Clearly the container was broken from the inside and something went out. The liquid where the creature was contained, is everywhere in the floor.
Knowing that the creature is crab like, you are able the route it takes, and are able to track it down.
It clearly moves towards the southern chamber (the one full of smoke).
When Bilimi moves next to the container with the sword in it, he sees that this one is not broken and with the power on, he will need to break the container to take the weapon.
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As they wait for someone to get the children, Ajatus will talk and engage with them more (using Token Spell to amuse them with simple illusions). "So did your friend respond when you spoke to it? Or could you teach it tricks like a squox...?" His questioning trying to determine how sentient the creature may be.
Ajatus moves through the chamber searching it carefully as others inspect the canisters.
Pointing into the next room, "Can anyone determine what the smoke is? Perhaps we should activate our armor's environment systems before this room is potentially contaminated."
After checking the smoke, it seems being generated by the destroyed air conditioner and provoked by the temperature difference in the room.
It's just steam.
As the Starfinders moves in the next room, following the tracks of "Friend" thanks to Bilimi, you are able to see, through the smoke, that this room contains several desks, each hosting a deactivated computer. But the tracks of the creature are lost...
You find it! It's currently hidden in the ceiling of the southern chamber, behind an exposed panel of ship internals.
Unfortunately, the creature is quite agitated and frighten by the noise, your presence and the strange environment it wakes up in!
You need to catch it up and calm it down.
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Ajatus moves forward, "Influencing being is most definitely in my skill set."
Ajatus removes one of the R2E packets from his packet and takes out an array of food. Laying it out and making soothing, calm gestures he tries to entice the creature down to the floor. Once the creatures comes to the food, Ajatus slowly moves to engage and befriend with the creature.
Basalt and Ajatus seems the only ones to be able to calm a little bit the creature!
Maybe Radak will be able to take care of the creature before she tries to escape again?
After several unsuccessful attempts, the Starfinders finished to calm the horseshoe crablike creature and take it with them.
When you get out of the rooms, the children seems happy to see "Friend" alive and follows you, playing with the alien creature as if it was a simple pet. You need to travel to the bridge of the Master of Stars for a formal debrief by Fitch.
With the alien gone, engineers can move back into E-Deck and fix the damage done. Fitch turns the alien over to an assembled team of experts in hopes of learning more of the alien’s language and culture. As the alien survives, Fitch is satisfied and pats you on the back for a job well done and gives you a credstick with 400 credits on it. Don't spend it too quickly! she says.
The Wayfinders’ leader thanks you for your diligence, but is quick to get back to work on repairing the ship.
Kieu Kein, the father of the two children, rewards you for having rescued his children with a mk 1 ring of resistance.
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"That was an intriguing exercise. If it wouldn't be too much trouble I would find that ring most useful. My I?" Ajatus slips the ring onto his finger and inhales deeply feeling slight more hail and hearty.
"Since we don't seem to have any real priorities, what are everyone's thoughts about checking in with the Acquisitives? Radaszam I believe it is..."
The Acquisitives’ leader, Radaszam “The Dealmaker”, manages the deployment of the Acquisitives and his personal mercenary outfit, the Obsidian Spiders. He keeps a public-facing office for this purpose in the Nyori Palisades, a luxurious neighborhood located in Absalom Station’s transparent central dome.
The plain white doors of the office slide open to reveal a stark, dimly lit room. The chamber is bleak and expressionless in its emptiness—no vanities line its smooth black walls, and no signs of use mar its smooth black furniture.
The only occupants of the suite are a bug-eyed tadpole wriggling in a glowing blue aquarium and a reptilian vesk seated behind an onyx desk. The vesk gestures to a number of chairs in front of him, his features sharply illuminated by the light of his desk’s green holoscreen.
