GM Jhaeman's "Acts of Association" (Inactive)

Game Master Jhaeman

Initiative (Round 1)

Mall Rats
Grathus
Staar
Er1ka
Archon-3
Requiem
Baròleg

Bold may go!

One of the Mall Rats rushes forward and hurls a riot grenade right between Requiem and Grathus! The grenade emits a ear-rattling sound. And as if on cue, another Mall Rat darts in and reaches for the package at Requiem’s feet, but can’t quite grab it yet. Yet another of the gang tries to knock a package right out of Staar’s hands, and it works! The ysoki darts away.

Requiem and Grathus, you need to succeed on a DC 15 Fortitude save or be staggered from the riot grenade for 1 round.

Staar, you'll get an attack of opportunity as the ysoki runs away with your package.

Blue ysoki did a move action forward and then threw the grenade. Yellow ysoki did a double move to get next to a package, but hasn’t picked it up yet. Black ysoki did a disarm attempt on Staar and then a move action.

The squox looks terrified by all the noise, while DV8 begins emitting a high-pitched siren. "DANGER! DANGER!"

Initiative (Round 1)

Mall Rats
Grathus
Staar
Er1ka
Archon-3
Requiem
Baròleg

Bold may go!

Staar takes her attack of opportunity against the thieving ysoki.

Solar weapon vs. KAC: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (13) + 4 = 17
Bludgeoning damage: 1d6 + 1 + 5 ⇒ (5) + 1 + 5 = 11

Staar's conjured weapon smashes the ysoki in the back, but although the Mall Rat stumbles, he keeps going!

Staar, I've moved your token back to where it was when the package got stolen from you.

Seeing the enemy escaping with her package, and moving faster than she can get to him, Staar starts attuning photon and activates her moonlight fibers necrograft, catches up to him and attacks once more. The stress on her spinal column leaves her staggered on the next round.

Solar weapon vs. KAC: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (8) + 4 = 12
Bludgeoning damage: 1d6 + 1 + 5 + 1 ⇒ (6) + 1 + 5 + 1 = 13

Round 1
Swift action: activate moonlight fibers to gain one round of Haste
Move action: move your speed (doubled)
Standard action: attack

Fort: 1d20 + 0 ⇒ (12) + 0 = 12

Grathus' ears ring from the grenade. He grits his teeth and glares at the thief. His brand glows as he mentally assaults the ysoki.

Casting Daze. I don't think there's any reason I can't since it's a standard action. DC 13 will save or he is dazed for 1 round.

Staar's accelerated speed allows her to catch up to the fleeing Mall Rat, and she smashes him with a powerful blow! The ysoki collapses to the ground, unconscious and bleeding, and the package bounces out of his arms.

Grathus mentally assaults another Mall Rat, but the ysoki shakes it off.

Baròleg moves across grassy ground drawing his Arc pistol in his right hand and flexes the cestus on his left. He speaks and contacts both Ysoki telepathically, "By order of the Stewards desist and surrender. Drop all weapons and raise your hands above your heads." Move Action - 30' movement; Free Action - Draw weapon if BAB +1

As he waits for the Ysoki response he begins calling out tactical directives and trying to coordinate the teams efforts. Move Action - Get'em on Yellow Ysoki, +1 to hit.

Acting on Baròleg orders Er1ka moves to intercept yellow.

trick: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (5) + 10 = 15

attack-non lethal: 1d20 + 3 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 3 + 1 = 6

damage: 1d4 ⇒ 1

+

damage if tricked: 1d4 ⇒ 3

The Mall Rats laugh at Baròleg--"You'll never catch us, Steward Stank!"

Er1ka swings her tactical baton at one of the ysoki, but it easily ducks under the blow!

If anyone is doing nonlethal attacks, please remember to apply the -4 penalty unless your weapon has a Stun setting or other related special trait.

Once Requiem and Archon-3 go, we'll move on to the next round.

In the blink of an eye, Archon-3 draws their pistol, remotely hacks into a nearby sign causing it to strobe and disorient one of the Mall Rats, and then shoots, aiming to wound! The bullet grazes the ysoki's arm. At the same time, Requiem grabs the package at his feet and readies himself to intercept any attacks on DV8.

Botting Archon-3 with a nonlethal trick attack attempt on the blue Mall Rat. Botting Requiem with a move action to pick up the package and a readied action to attack any ysoki who tries to attack DV8.

