The First Mandate (Inactive)

Game Master DoubleGold

Radaszam appears before you all.

The burly vesk doesn’t mince words. “We’ve got a situation on
our hands. I’ve been following rumors of a somewhat notorious
assassin who only recently showed up on Absalom Station. I
just heard from one of my contacts that signs point to the First
Seeker as the assassin’s next target—and if that’s the case, the
assassin will almost certainly make a move tonight.
“Now here’s the thing. I’ve got enough security here that no
one’s really in any danger; and besides, Luwazi’s no stranger
to a fight. But it’d look really bad for the Society if someone
took at shot at her in front of all these high-ups, you know
what I mean?
“On the other hand, if a team of crack Starfinders were to
investigate the rumors and unmask the assassin, we’d be able to
show that we can still hold our own and add some, oh, let’s say,
gravitas to the First Seeker’s announcement tonight. Defeat this
assassin in style, impress the investors, make yourselves look
good in the process... What do you say?”

Assuming the PCs buy into the plan, Radaszam relays the
information he has about the assassin: a particularly hard-to-trace
individual known as Triloteya traced to a rented engineering bay
in Sparks. He provides the address and urges the party to check
out the location, hoping they find enough evidence to identify the
assassin and her plans. Once they’ve checked out the space, they
can contact him via comm unit and plan their next steps.

Treasure: Prior to the PCs’ departure, Radaszam provides the
PCs with several gifts, depending on their successes during the
gala. He grudgingly notes that the gifts are a joint offering from
himself and Luwazi Elsebo. In Subtier 1–2, if the PCs influenced
at least two of the NPCs, Radaszam provides the PCs with two
screamer grenades I, a tactical arc emitter, and 1,000 credits. If the
PCs managed to influence four or more NPCs in Subtier 1–2, then
Radaszam also provides the PCs with a set of business stationwear
armor and an additional 600 credits.

"Now that sounds like something more in line with my skills and abilities. Let's make like a tree and get on out of here!"

As they approached the address that Radaszam had given them, Rastar pulled a pistol in one hand, and his hammer in another, keeping his eyes open for any sign of a sentry or other danger. He was especially concerned with a cat that was following them. It's likely that the creature was a robotic construct made to look like a cat, for security reasons.

perception: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (5) + 1 = 6

Perception: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (9) + 8 = 17

Takeshi also keeps his senses aware as they approach the reported hideout of the supposed assassin.

Perception: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (3) + 10 = 13

As they approach the assassin's hideout, Laksell also watches the cat that's following the team. He casts detect magic and sweeps it across both the cat and the entrance to the suspect engineering bay.

"Well, the cat, at least, is not magical, friend Rastar."

There is no danger at the meeting or anything of interest. Heroes proceed on.

Corridor
The stained plastic door of this engineering bay is no different
from the dozens lining the grimy hallway. A glaring LED
lighting strip illuminates the address code imprinted along the
doorframe. Every few seconds, this light, along with all the
others along the corridor, flickers briefly. Though the sounds
of industry still echo through the corridors, this section clearly
sees less traffic and is currently devoid of passersby.

You are in a hallway, you can go east through the doors, or you can go south and around through the doors, both sets of doors look like they lead to the same place, which means you could split the party and flank but you don't know what is on the other side.

perceptions: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (17) + 10 = 27 laksell
perceptions: 8 + 1d20 ⇒ 8 + (7) = 15 Takeshi
perceptions: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (12) + 1 = 13 Rastar
perceptions: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (18) + 6 = 24 Darrien
Heroes spot and then disable the trap at the door.

They then open the door.
init: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (15) + 1 = 16 Laksell
init: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (18) + 1 = 19 Rastar
init: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (13) + 8 = 21 Takeshi
init: 5 + 1d20 ⇒ 5 + (12) = 17 Darrien
init: 4 + 1d20 ⇒ 4 + (4) = 8 Heroes see a flying electrical bat snake like creature 20 feet from the door, small sized. And a 2nd one 15 feet behind that one.
All heroes are up

Is there a map, or are we doing this freestyle?

Quick as a wink, and without thinking about stealth, Rastar fired at the lead creature, taking it in the head.

1d20 + 5 ⇒ (20) + 5 = 25
2d6 ⇒ (5, 3) = 8

Hooray crits!

Takeshi readies his acid dart rifle (standard action), and the mumbles under his breath. "Alex, track target bravo" (move action)

Combat tracking active target 2.

SP 12/12
HP 16/16
Needler Pistol 6/6
Dart rifle 10/10
Additional Ammo avail: 270

Sorry for the disappearance, had a lot of life stuff happening over the last week.

