SFS 1-15 Save the Renkrodas! (Inactive)

Game Master James Martin

"One down, one to go!"

Yith will attempt to keep pace with the Renkroda.

piloting: 1d20 + 13 ⇒ (17) + 13 = 30

(edit: Spelling is hard. :) )

Antennae waving as he swats aside errwnt feathers, Chk'tarlsh maneuvers to keep the vehicle abreast of the renkroda.

Piloting (Keep Pace, DC 14): 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (2) + 9 = 11

Yith manages to keep pace, but Chk'tarish is distracted by the murder-birds!

Phase Two: Chase Advances!

Yith's vehicle and the Renkroda crash into a dense forested area! The dense forest provides cover to the Renkroda and the PCs in Vehicle 1: Yith, Tiktik and Lykos!

PHASE THREE: COMBAT!

The surviving Lashunta seems too distracted by his own bleeding and decides to focus on driving the renkroda!

Heroes are up!

Lykos peers through the trees and takes another shot at the remaining Lashunta.

Azimuth laser pistol: 1d20 + 4 - 4 ⇒ (10) + 4 - 4 = 10

"This is just not working out for me. I'm never going to hit as long as we're on these vehicles."

Tiktik is very impressed with the refractor amour he borrowed for this mission, and makes a mental note to buy some of his own later. He tries once again to stun the Renkroda. "Come on Tik, Get it!" he says to himself as much as everyone else.

Merciful artillery laser: 1d20 + 8 + 1 - 2 ⇒ (9) + 8 + 1 - 2 = 16
Non-lethal Fire: 3d8 ⇒ (5, 7, 8) = 20

If it's ok I'll use the promotional boon shirt reroll on that. I need to hit this thing!

Merciful artillery laser: 1d20 + 8 + 1 - 2 ⇒ (18) + 8 + 1 - 2 = 25

Woohoo? Turret one at 28/40 charges

Lykos I believe it's a -2 to attack while on the vehicle, it's -4 when we use the full-speed maneuver which I think we only did in the first round?

Data will use a level two spell slot to magic missile the last survivor assuming Tiktik didn't already kill him. dmg: 3d4 + 3 ⇒ (4, 1, 1) + 3 = 9

Yith once again tries to get Vossi to take a nap...

Pew Pew (underwater pulsecaster pistol): 1d20 + 7 + 1 ⇒ (7) + 7 + 1 = 15
Electrical (non lethal): 1d4 + 3 ⇒ (4) + 3 = 7

I was firing at a Lashunta if still alive, I realized Tiktik was firing at a renkroda, which is what I won't fire at, so if that is the case, I just don't act.

Just wanted to confirm my understanding of the situation was correct - that those of us on Vehicle 2 were out if the combat this round and until we can catch up?

Lykos fires, but misses. Tiktik manages to hit the renkroda, who twitches and groans. Yith's shot goes slightly wide, while Data's magic missiles hits the lashunta pilot, who flies off the beast without a sound!

At this point the chase ends and normal combat happens!

SLIDE 6:

The jeeps skid to a halt as the Renkroda staggers to a stop. Now that it's not running you can see it has some sort of mechanical implant or device attached to its head. It looks confused and angry and turns around, its eyes flashing red and oddly glazed.

Initiatives!
Tiktik: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (7) + 12 = 19
Yith: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (19) + 7 = 26
Data: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (18) + 2 = 20
Lykos: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (18) + 2 = 20
Spanner: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (1) + 2 = 3
Chk’tarlsh: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (9) + 8 = 17
Vossi: 1d20 ⇒ 9

ROUND 1:
Yith, Data, LYkos, Tiktik, Chk'tarish
Vossi
Spanner

Yith, Data, LYkos, Tiktik, Chk'tarish are up! You still have access to the jeeps and their mounted guns!

Yith jumps out of the jeep, pulls out her Doshko and purposefully heads towards the Renkroda.
"Can anyone get that thing off or short circuit it?"

She then growls at Vossi to get her attention and goes defensive.

Hoping his attacks don't outright kill the Renkroda, he only wants to add damage to knock it out, but he is out of spells.
cantrip energy ray: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (12) + 5 = 17 vs EAC dmg: 1d3 ⇒ 3 fire.

Yith growls to get the Renkroda's attention, while Data singes it a bit with his energy ray!

Lykos, Tiktik and Chk'tarish!

Tiktik stays on the gun and keeps firing.

"Good shooting everyone, keep it up!"

