Star Trek: Amity (Inactive)

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Nettlox grimaces and calls over to the Commander while ushering his crewman into cover.
"And with what, my toenails?
The computers of the stations aren't running yet and I seriously doubt that it will react to external commands."
Once in cover he performs a scan of the robot while shouting in its general direction.
"Command word: Shutdown.
We are star fleet personnel from the USS Amity."
Scan the Bot, Control+Engineering? 15: 2d20 ⇒ (19, 17) = 36
Heh, not my field of expertise indeed - at least no complication.

Scan the Bot is Actually Insight an Engineering. Fortunately it is Difficulty 0, so you don't create any Momentum or a Complication.

The scan reveals the drone to be a primitive AI construct with a damaged voice system. It is armed with a primitive rapid-fire projectile weapon with 400 rounds of ammunition. A laser sight appears on the nearest Nettlox' chest and a round drops into the weapon’s chamber.

I'm going to spend 1 Threat to seize the initiative and go first. Minor Action to Aim, Attempt a Task

Drone Attack Control+Security (10) Difficulty 2: 2d20 ⇒ (8, 14) = 22

Aim reroll: 1d20 ⇒ 18

The security bot lines up a shot with Nettlox' chest and sprays primitive projectiles at him, but the Engineer anticipates the attack.

You guys are up. Combat rules start on 169 of the core book. Party who is in habitat, I'm going to say it takes you two turns of moving to get back to this location since there is no automated travel like turbolifts here on the station. Which doesn't rule out other options.

The Captain flips open her communicator and says, "Mr. Xin, I need you to beam my team to Mr. Nettlox' position, poste haste!"

Supervisory action Control or Daring + Command 2d20 ⇒ (5, 14) = 19 Do I get Lead By Example to make it three successes

Using the transporters is a Control+Engineering Task Difficulty 2. Target not on a transporter pad is +1 Difficulty. Destination is not on a Transporter pad is +1 Difficulty. Total Difficulty of 4. I'll let Captain Tharhat assist to give one success. Xin can use a minor action to move to the transporter room (otherwise it would be +1 difficulty).

At the transporter controls in transporter room 3, Ensign Batan moves his hand over the three sliders that activate the transporter. Tharhat, Sobek, and K'rist vanish in a shimmer.

Batan hails Xin on the bridge, "Commander Xin-Yalix, I've got them in the buffer, but I can't get a lock on the reactor module. There must be some sort interference from the radiation released by the reactor. I might lose them, sir."

Looks like Xin will have to take this one on himself.

Doesn't the Amity get to assist?

Here is the ship's roll:
1d20 ⇒ 9

Xin, Feel free to use some Momentum

The Denobulan ducks low behind a console, swearing.
"Damn you, stupid bot, I am trying to repair the very station you are tasked to protect!
Barstow, aim for its camera system and it will not be able to target us!"
Assist? Insight+Engineering? 15: 1d20 ⇒ 9

Doesn't the Amity get to assist?

Xin, Feel free to use some Momentum

Attempting the Task does include getting an assist from the ship. There are two reasons this all falls to Xin. 1. NPC crew aren't supposed to be able to succeed at Tasks harder than difficulty 0. 2. I figure the guy left behind on the ship should get in on the drama. Xin-Yalix has every competence to handle the situation and several options for doing so. His "Technical Expertise" Talent will let him re-roll any of the die he uses, including the ship die. You have 6 Momentum, so plenty to buy extra dice. And if he really wanted to be sure of success, he could spend a point of Determination based on his Value "Every problem has a solution." That would add a die that automatically counts as having rolled a 1.

Added links to the diagrams for this adventure in the mini campaign description.

"Thanks for the heads up, Commander."

Coop takes a moment to aim his phaser at the robot's ocular sensor and lets loose.

"Looks like a single security robot, Cap." he barks into his arm hoping he left the channel open. "Old tech, could be jury rigged. Keep a good eye open, there could be other nasties about!"

I'm going to burn 1 Momentum for the extra dice.

Control + Security (14): 3d20 ⇒ (8, 3, 16) = 27
Aim reroll: 1d20 ⇒ 5

Woohoo! With Aim, that's 3 successes!

We were at Momentum 6 Threat 12. I spent 1 Threat, Coop spent 1 Momentum.

Coop, hitting with a ranged weapon is always Difficulty 2, so you hit and generate 1 Momentum. Then you need to roll effect dice. You get 3d6 for the phaser and 3d6 for your Security Discipline. You can spend that Momentum, or other Momentum, on Penetrating (ignore 2 resistance per Momentum spend), or on extra damage (1 damage per Momentum) or spend 1 to reroll as many of the damage dice as you want.

