[SFS_GM Skeemo] 1–03 Yesteryear's Truth (Inactive)

Game Master Christopher Wasko

"Great shot and var cry Friend-Kat! More of the same is in order I zhink!"

You got it, girlfriend" Kat responds as she fires again.

Was going to start beating up on the drone's but Soryn's outrun them for now. Also, just want to confirm, on PG 320 of the core rulebook, it tells me to apply modifiers from computer systems for attack rolls. Does that mean I add the +2 from the ship's computers, or is that only to computers checks?

Gunnery, Shoot vs Orbital: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (15) + 4 = 19
Damage: 4d4 ⇒ (4, 2, 1, 4) = 11 12

Thanks Izzip, I thought I'd hit them hard. Oh nice shot Kat5e Cause I doubt the 19 will miss

Round 4 (bold may post)
Pegasus (5/10/10/10/55)
Platform (0/10/10/10/?)
Soryn Piloting: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (1) + 10 = 11

Engineering
Helm (PCs move first)

Round 3 - ENGINEERING

As the Pegasus's damage alerts flash up on the HUD, Kultha hisses in anger and works to reconfigure the vessel's power couplings;

"Forvard shields reduced to 50%. Attempting to regenerate."

DC13 Engineering (DC10+Tier x1.5): 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (8) + 10 = 18

She claps the conduits warmly as power is routed from weapons to shield arrays.

"Kaptain Izzup. Forvard shields restored to 70%. All other arrays funktioning at 100%."

[Restore up to 7 Shield points, distributed equally among all 4 quadrants]. Forward shields should now be 7/10.

"The controls are starting to overload, I guess I'll have to be more gentle." Soyrn continues smiling as he brings the ship around, "I'm going to park us next to the platform as it moves past hopefully we can get a shot off at it. Once I can get the controls back up to speed I'll bring us around to less shielded side."

Bleh to loosing initiative! The arrows work for you Skeemo?

Piloting/Evade DC 13: 1d20 + 9 + 1 ⇒ (7) + 9 + 1 = 17 +2 AC and TL

Even with the controls slowing his responses, Soryn is able to whirl and twist the ship as if it were a dancer...

Round 3 - ENGINEERING

As the Pegasus's damage alerts flash up on the HUD, Kultha hisses in anger and works to reconfigure the vessel's power couplings;

"Forvard shields reduced to 50%. Attempting to regenerate."

DC13 Engineering (DC10+Tier x1.5): 1d20+10

She claps the conduits warmly as power is routed from weapons to shield arrays.

"Kaptain Izzup. Forvard shields restored to 70%. All other arrays funktioning at 100%."

[Restore up to 7 Shield points, distributed equally among all 4 quadrants]. Forward shields should now be 7/10.

I believe in an errata they let you put Shield Points restored with Engineering in whatever quadrant you want, so your successful check should fully restore your forward shields.

@Soryn: Yes, those are fine.

The platform flies dangerously close (one gunner may make a free attack) and launches another drone, while the two presently active press their attacks. One misses thanks to Soryn's evasive flying, the other lands a solid hit into the recently regenerated shields.

Gunners (1 bonus attack)

Pegasus (2/10/10/10/55)
Platform (0/10/10/10/?)

”Quick, Vocalist-Kat, hit it while it’s within spitting distance!” Izzip cries, trying to help keep the launch platform’s damaged shields within Kat5e’s crosshairs as it zooms past the Starfinders’ ship.

Encourage - Diplomacy DC 15: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (10) + 9 = 19

Kat takes the opportunity to fire, at the captain's orders.

Gunnery, free shot: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (16) + 4 = 20
Damage: 4d4 ⇒ (2, 3, 4, 2) = 11

She then lines up the orange drone in front of the ship and fires again, shouting "ooh, yeah, get some!"

Gunnery, Turret vs Orange drone: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (6) + 4 = 10
Damage: 4d4 ⇒ (4, 3, 1, 1) = 9

Looks like the map got moved over a nudge Looks like there is an orange ship in front of me

@GMS: Thanks for the catch - re: shields. Had originally posted they were restored, then doubted myself and took a wrong turn lol. Cheers

Kat5e's opportunistic shot rips into the platform's forward arc, disrupting the crimson field supporting its functions, but her standard shot flies out into space. Confronted with two drones firing on the Pegasus's forward arc, Mega lands a full powered focused shot into the drone, melting it into slag. The second drone returns the favor and pierces the remaining forward shields, damaging the ship's hull. Meanwhile, the platform launches a fourth drone.

