Outpost III SFS 2-10 Corperate Interests (Inactive)

Game Master Revvy Bitterleaf

Iris just got an idea. As she knows the flight number and time of arrival, she wants to switch the display of its arrival and show it arrives at another gate, one far enough that anyone wanting to meet Tharsa would miss her. People waiting for the other passengers would be inconvenienced too, but their lives are not in danger.

She starts approaching the flight schedule board to look if the plan is doable.

My idea is only to hack the displays, or the computers behind them; hacking the whole system is probably to time consuming/troublesome. So first Iris needs to find how and what to hack, then to find another gate to redirect to.
If she can’t hack the system, she would have another option: use Holographic Image to change the displays. The first level option is just visual, so it should be enough. It needs constant concentration thought.
That plan would not work if the arrival are announced by someone or a voice. Iris would try to pay attention to the next coming flights and how they are handled at that gate.

Nice idea, but you know (possibly from previous experience yourself) that the attendants at the gate will announce that the liner has just docked, and the passengers will be disembarking shortly. You could still do it and buy yourselves a round (or 2) before the gate attendants catch on and start to correct things though.

Chryssi steps away from the desk and whispers to Keskodai. Maybe you can confuse him? Convince him you're his contact and send him somewhere else?

She then sends a general message to the team Anyone good at picking pockets? There's a lady here who should be relieved of her weapon - just in case

As Chryssi and Darkrunner move closer to the gate desk to see that one of the flight attendants is writing something down

Let me know if you know Aktonian as a language otherwise it's going to take a culture check for a clue on whats she's scribbling down

While the other gate attendant ask how they can assist the human woman in front of the desk who replies:

"Don't worry your pretty little head honey, I'm just getting closer to I can take a good look at the flight schedule board"

Sense motive on her statement

Sense motive: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (18) + 6 = 24

She glances back at Darkrunner and can't resist teasing him as well Enjoying the view? she purrs.

Unbelievably, the android gets flabbergasted and the circuit patterns on his face turn red. I... what would I... let's just continue.

However, he plays it up and takes the opportunity to make a go at the hidden firearm that Chryssi subtly pointed out.

sleight of hand: 1d20 + 13 ⇒ (17) + 13 = 30

Later as they walk away from the desk to join wit Keskodai he whispers to her We make a decent team. Good thinking creating that embarrassing distraction.

Darkrunner knows Akitonian.

If there was anything noteworthy in Akitonian he also tells her about that.

Thanks. replies Chryssi quietly. And I guess I should apologise for the tease - especially since we're on the clock. Velloro's reaction was so amusing that it was tempting to see if I could off balance an android as well. Personally I don't give a squat what anyone thinks. But yeah ... mind on the job.

As she talks, she glances around the seating area to see if anything else looks suspicious.

perception: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (19) + 3 = 22

Darkrunner knows that the womans claim to want to take a closer look at the schedule board is a lie and that the woman’s true focus is on the nearby gate doors.

Just benign specs about shifts and crew on flights, along with snide commentary about the annoying parts of the job of a flight attendant - not more information the Chryssi already got

As he bumps into her and reweaves her of her static arc pistol without her noticing her she turns around and smiles at him
"Well hello there sugar" before she goes back to studying "the board"

Chryssi glances around the seating area and after dismissing the very distraction person wearing a hat in the center of it all her eye catches a human man wearing some peculiar headgear among the smattering of civilians. The man’s mask covers his eyes, but he appears to be dozing based on how his head droops and snaps up.

Through the view ports you can see a Starship arrive. It's going to be any minute that it's docked and people will start to leave and arrive through the gate.

engineering: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (7) + 8 = 15

Chryssi isn't quite sure so she'll report that to the rest of the team before going over for a closer look.

In the rejoined group Darkrunner reports on the desk attendant to the group.

I think she's waiting for our guest too. Her "board" was nothing but snide comments about passengers, and I caught her lying about concern with board details. She's watching that gate like we are. I think we need a plan to draw her away. Oh, and I lifted a static arc pistol off of her...

Velloro comes to join Darkrunner-42 and Chryssi.

"I can talk with the lady, you see I can be very persuasive." speaks silently Velloro

I moved Velloro avatar I hope this is the place.

