Roggi takes out his pistol and starts to shot.
Noting that he possesses only frag grenades, which are not likely to be any more damaging to the creature than his pistol, K'Klacklun stows his grenade and activates his forcefield.
The drone continues to fire.
Plenty of hits go through, it is looking weak, but it is hungry. Kklacklun is the only one that misses.
All heroes are up
Roggi shots again.
K'Klacklun directs the B.U.G. to continue firing.
Cadan continues to fire at the creature.
It Dead as it crashes to the ground with Cadan's shot after Roggi hits it once allowing you to escape.
"I think they did him in. Let's see if he had anything useful. Then let's make our way to that base."
"Maybe we can use his rifle!"
K'Klacklun's antennae perk up when he hears talk of finding useful equipment. When he hears the android mention the rifle, he muses, "Why don't these villains ever carry more helpful items--like spanners or Drift engines!"
Heroes travel back to the dead sniper. The are also dead cult of the devour members in the cave, so some of the treasure came from them too.
Treasure 12,900 credits. 6 R2E rations. 2 Advanced Disporian Rifles, 2 Tactical Dueling Swords. Glove of Storing. Ring of Sustenance. This was all near but not on the sniper.
This was on the sniper estex suit II, advanced Diasporan rifle (see page 99)
with 2 batteries (20 charges each), frag grenades II (4),
tactical dueling sword (yes a total of 3 swords and rifles, there were some near him but not on him)
A Journal [spoiler Journal, DC 25 Cultrue or the ability to read Sarcesian]
characters who don’t speak Sarcesian can translate the
journal with a successful DC 25 Culture check to decipher
writing). The entries describe the stubborn sarcesian’s
disagreements and personality clashes with others of his
kind on his nearby home, and they detail his decision to
leave and spend a month cooling down on this asteroid.
The journal entries become increasingly jumbled going
forward. References to a “flesh beast” recur multiple times
until Yex begins referring to this same creature as “master.”[/spoiler]
You also find unholy symbols of the Devour, but not on the Sniper, on the cultist
You move on
To an underground bunker
The dark and oppressive tunnel below the asteroid’s surface gives way to a severe chamber crafted of metal and concrete. A wide sliding door stands in the far wall of the room, rust dappling its edges like rotten lace. A single light above the doorway flickers weakly.
Cadan takes one of the swords and one of the grenades. . "I don't have any of these yet."
Cadan knows 10 languages. Sarcesian is one of them. He reads the journal. "It seems our sniper friend was here to cool down after some disagreements with his friends on a nearby asteroid. It looks like he may have been eventually mind controlled by a 'flesh beast' of some kind. This is concerning..."
Cadan "stacks up" outside the door, holding his longarm with both hands, waiting for the others to open it.
Roggi takes ring of sustenance.
"That is a nice ring. I will take that!"
Luckily the DC wasn't high, but you see an electronic trap on the door.
"Let me try to do this!"
Roggi disables the trap easily.
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Saratur grabs one of the sniper rifles and additional battery:
"Back in the days I learned how to use one of those. Not a big fan of them but they can be of use. Llanope, you know that you could carry a light armor below this mech right? It will reduce some bruises that otherwise you will get from using it!"
He also takes 1 grenade, leaving the rest to be taken by Cadan. Saratur urges the team to carry the rest of the equipment to their ship , or hide it to be picked up on their way back.
Standing in front of the bunker Half-orc is holding his lash to be armed when they meet their foes.
He looks around trying to help to spot traps.
"I will look here!"
You find nothing else.
You enter the operation terminal room.
Riveted walls of steel around the airlock hatch extend into
a cavernous gloom. At the chamber’s center stands a wide
computer console that practically stretches to the ceiling.
Rows of grimy buttons frame its blank display screen, from
which emanates the faintest of glows.
There are impassible laser here, but a computers 27 check will disable them and light up the place, cause it is also dark.
Cadan moves into the room and squats by the left wall, rifle held ready.
"Can someone help me with this!"
KKlacklun aids and disables the laser
"Can someone help me with this!"
"Computers and mechanical devices are a specialty of mine!" K'Klacklun chimes proudly.
The drone chirps in response.
"Well, no one asked what you thought." the shirren replies. He then scans the room.
The drone flies ahead and does the same.
Roggi follows others and looks around.
Heroes find a pile of gore in the room, but nothing else
If the PCs sift through the pile of gore
near the pillar, they can find a mostly intact patch from
the creature’s environment suit. A PC who succeeds at a
DC 20 Culture check recognizes that the patch identifies the
creature as a member of the Corpse Fleet, the exiled remnant
of the Eoxian Navy (see the Corpse Fleet sidebar on page 14
for more information the PCs might know about the Corpse
Fleet). This is a clue that the Corpse Fleet preceded the PCs
in infiltrating the Star-Eater’s Spine.