Soryn Initiative: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (14) + 10 = 24 PCs move second

Round 4 (bold may post)
Pegasus: 0/10/10/10/53
Platform: 0/10/10/10/?
Orange: no shields/?

Engineering
Helm (enemies have moved)
Gunnery (after Pilot)

The platform flies further away, spinning into defensive patterns. Meanwhile the other three drones all converge on the Pegasus's forward arc.

Movement posted, one free attack by a drone.

Soryn swears a little as the drones begin surround the ship, "These little blighters are worse than Abyssal fleas!" He the hurls the ship forward and into a short series of hard turns, racing after the platform.

Pilot/Evade DC 13: 1d20 + 9 + 1 ⇒ (16) + 9 + 1 = 26 +2 AC & TL

All the while the ship continues whirl through the stars never quiet staying in a direct flight path long enough for weapons to fully target.

Round 4 - ENGINEERING

As the swarm of drones begin to cut into the Pegasus' shields and hull, Kultha rumbles in anger;

"Po Shkalam Zavoyevatelya! Damned little drones haf some bite!"

"Forvard shields reduced to 0% Kaptain. Hull integrity has dropped to 96.36%... still holding. Facilitating regeneration of shields..."

DC13 Engineering (DC10+Tier x1.5): 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (1) + 10 = 11

As the power banks fail to surge she hisses in frustration;

"Ach! I am sorry Kaptain Izzup I haf failed to perform necessary repairs. Front shields still zeroed."

Mega fires his laser drill at the boss ship in front of him

Gunnery vs Orbital: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (4) + 4 = 8
Damage: 4d4 ⇒ (1, 4, 1, 2) = 8

RAW I'd have to switch to science before any actions, so it's greasy to switch now. I can balance sheilds next round, let me know what you guys want me to do

Kat5e, that is two misses in a row, you ain't losing your focus, are you? Bad time to do that now. I may need a second gunner, with ships on our tail, we may need to fire at both the boss and the drones.

"We need those shields up, Mechanic-Kultha. If there's any way I can help to patch the system, let me know!"

Encourage Kultha - Diplomacy 15: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (4) + 9 = 13

For all his good intentions, Izzip's lack of engineering knowledge makes his cheerleading rather unhelpful to the vesk.

The drones fire a flurry of laser shots at you, but Soryn's masterful evasive piloting results in only one strike to the rear shields (3 misses by 1 against the evade AC; every +1 counts). The drone opens another port and ejects another drone, since it received a moment's rest from your starship weapon fire.

The drones all close in around your ship as the platform pulls away.

Soryn Initiative: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (20) + 10 = 30

Round 5 (bold may post)
Pegasus: 0/10/10/5/53
Platform: 0/10/10/10/?

Engineering
Helm (enemies have moved)
Gunnery (after Pilot)

ROUND 5 - ENGINEERING

At her Captain's instructions and the continued harrying by the ever increasing drone threat, Kultha focusses on her duties;

"Aye-aye Kaptain! I vil niet fail you!"

The big vesk-tech deftly reroutes power lines to the Pegasus' shields;

DC13 Engineering (DC10+Tier x1.5): 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (18) + 10 = 28

As the shield's begin to replenish she hisses triumphantly;

"Yesss! Forvard and Aft Shields restored to 60% Komrades. Hull integrity stabilised at 96.36%..."

[Restore up to 7 Shield points;. Forward Shields restored to 6/10 (+6), Aft Shields 6/10 (+1).

"Sweet merciful crap on a crap cracker! How many drones can that thing produce?!" Soryn continues to try and evade the drones while keeping the platform in weapons range.

Pilot/Evade DC 13: 1d20 + 9 + 1 ⇒ (16) + 9 + 1 = 26 +2 AC & TL

Despite his obvious and growing frustration, Soryn continues to waltz the ship through laser fire like a ballerina in a rave. Graceful, untouchable, and confusing those around it.

"Great work with the shields Kultha! Mega and Kat keep it up, slag that scrap heap!!!"