He casually approaches the lady and looks at the schedule board speaking to the lady telepathically and including in that Chryssi and Darkrunner-42

Intimidate: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (2) + 9 = 11

"You came here not to study the schedule board. You are interested in one of the passengers that will come through that gate. We relieved you from your weapon unless you want to be taken down here and now, I suggest you to run. I will send your picture to the local authorities in 10 minutes giving you a head start"

Then he looks at the lady and says:

"Kate? How long has it been, let's make ourselves a picture."
He grabs her by the arm and takes a selfie with her and his obnoxious hat.

What a roll :(

Chryssi looks horrified at Velloro as he grabs the lady. And I thought you were a gentleman she hisses, clearly angry. Typical male

She then finds a seat next to the sleeping gas mask man to have a closer look at his head gear - still seething from Vellaro's behaviour.

She also makes a mental note to buy a cloak, preferably in black.

The woman turns to face Vellero, one hand on her hip and the other one right in front of his face

"..EXccccussssseeee meeeee, what did you just say to me? You better not have said what I think you just said"

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Other than Obodaya who still get's to finish/continue to interact with the gardener (if wanting to do so) you all have one round to do stuff now

*Ding Dong*
One of the attendants at the gate presses a button and starts to announce that the liner has just docked and the passengers will be disembarking shortly.

Most of the people present look up from what they were doing and either stand up to get closer to the gate to pick-up whom ever they were waiting for or at the very least look up from the datapads they were reading with the latest gossip or start to gather the children running around everywhere and/or start to put thing back into the backpacks they are carrying.

Darkrunner is going to focus his attention on the problematic person by the desk. He whispers to Chryssi, nodding in the woman's direction. She's going to soon realize what I relieved her of, though not that it was me. Still, she may have had other weapons hidden, we should watch her closely.

Now excluding the lady from his telepathic message he contacts Darkrunner-42 and Chryssi.

"I need your help, she did not respond well to my threat."

He glances at them and is shocked by the expression on Chryssi face.

"What have I done? I would invite that lady for dinner if she was not one of the bad guys!"

Says desperately Velloro.

You were lucky she didn't slap you .... or worse Chryssi sends back ((assuming she can)) You don't just run up and grab someone like that? Girls are people too. Show some respect next time

Just going to give people a chance to do something if they want before moving the story further tomorrow. If everyone is just waiting for the doors to open and your guest to arrive that's fine as well

Obodaya - was trimming plants next to someone who clearly doesn't know how to do it by cutting plants with her claws. - You can intimidate if you want, or otherwise interact with him since you are a few actions behind.

Iris still has an action left to do something as well

Darkrunner walks over to the woman, strategically between her at the gate itself to interject himself into the altercation.

What seems to be the problem here? Did my friend offend you? I'm sure we can resolve this.

Diplomacy, but it doesn't matter...: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (9) + 1 = 10

Obozaya will Intimidate the gardener, clicking her claws together to punctuate her words. "Since we both know you're no gardener, why don't you tell me what you're really doing here?"

Intimidate: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (12) + 7 = 19

@GM I assume that Velloro can't attempt again to intimidate her? If so he waits for the development of the situations. @Chryssi yeah telepathy works both ways. btw I

"Hey! Don't start on me with 'girls are people'! Of course I know that. I treated her the same way as I would treat a male, host or any other sentient being! On Akiton women gladiators would fight man and each one of them would win the glory and respect just the same way. Accuse me of not respecting other alien boundaries but not of disrespecting women. "

He clearly is agitated and his face turns colors which might look odd to the lady that he attempted to intimidate.

@GM I assume that Velloro can't attempt again to intimidate her? If so he waits for the development of the situations. @Chryssi yeah telepathy works both ways. btw I

Not to try to do the same thing, you don't look very intimidating to her now. You could still try to intimidate her to demoralize her though (normal use of intimidate as a standard action to make her shaken for a round..there doesn't seem to be a limit on how often you can use that

Darkrunner's attempt are met with a cold stare from the woman
"_You_ are with _him_?!" she huffs through her nose

As Obodaya confronts the gardener he becomes extremely nervous and moves away from the Vesk as he start to sweat and shiver all over his body effectively he now has the sickened condition

Effects you managed:
"Gardener" starts sickened
"Nice woman" has no blaster
You've spotted a few more people which might cause problems but haven't done anything to them

Passengers start to disembark the ship, and begin coming through the gate doors. Tharsa moves to meet with you. Waving as she spots you (seems she also got a file with how you look).

A few people around the area pull out weapons and stand up.

