[SFS/Shifty] #2-23 The Edge of Cadascon (B) (Inactive)

Game Master Nik B.

Hi all!

I'm keen for us all to try to post regularly (aim for once or more per weekday and, at least once on weekends). Whilst adventures can be caught in 'conversation loops' back and forth, I will endeavour to keep things kicking along and get the gist of where a conversation is going and keep us pointed in the right direction.

Work, study, and wild parties in Mexico have a way of getting in the way sometimes and if that is likely please leave a post in advance if you know that you may have limited time/ability to post for a period of time (and when we can expect you back).

On that note, I am posting from Sydney, Australia. Most of you will be posting when I am asleep so when I get up around 0500 odd I usually do the catch up over a coffee, and then usually in the afternoon/evening each day.

I will generally roll Initiative (and any other rolls if really required), but not to shaft anyone or railroad them, more in the interest of giving you some sort of outcome to then respond to - I aim to complete a single round of combat within 24 hours.

When in combat, unless a PC has left botting instructions or made arrangement for another player to bot them, I will place any PC that has not posted within the past 24 hours (48 hours on a weekend) on delay.

If a single skill check has been called for, I will accept the PC with the highest skill bonus as the "primary" and all other attempts by PCs for the same check as aiding another.

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Please provide the following for your PC:

Name:
Character Name:
SFS ID and character number:
Your email: (for Online Support Program)
Faction:
Day job Roll:
Boons (Happy for this to occur after the briefing)

Name: Chris Marsh
Character Name: Conrad
SFS ID and character number: 1824-701
Your email: shihanmarsh@gmail.com
Faction: Wayfinders
Day job Roll: Bartender: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (8) + 12 = 20
Boons: TBD

When will we get started? That will factor into which character I play.

I'm waiting on the scenario to drop, but a couple of days at least.

We have your group (and a couple of others) almost at the end of their current scenario.

Name: EbonFist
Character Name: Azara Thenason
SFS ID and character number:143948-715
Your email: (for Online Support Program)james@blackguardpress.com
Faction: Wayfinders
Day job Roll: Poet: 1d20 + 13 ⇒ (7) + 13 = 20
Boons

Ally: Champion of the Downtrodden (Engineering, Perception, Physical Science)
Slotless: Private Vault
Social: Honorary Spider - Sense Motive (unless this occurs in Near Space, then Universal Explorer)
Starship: Heavy Solar Cannon Upgrade

Based on party comp, looks like my mechanic is the better option. Will update his profile and post ASAP!

Name: Keith (phaeton_nz)
Character Name: Lunatricsie Raia (aka TGAP Tricsie)
SFS ID and character number: 124312-704
Your email: (for Online Support Program) phaetonnz@gmail.com
Faction: Dataphiles
Day job Roll: Stage Magician: 1d20 + 11 + 5 ⇒ (15) + 11 + 5 = 31

I'm posting from New Zealand so we're only a few timezones apart.

I decided to go with Tchisk, ysoki technomancer

Name: Dax Thura
Character Name: Tchisk (Eegar the Dark of the Abyss Dragons gladiator team)
SFS ID and character number: 33973-703
Your email: (for Online Support Program) Dax.Thura@Gmail.com
Faction: Dataphiles
Day job Roll: Profession Mercenary: 1d20 + 8 + 1 ⇒ (7) + 8 + 1 = 16

Thanks for the check-ins!

The scenario has dropped and I will be having a bedtime read. Work has thrown me a last-minute workload that I have to crash through (I'm deployed on the Australian response to C19), so I expect to kick off in 48 hours.

Thanks for the check-ins!

The scenario has dropped and I will be having a bedtime read. Work has thrown me a last-minute workload that I have to crash through (I'm deployed on the Australian response to C19), so I expect to kick off in 48 hours.

The fire and now C19? Are you secret a super hero?

Be safe and be careful.

The fire and now C19? Are you secret a super hero?

Be safe and be careful.

