Across the Scoured Stars (Inactive)

Game Master Cwethan

Urmferumah does another quick calculation--trying to predict how the chaingun will handle as they accelerate--and takes another shot at The Hedgehog.

Chaingun: 1d20 + 3 - 3 ⇒ (18) + 3 - 3 = 18 +2 if successfully Aided?

Let's see!

Aid: 1d20 + 2 - 3 ⇒ (3) + 2 - 3 = 2

... Uh... nope.

I'm just going to close my eyes and pull the trigger next time.

"Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeehaw!" Acoria roars as she continues to push the junkracer's engine into the red.

Piloting: 1d20 + 4 + 6 ⇒ (7) + 4 + 6 = 17

Simar stays fixated on whoever's in the lead, clearing her mind as she tries to overcome Orsis's instincts.

Rail Rifle: 1d20 + 4 - 3 ⇒ (6) + 4 - 3 = 7

But what amounts to a sniper rifle firing from the back of an under-fire junkracer needs a bit more than instinct...

Ratrod's Cryospray blast isn't sustained enough to damage the Loreseeker, but the icy terrain it leaves forces Acoria to cut speed to avoid spinning out entirely!

Velocity manages to tag Orsis, though he keeps jetting along nonetheless, and Ratrod too manages to steer through a punishing blow from Velocity's macrocannon

Acoria manages to keep the Loreseeker ahead of Ratrod

Ratrod - Cryospray: 1d20 + 8 - 3 - 2 ⇒ (19) + 8 - 3 - 2 = 22 At Laboni -4
Nyizin - Scraplauncher: 1d20 + 8 - 3 ⇒ (3) + 8 - 3 = 8 At Orsis
Orsis - No Gun
Velocity - Pulse Laser: 1d20 + 7 - 3 ⇒ (15) + 7 - 3 = 19At Orsis -4
Velocity - Macrocannon: 1d20 + 7 - 3 ⇒ (13) + 7 - 3 = 17At Ratrod -6
Velocity - Micromunitions: 1d20 + 7 - 3 ⇒ (6) + 7 - 3 = 10 At Ratrod

Ratrod Piloting: 1d20 + 8 + 2 - 2 - 6 ⇒ (19) + 8 + 2 - 2 - 6 = 21
Nyizin Piloting: 1d20 + 4 + 2 ⇒ (4) + 4 + 2 = 10
Orsis Piloting: 1d20 + 6 + 4 - 4 ⇒ (12) + 6 + 4 - 4 = 18
Velocity Piloting: 1d20 + 10 + 2 ⇒ (12) + 10 + 2 = 24

***

Simar: 1d20 + 4 - 3 ⇒ (14) + 4 - 3 = 15 At Orsis, possibly pending aid...

Piloting: 1d20 + 6 + 4 ⇒ (18) + 6 + 4 = 28

Doc Newblossom tries again to pierce Ratrod's defenses, but still finds themself having difficulty adjusting to the speed and odd angles.

chain gun: 1d20 + 3 - 3 ⇒ (13) + 3 - 3 = 13

Voooxxy?

Voxy's still asleep. Somehow I thought I posted. Anywho...

Yvox shakes his head in frustration at his ineffective gun fire. He again tries to assist Doc's gunnery.

Assist: 1d20 + 2 - 3 ⇒ (18) + 2 - 3 = 17

Figured she might have woken up by now ;-)

Acoria bursts through a gout of Ratrod's Cryospray, carefully waiting until the last moment to steer away from the oncoming divider, maintaining speed and avoiding the deadly frost!

Orsis's telepathic defenses are finally overwhelmed under a hail of fire, and Nyizin and Velocity send him smashing into the wall, only to be overtaken by the Loreseeker as Acoria and Laboni take the lead!

Still the pack is closely behind her and Nyizin's necromantic dragonkin vehicle is roaring to greater and greater speeds!