Init Chryssi: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (7) + 2 = 9
Init Darkrunner: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (6) + 6 = 12
Init Iris: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (4) + 3 = 7
Init Magic Keshkodai: 1d20 ⇒ 11
Init Vellero: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (15) + 2 = 17
Init Obodaya Jeff: 1d20 ⇒ 1

Init Mercs: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (14) + 4 = 18

Reacting quicker then you they manage pull out their blasters and one of them (the guy with the helmet) fires a few shoots in the air. This causes a panic among the passengers who start to scream and run around like crazy.
The woman next to Vellero takes a step towards Tharsa while fumbling around in her clothes trying to get to her blaster, can't find it and throws you guys a very dirty look.
The man in the kiosk walks outside and pulls out a grenade and throws it on the ground causing a massive smoke cloud to form. The Garderener does the same...causing an smoke screen to fill a large part of the area causing even more panic and obscuring vision and a lot of coughing from bystanders.

This makes it harder to aim through the chaos of fleeing bystanders for 1 round. If this chaos is triggered, anyone taking the time to ensure their ranged attack doesn’t hit bystanders if they miss takes a –2 penalty to their attack roll. The mercenaries and anyone else who does not care if they hit bystanders don’t take this penalty.
Whenever anyone who ignores this penalty misses an attack with a ranged weapon, they have a 50% chance of striking a bystander
-> Not caring about bystanders is cause to get Infame

Merc's are the ones with colored borders, large colored area on the map is the smoke

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"Well obviously your situation is a hell of a lot different than mine" Chryssi replies telepathically "I work as an exotic dancer and I've also done photographic modelling - and in those jobs it's definitely "hands off" - besides, personally I really detest being touched or grabbed like that ... and ... OH PRONKING FLEEM" as the brown sticky stuff hits the rapidly revolving device.

Absolutely furious with herself for getting into a telepathic shouting match with Vellaro and getting distracted from the job, she fires two magic missiles at the woman near Tharsa to get her attention before getting right up in her face between her and Tharsa.

She also makes a mental note to talk to Vellaro later on to try and understand his reasoning - and another note to talk to her anger management counselor - again.

mm: 2d4 + 2 ⇒ (2, 4) + 2 = 8

(Level 4 Obozaya has +7 to Init, so it's an effective 7.)

(Level 4 Obozaya has +7 to Init, so it's an effective 7.)

* 8

Vesk don't do math.

Keskodai double moves.

Fortitude DC 15: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (17) + 1 = 18

Iris is in the smoke and manages to hold her breath for long enough to activate her armor environmental suit standard action, then she moves toward Tharsa while drawing her tactical semi-auto.

(@Revvy Bitterleaf: Where is the map?)

(@Revvy Bitterleaf: Where is the map?)

It's linked at the top of the campaign page. I wouldn't have minded seeing before the passengers arrived. Was it linked before and I just didn't notice?

I could swear I had darkrunner over by the woman with Chryssi and Velloro before battle broke out, but...

Darkrunner jogs a little back across the desk to get closer to the ill-tempered woman, drawing his pistol as he goes, and stopping to focus and fire on her.

[move] 10' E, drawing pistol
[standard] ranged attack vs BLUE

azimuth laser pistol attack, F damage: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (9) + 7 = 161d4 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 1 = 2

Velloro got distracted, he should have left the discussion after the mission. Well 'you play the cards you were given', there is no point in making a fuss about it now.

He hears the screams and immediately feels the rush of adrenaline in his blood. He makes a step to the left to catch the attacker in between himself and Chryssi.

He uses the energy of his surrounding to form a riot shield as he moves and begins to push the assassin at Chryssi focusing his anger at the edge of the shield.

Entropic Strike vs EAC: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (11) + 6 = 17
Damage, acid: 1d4 + 3 + 4 ⇒ (2) + 3 + 4 = 9

Move action: Guarded step + entropic shield
Standard action: entropic strike
Entropic pool: 1 point
AC: +1(for entropy)+1(for riot shield)

(@Revvy Bitterleaf: Where is the map?)

It has been pointed by others already, but just to confirm what has been said; the map is in the slides - which are linked at the top of the page. Did everyone manage to find the map?

Chryssi fires two magic missiles at the woman near Tharsa to get her attention before getting right up in her face between her and Tharsa

Keskodai double times it to get closer to the fighting.

Iris manages to hold her breath for long enough to activate her armor environmental before she moves toward Tharsa while drawing her tactical semi-auto.