I spent October - March on fires. We sent the last trucks and equipment out the gate late on a friday afternoon and went home for the weekend to celebrate. I was halfway through a celebratory bottle of Rum on the saturday evening when we got the call to be back in the following morning at 0 dark hundred to begin mounting for the response to Covid. You also missed the part where the Australian fires went out because we got floods - I kid you not.

Name: Scottybobotti
Character Name: Mr. Bison
SFS ID and character number: 291458-704
Your email: scottybobotti@gmail.com
Faction: Second Seekers (LE}
Day job Roll: Mr. Bison Day Job (Gladiator): 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (15) + 14 = 29
Boons: Faction: Second Seekers (LE), Ally: Preservation of AA-1260, Starship: Rugged Hull, Socia:l AbadarCorp Augmentations, Slotless: For the Future First, Team Spirit

The tagline for Mr. Bison and Zangief is updated, but the rest of his character sheet on Paizo.com is not. However, I put a link to his full sheet in the tagline if that's OK.

Irony is less funny when it's a disaster, Shifty.

And I always forget boons! Need to add these 2 -

Faction: Wayfinder Champion, Improved.
Personal: Nufriend Skittermander.

Would anyone be interested in using the critical hit deck for this game? I've had the cards for over a year and never used them. Of course it up to Shifty to make the final decision and I'm fine with whatever Shifty is comfortable with, but I just wanted to throw it out there.

Tricsie

Character Sheet

Name: GM Skeemo
Character Name: Daata
SFS ID and character number: 125136-703
Your email: PM if necessary
Faction: Dataphiles
Day job Roll: Profession (electrician): 1d20 + 13 ⇒ (20) + 13 = 33
Boons:
- Ally: Elite Hireling Access (Set 2)
- Faction: Dataphiles Champion
- Personal: Khizar Admittance (check box and pay at end)
- Promotional: Promotional Reroll (V-L polo)
- Social: Faction's Friend
- Starship: Solar Powered Weapon System (if applicable)

Would anyone be interested in using the critical hit deck for this game? I've had the cards for over a year and never used them. Of course it up to Shifty to make the final decision and I'm fine with whatever Shifty is comfortable with, but I just wanted to throw it out there.

Hi mate! Thought I responded - not sure they are SFS legal, and so would opt out as I have been on a roll of late and don't want to ace a character with some streaky luck, it was brutal in the last scenario (Illegal Shipment)

You too? Was this during Paizocon?

Nah it was the Illegal shipment PbP, I missed PaizoCon as my workload has been pretty cray-cray with the Corona business. PC didn't have PbP sadly!

Mr. Bison wrote:

Would anyone be interested in using the critical hit deck for this game? I've had the cards for over a year and never used them. Of course it up to Shifty to make the final decision and I'm fine with whatever Shifty is comfortable with, but I just wanted to throw it out there.

Hi mate! Thought I responded - not sure they are SFS legal, and so would opt out as I have been on a roll of late and don't want to ace a character with some streaky luck, it was brutal in the last scenario (Illegal Shipment)

You said it!

*rubs her still aching head.*

No prob, just wanted to put it out there. Like I said I haven't been able to convince anyone to use them in a game yet.

Tricsie at the gathering

You know, I was wondering if Tricsie associated with a certain 7 girls who believe Friendship is Magic...

I have to admit the initial concept was based on Trixie Lulamoon but, apart from that, and her best friend being another lashunta named Luce Stellarum Lumen, any other similarities are coincidental.

Although it has been tempting to create a pink coloured Morlamaw who's a party planner .....

Loot List

* thunderstrike sonic pistol.
* three mk 2 serums of healing
* notes grant a +5 circumstance bonus to Culture checks to decipher writing while reading ancient Triaxian and allows such checks to be made untrained
* purple nanite hypopen
* manual sight weapon accessory
* longstrider module
* and a credstick with 900 credits.

Anyone else now have an image of a dragon driving a jeep, his long snaky neck protruding out of the open top, a pair of Wayfarers on, one foot on the pedals and the other on the running board?

Loot List

* thunderstrike sonic pistol.
* three mk 2 serums of healing
* notes grant a +5 circumstance bonus to Culture checks to decipher writing while reading ancient Triaxian and allows such checks to be made untrained
* purple nanite hypopen
* manual sight weapon accessory
* longstrider module
* and a credstick with 900 credits.