Ratrod - Cryospray: 1d20 + 8 - 3 - 2 ⇒ (18) + 8 - 3 - 2 = 21 At Laboni -4
Nyizin - Scraplauncher: 1d20 + 8 - 3 ⇒ (12) + 8 - 3 = 17 At Orsis -4
Orsis - No Gun
Velocity - Pulse Laser: 1d20 + 7 - 3 ⇒ (9) + 7 - 3 = 13At Orsis -4
Velocity - Macrocannon: 1d20 + 7 - 3 ⇒ (8) + 7 - 3 = 12At Ratrod
Velocity - Micromunitions: 1d20 + 7 - 3 ⇒ (14) + 7 - 3 = 18 At Ratrod -4

Ratrod Piloting: 1d20 + 8 + 2 - 2 - 4 - 4 ⇒ (15) + 8 + 2 - 2 - 4 - 4 = 15
Nyizin Piloting: 1d20 + 4 + 2 ⇒ (19) + 4 + 2 = 25
Orsis Piloting: 1d20 + 6 + 4 - 4 - 4 ⇒ (4) + 6 + 4 - 4 - 4 = 6
Velocity Piloting: 1d20 + 10 + 2 ⇒ (16) + 10 + 2 = 28

***

Simar: 1d20 + 4 - 3 ⇒ (15) + 4 - 3 = 16 At Orsis once more

Simar tries to protect Acoria's fragile lead by slamming a high velocity round right off of Orsis's engine block!

Acoria tries to open up the lead.

Piloting: 1d20 + 4 + 6 ⇒ (15) + 4 + 6 = 25

"You're doin' it, Acoria!" The tiny raxilite bounces with excitement. (Sadly, bouncing doesn't really help their aim.)

Gun: 1d20 + 3 - 3 ⇒ (12) + 3 - 3 = 12

"Keep going!" Yxov exhorts. Inwardly, he can't believe he's encouraging her.

Meanwhile, he fires the energy cannon to help the tiny plant.

Aid: 1d20 + 2 - 3 ⇒ (16) + 2 - 3 = 15

Acoria's daring driving makes the difference as she opens up a commanding lead! Orsis and Ratrod are tangled up in a nasty scrum as Velocity chugs along in second place. But hot on their heels is the raw elemental power of Nyizin as she drops all pretense of driving remotely safely in favor of speed, speed, speed!!!

Ratrod - Cryospray: 1d20 + 8 - 3 - 2 ⇒ (12) + 8 - 3 - 2 = 15 At Laboni -4
Nyizin - Scraplauncher: 1d20 + 8 - 3 ⇒ (1) + 8 - 3 = 6At Laboni -4
Orsis - No Gun
Velocity - Pulse Laser: 1d20 + 7 - 3 ⇒ (12) + 7 - 3 = 16At Orsis -4
Velocity - Macrocannon: 1d20 + 7 - 3 ⇒ (8) + 7 - 3 = 12At Ratrod
Velocity - Micromunitions: 1d20 + 7 - 3 ⇒ (15) + 7 - 3 = 19At Ratrod -4

Ratrod Piloting: 1d20 + 8 + 2 - 2 - 4 - 4 ⇒ (9) + 8 + 2 - 2 - 4 - 4 = 9
Nyizin Piloting: 1d20 + 4 + 2 ⇒ (8) + 4 + 2 = 14
Orsis Piloting: 1d20 + 6 + 4 - 4 - 4 ⇒ (3) + 6 + 4 - 4 - 4 = 5
Velocity Piloting: 1d20 + 10 + 2 ⇒ (5) + 10 + 2 = 17

***

Simar: 1d20 + 4 - 3 ⇒ (16) + 4 - 3 = 17At Nyizin

Simar's eyes flicker between the trailing racers. "Keep it nice and steady Acoria, we've got too much of a lead for them to catch up as long as you don't crash and burn..." Her lips thin into a determined line as she recalculates Nyizin's speed. "...And as long as we make sure that she can't keep that up..."

"All right! Let's keep them from catching up!" Yxov shouts while spamming the laser button.

Ranged (assist): 1d20 + 2 - 3 ⇒ (12) + 2 - 3 = 11

Seeing that Ratrod isn't going to catch up, Urfehrumah takes a shot at Nyizin.

