”AAAAHHHH!!! YOU MOTHER F*CKING SON OF A—!!!”
Lomer roars in what is the biggest emotional reaction that you’ve seen out of them, striking wildly at Boron.
Round 5
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Volcklon
Xagyg
Boron
Jacob
Virlae
Lomer
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As for needing to make an attack vs. Boron: if Jacob wants to inject a restorative into Boron from where he is, the easiest way to do so is simply to stick Boron with the "injection" (the physical syringe), since that needs no attack roll if you go for a willing target that is within your reach. I imagine that is what he was aiming to do, but fluffing it as being "shot".
However, since he said he wanted to take Boron out, Boron declares himself as non willing.
re. "will" not hurt: if Jacob uses his gun, then it depends on whether Jacob wants it to deal damage or not, but I do imagine, yes, that he will decide it does not deal damage.
Boron keeps raises his arms up to ward off the blows.
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Xagyg shakes his head sadly.
"So be it. I will try to take you down as gently as possible, then have the medbay take a look at you..."
Xagyg scoots around the room (this movement does not provoke), and lines up a devastating shot !
Xagyg then calmly adds:
"Stand down, please."
Xagyg’s shot knocks Lomer’s dominant hand clean off, their club coalescing back into a mote of light orbiting around their head.
Before Lomer and Virlae have a chance to further retaliate, a pair of New Elysium security guards intervene.
The next few minutes are spent having statements taken from everyone present. Virlae claims that Boron groped her and she gave chase when he ran. She shoots the dwarf a dagger-like glare before reaching for Lomer’s hand, only to find herself grabbing at air from Lomer’s missing hand.
”Miss Nilufeh, Mr. Lomer, You are not looking in the best of shape; perhaps a visit to Titan’s Rest would be in order.”
“Yeah, that’s probably best.”
With one last murder-like glare at Boron, the Buzzblades and the security personnel make their exits.
"I only found out one thing that I believe Jacob missed: that Keys to Elysium app' has altered a bit of the comm unit’s firmware to receive a constant, low-grade signal."
Boron goes to shower, clean up, and rest a bit.
From the shower, Boron calls out: "Okay, I can try that out once I get dried and have some coffee. Just keep that Jacob away from me."
Fail
As you all wake you each find a message from Dr. Lominn on your comm units:
+++Please meet me at the Boundless Sunroom and be prepared for some dangerous work.+++
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The Boundless Sunroom is empty at this early hour save for the haggard-looking Dr. Lominn. It takes her a few moments before she notices you all enter.
”Follow me, please.”
The doctor leads you all out of the sunroom, down the stairs to the east, and towards the elevator banks .
Waiting at the elevators are a group of four security personnel who seem to simultaneously be guarding the area as well as nursing wounds;...
...Romi and Indigo-13, who both seem more than a little worse for wear themselves; Vori, who has grown quite pale; and Rhissona, who treats the guards’ wounds and actually looks quite healthy.
Dr. Lominn speaks first. ”Security personnel has managed to slay a giant moth that Mr. Romi here has—“
The doctor gets elbowed lightly by an annoyed Indigo-13, whose hair takes on a pinkish hue.
”My apologies; that Romi has seen entering the ventilation ducts over there.”
Dr. Lominn points to a nearby ventilation cover, which seems to have been broken.
”I asked you here because this seems to be your area of expertise. Security managed to corner the moth in the Tech Workshop where they killed it. I must treat the wounds of my fellow New Elysium employees,” she gestures to the security guards. ”Vorilynn, would you please show them inside?”
“Of course, doc.”
Vorilynn moves over to the nearby room and places her hand on a scanner followed by gazing into a camera that sends a light shaped like a line from the top of her eyes down to the bottom of her eyes.
”Vorilynn Wreyas; Access Granted.”
With an approving nod towards Indigo-13, Romi follows you all into the Tech Workshop.
The tech workshop contains drone recharging stations, work counters and tables, and many tools. On the eastern wall is a large set of ventilation fans about 15 feet across. The fans turn slowly in place, a dim set of lights illuminating the tunnel on the other side.
