[SFS] GM Bigrin's Table 2 - The Half-Alive Streets (Inactive)

Game Master bigrin42

Vee-vee begins to assault the door, which is apparently very sturdy. From inside, the voice shouts, "Stop that! The door held against the zombies and it'll hold against you. And if you don't stop trying to break into my house, I will use my Station-given rights to shoot you in self-defense!"

"We have Abadar Badges!"

Waiting for the obligatory "we don't need no stinkin' badges!" remark

Oraeus gives a glance at the door and Vee-Vee, before sighing and motioning for her to back off and casting a small cantrip on himself. He plants his feet in front of the door and in a slightly more sonorus and smooth voice then usual, comments, "We're here to help... and investigate where those zombies are coming from. It's strange that the seemed to zero in on this place. It could be something as simple as you're the only living thing in the area, or it could be that it has something to do with you or this place. If it's the first, then we can protect you and keep you safe. However, if it's the second then we WILL be coming in and we WILL be finding out why, stinking badges or not!"

Oraeus gives a second for that to sink in before continuing, "Think about it this way, we will be going through that door, so if you want it to be able to protect you later, I'd reccomend opening it now!"

Diplomacy, Charming Veneer: 1d20 + 10 + 1 ⇒ (19) + 10 + 1 = 30

Tried to work the "We don't need no stinkin' badges" bit in but it didn't fit too well!

Vee-Vee smells its badge...

Wow, you diplomacized the door down!

After Oraeus gave such an impassioned speech, you could hear muffled conversations going on in the building. Then, the voice called out again.

"Fine! Maybe you can help us after all. I'm opening the door, please don't shoot."

The sound of furniture scraping on the floor was followed by a click and hiss as the door released, then opened. A shirren was standing inside, his hands held aloft in a gesture of surrender.

"Look, the zombies thing, it wasn't our fault. The ozze just went...bad, I don't know. Everything was fine, and then these zombies started showing up. Theskel recognized one of them as a guy who got a datajack from us, and that's when we knew."

Beyond the man was a converted storehouse that looked reasonable comfortably appointed as a combination living space with a workshop on one end. In the workshop area, another shirren peeked worriedly around the corner.

Wow, you diplomacized the door down!

Oraeus gives flips his antennae. "Oh, that was nothing!" ;-P

"Look, the zombies thing, it wasn't our fault. The ozze just went...bad, I don't know. Everything was fine, and then these zombies started showing up. Theskel recognized one of them as a guy who got a datajack from us, and that's when we knew."

Beyond the man was a converted storehouse that looked reasonable comfortably appointed as a combination living space with a workshop on one end. In the workshop area, another shirren peeked worriedly around the corner.

Oraeus gives a smile and gestures for the shirren to calm down. "It's okay, we aren't blaming you for anything. You can relax and take a deep breath. Why don't you slow down and talk us through what you've been doing here? For example, what's this 'ozze' thing? Also can you give us an idea of just how many datajacks and implants you made or sold?"

Diplomacy number 2?, Charming veneer: 1d20 + 10 + 1 ⇒ (9) + 10 + 1 = 20

Vee-Vee frowns: "Wouldn't've shot you, I only bash people."

"Look, we didn't mean to have troubles like this. We just fell behind in our orders, couldn't make the components fast enough. That's when Kinnakt got the idea to import some tech to help out. The ozze was supposed to just take tech apart, and then replicate it. But it attacked Kinnakt! It ate them! then it started producing all these biotech implants instead of what we programmed into it. They were just stacking up, so we sold them. I mean, if we didn't use them, then Kinnact's death was for nothing, right? And they were going to help people, which is what Kinnact always wanted. Only something went wrong. I dunno. Kinnact was the doctor and the tech specialist, not me."

"Ooze? Some ooze is in here?"

Poke. Okay guys, it's been 5 days and Vee-Vee is the only one who has posted. Anyone else still there? We are almost done. Don't give up on me now!

Te thinks to himself I would have shot him.

Putting his rifle away, Te moves over to listen to the shirren's explanation of what happened. "Where's the ozze now? We're going to need to take a look at it. Vee-Vee, show him the badge."

The shirren led you back to the attached workroom. The walls of this room are covered in metal boards with equidistant spacing for hanging tools. A workbench juts out from the western and northern facings of the area. A cylindrical container, guarded by cage of glowing red lasers, rests along the eastern wall. A large steel door exits to the south, while a smaller door to the north has a single one-way peephole looking out into the alley outside the house.

You can see motion coming from inside the container. As you watched, there was a blurping sound and something plopped out of the container and landed on a small pile of technological upgrades. It looked like a datajack.

