With a quick coordinated assault, the Drow has barely enough time to open his mouth before he's caught in in the chest by Mustachio's shot. He turns to grab his com, but is struck clear in chest by Gunnar's Doshko and crumples into a messy heap on the ground.
On his person is a keycard marked 'workshop & outer', a credstick with his recent wages, a pair of grenades (Shock I). His Azimuth laser rifle has full battery and 3 more in reserve.
The entryway door opens into the building's lobby. An advertisement plays on a large screen mounted on the wall opposite the entrance. A thorny blue tree planted in a large steel-gray pot stands in the center of the room, and a purple sofa has been placed below green-tinged windows on the south end of the spacious lobby entrance.
The advertisements are narrated in Drow, but they have common subtitles included. The first one shows drow marksmen shooting sniper rifles, large-caliber handguns, and toher firearms, ending with the slogan "Guns, guns, GUNS!" on the screen.
The second advertisement features a female drow squeezing the head of a male half-orc with a fleshwarped hand while her other hand gives a thumbs up to the screen. The screen fades to black, and a second later, there is a sound reminiscent of a bursting watermelon, and red spatters form the words “Invest in yourself—Fleshwarps!"
In the third advertisement, a charismatic undead elebrian—the infamous host Zo!—talks while a side window showcases a squad of orc mercenaries crawling under laser beams, scaling a wall, sneaking into a guarded building, and opening fire on unseen targets. In each scene, a few of the half-orcs die, until only one remains. When the screen fades to black, a muffled scream can be heard in the background, suggesting that the last orc, too, died.
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Donovan takes a breath to steady himself before firing at the guard, but in that short time, Gunnar takes care of the problem. "Why did I go through all the trouble of climbing up here?" he grips halfheartedly as he makes his way to the door of the building.
"Time is short, people. Let's keep moving. Stay on alert." He retrieves the keycard and uses it to open the door.
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schlak notices all the different signs. "looks like we found the right place."
He looks at mustachio," Also trust me mustachio you don't want that kind of publicity. They will turn on you real quick."
He carefully peeks around the door checking for traps or attempting to spot any guards in the next room.
Schlack doesn't spot any traps, and it doesn't seem as though any of the adjacent rooms have guards in them... at least right now. The northern door (to A5a) has a keycard lock on it, but the other doors leading out of this room do not appear to have any locks on them.
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Faraeon relaxes as Mustachio give the drow guard the old one-two-death! Before moving into the lobby, however, he gestures to what remains of the guard. "We sure we wanna leave this on the doorstep? Let's at least move him to one of the alleys here." He grabs what he thinks is an arm and begins dragging the drow out of view.
After entering the lobby, Faraeon stifles a wry chuckle. "Man, these drow aren't exactly subtle in their ads, huh? Guess that's what you get when your whole society is a bunch of back-stabbing arms dealers, though, right?"
Seeing Donovan and Schlack move toward the office doors, Faraeon comes along and presses an ear to the door. "Our intel suggested these offices are where the guards tend to hang out. Let's make sure we're not walking into their water-cooler chat," he whispers.
Beidnach - Control Room (A4)
Ellandail - Meeting Room (A8)
Malindeil - Private Office (A5d), Bathroom break pending
Raimsael - Dead
None of the adjacent rooms sound as though they have guards in them presently.
The private office (A5a) door bears the nameplate 'Ellandail' and is locked. The keycard you obtained from the guard out front does not appear to work.
The remaining offices (A3) are unlocked.
The desks and computers in this large, open-plan office are covered in a faint layer of dust.
The room seems fairly barren. The only thing interesting within it is... the utter lack of interesting things. It's like someone set up an office here but never actually staffed it. There is some indication of foot traffic through the room, but no indication that anyone actually uses it.
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"It's a front. There must be a secret door to the super secret stash of weapons. It's exactly what I would do if I was the writer of a movie. Note to self: write a movie based on this adventure."
Mustachio goes about the room, knocking quietly on the desks and walls, quite confident he will find something.
Without warning, the doorway leading into the control room opens up and a Drow begins to take a step out. He goes bug-eyed when he sees the assembled starfinders and quickly reaches for his gun.
Round 1:
Gunnar
Faraeon
Donovon
Drow
Mustachio
Schlack
The drow takes a guarded step back, then hurls a grenade into the room... clearly without regard for the equipment within. Arcing electricity strikes everyone in the office (everyone except Schlack), and damages several of the computers.
You hear the sounds of doors opening elsewhere in the building...