Near the fans is the corpse of an 8-foot-long moth with eerie shifting patterns on its wings. The moth’s wounds, and a smell like burnt hair and ozone, are obvious.
the black circle is the moth corpse.
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Jacob gives the security team a once over with his keen eye.
Before they enter, Jacob looks at the inspector and thinks loudly at him.
NOW they want our help? I thought I was under quarantine?
For the moment, he plays along.
Silver powder... possibly organic. Jacob mutters as they look around.
Took it down with shock weaponry...
He moves towards the downed thing and holds out his hand, a soft blue glow indicating that his scanner is going over the details of the creature.
Suddenly a spark jumps out for his hand, zapping him and he yanks his hand back with a grunt. He looks on his palm at his scanner for a bit and let's out a low growl.
Nothing goes right here, I swear.
After a nice night's sleep, the next morning, Boron will get started on a long day of hacking.
Boron follows along.
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Xagyg replies to Jacob:
I also thought we were all told not to interfere...
Xagyg scans the creature, then mentally interrogates his fungal computer.
He waxes didactic.
"This moth is a gloomwing, an extraplanar predator from the Shadow Plane that frequently finds its way to the Material Plane. Gloomwings lay their eggs in the bodies of prey that they have slain, leaving the body as food for its vicious young, known as tenebrous worms."
Xagyg then frowns.
"It has also laid eggs recently..."
He then turns to Dr Lominn.
"Are any of the guests or staff... missing...?"
"Not as far as I know..."
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Xagyg's frown deepens.
"Well, it has deposited its eggs in somebody (or something), and I don't recall there being any pets around here..."
He then nods in the direction of the ventilation fan.
"We should probably investigate down there..."
Xagyg grimaces.
"Assuming we have Dr Lominn's permission, of course; I wouldn't want to overstep the bounds of what I am allowed to do..."
Volcklon motions to the guards. "This seems to be getting worse. Those wounds are self-inflicted it looks like."
Kneeling down he rolls the Gloomwing over. "Shadow Plane you say? What are they doing here?" He looks up to Vorilynn. "Could they be causing these hallucinations?"
Boron looks up at the fans and the tunnel.
»Those fans seem to be part of a cooling tunnel... »
Looking at the employees:
»You do know I’m not leaving a stellar review of this place on the boards?
So... what are you offering us to take care of your pest problem? »
Vorilynn shrugs at Volcklon's question.
When Xagyg passive-aggressively jabs at Dr. Lominn, the doctor looks askance.
”I thought that I could handle this…I was quite wrong. I found that I could not handle both the medical and administrative sides of things. I am more than willing to compensate you all with 1,000 credits each for containing the situation quickly and discretely. I wonder if these things are responsible for what’s going on…”
Boron manages to slow the fan to a halt enough for people to step through—Vorilynn and Romi, perhaps wisely, do not follow into the cooling tunnel.
Xagyg manages to find a trail of silver powder and follows it—he also finds slight blood splatters along the ground. The trail leads down a branching in the dimly-lit tunnel. The air carries the stench of decay with it. As you follow the trail down the branching tunnel, the aroma grows stronger and stronger.
The tunnel opens up further into a room with myriad pipes going through the wall; opposite the group is a closed blast door, an old and fading RESTRICTED sign hanging from it.
In the center of the chamber lies the unmoving body of a shirren, once-tight bandages now falling off from around the left side of the head.
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As he goes through the tunnel, Xagyg pulls out his video camera, and starts recording, keeping his pistol in the other hand.
Upon arriving in the chamber, Xagyg reaches out telepathically to what he (presumes) is Cthesa's corpse, fully expecting no response.
"So much for all of the guests being accounted for. Be careful; if the larvae have already hatched, they could be problematic..."
"Hey, doc'," Boron asks Vorilynn."Those guys self-inflict their wounds before or after seeing the moth? And that something that bit right through the dude's armor, was that the moth? Or what?"
"1 K creds. I'm in."
