GM Bret’s Outpost III Fate of the Scoured God (Inactive)

Game Master BretI

Green is hit by Jackojare’s knife.

It tries to return the favor, snapping at him with its jaws. It connects, hard!
bite: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (20) + 8 = 28
Piercing damage: 1d6 + 5 ⇒ (3) + 5 = 8
Crit!: 8 + 1d6 + 5 ⇒ 8 + (3) + 5 = 16

Red moves to where it has the mushrooms as cover between it and Desha and then fires at Gunnz!
Trick Attack, Culture: 1d20 + 16 ⇒ (14) + 16 = 30
Handcoil, range: 1d20 + 11 - 2 ⇒ (16) + 11 - 2 = 25
Electric damage, trick: 1d6 + 4 + 1d8 ⇒ (6) + 4 + (7) = 17

Yellow moves up next to Red.
Double move because of difficult terrain

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Round 3:

Orange 54 damage
Gunnz 17 stamina 4 hp damage
Princess Dh’Qa
Desha Doash 8 hp damage
Teddington
Jackojare 16 damage
Green 7 damage
Red
Yellow 3 damage

Jackojare will swing at green again hit: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (13) + 9 = 22 vs KAC
dmg: 1d4 + 4 ⇒ (3) + 4 = 7

Jackojare hits green again.

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Round 3:

Orange 54 damage
Gunnz 17 stamina 4 hp damage
Princess Dh’Qa
Desha Doash 8 hp damage
Teddington
Jackojare 16 damage
Green 14 damage
Red
Yellow 3 damage

"Son b]of a..." grumbles Gunnz "Bug..." as she is hit, again.

Ducking behind the nearby greenery she lines up another shot.

stealth, DC 20+CR: 1d20 + 18 ⇒ (8) + 18 = 26
attack vs red EAC: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (12) + 8 = 20
E damage: 1d6 + 2 ⇒ (5) + 2 = 7
trick damage: 3d8 ⇒ (3, 2, 7) = 12

This time the shot is a little more on target. "Take that!"

Teddington walks near the Jinsul and the Crab after having the Disk return to his hand.

Teddington bears his teeth menacingly at Yellow and throws a Singing Disk in it's face.

Thrown Returning Sopranino Singing Disk vs Yellow EAC: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (16) + 12 = 28
Sonic Damage: 1d4 + 12 ⇒ (3) + 12 = 15

It hits with a sing song noise and a thud at it clatters into it's face.

Comfortably ensconced the Princess keeps shooting at all the critters kind enough to walk into her line of fire.

The Princess takes aim at the yellow/red pair. Shooting at Yellow if it's still up, continuing to Red if Yellow falls.

corona artillery laser vs. EAC: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (1) + 9 = 10
damage: 2d8 + 6 ⇒ (4, 6) + 6 = 16

corona artillery laser vs. EAC: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (12) + 9 = 21
damage: 2d8 + 6 ⇒ (5, 6) + 6 = 17

Desha presses her shoulder to the stalk of the large mushroom, then rolls around and levels her pulse rifle at yellow, who already seems to have some wounds.

Staccato Pulse Rifle: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (13) + 6 = 19 Damage (So): 1d10 ⇒ 10

Gunnz gets a good hit against Red in spite of Yellow having tried to interfere.
Looks like Bodyguard feat works against ranged attacks. I'm not sure if I want to think too hard about that...

Teddington easily hits Yellow as it is trying to defend the Jinsul. So does Princess Dh'Qa with her second shot, taking it down.

Desha expecting it to still be up, quickly changes her target to Red and fires. Her shot hits!

Green bites Jackojare again.
Bite: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (14) + 8 = 22
Piercing Damage: 1d6 + 5 ⇒ (2) + 5 = 7

Red retreats down the path and then through the difficult underbrush to take up a position behind a broken wall. As it moves it gets out a different pistol. Pointing it straight up, it fires off a flare into the sky. That is going to attract some attention!

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Round 4:

Orange 54 damage
Gunnz 17 stamina 4 hp damage
Princess Dh’Qa
Desha Doash 8 hp damage
Teddington
Jackojare 16 damage
Green 14 damage
Red 29 damage
Yellow 37 damage

Does the wall give red cover or total cover?

