Zabrutal manages to regain consciousness. He gives Yellow the zap of a lifetime, and Yellow keels over.
Seeing Yellow hit the floor, the lady throws down her gun and raises her hands.
"I surrender.
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You have the feeling the lady would sigh. If she still needed to draw breath.
"That what this is all about? A pair of trinkets? Very well then. I traveled aboard a vessel called the Endless Threnody. It picked up the distress call of a Starfinder vessel. The Threnody traveled to the
Starfinder vessel’s crash site on a desert planet and acquired several treasures, including the Starfinder insignias. Before we could get into the Drift, we were 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." She gestures at her bad, which hold several clean skulls.
"Please dont be alarmed." With care not to make a threatening move, she retrieves a datapad from her bag.
I doe not know the coordinates of the crashed Starfinder vessel.
Or even the name of the world it was on. My role on board the Threnody was such that I did not need to know. But those coordinates will be in the files of the Endless Threnody’s navigational computer. The datapad holds the coordinates of where the Threnody is now."
Before you can decide what to do with the lady, there is commotion down the hallway.
Station security rushes in, followed by a family of Ysoki.
The Ysoki are extremely gratefull you dealt with the thread, and the lady is taken away by station security under arrest.
The Ysoki each provide you with a plant bulb as a reward. They explain that when chewed, each bulb acts as a dose of tier-1 antitoxin.
Calling VC Arvin, he is pleased with you following up on this lead so quickly. He asks you to follow this mystery further by finding the Endless Threnody and asks you to meet him at the space docs.
He also encourages you to keep the Starfinder insignias for now, they might come in handy in the future.
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Kallus, eventually feeling strength return to his limbs, glares at the woman as she is taken into custody. He had a feeling they would be meeting again. He subconsciously rubbed his arm where he was bitten. "If you call that a win, I guess." He sighs. "Let's go to the docks and get towards that ship."
The Ysoki let you all know you're all welcome at the garden whenever you like.
When you make your way to the docs:
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, but 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.”
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Kallus nods at VC Arvin and then at Baskoro. Then he straightens himself up and calls out. "Alright folks, let's go get that ship. We have a score to settle with the Corpse Fleet." He takes some time getting familiar with each room of the ship, the engineering section, berths, gangways, etc. until he finally gets to the bridge. Looking over the crew stations, a satisfied smile crosses his face as they perform pre-flight checks.
"Pilot, standby to take us out."
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Kallus nods at VC Arvin and then at Baskoro. Then he straightens himself up and calls out. "Alright folks, let's go get that ship. We have a score to settle with the Corpse Fleet." He takes some time getting familiar with each room of the ship, the engineering section, berths, gangways, etc. until he finally gets to the bridge. Looking over the crew stations, a satisfied smile crosses his face as they perform pre-flight checks.
"Pilot, standby to take us out."
Yes sir! Zye says as he looks over all the buttons and dials of the Loreseeker
Lot bigger than the ones I practiced with. But an engine's an engine I guess...
He spends a few minutes adjusting his seat height and lean to get it juuuuuust right, then Zye reaches out to the controls and lightly pulls back on the wheel. Let's get to it!
"Loreseeker, This is Absalom Traffic Control, you are cleared to leave docs, using heading 35A. Good travels."
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"Captain, I suggest we adopt a 4 hours on watch, 8 hours off watch schedule during our time in the drift. Do you have a preference how you want to set the teams"
During his off watch hours Baskoro sleeps, does his vocal exercises and sings some cantatas. It might be that the others have some issues with sleeping while he does that...
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Once Drift borne, Captain Harridan spends his time going over the crew manifest, ship's stores and spending time at each crew memeber's station, learning not only about what they do, but who they are and what he can expect from them in a fight.
"Not at the moment Bask, but if you'll go over the team with me, we can see who would fit best where and when." He then collaborates watch cycles with his team, changing as necessary through the coming weeks, due to illness, personality differences, or simply boredom.
In what little off time he allows himself, he can be found either in the cargo hold practicing his tactical sword drills, or in his quarters going over the most recent bounties from the infosphere.
Every once in a while he can be seen rubbing the arm where he was bitten. A scowl forms on his face when he sees someone noticing him do so, but otherwise, as much of a hardcase as he can be, his team was important to him and he wanted to see them through this mission. That first fracas together was a mess and he was determined to not let it happen again...
