"Very brave." John nodded in approval at Robert's suggestion. "If there is an ambush you'll likely be the target. I'll take lead."
John relaxed in the familiar drift of zero gravity. Android musculature coped better with extensive microgravity, and he'd forced himself to work out in an area of the derelict he'd managed to restore gravity to, but he still found gravity exhausting. This - pushing off and flying as he trailed rope - seemed so much more natural.
"Seems like a trap." John noted "But I think we have to go in. We need to make sure we can also get out. We're being paid to scout, not die. If we find something dangerous it seems likely that is what killed the crew. At that point the mystery is solved and we can all go home."
"Very brave." John nodded in approval at Robert's suggestion. "If there is an ambush you'll likely be the target. I'll take lead."
"Better the possibility of something behind us than the near-certainty of enemies in front of us," Robert grunted, shrugging his shoulders.
"Seems like a trap." John noted "But I think we have to go in. We need to make sure we can also get out. We're being paid to scout, not die. If we find something dangerous it seems likely that is what killed the crew. At that point the mystery is solved and we can all go home."
"Just as long as the mystery doesn't follow us back home," Robert muttered, squeezing the stock of his rifle nervously, seeking comfort in the cold, hard plastic.
I don't trust the little gobbers anywhere but directly in front of a gun. John's moving more and more the same. He could be convinced otherwise... though I'd also be okay if they were killed "cinematically" when we first hit the bad guy.
"Could be whatever it was was just as immune to their lasers as the Akatas - is there such a thing as an Akata queen? I'd suggest we try for a variety of weapon types, and I'd like to see that seal in place just in case."
"Well, I've got fire, and I've got whack it with a stick," Zadie states flatly. "And while the fusion seal could make my whack-it-with-a-stick slighly whackier if we're fighting Eoxians, my personal preference is not to be within a stick's length of anything that made the whole crew of the Acreon run for their lives to a chunk of space-rock."
John gave a half smile at Robert through his helmet. "I'd much prefer to see things coming. Sounds like we're made for each other."
"Is that rock big enough to create any gravity?" Zadie asked nervously across the comm channel. "Or are we going to be floating weightless in there?" While her school had covered starship operation quite thoroughly, she had never had any anti-grav training; techs were supposed to stay safely inside the hull and leave spacewalks to the more expendable flyboys.
"Is that rock big enough to create any gravity?" Zadie asked nervously across the comm channel. "Or are we going to be floating weightless in there?" While her school had covered starship operation quite thoroughly, she had never had any anti-grav training; techs were supposed to stay safely inside the hull and leave spacewalks to the more expendable flyboys.
Zadie, this did not make it into the turn recap but I'll add it next turn.
It's weightless in there (so far).
Lighting can be provided by mining equipment and/or suits, your choice.
Action 1:
John's cannon snapped to attention as the humanoid figure drifted into sight. "I've got something!" he called. "Seems to be dead. Need confirmation it is not a threat. Any volunteers?"
Action 2:
Once again John's cannon snapped to attention, but this time the dead man moved. "What the!..." he started before shouting "STOP!" The word was useless in the vaccum, of course, except for those poor souls stuck on his radio channel.
The cannon was silent - eerily so - in the dark abyss of space. John's shot was aimed, but unable to fight the feeling this might be a survivor he aimed for a limb, and missed entirely. The recoil threw him back, and he clamped his feet together around a rough projection. He straightened, upside down relative to the others.
Zadie just managed not to scream as the beams from their various lights painted across the floating corpse.
The man was not infected with the akatas' void death. In fact, this crew member was lucky-he died of his wounds shortly after the crew retreated here, and so avoided a horrifying transformation into a void zombie.
John: I like your description of the recoil; who cares if it's not RAW. :)
No one is going to curse out the gobbos? I'm trying my damn best to make them a nuisance without being suicidal. :)
Questions?
Game on!
"What were they thinking to come back here where all the bad things came from in the first place?" Zadie wondered, eyeing the dead man's backup generator and making a mental note to pocket it when the space goblins weren't watching to complain. "They had to have known there could have been more in here."
"What were they thinking to come back here where all the bad things came from in the first place?" Zadie wondered, eyeing the dead man's backup generator and making a mental note to pocket it when the space goblins weren't watching to complain. "They had to have known there could have been more in here."
