Hmm's SFS 2-16 A Scoured Home

Game Master Hmm

Teka hits Dvimnix, and all the sonic damage goes through! Umbro's first acid attack goes through. Fexia utterly misses. Compucast successfully starts the panels moving to stop the radiation!

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Dvimnix waves the staff menacingly at Compucast, but misses him twice!
Staff of Nuclear Vengeance as a small arm: 1d20 + 12 - 4 ⇒ (15) + 12 - 4 = 23
Staff of Nuclear Vengeance as a small arm: 1d20 + 12 - 4 ⇒ (10) + 12 - 4 = 18

"What?! " She taps it. "Hold on. It's not working..."

★ --- ★ --- ★ --- ★

Round 3 / 4
Active conditions:

Officer Swizzers
Umbro-187
Eki

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Pink Dvimnix (-79)

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Teka
Imperator Fexia

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Jinsuls
Blue (DEAD)
Yellow (DEAD)
Green (DEAD)
Red (DEAD)

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Compucast

"Experiencing performance issues Dvimnix?"

She keeps the pressure on, blasting away at the Jinsul... apparently enjoying it a bit too much.

Attack: 1d20 + 7 - 4 ⇒ (5) + 7 - 4 = 8
Damage: 1d10 + 5 ⇒ (10) + 5 = 15
Miss chance: 1d100 ⇒ 91

Attack: 1d20 + 7 - 4 ⇒ (5) + 7 - 4 = 8
Damage: 1d10 + 5 ⇒ (4) + 5 = 9
Miss chance: 1d100 ⇒ 53

"Keep the pressure on her Starfinders." Umbro-187 says over the team's tactical comm channel as he keeps the sights of the his rifle lined up on Dvimnix. Calmly he squeezes the trigger again and sends a burst of acid darts at his target.

Acid Dart Rifle vs. Dvimnix KAC: 1d10 + 12 - 1 ⇒ (7) + 12 - 1 = 18 Targeting computer ignores concealment.
Piercing/Acid Damage: 1d8 + 8 ⇒ (2) + 8 = 10

Acid Dart Rifle vs. Dvimnix KAC: 1d10 + 12 - 1 ⇒ (6) + 12 - 1 = 17 Targeting computer ignores concealment.
Piercing/Acid Damage: 1d8 + 8 ⇒ (5) + 8 = 13

"You are incompetent and a disgrace to your race." snarls the vesk technomancer.

"And your aim is pathetic."
All in Jinsul

"Actually I wonder if I can even be bothered to waste a battery charge on you."

With a long suffering sigh Compucast draws a laser and lazily fires it. But it likely fails to penetrate the jinsul's armour.

ranged vs EAC: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (8) + 7 = 15
F damage: 2d4 + 4 ⇒ (2, 1) + 4 = 7

The rising trepidation in Teka wanes watching the panels slowly return to a proper position. She joins her weapon fire with the others as she hopes to avoid another blast of lethal radiation.

Vanishing Thunderstrike Sonic Pistol Attack vs EAC: 1d20 + 9 + 1 ⇒ (7) + 9 + 1 = 17
Sonic Damage: 1d8 + 5 ⇒ (4) + 5 = 9
Concealment: 1d100 ⇒ 28

Swizzers sprays lasers from her rifle until the battery is completely drained!

Full attack.

Attack # 1: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (6) + 7 = 13
Damage # 1: 1d10 + 5 ⇒ (2) + 5 = 7
Attack # 2: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (15) + 7 = 22
Damage # 2: 1d10 + 5 ⇒ (5) + 5 = 10

"She's at the brink of death, friends! Keep firing, we'll bring her down!"

corona laser rifle: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (14) + 12 = 26
miss chance: 1d100 ⇒ 63
fire damage: 2d6 + 8 ⇒ (1, 6) + 8 = 15 Charges: 30/40

Eki's Miss Chance: 1d100 ⇒ 62

Well, that was an exciting round! Just about everyone missed except for Officer Swizzers and Eki! Although Dvimnix resists part of the flame damage, these two final shots at last take their toll. Dvimnix and her Staff of Nuclear Vengeance clatter to the floor.

