Val'nor moves to get a clear shot.
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Init -
Bast will use his combat tracking and fire at the creature
To hit -
Damage -
Lasereater dives for his flame pistol and stands up looking confused, "Horse shell look like it bounces the lasers, mebbe?"
Val'nor reacts quickly, but aims too hastily and fires wide. Bast snaps off a shot and clipping the large creature's carapace.
Blax-9 also fires point-blank, but his shot ricochets harmlessly off the thing's heavy armor.
The giant khefak scrambles across the edge of the crater and closes on Blax-9, slashing at the android with a heavy claw but missing a foot over his head.
Val'nor takes aim at the beast, and fires again.
Rounds: 47/50
Blax-9 moves away and fires again.
Lasereater grabs his weapon and stands with a confused and tired look on his face. Bast reloads. Val'nor and Blax-9 both continue to fire, landing a couple of solid shots into the monster. It oozes glowing blood from several wounds, but roars and skitters across the sand to attack Blax-9 again.
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As long as the creature stays at least 50ft away from him, Val'nor will continue to shoot at it.
Current_Rifle_Ammo: 46/50
Blax-9 moves and fires on the bug again.
Bast will fire again
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Damage -
Lasereater casts supercharge on Blax 9s weapon.
The beast slashes at Blax-9 as he retreats.
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Blax-9 moves and fires, missing. Val'nor and Bast both hit for minor damage. Lasereater cannot reach Blax-9, so must cast his spell on either Val'nor or Bast.
The khefak mindlessly chases after Blax-9 and attacks again.
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Bast
Bast fires again
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Damage -
With his weapon empowered, Bast takes a split-second longer to aim his shot, and sends it straight through the khefak's cranium plate. Oozing glowing ichor, the giant beast crashes to the sand.
Blax-9 bandages his wounds and then searches the hull for any means of entry. If he finds a door, he will enter.
Val'nor says "ok, I'm over these bugs!"
He then goes to assist Blax in looking for a door.
You cautiously search the ship's wreckage. There are many wide gaps in the hull from the crash landing and subsequent consumption by the khefaks, so gaining entry to what remains is not difficult. Finding anything intact is a bit more work, but after about a half-hour's search, you uncover a battered but whole box safe. The safe is two foot cube, sealed tight, and marked with the symbol of the Starfinder Society.
Lasereater lays on the ground sprewdeagled staring at the sky the whole time to complete his short rest.
Blax-9 studies the box to see if it is safe to open. If so, he will open it.
The safe has no obvious latch or opening mechanism. The only marking on the box is that of the Starfinders.
Amidst the wreckage, you also find seven desiccated corpses. Their identifications reveal them to be the missing crew of the Unbounded Wayfarer, but their Starfinder insignia are gone (some of which you now have).
Blax-9 shrugs and tosses the box to Val'nor. "We recovered the information that murdered crew left behind, as well as the relics the raiders missed. Mission accomplished. Let's get out of here."
Lasereater stares at the box and after trying to lick it through his space suit unsuccessfully, attempts to push a starfinder insignia up against it.
"We bring longshanks deadbodys and ID to boss man for bonus creds?" Lasereater asks with an look filled with avarice.\
"What kills them? Stupid horse?"
Lasereater fishes out his Starfinder insignia and holds it next to the box. Triggered by the proximity, a subtle indentation appears around the marking on the safe. Lasereater sets his insignia into the slot and the safe clicks open with a hiss of pressurized air. The air inside smells strongly of smoke and burning plastics.
Inside the safe are three objects: a datapad, a small metal jewelry box, and a tiny obsidian figurine of a winged snake-like creature.
The figure is of an electrovore.
Lasereater scratches his head, and again is rebuffed by his space helmet. He snarls and spins in a circle trying to get at the itch before he stops, panting.
"<huff> ... dis dog snake thing is 'lectrovore. Mebbe dis thing cursed and bring down swarm of evil 'lectricity eating dog snakes to crash shio?"