Kamiya didn't think it was that odd. "I think they chose what they thought was the lesser of two evils. Obviously whatever spooked them on the Acreon seemed way worse than whatever they may find here."
The lashunta kept her distance from the corpse. "I guess we should take the bodies back with us to show what happened to the crew and so that their families have closure." She motioned at their resident robotic videographer. "I don't think a video will be enough for the families."
Action 2:
"Agreed." John hesitated "Subsequent to our mission. If we grab every body now, then we will need to return them one by one. If we identify them, then bring them together, then we can tie them up and move them across as one mass."
Action 2
Robert peered at the two corridor walls of worked metal, almost missing the presence of a lurching undead at first. The horrified screams of the goblins, carried over the suit channel, quickly alerted him of its presence, though. Robert flinched back as the goblins sought to escape the creature, kicking off from the floor to float towards what he had personally labled as "ceiling", letting the panicked duo run past below him.
Kamiya didn't think it was that odd. "I think they chose what they thought was the lesser of two evils. Obviously whatever spooked them on the Acreon seemed way worse than whatever they may find here."
"What spooked them on the Acreon came from here," Zadie pointed out. "I still say they were morons. Lock yourself in that trapped cargo room and try to hold out until the autopilot brings you home. And cut the damn rock loose in case there's more of them in here." She looked around nervously. "It probably just followed them back over here and finished them off. It's not like there's a door to shut. Unless there's one deeper in the rock."
er... kind of hard to do a turn recap without being able to preview my rolls...
Paizo, what are you doing?
As if having 'false positives' on my threads was not bad enough. :(
If you want to roll manually I'll trust you :)
You also could roll your dice in the Dice-rolling thread and then assemble your recap from the raw numbers there.
I'm in the middle of a massive multi-participant combat in my Giantslayer game, and I really hope they get this fixed before I have to try to update that. :(
Edited to add: Hm, Edit works, so you could roll dice and then edit your post to add the narrative as well.
Paizo hopes to have it fixed within 48 hours ... which is quite a while for PbP purposes.
Read the OOC.
Questions, comments, and/or suggestions?
Game on!
PS: I went 'old school' and just rolled with my spreadsheet.
John started to slip away, then remembered the vulnerable, already wounded associates behind him. Instead John shoved his cannon into the creature, desperately trying to push it off to float helplessly in space. He felt a foot slip on the rock wall and sweat-analogue suddenly coated his hands inside their second-skin gloves. "Anytime!" he called out.
Prepared to retreat back the way he had come from, Robert reached out an arm towards the undead and concentrated. He didn’t want to risk using a rifle with all the people in the way, but he felt more confident he wouldn’t fry John if he used a minor reality manipulation instead.
Now, what element to use… cold didn’t seem to hamper the creature, what with it floating around in space without a working helmet. But perhaps fire would do? There was very little heat around for Robert to transfer into the creature, but the thing was still wearing its suit, and it would have a power supply. Narrowing his eyes in concentration, Robert’s will enforced a transformation, from electrical energy into heat.
A spot on the zombie’s suit glowed crimson, brightened into orange and Robert could see the suit scorching, burnt through by the conjured heat, revealing split and blistered skin.
Void zombies are not immune to fire.
I would think grenades in zero G would work well, perhaps too well. Let's double the explosion radius on them.
Questions?
Game on!
Kamiya's instinct for something so hideous was to kill it with fire. She drew her laser pistol and fired it at the horrifying creature.
Zadie prepped the flame pistol, but with her attorney between herself and the undead crewman, she didn't have a clear shot.
"Like the Akatas, these should be resistant to heat and cold," Robert said on the suit channel, having recognized the creature for what it was - or, rather, the tongue-like pseudopod.
Prepared to retreat back the way he had come from, Robert reached out an arm towards the undead and concentrated. He didn’t want to risk using a rifle with all the people in the way, but he felt more confident he wouldn’t fry John if he used a minor reality manipulation instead.
Now, what element to use… cold didn’t seem to hamper the creature, what with it floating around in space without a working helmet. But perhaps electricity would do? There were no live systems around for Robert to overload, but the thing was still wearing its suit, and it would have a power supply. Narrowing his eyes in concentration, Robert’s will teased and prodded at the small powercell.
A spot on the zombie’s suit glowed crimson, brightened into orange and Robert could see the suit scorching, burnt through by the electrical discharge, revealing split and blistered skin.