The new graduates, he greets, in a low and pleasant voice. Good day. I am Radaszam, though since you are here, I should hope you already knew. smiling he continues after a short silence. I trust you are aware of our Society’s traditions, so I will cut to the point. I have a minor situation that needs resolution. One of our members, a human named Laboni, had a rather public altercation with a junk scavenger from the Spike. You might be more familiar with the scavenger than I, actually; he is a ysoki who fancifully calls himself Ratrod. I am told he runs a popular racing competition that has, hmm, several hundreds of thousands of viewers on the station’s infosphere. For some reason, Laboni felt the need to tell him that any real mechanic could easily beat the garbage that Ratrod and his associates slap together. Now that Ratrod has issued an infosphere-wide demand that she race him and prove it, Laboni doubts she can back that claim up.
After a short pose he continues Embarrassing, isn’t it? Not really the sort of troublemaker that suits our Society. Perhaps she would be better suited to the bottom of a trash compactor... Well, we cannot afford to throw her out, not after so many Starfinders were lost in the Scoured Stars. Besides, we can’t let people think we are so weak that we can’t control our own members, or that we cannot stand up to a scrapyard junker. No, I would like you to assist Laboni in winning this race. Show our detractors that even the least of our Society is not someone to be trifled with.
Radaszam sends on your datapad the directions to the race’s location in Botscrap and hands you badges marking you as Laboni’s official pit crew.
Before letting you go he adds I suggests you do not delay, as you will need as much time as you can to help with the race!
It takes a few minutes to get to Botscrap.
Ratrod’s racing circuit is a hollowed-out section of a mountain of spare parts in Botscrap, the track specifically sanctioned by the ysoki-dominated Salvage Union that controls most of the yards. When you arrive at the competitors’ entrance, a small robot informs you of the basic rules of the race: racers and their pit crews are to build and improve their vehicles from the available scrap around the racetrack. Vehicles built at previous junkraces can return. Racers can fire upon other competitors during the race, but firing into the audience is grounds for immediate disqualification; racer weapons must be nonlethal and may affect only opponents’ vehicles.
I hope that she will understand the lesson. Show her how true Starinders act and may be she will learn something.
Answers Radaszam to Basalt
The robot answers Ajatus Magic. Is. Authorized. As. Long. As. It. Don't. Target. The. Public. Or. The. Opponent. Pilot.
Then Bilimi You. Will. Be. Given. A. Basic. Chassis. You. Will. Be. Able. To. Upgrade. It. With. The. Scraps. Found. On. Botscrap.
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Radak takes in the sights and sounds of the racetrack, so different from the underdeveloped worlds he had spent most of the last decade on.
machines and people not great with either
sorry i'm not going to be much help with the racer. I'm going to have a walk around, as talking won't kill me, he gives Laboni a toothy grin, might kill you but not me.
Laboni is easy to find in the crowd due to her paisley clothes and bright white lab coat. She is in her late teens.
When Laboni sees you, she seems incredibly grateful for showing up to support her!
Thank you comrades for showing up! I... I know I can't win the race on my own. Please, help me win that race and show to everybody how, we, Starfinder are good when were are a Team!
You can spend an action to attempt a Computers, Engineering, Perception, or Physical Science check to find parts in the scrapyard and install them in Laboni’s racer (as your action, you also can use the aid another action to assist each other’s rolls).
Weapons installed on the vehicle do not cause damage, but instead impose penalties to the target’s Piloting rolls for 1 round on a successful hit. Every successful check allows you to pick one improvement from the list below to apply to the vehicle’s statistics; these bonuses are cumulative
• The vehicle’s base speed increases by 5 feet.
• The vehicle gains a +1 Piloting modifier.
• The vehicle gains a +1 attack modifier.
• The vehicle gains a +2 bonus to its EAC.
• The vehicle gains a +2 bonus to its KAC.
• The PCs install a basic energy weapon on the vehicle (imposes a –4 base Piloting penalty on a hit).
• The PCs install a basic kinetic weapon on the vehicle (imposes a –4 base Piloting penalty on a hit).