"There's the ozze. Ever since it ate Kinnact, it's been putting out these components. Kinnact was heavily augmented. We think the ozze is just putting out different version of Kinnact's augs, no matter what we program into it!"

"Let's bash it! Bash it to pieces! Vile corruption! Don't use augments, just do push ups!"
Vee Vee bends over and peers at it.

Then Vee Vee SCREAMS at the pot!
Intimidate: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (16) + 4 = 20

Sorry! I hit an... odd patch. I wasn't stressed or burnt out but just couldn't get myself to sit down and post something.

Oraeus gives a quirk of his antenna. "An Ozze? That's not an ooze is it? It wouldn't happen to be an assembly ooze? Eats inorganic matter to make a copies upon copies of the same thing?" He gives a sigh and massages his upper forehead for a second. "If it is why should you ever expect that to NOT get out of hand and potentially be VERY dangerous to use on a person. But I am getting ahead of myself, we should probably take a look at the 'ozze' first. Where is it, and is it still spitting out datajacks?"

EDIT: Grumble posts coming in while I type mine up

Oraeus takes a look at the freshly produced datajack and blinks for a second. "Alright, how many of these things has it made and how many of those have you sold? Also you don't have any idea of how to shut it off do you?"

Sorry! I hit an... odd patch. I wasn't stressed or burnt out but just couldn't get myself to sit down and post something.

Been there many times. Don't worry about it.

"Umm...no we do not know how to turn it off. It does not appear to be responding to the controller. As for how many...we have sold over two dozen devices, and destroyed four times that once we learned what was happening. We are not bad people. We do not wish anyone to be hurt. We were just trying to run our business."

"Do you think you can help us?"

"Yes."

Vee-Vee glances at the others, hoping they can explain how.

Te shrugs when Vee-Vee looks at him. "Uh, unplug it? Punch it? Stick a frag in it?"

"We can carry it away, and have our smarter betters look into it."

"Umm...the last time we let the laser grate down, it ate Kinnakt! I don't think that is a good idea."

Te nods. "We can always bring the pieces back Vee-Vee. I think we should break it apart in to manageable pieces first."

"Could you temporarily deactivate ze laser grid, letting ze ooze move about half-way out from ze containment unit, before quickly reactivating ze grid?"

"Maybe...but I doubt it. The grid takes a while to power up."

Is it possible for us to attack the ooze through the laser grid? Such as with ranged weaponry?

The containment unit probably provides some protection, but you won't know until you try it (or make an appropriate skill check)

Blue-Jay will move to have a clear angle on the assembly ooze, load an empty dart into his gun, and attempt to fire it through the laser grid.

Injector Pistol: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (5) + 7 = 12
Damage: 1d6 + 2 ⇒ (4) + 2 = 6

Vee-Vee is not the brightest bulb in the bulkhead - except on a Vesk ship.
She scratches her head, knowing she cannot help much.
But does look the thing over in case there are some hidden switches or what not.
[ooc]taking time to take 20 for 30 Perception, or else take 10 for 20, if none then:
Perception: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (17) + 10 = 27

"We can alway bash it!'"
Vee-Vee is ready to sunder the thingamajing...

Vee-vee sees nothing other than the control panel for the containment cage and the disposal drawer for safely collecting the ooze's created components. Blue-jay fired a dart at the device, but the laser grid destroyed the projectile. It looked as if you were going to have to let it out if you wanted to destroy the thing.

Was going to ask if we can try to see what we kone re. Oozes. Because Vee-Vee will be useless! But seeing the roll, no need....
Recall Knowledge: 1d20 ⇒ 4

 »Open it up! Let’s break it into pieces since we cannot take it back! »

Te shakes his head. "I mean, I keep saying let's just break it until it stops hurting people. The smart people can always look at its parts and figure out stuff. Better to ask forgiveness, right?"

"Break, break, break!"
Vee-Vee is ready to let the thing out to break it.

"I agree. Let us open zis containment unit in order to take care of this creature." Turning to look at the two shirren, Blue-Jay asks them "Will you assist us?"

"I don't know if this is a good idea. It ate..." The shirren trailed off as his partner moved up and slapped the containment control panel.

"No! If they can destroy it, it's better for everyone."

The argument didn't have time to go any further as the containment cage came down and the ooze began to slop out of its tank. It lashed out at Vee-Vee with a pseudopod that struck like lightning. She thought she was ready, but she wasn't, and she felt the pseudopod slam into her right leg below the waiting shield.

"@#$%!" curses Vee-Vee.

She aligns her shield to protect against the ooze, and then she thumps the ooze, trying to see if it will splash.
Keeping an eye out to see if the bludgeoning or the acid do damage.

