Outpost III: GM Kate's Forbidden Tides (Inactive)

Game Master Kate Baker

Hey, folks! This is the discussion thread for SFS 2-18: Forbidden Tides for Outpost III! I'll get slides up soon, but please chime in and introduce your character!

If it affects anyone's decision, there are special things for PCs who played 1-08: Sanctuary of Drowned Delight and for characters who are morlamaws.

I am here. My character that played that game has outlevelled this scenario.

Hello all! Bluuuuu checking in (and returning to Arniselle, as he did enter the Sanctuary of Drowned Delight).

Excellent! I will strongly suggest that you (or someone else) slot the Suulhu-Huur's Respect boon. There is no additional benefit to multiple people slotting it, so you can decide among yourselves, if people have competing boons for the Ally slot.

Also, there are now some slides! Please add your PC's name and icon to the first slide, and fill out your Perception and Initiative modifiers on the second slide.

The slides are set to view only.

Sorry about that! Is it working now?

Nope, slides are titled Forbidden Tides (player facing) but are still view only.

All right, it should be working this time for reals.

Yes, working now.

Able to edit fine here too!

I SoDD that if nobody else wants to slot the boon.

Normal boon slots:
Ally: Dream Whispers (+2 to a roll 1/scenario) (but happy to change out)
Personal: Scoured Stars Survivor (reduce RP to stabilise by 1)
Promotional: tshirt (reroll)
Social: Contractors respect! (Vesk Overplate II)
Starship: not required?
Various slotless and unidentified boons.

Also purchasing
a targetting computer (might be helpful in murky underwater places) and
a black forcefield.

Tentative Boon selection:

Ally: Suulhu-Huur's Respect :)
Personal: Alien Archive Admittance
Social: Discrete Vendor Sense
Faction Acquisitive Champion

My provisional boon choices are on my profile. I may alter them after the briefing.

I just poked the folks who haven't checked in yet, and then I'll start the briefing!

Sorry for the delay! Distance learning plus quarantine got my schedule turned around.

Player Name: Chris Wasko
Character Name: "Dusty" Rhodes
Character Number: 125136-705
Faction: Second Seekers (Jadnura)
Day Job Roll: Corporate Professional: 1d20 + 21 ⇒ (11) + 21 = 32

Anticipated Boon Selection:
Ally: Dream Whispers (or Cedona, if needed)
Faction: Second Seekers (Jadnura) Champion
Personal: Halfling Admittance (ability boost)
Promotional: Promotional Reroll (V-L polo)
Starship (if needed): Tip of the Spear
Social: United Society
Slotless: several; noteworthy—Team Spirit

Waiting for briefing before deciding purchases, if possible.

Player Name: Doug Edwards
Character Name: Vash "Wheeler" Norveg
Character Number: 133118-701
Faction: Acquisitives
Day Job Roll: Corporate Professional: 1d20 + 16 ⇒ (17) + 16 = 33

Likely Boons Slotted:

Ally: Field Trainee (+3 to skills, +5 to attacks, 1 RP to use a 2nd+time)
Faction: Acquisitives Champion
Personal: Devolved (Avian)
Promotional: Reroll (VL Polo)
Social: United Society
Slotless: Various - I have in fact played 1-08 on this character

I have no excuse its just been a weird month haha.

No worries, it totally has. I know it's taking me a while to figure out my PBP rhythm right now.

Now is the time to finalize boons!

Player Name: AndrewW
Character Name: Atticus Finch
Character Number: 44523=702
Faction: Acquisitives
Day Job Roll: Corporate Professiona: 1d20 + 16 ⇒ (11) + 16 = 27
54 credits times 3 for Known Quality for 162 credits totla. I'm rich!