Finally.. some real fun heheh.

Darrien brings his rifle up and fires at the enemy furthest away.

attack: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (20) + 4 = 24
damage: 4d4 ⇒ (2, 1, 3, 2) = 8 Crits!

The heroes all deliver good hits one the enemies, unfortunately they don't focus fire.
Botting Laksell.
He will mind thrust the nearest one will: 2 + 1d20 ⇒ 2 + (4) = 6
dmg: 2d10 ⇒ (4, 9) = 13 as the creature takes all of it.

They both move up to Darrien, as he has the highest AC, he'd probably be ahead of the party by a step
Both creatures still alive, the 1st one just barely
hit: 9 + 1d20 ⇒ 9 + (15) = 24
hit: 9 + 1d20 ⇒ 9 + (16) = 25 as they try to tail slap him
Darrien take dmg: 2d4 + 6 ⇒ (3, 3) + 6 = 12
All heroes are up
21 dmg on one, 8 on the other

Takeshi fires at the second electrical bat snake creature (combat tracking active).

Acid Dart Rifle: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (19) + 5 = 24
Damage:: 1d8 ⇒ 6

He then moves through the door and to the right ten feet. Free-styling here since we don't really have any maps.

SP: 12/12
HP: 16/16
Needler Pistol: 6/6
Dart rifle: 9/10
Additional Ammo avail: 270

I'll take the damage, but for the record, I'd be closer to the back, ATM Darrien is using a sniper rifle, and, personality wise, would have more than happily let the bigger Kasatha go first. Or someone with double his HP :3 haha

Darrien grunts from the hits but manages to pull out his Tac Knife and swing at the most injured creature, taking up a defensive stance while doing so.

trick attack (stealth): 1d20 + 15 ⇒ (12) + 15 = 27 VS 20+CR of creature, if successful it is flat-footed.

attack: 1d20 + 4 - 4 ⇒ (16) + 4 - 4 = 16
damage: 1d4 + 1 + 1d4 ⇒ (2) + 1 + (4) = 7

+2 to my ACs

Rastar plunged ahead with his hammer, swinging at the one already damaged by his pistol. His hit and run fighting style really showed as he plunged into the melee.

attack,ov: 1d20 + 3 + 2 ⇒ (16) + 3 + 2 = 21
1d6 + 2 ⇒ (4) + 2 = 6

Move in and attack with hammer, opening volley bonus

Heroes then make quick way of the electrical beasts as they all help out, Laksell included, as he just takes a simple whack or swipe at the last one and it goes down. They drop dead and their bodies flash electrically then fade out. The corpses are still there on the ground though.
The heroes can search the room, but find nothing of interest here.
Darrien can take a 10 minute rest here and spend and RP to regain Stamina

While the others rested, Rastar looked around, always on guard. If they were about to come to an assassin's hideout, then he was sure there would be more traps and danger ahead. But of course, those electric bat things were so interesting. Maybe he could look at them and keep watch...

perception: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (4) + 1 = 5

As Darrien rests, Laksell follows Rastar to investigate the snake things and check the room.

Perception: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (3) + 10 = 13

He doesn't see much more than Rastar, but points out some interesting features of the snakes' anatomies.

Takeshi maintains his readiness as much as possible and waits for the others to be ready to move on.

Actually the heroes do find treasure. Plenty of credits, including the hides the beasts they slain. And a backpack. The backpack contains some combat gear, including a suit of basic lashunta tempweave armor and an anchoring fusion seal (3). And more credits.
Heroes ready positions as Darrien takes a short rest, but it turns out uneventful.

The heroes then reach the party room.
Naija says hi to you all, but not directly she sends in a drone with a message How, you all doing starfinders. You all did great and you have a great future ahead of you. The drone then delivers six mk1 healing serums Darrien might want to use one now to recover. since Healing Serums disappear when the scenario is over, cause he took HP damage

Here you have been given two tasks as it appears on your personal intercoms. Find the assassin. Also find and disarm all five explosives. Yes this assassin is dangerous.
Royo appears on the intercom You can destroy the explosives safely with Kinetic damage, you need not to be a bomb diffuser.
Iteration-77 comes next to you in person I will help you fight assassin
Zo comes next to you in person. If I get up on stage, you should be able to sneak in out of the place easily, the assassin wants to escape after detonating these things. I will put on an act, so you can disarm these bombs or sneak around the back to the assassin, while he listens to me. He won't be able to hear you disarming those bombs, I'll have the music cranked up really loud.
Ykris Once the PCs have located one or more explosives, during the first round they begin attempting to disarm
them, Ykris takes note. The parasite detaches from Jhireu and sneakily skitters over to another device, successfully disarming it by the end of the following round.
One last thing appears on your intercom If you don't want to disarm the explosives, I can send Drone spiders to handle them, Radasazm out