Desha moves around the mushroom, determined now to end the fight and perhaps lead a retreat before reinforcements arrive. As she rounds the bend, she reaches out to the jinsul's mind and forces her will to quash it's personality.

Mind Thrust II (DC17 Will half: 4d10 ⇒ (4, 5, 2, 6) = 17

The wall gives cover. It doesn’t look intact enough to me for full cover unless someone went prone.

Red Will save: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (12) + 7 = 19
Red’s many eyes go bloodshot as Desha tries to smash its mind, but it is still standing.

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Round 4:

Orange 54 damage
Gunnz 17 stamina 4 hp damage
Princess Dh’Qa
Desha Doash 8 hp damage
Teddington
Jackojare 16 damage
Green 14 damage
Red 37 damage
Yellow 37 damage

The Princess gets up to be more mobile, and takes a single careful shot at Red.

laser: 1d20 + 13 ⇒ (9) + 13 = 22
damage: 2d8 + 6 ⇒ (5, 7) + 6 = 18

Princess Dh'Qa takes out Red with her shot.

Green on its own is not a significant challenge. You kill it easily.

The flare has gone off. When you get to the Jinsul's bodies, you here clicking and such over the communicators. You would guess it is someone being asked to report in.

I don't believe any of you speak Jinsul.

More to follow, since the alarm went off you do not have time for a 10 minute rest.

Options for mitigating the Jinsul suspicion:
* Speak Jinsul and attempt a bluff check
* Hide signs of the patrol and battle via Survival check.

You can attempt to continue to gather intel.

Mission Status:
Closer Look: Success
Distant Observation: Not attempted yet
Forensic Analysis: Success
High Ground: Success
Navigate Terrain: Failure, +4 Insight for Desha if she tries again

Desha speaks Jinsul

Can we do both mitigate the Jinsul suspicion AND continue to gather intel? If not, I am going to mitigate suspicion first.

Survival Check to hide signs of the patrol/battle: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (20) + 10 = 30

And if I'm allowed to gather intel as well.
Survival Check to gather intel (Navigate Terrain): 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (18) + 10 = 28

My reading is that you can attempt both.
Glad Desha understands it. I would hate for all that Jinsul commentary to be a waste.

Distant Observation is Perception, Navigate Terrain is Survival. Which were you doing for gathering Intel Teddington?

Navigate Terrain, fixed it in the post! My apologies I didn't read it all, just saw Distant Observation *had* Survival, but only on a failure.

Yup, I speak Jinsul. Unfortunate part is I'm not trained in Bluff, so it'll just be a raw Cha check for me! Gotta try it, I suppose.

Acting quickly, Desha moves to red's fallen form and grabs its communicator. After parsing out what the chatter on the line is about, she tries to respond to check and tell those on the other end that the flare gun had malfunctioned and fired on its own. No injuries to report, though.

Bluff: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (3) + 4 = 7 Uh oh!

Knowing that the team probably only has limited time before another patrol shows up, Desha attempts to do some more scouting before they retreat.

Distant Observation (Perception: 1d20 + 13 ⇒ (19) + 13 = 32
Survival in case of failure: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (13) + 9 = 22
Stealth, serum bonus: 1d20 + 2 + 2 ⇒ (16) + 2 + 2 = 20

Limping badly, Gunnz quickly checks out the jinsul equipment, to see if it is any better than her own gun, which she is rapidly thinking took a battering when she didn't notice.

Gunnz does what she can to spot the distant formations on the planet.
perception: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (17) + 9 = 26
survival for fail: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (4) + 4 = 8
stealth to hide: 1d20 + 16 ⇒ (18) + 16 = 34

Each of the two Jinsul were carrying an explorer handcoil and a survival flare gun. They didn’t have any extra ammo for either weapon with them.

Gunnz pockets one of the handcoils. "It's not much of an upgrade on my static arc pistol, but at the moment, I'll take anything." she mutters.