Boons Slotted
Slotless
Starfinder Insignia
Journey to the Stars 2
Journey to the Scoured Stars
Journey to the Scoured Stars 6
Explorers Perseverance

Faction
Improved Aquisitives

Ally
Duskmire Yeti

Promotional
Tshirt reroll

Social
Known quality

Confirming:

Ally: Suulhu-Huur's Respect
Personal: Alien Archive Admittance
Social: Discrete Vendor Sense
Faction Acquisitive Champion

Also, to get out of the way:
Profession Solider Day Job: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (16) + 5 = 21

Normal boon slots:
Ally: Dream Whispers (+2 to a roll 1/scenario)
Personal: Scoured Stars Survivor (reduce RP to stabilise by 1)
Promotional: tshirt (reroll)
Social: Contractors respect! (Vesk Overplate II)
Starship: not required?
Various slotless and unidentified boons.

Also purchasing
a targetting computer (might be helpful in murky underwater places) and
a black forcefield.
Hydrofins

day job bounty hunter: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (18) + 10 = 28

With no mystics aboard, Dusty will swap Dream Whispers for Cedona. Otherwise boons will remain the same.

I'll lock in my earlier choice.

Finally, Mu got updated!

Player Hmm
Character Magical Mu
OPF # 820-704
Faction: Acquisitives
Profession Gladiator, Professional Tools & Clothes: 1d20 + 20 + 5 ⇒ (19) + 20 + 5 = 44

^ This is momentous. It's the first time Mu's been able to earn a dayjob paycheck, since she has had to rebuild a mining community and graduate from the U of Q. It's time to put some money in number one, baby!

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Boons Slotted this Adventure
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Ally: Alien Associates (Mu's Fight Club)
Faction: Acquisitives
Personal: Nuar Race Boon
Promotional: T-Shirt Reroll
Social: Enemy of the Devourer
Starship:
Slotless: Qabarat University Admittance

Hey, I forgot to respond to something earlier! There is a check later on in the adventure to find out more about the Eternal Source, and I think it will be more fun if we wait until that point.

That sounds fine to me, GM!

Does anyone have any special senses?

Just darkvision.

Same: only darkvision here

Darkvision!

actually only low light vision here.

But armor normally has torches built in doesn't it?

Darkvision and ironically I didnt buy the armor upgrade that grants blindsense (sound) because I saw I was gonna need my hydrojets!

Y'all have good Perception anyway! Someone in my last group had blindsense (electricity), and I realized I needed to start asking for stuff like that!

Oh my gosh. What available race has blindsense (electricity)? I keep hoping there'll be a dirindi boon somewhere. IS THERE A DIRINDI BOON?

The PC was an android, but I didn't ask how the player got blindsense (electricity).

Was it an online game?

VTT

Little peek behind the curtain: I actually don't really like traps like this that go off and do damage and then you just heal up and continue on because I don't think that they're narratively interesting, but it just felt like what Datch would have done here.

Me too. I get that traps are supposed to be resource dumps, but if there's no time crunch then traps like these don't matter so much. I try to make my traps have some kind of long term effect or be part of another encounter so that they actually put stress on the PCs. Sometimes the story just calls for a stick in the eye, though. Datch certainly fits that bill.

I was wondering about the same thing with a 2 minutes sickened condition. Seemed almost irrelevant. But it was a nice lead-in to the save.

I'll be waiting ten minutes with Dusty to restore that stamina!

Same here.

The doodle Will save is a bit of foreshadowing for later on. As you say, it doesn't really mechanically affect anything.

Atticus can take 10 on his trick attack stealth roll for 34, I am going to assume the scenario has no CR15+ creatures in it...

I can finally say that I giggled a whole lot when I read this.

EEEEEEEK!

Wheeler ain't nobody's fool.

We are near the end! Dang, y'all are fast. It looks like everyone rolled a day job, but I think I need PFS numbers for Bluuuu and Compucast. Also, please let me know if there's anything special that should go on your chronicle sheet, like the Dataphiles Digital Presence bonus reputation/fame.

Sorry about that! Bluuuuu's PFS # is 127063-703 (the name may pop up as Krara Ne'Korum: that's due to me misnaming the -703 character alias and not noticing until after I had posted 10 times)

Sorry about that. Compucast is 100387-703

Hey Bluuuu! Yeah, Mu's speed is freaky. I spent a lot of time building it up between Nuar, Blitz Soldier and Speed enhancements, and going for armor that didn't impede her movement. It's served me really well as a specialization experiment.