Current Momentum 6 Threat 11.

Fair enough, shoot, I was trying to get beamed over to help to get Xin involved anyways, I figured Coop and Nettlox could probably take care of one primitive robot on their own :)

I'm gonna spend the momentum on Penetrating. It's a robot, so it might be more armored than my inevitably-going-to-be-kirk-ripped shirt.

Damage: 6d6 ⇒ (2, 3, 1, 5, 3, 6) = 20

So Coop does 5 Stress damage. 2=2, 1=1, 5=1, 6=1. The robot has 1 Resistance, but you ignore it. Because you do 5 or more damage, the robot suffers an injury. I'm going to spend Threat (you guys can spend Momentum) to avoid an injury. An injury would take my robot out of the fight, and where is the fun in that. Even though I avoid the injury, I still take the Stress. This costs 2 Threat.

Momentum 5, Threat 9

I'll wait for Xin-Yalix to take on that transporter Task.

Moving quickly to the transporter room, Xin mutters to himself. "I swear. We're either going to become the most celebrated ship in the Federation, or the most cursed."

I am going to spend a point of momentum and determination.

2d20 ⇒ (11, 20) = 31
1 Dice from Momentum, 1d20 ⇒ 19
One results of 1 from Determination.

Moving quickly to the transporter room, Xin mutters to himself. "I swear. We're either going to become the most celebrated ship in the Federation, or the most cursed."

I am going to spend a point of momentum and determination.

2d20 ⇒ (17, 2) = 19
1 Dice from Momentum, 1d20 ⇒ 14
One results of 1 from Determination.

Is this a Control+Conn roll? If it is that is 4 successes. I think.

Captain, Doctor, and Security Officer vanish from the habitat and materialize in the umbilical leading into the Reactor Module, the umbilical that does not contain a murderous robot.

Around the corner, in the reactor room, the robot continues its assault, "Intruuders-Eliminate" spraying bullets at T'Venek. The dark haired Vulcan engineer drops under the hail of bullets, her green blood pooling freezing as it flows onto the frosty decking.

More than 5 stress, so she is injured and can take no more actions in the scene.

Control+Security Difficulty 2: 2d20 ⇒ (9, 1) = 10 [ooc]Three Successes. Use the Momentum to Reroll Challenge Dice.

Challenge Dice Damage: 4d6 ⇒ (3, 2, 3, 2) = 10

Reroll 3s: 2d6 ⇒ (4, 2) = 6

Intense, Vicious, Debilitating: Medicine Tasks to perform First Aid on characters injured by this weapon, or to heal Injuries caused by this weapon, increase in Difficulty by one.

The Captain's tools of self-defense were already drawn before she was beamed and as she sees one of her crewwomen get gunned down by the robot, she takes command, "Dr. K'rist, patch up Tvenek. Sobek, open fire."

She opens fire with her phaser on the robot, using one momentum 3d20 ⇒ (1, 7, 8) = 16 4 successes creating two momentum using one for penetrating and the other for a damage die 6d6 ⇒ (5, 5, 1, 4, 4, 2) = 21

Reroll 4s 2d6 ⇒ (3, 5) = 8 if I can

That is 6 Stress from Tharhat's attack, which causes an injury, and reduces the robot to 0 Stress, which causes an injury. The robot is incapacitated.

Tharhat connects with the center mass of the tank-like robot. Its servos sag as its power fails, and servos make a whirring sound as its machine gun lowers to the floor. The laser sight flickers and dies.

Sobek looks at the Captain appraisingly, "Excellent shot, Captain. Please stay behind me as I determine whether the device is neutralized."

He moves toward it, careful not to touch the metal with his bare hands.

The character attempts to stabilize an Injured character within Reach. This is a Daring + Medicine Task with a Difficulty of 1 (2 because of the Debilitating quality of the weapon); success means that the injured character is stabilized and will not die at the end of the scene, but they remain incapacitated. The character may spend 2 Momentum from this to get the patient back into the fighting right away, exactly as if they’d spent Determination to ignore the Injury. This will keep T'Venek from dying. If you stabilize her, she can be transported to the ship and treated off screen.

Momentum 5 Threat 9

She says, "Experience over youth Mr. Sobek." and then turns to Dr. K'rist and says, "Can you save her? Tell me if you need a second set of hands."

K'Rist drops to one knee and begins working to stabilize T'Venek, ignoring the chaos around her. Using Emergency Medicine Focus and a dice of Momentum. She starts CPR and administers 10 ccs of adrenaline.

Daring+Medicine (13): 3d20 ⇒ (11, 14, 3) = 28

Looks like two successes, plus an extra for the Focus.

