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Drakzul goes straight to the closest access to the room. Dora tries to connect again remotely with the cameras to see what the crew's doing (provided the camera's on his remote/wireless hack reach (20 ft)). He tries to look for an easy access to the power core control.
Hopefully, they will not have to fight... Shooting in that room could be disastrous.
"Give the sign. I'll open the door"
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You all shuffle across the floor of the crashed spaceship, making sure you do not slip and fall in the mix of kerosene and fire-repellent--
--and you reach the door to the room housing the power core.
Drakzul checks the camera to see what is going on inside, and sees that people are still fighting frantically to stabilize the power core.
You open the door, and see that the starship’s power core chamber stretches the height of the vessel, with corrugated walkways connected to rung ladders stretching up and down the core’s housing.
Cracks crisscross the reaction chamber and brief flashes of plasma discharge sear the air.
The Diamond Glow’s power core is nearing catastrophic failure.
A few of the crew, also in those white uniforms but without any markings, see you in the doorway, and yell, warning that you are coming to get them!
They move for their weapons.
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Id follows Drazkul to the power core chamber. This environment is the home of white dragons. My bet is our assailant is still alive. Let's scour the place and bring her to justice.
The shirren then starts when he sees the crew. We've got live ones! You're in no condition to fight, lay down your arms and you'll get out of this alive!
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Huckle Jim moves into the Mess Hall, and looks around-- but finds nothing amidst the rubble.
Drakzul has opened the door, with Id behind him, and, seeing the people working away in there, Id appeals to them to lay down their arms, while Goose tries to back him up, but, being so far away it does not help much.
Two of the guys react to Id's words.
One, dressed in red heavy armor, a Vesk, with some kind of flaming doshko, an energy rifle and some grenades, calls back: "I am always in condition to fight!"
And he bellows!
The other, a tall female android with big hair and heavy black makeup, with light armor, a baton and a gun on her belt, and a toolkit in hand, smiles: "Hey grasshopper, my arms are bolted on tight, so don't come stealing our ship. We have salvage rights!"
Diplomacy obviously not winning the day, a more martial approach seems to be the new flavor...
Goose, Huckle Jim and Drakzul react right away.
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Huckle Jim moves up.
He sees he will probably just have to hit the opening pad to have the doors part for him and get inside.
Drakzul is about to step into the emptiness-- when he remembers that the starship’s power core chamber stretches the height of the vessel, with corrugated walkways connected to rung ladders stretching up and down the core’s housing.
Drakzul also notices that there is no way to repair the Power Core right now, this would take some time.
However, he realizes that the cooling system has not been put into action, and that would probably stop things going really bad.
It seems the automatic response must be destroyed by the crash, but there must be a manual box-- which is most probably at the bottom of the chamber!
So, maybe it is a good idea to jump fly over the side of the railing and down...
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The Power Core is irradiating such a powerful energy that Drakzul shimmers... and morphs into some kind of Pre-Gap extra-planar creature!
Unable to detect any computerized link down below, thus finding no way to hack into the cooling system, the morphed-Drakzul swings its fangblade... overcharging it--
--when, he tries remembers that the starship’s power core chamber stretches the height of the vessel, with corrugated walkways connected to rung ladders stretching up and down the core’s housing.
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Goose mutters softly to himself, cursing his current positioning and wishing they could have talked the strangers into a relatively peaceful alternative to combat. Seeing how that option has come and gone, Goose kicks it into gear, pushing his operative quick movement and speed suspension to the maximum to get into the doorway.
”If it’s a fight you want you overgrown lizard, it’s a fight you’ll get! shouts the tiny ysoki as he fires into the room. ”Um, no offense Drak.” states Goose as he grins broadly.
You become so confident in certain skills that you can use them reliably even under adverse conditions. When attempting a skill check with a skill in which you have the Skill Focus feat (Stealth & Acrobatics), you can take 10 even if stress or distractions would normally prevent you from doing so.
Trick attack = 24+1+10 = 35 [Beats CR 15 and below]
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Huckle Jim moves around to the door-- he is now aiming to open it.
Drakzul steps in and bashes the Vesk with his overcharged chainsaw.
Goose comes rushing up and blasts-- right over Drakzul's shoulder and into the Vesk.
Whizzzz goes the Vesk's doshko as it fires up and he swings left--
--and right, at Drakzul.
Both blows sends electric sparks as well as flame jets.
Drakzul cushions part of the fiery attack.
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The Vesk sees Id draw the weapon, and then he frowns a bit, but being killed or dismembered are not his deepest fears, so he does not totally fry his brain.
The android behind waves her arms around and mumbles, as arcane forces coalesce above her head. She sends three credsticks made out of force to hit Drakzul...
[ooc]Round 2
BOLD are up
Goose
Huckle Jim
Drakzul -39
Red -63
Id-Sinitis
Yellow
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Goose uses his heightened dexterity, exceptional skills in battle and expertise in operative training to run and slide not only through Draksul but right on through to the other side of the enemy vesk.
