Just wondering if there's a description of where we are....we are here looking for/at a large mehir? Is it that big thing with the yellow line across it? Or is it somewhere in the building to the left?
Silly me, I forgot
A well-trod path of orange soil winds through the lush vegetation in this sheltered grove. Tall, gray trees crowned with yellow leaves hide the sun from view, but the white nimbus of light surrounding the black hole is inescapable and dominates the sky. In the southern end of the grove is an ancient stone ruin, sunken into the earth, while to the east is a tall stone marker illuminated by blue and red symbols.
Kat5e spots 2 stone statues, they aren't moving right now, but they look to be guardians, ie. active.
Checks: Do as many as you can. 1 culture, 2 mysticisms, 1 life science or medicine. 1 Medicine-(this check will be revealed later, I'm just preempting it), 1 physical science or profession mathematician check.
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Kat grips her laser rifle and keeps an eye out for danger. "Those stone statues look to be some kind of guardians of this place. Maybe defending the marker. I'll keep a lookout for cultists while the rest of you investigate"
Searching the area uncovers an earring made of humanoid fingerbones and a RageMax protein bar still in its wrapper. A PC who succeeds at a DC 15 Culture check recognizes RageMax as a low-grade bar that’s developed popularity with gang members on Absalom Station as well as with many inhabitants with strong ties to the Cult of the Devourer.
Around the menhir the world is changed. It’s hot, the plants are dead, and the air stinks of decay. The once-white accretion disk of the distant black hole glows blood red, cradling and ominous black disk in its center—the singularity’s event horizon impossibly made visible. The black growth beats. Its veins writhe. A blue symbol shatters, its shards of light darken to red, then rejoin in a new configuration.
This region is very hot and subject to low-level radiation. Remind players that their armors environmental protections shield them from these hazards. A PC who succeeds at a DC 12 Mysticism check recalls that a black hole with a red accretion disk, like that seen in the sky, is the unholy symbol of the Devourer, a nameless god concerned with the obliteration of all reality. The Reddened Eye servants of the Devourer have corrupted Yaraesa’s marker in this area. A PC who succeeds at a DC 10 Physical Science or Profession (mathematician) check understands that the menhir is covered in complex mathematical equations and scientific formulas related to the movement of celestial bodies, gravity, and black holes. Most of the formulas remain incomplete, but the glowing blue formulas that fill the lower third of the menhir have been solved, and the glowing red symbols represent catastrophic errors. Exceeding the DC by of either skill check by 5 or more reveals the top half of the monument is riddled with incomplete equations unknown to the Pact Worlds. This information is incredibly valuable, and the Starfinder Society would be interested in any copies and photos the PCs could capture of it. It’s obvious the black growth does not belong on the menhir and is causing it harm. A PC who succeeds at a DC 10 Life Science or Medicine check recognizes that this formation is neither alive nor any kind of disease. A PC succeeding at a DC 15 Mysticism check discerns the growth. Failed this check
If you'd like to correct the incomplete equations, give another mysticism check. This is not the dc 15 you failed. This one you can keep trying until you succeed, but I do have to track rounds, so one round at a time.
Varag and Savoy both fail and the stone guardians Kat5e saw earlier activate. Which is why I called for 1 at a time, you might want to attack rather than fix the problem. 2 ways to win this fight, kill them or fix the problem, getting three successful dc 19 checks. They don't attack until 1 round after you mess with the equations, thus possibly fixing them before combat happens.
They consider Varag and Savoy the biggest threats messing with their mechanics.
hit:9 + 1d20 ⇒ 9 + (10) = 19 vs KAC Varag
hit:9 + 1d20 ⇒ 9 + (1) = 10 vs KAC Savoy
dmg if you are hit:1d6 + 5 ⇒ (3) + 5 = 8 All heroes are upIf you gave me a check for round 2 on Mysticism, you must still give it, otherwise you can choose to attack. Your round 1 is what you did before combat happened.
Male Witchwyrd Xenoseeker Technomancer 4 | SP 11/24 HP 24/24| RP 6/6 | EAC 14; KAC 15 | Fort +2; Ref +2; Will +4 | Init: +1 | Perc: +0, SM: +0 | Spell Slots 1st 1/4; 2nd 3/3
Varag tries to stay focused on fixing the equations.I'm at a con today and tomorrow so I'll keep trying to work one the equation. Looks like I forgot to mention that when I rolled the extra attempts.
Varag ignores the damage he took and tries again mysticism:1d20 + 6 ⇒ (4) + 6 = 10I'm not counting attempts 2 through whatever, you still have to make a new check every round to be clear. When I said your round 1 is what you rolled before I combat, I meant your round 1 was really your round 0 and I didn't count any rolls you did in round 2 from then on. but still can't do it.
Sev- misses
Kat5e hits one in the shoulder.
EditI gave the wrong dmg from ealier. Yes d8 in the higher tierdmg:1d8 + 7 ⇒ (4) + 7 = 11cause you are the higher tier. So Varag adds 3 dmg. It is also +12 to hit, but that 1 still misses.
Savoy your are using mysticism on a rock, not the statues
Saryn misses as the KAC is harder to penatrate
Savoy rearranges some things and gets one success.
Oda is up
Oda doesn't connect either.
Each stone statue backs up and uses
corrupting spray, 30 foot cone, all cold damge
dmg:4d6 ⇒ (2, 1, 2, 4) = 9 reflex 14 for half, all except kat5e are in this one
dmg:4d6 ⇒ (3, 4, 6, 2) = 15 reflex 14 for half, all except Sary are in this one
All heroes are up
"I think I'm starting to understand this out," yells out Varag.
success, but you were hit by both blasts lets see if you actually survived to do that.
ref:1d20 + 2 ⇒ (19) + 2 = 21 ref:1d20 + 2 ⇒ (13) + 2 = 15Okay, so you halved both those checks and survived.
