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In stark contrast to her usual hesitance, Saeron immediately makes her way toward the fissure upon seeing the collapsed building. Adjusting her satchel for ease of access, she begins making inquiroes about the likelihood of people being trapped, and hiw best to gain access to treat their injuries.
As she draws nearer, Saeron takes a closer inspection of the fluid, checking if it is of a biological or ecological nature.
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From the moment the group met the dwarves, Levylissa has been studying them. Even though she can not directly understand them, she uses their body language and then the translations from Fixit to get an idea of who these people are. She quietly follows her compatriots as they descend into the chaotic scene brought on by the goblins.
Levy knows that moving that boulder is not something she would be able to do, so decides to follow the whims of the audience and her peers into the trench. As she normally does, she keeps her eyes open and tries to identify the fluid, deciding if it is biological or chemical in nature.
Fixit thinks the boulder would take several people using different methods to cooperate in removing the boulder. And everyone would have to make a case to the cameras why they ignored the poll or risk alienating their growing fan base.
The fissure is about 5 feet tall, and the fluid fills about 3 feet of it. Levy recognizes the fluid as a synthetic lubricant, and is not directly harmful. You can climb over it with DC 15 athletics, or DC 10 for small creatures like Fixit. Falling in coats you with the stuff for an effect similar to the grease spell.
If you are traversing the fissure, I just need athletics checks from everyone.
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Levylissa eyes the obstacle in front of her, "This might be easier than that boulder, but it isn't going to be easy for me." She watches Mordin as he falls into the lubricant, knowing her fate is likely to be similar. She grabs for the wall, trying to avoid the slippery goop below.
Whether it was due to the difficulty of the task or her insistence that she would fall in, she succumbs to gravity and joins the dwarf. "Not what I envisioned when I signed on here. Yuck!"
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Standing at the entry to the fissure, Saeron draws a deep breath.
Adjusting her satchel, her face set in determination, she begins her climb along the wall...
... only to miss in her search for a handhold, and land belly-first in the lubricating fluid below.
Half swimming, half staggering, she slowly makes her way through the muck.
Kallus and Fixit manage the tricky dance to stay out of the fluid, everyone else is coated in the stuff. The ghouls crew sends some flying camera drones to capture the scene rather than getting in the goo themselves.
When you emerge, mostly covered in slippery grease, you find yourself inside the damaged dwarven temple. Ahead you see a dwarf - presumably the head priest - pinned under some fallen rocks.
Also, you see some oozes.
Combat begins! Slide 5 has the temple map.
Basically, greased means you can only move half speed, and to do so must make a DC 10 acrobatics to move half speed, or else can't move and must make a DC 13 reflex save or fall prone. The effect is as if trying to walk in an area affected by the spell grease, linked here
Fixit
Mordin - greased
Saeron - greased
Oozes
Kallus
Blue - greased
Levy - greased
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Dragging herself from the sludge at the far end of the fissure, Saeron's attempts to sluice the fluid from her body prove futile.
Adjusting her satchel, she readies to tend to the injured within the temple. Noticing the oozes, her head tilts slightly to the side, brow furrowed.
"Careful! Saeron warns her companions. "The purpose of these fluids is to mend breaches and remove any external contaminants - which is how they will likely view us."
"They can spit acid and will attempt to pummel targets that get too close. Any physical attack or weapon will spray acid in the area. Best to try energy and laser attacks."
She attempts to move forward, to get a better of the trapped dwarf, but the slimy fluid coating her causes her to slip. Arms flailing wildly, as her feet slip and slide, she manages to keep herself from falling.
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Mordin tries to propel himself along the ground by poling the floor with the flame doshko, but he only manages to flip himself and land on his belly. "Shale, sheet rock, and gravel!" he exclaims as the air is knocked out of him.
Red in the face and covered in slick slime, he draws his arc pistol. "Energy attacks. I hear ya."
The red and orange slimes spit globs of acid toward Fixit and then advance toward him.
The yellow one slides down the hall until it comes into view and spits at Code 34 Blue.
The only shot that lands it a nasty glob at Fixit for 4 acid damage.
Fixit (-4 SP)
Mordin - prone, greased
Saeron - greased
Oozes
Kallus
Blue - greased
Levy - greased
Everyone can go.
Levy and Blue both hit the yellow ooze, but the others' shots all miss.
Red ooze does attack Fixit as he retreats, striking him for 4.
Then all three oozes spit their acid again before advancing.
Kallus and Fixit are each hit with a glob of acid.
Fixit (-10 SP)
Mordin - greased
Saeron - greased
Oozes
Kallus (-3 SP)
Blue - greased
Levy - greased
Everyone can go.
Kallus's shot hits yellow for 1, but Kallus takes a smack to the back as he does.
Blue puts a great hit of 6 with his laser rifle on the yellow one in some sort of color war.
Levy misses
Mordin gets to work with his borrowed doshko against orange, cameras catching extra close ups of the custom detailing on the weapon for the product placement. He hits! Most of the damage is from his own sheer power and not the weapon itself, which seems kind of underwhelming, but don't tell the camera that you rolled a 1.
Saeron's arc pistol hits the orange slime, and she knows she nailed the shot perfectly, but also knows this thing doesn't have typical weak spots to hit. Still, it's a solid blow and she takes orange out following up on Mordin's strike.
Fixit still up, I'll bot in a 4-6 hours probably.