COMBAT OVER!

The flower-like containment panels continue to move, closing protectively around the power core like the bud of a blossom. Once the panels lock around the core, all the ship's lights brighten slightly, and the air feels less oppressive. It will take some time for the radiation in the surrounding area to fully dissipate, but the threat of ongoing fallout passes. You now can return to the Izalguun settlement.

Are you doing anything in this ship before you go?

Umbro-187 will reload his rifle and search Dvimnix's body for anything that might give us more information on what she was doing here and how she was able to infiltrate the ship without the Izalguun knowing it.

She didn't have a long enough villain's monologue for us to know all her motivations!

"We should head back to A1 and see if they want to be ...reloctaed." suggests Compucast.

Fexia plugs herself into the mainframe and begins to transfer any pertinent information to her computer. "A thorough inspection would be prudent to assess the extent of the damage."

In the datapads of her minions, you learn that Dvimnix's team had come to cause a nuclear meltdown in revenge for Izalguun betrayal of Dhurus. One minion speculated that it might be prelude to a second mission where the jinsuls rescue the errant izalguuns from radiation poisoning in exchange for surrender. But it is a speculation only, and with no corroboration elsewhere.

A1 would love to be relocated, but is aware that the izalguun's have given up their technology. "Maybe they no longer want me, but tell them... tell them I am waiting and ready to serve."

When you return to Naarma, the izalguun elder expresses her gratitude in her stoic yet sincere manner. She leads you back to your starship, where she has a surprise for you: her assistants have already produced decades' worth of medicinals in stacked crates ready for shipment back to the Pact Worlds for redistribution to the colonies! At this point, Naarma revisits the question she had when reviewing Fitch's pandemic specs. "Why did the Pact Worlds need my help at all? The pharmaceuticals required to treat the ongoing pandemic are simple to synthesize and inexpensive to mass-produce, meaning that unless I drastically overestimated the Pact Worlds' medical science, the Starfinders' home systems should be more than capable of stemming the tide of this outbreak."

"You very well may be right," Teka sadly muses to Naarma. "the companies we rely on to make these are dragging their heels. I held some hope in them, but it seems they are truly something malevolent driving them, even if it is just greed."

"Once the present status of ill-health is resolved, I can assure you that a relentless root cause analysis will be performed to seek the source of this corruption."

After she calms down a bit she brings up A-1. "We also bear a message from a being of times long past. An artificial intelligence, designated A-1 inhabits the remains of your hive-vessel. They send the following message: I am waiting and ready to serve. They have performed admirably in maintaining the vessel, suffering failure only when overwhelmed by Jinsul forces. Even in defeat, A-1 provided us with invaluable insight which we used to secure the reactor."

Compucast nods. "If you would prefer A1 leaves, then we are also willing to try to relocate them to Absalom station." He listens to the news about the medicinals with interest.

"Maybe our drug manufactures are not as advanced as the rest of our technology?" he muses. "Or maybe there are supply side issues."

"I'm afraid it's just matter of will. These companies won't do a thing if they can't profit from it. Even in pandemic their greed and shortsightedness stops them doing the right thing. Eki sighs

"I concur that A1 provided valuable help and they is welcome to Absalom station."

Officer Swizzers arranges for any unconscious jinsuls to be securely bound for transport back to a suitable detention facility. When the Starfinders get back to the izalguuns, she smiles and nods at Naarma. "It was very nice to meet you! I only wish it could have been under better circumstances. This is a lovely planet. Thank you for the assistance with the medicinals--I know if our peoples work together, we can accomplish more great things in the future."

"I do agree with the others. I would like to help A1 somehow. They did a wonderful job helping your people in the past and us just now. I would love to make sure they are repaid."

"I am more concerned about the jinsul threat. Though we did deal them a massive defeat at the Scoured Stars, finding them here means we have by no means dealt a fatal blow to them."