"Yep, alright, I'll be right with you." Kai chirps cheerfully at the five guys. "Just point me at what needs to be done!"
Charles continues to silently follow Kai, hoping to avoid notice. His muscles are coiled with tension, however, the wary patience of a predator waiting to pounce.
Nissa gets to the cockpit—near it, or in it if she can. From rehearsing the routine, Nissa knows to open a muted comm so she can get visuals from Kai (and hear the voice through the tarp). She makes sure Kai has a visual.
Two of the men start barking orders at Kai, Charles, and the three other men. There's no question who is in charge among them. "Come on, get me strapped me in. I'm gonna walk up out of the bay like Godzilla and those Thin Spot dweebs better be filming." The men take the tarp off this huge red mecha and the boss climbs in and lies down to be strapped in.
"That'll be awesome, boss! Let me just double check the ocean floor here, make sure there's nothing to trip you up."
Under that pretense, Kai walks around so that most of the real Red Shirts don't have a clear line of sight, and fiddles with the com to give Nissa control over Legion once the mech is hacked.
On the yacht, someone barks orders at Charles. The other men on deck are strapping in one of the bosses, who just lies there acting like a knight getting squires to put his armor on.
Meanwhile, those on shore, including Gristlethorn and Zellgato, see the majority of those who were on the yacht getting into a peach submersible shaped like a Starfish and descend to the bottom of the bay.
A handful of others walk past the handsome guy (Theo) and make their way towards the large structure that the beach crew assembled last night. It looks like an upside down spider. You saw them construct it out of fairly light material and then spray it to harden it and make it look like metal.
It's hard to tell what this is, but it looks like a giant, fake, metallic, upside-down spider.
Nissa makes sure she’s ready to go. She isn’t sure if her shortness is something her skills can compensate for, but she’ll set up as best she can. (—with Legion’s help?)
Kai moves back to the big red mech, pretending to help while looking for a way to incapacitate or sabotage it.
Charles keeps his head down and obeys the man ordering him around, hoping they weren't expecting anyone in particular. He watches and listens carefully for signs of anything out of the ordinary, trying to guess who was actually in on the real plan here.
Tier 4 Mech
Senses darkvision 60 ft., blindsense 60 ft., low-light vision;
Init. = Operator's Init.
DEFENSE
Hit Points 42
Shield Points 11 (Regains 4 SP beginning of each turn)
Hardness 1
EAC = 21
KAC = 25
Immunities Mechs are immune to ability damage, ability drain, bleed, death effects, disease, energy drain, exhaustion, fatigue, mind-affecting effects, necromancy effects, negative levels, nonlethal damage, paralysis, sleep, and stunning. They are also immune to any effect that requires a Fortitude save unless that effect works on objects or is harmless.
OFFENSE
Speed 30 ft. Swim 60 ft. Reach 15 ft.
Spear 9 + the operator’s BAB or ranks in Piloting (2d8+9 P)
Spiked Flail 9 + the operator’s BAB or ranks in Piloting (2d8+9 B; Cleave); Chain can extend for additional 10 ft. of Reach
Harpoon 9 + the operator’s BAB or ranks in Piloting (2d8+9 P)
Dual Strike (1 PP) When making a full attack with two different weapons mounted on your arms, you attack twice with one of those weapons and once with the other weapon. You take a –4 penalty to these attacks
Saves +5
Skill Modifiers A mech’s skill check modifier equals 5 + operator's ranks; for Athletics checks, also add the mech’s Strength modifier (+4).
"When performing a Strength- or Dexterity-based skill check, a mech can instead use its operator’s ranks in Piloting to determine the mech’s skill modifier."
Kai tries to catch Charles's eye and signal that a distraction would be welcome about now. Nothing big, just something to get attention off Kai while kai tries to do *something* to the big red mech.
Nissa sends a text to the group. (It’s for Kai, but sent to all in case Kai is busy.)
Kai tries to get Charles attention to ask for a distraction, but succeeds at getting the others' attention instead. Until now, Kai had been beneath notice, but not anymore. "Hey, why aren't you in a swimsuit? Do any of you guys know who this is?"
Both Theo and Gristlethorn and Zellgato can see a group from the yacht break off from those who headed to the submersible. That group is now standing at the fake device the Thin Spot guys helped you construct last night. The gig is about to be up.
As Zellgato double checks his bolt action injection rifle, he glances at his cohort Gristlethorn. Gris-Looks like they're not happy with Kai, a group is breaking off the other set too. Towards the objective machine thingy. Might be trouble coming."
Zellgato, takes a deep breath and prepares to cover Kai if it turns agressive.
[ooc] Ready Action to shoot. Trigger: Any hostile actions towards Kai (such as grabbing Kai, drawing weapons, etc). Of note. I wouldn't know the potential robot take over.
To hit, and piercing damage.
EDIT: Whups that Damage dice is wrong. I'm in preview but I don't think I can delete safely?
No increment penalties up to 480ft. 160ft ignore 2AC cover, 320 ignore 1 AC cover. (Sniper scope + Farshot)
On hit, they gain Sickened Condition (Poison effect), and reduce speed by 50% (all movement types) to a min. Biohack +Hampering THeorom. 5/6 biohacks remain.
Of note. I should read the Mech rules to see how Biohacks interact with them, or don't. So far the game hasn't made distinction for power armour etc so not sure they would for mechs.
