[SFS_Aerondor] 01-13 On the Trail of History (Inactive)

Game Master Aerondor

To make it easy for me to fill in the chronicles, could you please provide for the character you want to credit this to...

Chronicle: What chronicle number will this be for your character?
Player name: Your name, as you want it to appear on the chronicle
Character name: The name of your character
Organized play #-#: Your society play and character numbers
Faction: Characters Faction slotted
XP: Your starting XP
Fame: Your starting fame
Credits: Opening credits before purchases
Day job: Your day job skill and roll. (or alternative such as training or true savior)
Reputation: Which factions you have reputations with (and how much) before participating in this scenario.
Boons: Any boons you have slotted. (you may change these after the briefing)

Purchases: Any purchases you wish to make from your initial funds, before the start of the game.
Starship role: This scenario has Starship combat. Please nominate the role you would like on the ship and include your relevant skill bonuses.

Please introduce yourself in gameplay.

Please also add an icon for your character to the first page of the map. Ideally this will be the same as the one you post with.

Hello and thanks for running this, GM Aerondor!
And a warm hello to my companions to be...
Hope we have fun (and survive for more fun later).

okay:
Chronicle: 7
Player name: Eric Collins
Character name: Pvt. Hudson
Organized play #-#: 101218-709
Faction: Acquisitives
XP: 8

to do:
Fame: will check and post later
Credits: will post w. calculated
Day job: will check and post (re. boons)
Reputation: will check and post later
Boons: will put in character sheet later
Purchases: will post if neeed

okay:
Starship role: Gunner (+8)
if my +5 piloting is needed, we are in trouble

I am working on my character sheet (have to import boons & stuff and check Fame etc.) since this is the first time playing (all GM credit)
Will finish these next days, fill out missing info' above and then introduce in gameplay.

Icon added.

Question: do you want Init' (+5) and Perception (+7) on my "avatar bar" or do you copy them to your own spoiler to paste?
(I just try to keep the "avatar bar" as uncluttered as I can).

Have a good week, all!

Fame: 14
Credits: 22
Day job: 40 Cr. (10 + Take 10 = 20 x 2 = 40 Cr.)
Reputation: • 16 Total Reputation (Tier 2)
• 16 Acquisitives Reputation (Tier 2)
Boons: listed in my character sheet
Purchases: most probably none

Speck, the cynical ysoki technomancer with a tragic past, reporting!

Chronicle: 6
Player name: kuey
Character name: Speck Zezener (but please, just Speck)
Organized play #-#: 215076-705
Faction: Second Seekers (Luwasi Elsebo)
XP: 6
Fame: 6
Credits: 25
Day job: profession(lab tech): 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (2) + 14 = 16
Reputation: Second Seekers (Luwasi Elsebo) - 13
Boons: Field Trainee (Ally Boon), Defender of the Fleet (Starship Boon) - Finest Computers, Contractor’s Respect (Social Boon), Scoured Stars Survivor (Personal Boon)

Purchases: Nope, not with 25 credits.
Starship role: Speck is quite flexible for starship. In order of priority and usefulness
- Engineering Officer: Engineering +13
- Science Officer: Computers +13
- Gunner: Gunnery +6
- Pilot: Piloting +9

Medrick dotting in!

Chronicle: 10
Player name: Vlaovich88
Character name: Medrick
Organized play #-#: 263825-701
Faction:Second Seekers (Luwazi Elsebo)
XP:9
Fame:18
Credits: I will give my credits and purchases in the coming days
Day job: using the Instructor boon
Reputation: 19 (I need to double check this. It has been a couple of months since I have played this character and 19 doesn't sound right.)
Boons: Faction: Second Seekers (Luwazi Elsebo)
Social: Instructor
Ally: High Society Influence
Starship: Star Monster Slayer
Slotless :Starfinder Society Care Package

Purchases:I will give my credits and purchases in the coming days
Starship role:Medrick makes a decent gunner (+7) and a poor science officer (+6)

Thanks for running this! I will dot and delete in gameplay until I get the chance to get the final touches on Medrick.

Dotting in. I have three characters I can use. A level 3 Soldier Bombard, A level 5 Soldier Arcane, And a Level 4 Technomancer. Well, maybe the Technomancer, that game is finishing up. Will pick one when game starts. If you want the gunner for Starship combat, my Level 5 Soldier will have a +9. And plenty of credits which I may use to buy dexterity boosters. Others don't really have anything for Starship combat, expect the level 3 soldier, +7 to gunnery.

Will get info when character is selected. Does anyone have a preference? And would everyone be okay if I have to use the level 5 as everyone here is level 3-4. The level 5 might bump us, not sure.

I am fine with playing higher tier, but will of course go with playing lower if people want.

We have soldier & techno' already, so no reason for you not to play who you want!

Checking in! This is just to assure involvement and alive-ness, I will post in earnest tomorrow or Tuesday, whenever I have reliable internet.

Right, I have an exam tomorrow. So likely kicking off in the afternoon or evening my time (maybe 24h from now).

Those of you who have not posted details or put your icon onto the map please do so.