Round 1:
Mustachio
Schlack
Round 2:
Gunnar
Faraeon
Donovon
Drow (-18)
???
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takes 2 damage from grenade.
"Is the jig up? End this drow, quick!"
Mustachio fires his weapon.
WATCH OUT (LEVEL 4): As a reaction, when an enemy makes a ranged attack against an ally within 60 feet of you, you can warn that ally of the danger. You must spend your reaction when the enemy declares the attack but before it makes the attack roll. Your ally can spend a reaction to gain +4 to AC against the triggering attack. Once the triggering attack is resolve, the ally falls prone
Gunnar and Mustachio push forward to finish off the Drow, but his defensive position between the consoles makes it difficult to land a good shot on him... that is until Faraeon leaps in. One slam from the baton and the guard crumples over.
Round 1:
Mustachio
Schlack (Readied)
Round 2:
Gunnar
Faraeon
Donovon
???
A pair of doors open up and 2 more guards begin to open fire. Schlack however, was patiently awaiting the incoming guard and lets loose a shot as soon as the first door opens.
The shot goes wide, and the drow return fire with their rifles, the first back at Schlack, and the second at the nearby Mustachio.
Both shots nail computer monitors rather than Starfinders.
Round 2:
Mustachio
Schlack
Round 3:
Gunnar
Faraeon
Donovon
Cyan Drow
Green Drow
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Mustachio follows Donovan's lead and jumps behind a desk before returning fire at the more northern guard.
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Also, still have this reaction ready to go when someone is shot on:
WATCH OUT (LEVEL 4): As a reaction, when an enemy makes a ranged attack against an ally within 60 feet of you, you can warn that ally of the danger. You must spend your reaction when the enemy declares the attack but before it makes the attack roll. Your ally can spend a reaction to gain +4 to AC against the triggering attack. Once the triggering attack is resolve, the ally falls prone
The Drow manages to avoid most of the party's assault, but suffers a dire wound from Gunnar's doshko. Letting its rifle fall, it pulls out a taclash and strikes back at Gunnar.
The Drow seems to be in a state of panic, either from Schlack's brutal insult, or its mounting wounds.
The other one rapidly advances towards the fray and fires a blast at Gunnar.
Round 3:
Mustachio
Schlack
Round 4:
Gunnar
Faraeon
Donovon
Cyan Drow
Green Drow (Demoralized, -17)
Donovan and Faraeon make quick work of the newly arrived guard.
Round 3:
Mustachio
Schlack
Round 4:
Gunnar
Faraeon
Donovon
Green Drow (Demoralized, -17)
Schlack proves that his own aim is similar to that of his blind mother, however Mustachio prevents the drow from getting a moment to retort. The rifle shot slams into the guard's center of mass and he falls back against a desk, then slumps over.
The room from which the first guard engaged you has a large desk with a mainframe and an access console, along with several monitors. It appears to be some sort of security control room.
Faraeon sits down at the terminal and finds it to be unsecured. Oddly enough though, it only appears have trivial information, such as air quality and lighting.
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Faraeon stands back up from the computer terminal and paces back and forth for a moment, "I really hope it's that second thing. Come on, we should check out these so-called guards. See if they have anything on em that might give us a hint."
The lashunta strides over to the nearest downed drow and begins rifling through his pockets, searching for clues.
Each of the guards have keycards, similar to the guard out front although with different room designations. In addition, they have 3 shock grenades, 2 taclashes, 2 azimuth laser rifles, and 8 batteries between them.
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"ooh some goodies those grenades look mighty useful. I'll take one if you don't mind. Hmm that taclash might be useful to. I have my claws though."
He takes a shock grenade and stores it with his gear. Then he listens to Donovan and says "Good idea. why don't we go back to the locked door from earlier. The one that needed a keycard to get in." Schlak grumbles a little about having to get up and move again and decides to wait for the party and then head out when ready.
Sure enough, one of the keycards works!
Radial walls divide this circular space into five rooms that
surround a round central room. Between the 3 keycards you've acquired, you're able to unlock each of them one by one. The southern room has the nameplate 'Ellandail' on it. The southwest room bears the nameplate 'Beidnach,' the southeast room for 'Raimsael,' the Northeast room for 'Malindeil,' and the northwest room for 'Villyth.' Each room has a computer in it, however Villyth's computer appears to be broken. Next to Villyth's computer is a large black spider plush toy with Abyssal writing on it's abdomen. Malindeil's room has a credstick on the desk next to their computer.