One free attack by a drone.

With the shields back up, Izzip turns their attention back towards the launch platform. "If that thing keeps spitting out bogies, we're going to be swarmed! Big-Guy-Mega, I want that drill bit buried in its hard-drive NOW!"

Demand - Intimidate DC 18: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (11) + 7 = 18 Mega Gelub gets a +4 on his next Gunnery check.

Mega will laser drill the enemy in front of him

Gunnery Vs Orbital: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (19) + 4 = 23
Damage: 4d4 ⇒ (3, 2, 2, 4) = 11

Nice shot Kat5e, you must be focusing on the weak parts of the enemy ship. Too bad that wasn't a 20. Stay as a gunner, cause I ain't firing both guns and taking that penalty.

Sorry for the delay, lots of travel yesterday.

Mega's shot misses its mark, but Kat5e lands a solid hit on the platform's rear shields. Only a small amount of damage is visible on its rear arc, but the shields seem to have fallen for now. Your whole ship vibrates, however, as a massive flurry of laser fire peppers your ship, the first opportunistic shot not quite felling your forward shields, but the remaining blasts wiping out your aft shields and scarring your hull. Your port weapons interfaces suddenly start fritzing as the platform banks to the right and the drones close in behind you!

Soryn Initiative: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (4) + 10 = 14

Round 6 (bold may post)
Pegasus: 1/10/10/0/39 (port firing arc glitching)
Platform: ?/10/10/?/?

Engineering
Helm (enemies have moved; Orange and Yellow will move after Pilot)
Gunnery (after Pilot)

Just my two cents, but we are getting our butts kicked, I suggest to the Pilot to back up so we can take care of the drones on our tail, red and blue first while still keeping them in mining laser rather than chasing the big guy. Not posting gunner actions until we have an actual position.

"Yikes!" Izzip cries as the ship shudders from the barrage of laser fire. "Mechanic-Kultha, we need those rear shields back up or we're all toast!"

Demand - Intimidate 18: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (20) + 7 = 27

Positioned so mining laser can target a drone, the turret can pick drone or platform. We should get a free attack on the platform too.

Pilot/Evade DC 13: 1d20 + 9 + 1 ⇒ (11) + 9 + 1 = 21 +2 AC & TL

Soryn swings the ship between the drones, dodges around the platform and brings the drones back into firing range for the drones. "We can give it a try Mega, but I'm worried that the platform will just lay more drones." He continues to bob and weave the ship, trying to avoid laser fire from the drones.

ROUND 6 - ENGINEERING

The shudder of the Pegasus and Izzip's demand spur Kultha to action;

"At vunce Kaptain!"

Once again she channels power routes to the depleted shields;

DC13 Engineering (DC10+Tier x1.5): 1d20 + 10 + 4 ⇒ (7) + 10 + 4 = 21

"Kan konfirm Forvard shields now at 30%. Aft restored to 50%. Hull integrity reduced to 70.91%... Veapons are malfuktioning on Aft Firing Arc... Need time to fix!"

[Restore up to 7 Shield points;. Forward Shields restored to 3/10 (+2), Aft Shields 5/10 (+5)].

@All: Bear in mind Kultha has the Hero of the Stars boon slotted that will activate should be drop to 0 Hull Points... (of course I'd rather not use it! :S)

You do have a point their Soryn, but we have two gunners and I've only seen that thing lay one per round. Us gunners if coordinated right can take out on two drones in one round assuming we both hit. We would each target different untouched drones, the then next round fire at touched drones killing two while it only replaces one. Then the round after that, we go after orange and yellow, since orange has been damaged. Plus the Platform has to run out of drones. We coordinate it right until it runs out of drones, then we go after the Platform. We can hit the Platform in-between drones, but having four drones, which seems to be the max on the battlefield at all times is a big disadvantage.

Plus the Platform has to run out of drones.

*Peers at the platform dubiously.* I remain skeptical, but willing to try new methods...

Mega Gelub wrote:

Plus the Platform has to run out of drones.

*Peers at the platform dubiously.* I remain skeptical, but willing to try new methods...

You're right, it could have a lot of them, but I'm thinking 8 to 16 or some multiple of four.

My gut tells me infinite ammo, though we can try to run it out. I'm not sure we could survive limited ammo, at a low end 8 drones. Other than below, I don't have a solid plan so I'm open to thoughts.