Boron stops the fan so he and the team can go in.
Then he closes his environmental seals on the mining jack he's wearing, and pulls out pick that grips in both hands.
Arriving in the little room, Boron checks out the old sign, trying to determine if it was put in by the dwarven mining company, or at least how old it is, to see when this part of the complex was built.
Then Boron looks at his comrades, and, unless one will perform so strange thing at a distance and stop Boron...
To Xagyg: "Bah, ain't afraid of no maggots!"
...he will move up to give the shirren a little kick: "You alive, there, buddy?"
living rather than always unloving
living rather than always unloving
Vorilynn doesn’t respond to Boron in the slightest.
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As Boron kicks the corpse, the body moves. More accurately the skin moves. Clear bulges of something moves just underneath the shirren’s chitinous “skin.” The bulges move swiftly throughout the body until one reaches the head, and out of the scabbed and scarred eye socket bursts forth a nightmarish centipede the size of a human child, ripping and tearing at the shirren’s skin and flesh as it burrows and claws its way out. The other two bulges move in sequence, reaching the head of the shirren at the same time and cutting their way out through the shirren’s other eye socket and what remains of the shirren’s mandible-like mouth to reveal two more centipedes. As the second centipede bursts from the shirren’s head it becomes clear just how they make their way out: they are eating the shirren’s flesh from the inside out.
As the centipedes burst forth out of their “incubator,” the clear sound of wingbeats resonate from above the ancient blast door, revealing the descent of a majestic—if horrifyingly massive—moth!
Round 1
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Jacob
Xagyg
Gloomwing
Volcklon
Tenebrous Worms
Boron
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"Maggots, I knew it! These are nice. Can fish Castrovelian shark with this kind of bait!"
As the gloomwing flaps its wings it creates colorful patterns in them...
CUSTOM SCANNER: GLOOMWING. SHADOW PLANE VERMIN. RESISTANCES AND IMMUNITIES: NONE.
CUSTOM SCANNER: TENEBROUS WORM HATCHLING. RESISTANCES AND IMMUNITIES: IMMUNE TO ACID. SHADOW ACID: A TENEBROUS WORM’S MAW PRODUCES MORE ACIDIC SALIVA BASED ON THE LIGHT LEVEL; DEALING THE MOST WHEN IT IS DIM LIGHT. THESE WORMS ARE NEWBORNS AND HAVE NOT GROWN THEIR BARBS AND THEIR SALIVA IS LESS POTENT.
The gloomwing, having part of its wing singed off, makes a b-line for Xagyg.
Volcklon averts his eyes from the gloomwing’s wings .
Round 1
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Jacob
Xagyg
Gloomwing
Volcklon
Tenebrous Worms
Boron
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Volcklon activates a switch in the heel of his boots and they begin to ignite and power up. Leaping towards the worms flames flicker in his helm as a torrent of fire breathes out over two of the worms.
EAC: 20 KAC: 21 CM: 29
Stamina: 42/42 | HP: 39/39 | Resolve: 11/11
Spells Used:
(1)
(2)
Arc Pistol Battery 12/20
Trampling Boots 1/1
Wyrmling Dragon Gland 0/1
"What the...?!"
Boron feels around behind him, and yanks a needle out of his hinder.
"Oh, come ON!"
Dark, acidic saliva oozes from the mandibles of the newborns—turning the dead shirren’s skin into wisps of shadows as they impact—and they all viciously jump the closest source of food: Boron and Volcklon.
Boron feels the acid climbing through his veins!
Round 1/2
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Jacob
Xagyg
Gloomwing
Volcklon
Tenebrous Worms
Boron
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Pierced and burning from acid, Boron overcharges his pick and swings at blue.
Then, as the acid burns his veins again, Boron manages to shake it off.
Boron begins to strike at the worm but is distracted by the pretty colors......and starts to verbally abuse himself as he pounds his head against his pick in frustration!
Just before Xagyg takes his shot, everyone in the room feels a metaphorical burden climb on their shoulders.
