GM Cellion's Dawn of Flame AP

Game Master Cellion

You did also find some more serums earlier, if you'd like tap into those.

Just so you all are aware, my posting's gonna be limited from the 10th to the 14th next week: my family and me are taking a small trip for a few days and then after that we have my aunt's funeral.

As a heads up for the group - I'll be on vacation until the 25th. I expect to be able to keep updates rolling, but they may come at different times or need to be a bit more limited.

Happy travels!

Not sure what you mean Flint. Hypopens in Starfinder heal conditions, not HP, and have only one charge.

Sorry, I searched hypopen but AON gave me hypogun and I didn’t notice it until you just pointed it out. So, hypoguns are awesome, just fyi…

What group healing do we have in stock—Flint would like to be up to full hp before the next encounter, but leave the powerful med serums for emergency use if possible.

If we think a 10min heal break isn't on the table I think the serums are the bulk of it; Ordyt has already activated his bionanites to get his hp back up so he's just missing his SP right now

Sorry Cellion, you already gave us the contents of the room Ordyt wanted to investigate, so I was just waiting for Bel's hacking to get resolved before we moved north to finish clearing the floor.

Feel free to pick a door for her if you like.

Hmm, I vote for the large North-East door with the keypad!

Thank you again for your patience with me with my aunt's passing.

PBP format can be so frustrating. At no table ever would you have one character swing at an invisible foe, the next dispel the invisibility, and the third cast a spell to see invisibility. Ah, well, that’s how the die rolls sometimes…but it does make me delay posting sometimes hoping another character will take an action that helps me first. I tend to not do that so I don’t slow down the game, though…

I hear you, PBP doesn't allow the (hopefully) quick coordination sitting around a table gives you, and posting just to say "I delay until [other character] does this thing I want" can both slow down gameplay and can feel like dictating someone else's turn.

Just one of the hiccups of the format, unfortunately.

No worries, I'll retcon it in the next post. Normally I'd reorder things, but I missed Bel's post and didn't think about it after I fitted her dispel in.

Flint has nothing that will alleviate the stun, so he is without actions this round…

Dammit, I f$#*ed up. I'm so sorry! D:<

So I understand the vagueness, but OOC: is the Malikah, like, the Sultana of the City of Brass?

Not the Sultana, but clearly some kind of prominent personage (in addition to being a demigoddess!). Her seat of power is outside of the City of Brass.

That's a story I'd definitely like to learn more about!

I bet she's one of Feronia's kids, and in an infinite multiverse it's cool to learn about a genie realm that isn't the CoB.

Unfortunately, Ordyt, in order for me to take advantage of the cryopike I'd need to respec Belmarniss to either spend a feat on the proficiency or take a level in Soldier like you did. :(

(Flint is now at +2 initiative, if that makes a difference)

That does make a difference! Go ahead and act.

Remember your +2atk/dmg from Sammad!

I have only been using +2 to attack…Is there a bonus to damage too?

I could very well be the wrong one, I thought I recalled Cellion telling us there was an assumed Improved Get 'Em from Sammad and chip damage from Mari but I didn't find anything confirming that on a check just now

Just +2 attack, not damage, since that would require spending an RP from Sammad each round. Mari provides extra chip damage every round (or at least whenever I remember :))

Actually, how long has this station raid been going on? I said an hour, but I feel like it's probably been more like two hours. If the Legion has fleet vessels in the area they're doubtless alerted to our attack on on their way back to the Crucible.

The rests for stamina are only 10 minutes, so I would say it is conceivable that we have only been operating here for an hour or so. If we can take 5 minutes and forge a bunch of healing serums, that actually might be a good use of our time. If it takes longer, though, I think you are right that we are pushing our luck too much with the fleet reinforcements.

My rolls continue to be just SPECTACULAR... <_<

Apparently the main benefit of the cloak doesn't work against other wearers of the cloak, so Flint just basically did nothing. Don't feel bad, Bel.

Any obvious med serums on the corpse at Flint’s feet?

Nothing obvious

The squad hardlight series armor is better than what Flint is currently wearing, but I think that, in general, armor needs to be re-fit before someone new can wear it, right? Maybe we'll find more immediately useful items behind the other doors.

Yep, it does need to be adjusted. Lets say it'd take 30 minutes if you use the forge downstairs.

That force field would be helpful, but I don’t know that we want to take that kind of time. Maybe Mari can hack into the computer and we can determine how much time we have left.

That's not a bad idea, if we're right about overwhelming hostile reinforcements being on the way Dmyr's computer would likely show something to that effect

The forcefield doesn't have to be refit in size, if you'd like to just slot it into existing gear.

True, but I think it takes up 2 upgrade slots, and Flint’s current armor only has three total…The new armor has 4 total, so he could keep the Deflective reinforcement and Jetpack upgrades in the new armor but not the current armor. Haste is used for the day already.

It is light armor, if someone else needs it.

with 50k UPBs available we could easily make you an Invisibility Detector, Flint, but it would cost us 4hr of time. Is that acceptable? I don't want to leave you in the lurch but I'm leaning against, that's a lot of time.

with 50k UPBs available we could easily make you an Invisibility Detector, Flint, but it would cost us 4hr of time. Is that acceptable? I don't want to leave you in the lurch but I'm leaning against, that's a lot of time.

For sure too much time. Let’s just refit the new armor for Flint and switch out the armor upgrades. That should take less than an hour. You can have the better force field, and Flint can have the lesser force field, jetpack, and Deflective reinforcement in the 4 slots.

Oh, and any healing would be massive too—Flint is down to 9 hp.

Ordyt's getting low on spells but I can spend them on healing no problem, we don't want our heaviest hitter getting taken out if we can help it

Mystic Cure I x3: 3d8 + 9 ⇒ (3, 4, 5) + 9 = 21
Mystic Cure II x2: 6d8 + 6 ⇒ (7, 7, 5, 7, 6, 2) + 6 = 40

That lets me keep a single Lvl3 for Haste and a single lvl4 for Mind Thrust in case we need some burst damage or an enemy is out of reach

Very kind of you!

Of course, our heaviest hitter last battle was Ordyt with the key critical!

This spectral figure wasn't green, was it?

This spectral figure wasn't green, was it?

Was waiting for an answer to this question...sorry if you missed it!

oh, I had thought that was rhetorical (maybe Cellion did too)--what's the significance of the color?

I think it might be that guy we met way back at the very beginning, in the Breath of Embers' reactor core. The radioactive fey guy?

They would have identified it as gold or orange in their reports.

(Yeah, I assumed I was just missing a reference! Didn't realize it was a proper question)

So it was the gremlin instead?

Well, she tricked us alright. Do we want to fight these hags, or jump into the pool after her?

I wouldn't say she tricked us so much as had so much plausible deniability that we were left with no choice but to walk into the trap complaining about how obvious said trap was the whole time.

It's frustrating when you spot clear warning signs the dice then compel you to ignore. >_<

Ugh. I am thinking the pool.

Yeah, that feels like a DM opportunity to stay on mission and deal with Nurleth later. "Destinations unknown" seems like a big gamble. Any advice through the comms before Flint makes his decision?