Darkrunner jogs a little back across the desk to get closer to the ill-tempered woman, drawing his pistol as he goes, and stopping to focus and fire on her
Did you see my note about the crowd getting in the way and if you don't take a -2 penalty for careful aiming while making a ranged attack you might hit an innocent bystander? Also hitting an innocent bystander gives you 1 infame. It doesn't look like you included a -2 to hit

Vellero takes a step and uses the energy of his surrounding to form a riot shield as he moves and begins to push the assassin at Chryssi focusing his anger at the edge of the shield. Slamming into the woman he hurts her.

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Obodays Results Darkrunner pending to see if he's carefully avoiding shooting into the crowd
Mercs

Damage:
Blue woman: 17

Obo holds where she is and readies her flame doshko to charge any enemy that emerges from the smoke.

Did you see my note about the crowd getting in the way and if you don't take a -2 penalty for careful aiming while making a ranged attack you might hit an innocent bystander? Also hitting an innocent bystander gives you 1 infame. It doesn't look like you included a -2 to hit

I did. I missed applying the -2, my fault. Given the tone of the post he deliberately stopped and aimed to avoid innocents.

Obo holds where she is and readies her flame doshko to charge any enemy that emerges from the smoke.

Darkrunner carefully aims to avoid hitting one of the innocent bystanders running around and turns out he's aiming a bit too on the save side and hit shot goes high

From the smoke a shot is fired with total disregard for running bystanders and unaffected by the smoke - almost as if someone is wearing a especially designed helmet to ignore smoke.

The electric blast surges for Obo
To hit EAC Obo: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (11) + 10 = 21
E damage if hit: 1d6 + 1 ⇒ (3) + 1 = 4

Fort save: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (11) + 4 = 15
From inside the smoke you hear a bit of coughing as another merc who thought it would be a good idea to get some cover finds out that being inside a smoke cloud isn't as great an idea as he originally thought and keeps firing into the crowd to keep them running.

Another one takes a shot at Magic Keshkodai
To hit EAC Keshkodai: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (10) + 10 = 20
E damage if hit: 1d6 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 1 = 2

And the woman without a gun pulls out a (collapsing? - not sure how she was able to hide this until now) flame doshko out of her pocket and ignites it before taking a swing at Vellero
to hit EAC Vellero: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (20) + 7 = 27
F damage if hit: 1d6 + 4 ⇒ (4) + 4 = 8
and delivers a devastating blow
Extra crit damage: 1d6 + 4 ⇒ (4) + 4 = 8 and 1d20 ⇒ 15
a fort save, or your leg is cut off and you get -10 to land speed

Tarsha screams in horror about what's going on all around her covering her eyes with her hands

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Smoke and innocent bystanders still causing problems

"Calm yourself and keep behind me" Chryssi snaps at Tharsa. She probably didn't mean to sound irritated but she was. She also considered pushing Tharsa back through the gate door and potential safety but, after what she had said to Vellero, she was a bit hesitant to do that. Besides, in the stress of the situation she was falling back to old habits she had been trying to break.

Instead the woman assassin with the doshko gets another round of magic missiles. Those that live by the sword, or doshko, die by whatever means at hand.

mm: 3d4 + 3 ⇒ (2, 3, 4) + 3 = 12

Darkrunner quickly punches some commands into his datapad. When he finishes it projects strobing lights towards the doshko-weilding assassin, in an attempt to distract her. He then sprints diagonally out in front of the desk for a clear shot.

[full action] trick attack, moving 15'

computers (trick attack) (DC20+target CR), extra damage on success and hit: 1d20 + 17 ⇒ (20) + 17 = 371d8 ⇒ 8 target flat-footed if it succeeds
azimuth laser pistol attack (avoiding crowd) vs BLUE, F damage: 1d20 + 7 - 2 ⇒ (13) + 7 - 2 = 181d4 + 1 ⇒ (4) + 1 = 5
13 damage if hits and the trick attack succeeds.

Fortitude save: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (14) + 7 = 21 Wow, I wasn't aware that you can loose a limb on a critical hit. I hope it passes the DC
I take full 16 dmg, gaining 2 Entropy Points.

Move + attack
Entropy points: 3EP
EAC=22, KAC=24 (+1 for EP, +1 for shield)

Keskodai casts Mind Thrust on blue, he should be aware of him through the smoke with his blindsense.