"If we can't clear it out, maybe we can jam it up? If we target the platform's launch bays weapon systems so it can't launch more drones, we can pick off the drones and then finish the platform. It doesn't see to have any other defenses, and we're already damaged one launch bay weapons glitching?"

Am not convinced we'd win a space-war of attrition...

Kultha rumbles over the comms;

"Vant me to boost our veapons again? Am zhinking like old Veskarium Navy saying: Vhen threatened. Eliminate threat. No longer threatened...."

@Soryn: You'd get a free attack with a flyby stunt, but not an evade.

Botting Kat5e: The android continues her assault on the drone platform.

Gunnery Vs Orbital: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (12) + 4 = 16
Damage: 4d4 ⇒ (3, 4, 3, 4) = 14

Mega's mining laser cuts a deep groove into the blue drone, not quite destroying it but severely damaging it. Kat5e continues attacking the platform, landing a powerful coilgun shot into its hull and setting off an explosion in its interior. The drones' laser fire continues, but Soryn's maneuvers prevent any from hitting home. The drones continue their swarm tactics, closing in around your ship while the platform seems to pull away.

Soryn Initiative: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (14) + 10 = 24 1d2 ⇒ 2

Round 7 (bold may post)
Pegasus: 3/10/10/5/39 (port firing arc glitching)
Platform: 0/10?/10?/?/?

Engineering
Helm (enemies have moved; Platform will move after Pilot)
Gunnery (after Pilot)

"Sarenrae guide us, we're going to need some pretty fancy flying to get out of this drone swarm," Izzip says, their antennae drooping. "I know you are up for the challenge, Lover-Soryn! Get us out of here!"

Demand - Intimidate 18: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (12) + 7 = 19 Soryn has +4 to his next Piloting check, think you can Flyby us out of this trap and give us a free shot on a drone?

I thought the platform would move through our ship, didn't anticipate it holding still and thought we'd get the free attack. I'll try the flyby on blue, and line us up for another round of shots.

Pilot/Flyby DC 18: 1d20 + 9 + 1 + 4 ⇒ (11) + 9 + 1 + 4 = 25

"You want fancy, then let's see what this crate can do. Buckle in!" Soyrn forces the ship's engines, and maximizes the output to the starboard thrusters. This causes the ship to lurch surprising forward and jolt right. The BLUE drone's automated systems aren't able to respond quick enough leaving it open. Soryn sings quietly to himself, "I'm so fancy, you already know... I'm in the fast lane, from Akiton to Daimalko..."

Wow, ships on top of each other, we are directly behind the boss keeping it in front firing arc? Mega fires the laser drill at the boss assuming that is where we are.

ROUND 7 - ENGINEERING

As the crew steady their ship and refocus their attacks successfully, Kultha takes the opportunity to repair the system on the fritz;

DC18 Engineering (DC15+Tier x1.5): 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (16) + 10 = 26

"Kaptain-Healer Izzup - Engineering happy to report veapon systems are now fully funktioning again. Forvard shields remain at 30%. Aft holding at 50%. Hull integrity still 70.91%..."

[Repaired Glitching system]

Gunnery vs Blue, free shot: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (6) + 4 = 10
damage: 4d4 ⇒ (4, 1, 3, 1) = 9

Gunnery vs Orbital: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (20) + 4 = 24
damage: 4d4 ⇒ (4, 1, 1, 2) = 8
Random System: 1d100 ⇒ 90

Kat lets out a small disappointed sigh as she fails to capitalize on Soryn's fancy flying. She steadies herself and hammers down on the platform.

"Sorry Soryn, I let you down. Hope my next shot redeems me a little"

If ever crits were needed, thank you Dice-bot!

Soryn let's out a low whistle, and short prayers to several deities and promises to call his mother once docked at Absalom.

"No need to apologize Kat, you and Mega really brought those shots home! Let's hope Sarenrae and Desna were paying attention and that Dretch of a platform is slagged."

The platform's automated self-repairing systems strain to hold the ship together, just barely tapping the emergency power enough for it to launch into a series of evasive maneuvers. Meanwhile, the drones pepper your forward arc with laser fire, causes sparks to fly from the vacant science officer station as your hull takes a beating.