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Gornoc spends most of his time studying and learning how to operate the 'Big Guns' and listening to Strawberry Machine Cake or tinkering with his Grenades. Whenever his fellow Starfinders come be he instinctively says, It's not loaded! Bawwhhhaaa
When the Captain comes around he explains the inner-working of the each of the weapons on board.
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After spending time making himself familiar with the ship to be able to competently do his duties Zabrutal begins a regime of meditation. Sitting for long amounts of time in the engine room focusing on the power flows of the ship examining the arteries of the ship. The beyond to the sensors and how the Drift flows around the ship as they travel.
After 18 days of R&R in the drift, you approach the coordinates Exagara, the ghoul lady, provided you with.
However, there is no ship in sight.
Scanning around, suddenly warnings go up around the ship, and the Eoxian ship appears behind you!
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.
Starship combat rounds:
1. Engineering: The engineers can repair the starship’s systems or give one or more systems a boost. These actions occur simultaneously, so they can be resolved in any order.
2. Helm: Each starship’s pilot attempts a Piloting check. The pilot with the lowest result acts first to move his starship and perform stunts, followed by the next lowest, and so on, until all starships have moved. Also during this phase, each of the science officers act at the same point in the phase as her starship’s pilot, but they can decide between them who acts first.
3. Gunnery: The gunners can fire their starships’ weapons. Although starships fire in the same order decided upon in the helm phase, the effects of damage are not taken into account until the end of the phase, meaning that all starships can fire, even if they take enough damage to be disabled or destroyed during this phase.
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Kallus nods at Baskoro. "Fair enough. Baskoro it is."
Seeing the Eoxian ship coming into range, Kallus jumps into his seat and starts barking orders...
"Baskoro, see if you can encourage those updates to go faster, I want to know what that ship can do.", he then looks to Gornoc.
Nodding at the vesk thanking him for his suggestion, he says, "See if you can keep him off our tail until we can bring those laser cannons to bear."
He then gets on the intercom. "Zabrutal! Get me more power! We need to get behind that ship!"
"Zye, as soon as Zabrutal gives you the go ahead, get us behind that boneship."
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"Engaging power flows. Thrusters on overboost. Fly, Zye, fly." Zabrutal responds from the engine room with a happy rumbling voice.
The ratfolk perks right up as the lights on his console go from green to very green. Yesssir! I mean, yes cremate Zabrutal. he says correcting himself as the captain looks sternly down at him.
Hearing Gornoc's advice, the ysoki turns as best he can to shoot by the Eoxian vessel. Even with the boosted speed its not quite enough to overtake its rear, but the ratfolk has a plan for that.
Hold on! Zye yells. I wanna try something!
Whoooooooooo he yells as the Loreseeker turns going in a straight line into a frenzy of zigs and zags. Serpentine!
Also, I love all your roleplaying!
Gornoc scores a solid hit with the coilgun!
The Threnody returns fire.
But with Zye's manouvering, the shot isnt even close!
Round two
It looks like this time Zye is a little bit distracted by his own Zig-zagging.
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Zye almost spills his apples as he brings the Loreseeker to starboard first in a wide arc before suddenly making a sharp turn and zooming straight towards the Eoxians.
Behind the Boneship, as asked for Captain! the ysoki yells out, so excited to close that it doesn't quite dawn on him why their enemy may not have moved themselves yet...
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"Reboot did the trick captain, scanning enemy ship! Stand by!"
Baskoro tries to keep up with the data that rolls in
"Living crew: None, Ship classification and size: Large heavy Freighter, Maximum Speed and maneuverability: 6, average turn capacity (2). Defenses: AC and TL 11. Hullpoints: 89 out of 100, no shields. Their Power Core is a Arcus Ultra with 150 PCU. Finally Forward weapon: heavy laser cannon (4d8), we want to stay out of that arc!"
The Threnody makes a heavy handed turn, catching the pegasus in its starboard arc.
It looks like the Eoxian is getting the hang of it, letting the shot pass a little too close for comfort.
Also, with the forums going down so much, I would like to propose we cut this quest short. Nearly all of you already played the quests, and this isn't the most exiting combat. While there has been an extension of a few days, I think we can use that to try and push for completion, rather then let this quest eat up more time. But I will leave that completely up to you