Welcome to my table of the Gameday IX SFS special The Last Bite! I'm excited to be able to bring this scenario to you and all the fun to be had but first a few clerical things to take care of:
Hi, I’m GM Sedoriku!
I’ve been GMing sporadically and playing continuously on these boards since 2016, and I love how the format provides amazing chances to roleplay and gives people chances to think of creative solutions to things. So with that said definitely feel free to try new things or creative solutions and I try to reward robust role playing when I can.
Additionally, I know the rules for Starfinder fairly well, but I do not claim to be an expert! If you feel I have missed something or made a mistake please reach out to me, via PM if appropriate, and we can work through the matter!
Who are you, and what will you bring to the party?
Have you crossed paths with Datch? What happened?
If you were stranded in the Drift, what three things would you want (assuming the necessities of shelter, food, air and water are covered)?
Do you have any of the following boons?
Acquainted with Datch (Ally) from SFS 2-01, Pact World Warriors
Big Win against Big Potion (Slotless) from SFS 2-17, Cost of Living
Would you be willing to bot other characters, if needed?
Do you promise to let me know when you have a busy time in your life coming up so we can bot you as needed?
Are you comfortable with a hard minimum 1 post a day pace?
What has been your favorite SFS Adventure with this character, and why?
Player Name:
Character Name:
Character Number:
Slotted Faction:
Reputation with slotted faction:
Reputation with Second Seekers (Ehu Hadif):
Reputation with Second Seekers (Luwazi Elsebo):
Do you want bonus reputation with Ehu or Luwazi?
Day Job:
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Who are you, and what will you bring to the party?
Bonra brings two things, muscles and glory. I'm not really much at computers, but the society has got enough brains. We need more people with guts! That's what you call me in for.
Have you crossed paths with Datch? What happened?
I haven't. Should uh, should I know who that is?
If you were stranded in the Drift, what three things would you want (assuming the necessities of shelter, food, air and water are covered)?
My left fist, my right fist, and someone tough to hit them with.
Do you have any of the following boons?
Acquainted with Datch (Ally) from SFS 2-01, Pact World Warriors
Big Win against Big Potion (Slotless) from SFS 2-17, Cost of Living
Would you be willing to bot other characters, if needed?
Do you promise to let me know when you have a busy time in your life coming up so we can bot you as needed?
Are you comfortable with a hard minimum 1 post a day pace?
What has been your favorite SFS Adventure with this character, and why?
Player Name: Xynen
Character Name: Bonrakoru
Character Number: 186188-702
Slotted Faction: Exo-Guardians
Reputation with slotted faction: 4
Reputation with Second Seekers (Ehu Hadif): 0
Reputation with Second Seekers (Luwazi Elsebo): 0
Do you want bonus reputation with Ehu or Luwazi? I guess we'll go with Ehu
Day Job: N/A
Welcome! I truly hope we do get enough people for a full table soon!
Welcome, Welcome! Glad to have you here, that should be four people signed up. I'll message the other two and then we might be able to start introductions (but not the scenario)
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Who are you, and what will you bring to the party? I am willing to become a Steward one day. At least I bring order ... and hunger. Joe Bread loves to eat. I will bring some control, toughtness and blasters.
Have you crossed paths with Datch? What happened? Nope. Actually missed all the previous season except for last special.
If you were stranded in the Drift, what three things would you want (assuming the necessities of shelter, food, air and water are covered)? Food covered you say? First: more drinks. Second: law-catalogu or another cultural-support book. Third: some good replaying game, like chess.
Do you have any of the following boons? <...> NO
Would you be willing to bot other characters, if needed? Yes, if I already familiar with play-style and general tactics. With well filled charsheet indeed.
Do you promise to let me know when you have a busy time in your life coming up so we can bot you as needed? I promise!
Are you comfortable with a hard minimum 1 post a day pace? Yes.Even if I have tougth time - I will just make short posts, but daily.
What has been your favorite SFS Adventure with this character, and why? This character has just one chronicle - from Dead Suns AP start. Suspense was impressive and aliens upon asteroid were terrifying.
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In Character Questions
Who are you, and what will you bring to the party?