As an aside, I'm kind of afraid to move because the zero-gravity rules intimidate me. By my understanding, anyone not adjacent to a wall can't really move at all, and once you start moving, you can't stop until you run into something. That sounds absolutely terrifying in a combat situation with something that can take AoOs trying to kill you.
Plus, does the move action of pushing off an object or creature provoke AoOs? Does the move action of stopping yourself by latching onto an object or creature provoke? How about running into a creature? Surely that provokes if the creature is an armed enemy? But you can't actually end your movement in its square (or at least you couldn't in Pathfinder) so unless it's armed with a reach weapon, you're not leaving a threatened square by bumping into it.
Read the OOC.
Questions, comments, and/or suggestions?
Game on!
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Emboldened by his success, Robert reached out again for the zombie's suit's power cell, but this time nothing happened - clearly that one arc of electricity had consumed the last spark of power still stored in the damaged suit. He'd have to think of something else.
"Someone please hit that thing with something," he muttered.
As an aside, I'm kind of afraid to move because the zero-gravity rules intimidate me. By my understanding, anyone not adjacent to a wall can't really move at all, and once you start moving, you can't stop until you run into something. That sounds absolutely terrifying in a combat situation with something that can take AoOs trying to kill you.
Plus, does the move action of pushing off an object or creature provoke AoOs? Does the move action of stopping yourself by latching onto an object or creature provoke? How about running into a creature? Surely that provokes if the creature is an armed enemy? But you can't actually end your movement in its square (or at least you couldn't in Pathfinder) so unless it's armed with a reach weapon, you're not leaving a threatened square by bumping into it.
I didn't ignore. I just wanted some time to read the rules again. :)
So, yes, you have to push off things (people) to gain any sort of movement. And the same applies when you try to stop.
I would think you provoke AoO if you 'fly by' or 'fly off' someone but NOT if you run into them.
I'll see if I can make our next zero-g fight more interesting.
Questions?
Game on!
One challenge in zero-G combat is that it's hard to draw that tactical map in 3D :-) There's no floors or walls, only surfaces you might decide to cling to or push away from. And AoOs will indeed likely be plentiful on all sides.
One challenge in zero-G combat is that it's hard to draw that tactical map in 3D :-) There's no floors or walls, only surfaces you might decide to cling to or push away from.
Yeah, it's similar to adjudicating flight in PfRPG, only it comes up a lot earlier and more often in Starfinder. I have to say, I didn't even try to process the starship combat maps; I just made my Science Officer rolls.
With her other hand, Zadie drew her laser pistol and attempted to shoot over John's shoulder at the undead crewman.
John pushed off the wall with his feet, doing his level best to try the ultimate manoeuvre in hand to hand combat. While he'd never had a chance to actually try it, he'd studied vids avidly. Done correctly it left the opponent drifting helplessly in space, flailing for a handhold.
It was not done correctly. Desperately John found himself knocked slightly to the side by the impact, crawling ever-so slowly towards a collision with the ground. Desperately he forced himself to stay calm and keep his cannon between himself and the target.
Turn 103 – Please Hit that Thing
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Round 2:
Bracing herself against the wall, Kamiya used her laser pistol against the creature. She carefully aimed around John to begin with.
Round 3:
After John pushed the creature across the cavern, Kamiya felt she had a clearer shot. However, she still told Oriana to flatten herself against the wall so that the lashunta had an even better shot at the void zombie.
John concentrated on finding a handhold, dropping his cannon. As a loose object in space he was almost as dangerous as the Akataspawn they faced.
As soon as he once once again anchored John drew a weapon - this time the artillery laser that was likely to be useless in the fight.
Happy that John's gambit had worked and knocked the tentacle-tongued freak a comfortable distance away, Robert pressed the attack. Since he couldn't use the enemy's suit to attack its wearer again, he had decided on a different approach. He had seen a thin layer of frost on the creature's suit - perhaps condensation from the air released when its helmet had been breached. The technomancer knew he could use that to his advantage.
Robert reached out a hand, concentrating, muttering another mathematical formula as he willed the water molecules in the ice to change, transmuting the frozen moisture into acid. He was too far away to see the ice begin to melt, to flow despite the lack of gravity into tears in the armor, but he could see the creature's tongue lash out wildly as the parasite at least recognized the damage done to its host.