Entropic Strike vs. EAC: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (16) + 6 = 22
Bludgeoning & Acid: 1d4 + 9 ⇒ (3) + 9 = 12

EAC 22 ; KAC 23

Oraeus gives a jump at just how fast the ooze seems to go for Vee-Vee, scrabbling to grab out his chains he starts to pull in another reality and shift the area around Vee-Vee's shield making it seem to glimmer with extra potential . There you go! Just like last time, don't ya dare miss!

Move to draw weapon and move behind Vee-Vee and then standard to cast Shifting Surge on Vee-Vee's weapon. I'll let them choose the elemental damage it does, but it should do an extra 2d6

What's the check to learn more about this sucker now that we can see it GM?

Feigning to sneak around it, Te tries to catch the creature flatfooted as he fires his pistol into it. "Keep the firing lane open Vee!"

Trick Attack: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (10) + 11 = 21
Tatical Semi-auto Pistol,P: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (10) + 7 = 17
Damage: 1d6 + 2 ⇒ (1) + 2 = 3
Trick Attack Damage: 1d8 ⇒ 4

Aiming at the Vee-Vee, Blue-Jay loads a special dart into their pistol and fires. Due to their skill with the weapon, it does minimal damage.

Injector Pistol vs KAC: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (17) + 7 = 24
That is a +1 AC to Vee-Vee for 5 rounds.

How does Life Science strike you?

Vee-vee smashed the ooze with her shield, splashing bits of the nano-assembler everywhere. More of the creature was destroyed when Te hit it with a well-placed shot. Vee-vee felt stronger as Oraeus cast his spell, then a small prick in her leg as Blue-Jay 29 shot her! The ooze struck out at her again, hitting the same leg.

Vee-Vee gets a boost from the powers of Entropy as she is hit again, and from Blue-Jay's dart! "Ouch!"
She guarded steps in to keep the firing lane open for Te, and, feeling a boost of acid in her hand thanks to Oraeus, she bashes down at the slimy ooze--
Entropic Strike vs. EAC: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (15) + 6 = 21
Acid: 1d4 + 2d6 + 9 ⇒ (1) + (5, 1) + 9 = 16
--and tries to see how it splashes around.
Life Science: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (16) + 3 = 19
"Is this thing immune to anything?"
(checking for DR, acid etc. immunity...)

(1 Entropy Point)
w. shield @ Entropy EAC 25 ; KAC 26 until round 8 @Blue-Jay's turn then EAC 24 ; KAC 25

Vee-vee knows all about oozes in general, though not much about this particular type.

Blue-Jay attempts to identify any specific weaknesses that this creature may possess before shooting at it. Rolling Life Science

Life Science: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (3) + 12 = 15 Probably nothing

Not aware of any weaknesses, Blue-Jay quickly launched a pair of darts at the creature, each filled with a surface-tension reducing compound.

Injector Pistol: 1d20 + 7 - 4 ⇒ (4) + 7 - 4 = 7

Injector Pistol: 1d20 + 7 - 4 ⇒ (19) + 7 - 4 = 22
Damage: 1d6 + 2 ⇒ (2) + 2 = 4 Additionally, the ooze takes a -2 penalty to AC for 2 rounds.

Te repeats the same maneuver from a moment ago, this time feinting to the right as he fires another another burst from his pistol towards the ooze. "Keep it up!"

Trick Attack: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (19) + 11 = 30
Tatical Semi-auto Pistol,P: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (18) + 7 = 25
Damage: 1d6 + 2 ⇒ (3) + 2 = 5
Trick Attack Damage: 1d8 ⇒ 3

The ooze dissolved as multiple attacks broke down its cohesion. The resulting slime made quite a mess on the floor, but at least the thing wasn't trying to eat people and churn out infected augmentations any more.

The shirren couple looked on in sadness, then Vrisken said, "Well, that's it. We're done now. No way we can recover the business. I guess it's back to Verskath for us. Maybe me hatch-brother will put us up for a time while we try and find something else to do."

Theskell groaned. "Really? You think we're that desperate? You know Grevist and I don't get along!"

The shirren couple continued the conversation along these lines as you poke through what the ooze left behind and look around the workshop.

Vee-Vee looks around to the smart ones: "No more bashing? What we do now?"

Oraeus gives the two shirren a knowing look and suggests, "There is another ... choice... if you want. The society could really use new people after the Scoured Stars, and you do seem to know how to integrate a cybernetics part with a host beautifully."

Addressing the two shirren, Blue-Jay asks them "Do you have records of everyone zat you sold zese faulty augments to?"

"We have no desire to become Starfinders, though we appreciate the offer. The records for sales are here in this drawer. Now, if you'll excuse us, we must be packing."

Vee-Vee checks the drawer, hoping it is closed so she can bash it open.