• The PCs upgrade a weapon to impose an additional –2 penalty to enemy Piloting checks on a successful hit.
Otherwise, it costs you one of his prerace actions to converse with or examine all members of the competition. This check does not grant exact knowledge of an opponent’s statistics, but provide you an idea of a driver’s skill or the associated vehicle’s strengths and weaknesses. On a successful check, you can ask one pertinent question about the pilot’s skill or about the vehicle the pilot is driving (or receives similar relevant information, if a player is unsure what he or she should be asking about).
If you are caught cheating in this manner, you are tossed out of the engine pit. If you are caught cheating again, it is grounds for the immediate disqualification of the entire team.
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Basalt isn't the most technically inclined. He'll socialize with the other racers, starting with Ratrod. What skill rolls do I need to make for each of them?
"Greetings from the Starfinder Society, Ratrod. I'm here to offer the society's hand in friendship after the rough start we've had in building our relationship."
Ratrod is a ysoki with mottled gray-and-white fur. He has a showman’s personality to match his icon status. People in the Spike consider him something of a hero to the ysoki-dominated Scrap Union.
Ratrod speaks with several female ysoki and other fans when Basalt addresses the pilot.
After Basalt's introduction, Ratrod turns to his audience and says.
Ah! Look people! Now that their first pet is in trouble for deifying me, they send another to try to lessen the offense! I will crush the Starfinder in the race and shows in front of everybody that Starfinders are LOSERS!
During this time if Tixylix finds a part to improve the racer's piloting computer but Bilimi findings reveals to be just junk!
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Ziamat will improve the Laboni Racer
Improve speed on the first success and improve piloting on any success after that.
Edit: free engineering against the pilot of the Ratrod
Guys, we don't need to add weapons, the one this ship has is good enough and we are good enough, we don't need Mario Cart shenanigans to win.
Ratrod seems affected by Basalt's taunt!
I will win!
Ziamat also find junk useful to improved the speed of the racer! But nothing useful about Ratrod racer.
As Basalt goes by he has time to observe Lemgem who is a blue-haired gnome covered in piercings, tattoos, and augmentations. He quickly understand that she is obsessed with continual alterations to herself and her racer, to the point where her vehicle modifications skirt the bounds of common sense.
Radak speaks with Lemgem who seems quite happy to speak about her very modified racer!
Yes, she's a thing of beauty! I've manage to put together a RX-400 and a RV-42 for maximum speed! Oh! and I even found a X-45-1000 stabilizer in the junk! Military grade can you imagine !
Racing is so good! But speed! My my my... I tell you...
She continue for a long time to speak about her racer.
As Ajatus goes by he has time to observe Lemgem who is a blue-haired gnome covered in piercings, tattoos, and augmentations. He quickly confirms what Basalt has concluded. You also think that you could try to force her to get beyond the capability of her racer or try to make her an ally during the race.
Ziamat find a piece of equipment in the junk able to help piloting the racer!
Velocity is a beautiful android with silver hair and skin. They have self-modified to have both masculine and feminine attributes, and have decorated their clothing, eyelids, and lips with bright, colorful patterns.
In a melodious barytone voice, Velocity answers Basalt Sorry, I've never won a race, so I don't think my advice will be of any good. Even if I describe myself as a good pilot my talents to built a good racer are not enough. May be if you explain to me how to build a racer I could help you during the race? For now, my main occupation during the race is shooting at other racers, rather than trying to win.
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Thinking that it would be a good idea for Laboni to have friends in the racing circuit, Basalt tries to help. "I'm not much for tech, but maybe I can provide a different outlook that will prove useful to you." He goes through the junk pile with Velocity or their engineer and tries to find something that will be helpful.
When Basalt returns with a piece of equipment that is able to improve the speed of they racer, Velocity is quite happy once the piece is installed!
Thank you very much! I'm so glad you've come today. I will be able to play a better role now!
If you want, I can help you in the race. I'm OK with a second place and I will shoot at any one in front of your racer, deal?