They then go out into the hallway and nothing of interest or danger here.
A cloying gloom fills this long, claustrophobic hallway. A red
light on the western wall blinks slowly, giving the scene a
sinister atmosphere.
"Oh, by Hylax! This is dreadful!" cries K'Klacklun as he surveys the items among the gore. "As if the very sight of all this gore were not awful enough! To find such a patch among these...these remains. It is of the type that would belong to a member of the Corpse Fleet! Surely, you don't think that one of the vile members of that exiled remnant of the Eoxian Navy would have been here? The last thing I would ever want to do is have a run in with the likes of their undead kind. Why, the stories I have heard!"
Heroes find a bunch of treasure in the bedrooms, but no combats, not even in the bottom right room past the bedroom. The top right room past the bedroom you hear something on the other side, but you save it for later after claiming treasures.
Roggi disables the traps and the heroes perceptions are high enough to find the treasure.
Three of the living quarters contain items that
might be of interest to the PCs.
The dresser in the northwest corner of area B6b is locked
(hardness 8, HP 15, break DC 16, Engineering DC 18 to disable).
Inside is a pair of injection gloves and 2 doses of weaponized
insanity mist that can be used in weapons with the injection
special property.
A PC who succeeds at a DC 16 Perception check while
searching area B6c discovers a thin white plastic card tucked
into a pile of discarded clothes on the floor. This is a security
key card for the computer in area B2.
A PC who succeeds at a DC 16 Perception check while
searching area B6d finds a small lump under one of the
sleeping pallets, which turns out to be a datapad and a
credstick holding 1,400 credits. The datapad is a tier 1
computer, requiring a successful DC 17 Computers check to
hack the system to gain access. Among the mundane data
files, electronic messages, gaming applications, and other files
on the datapad is a single video file labeled “Do Not Delete,”
which the PCs can notice with a successful DC 10 Perception
check once they have access. In the video, a verthani and a
gnome are sitting cross-legged on the floor inside one of the
base’s living quarters. Both are dressed in robes and wearing
unholy symbols of the Devourer, and the verthani is teaching
the gnome to sing a paean to the Devourer. Throughout the
song, both cultists repeat the phrase “Nyara knows!” over
and over. A PC who succeeds at a DC 25 Mysticism check to
recall knowledge recognizes Nyara as the name of an ancient
elven soothsayer who was most notoriously the author of a
Devourer cult holy text called The Entropy of Existence and
Glorious Rise of the Void. This is far more than just a simple
instructional video, however, though the PCs likely will not
recognize its significance at this point. In fact, the repeated
phrase “Nyara knows!” is a password for accessing the base’s
datacore (see area B11 for more details).
The cultists found it difficult to bypass their own
trap, so they were forced to leave their belongings behind
when the cult abandoned the base. The dresser contains
the cultists’ collection of armor upgrades and weapon fusion
seals: a brown force field, a mk I electrostatic field, a bleeding
fusion seal (6th), and a vicious fusion seal (5th; Starfinder
Adventure Path #2 53). The shelves here hold the following battered
weapons: a pulsecaster pistol, a red star plasma rifle, a tactical
acid dart rifle, a thunderstrike sonic pistol, and a utility
scattergun. All of the weapons are unloaded and broken (Core
Rulebook 273), but they can be repaired.
You also find other stuff, not treasure, Culture to identify, dc 20 Just part of the story is all.
There are two combats. upper right room and far left room. Which one first?
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Saratur is looking through the loot trying to identify each of the things:
"These are some broken weapons, but I think that K'Klacklun should be able to fix them. This electrostatic field is great, it reduces the damage and punishes enemies attacking you with a melee weapon. The brown force field is a bit weak but better than nothing."
Roggi takes security key card for the computer, datapad and a
credstick holding 1,400 credits
" “Nyara knows!” is a password for accessing the base’s
datacore"
"I will take that thunderstrike sonic pistol but I need someone to repair it."
Saratur sees writing on the wall that repeats itself. “The Entropy of Existence is known.” reference to an obscure holy text of the Cult of the Devourer called The Entropy of Existence and Glorious Rise of the Void.
Starfinders move in to battle Patrol Class Robots
Robots
Roggi
Saratur
LLanope
Cadan
KKlacklun
Cadan claims the plasma rifle but shakes his head at Roggi. "Let's split the cred stick."
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Cadan takes aim and fires two rounds at the robot to his right.