When you make a trick attack, if you choose the target of your attack before you move, your movement doesn’t provoke attacks of opportunity from that target. When you use your standard action to move, you can choose one creature; you don’t provoke attacks of opportunity from that creature for this movement.
DC = 15 + 1-1/2 × the opponent’s CR. My skill check beats CR 9 and below.
Caught unaware, Goose turns and fires on the danger lizard.
Take 10 using SPECIALIZATION SKILL MASTERY:
Trick attack = 24+1+10 = 35 [Beats CR 15 and below]
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Goose is about to try to slip through the Vesk's legs, but then changes his mind as to where he moves--
Wherever he goes, or even if he stays where he is, his shot takes the Vesk by surprise, and, through cover or not, burns a whole in the fighter's biceps.
Huckle Jim hits the door's button, and receives a blast of hot air in his face as he looks inside.
Seeing a big dude in heavy armor, he shoots at the Vesk--
--who drops to the ground, letting his doshko topple over the railing and crash to the floor below.
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Drakzul moves around the pillar and tries to slice the Android apart again.
But he misses, trying to chop off the arm that is already gone!
Goose jumps over the railing, flying up thanks to the jump jets in his armor.
He then starts to plummet down, but manages to slow the fall and cushion his arrival on the floor below.
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If so, you cannot use Combat Tracking AND Attack, since you've used a Move to Move, and need a Move to have Combat Tracking active.
So, I imagine you only have a +8? (if so, you miss - you would hit w. Combat Tracking).
Tell me if I am wrong.
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Drakzul moves around the pillar and tries to slice the Android apart again.
But he misses, trying to chop off the arm that is already gone!Goose jumps over the railing, flying up thanks to the jump jets in his armor.
He then starts to plummet down, but manages to slow the fall and cushion his arrival on the floor below.
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A blast of plasma bursts out of the core, spraying molten searing liquid... fortunately in a part of the chamber where no one is.
At the same time, Goose lands on the bottom, and manages to tinker successfully and manually activate the manual cooling system at the bottom of the chamber.
Nozzles start spraying foam all over.
You are immediately covered in pale pink, but can wipe it up.
Though you can also keep it if you feel it suits you.
Goose is happy he stopped the plasma discharges.
You hear the power core start to hum - in an agreeable way - and you realize that the navigational shielding has been reactivate, sheltering the starship from the storm outside.
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Goose pops up his selfie drone and snaps some candid shots of him covered in pink spray. After he finishes, he wipes it off and shoots back up to the others. He proceeds to deactivate his jetpack.
"Hoi chums!" offers the ysoki.
Seeing Drakzul taking a breather, Goose suggests they finish spot checking the few remaining areas that could be seen from the camera system.
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Goose looks to Huckle Jim and sees him drifting away from the team.
"I know we're all eager to move things along, mate. But Drak here needs a breather. Let's wait and move out together. Why don't you and I take up guarding positions at each of the doors until we're ready to head out as a team?"
Goose's normal joviality is missing and the message is clear, direct and brooks no argument.
He then smiles brightly and moves to guard the door they entered initially.
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Now that you have some time, no apparent threats, and with an environmental seal keeping out the snow and cold, you look all around.
Leaving the Power Core room and the two bodies behind, you first go through all the crates in the cargo bay area where the gems were, and come up with a package containing an experimental AbadarCorp computer chip--
--then in the two rooms to the east you find nothing in the lavatory, but in the storage room you find 2 medpatches and a canister of sprayflesh.
In the room to the right of the power core, the one that is partially collapsed, you search the room and succeed in finding something Huckle Jim missed before: the feet of a dead human sticking out of the rubble.
Spending a couple minutes clearing the remains reveals the crushed body and an intact aphelion laser pistol with 1 high- capacity battery .
You come to the Gunnery Station to the south, the room where Drakzul is afraid of a backdraft.
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You all stand back, as Huckle Jim goes right up to the door and opens it, standing smack in the middle.
A wave of fire bursts out, the back draft blasts over Huckle Jim and reaching 10 feet behind him!
He shrugs off most of the fire, and only gets a few blisters.
Now the flames go down inside, and you can look around.
All is burnt up, nothing left to find, and the charred corpses of the Diamond Glow’s gunners still sit at the firing controls.
All that is left is the room to the west, the left, of the power core, the half destroyed room that opens over the chasm.
You are before the doors of what must have been one of the ship's access corridors.
You check the door for any fires inside, and make sure it is safe--
When opened, you see that the access corridor to the bridge abruptly cuts off over the precipice and a drop to the ground 300 feet below.
A few strips of the hull still cling to the bridge, which hangs 50 feet down.
An overturned, but functioning hoverloader sits tucked near the door.
The hoverloader can carry a pilot and 5 passengers.
There is not much else other than debris from the corridor.