A young tawny-skinned man with a shaved head and neatly trimmed beard stubble gives the camera a toothy grin. The small scar over his right eye doesn't detract from his boyish charm--if anything, it enhances it. His battered, forest-green Golemforged Plate armor creaks as he crosses his thick arms over a barrel chest. "Hey there, Roddy Glasz here. You probably recognize me. Course you do. Who doesn't watch the Glasz Cannon Holocast, where I take down some of the toughest bounties in the Pact Worlds?" Roddy winks at the camera.
Have you crossed paths with Datch? What happened?
Roddy's brow furrows. "Never crossed paths with her, but we saw a real big influx of hate messages not long after the whole Scoured Stars debacle. My producer said they could all be traced to a single source, but couldn't ID them." Roddy shrugs his big shoulders, face calm but body tense. "Ask me, it was Datch. And all because I did a couple jobs for the Society. My producer's been begging me to leave them to save my viewership--had a big drop in views after that mess--but to Hells with that. I get a chance to stop this Datch, you bet your bottom credit I'm gonna take it. You mess with Roddy Glasz, you get the Glasz Cannon!" With that, he flexes for the camera.
If you were stranded in the Drift, what three things would you want (assuming the necessities of shelter, food, air and water are covered)?
Roddy snorts. "Easy. Tunes, for sure. You heard Star Sugar Heartlove? Can't get enough of that album. Track 3, baby. Pure fire." He raps his fists on the metal table to the rhythm of music only he can hear. "Next? Weights. Gotta keep fit. Exercise is kinda like, my meditation, you know? Keeps me focused. Honestly, I don't really need it to stay in shape." He rubs his bald head with a sheepish grin. "I've kinda always been a big guy naturally. But the exercise helps me think, especially when I got something bugging me that I gotta work through, you know?" He taps a finger on his lips. "Third thing... Akitonian brandy. Reminds me of home. I ain't been back in a few years, but I miss the old stomping grounds. Ato-B is my brand. Best flavor for the price range, which is dirt cheap. Five credits a bottle. Growing up on the streets, five cred sounded like a fortune." He shakes his head ruefully. "My armor, beat up as it is, cost me fifty times that. Life's been good to me since those days."
Out of Character Questions
Do you have any of the following boons?
Acquainted with Datch (Ally) from SFS 2-01, Pact World Warriors
Big Win against Big Potion (Slotless) from SFS 2-17, Cost of Living
I do not. :)
Would you be willing to bot other characters, if needed?
I could probably do that if needed, provided they have bot info on their sheet.
Do you promise to let me know when you have a busy time in your life coming up so we can bot you as needed?
Absolutely!
Are you comfortable with a hard minimum 1 post a day pace?
I am indeed.
What has been your favorite SFS Adventure with this character, and why?
Despite the fact that I was consistently rolling hot garbage and the starship combat got ground almost to a halt because of it, I absolutely loved Yesteryear's Truth (1-03). This was before I paid to retrain from soldier into vanguard. Roddy was just a beefcake with a mean punch and had no business being on a first-contact mission. It was a lot of fun to lean into the whole fish-out-of-water thing.
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Player Name: Apoc Golem
Character Name: Roddy Glasz
Character Number: 6269-704
Slotted Faction: Exo-Guardians
Reputation with slotted faction: 6
Reputation with Second Seekers (Ehu Hadif): 0
Reputation with Second Seekers (Luwazi Elsebo): 0
Do you want bonus reputation with Ehu or Luwazi? Luwazi, I suppose
Day Job: Profession (bounty hunter) +11
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Howdy, I know its a bit last minute but if its cool I'd love to sign up for this. If you're locked in, I understand, no problem.
Unfortunately, the only character I have in tier is a Soldier, but I'd be willing to play a pregen of something else if table composition calls for it.
Who are you, and what will you bring to the party?
”Well, I’m a fair hand in battle. Can fill in around a starship in a pinch—done some good in a gunners seat, and I can handle a Chief Mate’s responsibilities if needed. Outside of the fight, I’ll admit I’m not much of a thinker, but I suppose I can help out with fixing things, here and there. ”
Have you crossed paths with Datch? What happened?
”Afraid I’ve missed most of the excitement with that one. I did meet her on that show they made us do—Pact World Warriors.”
If you were stranded in the Drift, what three things would you want (assuming the necessities of shelter, food, air and water are covered)?
”Well, I imagine I’d get pretty lonely out there, but I wouldn’t want to put someone else in the same bad situation as me. But I’m never alone as long as Iomedae is with me, so I suppose a copy of the Acts of Iomedae is all I would need.”