Keeping Get 'Em on the Renkroda and firing again

Merciful artillery laser: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (18) + 8 = 26
Non-lethal Fire: 3d8 ⇒ (2, 5, 5) = 12

Turret one at 24/40 charges

EDIT: I just noticed that the Renkroda is more than 60 feet away, so no get em this round

Chk'tarlsh jumps from the vehicle, grabbing the taclash from beside his seat. Antennae twitching, he cautiously moves to a defensive position between the two vehicles.

"I'll try to keep it at bay, if it approachesh," he explains.

Double move

Tiktik's turret barks and the Renkroda lets out grunts of pain! Chk'tarish valiantly steps forward to guard his comrades!

Lykos!

Lykos attempts to provide some covering fire for Chk'tarish, lacking any reliable way of dealing substantive non-lethal damage to the Renkroda.

Covering fire for Chk'tarish: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (20) + 4 = 24

"That's more like it. Be careful, Charles!"

Lykos lays down a barrage of covering fire for the Shirren.

The Renkroda lets out a snarl and charges Chk'tarish!

CHARGE and BITE vs Chk'tarish KAC: 1d20 + 16 - 2 ⇒ (6) + 16 - 2 = 20 for 2d6 + 11 ⇒ (3, 1) + 11 = 15 piercing damage! The crazed saurian charges and attacks, his feathers all standing on end!

Spanner is up for Round 1 and Yith, Data, LYkos, Tiktik, Chk'tarish are up for Round 2!

Data will fire at the Renkroda, knowing his damage output is small, the odds of his damage being the finishing blow are very low, so he doesn't worry about nontlethal energy ray: 5 + 1d20 ⇒ 5 + (1) = 6 vs EAC dmg: 1d3 ⇒ 3 fire.

Spanner stays in the truck and fires the gun.

Gunnery: Merciful, getem, combat tracking
To Hit: 1d20 + 6 + 2 + 1 ⇒ (7) + 6 + 2 + 1 = 16 To Hurt: 3d8 + 2 ⇒ (5, 7, 2) + 2 = 16

"Take that thing down before it eats someone!"

That's get 'em for this round, Spanner note that I couldn't do it last round because it was too far away

Merciful artillery laser: 1d20 + 8 + 1 ⇒ (13) + 8 + 1 = 22
Non-lethal Fire: 3d8 ⇒ (1, 7, 6) = 14

Turret one at 20/40 charges

Tiktik is being thrown around like a toy by the mounted weapon, but he's managing to hold and keep it reasonably well aimed.

Spanner's shot goes wide, as does Data's ray. Tiktik however scores a solid hit!

ROUND 2: Yith, Lykos, Chk'tarish are up!

Oops. Sorry.

No worries. Unfortunately you really need that 17 to hit his KAC. So either way, miss.

Chittering from the impact of the giant creature's attack, Chk'tarlsh braces himself and attempts to keep the renkroda - and its razor teeth - at bay with a swipe of the taclash.

Taclash (Reach): 1d20 + 5 + 1 ⇒ (18) + 5 + 1 = 24
Non-lethal Slashing Damage: 1d4 + 6 ⇒ (3) + 6 = 9

Lykos continues laying down covering fire for Chk'tarish. Every little bit helps, or at least he hopes so.

Azimuth laser pistol: 1d20 + 4 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 4 + 1 = 7

Unfortunately, it's not very effective.

Yith steps up to Vossi's face and swings her Doshko, trying to stun her.

Doshko: 1d20 + 7 - 4 ⇒ (20) + 7 - 4 = 23
Non Lethal: 2d12 + 6 ⇒ (7, 3) + 6 = 16

With a whip crack and a doshko swing the great Renkroda gives a sigh and falls with a thundering crash to the ground, knocked out cold!

What now?

"Can we remove the control device without damaging her?"
Engineering 1d20 + 13 ⇒ (10) + 13 = 23
Medicine 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (20) + 8 = 28

Seeing the giant Renkroda fall, Lykos rushes forward with Spanner.

"How can I help?"

If Spanner needs help with Engineering, Lykos can aid another automatically. +10 to Engineering checks.

Would life science help here? Mysticism, somehow? Lykos will make some initial checks to examine the Renkroda.

Life science: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (4) + 10 = 14 With the Cyberborn theme, Lykos treats life science checks as having a DC of 5 lower than normal if they pertain to cybernetic augmentation techniques, if applicable.
Mysticism: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (8) + 11 = 19

Once she knows Vossi is not seriously hurt Yith will go check the Lashuntas out.

She will also check in with the bosses.
"We have one unconscious Renkroda. What should we do with her?"

