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

Game Master Nik B.

The axe smashes the creature!

All
You have a very limited time to save one or both Starfinders.

Everyone can post up the Athletics/Mysticism/or Attacks against the cryslats for the following rounds.

Actions for:
Daata - R4/5/6/7
Everyone else 5/6/7.

Crystals
I 18 - 1 Successes
N 0 - 0 Successes

Have to get a decent roll eventually.

Mysticism: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (19) + 11 = 30
Yay!
How many rolls we get?

Mysticism: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (20) + 11 = 31
Mysticism: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (1) + 11 = 12

mysticism: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (9) + 14 = 23
mysticism: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (11) + 14 = 25
mysticism: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (18) + 14 = 32

Tchisk has rescued Iko.
Tricsie has not yet rescued Navaret!

Tricsie keeps trying to exert her will on the crystals

mysticism: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (19) + 14 = 33
mysticism: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (14) + 14 = 28
mysticism: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (8) + 14 = 22

Waiting on the rest of the party to resolve - at the end of R7 'something happens'

With the last dragonkin down, Azara rushes to Tricsie's side and begins hacking away at the crystal with his solar weapon.

"Saving our Starfinder friend"
"From the crystal's grasp"
"Requires both skill and force."

Solar Weapon: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (11) + 8 = 19
Slashing: 1d6 + 1d4 + 8 ⇒ (4) + (3) + 8 = 15

Solar Weapon: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (2) + 8 = 10
Slashing: 1d6 + 1d4 + 8 ⇒ (2) + (1) + 8 = 11

Solar Weapon: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (10) + 8 = 18
Slashing: 1d6 + 1d4 + 8 ⇒ (5) + (1) + 8 = 14

Daata directs all of Mikey's energy toward freeing the remaining Starfinder.

Attack vs EAC (full): 1d20 + 7 - 4 ⇒ (13) + 7 - 4 = 16
Damage (E): 1d6 + 2 ⇒ (5) + 2 = 7
Attack vs EAC (full): 1d20 + 7 - 4 ⇒ (15) + 7 - 4 = 18
Damage (E): 1d6 + 2 ⇒ (2) + 2 = 4

Attack vs EAC (full): 1d20 + 7 - 4 ⇒ (6) + 7 - 4 = 9
Damage (E): 1d6 + 2 ⇒ (2) + 2 = 4
Attack vs EAC (full): 1d20 + 7 - 4 ⇒ (19) + 7 - 4 = 22
Damage (E): 1d6 + 2 ⇒ (2) + 2 = 4

Last shot in this battery.
Attack vs EAC: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (3) + 7 = 10
Damage (E): 1d6 + 2 ⇒ (1) + 2 = 3

Mikey has fired a stack of shots into the crystal, but it has not yielded, the solarian blade has a tougher time, finding the crystals hard to slash through - the nature of the blade making it possible at all.

The crystal still holds its captive, but is significantly damaged and almost pushed back by the mystical efforts.

Mr Bison & Conrad up - between the two of you you need 1 success!

Mr. Bison and Zangief move into position to attack the crystal.

Round 5

Tactical Greataxe vs. Crystal KAC: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (11) + 7 = 18
Slashing Damage: 1d12 + 7 + 3 ⇒ (9) + 7 + 3 = 19

Tactical Pike vs. Crystal KAC: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (10) + 6 = 16
Piercing Damage: 1d8 + 6 ⇒ (3) + 6 = 9

Round 6

Tactical Greataxe vs. Crystal KAC 1: 1d20 + 7 - 4 ⇒ (15) + 7 - 4 = 18
Slashing Damage: 1d12 + 7 + 3 ⇒ (7) + 7 + 3 = 17

Tactical Greataxe vs. Crystal KAC 2: 1d20 + 7 - 4 ⇒ (18) + 7 - 4 = 21
Slashing Damage: 1d12 + 7 + 3 ⇒ (6) + 7 + 3 = 16

Tactical Pike vs. Crystal KAC: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (4) + 6 = 10
Piercing Damage: 1d8 + 6 ⇒ (6) + 6 = 12

Round 7

Tactical Greataxe vs. Crystal KAC 1: 1d20 + 7 - 4 ⇒ (6) + 7 - 4 = 9
Slashing Damage: 1d12 + 7 + 3 ⇒ (5) + 7 + 3 = 15

Tactical Greataxe vs. Crystal KAC 2: 1d20 + 7 - 4 ⇒ (13) + 7 - 4 = 16
Slashing Damage: 1d12 + 7 + 3 ⇒ (7) + 7 + 3 = 17

Tactical Pike vs. Crystal KAC: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (1) + 6 = 7
Piercing Damage: 1d8 + 6 ⇒ (4) + 6 = 10

The pike just seems to bounce over and over, doing small amounts of damage, but the meaty blows from the axe remove the stubborn crystal just in the nick of time.

Hardness 10

***

You pull the horribly infected Starfinders free - they are in a terrible state, but they will live. You check through the dungeon finding some outdated but interesting equipment and haul it back with you.

Your team and the members of Team B are the last group of agents to return from their missions. The other Starfinders wait at the base camp with Zafeldrin, looking grim and haggard. Venture- Captain Zafeldrin is relieved to see you alive and well as you return from the outskirts of Cadascon. He immediately sends over a medical team to examine the recovered members of Team B and your group.

The dragon wanders over to you looking very concerned "What happened out there?"

Daata tends to the wounded Starfinders and carries Iko to safety on his back. "Aggressive crystal growths. The spawn undead and grow like mold."

*nods* Sort of silicon lifeform parasites Tricsie adds. She then rubs her forehead ... all that concentration had given her a headache. And very strong willed too ... The Great and Powerful Tricsie was .... unfortunately ..... not quite Great and Powerful enough to bend them to my will.

She brightens up a bit. We did get samples though

"I don't know if the crystals are sentient, but they seem to be alive, at least in a manner similar to a virus."

He looks over the samples.

"Hmm, the other teams had run-ins with the strange, crystalline undead as well, though there were luckily no other casualties. I'm greatly worried about the power of these mysterious, infectious crystals and the risk they pose to Triaxus, and perhaps even to the entirety of the Pact Worlds"

The expedition mounts up to withdraw to the Lodge "We will be back" the dragon looks towards Cadascon with steely determination.

When the expedition returns to the White Sands Lodge, he sends out a report to both the Lorespire Complex and the authorities in the Drakelands and Skyfire Mandate. "I am immediately starting planning for the Society’s return to Cadascon, I'll be requesting that the Society’s leadership prioritize efforts in the city. Thanks to the information you have obtained, the next expedition to Cadascon will be much better prepared. I will contact you when the preparations for a return mission have been made"

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CHRONICLES

Once everyone has filed their reports, cogitated on the implications, and poured one out for those who were lost, Conrad takes some time alone at the station to just relax...

Thanks as always Shifty. My apologies to everyone for being spotty at best. I'm never so busy that games suffer, well, never until now.