Heroes disarm explosives first or go after assassin first? Do both and split the party? Or only go after assassin while the drone spiders handle the explosives? You know all five explosives are in the party room up on stage, you can see them, and you the assassin is behind the stage, but there is no curtain there, you have to go through the door and walk through a hallway and bam, there he is, which takes 1 full round of doublemoving. You also know that Zo's performance will buy you four extra rounds worth of time. Not telling you how many rounds, the assassin will flee after round X+4. The bombs will explode after round X+4.

Laksell listens to the briefings and offerings of assistance then looks at each of his allies with a dreamy gaze. "There are only four of us," he begins. "Perhaps it is best if we do not divide our limited strength and instead make the best use of these generous offers of aid. I suggest we let Radasazm's drones deal with the explosives."

Someone might want the armor instead of what they've got. If no one does, though, Laksell will take it. And one of the shooters should definitely equip that Anchoring fusion seal.

Laskell, first claim, first delivered :) That's some nice armor at level 2, enjoy! Takeshi will take an anchoring fusion seal for his dart rifle.

we could always try to flush him out through an exit we want. Give this assassin an escape route by cutting off the others. Then take em out when they take it. He checks the round in is rifle.

Or, if we can figure out where he is hiding, I bet I can get the jump on em. he gives a grin.

Heroes go through a back door, turn in the shape of and L hook and they are about to go through another door. Meanwhile Zo is trying to sing Frank Sinatra, but he is doing a horrible job of it, his voice is bad and he can't even get the words right. It's like he did it from what he think he heard from the song rather than looking up the words first before singing. "Fly me two Moons. Let me pay among the stars. Let me see what string I like on Jupiter and Mars." It is just plain horrible, even the sound of his voice is bad.

You are about to open the door and the assassin you are 99% sure is on the other side. Who wants to stealth check open the door? Success means the party will get a surprise round as you all ready actions. The assassin takes a -5 penalty to perception right now, cause of what is going on.

Rastar pulled pistol and hammer as they found the place where the assassin in likely hiding. He prepared to go through the door fast and deliver a knockout strike with his hammer. He hesitated for a moment before asking. "Do you think I should go out there and disarm the bombs. This thing does pretty good damage. Of course, it'll do just as much damage to the assassin, so maybe we should just stick to the plan."

stealth Darrien: 11 + 1d20 ⇒ 11 + (20) = 31 and the Assassin is too distracted as Darrien does it at the right time.
Surprise round and init go The Assassin is 20 feet from you, the room is 40 feet long by 15 feet wide

Too late for splitting the group, Rastar leveled his pistol at the assassin and pulled the trigger, then charged in.

Shoot first, move in next, leaving room for the others to attack.

1d20 + 5 ⇒ (15) + 5 = 20
1d6 ⇒ 5

When the door opens Takeshi sub-vocalizes, Alex, combat tracking, priority target one!

Then brings up his dart rifle and fires.

Dart rifle: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (7) + 5 = 12 missed I am sure

SP: 12/12
HP: 16/16
Needler Pistol: 6/6
Dart rifle: 8/10
Additional Ammo avail: 270

Initiative: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (14) + 8 = 22

Laksell rouses from his reverie. He'd been really enjoying Zo's singing and was contemplating the deep meanings of the lyrics, when suddenly Darrien opened the door.

He immediately focuses his thoughts on his opponent's greatest pain, bringing it to the fore with a mental stab.

Mind Thrust, Will DC 16: 2d10 ⇒ (4, 7) = 11

Initiative: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (8) + 1 = 9

Rastar hits the assassin in the leg
Takeshi hits the assassin with the dart rifle She is flatfooted, otherwise that normally would be a miss. Roll damage.
Laksell drives a powerful force in her head. will: 6 + 1d20 ⇒ 6 + (15) = 21 though it hurts, she shrugs much of it off. 10 dmg on her. Waiting on Darrien's attack and Takeshi's dmg.
init: 5 + 1d20 ⇒ 5 + (10) = 15 of assassin.

Damage: 1d8 ⇒ 8

auto pistol attack: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (14) + 4 = 18
damage: 1d6 ⇒ 2

Darrien rushes past the assassin before firing off a round.