The Captain sees that Dr. K'rist has stabilized T'Venek and she says, "Great work Doc."

She then flips open her communicator and says, "Mr. Xin, beam T'venek up to the Amity for further treatment in sickbay."

She then turns to the crew and says, "We shan't split for now, let's make sure the power is back on before we go anywhere else."

The new Chief Engineer returns from behind his cover - his face slowly resetting from its expanded state.
As he hurries to the side of the wounded Vulcan, he offers his thanks to the Captain.
"Thank you Captain, that was a most timely intervention."
But once he reaches T'Venek, the ships medic has already rushed to her side and is stabilizing her.
He lays a hand on his fellow Engineer's shoulder and whispers:
"Everything will be fine T'Venek. Take your time to rest up. I don't want to see you anywhere near the engine room for five days - that's an order."

As the Vulcan engineer is being beamed back to the Amity, the Captain posts the everybody in the module except for the engineers in a defensive posture, if the case another antiquated robot shows up.

Command + COntrol 2d20 ⇒ (10, 2) = 12

Do they need rolls to install the batteries?

T'Venek remains stoic as the shimmer of the transporter takes her back to the safety of the Amity. "Transport complete, Captain, we'll take care of her" comes the report from Sickbay.

The away team deploys to guard the three entrances to the reactor (two umbilicals and the ladder that leads up to the Control Module.

Two Tasks remain. Install Replacements: This is a Control + Engineering Task, with a Difficulty of 1. Then Bypass Damaged Circuits: Couple the 203-R consoles to the GNDN relays to bypass the damaged circuits. This is a Daring + Engineering Task with a Difficulty of 2.

The Captain clips her phaser to her belt and says, "Mr. Nettlox, these blue hands are ready to get dirty."

Assist 1 (11)1d20 ⇒ 12

Assist 2 (13) 1d20 ⇒ 4

"Right, you are Captain, let's wake this old slumbering beast.
First things first, those 203-R's must click in right here -
Ahh, Captain, careful-careful, those old broadband interconnectors are a bit less robust than the newer fiber relays, they don't link getting squeezed or bended."
Control+Eng=15: 2d10 ⇒ (4, 6) = 10
Not sure whether power system focus applies here, if so that's another success.
So with difficulty 1, that's either 1 or 2 Momentum stored.
"Good, good. Looks like new, right?
So, now to the difficult part...
Bypassing those burned out circuits.
How come other Engineers do fit fall-back circuits to such important systems so rarely - I'll never know."
Daring+Eng=12: 2d10 ⇒ (2, 3) = 5
Whoop, my dice are on fire!
This time the focus is more likely to apply I guess?
That's another one or three momentum generated.
"That's it. We'll use the power supply and modulate the control sequences on top and transmit them along the primary energy flow through the system.
And ... done.
Captain, I'll grant you the honor to start the restart sequence."

Momentum: 7(10) Threat: 9

I think the max we are allowed to store is 6. With my assist on the second task, that should be in full. I guess you could ask some questions to burn some of the momentum.

The Captain smiles as she flicks the switch and says, "Hopefully, some of you thinner blooded species will be better able to function in a short period of time."

Guarding the ladder to the command module, Coop takes a moment to adjust his tricorder. The robot was a rudimentary technology, somewhat out of what he would normally see in a federation facility. But those idiosyncrasies might make for something he could get a reading on. And better that than have other nasty surprises show their head.

(Using Reason/Science to scan is not really Coop's specialty, but better than messing up the engineer work)

Reason/Science (9): 2d20 ⇒ (5, 3) = 8

As he begins to get a handle on whether his adjustments would have registered the Robot, he taps on the communicator at his wrist. "Amity, this is Coop. I'm working on getting preliminary readings on the module's defenses. Do me a favor and use my readings for a general sweep."

"Hopefully, some of you thinner blooded species will be better able to function in a short period of time."

"Sorry, Captain. Ferasa is a comfortable 27 degrees."

The Captain says, "That is a relative statement if I have ever heard one. Ok, let's go to the command module to turn everything on."

She then heads up the ladder with her Ushaan in her teeth ready for action.
Unless we need to go somewhere else to turn everything on.

You can power things up from here.

Focuses are descriptive and broad. I'd say all of this is Power Systems related.

Coop finds that the robot is definitely primitive. Your scans do a fine job of detecting it now. It must have moved in quickly while you were distracted.

Life-support systems come on as warm air begins circulating through the vents. Lights and computer consoles flicker to life. Jannick Stoltz appears on every monitor. Disheveled and sleep-deprived, he grips the edges of the computer terminal. ‘They’re all dead.’ He glances over his shoulder. ‘What was that?’ The screen goes to static. The recording starts again. Com panels hum and indecipherable voices begin whispering over the open channel. A hiss of air echoes down the corridor as air pours from a door out of view.