The lashunta are both sadly dead. On their bodies you find the following, times two: second skin (jump jets), survival knife, azimuth laser pistol with 2 batteries (20 charges each), tactical shirren-eye rifle with 25 sniper rounds, tool kits (rider’s kit)

Spanner's knowledge of medicine serves him well as he carefully removes a magic-biological-technological device that has been feeding nanites into the bloodstream of the renkroda. He's pretty sure that without the steady signal, the nanites will go dormant and be inoperable.

As you finish, the great renkroda gives a grunt and its eyes flutter open. It starts to stagger to its feet, looking at you with dawning recognition - you think it understands that you are not the ones who hurt it, and that you helped it, but its innate nature is telling it to flee. Survival checks, I'll take the highest and the rest who beat a DC 10 will aid!

Spanner reflects that it may not have been the best idea to be standing next to an angry giant thunder lizard. He cautiously backs away to give himself room to dodge and run. "Friend?"

Survival: 1d20 ⇒ 17

survival: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (4) + 8 = 12

"Eassy. Eassy. We don't want to hurt you," the shirren murmurs reassuring to the stirring renkroda.

Having already been on the receiving end of the creature's attack, Chk'tarlsh takes a defensive stance, taclash at the ready, as he watches the great creature, trying to decern its next moves.

Survival: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (6) + 5 = 11

Lykos, having no idea what he's doing, tries to project calming thoughts toward the creature.

"Easy there... Nice renkroda..."

Survival: 1d20 ⇒ 10

Tiktik tries to back away from the turret without looking threatening

Survival: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (20) + 3 = 23

Tiktik leads the way, with the rest of you supporting him. Something seems to speak to the Renkroda and he lets out a long slow breath, then licks the poor Ysoki from toes to the top of his head with sloppy affection. He makes a complicated shimmy and sits down low enough that two of you can climb aboard the great saurian, where a small saddle with two seats is attached.

The vehicles can hold 4 people total, so 2 on Vossi, 4 in a vehicle, or 2 each in two vehicles back to the Gala?

Sounds like a plan. Spanner will be in a vehicle.

3 in Each vehicle, we should keep things even.

Tiktik has apparently made a new friend, so he'll certainly be riding on Vossi. It's not every day you get to ride on a Renkroda!

Tiktik climbs abord, and places a genle hand on Vossi's feathers. "Easy there"

He waits for another passenger to climb on board (if anyone wants to) then cries:

"Yip yip!"

Antennae twitching wildly, Chk'tarlsh cocks his head as he regards the mighty creature dubiously. His desire to join Tiktik on Vossi's back wars with his recent experience of its ferocity.

With a slow shudder of pleasure, he reaches his decision, strides slowly but purposefully toward the renkroda and climbs onto the saddle, joining his ysoki companion.

With a great lurch, Vossi rises to his full height. As soon as the other jeeps are revving, he follows them as you thunder toward the gala and Ipsoth!

As you approach, you can clearly see signs of violence. Smashed wood and glassware litter the gala site. Ripped tents, blood splatters, and scorch marks provide clear evidence of a recent battle.

We're back on SLIDE 4! You can choose to go in sneaky. You can choose to go in not-sneaky. What would you like to do? You can see Ipsoth on the stage and three eco-terrorists spaced around the perimeter, each standing near a crowd of terrified gala-goers. The hostages are each bound by plastic ties wrist and ankle, and tied to each other. Ipsoth is in the middle of a speech that sounds like his manifesto.

With his arsenal of weapons and being clad in heavy armour, 'quietly' isn't exactly Charles' forte. Plus we have a huge ferocious dinosaur that might be looking for a serving of revenge!

That being said, he isn't entirely without stalking ability and understands the tactical advantage a stealthy approach can provide should that be the consensus.

If you choose stealth, make some Stealth rolls for me. If you choose not-stealth, place yourselves near any edge of the map to depict the direction you're approaching from.

Lykos's stealth ability is... not stealthy. I'm fine going in guns blazing unless a majority want to try stealth, but as Chk'tarish pointed out, we have a giant Renkroda.

Stealth? Take a renkroda to the face you fiend. Charge!

Ha! Go ahead and place yourselves where you will. Technically you also have two jeeps if you'd like to use those, too.

Data will go into the trees as cover and into the security checkpoint to take out the green guy
stealth: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (3) + 6 = 9 If I'm exposed, which I believe I would be, just move me back to where I would be. Otherwise if I somehow do manage to sneak all the way up to him, here are the attacks.
and slice his neck with survival knife hit: 5 + 1d20 ⇒ 5 + (17) = 22dmg: 1d4 ⇒ 4

Lykos is ready to go.