Do you have any of the following boons?
I have Acquainted with Datch from 2-01
Would you be willing to bot other characters, if needed?
I’d defer to other on this, but I am willing to do so if clear botting instructions are included on the character's profile.
Do you promise to let me know when you have a busy time in your life coming up so we can bot you as needed?
Yes.
Are you comfortable with a hard minimum 1 post a day pace?
Yes.
What has been your favorite SFS Adventure with this character, and why?
This particular character only has a few under his belt, but one of them was Live Exploration Extreme, so that makes it a very easy choice.
Player Name: Matt Grinstead
Character Name: Ardoc Tessere
Character Number: 203433-702
Slotted Faction: Exo-Guardians
Reputation with slotted faction: 8
Reputation with Second Seekers (Ehu Hadif): 0
Reputation with Second Seekers (Luwazi Elsebo): 0
Do you want bonus reputation with Ehu or Luwazi? Ehu
Day Job: No.
Alright seems we have the four people on the sign-in sheet here! Welcome everyone. I've been enjoying seeing your replies and this looks like a great group to play with! We'll be getting started in a little less than 24 hours. I'm going to finish up the maps today and I'll post a link to them soon!
Despite the fact that I was consistently rolling hot garbage and the starship combat got ground almost to a halt because of it, I absolutely loved Yesteryear's Truth (1-03). This was before I paid to retrain from soldier into vanguard. Roddy was just a beefcake with a mean punch and had no business being on a first-contact mission. It was a lot of fun to lean into the whole fish-out-of-water thing.
Wait is this your first time playing this character at 2nd level? It looks like it on your profile page but that could be out of date.
Hey, I am signed up for this, but looking ahead at how crazy busy I'm going to be at work at least through the end of September, I can't in good conscious be in a PBP special without dragging down the pace of the game.
Sorry. Hope you guys have fun!
No worries, sorry to hear that you have a bit too much on your plate right now. Just don't over work yourself!
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It is indeed! I haven't had the chance to try out the vanguard at all since my retrain, so I'm going to be learning as I go. Hopefully I don't screw it up too badly! Mostly it looks like "boop snoot, deal damage" but playing with the Entropy abilities will take some getting used to. This class looks like a blast though! I can't wait.
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In Character Questions
Who are you, and what will you bring to the party?
Kaath is a star wanderer and survivalist. Not much of a pilot or skill monger, but handy in a fight. He is fresh from the academy so no prior missions
Have you crossed paths with Datch? What happened?
Who is this Datch you speak of?
If you were stranded in the Drift, what three things would you want (assuming the necessities of shelter, food, air and water are covered)?
A chance to wander the drift and chronicle all he sees.
[b]Out of Character Questions
Do you have any of the following boons?
Acquainted with Datch (Ally) from SFS 2-01, Pact World Warriors
Big Win against Big Potion (Slotless) from SFS 2-17, Cost of Living
Nope
Would you be willing to bot other characters, if needed?
Prefer not (since relatively new to SFS)
Do you promise to let me know when you have a busy time in your life coming up so we can bot you as needed?
Yes
Are you comfortable with a hard minimum 1 post a day pace?
Yes
What has been your favorite SFS Adventure with this character, and why?
New character.
Player Name: GM Aarvid
Character Name: Kaath Novaflame
Character Number: 9884-702
Slotted Faction: Second Seekers (Jadnura)
Reputation with slotted faction: none
Reputation with Second Seekers (Ehu Hadif): No
Reputation with Second Seekers (Luwazi Elsebo): No
Do you want bonus reputation with Ehu or Luwazi? No
Day Job: None
It is indeed! I haven't had the chance to try out the vanguard at all since my retrain, so I'm going to be learning as I go. Hopefully I don't screw it up too badly! Mostly it looks like "boop snoot, deal damage" but playing with the Entropy abilities will take some getting used to. This class looks like a blast though! I can't wait.
Well then, go ahead and refund those reputation for the mnemonic editor. Until you start a game with the character at level 2 the first level full rebuild rules apply! So there was no need to retrain in this case. I've only played my vanguard once but it was fun to batter things about. And he took some massive damage from a trap but barely scraped by which would have killed almost anyone else in the group.
Do you want bonus reputation with Ehu or Luwazi? No
First, welcome! Glad to have you here and I hope it's a fun game for you. And second, you'll get bonus reputation here automatically, you just have a choice in this case!