Initiative (Round 2)

Mall Rats
Grathus
Staar
Er1ka
Archon-3
Requiem
Baròleg

Bold may go!

The two remaining Mall Rats abruptly change direction, and rush toward Staar! One of them kneels down behind her while the other tries to push her over! She lands flat on her back, and the Mall Rats crow, completely ignoring their fallen companion nearby.

The Blue ysoki is doing a charging trip attempt on Staar. Baròleg, if you have a melee weapon out, you’ll get an attack of opportunity as it moves past a threatened square. Before Blue moves, the Yellow ysoki does a withdraw action to set up flanking on Staar.

Staar, you're now prone.

Initiative (Round 2)

Mall Rats
Grathus
Staar
Er1ka
Archon-3
Requiem
Baròleg

Bold may go!

Staar attunes photon for one more round, and uses her limited telepathy to speak with Baròleg “Please use your psychokinetic hand to move the package away from us.”; then she stands up, bracing for punishment. “Do your worst.”

Round 2
Move action: stand up

Grathus is clearly aggravated. He drops the two boxes in his arms and leaps into the air. He flies at an almost unsafe speed over to the battleground, drawing his staff as he goes. He then stands proactively over the fallen box.

Grathus sends to Baroleg, "Tell them to leave now unless they want to deal with an angry dragonkin."

Using the run action to move that far which will provoke an aoo from both of them if they have a melee. I have 10 feet of reach so a withdraw won't even protect blue from an aoo from me and I am in range of yellow but I will forgo it if they don't try to steal anything. If they do...

Erika attempts to tumble 10' pulling her pistol in the process then firing at blue.

Trick(acrobatics): 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (16) + 10 = 26

laser shot: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (19) + 4 = 23 Against flatfooted if Tricked....

damage: 1d4 ⇒ 4

trick damage: 1d4 ⇒ 4

OOP - using cestus on left hand
As the BLUE ysoki runs past Baròleg takes a quick swing.

Attack/KAC: 1d20 ⇒ 17
Damge/P: 1d6 - 1 ⇒ (2) - 1 = 1

Baròleg continues to focus on the [YELLOW[/ooc] smaller ysoki, while responding to Staar "Excellent idea!" Shortly after the package at Grathus feet begins to shake and lauches to his hand.

Move Action - GEt'em YELLOW; Standard - TK Hand on the package, moves 15' to me

Sorry Holidays got away from me - Back to normal now ^^

Keeping the retrieved package under one arm, Requeim moves towards the Ysoki and let's out a feral growl - quite at odds with their usual demeanour. As they do so, psychic energy assaults the Gang member in the blue shirt, blowing out their synapses.

Mind Thrust Damage: 2d10 ⇒ (1, 4) = 5 DC 15 Will for half

Move Action to get closer, standard for Mind Thrust

Staar gets to her feet just as Grathus leaps into the air and lands protectively over her. The Mall Rats swings their taclashes at him and both connect! Er1ka somersaults and comes up blasting, hitting one of the ysoki hard, and her fellow android, Archon-3, takes a shot at the other one. Following Staar’s telepathic suggestion, Baròleg uses his innate telekinetic ability to yank the package at her feet safely into his hands.

Requiem has had enough and psychically assaults one of the Mall Rats! The gang member collapses to the ground with blood trickling from its ears.

Grathus, both AoOs hit you--one for 3 slashing and one for 5 slashing. The damage is nonlethal, but that probably doesn't matter at this point. I've moved the tokens for the packages that were/are strapped to you to your square.

Er1ka’s laser blast hit and did good damage, and Baròleg’s attack of opportunity hit but only for minimal damage. Blue failed the save against Requiem’s mind thrust and goes down!

I’m going to bot Archon-3 again (trick attack on Yellow; hits for 10 points!); it’s been a while since they posted, so I’ll send a PM—may just be the holidays.

Initiative (Round 3)

Mall Rats
Grathus
Staar
Er1ka
Archon-3
Requiem
Baròleg

Bold may go!

"You're crazy, the lot of you!" says the last Mall Rat still standing. She backs up slowly, but suddenly there's a pistol in her hands. "I hope ya all fry for what ya did to my pals!" she shouts as she fires at Archon-3. But in her panic, the sizzling bolt of electricity doesn't come anywhere close to the android.

