Revvy Bitterleaf's SFS 3-00: The Last Bite (Tiers 3-4) (Inactive)

Game Master Revvy Bitterleaf

Before leaving Absolom Station, Kat ponders her Armour choice. Before disembarking on another cross-system journey, Kat slips off from the team to hunt down a set of Clearweave 1 she's had her eye on. Over the course of the travel to Castrovel, she folds away her old purple second skin armour. Visible now is the artwork that completely covers her arms and legs. She is very pleased.

Purchasing Clearweave 1 for 1350, bringing her AC to 16 each. I will update header when I have time later today.

When Kat leaves the ship with the crew, she squints against the bright jungle sun. Reaching into her jacket, she produces a pair of aviator sunglasses purchased long ago on Akiton and puts them on.
"Never could get used to natural light" She remarks to the crew. "My occular settings as set for lower Absolom standard lighting."

Kat is ready to move out when the crew is. She will use the environmental protections of her new armour in the jungle.

Ombonth go with his old battered heavy armor but he has no visible weapon on him.

Nevertheless, he buys a formal attire kit to be able to blend more easily with the AbadarCorp's executives.

Grumph... I'm ready.

"Well... " says Bill "I'm not sure I'm really supposed to give hints, but it looks like you already know a bit about what the game is." he adds with a wink.

The cheerful android offers you a last cup of tea before pointing you down a trail and warning you "Your boots might get a little muddy"

Heading down the path only takes a few minutes, when it turns a corner and you receive a shock. The once pristine jungle along the resort’s outskirts is a war zone!

Guerilla soldiers dressed in khaki fatigues attack another indiscriminately, some organized into small squads while others fight alone. Gunfire rings through the hazy air as individuals of all species engage in some type of battle. You watch for a couple of moments and while you have obviously been seen, nobody seems especially interested in turning their weapons on you.

And because it is a special, to keep things moving

Amid the chaos, a humanoid wearing goggles and a ghillie suit pops up from a trench and motions for the PCs to join him.

Amid the chaos, a humanoid wearing goggles and a ghillie suit pops up from a trench and motions for you to join him. “I’m Yalus, archdirector of advertising. Which department are you folks from?” Now that you can see him more clearly, you recognize it is a male human under that ghillie suit.

With his hoarse, booming, voice Ombonth says We are Starfinders. Ready to help you archdirector Yalus. What's our target?

I'm with entertainment Momo says, trainee, really. It is an honor to meet you, archdirector!

Although they don't appear to be in any danger, Kat makes for the trench to join the combatant.

"Advertising. Huh." she reacts to Yalus' statement. "What is going on here?"

Medicine: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (14) + 6 = 20

Kneeling to look at a fallen soldier in the trench, Kat advises everyone on their condition. "Unconscious, but doesn't appear to be seriously wounded."

First taking cover from the fighting and then looking around in confusion leading to amusement. "I gets it! War games!" Rex exclaims before dropping his voice back down, "We used to train with similar stuff back home."

I am from "fighting" department! Hahaha!""

Patterson jumps down into the trench. "I don't have any suitable weaponry, hey? A mite too lethal for this go-round." He pats the heavy laser over his shoulder. "Got anything more appropriate?"

"What is going on is a training exercise. This is part of the AbdarCorp retreat. Team building... or destorying maybe" he adds with a grin.

"We are using non lethal weapons... you all do have non lethal weapons don't you" he asks with concern in his eyes.

"Last one standing is the winner. Anyway... Suzi... she is head of Accounting" he rolls his eyes as he says "accounting". He goes on "and she is holed up in the tower over there. If you could ummm eliminate her from the game for me, I'd owe you one..."

He eyes up Patterson. "Nothing you can use unfortunately. Keyed to me in case of kidnappings and such."

Remember you can do nonlethal damage with normal weapons, just -4 to hit.

"Deal?" he asks.
You may want to include a diplomacy check at the same time.

"Nonleathal weapon! Are you kidding!?" says Vondal. "Who carries that?"

For music videos, we use them all the time - non-sharpened blades, blank round. I wouldn't want to accidentally hurt Zoey, you know. You could just use the flat of a blade, but it doesn't look nearly as cool, and it's a lot harder to get right.

Momo demonstrates a non-lethal swing with her curved blade, but it looks kind of awkward.

I'm sure you're aware, but any lethal weapon can make a non-lethal attack with a -4 penalty

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To the archdirector anything for you, Mister Advertising!

Diplo: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (6) + 8 = 14

Do the unconscious corporate tools carry any weapons?

Kat elbows Vondal. "We'll set them to stun" Kat adds. She takes a moment to adjust the settings on he rifle.

Settings>Beam Settings>Colour>Green.
Settings Saved

She smiles at Vondal and the rest of the team. "Ready to go"

Kat also has a baton hanging at her waist if necessary.

Mind if I borrow? Momo says, looking at the baton.

Kat draws the baton, flips it with a flick of her wrist and holds it out to Momo handle first. "Of course."

edit to clarify, it is a Tactical Baton

Rex holds up his weapon, already set to stun. "Always a good option fo' when ya needs to kidna... um.. interro... capture an enemy mostly unharmed."

