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At these tasks, Mu performs as well as she might be expected to do so...
"Naw, there wasn't a firewall..."
"Oof! Can I get a little help here?"
"Wha-a-at?"
"An Azlanti guy? Sure, I sound just like him! No? Darryl, Greta, why are you rolling on the floor like that?"
"Anyone want to help me out here so that I can know what I'm looking at?"
Computers: Perhaps 4Azlant! wasn't the most secure password. Should have used more !!s
your science officer PC may attempt a DC 17
Computers check (DC 20 in Subtier 7–8) as a helm phase action.
By succeeding at this check, the PC can immediately reduce the
King Xeros’s Shield Points in a single arc by 40 (48 in Subtier 7–8)
for 1 round. The computer also references physical files which ya'll know to look for now.
Life Science: The plants are both tangy, nutritious, and being used to create a custom living circuit board that controls the king Xeros. The king Xeros is actually controlled by plants*. Either by convergent evolution or distant ancestry, the semi etheric Kudzu native to this moon is fairly similar to the plants on the King Xeros.
You can rig a warhead that will crit the king xeros regardless of getting through its shields or not (not that that's a problem for the manticore)
perception: Mu Fails to notice that the round air vent is about an inch smaller than the diameter of her horns....
Athletics ...Resulting in a total Whinnie the Mu situation as she gets about halfway in to something and then stuck
*funny story
Mu Googles the plants and finds a doctoral thesis that definitely plagiarizes your answer on that final.
You find the filing cabinet where the files USED to be.. no sign of the files though.
DOH you can try two a piece (don't worry about ones that have already been done)
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Thomagar moves straight to the moving picture. He shakes his head and sighs. "Propaganda for the weak willed. But perhaps it might come of use." He sits cross-legged, spending a minute to reattune himself and studies the moving picture again, imitating the gestures, voice and mannerism.
When done, he stands up and after helping Mu extricate herself from the air vent, goes digging through the rubble himself.
Thomagar's impersonation is dead on. If being a starfinder doesn't work out he can join Zo's Starfinder Night Live skit doing this guy.
With Mu out of the way Thomagar can climb up the ventilation shaft and find some useful seed based energy cels. Your engineer can reroll one check
Bugface finds the physical files the computer was talking about in a Malina envelope labled "Sock Supply levels ". Someone knows NOT to label the big important folder "TOP SECRET DO NOT READ". They show where the King Xeros has been fit with guns and their arcs of fire. As the ship was originally designed to float on water, it shows evidence of 2 dimensional thinking. (You can force the gunners of the king Xeros to reroll one successful gunnery check)
The roar of distant rockets cuts through the surrounding
sound. Four sleek Azlanti ships launch into the void, forming
a protective guard around another ship vaguely resembling
a seafaring vessel carved from cream-colored crystal, with
three sail-like vanes protruding from its aft. Gray-green Azlanti
thrusters, weapons, and armor appear grafted onto portions
of the ship, standing out from the overall frame like metallic
blemishes. Naiaj’s voice suddenly blares through the comm
system, “There it is! All teams, disengage the base and intercept
that crystalline starship! Do not let it escape!”
Not that I think you need it but you can take a 10 minute rest on the way back to your ship.
STARSHIP COMBAT (cue technomusic)
Pilot roll for init.
Captain do your thing if not helping the gunnering
Engineer Do your thing
Science officer do your thing: remember you have the hax codes to drop their shields in a quadrant if you want and you've already gotten the info to scan their ship
Assuming: Pilot has 1 computer node the gunners have the other 2
Captain Computers +19 (7 ranks), Engineering +19 (7 ranks),
gunnery +12 (7 ranks), Piloting +14 (7 ranks)
Engineer Engineering
Pilot Piloting
Science Oficer (7 ranks)
{Sending power to weapons Captain.}
[dice=Engineering Divert]1d20+14
There's a boon in effect that's going to make diverting to weapons really really niche (a die has to roll a 1 then a 1 again) if you want to divert to engines or... that really is the only option for engineers ain't it ...?
You see the pilot of the other ship scratching his head. After all else fails He gets on deck and starts turning the wheel, which starts to move the ship
The King Xeros (Orange) has lost initiative and come around to bear. Its rear shields are down.
Etherspike
The king Xeros twists reality in front of you, sucking your ship partially into the void between voids
If this hits, you really want to make a piloting check
Source Starfinder Core Rulebook pg. 305
A weapon with this special property creates a spiraling cyclone of gravitons that tears, crushes, and twists everything in its path, reducing a target ship’s speed by half and reducing its maneuverability by one step for 1d4 rounds on a hit. A ship protected by functioning shields takes no damage from a vortex weapon, but the target ship’s pilot must succeed at a Piloting check (DC = 15 + 1-1/2 × the target starship’s tier) or the hit depletes all Shield Points in that arc.
and follows up softening you up with.....
Clicks used to leading a faster ship, but the king xeros just kind of bobs there in space. Just as their pilot planned, really. He's absolutely NOT just being flung back and forth by the wheel Sir!
