Ion receives 4HP of healing, regains co conciousness, and is able to rest to regain SP with the rest of the group if he so chooses.
Marveen opens the double doors to the north and south. Inside each room he discovers a storage tank used to perform unknown experiments. Inside the tank to the south, Marveen finds a cylinder with unknown markings on it. It matches images of the missing artifact that were provided by Pickle.
Jinn finds some monitors, some lab equipment, and a solid wall to the east.
With the artifact recovered, the Starfinders have a choice of exits from the facility. They can leave the way they came, or try to meet up with Paxel at the main entrance as the sounds of battle from above have does down and the monitors now show Veskarium security forces are taking prisoners up above.
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Lionel rests his rifle across his shoulders after brushing any burns or roughed up marks on his armor and addresses the party. "Well, that was fun, I suppose we could poke around a little more but if we're done here, we'd best head out. Should we radio Paxel to let'em know we've retrieved the artifact and head up to him, or do we just mozey on out'a here?
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Ion looks at Xin-Haran and says yes yes he has so....
Ion proceed to move his doshko across his shoulders and laying both hands resting on it and ion rest his other two arms on is rifle saying
Everyone did a good job in the battle.
and then ion looks over at marveen with deep apologetic in his eyes and says.
Sorry for exploding like that marveen I pantic and wanted that creature dead as soon as possible and I wasn't paying attention to my surroundings.
Jinn uses a single move action to cross the room to the east, where he concludes there isn't anywhere further to go. The lab equipment's purpose eludes him because it's not an engineering lab. The computers have been converted to show only video feeds from security cameras upstairs, and as previously mentioned, all they show are the Veskarium security officers upstairs. Jinn can determine from his expertise with computers, that the live feed shows the battle has ceased upstairs and the still living Keepers are being arrested. The Dwarf then turns around and declares his safe return from his arduous expedition across the room.
Ion welcomes Jinn back heartily, having missed the mechanic, and was almost inconsolable when he was but ten feet away. Ion, now content knowing his friend survived the treaturous trip, is ready to move on from this place of death...
Exiting out the main entrance, the Starfinders see dozens of dead Keepers. Paxel approaches the group, a look equal parts exhilaration and contentment on his face. "So, did you all have as much fun as I did?"
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To Marveen.
"I'm not sure I can share that sentiment. Taking a life is not something I consider fun, but we did accomplish our task."
Turning to Paxel.
"There were four below. Unfortunately, they didn't make it. Three other, very unusual creatures with tentacles also joined the battle, but they were also dealt with. If you need to send any sort of clean up crew, let them know to keep any eye out."
To his fellow Starfinders.
"Alright, let's get back to our ship so we can bring this back to Absalom Station"
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Paxel chuckles at Surge"s comments to Marveen. "I see this one has too many Pact foibles. Your enemies raised arms against you, and you crushed them. That is a good thing. Don't overthink it lad"
Paxel provides transportation back to Command Prime, which is uneventful. He happily sends the Starfinders on their way back to the Pact.
Upon arrival back on Absalom Station, Venture-Captain Naiaj immediately
calls for a full debriefing and listens intently to the account of the
Veskarium adventure. She thanks the Starfinders for not causing any intergalactic incidents, though one may have come close. She comments that while the semiclandestine mission didn’t necessarily improve Veskarium–Pact Worlds relations, she feels that everyone involved understands each other a little better now.
Naiaj takes the artifact from the Starfinders for further study and promises that if there proves to be any actionable information from the relic, the results should appear in a future issue of the Starfinder Chronicles.
If the PCs succeed in retrieving the artifact from the Keepers
of the Lie, they succeed in their primary success condition.
Accomplishing this earns each PC 1 Fame and Reputation for
any faction associated with their currently slotted faction boon.
In addition, each player earns the Into the Veskarium boon on
their Chronicle sheet.
The PCs succeed at their secondary success condition if
they accomplish both of the following: keeping one or more
Keepers alive in area A, and succeeding at two or more of their
investigatory missions. Accomplishing this earns each PC 1 Fame
and Reputation for any faction associated with their currently
slotted faction boon.
(Social Boon; Limited-Use)
Your efforts in combating the Keepers of the Lie impressed several
members of the Veskarium. When you slot this boon, you gain a +2 circumstance bonus to all skill checks made to interact
with members of the Veskarium. In addition, once per session, you can check one of the boxes on this boon to reroll any
single d20 roll while operating on any Veskarium-occupied world.
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Hearing hopes of further battle on the way to rejoining Paxel's forces, Lionel shakes his head in annoyance. Lionel says to himself, "All i said was lets reunite with Paxel or go out separate ways and now everyone wants to jump into another fight... bunch of murder hobos if you ask me. At least someone has the right attitude..."
Lionel gives Surge a friendly smack on the back. "Great job out there today. As much as I enjoy a good fight, I'm happy all that is over with and to see everyone is alright... even though one of us almost died, ha ha."
Lionel then walks up to Paxel, "Well at the end of all this, some arrogant cat learned a couple lessons, our team accomplished their goal, and I'm left jealous that I couldn't support the ground forces up here, ha ha."
Lionel offers his hand to Paxel. "Till next time."
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