After a grunt, Ombonth says No Problem chief.

Diplomacy (aid): 1d20 + 0 ⇒ (3) + 0 = 3

Patterson decollimates his plasma rifle. "Not sure why they made this a user-adjustable setting, hey? We'll get your accountant out of there."

Diplomacy check to aid another: 1d20 ⇒ 3

Unfortunately, the soldier is not very convincing.

Everyone else should try to aid another, too. It can't hurt.

Thanks for the reminder, I totally forgot this morning

Diplomacy Aid: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (16) + 2 = 18

Diplomacy Aid: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (12) + 1 = 13

Diplomacy Aid: 1d20 + 0 ⇒ (17) + 0 = 17

As Yalus looks you over he seems to consider something.

"You know what. You people seem alright. ..you help me take down Suzi from accounting and let me take the credit for it so I'll have bragging right for the next year and I'll own you one."

He has a very shark like grin as he continues

"It can't hurt for you guys to have a favor from someone like me now can it?"

He holds out his hand.

"Do we have a deal?'

The Archdirector nods appreciatively.

"Suzzi is holed up there in the tower. Take her out... without hurting her obviously... Let's see how much she likes suprise audits of Her defences!"

And yes, I guess there would be left over level 1 stunners all around the field. Lets make them like a static arc pistol that does 1d3 damage and is incapable of doing lethal.

Please take a round of moves on the map. Can you leave a trail of where you walk.

With the grace of a whale ashore, Ombonth flies over his comrades and lands behind a monolith.

Where on the map is our destination?

This might be the first recorded instance on the board of two GMs ninja-ing eachother.

Deal! Momo says, do you know anything of her fighting tactics?

Momo picks up one of the arc pistols, and checks if it is still working.

@Patterson: the map is bigger than the slide, and extends downward. I suppose that bear is our target

Heh, just ignore mine.

"Over the top" Kat calls out as she hoists herself from the trench and charges forward towards their foe from Accounting, rifle in hand.

"Got your back!" Patterson waits a moment to see if Kat or Ombonth get sniped at. If they do, he snaps off a return shot, then follows the dragon to cover. As shown on the map; Patterson has a 40' move, so he can reach that position in a single Move action.

Potential attack, incl. NL penalty: 1d20 + 8 - 4 ⇒ (9) + 8 - 4 = 13

I'd like to say thanks for including those arrows to show how everyone moved, please keep using those. and Yes, Suzi from accounting is indeed that large sized uplifted bear hiding out in the ruins

Init Patterson: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (5) + 5 = 10
Init Kat: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (7) + 3 = 10
Init Momo: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (5) + 2 = 7
Init Omboth: 1d20 - 1 ⇒ (7) - 1 = 6
Init Vondal: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (15) + 5 = 20
Init Rex: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (7) + 5 = 12
Init Suzi: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (20) + 7 = 27

A deep ravine pierces the southeastern part of a clearing, providing natural shelter. The clearing is bowl-shaped and guarded by steep slopes to the north. At the center, a cluster of stone ruins are reinforced with deadwood and crude sheets of corrugated metal.

If it comes up; ruin walls are 30 feet tall, DC 25 Athletics to climb)

As you approach you can't miss the rather large bear in the location that your new ally told you Suzi from accounting would be.

No shot(s) are fired as you approach
So Patterson also doesn't fire

A huge head is briefly visible from behind the ruin walls before retreating behind the cover as Suzi notices your approach

init
All of you guys (quite possibly with a readied action from Suzi)
Suzi once more

After catching sight of Suzi, Rex starts to head south to try and come up on her side. Double move, speed of 40'

What is the map feature that looks like muddy water?

Vondal comes to the wall and tries to climb up.

DC 25 Athletics: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (12) + 10 = 22

Since we're fighting non-lethally, is there a high enough stake to activate solarian modes?

Momo moves up behind Kat5e, and has an idea.

Hey Kat, she says, I've had a couple of these team-building exercises in dance class. It's never about winning against the other, but always about cooperating. What if we get Suzy and Yulan to cooperate? They'll easily own the rest of the field, they'll teach team spirit to everyone, and we'll give them a good story for the rest of the year...

Double move - activate graviton mode if allowed

Momo moves up, and stops out in the open. A faint yellow glow is visible on her armor and around her head. She looks vulnerable and quite uncomfortable being exposed like that. With a slight hesitation, she yells: Hey Suzy, hold your fire, we have an offer to make! Finance collaborating with marketing, nobody will see it coming!

Diplomacy: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (13) + 8 = 21

Trying to get her to ally up with the archdirector

The imposing form of Ombonth flies around, landing on the side of the river. Double move

As he moves, a shield of pure entropic energy appears on his right arm.

He says nothing, waiting to see if Suzi reacts to Momo's words, only gathering more entropic energy. +1 RP for double moving

EAC16/KAC19 - 2RP

What is the map feature that looks like muddy water?