The Captain says, "Can we squeeze any more information out of the computers to see what had happened? After doing that I suggest we go back to the living module to best ascertain the status of the personnel. Is Mr. Stoltz still alive? I doubt it but there may be some hope."

The transmission was being broadcast from the control center. More answers might be found there.

As if information has fallen to her from the ether, she says, "Let's go to the Control Center." as she guides the group in that direction.

Nettlox moves in front of one of the ventilation outlets and hols his gloved hands in front of the warm air stream.
"Ahh, much better.
It's getting warmer.
The engines are humming.
The computer is processing.
That's how I like it.
Anyone got a Raktajino?"

Considering this is TOS era

The captain pivots on the heel of her boot and turns to face Mr. Nettlox and says, "You have been friendly enough with Klingons where you actually tried one of their beverages. Macabre."

"You were received Commander, beginning general sweep now."

Reason+Science (17): 2d20 ⇒ (18, 16) = 34
Amity: 1d20 ⇒ 11

Xin-Yalix doesn't find anything that looks like more robots or other threats in the facility. But the sensors aren't penetrating into the seed vault.

At the top of the ladder from the reactor module to control, there is a door that opens side to side (it splits in half and retracts, then you come out through the floor. Hard to explain for some reason.)

The doors are partially open but not wide enough for someone to squeeze through. A wall panel to the left of the door has been blasted open with a
phaser. It contains a mechanism meant to crank open the doors in the event of a power failure, but the mechanism is broken.

Forcing the doors open is a Fitness+Security Task Difficulty 2.

Momentum 6, Threat 9

Without missing a beat, Coop stows his phaser and reaches out to pull the door open.

Fitness + Security (13): 2d20 ⇒ (12, 17) = 29

After a bit of strain he looks to the others for some assistance.

"Sobek?"

The Captain as always, leading from the front tries to muscle the door open.

"Don't worry, I got this."

2d20 ⇒ (2, 1) = 3

Coop gives a small nod of his head that is almost a bow to the captain.

"Thanks, Cap'n."

The frozen body of archaeologist, Jannick Stoltz, sits at a terminal with a power cable coiled around his neck. His stiff arms reach for the cable in a desperate bid to save himself. The expression on his face – a look of horror – captures his last agonizing moments. A patch of shaved hair on the back of his head reveals a treated wound, suggesting the doctor suffered from a recent head injury.

(heh, oops, currently re-watching ds7, so this kinda slipped through.)
"Oh yeah, my people had dealings with the Klingons in the past and not everything in their cuisine is horribly and alive.
It's like... Terran coffee... But...
Stronger. It keeps you sharp and warm for an entire shift if need be and it has a quite unique taste.
Let's hope they will grow out of their militaristic mindset soon, so they can join us and we can get trade going."

*** Later ***
As the door snaps open, Nettlox seems a bit startled and on the verge of rushing forward to help before recognizing the futility of such an gesture.
Vs 13: 2d20 ⇒ (16, 10) = 26
"This is not good.
I was still hoping to find all of them in a cryo chamber, where they fled from a engine problem into deep sleep until help arrives...
Hey, what is this...
That is no wound.
Doc correct me if I am mistaken but this looks like surgery.
As if...
As if some kind of implant was removed from the brain..."

Insight + Medicine (16): 2d20 ⇒ (9, 7) = 16

K'Rist runs her Feinberger over the corpse, trying to determine the cause of death. "Captain," she says with some curiosity, "Dr. Stoltz had an implant. Look here, this area of shaved scalp. Someone or something removed it, but there was definitely something there. I can't tell more without knowing what the device was."

The captain says, "We need to scour the databanks of this console and hopefully information on the implant might be on the computer."

What roll would that be?

She then pauses and says, "Or shall we go onto one of the other modules?"

"We could check out the seed vault, since the scans were unable to penetrate it.
On the other hand, this might be the source of all the stations problems - somehow.
And disturbing it might cause us problems too.
Might be better to just learn all we can from all the other modules..."

The Captain's left antenna twists mildly and she says, "I think our best bet is to be thorough."

She flips open her communicator and says, "Mr. Xin, this is Tharhat, it is confirmed that all of the scientists are dead. I would like you to relay that information to Starfleet and request further orders. In the interim, the Away Team and I will continue to explore this facility and see if we can ascertain what exactly was behind the deaths and if possible make it habitable for a replacement team of scientists."

She turns back to Nettlox or Sobek and says, "Would either of you like to scour the terminal for information?"

Assist 1d20 ⇒ 10