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So, we get 2 solarions and 2 vanguards. Pretty solid I'd say. I just hope we have a slight different specialization to cover more skill areas.
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Just found out that my last post hasn't been saved. So, here are reporting details.
Player Name: Shtorm
Character Name: Joe Bread
Character Number: 157437-702
Slotted Faction: Exo-Guardians
Slotted boon: Loaned ship: Sunrise Maiden (Starship boon, Limited);
Street-Cred: Absalom station (Social) ...
Reputation with slotted faction: 5
Reputation with Second Seekers (Ehu Hadif): 0
Reputation with Second Seekers (Luwazi Elsebo): 0
Do you want bonus reputation with Ehu or Luwazi? No Idea. Use most Law-oriented one.
Day Job:
Thank you Joe, my next post was going to be asking you for that exactly!
As for information, Kaath could you add your pertinent information to you tag line under your name? Having hit points, AC and saves would save me a lot of clicking when getting posts together!
Otherwise about T-10 hours and 20 minutes until launch off!
I sadly have classes this morning so I'm not going to be able to post immediately after Overseer Tyrannius posts but I should be able to squeeze something in about 30 mins after our start time!
I just realized we only have 24 hours for this introductory part so feel free to make a skill roll before I get a post in describing the situation. If need be you can describe how you did it afterwards!
Also given we have minimal time, I'll give the DC levels for the various rewards, first level is DC 12, then DC 15, and finally DC 18.
Gald you enjoyed it! :D
Alright, as I said earlier I'm in Japan so I'm heading to bed right now. It'll be 7-ish hours before I can conceivably post anything, but the good news is minus an aid another or another attempt at Celita's task you've done everything you can right now. Nice job everyone, that was amazing!
If you guys want to start looking at slotting boons now would be a great time for that! (Though I understand there aren't many boon choices for characters at these levels)
Also STARSHIP COMBAT! We can avoid most of them but I do believe there is one mandatory one. Are there any roles people want in particular? I'm guessing Apikinzas should be the science officer/engineer as that +9 engineering bonus will be a big boon to keeping the ship together. We also need a pilot... Anyone trained in Piloting?
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In Character Questions
Who are you, and what will you bring to the party?
Apikinzas Vesk racer and engineer There is no problem technology cant fix
Have you crossed paths with Datch? What happened?
No
If you were stranded in the Drift, what three things would you want (assuming the necessities of shelter, food, air and water are covered)?
My toolkit to fix the heap of crap that left us in the drift
Out of Character Questions
Do you have any of the following boons?
Acquainted with Datch (Ally) from SFS 2-01, Pact World Warriors
Big Win against Big Potion (Slotless) from SFS 2-17, Cost of Living
Nope
Would you be willing to bot other characters, if needed?
Once I know what they do maybe
Do you promise to let me know when you have a busy time in your life coming up so we can bot you as needed?
Sure
Are you comfortable with a hard minimum 1 post a day pace?
Should be
What has been your favorite SFS Adventure with this character, and why?
Find out the possibilities of driving vehicles into enemies in Storm of the end times
Starship
Loves to pilot things but also good engineer
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Roddy is pretty much bad at all the starship combat positions, sorry to say. His Dex is 10 so he's bad at gunning, and he doesn't have the skills for any of the positions except Diplomacy, which is a +6. We do have a pretty combat-heavy crew so that might actually be the best Diplo in the party, I dunno. I hesitate to call "captain," but I don't think I'm gonna be helpful at anything else. XD
EDIT: I also have a starship boon for a mining laser upgrade. I'll slot that and if we don't want to use it, I believe we can just ignore it, correct? It's not like I have anything else to slot there yet anyway. :)
My other boon is simply the Exo-Guardians Champion boon.
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CHRONICLE INFORMATION:
Player Name: Jeff Cook
Character Name: Apikinzas
Character Number:9251-703
Slotted Faction:ExoGuardians
Reputation with slotted faction:10
Reputation with Second Seekers (Ehu Hadif):0
Reputation with Second Seekers (Luwazi Elsebo):0
bonus reputation with Ehu
Day Job:Too busy fixing my racer to have a second income job
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chief mate might work best for this group
If any of the solarians went mysticism magic officer might be doable
Those were the char ops options not seeing anything in the starship section of Nethys that screams use me here
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Ardoc's not a great gunner due to not having much Dex, but he's a decent Chief Mate with the +9 Athletics. He can fill in at Magic Officer (+6 Mysticism, 2 ranks) and Engineering (+4, 1 rank) in a pinch.