Jackojare will hide signs of patrol survival: 10 + 1d20 ⇒ 10 + (9) = 19
stealth to hide: 13 + 1d20 ⇒ 13 + (6) = 19

@Teddington, I just noticed you didn’t give me a stealth to hide from the next patrol.
@Jackojare, Which task are you performing?

@Everyone, I forgot to mention heal up and reposition your avatars on the map for where you want to be when the next patrol comes through.
You can not take a 10 minute rest because of the flare.

I'm performing the new task obviously, hide signs of battle patrol, but I still have to roll stealth to keep hidden from the next patrol right? Anyway, I'm where I want to be.

I'm not great at these tasks so I'll just remain stationary.

Although Desha’s attempt at deceit doesn’t work, Teddington has no trouble hiding the bodies and signs of battle. Probably helps that they were doing weapons testing throughout the area.

Gunnz grabs themselves a new gun.

Desha and Gunnz are able to spot weak points in the jinsuls' earthworks and battle formations.

Teddington is able to map out some advantageous terrain in the area should it be needed.

You have successfully gathered the information needed. Unfortunately a patrol approaches just as you finish.

More to come.

Stealth against Jinsul Patrol: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (3) + 1 = 4

Yeah I'm a large bear. Stealth isn't my thing

I'm also on my phone so i can't interact with the map but I'd like to be behind that stone structure to the left of my token.

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Surprise Round:

Gunnz
Desha

Round 1:

Red
Jackojare 16 stamina damage
Teddington
Green
Orange
Gunnz 17 stamina 4 hp damage
Pink
Desha 8 ho damage
Princess Dh’Qa
Purple
Yellow

Desha moves across the path to stand with Teddington.

Single move action for surprise round

Can we use the aid token to heal up between encounters?
Gunnz takes a quick shot at the red jinsul with her new coilgun.

attack vs EAC, range: 1d20 + 8 - 2 ⇒ (4) + 8 - 2 = 10
"I think I must have dropped it in the swamp.."

First Seeker Elsebo pings each of your comm units with vital news. [b]"Starfinder agents have compiled reports detailing jinsul ground troop formations from a base camp on Agillae-2. Our strategists have devised a way to safely air-drop agents behind enemy lines in order to disrupt the jinsul infantry’s leadership. Given the high concentration of jinsul battalions on Bastiar-6, that seems the ideal place to strike.

The fleets begin to close in and shift once more, each compensating and reacting to the active battles below. The Starfinder Fleet rushes over to aid Callion-2 as the Jinsul Fleet continues to push back into Bastiar-6.

Table GMs, the Ground Force Intel mission is closed, and the Paratrooper Strike mission in Part 2 is now unlocked.

You can use it in the middle of an encounter. It is a free action.

Also, I checked. You have completed your objective. If the group wants to, they can just run.

Desha darts across the path.

Gunnz takes a shot, but misses.

Red moves forward and takes a shot at Jackojare.
Trick Attack Survival: 1d20 + 16 ⇒ (18) + 16 = 34
Explorer Handcoil: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (11) + 11 = 22
Electrical damage: 1d6 + 4 + 1d8 ⇒ (1) + 4 + (6) = 11

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Round 1:

Red
Jackojare 27 stamina damage
Teddington
Green
Orange
Gunnz 17 stamina 4 hp damage
Pink
Desha 8 ho damage
Princess Dh’Qa
Purple
Yellow

Jackojare fires at purple with his rifle hit: 10 + 1d20 ⇒ 10 + (20) = 30 vs KAC
dmg: 1d8 + 5 ⇒ (5) + 5 = 10
extra crit dmg: 1d8 + 5 ⇒ (3) + 5 = 8
And then he moves up north 2 spaces.

Jackojare hits purple and moves.

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Round 1:

Red
Jackojare 27 stamina damage
Teddington
Green
Orange
Gunnz 17 stamina 4 hp damage
Pink
Desha 8 ho damage
Princess Dh’Qa
Purple 18 damage
Yellow

Teddington signals to his allies. Time to pack up and leave!

"Strategic objective accomplished. Avoid further tactical entanglement. Follow the prime objectives of the overqueen. Prepare to evacuate."