Blax-9 nods at Lasereater. "Yeah, that's probably what happened. Let's get all this back to Sarigar and get our cash."
Val'nor looks at Lasereater, not really sure if the Space Goblin is joking? Val'nor says "or...we could just check the datapad"
Val'nor activates the datapad without any trouble. It looks as if the device was tossed into the safe at the last minute, just before calamity fell, and the last user made no effort to secure the data. The last file accessed is a recording. Val'nor starts the playback and a holo-projector attached to the pad emits the image of a hunched, wounded figure. The man wears a jumpsuit, blackened and burned badly along his left side, and a familiar insignia.
"This is Halson Vex, Starfinder. We are about to crashland on the planet Ulmarid, and survival is unlikely. I hope this datapad and these items stay out of enemy hands long enough for another Starfinder to recover them. I downloaded what information I could about several planets we explored, and two significant items we found: a magical obsidian figurine, and an aeon stone." He looks away as someone says something to him off-image, then he adds a little more. "Impact is imminent. We were ambushed by a pirate vessel, the Lawblight... they were hiding in the debris field. He shakes his head, sadly. "We go to meet Pharasma. Say a prayer for our souls."
The recording ends with a flicker of holographic static.
"Find dis Lawblight? Make dem pay?" Lasereater asks nonchalantly.
He then examines the figurine more, opening his mouth to stick the figurine in, but this time remembering he is wearing a space suit before he slams it into his facemask, "Me learn more about dis back on ship.
Unless it cursed, then me throw it away. Now, Open da box, find A-on rock."
Lasereater points to the small jewelry box and if no one moves to it, opens it himself.
Blax-9 wearily watches Lasereater open the box with his weapon ready,"Ain't going to be nothing good in there."
"Lets lock these things back up and get out of here. This pirate ship worries me too"
Lasereater opens up the jewelery box, which holds a tiny spindle-shaped gem, clear with iridescent colors.
Lasereater plucks the stone up and chucks it in the air seeing if it twirls around his head.
It does!
The goblin follows it in a circle a few times until he gets dizzy and falls over. With a big toothy grin he points at the spinning stone.
"Is magic!"
Blax-9 curses and spits. "All magic got that other crew was a smoking heap of dead. May kill us too before this is all over."
He leads the way back to the ship.
Val'nor says "Yeah, I agree. But WOW, it sure is pretty.'
Val'nor shakes his head then scans the skies. "are those storms still out there?'
<- Science Station (scanning)
Pilot -
"Val scan for that pirate ship as well, this might be their hunting ground and I want to know about them before they know about us"
"We heading back to the Station or are we going pirate hunting?"
Retcon Medicine on the bodies if possible -
Bast examines the remains of the fallen Starfinders. It is clear they were killed on impact. but most of them have some kind of battle wounds from soon before the crash.
Eager to be on your way, you hastily collect the bodies and items and start back for the Loreseeker, leaving the wreckage and dead khefaks behind. Aware of the poison crystal storms and their signs, you navigate to avoid a couple developing cells and make it to your ship without any further trouble.
You launch and start the climb back to space. Bast does a spectacular job of piloting the ship safely through the debris field. So much so, that the rest of you don't have much to do.
Cued by Bast's warning, Val'nor scans ahead for any signs of a pirate ambush. Just as you are emerging from the debris field, he picks up a faint signal from a nearby cluster of asteroids... a camouflaged ship is just now starting to power up!
Val'nor asks "think we can out run them?"
Science Station (Scan for Details of the ship)
Blax-9 jumps in the gunner seat and powers on the weapons. "It's the Lawblight! Kill 'em!"
He opens up with the coil gun if he can lock onto the ship.
With a snarl, Blax-9 clicks off the coilgun safety and quickly fires off a blast. The projectile hits the pirate ship before it can start moving, making it an easy target.
Round One - Engineering
After the suprise hit, the Lawblight powers up rapidly as their engineer kickstarts the thrusters.