Unspecified, let's go with knee deep muddy water which makes it difficult terrain

Rex starts to head south plowing through the jungle to get to a more tactical advantage location as he moves he suddenly feels something give way under his feet and it explodes in a puff of compressed gas.
Reflex save DC 11 or take non-lethal B damage: 2d6 ⇒ (5, 4) = 9

Vondai decides to climb up on some of the ruins as opposed to go around it. And fails to make any sort of progress trying to go up.

@Momo; you are in combat so I don't see why you couldn't activate solarion modes

Momo tries to sweet talk Suzi

Suzi's head just barely comes around the corner of the wall to look in your direction
"I'm not saying I'm for or against what ever you are proposing...but just what exactly are you proposing here?"

init
Patterson, Ombonth (still readied action for Suzi)
Suzi

Patterson delays, waiting on the results of the confab.

Ombonth has already acted (double moving)

Kat follow's Momo's lead and moves up along side to defend her if the situation turns violent.

Move action to join Momo, Standard action to ready a shot against Suzi if she attacks the group

Momo fidgets nervously, and answers What I said: a devil's pact between finance and advertising. If you agree to collaborate with Yulan, the two of you are completely unstoppable. Do you think anybody will count on you two working together? You will have HR and Risk down in no time! Just imagine pulling this one off, people will talk for years about 'that one time finance and advertising pulled us one over the head'. It's a great example for your juniors too, showing the power of collaboration!

Trying to contain her trembling, she adds: So if you agree, Mrs Finance Arch-director, we'll just get Yulan up here, you can come out, and the two of you two can wade through your enemies together, leaving a trail of human resource destruction!

As Kat5e and Omboth move forward you hear a deep laugh which seems to come from very deep down someone's rather large gut

"I think you've been misinformed a bit here. Sure what you say has merit..but for me this isn't about team building or learning seminars. In fact the only reason I sign up for this every year is so I can beat Yulan in these games and rub his smug little face into it all year long him. I didn't plan this out for months just so I could change plans at the last second"

init
All of you guys again (still a Reflex save DC 11 or take 9 non-lethal B damage for Rex) - Suzi still reading for something

Ombonth shrugs and flies over the muggy river to land close to Suzi.

double move, Ombonth has reach.

His fists crackles with entropic energy.

EAC16/KAC19 - 3RP

Eung, is Momo's sole reply, and she makes a moves for the sludge at the base of the ruin, hearing the flapping of Ombonth overhead.

Double move - not sure about height profile, but even without I should be able to avoid Aoo's.

Attunement 2/3 (if attunement allowed)

Reflex: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (9) + 7 = 16

Rex avoids the worst of the blast, but starts moving more cautiously.

Trap Spotter: You double your operative’s edge bonus to Perception checks to notice traps (+13 total). Additionally, you automatically receive a Perception check to notice a trap when you pass within 10 feet of it.

He moves around the water before taking a shot.

Scorchgun (nonlethal) vs EAC: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (10) + 7 = 17
Damage (F): 1d6 + 2 ⇒ (6) + 2 = 8

Patterson keys his comm unit to the group band and murmurs, "Who do we want to owe us, Finance or Advertising?"

Trap Spotter: You double your operative’s edge bonus to Perception checks to notice traps (+13 total). Additionally, you automatically receive a Perception check to notice a trap when you pass within 10 feet of it.

These very specifically set-up booby traps are for some reason hazards in the scenario and don't even have a perception DC to notice them. Let's just say that with your trap spotting and knowing what to look for now you manage to spot and avoid them from now on

As Ombonth flies closer Suzi pulls back an arm and tosses something in his direction which explodes in a bright burst of sparkling light
To hit: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (6) + 14 = 20 DC 15 reflex save or be blinded for 1d4 ⇒ 1 rounds

Kat5e reacts to Suzi making an attack but the shot just hits the wall on the ruins

Momo follows double timing to get closer as well.

Now that you are a bit closer and get a better look you notice that she's carrying a big sonic type blaster as well as a doshko made for her size.

Rex moves closer before firing a shot
but his shot misses Suzi even though she makes for a rather large target her armor seems very well made and she seems very accustomed to wearing it.

init
Patterson, Vondal, Kat5e
Suzi

Damage:
Suzi:0
Editing; I mistaking used the wrong tier stats for Suzi when I started making my post, correcting a few things now

Vondal movec closer to Suzi.double move.

Having had her crew attacked, Kat commits to her offensive protocols.

She locks onto Suzi with her combat tracking. Every move the bear makes is monitored and tracked by her exocortex. Move Action, Add level +3 to hit against Suzi

She lines up another shot at Suzi, trying to aim for less than vital areas. The laser rifle makes a loud whine as it charges up a powerful shot. Overcharge, 3 charges for an extra D6 damage
Azimuth Laser Rifle vs Suzi EAC: 1d20 + 6 + 3 - 4 ⇒ (13) + 6 + 3 - 4 = 18
Damage: 1d8 + 3 ⇒ (7) + 3 = 10
Overcharge Damage: 1d6 ⇒ 1

The Diasporan shrugs, then trots forward, finding stepping stones in the muddy stream (Nimble Steps feat ftw!). He reaches the other side and snaps off a shot at the bear. The shock charge expends itself on the stone of the tower, though.

Pulsecaster rifle: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (3) + 8 = 11