Always happy to have Sunny. I can also bring the Heavy Solar Cannon boon to swap out any one starship heavy weapon with a heavy solar cannon (3d8 damage, medium range, and has the Sustained 4 property).
I'm going to grab an extra Serum of Healing with my free serum/grenade.
The sunrise maiden is a good ship!
So it's looking like the positions might be:
Pilot: Apikinzas
Captain: Roddy
Gunner: Joe
Gunner: Bonra
Chief Mate/Magic Officer (scan the enemy ship for general idea and then switch to other posistions!)/Pinch Engineer: Ardoc
?: Kaath
Also anyone want to try a last minute culture aid to get the last bonus? ...Does anyone other than Roddy have Culture trained?
Also anyone else want to decide their free serum/grenades now? Also don't forget you get one free mk 1 serum of healing as well.
Yep one set and then another serum or grenade of level 2 or lower, so you could definitely claim 2 mk 1 serums of healing.
I forgot to add one warning about the missions, Mission 3 Universal healthcare, does deal with themes of contagions and quarantine and may be very similar to what has been happening in the world right now. If everyone is okay with that I'll be glad to run it for you, but if anyone thinks they would not enjoy that then we can easily skip it.
Okay sounds good! So we'll only need one vote as to which mission to take from then on? I know there's been a preference mentioned for mission 3, but given the themes, I'd really like to get everyone's approval before moving forwards. Normally I'd only take a few voices in a PbP setting, but this one could potentially ruin someone's enjoyment of the game. In light of that, I'll go the second most popular mission, the Golden Caper.
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I forgot to add one warning about the missions, Mission 3 Universal healthcare, does deal with themes of contagions and quarantine and may be very similar to what has been happening in the world right now. If everyone is okay with that I'll be glad to run it for you, but if anyone thinks they would not enjoy that then we can easily skip it.
I am interested even more now, how game designers created it in such fantastic setting :)
For me there is now content restrictions in PF / SF.
I'd even say that Paizo became more soft, and present world trend oriented. That is undertandable.
Any ideas on what Kaath should do this round?
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Move forward and activate solarion weapon seems the obvious choice
Also as new to Starfinder Kaath player may not have realized that only 1 resolve point effectively makes stamina points a one time only resource we are going to need those healing serums. (yeah why solarion resolve is tied to charisma is still a weird design decision to me given so little else about them keys to charisma)
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Yeah, move and activate sounds good. No need to get fancy just yet.
As far as solarians' Resolve being tied to Charisma, it's not that strange. All their stellar revelations have their DC's set by Charisma so it's a pretty important stat. Since Kaath is still level 1, might not be a bad idea to redistribute after this scenario to boost his Charisma just a bit. In fact, maybe even swapping Wisdom and Charisma altogether. Hate to say it, but Wisdom is kind of a dump stat for solarian. It's weird to think about because aesthetically, it's the closest class to the monk in Pathfinder terms, but mechanically ends up being very different so I think a lot of new players fall into that trap. Wisdom can be helpful for skills but it's honestly not worth the massive hit to your Resolve Points and stellar revelation DC's.
Yup. Though for him he can't do too much about that wisdom as the kasatha give him a boost to it.
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Yeah, move and activate sounds good. No need to get fancy just yet.
As far as solarians' Resolve being tied to Charisma, it's not that strange. All their stellar revelations have their DC's set by Charisma so it's a pretty important stat. Since Kaath is still level 1, might not be a bad idea to redistribute after this scenario to boost his Charisma just a bit. In fact, maybe even swapping Wisdom and Charisma altogether. Hate to say it, but Wisdom is kind of a dump stat for solarian. It's weird to think about because aesthetically, it's the closest class to the monk in Pathfinder terms, but mechanically ends up being very different so I think a lot of new players fall into that trap. Wisdom can be helpful for skills but it's honestly not worth the massive hit to your Resolve Points and stellar revelation DC's.
My first SFS character was Solarian exactly because of similarities with Monks. I used Zeratool from Starcraft as a prototype to build it conceptually. But yeah, I was dissapointed after about 10-12 scenarios.
Dang I have a class in a moment. But I'll get us moving as soon as it's over!