Chaingun+aid vs Nyizin: 1d20 + 3 - 3 + 2 ⇒ (7) + 3 - 3 + 2 = 9

"Bwahahahahahhahahahahaha!" Acoria roars gleefully.

Piloting: 1d20 + 4 + 6 ⇒ (11) + 4 + 6 = 21

Ratrod - Cryospray: 1d20 + 8 - 3 - 2 ⇒ (5) + 8 - 3 - 2 = 8 At Laboni
Nyizin - Scraplauncher: 1d20 + 8 - 3 ⇒ (10) + 8 - 3 = 15 At Laboni -4
Orsis - No Gun
Velocity - Pulse Laser: 1d20 + 7 - 3 ⇒ (7) + 7 - 3 = 11At Orsis -4
Velocity - Macrocannon: 1d20 + 7 - 3 ⇒ (7) + 7 - 3 = 11At Nyizin -6
Velocity - Micromunitions: 1d20 + 7 - 3 ⇒ (19) + 7 - 3 = 23 At Ratrod -4

Ratrod Piloting: 1d20 + 8 + 2 - 2 - 4 ⇒ (6) + 8 + 2 - 2 - 4 = 10
Nyizin Piloting: 1d20 + 4 + 2 - 4 - 6 ⇒ (11) + 4 + 2 - 4 - 6 = 7
Orsis Piloting: 1d20 + 6 + 4 - 4 ⇒ (10) + 6 + 4 - 4 = 16
Velocity Piloting: 1d20 + 10 + 2 ⇒ (18) + 10 + 2 = 30

Acoria guns the engine and flashes across the finish line! Velocity trails narrowly behind, with weapons roaring in defiance they casually smash back everyone who hadn't allied with the Starfinders!

The crows goes nuts as Laboni's ID-placard flashes across the vidscreens and she flings herself out of the Loreseeker! The tails of her labcoat flap behind her as she piles into you all with big hugs which Simar mostly ducks, finally finishing by practically climbing on Acoria! "You guys did it!!"

Acoria puts on her sun goggles, feeling extra cool. "Of course we did. We're the Starfinders!"

Laboni nods eagerly. "So winning a race means I can always qualify for more! Do you think I should?!"

Simar's face is a study in blankness. "Do as you will, I'll leave your tab open."

"Well like... I'd learn how to drive first...
Oh! Prizes!"

A pack of ysoki from the Salvage Union approach with a credstick and a medal, which she gratefully accepts. "Hey uh... do you know where Ratrod is?" She turns back to you all and asks in a low voice "Do you think I should.. apologize? Or rub it in more? Or..?"

Can just push past Laboni if desired :-)

Doc Newblossom doesn't understand the situation enough to have an opinion on what Laboni should do, but...

Doc Newblossom pays little attention to Laboni, instead wondering aloud:

"That turned out to be a fun little project. It's interesting to discover that transmodulating the quantum capacitor together with a cross-modulated tweak to the gravitometric disperser could boost the engines like that...but it was clearly just a short term effect. I wonder, is there a way it could be stabilized...?"

Yxov looks nervous at the prospect of confronting Ratrod again. He had just before the race tried to manipulate the racer into putting too much pressure on himself. He didn't want to be near if the Ysoki wanted to throw blame around. "I don't know. You started this mess. What would you do if Ratrod challenges you to another? Before you learn to drive?"

"Look, take the win, Laboni. Learning to 'drive' is incredibly difficult, only the most skilled pilots would have a chance in this competition. We won't always be here to settle scores for you." Acoria says, making sure everyone knows how awesome she is. "Anyway, we have more missions to complete. We need to get going. Hey, where did Carter go?"

Acoria looks around for the engineer, but it appears he is nowhere to be seen. "Hmm. Must have something else to do. Maybe Starfinding wasn't for him...."

Yxov claps his hands together. "Yes, well, race or don't race tomorrow, at least we can savor this victory together today. And then... get some rest? This has been one crazy day."

Did this game die?