Xagyg manages to blast a hole in the moth’s abdomen, causing the massive insect to plummet to the ground!
Round 2
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Jacob
Xagyg
Gloomwing
Volcklon
Tenebrous Worms
Boron
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Volcklon's thicker skin helps protect him from the majority of the physical attacks as they bruise his skin. With his thrusters in his boots charged Volcklon rockets through the slew of worms, trampling over their forms as he jets past. His muscles feel fatigued and he isn't able to move much past that as his breathing becomes labored.
Status Effect: Fatigue
EAC: 20 KAC: 21 CM: 29
Stamina: 27/42 | HP: 39/39 | Resolve: 11/11
Spells Used:
(1)
(2)
Arc Pistol Battery 12/20
Trampling Boots 0/1
Wyrmling Dragon Gland 0/1
As Boron feels a metaphorical burden climb on his shoulders, he shudders... and looks up at the lights: "Momma, that you?"
He stops his pick attack in middair, and starts to cry.
As tears roll down his eyes, he smashes his head into the pick over and over.
"No, momma, I won't do it again," - BASH - "I'll be a good boy, please momma," - BASH - "don't hurt me more... I'll be good!" - BASH
The worms all jump at Boron, each gluttonously grabbing for a piece of the dwarf’s flesh!
One of the worms manages to latch onto Boron’s arm and piercing through the dwarf’s skin! Boron is able to tear it off of his arm, but not before the larva leaves a giant red welt on his skin!
Round 2/3
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Jacob
Xagyg
Gloomwing
Volcklon
Tenebrous Worms
Boron
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Boron bleeds profusely as he rips the larva off his arm, sending a spray of blood and acid everywhere.
He gets a good firm grip on his pick--
--but as he goes to raises his pick, acid spills out of his wounded arm, and burns his chest and face.
Acid bubbles out of his skin from the previous wound.
He yells out: "Momma..."
And crashes down to the ground, dropping his pick from his inert acid-burnt hands...
He mumbles one last: "They mostly come at night... mostly--"
Before passing out.
(the attacks are vs. KAC since there is some P in them, right?)
• if so Boron takes 26 dam
• 26-3 SP = 23 HP so @3 HP @ start of turn
Then it is Boron's turn:
• before he acts, he takes 6 acid damage from corrode 2 + 1d4 acid from corrode 1
so he drops to 0 and is dying
(no need to roll for the 1d4, since either it comes w. acid 1 in which case still @ 0 and dying, or it comes after, and the max' of 4 is not more than his total HP so it cannot kill him ; also, which comes first: 6 dam' or 1d4 dam', it changes nothing)
• then he can act in his turn, and he drops down, dying, letting go of his pick
• and he spends 1/4 of his RP (1) to stabilize
• so he is @ 0 SP 0 HP 5/6 RP and stabilized (I did not change the info' on my bar since people do not know what his status is)
• then, on his next turn before he acts, he takes 2d6 + 1d4 acid damage (the amount of damage will not matter since it will not pass his HP, even if all lumped together, so no need to roll) and will be dying again and then he can auto-stabilize etc.
Is that pretty much what you'd rule? Tell me if I'm wrong or missing something?
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Volcklon's jump jets propel him through the air and over the worms to the opposing side, where he turns and releases another wave of flames into all three of them.
Status Effect: Fatigue
EAC: 20 KAC: 21 CM: 29
Stamina: 27/42 | HP: 39/39 | Resolve: 11/11
Spells Used:
(1) 5/6
(2)
Arc Pistol Battery 12/20
Trampling Boots 0/1
Wyrmling Dragon Gland 0/1
The larvae—their mandibles clicking wildly and dark saliva falling from their maws—see the buffet of flesh that is Boron and rapidly begin to tear at the dwarf as he struggles to keep himself safe!
Only one gets a piece of the dwarf, but tears off a piece of flesh in a sizzle of shadowy smoke!
And Boron falls unconscious once again!
Round 3/4
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Jacob
Xagyg
Gloomwing
Volcklon
Tenebrous Worms
Boron (Needs to Stabilize)
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