Saryn was hit by one blast although you miss ref:3 + 1d20 ⇒ 3 + (3) = 6 Kat5e, you have two actions?
Oda hits, but it resists 2 of his dmg. unless you mean to tell me your weapon is adamantine. mysticism:1d20 + 5 ⇒ (17) + 5 = 22 And Savoy also corrects the problem and the statues stop attacking.
Medicine check results from earlier The Reddened Eye sent agents to destroy this study area and records room just over a week ago. A PC who succeeds at a DC 10 Medicine check determines the head belongs to a quorlu and a rusty, serrated blade was used to perform the act. If the PCs have played the “Contact” quest, then they can immediately recognize the head as belonging to a quorlu. Strangely, there is no body to be found. PCs searching the wreckage discover destroyed silicone panes that were once the dead quorlu’s records. The PCs can also find an empty aerosol container and a plastic bowl dusted with residue from a red powder. Both objects are of Pact Worlds origin and contained ingredients necessary for the Reddened Eye’s corruption ritual they performed on the menhir.
Yaraesa’s marker is cleansed, the black growth explodes in a burst of brilliant blue light, revealing a glowing holy symbol of Yaraesa in the center of the menhir. The sky reverts to normal, the statues stop fighting, lose all attack forms, and move adjacent to the menhi.
CONCLUSION for part 2 Venture-Captain Arvin is relieved if the PCs managed to cleanse Yaraesa’s marker. PCs who copied or captured images of the symbols on the upper half of the menhir bring back clues to unlocking unknown secrets of the universe. The Starfinder Society values this data highly, although it might take decades for them to interpret it. other group is caught up, I'll start the next part when I wake up.
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Kat watches down the barrel of her rifle as the statues cease hostile actions against her team and move back to the menhir. She slowly lowers her rifle, and checks in with the team. "Everyone alright? I'm with you Varag, I've taken damage to both my organic and inorganic systems." She drops into the grass next to the witchwyrd.
Kat5e, each part starts a new day anyway, so you regain everything.
Handout 3: Ingredient
The Devourer cultists who’ve already spread across this planet seem intent on corrupting the markers that keep the planet from falling into the nearby black hole. Your next assignment is to prevent the cultists from destroying more markers with their foul rituals. Based off what we’ve learned from the locals and our own reconnaissance, the easiest way to do so is to swap out some of the cultists’ ritual components for extremely similar substances you can find in this jungle. We’ve identified a site the Devourer cultists are using to store their ritual components. Go into the nearby jungle and retrieve some pollen from a baneflower, crushed nightvine fruit, and the secretions from a tanisk. Use these to pollute the Devourer’s cache of components. I’ve attached coordinates to the Devourer cultists’ cache. Be quick to complete this, as you’ll need to add these pollutants before the cultists return!
Enereth-7’s crystalline jungle is cool and damp, water dripping slowly from the leaves overhead. Local wildlife moves through the trees around the area, rattling the crystalline leaves and filling the area with a soothing melodic sound. The trail widens to about ten feet. Rough roots emerge from the ground, making extended travel bothersome. Local fauna squawks through the foliage. Washed-out colors fill the sky almost to a blue white, and the great orb of the sun rises towards its zenith.
BaneflowersYou need a life science check to get these. NightvinesYou need athletics 12 or the ability to fly to get these. I recommend you don't try if you have low athletics, you will fall and take dmg. Tanisk SecretionsYou need and acrobatics or survival check to catch the creature that holds these. Then another survival check once you catch creature to get secretions off of it.
Heroes are easily able to grab all the ingredients.
After all of that stealth:10 + 1d20 ⇒ 10 + (20) = 30roll perception checks vs a creatures stealth. I didn't roll for you all, cause some of you might have situational perception checks. Dwarves get bonuses to stone doors for instance.
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After climbing down with the nightvines, Kat goes to place her jacket back on, and huffs angrily when still more dust and sand falls from it. She is busy shaking out the jacket as they are quietly stalked.
They all do falling pounce, still waiting on map, but Saryn looks like our best melee, they can't do full attack yet as it is surprise round. hits:6d20 ⇒ (1, 7, 13, 12, 8, 16) = 57 +5 to each
one hit for dmg:1d4 + 3 ⇒ (3) + 3 = 6
all the ones that missed fell from a 20 foot distance dmg to them:2d6 ⇒ (2, 1) = 3
I might as well take round 1 hits:12d20 ⇒ (4, 14, 3, 20, 17, 3, 3, 1, 13, 12, 3, 15) = 108 full attacks at +1 and 1 crit for dmg:2d4 + 6 ⇒ (4, 4) + 6 = 14 All heroes are up
Male Lashunta Envoy/Mystic SP 17/24 HP 28/28 | RP 5/5 | EAC 12; KAC 13 | Fort +1; Ref +3; Will +5 | Init: +1 | Perc: +8
Seeing 6 creatures drop down from the trees and ganging up on Saryn Savoy shouts some words of encouragement to try to make Saryn feel better
"Don't worry..this too shall pass!" Inspiring words; Saryn recovers 10 Stamina. I think he just took 20 damage, heals for 10..so is now down 10 stamina
"Everyone, get the big one! Get'em on one of them for a +1 to hit
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Kat drops her coat on the ground again and scrambles backwards as the creatures attack Saryn. She pivots her rifle up on its sling and fires at one of the creatures.