Checking in! Sounds like lower tier will be what we end up playing even if we have another level 5. Our current average level is 3.6 after all. We *are* a bit heavy on soldier-y types right now (and therefore crummy at skill checks), but hey I'm sure it'll be fine :>

I still need to pull together all my chronicles for this character and upload them somewhere, but I should otherwise be ready to go. Will get the details posted this evening (US time).

Decided to use this guy.

Chronicle: Number 4
Player name: DoubleGold
Character name: JackoJare
Organized play: 135676-708
Faction: exo-Guardian
XP: 8
Fame: 14
Credits: 4572
Day job: None
Reputation: 14 Reputation with Exoguardians
Boons: Basic Exoguardian Faction Boon. He started at level 2 via a Slotless boon gained from a special.

Purchases: Personal Technological upgrade to enhance Dexterity by 2 for a total of 20 costing 1400 Credits.
Starship Roles: Gunner is +8, Piloting is +5.

So... we have
Pvt Hudson (level 3) Soldier (Eric)
Speck (level 3) technomancer (kuey)
Medric (level 4) soldier (LM GM)
Id (level5) Mystic (Mr Wasko)
Fionne (level 3) solider/mechanic (Cellion)
Jackojare (level 3) soldier (doublegold)

Solid low tier.

@all, hopefully I have your init right in my spoiler at the top. It is helpful for me to have your perception and sense motive skills somewhere in your status bars.

Chronicle: 7
Player name: Cellion
Character name: Fionne
Organized play #-#: 233690-704
Faction: ExoGuardians
XP: 7
Fame: 13
Credits: 113
Day job: N/A
Reputation: ExoGuardians - 13
Boons:
Ally:
Faction: ExoGuardians' Champion
Personal: Halfling Admittance
Promotional:
Social: Faction's Friend
Starship: Star Monster Slayer
Slotless: See profile for all slotless boons.

Purchases: None yet!
Starship role: Fionne has no super slam-dunk role. She's a fairly good Gunner (+7), and a fair Engineer (+8) or Pilot (+10).

Speaking of init, forgot to change it when I increased my Dex, so init of +5.

Just got home, will post all my details and jump into the gameplay tomorrow!

Added Perception & SM to my bar

Played 1-05 & 1-11 on another character...

Yeah, I played those but on other characters.

Okay, finally ready to get this underway. Preemptively applying the chronicle sheet for the game I'm GMing tonight, which brings Id up to level 6. Sorry for the delay!

Chronicle: 16
Player name: Chris Wasko
Character name: Id-Sinitis
Organized play #-#: 125136-702
Faction: Wayfinders
XP: 15
Fame: 17
Credits: 3,428
Day job: Profession (dockworker): 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (8) + 11 = 19
Reputation: Wayfinders 32, Exo-Guardians 2, SS (LE) 2, Acquisitives 1, Dataphiles , SS (Jad) 1
Boons Slotted (not including unslotted):
Ally: High Society Influence (Ykris)
Faction: Improved Wayfinders Champion
Personal: Scouerd Stars Survivor
Social: Scoured Stars Memorial
Starship: Defender of the Fleet (finest weapons, most likely)

Purchases: Serum of diaspora daredevil.
Starship role: Best as pilot (+16) or gunner (+8)

I am really sorry for the delay, I promise to be ready by the time I go to bed tonight. Unexpected family visit really threw off my schedule.

Let's discuss ship roles. Based on what I feel are the most crucial roles, I've assigned based on the highest bonuses as follows. Other suggestions?

Pilot: Id +16
Engineering: Speck +13
Gunners: Hudson +8; Jackojare +8

Looks like we have no captain? No diplo people? Not for the starship but this could make the rest of the scenario... interesting.

Hey all, I hate being that guy but work just got super crazy and the likelihood that I'll be able to keep up with a daily PbP for the next 6 weeks or so is very slim. I was reticent because I thought I had "colored the water" with my High Society Influence boon, but since Medrick has it too I think it'd be more fair to you all if I stepped away now before the adventure gets started in earnest. I'm sorry to do so, I've played with Aerondor GMing before (he's outstanding) and when I saw he'd be running this I was super excited, but I don't want to hold you guys up with my work life.

@GM, any chance you could remove me and find a replacement? Best of luck everyone, I hope you enjoy my scenario!

I finally am high enough level to invest in a new weapon! Big damage bump, here I come!

Id-Sinitis, it is sad to see you go! I have always liked playing with mystics, they are usually interesting roleplay. Good luck with work. I hope to see you around in other games.

No worries Id! Good luck with the crazy workload and see you in another game soon!

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So, with one technomancer and infinite soldiers a lot of soldiers, we're lacking in a few areas. We could definitely use a mystic, operative or envoy in our 6th slot.

As far as having the ability to talk with any natives, its going to be tricky now that we won't have a mystic. Should we all pitch in for a Diplomat serum of enhancement? Alternatively, if someone has a weapon with item level 4 or higher, they can get a Spellthrower fusion for it and a spell gem of Share Language. I would, but I've foolishly spent all my credits when making this character.

Oh ((( Sad to see you go Id. I hope work is fun at least even if swamping.
Just as an idea, but not pushing, maybe work on some semi-botting w. Aerondor... or else a replacement, but could be fun to follow your own scenario!

