A Starfinder Society Scenario designed for levels 1-4.
A missing Starfinder ship's distress signal would have gone unnoticed were it not for a passerby detecting it and selling the information to the Society. The PCs are to travel to the crippled starship, and once aboard, reach the bridge in order to piece together the tragic story of the vessel's lost crew. Only by unraveling the mysteries of the drifting starship can the PCs hope to uncover information critical to the Exo-Guardians future operations.
Content in Cries From the Drift also contributes to the ongoing goals of the Exo-Guardians faction.
Scenario includes spaceship combat.
The party arranges themselves and readies for combat, moving gingerly around the armor. Steev and Patterson look at each other over the fallen captain. The others ring the room.
Looks like you're well-arrayed for combat. Kai and Hermena may still set themselves. Someone turn off/unplug/disturb the battery and this time let's everyone roll their own initiative.
Male N vesk xenoseeker soldier 2 | SP 16/16 HP 20/20 | RP 4/4 | EAC 15; KAC 16 | Fort +3; Ref +2; Will +2 | Init: +6 | Perc: +0, SM: +0 | Speed 40ft | Active conditions: None.
Init Steev:1d20 + 6 ⇒ (7) + 6 = 13
Warning: I am headed to GenCon on Wednesday. I will be incommunicado until Tuesday August 6. Steev will keep fighting the ghost, trying to keep anyone else from harm until he's down, then he will use RP to stay in the fight until the baddie is gone. He's fiercely protective of his crew.
Hellih shoots the cable. It sparks; the force field flickers and dies. A ghostly figure rises unfurling from the armor. It's pale and skeletal with glowing red eyes. Long-nailed fingers claw at the air and a screech pierces your very minds.
Kai grimaced as the apparition's wail cut into his mind. Concentrating on ignoring it, he leveled the artillery laser as best he could, then fired. As he suspected, it was difficult to aim the weapon and pull the firing stud, and balance the whole thing. Patterson made it look so easy. Of course, Patterson couldn't even turn a computer console on without a 3-hour training course, so there was that.
The ID creature DC is 14. Roll away and if you roll big, let me know what kinds of extra info you're particularly interested in.
ID creature, mysticism DC 14:
This is a driftdead, an incoporeal creature formed from a tragic death in the drift. (They are very corporeal in the drift.) As incoporeal, it's immune to most physical attacks, but energy based attacks from a physical source score half damage.
If you roll big, let me know what kinds of extra info you're particularly interested in. Also, see the video for more clues.
HK's solution isn't perfect and the laser beam just grazes the phantom figure. It whirls in placeto stare at the android.
Female N sarcesian colonist soldier (sharpshooter) 5/operative (ghost) 1 | SP 53/53 HP 45/45 (force field 5/5; capacity 10) | RP 7/7 | EAC 21; KAC 22 | Fort +6; Ref +7; Will +8 | Init: +5 | low-light vision; Perc: +7, SM: +7 | Speed 30 ft., fly 60 ft. average (vacuum only) | No tracked abilities. | No spells. | Active conditions: none
Will 12:1d20 + 4 ⇒ (8) + 4 = 12Just barely.
Hermena feels a supernatural force pressing on her mind, but her muscle memory takes over as she sets her sniper rifle's sights on the kasathan specter.
Ranged Attack vs. EAC:1d20 + 5 ⇒ (7) + 5 = 12 Fire Damage:1d8 ⇒ 3
What result description text? I found 1d4 straight from the from the description in the scenario, and also in Archives of Nethys, but if you've another reputable rules source I'd give you the benefit of the doubt.
Sorry, my mistake. I thought you'd found a different source for weapon damage. I think the specific confusion effect should overrule the general weapon damage in this case. I thought the way you described the confusion was awesome.
Lasers guided by Kai and Hermena lance toward the ghostly creature. Kai's flashes by without harming the thing, but Hermena's is more skillfully guided and rips into the driftdead.
Female N sarcesian colonist soldier (sharpshooter) 5/operative (ghost) 1 | SP 53/53 HP 45/45 (force field 5/5; capacity 10) | RP 7/7 | EAC 21; KAC 22 | Fort +6; Ref +7; Will +8 | Init: +5 | low-light vision; Perc: +7, SM: +7 | Speed 30 ft., fly 60 ft. average (vacuum only) | No tracked abilities. | No spells. | Active conditions: none
"Urrgh!" Hermena flinches as the incorporeal claws rend her flesh. She quickly realizes hanging back and letting Steev take point wasn't going to keep her safe in her wounded state.
The tall Sarcesian ducks behind the doorjam, out of sight (and hopefully reach) from the undead horror. She slides the sniper rifle into the crook of her arm long enough to pull out her healing serum, hoping the beast will choose a new target long enough for her to heal herself.
Move action to move, Standard action to draw mk 1 healing serum (can't use Quick Draw to draw it as a swift action since it's not a weapon).
After careful consideration, I think John is right. Patterson and Steev may take an AoO for the driftdead's ranged attack.
Alzandre misses. Hermena withdraws to heal up. Patterson drives his baton into the driftdead's midriff and feels rewarding tactile resistance, just as if he had hit a normal creature. Alzandre puts a shot right through the driftdead's head. Its substance parts and reforms.
2 hits, but you guys are going to need to roll better. The dice roller is punishing the party in general.
The pilot bravely follows the driftdead aft and manages to connect again. Somehow the driftdead's bared teeth look larger and more threatening as its gaze locks on its tormentor.
The android launches a flurry of shots, one of which clips the undead and draws that same toothy malevolent gaze.
OK. That's progress, but look at all the cover it has now.