EDIT: Okay thats a lot of details for my attacks. This weekend I'll make "shot types" in my stat block. It'll list all the side effects. So i'll make up names for every shot. This sickening one will be Envenom Shot or something like that. I'll figure out names. That way my attacks will just be names + to hit + damages.
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Nissa hears the sound of things not going as planned. Fortunately, she’s ready to do her crazy part!
Nissa has her mech rise up and whip the tarp aside—!
She looks at the dude-bro who’s not quite strapped into his mech.
“Hey, party-dude… having trouble with your strap-on?”
Uh-oh. Kai yells "ENGAGE!" while at the same time attempting to disconnect one of the power cables in the red mecha.
"Hey, not cool! That's my ride!" complains one of the dudebros as Nissa rises up in the big blue mecha.
Red mecha starts to lift itself up but the power fails before it's fully standing.
Unfortunately, all eyes were on Kai when Kai sabotaged Big Red.
All four of the men on deck not wearing mecha turn on Kai.
The man strapped into the temporarily non-functioning big red machine shouts, "I don't know who you two are, but you are NOT getting a ride back with us. Get off our yacht now!"
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Nissa twirls her flail and harpoon around and has her solar armor dim and brighten its yellow glow. She says to the men getting too close to her friends:
“Get away from them, you dicks!”
Glaring at the man in the red mech, she says, “What’s the mech for? We know the plan on Ms. Gray’s end.”
There's a 'thwip' sound and one of the men grabs at something near the back of his shoulder. He very quickly becomes nauseated as evidence by his vomiting everywhere.
"Dude!" complains the bossman in Red Mecha.
The 4 dudes facing off against Kai and Nissa slide into Karate stances with the confidence of boys who grew up with their own personal martial arts instructors.
One them attempts to leap past Kai and reattach the power cable.
Gristlethorn see the action start up. "Alright Zellgato, this is where this bear goes for walkies."
Gristlethorn stands up and shakes a little, flying dirt and sand going every which way. He then begins a swift stride towards Kai.
Gristlethorn has quite a distance to go before he gets to the yacht. His swift stride takes him past the new construction and sends the Red Shirts inspecting it scurrying to hide or climb the bizarre contraption. "Eeek! A bear!" exclaim that scurrying red shirts.
That was way too many people being physically menacing towards a computer engineer who had never been in a fight before. Kai takes a step back, searching for a wall, a railing or some other solid object to protect Kai's back, then crouches with hands over head.
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“So that’s how you wanna play.”
Nissa strikes the red mech, intent on banging it up without killing the dude bro.
She says to the men closest to the harpoon arm, “Maybe ya wanna just step to the side a little? I don’t wanna make dude-kabobs outta ya. Like, for real.”
Once Theo hears the ruckus, the godling drops whatever he's doing to maintain the disguise and hauls it toward the fight.
Charles transforms into his chimera form and runs to interpose himself between Kai and the men threatening him.
"Do you even KNOW what this machine would have done?" he roars at them as he takes his place.
One of Nissa's attacks strikes while Big Red's shields are down. It's a punishing blow. The man who rushed forward as Kai retreated succeeds at reconnecting Big Red.
Now that his cable is reconnected, his shield buzzes to life. It won't be as easy to damage him next time.
The other three trust fund Karate kids are startled enough to take a few steps back when Charles transforms. "What the freak are you even?" asks one. Another arms himself with a boat hook. A third picks up a life preserver on a rope.
As Big Red comes to life, the pilot shouts, "Oh, yeah! It's on baby! Now you're going to GET! OFF! MY! YACHT!!"
"Come fight me, baby!" yells the dudebro at Nissa. Big Red steps back quickly smashing through the railing as it pushes itself off the side of the yacht and into the water. He pushes off with enough force that the yacht shakes, but not enough to knock anyone off their feet. Big Red is under water now.
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Nissa shouts, “Hey! If it’s on like Donkey Kong, why you takin’ off? Like Donkey Cough?”
She jumps ship and clobbers Big Red!
“Oh, SHI-BL-BLB-GLBL!”
Seeing the dudebro's minions pause in their assault, Kai gains a little courage and pulls out the one weapon Kai feels least uncomfortable using, aiming it at one of them and firing.
Then Kai scurries away behind whatever features of the yacht would provide a little cover.
"More dangerous than you, that's what I am!" Charles roars. Debating between his targets, he selects the one with a boat hook and charges forward.
As he reaches his foe, Charles rears up and aims a swat with a paw at the guy's head, aiming to subdue rather than kill.
One of the minions gets a jolt from Kai's pulsecaster pistol.
Charles' swat knocks a perfect tooth out. It clatters on the deck.
"Where'd you learn to dive, sparkles?" comes through a voice on the intercom. "This is the deep end of the pool, love. You sure you're ready for this?"
It doesn't take Nissa long to figure out how to make Big Blue One swim.
With Kai taking cover and shooting from range, three of the minions make their attacks against Charles. While one swings again with the boat hook trying to trip Charles with in, the other two punch and kick.
The boss dudebro who had intended to be driving Big Blue One decides he doesn't want to get shot at. He runs away from the fight, towards the steps to the lower deck.
“Then let’s not play shallow games like you hiding behind the submarine or me destroying your yacht. Just you and me. Don’t keep a girl waiting.”
Nissa is of course ready to intercept an attack if the foe leaves the Starfish to attack her.