Mind Thrust DC 17 WILL for half: 4d10 ⇒ (6, 9, 10, 3) = 28

Iris starts concentrating on a spell. 1 round spell Summon Creature, level 2

Obo gets tired of waiting, turns on her suit's environmental controls, and wades int the smoke.

Chryssi takes down the woman who just - almost - cut off Vellero's leg but left him pretty beat up with a series of well placed magic missiles

Darkrunner quickly punches some commands into his datapad. When he finishes it projects strobing lights towards another one of the mercs since his intended target just went down due to some magic might. He then sprints a bit to be able to take a shot
Redirection your attack to one of the other mercs
His aim is true and he manages to land a decent enough hit

Velloro turns around and rushes a bit wobbly due to the damage to his - luckily still attached leg -towards an enemy that he hears coughing in the smoke and punches him in the head.

Keshkodai using his senses picks out a target and tries to blow their mind away

Will save: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (15) + 1 = 16
since blue is down already I'll shift your attack to the green one
From inside the smoke cloud you can hear a *thud* and Vellero sees some splatters of blood fly past as his target goes down in front on him (maybe a delayed reaction to the punch he just received? ;) as his eyes glace over.

Iris starts concentrating on a spell while Obo turns on her suit's environmental controls and wades int the smoke.

One last remaining merc aims his pistol at Vellero and unhindered by the smoke or care for bystanders pulls the trigger
to hit EAC Vellero: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (6) + 10 = 16
E damage if hit: 1d6 + 1 ⇒ (3) + 1 = 4
while moving deeper into the smoke cloud

While the other one shoots at Keshkoda from behind one of the benches after moving a bit closer
to hit EAC Keshkodai: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (14) + 10 = 24
E damage if hit: 1d6 + 1 ⇒ (6) + 1 = 7

The bystanders noticing they are not being targeted specifically all stop running and crouch down behind some available cover

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Smoke still in effect, bystanders are not running around right now

Damage;
Blue down
Cyan': 13
Green down
White

Velloro is surprised to see his enemy fall, but his blow was indeed solid. He rushes towards the enemy outside of the smoke, and runs past Obo and Keshkodai.

Double move.

Chryssi looks around for any more obvious threats but doesn't see any.

One's in the smoke and I don't think she has line of sight to the other

So she takes a deep breath then says to Tharsa There doesn't seem to be any immediate threat, and it appears my comrades have the situation under control ... but, just in case, may I recommend we retreat to the gate doors

I think Velloro has one more. I'm going to follow him, you stay here near Tharsa in case one of them tries to make another run at her.

Darkrunner follows the gladiator past the smoke.

[double move]

Iris finishes up her spell and a metal form appears until it changes into an Observer Class Security Robot. The robot flies toward the last visible enemy and shoots its integrated pulsecaster EAC: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (18) + 9 = 27 for Electricity non-lethal: 1d4 + 1 ⇒ (4) + 1 = 5. She then moves toward Tharsa and takes cover.

Mind Thrust on black

Mind Thrust DC 17 WILL for half: 4d10 ⇒ (5, 8, 10, 8) = 31

Vellero rushes towards the enemy outside of the smoke.

Chryssi goes for a tactical repositioning.

Darkrunner follows Vellero

Iris summons a drone which takes a shot at one of the mercs zapping him and sending a spasm through his body

Smoke still in effect, bystanders are not running around right now

Keshkodai fires of another spell at one of the mercs using his senses to pick out the one in the smoke cloud which it's companions are leaving for later
I'll admit that it's not very clear if you're looking at a small map....but black is the woman you are here to escort to safety and not one of the mercs. I'll just move you a bit so you can target one of the mercs
Will save Cyan: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (18) + 1 = 19
who goes down and hits the ground hard, his special helmet leaving a dent in the floor.

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White merc - who's starting to look worried

Smoke still in effect, bystanders are hunkering down (no penalty to shoot)

Damage;
Blue down
Cyan down
Green down
White: 5

I wonder if that last one is going to surrender ..... or be stupid Chryssi remarks I'm betting on stupid

Not seeing anyone in the smoke, Obo stumbles out... right into White.

Obo swings at the obvious thug.

vs. KAC: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (20) + 7 = 27
fire: 1d8 + 8 ⇒ (8) + 8 = 16

Hmmm. Somehow I don't think the critical wound he takes as well will really matter.

Apologies I missed that, can I retcon to have moved to white and attacked them? I would have had the movement and range.