You can hear sirens in the distance--it sounds like law enforcement is on its way. But the wailing of the sirens is drowned out by another wail--from DV8! "ERROR! Boon companion location UNKNOWN!" It seems that in the midst of the firefight, the frightened squox has slipped away!

Initiative (Round 3)

Mall Rats
Grathus
Staar
Er1ka
Archon-3
Requiem
Baròleg

Bold may go!

Staar approaches the last ysoki and lets go of her solar energy, incinerating 10 feet around her in all directions.

Supernova (fire damage): 2d6 ⇒ (1, 5) = 6
Reflex DC 12 for half

Round 3
Move action: move your speed
Standard action: supernova

The ysoki gets her arms up in time to shield her face from the worst of Staar's fiery blast, but she's still badly burned.

Seeing the Ysoki fall with blood pouring from their ears snaps Requiem back to their senses - after warning the others about needless bloodshed they too had fallen foul of it. With a prayer to their Goddess, the Vlakan wills the fallen Ysoki's body to stabilise and grip on to life.

Cast Stabilise on Blue

With that done, their sensitive ears are assaulted by DV8's cries of woe. Turning Requiem makes their way to the robot ambassador and into the grassy area behind them, their keen ears and nose trying to focus on the creature's location should they be cowering under a bench or similar.

Move - 60' Blindsight (hearing), 30' (smell) to see if I can spot the creature

perception if relevant/applicable: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (8) + 12 = 20

Er1ka moves back to DV8 and looks to see if she can find tracks of the Squox…

Survival(track): 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (13) + 5 = 18

Archon-3 will aid Er1ka in finding the squox.

Aid another: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (12) + 6 = 18

With Requiem's nose and the androids' enhanced vision, the direction the squox ran off to is clear as day: towards a bustling nightlife district! But there's still one angry Mall Rat shooting bolts of lightning in the middle of this shopping center . . .

Baròleg and Grathus can still go, and then we'll start the next round (if we need it--that ysoki is barely standing).

Grathus stomps over to the final Mall Rat. After the ysoki's last statement he has a somber look about him. He decides not to swing too hard this time.

Nonlethal Attac vs KAC: 1d20 + 0 ⇒ (18) + 0 = 18
Damage: 1d4 + 4 ⇒ (4) + 4 = 8

"It is regretful you've chosen not to surrender." Aiming his Acr pistol (on stun), Baròleg fires as he continues to provide tactical support.

Move - Get'em; Standard - fire
Attack/EAC: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (6) + 3 = 9
Damage/E/Stun: 1d6 ⇒ 4

Grathus' swing knocks the last Mall Rat unconscious!

Seconds later, Stewards arrive and take in the scene. They call in med-techs and ambu-drones for the injured ysoki (one of whom may not make it). After taking statements from yourselves and other witnesses, it's a clear case of self-defense against attempted robbery, so you're in no legal trouble. Nonetheless, one of the Stewards shakes his head in annoyance at the group. "Mall Rats are just thieves--they've never hurt anyone. Try not to escalate situations! The last thing we need is a gunfight in a shopping centre. Someone could have been caught in the crossfire. Not every threat is the return of the Swarm, you know!"

We are off Initiative, and you're good to proceed.

Staar stares blankly at the steward, politely ignoring his admonition.

Then she approaches the rest of the party. "I heard the ambassador saying his animal has fled. Anyone saw where it went?”, she says, while looking around to see if the squox is visible. “Or should we go back to the park and collect another?”, she asks DV8.

Er1ka addresses DV8 and Staar,

The Squox is heading into the nightlife district, I surmise it was frightened by the combat. I believe between us we will find and retrieve it.

Turning to face the Steward who offered the uninformed rebuke, Requiem can't help but reply, their tone calm as ever yet dripping in sarcasm. "Many Thieve's do not begin an assault using deadly weapons. Perhaps Station Security would be served better patrolling this area as it has surely fallen to a state of disrepair."

Not wishing to wait for a pointless reply of undoubted bluster, the Vlakan continues to smell and listen out for the poor frightened Squonx. "I have the scent of the creature and it has fled terrified into the Club district over yonder." they say pointing a claw. "I suggest we rescue them, we did promise the park's curators that we were responsible and would see the creature safe."

Perception to follow: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (4) + 12 = 16

Moving through the Steward processing as quick as he can, "Agreed, more aggressive than necessary. We were escorting a dignitary and took it for a diplomatic retaliation..." Baròleg tries to use his knowledge of the system to keep DV8 from waiting.

