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While staying in cover, Baragh pulls out another serum out of his pack, and uses the one in his hand to inject himself feeling the sweet release of soothing medicine entering his bloodstream
Vecro double times it forward before doing a swan dive on the floor
Mec-01 moves and takes cover.
Kaeon advances to catch up with mec-01 and take position near him.
Ella shoots at the southern sniper with her laser rifle from cover.
The masterful delivered shot enters the enemy snipers scope and enters his eye socket doing massive damage and setting part of his face on fire.
Seeing all his shots missing, Mute decides to reposition himself and goes running full speed to close the gap.
The sniper Ella shot suffers from the opposite of brain freeze as the inside of his skull is cooked by the residual heat of the laser blast and his head drops even further to the ground then it already was with what you imagine is a solid *thud* as it hits a rock.
While the other sniper stands up from being prone and fires a shot at Mute as he comes running up the cliff
vs flatfooted
Hitting the halfling in the leg and almost causing him to stumble
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You guys
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Vecro hearing more than seeing that the southern sniper is gone, stands up and pull his starknife in the process of it.
He swings his hand and makes a powerful throw at now standing sniper. The light leaves a small trail after Vecro moves his hand and the starknife flies through the air toward the enemy.
After the throw the starknife flies back to Vecros hand.
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Baragh sees that the southern sniper dropped by a masterful shot by Ella. With that he sprints forward, running at full tilt to the northern enemy.
Feeling a trickle of blood on his leg, Stroidjumper switches gears, swinging his rifle over to the other enemy and looses another shot. His aim is true as he manages to hit the sniper as it's backpedaling out of cover and takes a solid hit to his chest
Ella moves up the slope.
Vecro stands up and pull his starknife in the process of it. Vecro swings his hand and makes a powerful throw at now standing sniper. The light leaves a small trail after Vecro moves his hand and the starknife flies through the air toward the enemy hitting him in the side and drawing blood before the starknife flues back to Vecro's hand
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Seeing that the sniper he was heading for went down already Mec-01 changes course to move towards the other sniper
Kaeon follows Mec-01 in the direction of the last sniper.
Seeing himself getting swarmed and with an ash and blood covered dwarf running towards him the sniper proceeds to move backwards while fire his rifle
Scoring a decent parting hit as he tries to escape the soon to follow onslaught coming his way.
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Vecro runs forward holding his pike in one hand and starknife in the other. He uses two remaining hands to help him to dash in the direction of the last sniper. Seeing an opening Solarian repeats his throw hoping for an even better outcome. Vecro takes a powerful swing and tosses the knife aiming at more vital parts of the enemy.
The starknife flies in great speed but the range proved to be too big of an obstacle to score a hit there. It passes the sniper at a great speed making no harm. In a moment the starknife returned to the Solarians hand.
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Ella climbs the rest of the slope to reach the body of the sniper she killed.She finds a large gray humanoid with bulbous eyes in dark clothes which she identifies as a sarcesian with a large tactical Diasporan rifle at it's side and a survival knife strapped to it's belt along with some other things in pouches
Mute maneuvers up to his speed to get a better line on the tactically retreating sarcesian.
Vecro takes a powerful swing as he moves closer to his target and tosses the knife aiming at more vital parts of the enemy but the starknife passes unable score a hit.
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Baragh, Mec-01, Kaeon
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Baragh charges to get into melee with the sniper, and takes a swing but he almost ends up spinning around as he misjudges the power behind his swing as he misses his target.
Mec-01 moves and fires hitting his target with a laser blast
Kaeon takes a shot with his tactical rifle and like Mec-01 seconds before him also manages to land a hit dropping the last enemy.
After going through the bodies you find out that both have an estex suit I, survival knife, tactical Diasporan rifle, mk 1 serum of healing and a grappler each.
One of the sarcesians carried a small datapad, currently showing a holographic projection of the terrain of this area around Blackmoon. The display shows an area further east of the canyon marked with a strange insignia.
The area marked on the datapad is an elevated area of Blackmoon designated as “the Roost.” The area is another hour’s journey from the canyon, roughly 1–1/2 miles away.
The other sniper carried one credstick holding 350 credits.
As Baragh (and anyone who wishes to join him for this) returns to the pillars in the middle of the canyon go pick up his dropped weapon near the -not used for protective detail-corpses of the security guards he thinks there might be some glint of something in the corner of his eye.
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Sighing, Baragh sees the creature fall....he slumps a bit, feeling drained and a bit achy. With that he slips back the serum of healing he is carrying to Vecro, and pulls out his other serum and uses it.
Looking over to Mute, "If they don't have any rope or cable, I have 50 feet worth of titanium cable if you want to use it." With that he pulls said cable from his backpack and hands it over to Mute.
With that,Baragh walks back to pick up his reaction cannon, and as he walks by Civ, he carefully picks him up and retraces his run back to the rest of the bodies, picking up the arm that Civ lost, and maybe a few other loose odds and ends. When he gets back to the bodies, he lays Civ down with the other bodies, and gives a quick quiet prayer. With that he looks around, picks up his reaction cannon, and heads back to the group to discuss what should be done now. And maybe to see if he could grab the other 2 serums of healing to restock his.
"Aye, I don't want to sound like a sniffling babe, but think we can take a 10 minute rest here, to discuss what has happened, maybe even send what we know to our contacts?"
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Although Stroidjumper presses some more buttons on the datapad it keeps showing the same image..something to do about *user error* whomever that may be.
Ella is able to find a single voice message
Slide update with player handout
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Solarian seeing the last sniper to be taken down, breathes out the air saying: "We are still alive."
Whole energy and movement of his armor simply go away and the moving darkness crawls up his limbs and forms a mote flying above his head. Vecro cleans his starknife thinking that it was fortunate that he had a chance to score a hit in this fight. It sure was a weird one.