Fixit (-10 SP)
Mordin - greased
Saeron - greased
Oozes
Kallus (-6 SP)
Blue - greased
Levy - greased
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Backed into a corner, Fixit shoots his laser rifle again, first provoking an attack from the slime in front of him.
Fixit's shot toasts the yellow ooze, but not before he takes another blow.
The camera drones are flying about frantically trying to catch all the action as two of the synthetic "repair" oozes fall before the skill and power of the Starfinders!
The only remaining ooze attacks Mordin.
Without regard for its safety, the slime lands a slam attack on the dwarf.
Fixit (-12 SP, -3 HP)
Mordin - greased (-7 SP)
Saeron - greased
Oozes
Kallus (-6 SP)
Blue - greased
Levy - greased
The party can finish this thing off.
You obliterate the last slime, and unrelated to it, the greasy fluid afflicting some of you has dried enough to be effectively removed.
The dwarf in the next room has started shouting something again in dwarven, pinned under the rocks.
"By Torag who be ye lot? Ye sure cleaned up those unholy abberations fast enough! If ye be here to help come get me out o' this mess!"
Saeron can tell the dwarf is not too badly injured, mostly scratches and bruises. Kallus and Mordin are able to pry the rocks off without causing any more serious injuries. He introduces himself as Holsin Noskrit, high priest of Torag.
Wazasha is insistent over your coms that you help finish clearing the rocks from the entrance; the dwarves are almost done. Kallu sand Mordin are able to continue their rock heaving and everyone leaves the temple.
Holsin thanks you and happily answers any of your questions (in dwarven, but translation is easy enough). Eventually he will ask the party for a favor. "Ye must be the answers to me prayers! We've been beset by the short orcs for a while now. Between their magic wands and the poison gases they create with their foul surface sorcery, they are blocking our way out! Torag must have sent ye to help us, right? Have you seen the surface? We must be close."
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Leaving the conversation to the others for the moment, Saeron takes advantage of the opportunity to tend to the injuries of her companions.
She quietly recommends some rest for Kallus and Mordin, but spends a little time fussing over Fixit, applying a curative poultice and dressing the injuries.
Distracted by the conversations around her, Saeron fails to notice as the freshly applied poultice slips out from the dressing as she wraps Fixit's wounds.
Smiling at the ysoki, she straightens and says, "There you are, should be better in no time."
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While Saeron is tending to Fixit, Levy follows Mordin to the dwarf priest, very interested in what this man has to say. Nothing is more interested than an undiscovered civilization. "I have so many questions for you," she says without being able to hide her excitement. "You have never been to the surface? Besides the...small orcs...and us have you come across anyone?"
As she is questioning Holsin, Levy is looking around the temple.
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"Aye, we came from the surface," Mordin answers the priest. "But to go there, you must go down, back the way we came. However, we ought to deal with these goblins that have been harassing you."
The dwarf pauses for a moment. "There is much to discuss about your world. You call this moon Golarion, but the Golarion that my people descended from is long gone. You still follow Torag as though he has not left and placed his son, Angradd, at the head of the pantheon. First, though, let us smash in some goblin skulls."
Holsin is confused and troubled by some of the things he hears, but agrees to discuss more later after the party offers to help out with the short wand wielding orcs.
"The orcs are pretty new, we haven't seen them before the last few months. We'll have much to talk about later it seems. But thank ye for offering yer aid. Whether sent by Torag or 'is boy, ye all seem a better match for these sorceries and have some better idea how to deal with them. 'Tis only a mile further to reach where the orcs are in our way. I'll come with ye."
You do all definitely have time for taking a break to recover stamina. Zo! needs his commercial breaks after all!
Holsin takes you about an hour further.
"Their cursed surface sorcery makes a poison fog, do you have some sort of protection from your time on the surface?"
Your environmental protections in your armor are enough to avoid the deadly gas. Holsin casts life bubble on himself so he can keep up.
Continuing on, the new area is filled with a thick poisonous haze. Any creature between 10–60 feet away from an enemy has concealment, and creatures more than 60 feet away have total concealment. The gas isn’t thick enough to grant concealment against adjacent targets. The gas is also highly poisonous but your suits provide the needed protection.
Ahead of you a 10 foot deep trench can be seen, but with a convenient bridge. The area is under such a heavy fog that you can't see beyond about 60 feet.
Kallus hears something trying to sneak beyond the veil of what you can see.
One goblin in crazy armor pops out right at the edge of your vision and shoots. The mound he's behind provides some cover, and he has to deal with the concealment as he fires a junkzapper at Mordin.
His shot strikes the dwarf.
The goblin armor looks unstable for environmental protections and could be disabled by fast hands or a careful shot. A PC adjacent to a goblin can attempt an Engineering check to deactivate the goblin’s life support, exposing it to the poisonous gas. This action provokes an attack of opportunity. A PC can accomplish the same task by making an attack that deals no damage against the goblin with a –2 penalty.
This boss goblin looks like his armor is a little better and you couldn't do this until he's been beat up some. If this strategy actually seems better than just shooting for some reason...
Boss Goblin
Fixit
Kallus
Mordin (-6 SP)
Saeron
Blue
Holsin
Levy
Party is up. You need to get within 60 feet to actually see anything, but I revealed the other 2 goblins since they are not far from that range. Unless you are adjacent to a target, you need to make a concealment roll. Those pock marks are stalagmites and provide some cover.