Hmm's SFS 2-01: Pact World Warriors (PBP Gameday VIII) (Inactive)

Game Master Hmm

With a deep sigh Deger turns around and heads back towards the new fight.

Double move.

Smek successfully tricks the akata, but misses it entirely. He does notice the rival team thrashing around and chasing some kind of furry thing with multiple legs, and does not spot any surprises from Zo! yet.

Deger sighs, and double-moves.

No one is butchering the Uruzog yet.

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Round 2 / 3
Active conditions:

Smek
Rose-5 and Spinning Falcon
Zez'ka

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Red-Tagged Verimu (DEAD & BUTCHERED)
Green-Tagged Herd Animal (DEAD)
Blue-Tagged Akata

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Frank
Tyus
Deger

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Bold is up!

Frank looks over at the next corpse. "Ya had ta leave it or'ther!"

The then hustles over to the Uruzog. "Kind and bring t'next one t'me"

Frank will have to double move to the down creature

Life Science: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (11) + 4 = 15

With no idea what the strange dog-lion is, Zez'ka twitches her antennae in thought. "Strange!" she decides. "Unnerved!" She twitches and jerks forward erratically, shows the beast her back, then bends down, inexplicably firing a shot from her pistol while upside down between her own legs...

Trick Attack (acrobatics): 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (16) + 12 = 28
Attack vs. KAC: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (8) + 5 = 13
Piercing Damage: 1d6 ⇒ 5
Trick Attack Damage: 1d6 ⇒ 6

"Surprise!"

"Vell, excuse me for being vorried about that monstrosity eating someone," Deger says pointing at the...whatever it is that came out of the cocoon.

Tyus squints at the creature, thinking it looks familiar...

Perception: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (10) + 8 = 18

Oh hey, it's one of those beasties like was on the Drift Rock. It's way gnarlier in real life!

I don't have any salt water, but maybe acid will do the trick?

She conjures forth a brackish green ray of energy aimed at the akata's head.
energy ray(acid): 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (8) + 2 = 10 vs EAC

Frank calls for people to bring the animals to him, Zez'ka's tricky firing allows her to hit the akata despite it's partial cover. Tyus shoots acid near -- but not at -- the akata.

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Round 2 / 3
Active conditions:

Smek
Rose-5 and Spinning Falcon
Zez'ka

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Red-Tagged Verimu (DEAD & BUTCHERED)
Green-Tagged Herd Animal (DEAD)
Blue-Tagged Akata (-11)

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Frank
Tyus
Deger

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Bold is up!

Click. Whirr.

BOTTING ROSE-5 and SPINNING FALCON

Rose-5 moves back from the tree, and shoots the Akata along with her drone!

Rose-5's attack vs EAC: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (14) + 5 = 19
Rose-5's damage with pulsecaster: 1d4 ⇒ 4

Spinning Falcon's attack vs EAC: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (14) + 6 = 20
Spinning Falcon's static arc pistol : 1d6 ⇒ 1

The Akata is up! It has multiple targets to bite!

Target?: 1d3 ⇒ 2 Ouch! Poor Rose-5!
Bite: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (18) + 8 = 26
Piercing Damage: 1d6 + 2 ⇒ (4) + 2 = 6

Rose-5 has been busy, so let's bot her fort save...

Fortitude: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (19) + 3 = 22
Rose-5 shivers, feeling she just had a narrow escape...

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Round 3 / 4
Active conditions:

Smek
Rose-5 and Spinning Falcon (-6)
Zez'ka

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Red-Tagged Verimu (DEAD & BUTCHERED)
Green-Tagged Herd Animal (DEAD)
Blue-Tagged Akata (-16)

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Frank
Tyus
Deger

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Bold is up!

Zez'ka gives another jerk, then leaps backwards, firing a shot at the akata mid-backflip!

Trick Attack (acrobatics): 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (1) + 12 = 13
Ranged Attack vs. KAC: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (7) + 5 = 12
Piercing Damage: 1d6 ⇒ 1
Trick Attack Damage: 1d4 ⇒ 3

Frank continues to move up

Double move to carcass. If someone could move my token since the maps are not working for me this morning

Life science to see if Rose-5 had heard of akatas before: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (13) + 4 = 17
When they came out, Rose-5 said to Tyus, "I'd heard about the incident on Drift Rock as well. I didn't know they were edible though. Their head-tentacles look a bit...rubbery. Perhaps they are prepared like calamari, then?"

When it came forward and took a bite of her, Rose-5 said, "YEOWCH! I think they can understand us talking. Sorry about the edibility comment. I guess this is only fair, owowowow. Something nasty in that bite there. A toxin of some kind. Cold and shivery. Be careful, everyone."