Soryn Initiative: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (3) + 10 = 13

Round 8 (bold may post)
Pegasus: 0/10/10/5/28 (port firing arc patched; sensors glitching)
Platform: ?/10?/0/?/?

Engineering
Helm (enemies have moved; drones will move after Pilot)
Gunnery (after Pilot)

BETRAYED! Dice-bot lulled me into a false sense of security!!!

Shift back to Evade in the hopes +2 keeps us from getting hit, or Flyby for a free attack on Orange? Are there bonuses for firing at an adjacent target?

ROUND 8 - ENGINEERING

With the onslaught of drone fire causing shields to evaporate and sensors to malfunction, Kultha rumbles angrily at the damage wrought upon her ship and focusses on repairs to their shield array;

"Ach! Focussing on restoring shields Kaptain, vill konduct repair vhen opportunity arising!"

DC13 Engineering (DC10+Tier x1.5): 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (15) + 10 = 25

As the depleted shields, rise once again in power, the big vesk reports on her labours;

"Forvard and Aft shields restored to 60%. Hull integrity reduced to 50.90%... Ve take battering but still in fight!"

[Restore up to 7 Shield points;. Forward Shields restored to 6/10 (+6), Aft Shields 6/10 (+1)]

BETRAYED! Dice-bot lulled me into a false sense of security!!!

Shift back to Evade in the hopes +2 keeps us from getting hit, or Flyby for a free attack on Orange? Are there bonuses for firing at an adjacent target?

You should probably ask the second part in character, so we can respond in character and roleplay while responding. The incharacter asking the crew sounds better than the player asking the players what to do. The second question though is for the DM, so that is out of character.

I was hoping for quick responses, so I could move before I left work.

Pilot/Evade DC 13: 1d20 + 9 + 1 ⇒ (15) + 9 + 1 = 25 +2 AC and TL

"I don't think we can take out drones fast enough... It's taking two hits to knock out a drone. It'll crap out more while the rest keep wearing us down. Even if it only has another 4 our hull is shredding and the power core can't keep the shields up. Kultha's holding us together, you and Kat have nearly have the platform."

As he's talking Soyrn swings the ship through the gap in the drones and whirls through the void, making the ship an elusive target. As he closes on the platform he banks the ship, keeping the platform in the mining laser's range and a set of full shields to the drones.

"If anyone else agrees with drones first, speak up. I'm good with a democratic process. Any tie breaker opinion?"

Won't be able to post again until late Eastern Time Zone on the 13th, busy day.

Kat nervously listens to the pilot and gunner debate the best course of action.

"We're so close on the platform, I can feel it. I'll smoke those drones on the next shot"

Gunnery vs Platform: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (14) + 4 = 18
Damage: 4d4 ⇒ (3, 3, 2, 1) = 9

Okay Platform it is Mega is wondering if he should just blow up the blue drone, but decides to deal with the boss for now. Again, we are really close, If I have line of sight at the Platform I will fire at it, otherwise I'm firing at the blue drone
gunnery mining laser: 4 + 1d20 ⇒ 4 + (19) = 23 dmg: 2d6 ⇒ (2, 3) = 5

There's no wrong decisions until we're all floating lifelessly in space. I wanted to keep the coil gun on the platform for one more good one, and let you choose if you wanted drones or not. The phrase "Automated self repair" made the final decision for me this morning. Hate to let off now and have it heal up.

"Nice shot, Gelub! Kat lets out excitedly as she watches the shots play out on the displays in front of her.

Botting Izzip: Izzip helps inspire Kat5e's shot.
Diplomacy: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (20) + 9 = 29

Both of the Pegasus's weapons strike the platform's port side, cutting through the depleted shields with ease. You have not recently scanned the starship, but given that another explosion flashes from its power core, you guess from your visual that it's on its very last legs. The drones surround your starship and lay on the laser fire, but your replenished forward and stable starboard shields take the brunt of the damage, leaving only a minor strike to your tail.

Soryn Initiative: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (15) + 10 = 25

Round 9 (bold may post)
Pegasus: 0/10/3/0/26 (port firing arc patched; sensors glitching)
Platform: ?/0/0/?/?

Engineering
Helm (enemies have moved)
Gunnery (after Pilot)

Bring us home, folks!