Watching as the others figure out which way the squox ran, "Poor thing. Let's return it to DV8, and maybe get DV8 a pet carrier for the rest of the tour?" He turns to the diplomat, "Are you comfortable continuing to the entertainment district to retrieve your furry companion?"

Archon-3 listens to the admonition passively, feeling indifference overall.

”Interesting choice of a lifestyle in thievery. However, it is strange they were angered with those who defended against it. Do they expect capitulation in all cases?”

Er!ca looks at her compatriot...

"Thievery often is not a lifestyle but a necessity, displaying dangerous weapons on their attack did show the need for force and we are expected to protect the Ambassador so our response was necessary."

With an excellent mix of visual- and scent-based tracking, you’re easily able to pick up the missing squox’s trail, and DV8 is eager to find it. The squox is headed into an infamous nightlife district on Absalom Station, and into a music hall called the Nebula’s Core. As you reach the club, you see there’s no line to get in. A dingy staircase leads down to an open doorway. Beyond, the club is hardly illuminated at all, the other patrons appearing only as shadows. On the small stage in the corner, a kasatha melodeum player accompanies herself on a double-skinned drum, wailing a heartfelt lament for better days.

You see the squox standing on the bar, being treating to nibbles and a bowl of water by an admiring crowd. DV8 screeches and rushes forward, only to accidentally ram right into one of the patrons! The man’s drink spills all over himself, and he shouts ”Watch it, robo-freak! Hey, you ruined my synth-silk shirt! You’re gonna pay for that!” The man shakes his fist at DV8, and it looks like things are about to escalate unless the situation can be defused quickly!

Staar rushes between DV8 and Synth-silk Shirt, and tries to speak calmly but loudly: “There’s no need for this. Restrain yourself”.

Diplomacy to Aid Another in Baròleg’s check: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (17) + 2 = 19

Following the group down into the Dark dingy Nightclub, Requiem can't help but scrunch up their nose as the smells of stale sweat, spilled alcohol and vomit cover the place. Sighing in relief when the Squox is sat upon the bar, the Vlakan turns to the jostled patron.

"Our deepest apologies, but the Ambassador's dearest pet had gone missing and they were desperate in ensuring their safety." they placate. "Please allow em to help".

With an Arcane mutterance and a wave of their hand, the stain on shirt is cleaned away.

Cast Token Spell to clean the stain - instead of aid another?

Er1ka observes the man...

Sense motive: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (3) + 3 = 6

...unable to be sure she follows DV8 to the Squox

Baròleg moves forward, motioning for the bartender to bring the man another drink, "Agreed, no need for fighting when we're all here to enjoy ourselves. See our friend here cleaned your outfit, I've got you another two drinks for the trouble," he nods to the barkeep as they bring the drink, [/b]"Let's not bring down the party."[/b]

Diplomacy: 1d20 + 10 + 1d6 + 2 ⇒ (15) + 10 + (1) + 2 = 28

Baròleg tries to usher the man back to the bar and away from DV8 as they talk and projects to the group, "Keep DV8 moving, find the squox, and let's exit. I'll at least keep him busy till then."

The man looks slightly mollified by Requiem's quick cleaning and Baròleg's offer to replace the drink. Still, with his friends watching, he starts to bluster. "That's a start! But I'm still wet! And . . . I've got, like, pain and suffering! But say . . . 200 credits and I'll let it slide . . . this time! Otherwise, I put my fist through that dumb robot's face!" Everyone in the nightclub is watching, with several egging the man on and others starting up a chant of "fight! fight! fight!"

Grathus steps towards the scuffle. He casts a spell and speaks with the man, Foereign dignitaries don't fight. You can fight me. Outside."

Er1ka steps forwards and puts a hand on the dragonkin.

Grathus, lets just pay the gentleman what he asks. We don't want to escalate the situation!

At the intimidating dragonkin's offer, the man looks like he's going to back down. But then his buddies rile him up again and lend him some courage. "200 credits or I'll take that offer and see what color dragon blood is!" the man says, rolling up his sleeves for a fist-fight.

Staar's solar weapon forms up while she waits for someone (Baròleg) to pay up the extortionist, almost without her intending to.

Feeling the situation rapidly escalating into another bloody encounter Er1ka "Do you have a data pad? I will transfer the credits as you ask."

Transfer 200 credits.

Computers(gather info on man): 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (1) + 7 = 8 if successful hand the information to authority's after.