And with that, she and Falcon attempt to take the akata down before it gets another chance to assess how edible she is.

Rose-5's attack vs EAC: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (14) + 5 = 19
Rose-5's damage with pulsecaster: 1d4 ⇒ 3

Spinning Falcon's attack vs EAC: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (6) + 6 = 12
Spinning Falcon's static arc pistol: 1d6 ⇒ 5

Frank makes it to the herbivore and starts butchering.

Meanwhile, Zez'ka and Rose-5 both focusfire on the akata! Zez'ka barely misses, but Rose-5 and Spinning Falcon together work to bring the akata down!

Combat is over. Your ingredients have been ordered, though two are not butchered yet. What do you do?

Frank starts prepping the meats

Survival 1: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (3) + 6 = 9
Survival 2: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (16) + 6 = 22

Smek runs to help Frank with the butchering, continuing to scan the surroundings for anything Zo! or the Rivals may have 'left'.

Perception: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (17) + 6 = 23 Traps +1 and in 10'
Assist/Survival 1: DC10: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (10) + 1 = 11

Tyus moves up and, using a sharp-looking rock, attempts to start butchering the akata, keeping clear of its infection-laden jaws.

Survival: 1d20 ⇒ 8

Yelling to Frank: Maybe we should just try to drag this over to you?

Zez'ka prances around in a victory dance, then hurries over to help butcher the animals.

Survival to AID: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (2) + 7 = 9
Survival to AID: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (11) + 7 = 18

Rose-5 lowers her weapon. Glad that no one else is going to get bitten now. Falcon beeps cheerfully. Lacking a knife, Rose-5 picks up a sharp rock from the same general area that Tyus found one in.

I don't have much experience preparing my own meat, but maybe I can help out. Falcon's beeps turn inquisitive. And if you think that electrically frying the meat will help prepare it, Falcon would be happy to help too.

Survival to Aid 1: 1d20 ⇒ 3
Rose-5 hisses in pain as she accidentally nicks her hand with the sharp rock instead of cutting the meat.
Survival to Aid 2: 1d20 ⇒ 16
Before attempting to help with the second animal, she places some electrical tape on the back end of the rock to create a safe gripping surface.

With effort, you manage to butcher the akata fairly well, but had some mishaps taking care of the urozog. You think that if you try again, you might have a chance of salvaging it, but it will be a little harder given this abuse.

Can I have some perception checks?

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Immediately after defeating the assembled creatures, Lethea says, "And now... the contestants enter the cooking phase of the competition. Twin outdoor kitchens complete with cooking ranges, chef's tools, and fully stocked pantries are set up in the area to the southeast of a large tree. The two teams attempt this phase of the challenge adjacent to one another."

"Ooh is cheating allowed? Will the teams be able to mess with one another?" Zo! is so excited, he is jumping around.

"You bet your bones it is!" Quell says. "We will discuss this once both teams have finished butchering their carcasses, after this commercial break."

Gentle Sentients, what goes better with food that you have hunted, field-dressed and cooked yourselves than a steaming mug of Poshkettle tea?

"Ooh, you've got to be kidding me! Have we no OTHER sponsors?" Zo! shakes his head.

Smek begins helping take the butchered meats to the next stage, he continues to scan for anything unusual. "Ok Zo!, what are you going to spring on us? It's too quiet..."

PErception: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (11) + 6 = 17+1 for traps, 10' area

Slight retcon. You can also use life science or medicine to butcher the herbivore, though it is harder than survival. If anyone would like to reroll their initial survival roll as one of these instead, feel free.

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"Let's go over the rules of what you can do in this cooking competition!" Quell says with a wink. “And to mess with the other team!”

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Once you properly butcher all of your meat, you can proceed to cooking. Cooking each of the pieces of meat takes place over a short phase, during which each of you can perform a single action. The options include cooking or sabotaging the other team.

Prepare Meal (Dexterity, Survival, Profession [artist, cook, herbalist]): These skill checks represent cutting and preparing ingredients.

Disable Cooking Range (Engineering): A person who succeeds at an Engineering check can disable the other team's cooking range and force them to find another heat source, magical or otherwise, or prepare food without applying heat.

Knife Toss: You can make a ranged attack roll to throw a kitchen utensil at an opposing team member.

Swap Ingredients: A person who succeeds at a hard Sleight of Hand check can swap one of the other team's ingredients for something unappealing such as R2E protein rations.

I was thinking that Deger was bad at Survival. He's actually only mediocre, I guess I had another character in mind. I'll go ahead and roll to help butcher, if it's too late disregard

Survival: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (10) + 6 = 16

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Deger rolls up his sleeves, figuratively, and gets to work cooking. He takes a large spoon and is ready to slap the hand of anyone who tries to help but is doing a bad job.