After seeing what the snipers had, he helps to pick up parts of Civ and looks through the security guard bodies for more clues. Given that they were exposed to the atmosphere there is not much to see there.
When looking at the bodies Vecro notices something in the ground. When he digs it up it turns out to be a cred stick with a note: "Vacation in Verces".
Kasatha decides to take rest with the rest of the agents saying:
"It was an unorthodox fight and you all did well. Good job agents!"
While resting Solarian listen to the audio message that we were able to receive. How the voice sound? Can I determine if was it a man or a female? I assume it was spoken in Common, any particular accent that we could hear?
"So it seems that we have at least one more player: Fayetta and someone who stands behind this all."
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Using the pause and allowing the rest to recover, Vecro calls the Taylehm and reports:
"We found the canyon without any troubles and stumbled onto two snippers that were harassing the dig site. Alas, they killed all 3 security guards before we came here. On top of that, they booby-trapped their bodies which caused some damage too them. I am sending you coordinates so that you can send someone to recover the bodies."
After taking a breath:
"We took care of the assassins and recovered a map of the area with a sign marked on it and an audio file that we are transferring to you as we speak. Do you know anyone that goes by the name Fayetta that would be in such line of business?"
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After seeing what the snipers had, he helps to pick up parts of Civ and looks through the security guard bodies for more clues. Given that they were exposed to the atmosphere there is not much to see there.
While resting Solarian listen to the audio message that we were able to receive. How the voice sound? Can I determine if was it a man or a female? I assume it was spoken in Common, any particular accent that we could hear?
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During the rest, Baragh, goes and gets the 2 Serums of Healing that the snipers had and slips them into one of his pouches. He produces his hip flask and tries to figure a way to drink it around his environmental protections...maybe some kind of one way straw???
Baragh listens to the recording with the rest of the group. "Fayetta....the sabotage mentioned....I wonder if that was the damage we saw on the machinery where we took refuge while the storm happened. Also, it sounds like this is some kind of feud between the Bone Sages and Sarcesian's....I wonder if this enmity to the 'puppets' is something that the 'puppets' did, or just the hatred between the Bone Sages and Scarcesians....anybody know anything about this feud?"
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The android let his circuits work. Then comes out something that seems logical.
These enemies didn't want us to go through here. So we go up there and look what there is.
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"I would suggest that one of us--I easily volunteer--walk forward to set off any hidden snipers, and probably do the 'barbarian finding of traps' as me da used to call it. Maybe the rest of you should follow around twenty to thirty feet behind, maybe spread out so that grenades and missiles don't hit ya all."
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Looking up a Baragh, Mute ponders the dwarf's comment for a moment and then speaks, "Well, if we gotta hoof it, we should get started."
He reaches up and punches Baragh in the thigh and says, "Take a break, old man. We'll give them something a little harder to hit this time."
He grabs the cable from Baragh and starts attaching it to the grappler, not seeing if anyone is following him.
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"Good work, so you think the problems is solved now that you took care of those assassins? Or do you think there's someone behind sending them that still needs to be stopped? And no, name doesn't ring a bell"
Berchta comes walking over and overhears you mentioning sending the coordinates to arrange pick-up of the bodies of the security guards
"Me will wait here and go back with bodies. Seems safer then staying with you guys"
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Even with Stroidjumper and Baragh scouting ahead for the best possible path to take it's not enough for Mec-01 and Kaeon to avoid getting hit by some falling rocks while Ella steps into a hole and twists her ankle.
The slightly more nimble Stroidjumper, the sturdy Baragh and the 4-armed experienced in difficult terrain Vecro have no major problems climbing up......that is until Stroidjumper triggers an impromptu jury rigged mine which explodes in a rather nice blast area - luckily for the rest of you far enough away from anyone who isn't Stroidjumper - as he steps on a pressure plate and notices an almost inaudible *click* before it shoots electricity all around a 10ft radius.
Reflex save DC 13 for half damage
Luckily for everyone you manage to not trip any more mines on your way to the top.
On the far side of the minefield is a ledge along the edge of Blackmoon that corresponds to the area marked on the digital map left by the snipers. An innocuous cavern entrance is located a short distance away and as you look up towards the skies you notice a slight sparkle in the air as wind currents start to pick up...judging from your previous experience you think it might be a bad idea to stay out in the open for much longer.
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If there is somebody there, he should already have shot, thinks the android's circuits. Taking this result for granted Mec-01 advances quickly and takes position in the entrance, having his rifle in hands and ready to fire if necessary.
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Mute pulls himself up a rock only to come down on the other side to a click. "Oh, damn it..." and he tries to leap out of the way of the following explosion.
He shakes the shock of the mine off just to see the crystals in the air forming and taps his comms to the group, "Not sure I like this planet anymore. Hurry up and get in the stink hole, there be another storm brewin!" and he jumps into the cavern entrance.
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Mec-01 takes over the role of advanced scout and takes up position inside the entrance while the rest follow him inside.
As you enter the cave system Baragh's eyes mist over with the fond memories of being underground and isn't able to distinguish between what could be a shadow or a nice rock.
After a while and Baragh's eyes focus once more he notices what might have been some pieces of rock art, but these are too damaged to be worth anything...there might be some more or less intact pieces lying around the complex somewhere.
After a few moments you notice the constant crackle of white noise over your comm systems. You are still able to communicate with each other..but calling out further is made impossible - most likely by some strange atmospheric phenomenon.
It's a rather large area and it takes roughly an hour to search through the abandoned complex.
You find telltale signs of a quick exodus, with indicators that several larger items such as a generator and mobile fortifications were expertly moved out of the cavern.