet slams home between two armored plates, and Keskodai's rock grazes the beast's head!
The beast REARS in pain, and brings its mandibles crashing towards Altronus once more...
...and the great teeth tear through suit and flesh, while a strange ringing pierces your ears!
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Altronus after taking a big hit will try to swing his weapon again at the creature.
Also, with one of his spare arms, Altronus pulls out a serum of healing, just in case he will need it.
Shots ring out from Obozaya and Rez, but both go wide of their mark, as does Altronus' solar weapon! Keskodai tries to pierce the creature's mind...
...and it rears in pain again before bringing it's teeth to bear against Altronus once more...
...and the creature slashes through the kasatha's armor, nearly killing the mighty solarian!
Obozaya curses to herself and chambers a new shot from the magazine.
Thanks Keskodabi And altronus takes off to the right
The weapon does not explode in Obozaya’s hands, but the shot is definitely way off, as is Rez’s attack. Altronus looks much better after Keskodai’s healing channel, leaving the shirren directly in the path of the rampaging beast...
...and the Mystic is sliced by teeth and rattled by sonic damage as the creature crunches in on him!
The big gun booms again, but something about the turret swivel is jammed up, throwing off her aim.
Altronus pulls out his laser pistol to fire
The beast roars in agony as Rez's shot pierces it’s side and Keskodai's mental assault overwhelms its insectile intellect, shuddering under each blow before falling lifeless to the ground, an unmoving mound of shattered carapace, ichor, and crystalline shards.
altrnus will try to examine it reduce dc by 5 if it is xenobiology
"Rez, this turret is jammed up at the pivot, help me remove it so I can take it with me." Obozaya asks, tugging at the gun a few times before letting go and crouching to examine the mounting mechanism.
Keskodai and Altronus start examining the beast, and manages to pull / carve off a few crystals from the carapace that will fetch a good price back at Absalom Station, 800 credits at least!
Rez and Obozaya take about ten minutes to pull the gun from it's mounting. However, the magazine of the gun is mangled beyond repair. It'll fire a few more times, but it's unlikely to get more than a couple hundred credits for someone who wants to break down the whole thing.
Rez enters the ship quietly, quiet as death itself. Appropriate, for the ship is home only to the scattered bones of your fellow Starfinders, and you feel that it is safe to wave in the rest of your team.
Seven desiccated corpses remain in the wreckage, already thoroughly decomposed by the severe environment of the planet over the past several weeks.
You see the characteristic impact marks of heavy metallic slugs, such as those used in coilguns or railguns on starships. The damage on the ship's hull indicates that it tried to dodge the strafing fire but darted the wrong way, and the damage was sufficient to send it here.
Nothing else of value remains in the wreck; anything obviously worth salvaging was taken by the Corpse Fleet explorer that plundered it earlier. Although the Unbounded Wayfarer’s computers are beyond repair, they retain sufficient power to interact with the Starfinder insignias that you brought with you. The computer interface ports contain an indentation the same shape as the Starfinder insignias.
When one of the insignias is slotted into the indentation, the computer flares to life just enough to display a datafile of worlds previously explored by crew of the Unbounded Wayfarer. They include:
• A wasteland planet called Elytrio that displayed signs of scattered technology.
• A sentient asteroid called Lamentia teeming with morlock “children” in the Vast.
• A massive space station called End of Bright Things stuck between the orbits of two blue dwarf stars.
• A stormy, oceanic world called Wealdriad, with upthrust columns of basalt piercing the storm-tossed ocean’s surface.
The final location’s coordinates are too damaged to display, but the computer has enough power to pop open a nearby storage slot, revealing an iridescent spindle aeon stone gathered from Wealdriad. There aren't any notes to accompany it's origins, however.
Obozaya will look over the Aeon stone and hand it over to Altronus. "Here, hold onto this until we can return it to the Lorespire."
She will search the ship for any other possible hidden locations that could use the starfinder insignia to open, like hidden caches of weapons or gear.
A thorough search reveals nothing - clearly the Corpse Fleet did a good dismantling of anything worth a credit that they could haul away, and any obvious pieces of equipment are now gone. It’s likely that Exegara would have used them to trade for the muscle she hired back on Absalom station (for all the good it did her).