The only one of these things that would be really useful to me is the healing serums. Well...and the notes.

Since we got them together, it might be interesting to put the manual sight on the thunderstrike weapon for someone to use.

Tchisk's could make use of the sonic pistol with or without the sight.

Sounds good to me.

Loot List

* thunderstrike sonic pistol.
* three mk 2 serums of healing
* notes grant a +5 circumstance bonus to Culture checks to decipher writing while reading ancient Triaxian and allows such checks to be made untrained
* purple nanite hypopen
* manual sight weapon accessory
* longstrider module
* and a credstick with 900 credits.

Thanks for this. Sorry for the delay, end of year stuff plus some job cuts I've had to navigate. Bigger fish to fry the last couple days.

With all these axes flying around I got to wondering, "Can you actually throw a great axe?" So of course I went to youtube, enjoy:

That's a big axe, go to 5:47.

That was an awesome axe throw!

Loot List

* thunderstrike sonic pistol (Tchisk)
* three mk 2 serums of healing
* notes grant a +5 circumstance bonus to Culture checks to decipher writing while reading ancient Triaxian and allows such checks to be made untrained
* purple nanite hypopen (remove Condition)
* manual sight weapon accessory (Tchisk)
* longstrider module (armor upgrade; +10 land speed)
* and a credstick with 900 credits.
* d-suit II (light armor; +5 eac +6 kac +5 dex max --acp 1 slot)

The D-Suit is a nice set of armor.

I just upgraded my armor to be +7/+7 so I have no use for it.

I'd take the longstrider module but I already have fleet and speed suspension so 10' on top of 50' isn't a big deal.

Mr. Bison will take a healing serum.

This is a tough decision here. What does everyone think? Do we try to help the Starfinder that is still alive or do we try to save the Starfinders who were possibly captured?

Do we split the party?

The distress signal could be a ruse. Our enemies might have caught up with the lone Starfinder and set off the signal so they can ambush us.

I love this scenario for the dilemmas it throws at the party.

Do you shoot the drone, and keep one person happy, or do you grab it and make the other two happy? Do you solve the riddle of the shopping list and keep some people happy, or do you ask the locals and shortcut it - keeping a different person happy... and so on through every social encounter.

Now you make the choice, do you abandon the runner now signalling distress to their grizly fate (or is it an ambush?) - or do you potentially leave the fate of the two unknowns in the hands of the gods. Can you achieve the goal if you split up, or will a smaller party be unable to effectively achieve the goal and end up with nothing.

Looking forward I'm probably looking to kick on with 3-02 Subterranean Safari

The other adventure is only 1-4, but the demand seems to be in the 3-6 space :)

In!

Would definitely be interested. I have Daata plus a level 4 soldier I could feasibly play.

I would be interested in playing in both. I could use Mr. Bison for the 1-4 and I have a level 6 soldier for the other one.

I'd be interested as well ... already know which PC would be in it.

I'll pop up a sign up sheet shortly :)

Already played 3-02 at ConCurrent. It is a great time.

With that, my preference would obviously be for 3-01.

I'll play either one. Missed out on all the ConCurrent offerings.

With that, my preference would obviously be for 3-01.

3-01 was the first scenario in a while where I got super excited by the precis, I'm looking to play it first :)

I'm in, too!

Azara will be 6th after this adventure.

But all my other characters are in the 1-4 range.

Mr. Bison can fly down to the altar if need be, but he would have to try to physically destroy it to save the Starfinders. Zangief and him might be more helpful keeping the Dragonkin occupied while others went down to the altar.

Recruitment announcement.

#3-02 (T3-6) has dropped and sign up is open for a session starting 01 July.

I am offering 3 tables once again. Giving existing tables the first crack at positions, then in 48 hours I'll throw remaining spaces out to the broader audience.

#3-02 Subterranean Safari

Sign up HERE

I played it at the ConCurrent. It is a lot of fun. Enjoy.