Takeshi hits the Assassin in the chest, while Darrien shoots her in the hand
init: 5 + 1d20 ⇒ 5 + (6) = 11 Darrien
init: 1 + 1d20 ⇒ 1 + (19) = 20 Rastar
20 dmg on the Assassin
Rastar and Takeshi is up Round 1 Start

Having softened up the assassin with an opening shot, Rastar slammed his hammer in, backhanded.

attack, ov: 1d20 + 3 + 2 ⇒ (9) + 3 + 2 = 14
1d6 + 2 ⇒ (4) + 2 = 6

Rastar swings his hammer, but bounces off her armor Just barely a miss.

Dart Rifle: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (13) + 5 = 18
Damage: 1d8 ⇒ 7

SP: 12/12
HP: 16/16
Needler Pistol: 6/6
Dart rifle: 7/10
Additional Ammo avail: 270

Takeshi fires a pistol at the Assassin sinking the dark in deep. It is lucky you didn't deal 8 damage, cause if she falls below 7 HP she runs, manually detonating the explosives, and those spiders aren't done yet. This basically gives all the heroes another turn.
She will guard step and cast Daze on Rastar Will save 13
Rest of the heroes are up

Seeing his mental punch get shrugged off, Laksell takes a split second to study the assassin. He looks for tell-tale signs of posture, body shape and size, or unique breathing apparati as he attempts to discern what type of foe they face.

Life Science to id Creature: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (10) + 5 = 15

When the assassin casts a spell, he quickly notes the distinctive magical energies and auras.

Mysticism to id Spell: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (2) + 12 = 14

You already told us it was daze, and the result of 14 is enough to id a 0-level spell, so I'm going to proceed assuming that he's successful.

"Well, two can play that game of Tiles," Laksell murmurs as he casts the same spell back at the assassin. Daze DC 15

The assassin appears to be human, Perception check to see through her disguise
will save: 6 + 2 + 1d20 ⇒ 6 + 2 + (18) = 26 Her will is 6, but +2 to mind affects. and she shrugs it off like nothing.

Darrien fires off another shot trying to keep the assassin off balance.

trick attack: 1d20 + 15 ⇒ (10) + 15 = 25 DC is = 20+CR. Target is flat footed in general if successful

attack: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (18) + 4 = 22
trick damage: 1d6 + 1d4 ⇒ (3) + (2) = 5

Darrien lands a shot at the assassin just missing the heart.
Rastar and Takeshi are up 3 HP Assassin, can you do it?

Takeshi fires again.

Dart Rifle: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (9) + 5 = 14
Damage: 1d8 ⇒ 1

SP: 12/12
HP: 16/16
Needler Pistol: 6/6
Dart rifle: 6/10
Additional Ammo avail: 270

Apparently not, LOL!

Rastar ignored the woman's spell and slammed his hammer in again, taking advantage of Takeshi's shot to land a heavy blow in the assassin's midriff.

will: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (12) + 3 = 15
attack: 1d20 + 3 + 2 ⇒ (12) + 3 + 2 = 17
damage: 1d6 + 2 ⇒ (3) + 2 = 5

Takeshi misses, while Rastar lands a blow and kills the assassin. The assassin was a reptilian. The spiders are just about done disarming the explosives, in fact if you hurry you can disarm the last one by yourselves if you want.

When Rastar's hammer fells the target, Laksell steps with purpose toward the assassin's body. "Perhaps you could finish off the bombs. I'll catch up to you," he says to no one in particular. He then carefully examines the remains both visually and with the assistance of a bit of simple magic.

Casting detect magic also.

Perception : 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (20) + 10 = 30

AH, well, job well done I think. And, to the victor goes the spoils. He kneels down and starts patting down the assassin for any valuables, from trinkets, too weapons, too credits. He will also give Lasksell a better look at anything that seemed to catch his eye.

[ooc]What test to disarm?[ooc]

Perception, then Engineering, you need to roll both to disarm.
You get one chance Succeed and you will all get the Honoray Spider reward, fail and you won't get this minimally useful boon.
Laksell finds no magic, though he would have detected it earlier, via the assassins disguise.
They search the assassin and he has casual stationwear, static arc pistol with 1 battery (20 charges), survival knife, mk 1 serums of healing (2), detonator, credstick with 586 credits
But the scenario is over
Zo continues singing, only this time he sings Frank Sinatra very great, he has a great singing voice and gets all the words right. It is like he did a bad voice on purpose to annoy the assassin

Disarming:
Perception: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (17) + 8 = 25
Engineering: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (6) + 10 = 16

And Takeshi finds examines and disables the last bomb.