Thomagar on the other hand puts a missile straight up the bow. Exploding for
Blowing off the king xero's front shields and scratching his hull
As to the missiles I believe you load up in between starship combats, or starship combat like things, so you're starting with your full compliment.
Much Lunch winds up on the ceiling...and phases through it into the next room As T'kai manages to not lose the ships forward shields, which hold up fairly well against the blast of alchemical fire coming off the ship. A hamburger from the galley floats through the walls and goes drifting out into space, leaving a part of the outside of the hull facing inwards. The T in manticore now decorates the Bridge.
King Xeros
Forward 0
Rear 0
Port 60
Starboard 60
Hull -3 of 75
The Manticore Six
Forward 3
Rear 25
Port 20
Starboard 20
Hull: Full
ROUND 2 FIGHT!
Question: can you "See" when someone is rebalancing their shields? Or does the fact that you can do that after piloting? mean knowing is kind of irrelevant.
shields would be nice
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Mu spends a resolve point to lock on. "I'm gonna make it easier for you guys to hit, while Bugface lowers those shields."
If you have at least 6 ranks in Computers, you can lock your starship’s targeting system on to one enemy vessel. You must spend 1 Resolve Point and attempt a Computers check. The DC equals 5 + 1.5 × the tier of the target starship + its bonus from defensive countermeasures (see page 298). If you succeed, your starship’s gunners gain a +2 bonus to gunnery checks against the target for the rest of the round. This action can be taken only once per round.
Other Pilot is NOT drunk. He Just had a few to steady his nerves. A few bottle....HIC....s goes first
The rear shields pop back online YAY
The port shields suddenly go down by 40 to 20/60.. uh oh.
Mu will lock on despite the 1 (it's a skill check afaik)
The King Valdez will go past you and try to turn the down side away from you. Your move
Well you all know how to say "oh *#(#*$$" in azlanti now, as there's a lot of it coming from the other ship
The fire turetts turn to face you
attack
As does the mystic gun
Between locking on and the improved computers both of your attacks will hit and theirs will miss.
Hull 17 damage first round , 23 and 69 damage the second= 109 damage out of 75 HP....
"ʇɐɥʇ ƃuᴉsnɐɔ s,ʇɐɥʍ ʇno puᴉɟ puɐ ǝɹǝɥʇ ɹǝʌo ʇǝƃ"" Naij's voice comes over the coms backwards.
The Xeros begins to warp and twist, throwing out white sparks, blue sparks, and colors your brain wasn't meant to comprehend. Escape pods fly out in all directions, some being picked up by the scouting fleet. Some phasing out of regular space and phasing through their would be rescuers.
"Yay, team!" Thumper high fives everyone and gives them fresh coffee. "I can't wait to film you going through that weird ship!"
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"Yeah, that's the power of , kids!" Mu says into the cameras. "Stay educated, and remember that the U of Q offers extension classes for adventurers that need to get their education on the GO!"
"Thanks, Thumper!" Then she grins and hoists up a coffee mug. "Let's get back to that ship. There's still some Azlanti asses we haven't kicked yet!"
Steel platework reinforces the deck of the crystalline vessel,
the flat metal surfaces marred only by angular modules
protruding from the floor. Electrical wires and robotic targeting
mechanisms extend from two hemispherical cannons with
small tubes pointing out toward space, the equipment visibly
damaged from starship weapon fre. No railings line the edges of
the ship, providing no apparent barrier between the end of the
deck and the void beyond
Most of the crew has abandoned ship. Some of the security robots remain loyal to their captain however
(I got smaller 5 foot squares on the map with roll 20)
The robots are 20 feet up the stairs and fire down on you in a hail of overstimulated electrons
"4 Azlant!!!! "
Robot 1 fires on mu
for
fiery laser damage
for
fiery laser damage
Robot 2 fires on bugface
for
fiery laser damage
for
fiery laser damage
Robot 3 fires on Thomagar
for
fiery laser damage
for
fiery laser damage
party is up.
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The shots ping off Mu's armor. Then Mu grins. "Hey, it's thumping time! This is either going to be awesome or suicidal... But hey, that's why you all watch Mu, right?"
Clippity-clop, clippity-clop, clippity-clop!
She hoofs it, right through the space occupied by Blue and Red.
"Come on team, let's blow these bots up!"
And now that she can see these things from the inside as well as the outside, she takes a closer look at what she's fighting. Does she know anything cool?
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These are mostly your standard security robots
They have integrated lasers, a slam, and an integrated ioun stone. These robots can use a standard action to burn out the stone ( a clear spindle now that you're close enough to see) to heal up 10 points of damage. It makes them a little harder to effect with things specifically that hurt robots.
Red also has a big hole in it roughly the shape of your pike...
Since Everyone has weapon specialization, that last plink goes through the last part of RedRoavers processors that were keeping it running, it falls to the ground in a heap.
assumes a classic rockem sockem robot stance and goes for two uppercuts to Mu's chin
for
for
RADIATION DETECTED
MellowYellow will pop off a few shots at thomagar
Fire
Fire
PARTY IS UP