"Confirmed, team. Let's get out of here. No need to burn out before the real fight gets started."

Desha will join the retreat

The team makes a hasty retreat.

Ziggy is happy to receive your intel. “Just in time! We are starting the ground assault, I will relay your intel to the appropriate team leaders!”

Holding out a bag, he asks “Want a rice candy? They are very sweet, good for that sugar rush!”

You get off planet without incident.

Reporting success now.

Transit back to the fleet gives you plenty of time to recover.

When you get back, you have a short time to get additional supplies, but they want you back at it as soon as possible.

Missions available to you include:

Scout Missions
* Agillae-4 Data Hack

Action Missions
* Bastiar-6 Paratrooper Strike (Jinsul fleet is here)
* Bastiar-8 Scanner Defense

Added a slide for the Action Missions. Only the above two are currently available.

Reminder: The group has an Aid Token and has not used any of the rewards from the various leaders.

Shall we do the last Scout Mission? Finish them all off?

It is called data hack. How good is your computer skill?

Yeah, I'm thinking we should move on to the action missions. GM - Could you remind us what is the effect of being in the same place as the Jinsul Fleet? Or do we know that?
At this point, I'm leaning towards the Scanner Defense. I get the feeling that we'll be pretty effective at holding off enemies.

Another transmission alert comes across your screens. "Our pilots captured a jinsul ship and traced its flight coordinates to a secret command base hidden on Bastiar-3. The base is well defended, but destroying it will disable the jinsuls’ communications network. This mission calls for agents ready to storm jinsul defenses to win us a crucial advantage."

The Starfinder Fleet kicks on their thrusters rushing to Callion-2 as the Jinsul Fleet shifts further back into Bastiar-3

Table GMs, the Scout Hunt mission is closed, and the Trench Assault mission in Part 2 is now unlocked.

I think our fleet being in the same location is a good thing. Let's go to Callion-2

The effect of the Jinsul fleet changes by mission, but basically the mission is slightly more difficult because the Jinsul’s can call on their fleet for aid.
It isn’t a huge difference in difficulty. Honestly, I would complain about how poor the support was if I were on the Jinsul side. :)

Jackojare spends and RP to recover and then makes a shock grenade mk 2 and then loads it into his grenade launcher.
I say we take the trench assault.

We already completed the mission on Callion-2. That was the interrogation and fight against the demon-jinsuls. Let's see what our votes are like thus far:
Teddington - Agillae-4 (Data Hack - Infiltration and hacking)
Desha - Bastiar-8 (Scanner Defense - Siege defense)
Jackojare - Bastiar-3 (Trench Assualt - Artillery survival and combat)
Princess D - (Needs to vote again to replace already completed mission)
Gunnz - (Has not voted)

Yes, you already completed the Scout Mission for Callion-2, but the house doesn’t have enough successes there yet to open the Action Mission for it.

The group currently has their choice of four missions.

Scout mission:
* Agillae-4 Data Hack

Action Missions:
* Bastair-3 Trench Assault
* Bastiar-6 Paratrooper Strike
* Bastiar-8 Scanner Defense

The brief description of the Action Missions is on Slide 11. Two of those missions are not open yet because the House (all the tables combined) do not have enough successes on the corresponding Scout missions.

"I'm easy" says Gunnz, who is busy perusing the weapons cabinets.

"I mean.. I'm not easy like that... well, unless they are really cute and a good dancer, but then it's not easy is it?" she says, getting a little flustered.

"I mean, I'm happy to do any. But my slight preference is the infiltration mission. That is what I'm all about, when not flying, or dancing. And that information is holding back the rest of the fleet from advancing as well. "

One vote for Data hack to finish the scout missions. But happy to do any of them. Purchases a corona laser pistol (4270). Also an idaran force training baton for 400, selling her regular baton for 45.

"Think we have time for me to check into a medical bay while we are on route?" she asks.

Given my cash-on hand situation, that I keep getting hit, and don't hit that often, I'm thinking of upgrading my synaptic accelerators. It takes an our apply, so not sure if we can do it between missions' a bit. If it is okay, I'll upgrade my dex on to +4 and my con to +2. Total cost 6500