Those things only last for a short moment.
Should look into translators...

Starship Roles w/o Id:

Hud - Gunner (+8)
Speck - Engineering (+13), Science (+13), Pilot (+9)
Medrick - Gunner (+7), Science (+6)
Jackojare - Gunner (+8)
Fionne - Pilot (+10), Engineer (+8), Gunner (+7)

Probably captain-less, but that's OK to skip. Medrick can flex into gunnery if we have a third gun available and there's no need for scanning.

Of course, Id was our only Wayfinder!
(no one is tier 1 Wayfinder, correct?)
Could purchase the Mobile Translator...

The Tetrad Translator is ridiculously limited in what it can do, so I'd go with a different language solution if we can. But even if we don't have a Wayfinder Tier 1 person, someone could buy the Tetrad for its normal 500 credit cost as a fallback.

Well I have 1379 credits left so instead of hunting down a place to spend them, I will just buy my gun for now and save the rest in case we need to use them to solve this problem.

Finished Medrick info! He is built and ready for some action!

Chronicle: 11
Player name: Vlaovich88
Character name: Medrick
Organized play #-#: 263825-701
Faction:Second Seekers (Luwazi Elsebo)
XP:9
Fame:17
Credits:1379
Day job:
Reputation: 20
Boons: Faction: Second Seekers (Luwazi Elsebo)
Social: Instructor
Ally: High Society Influence
Starship: Star Monster Slayer
Slotless :Starfinder Society Care Package

Purchases: Static Arc Rifle for 4200 credits (been waiting for this!)
Starship role: Medrick makes a decent gunner (+7) and a poor science officer (+7)

I'm happy to have Id botted (ideally by a player) if you are okay with that Chris, but I also understand you wanting to actually play the scenario yourself.

Another option might be using a pre-gen in the 6th slot. Starfinder scenarios tend to be okay with four or six, but a little brutal with five.

I've also put out a note in Castamir's, though with Outpost opening up that might be less likely.

So anyone can purchase the translator, based on the Guide?
I've only used it in a scenario.

I think so. The boon just lets you use fame instead of credits to buy one.

And we have a taker for the spot.

*crosses fingers for a skill-rich class*

:>

Working on picking (downloading) pre-gens then I'll update you guys.

Thanks for letting me pick up the slot.

Pregen lvl 4 Android Operative
Character Name: Pregen*Iseph*
Player Name: GreyWolfXR
ID: 340976-704
Chronicle Number: Unable to determine since I can't apply until this real character reaches 4

Faction: Wayfinders
All the rest doesn't seem to apply.

Will work in filling out the shortcut tag line shortly.

Welcome Kasza.

There is at least one scenario that if you have played, give you bonuses on playing a pregen. It may be worth checking if you have it.

Checked my chronicle sheets, apparently haven't found that scenario yet. :(

Adding the translator to my purchases for 500 credits

@Husdon - If you are not in combat I am fine with someone taking 10 on a computers check to change the setting.

A couple of notes on starship combat for PBP.

Firstly, when you move on the map, please leave a dotted trail behind you. I'll do that for my ships as well.

Secondly, I've put some coloured arrows onto the map. These show the current facing of the various ships, so we don't have to get funky with trying to rotate icons around, which on this scale is just messy.

The Pegasus will be in red, and ...well, the first nasty will be in blue.

To keep things flowing smooth, I'm thinking of rolling initiative for both parties, just because otherwise it will slow to a crawl. Kasa, your +14 bonus - did that include the +1 from the Pegasus?

After initiative, I'll get you all to declare your actions (feel free to put in a contingency if you like), and I'll sort them out in the appropriate orders. Trying to work through the normal 3 phases of spaceship combat in PBP is difficult. In general this means rounds end up looking like one of:

(1)
I roll for initiative and win (so you move first)
You all tell me what you want to do (e.g. fire weapons, pull stunts etc
I move your opponents who, and then you. I apply your actions (I'm pretty easy about reassigning gunnery positions on the fly so you are likely to get shots off) and my actions

or
(2)
I roll for initiative an lose (and thus move first)
I move so you know exactly where the enemy ends up
You all tell me what you want to do (e.g. fire weapons, pull stunts etc

It is not quite by the book, but seems to work and keeps the spirit of the space combat without slowing down too much.

I'm fine with any of the choices, heck, I just shoot things.

I'm totally fine with that. That's how I run my starship combats too!

Just also want to remind that you can change ship roles from round to round. This is useful especially for roles which can take more than one person. For example, if shields are badly down, more people can jump in to restore shields.

Anyone NOT accepting to be scanned and excluded from being hosed down? (I'll add all those not telling me they do not want to added to the no-hit list)

Medrick... Science rolls???

Aerondor, do you want to replace Id with Kasza in the Init block?

Yes! Thanks for hte pointer. Someone else want to roll a couple of science checks for Medrick, it is the weekend, so I'm not in a huge hurry to push folk along.

Sorry guys! I am back to normal schedule! Family was visiting this week from New York and just went back home. Posting in a moment!