Survival: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (19) + 6 = 25

Smek peers around the cooking area. There's no 'defensive option' to prevent the enemy from sabotaging us?

You can try to watch out for that pahtra... Feel free to give me another perception check.

Deger successfully butchers the Urozog!

Meanwhile, in the creek Smek spotted another care package! A metal crate partially submerged in the pool contains an adamantine alloy survival knife, an autotarget rifle with 25 rounds, a brooch of shielding, a brown force field armor upgrade, and four mk 1 serums of healing.

Seeing that Deger has cooking in hand, Frank eyes the other side's set up. He then adds more "fuel" to their line.

Engineering: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (16) + 6 = 22

Thanks Hmm. We each get one action per "menu item" and we cannot duplicate correct? One person cooks first meal and others could assist, but not two separate cooking rolls for the first 'action'. Just want to plot and scheme effectively... ;)

Perception: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (12) + 6 = 18

Smek continues to watch the other team as he decides on the best course of action...

PHASE ONE

Zez'ka -- who would never think of sabotaging the other team! -- happily goes about trying to prepare the meal.

Survival: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (12) + 7 = 19

Smek rolls up his sleeves and looks over the ingredients available. With a shrug he begins sniffing various jars and plants, grabbing the final pile of meats... Dashing, chopping, tossing and mixing trying his best to look like chefs from the few cooking vids he's seen. Adding in a random "BOOM!" as he adds particularly interesting sounding ingredients.

Survival/Cooking: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (19) + 7 = 26

Deger kicks the stove and says a few dwarven words that will have to be bleeped on the broadcast.

"Bah! Somebody come fix this thrice-blasted thing!"

"On it!" Rose-5 says, pulling out her electrician's toolkit. She cuts the power to the stove first before inspecting the damage.

Since you said it was an electrical failure, I'd like to roll profession (electrician). If that's not appropriate here, I'll use engineering, for which my bonus is +9.

Profession electrician: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (11) + 11 = 22

"A classic short circuit. These wires are rather fragile and poorly insulated, and so current is able to leap out of the wires into other metal parts of the stove. This sort of defect is often responsible for electrical fires." She deftly removes the faulty wire and replaces it with a length of new silicone-insulated wire.

She then turns the stove back on, while keeping a close eye on the back for other signs of electrical defects.

Tyus lends Rose-5 a hand with repairing the stove. (Or, if Rose-5 already has it handled, Tyus will use the Engineering check to instead sabotage the opponents cooking range).

Engineering: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (20) + 6 = 26

Rose-5 repairs the stove in time for Zez'ka and Smek to join in on the cooking, each taking on different aspects of the dish, from presentation to saucing. Meanwhile, just as Rafelo and Verity put out their fire, Tyus subtly sabotages their stove. Rafelo and Verity keep turning dials and only hearing, Click. Click. Click.

Quell smacks his lips. "Can you taste the frustration of the Rivals? I'm sure it's tastier than anything they have cooking!"

PHASE TWO

It's time to tell me what you are doing!

Zez'ka continues to cook up a storm, taking great delight in choosing every addition!

Survival: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (1) + 7 = 8

Unfortunately, her eclectic selections and flavour combinations are unlikely to be enjoyable to most sentients...

Deger slaps Zez'ka on the hand with his spoon. "Oy! You can't put that sauce on the bird meat, that's vhat I'm making this for!"

Deger tries to finish his sauce before anyone else tries to marinate with the wrong stuff.

Survival: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (16) + 6 = 22

Frank likes what Deger is cooking up and thinks it is best to leave a cooking dwarf alone. Many times have met with bad ends. So he takes one of the unused ladles and hucks it over towards

Trowing things: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (8) + 5 = 13

The ladle flies right into the sauce Verity is making, and splashes Rafelo. "Ack, that's my second outfit of the day, ruined!"

"Hey, what goes around comes around!" Moxie throws a knife at Deger.

Knife Toss: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (1) + 8 = 9

But she slips on the splashed sauce, and her knife thunks into a tree.

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Still up:
Rose-5
Smek
Tyus

Since the rivals seem to be having trouble getting their stove working still, Rose-5 decides to join Frank in the throwing game. Before she throws a ladle at their saucepot, however, she dips the ladle in water and does her best to coat it in a powdery, flavorful spice (or, lacking that, salt. Her goal is to throw off their sauce's seasoning).

Ranged attack roll: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (8) + 5 = 13

Smek keeps an eye out for flying cookware as he continues to try and whip up another dish.

Survival/Cookin': 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (5) + 7 = 12 Going to use feat reroll
REROLL-Survival/Cookin': 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (18) + 7 = 25