Hi all!
I'm keen for us all to try to post regularly (aim for once or more per weekday and, at least once on weekends). Whilst adventures can be caught in 'conversation loops' back and forth, I will endeavour to keep things kicking along and get the gist of where a conversation is going and keep us pointed in the right direction.
Work, study, and wild parties in Mexico have a way of getting in the way sometimes and if that is likely please leave a post in advance if you know that you may have limited time/ability to post for a period of time (and when we can expect you back).
On that note, I am posting from Sydney, Australia. Most of you will be posting when I am asleep so when I get up around 0500 odd I usually do the catch up over a coffee, and then usually in the afternoon/evening each day.
I will generally roll Initiative (and any other rolls if really required), but not to shaft anyone or railroad them, more in the interest of giving you some sort of outcome to then respond to - I aim to complete a single round of combat within 24 hours.
When in combat, unless a PC has left botting instructions or made arrangement for another player to bot them, I will place any PC that has not posted within the past 24 hours (48 hours on a weekend) on delay.
If a single skill check has been called for, I will accept the PC with the highest skill bonus as the "primary" and all other attempts by PCs for the same check as aiding another.
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Please provide the following for your PC:
Name:
Character Name:
SFS ID and character number:
Faction:
Day job Roll:
Boons (Happy for this to occur after the briefing)
SKITTERPOCALYPSE
Farol TBD LVL 1 skittermander
Agent Eclipse Mujina-chan Skittermander Vanguard 1
Redelia TBD TBD, level 2 skittermander
Jim Crase Umm.....need a name Biohacker 2 (GM credit) skittermander
Sethran Taneka Skittermander Solarion 1 (Replay)
Mjolbeard Szama Skittermander Witchwarper 2
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Name: Mjolbeard
Character Name: Szama
SFS ID and character number: 177216-707
Faction: Acquisitives
Day job Roll: N/A
Boons (Will post after the briefing)
As an aside, Szama is currently wrapping up a game of 3-01 over on Discord. Our GM has let us know we are in the final stages, but from a player perspective I don't know how long it will actually be. I believe we should be done prior to 8/24, though.
If that game does go long, I'll let you know ahead of the start date, and will drop out if necessary.
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Name: Agent Eclipse
Character Name: Mujina-chan
SFS ID and character number:#54329-706
Faction: The Acquisitives
Day job Roll:
Boons (Happy for this to occur after the briefing):
Ally: None
Faction: Acquisitives Champion
Personal: Nufriend Skittermander
Promotional: Promotional Reroll (T-Shirt)
Social: None
Starship: None
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Name: Jim Crase
Character Name: Guiseppelia Nandell Eve Shirley's Call her Joe Bones
SFS ID and character number:56565-711
Faction: Second Seeker Jadnura
Day job Roll:
Promotional: Shirt Reroll (3 Nova GM ATM)
Boons: Will do. Only forced one is Nufriend Skittermander (with +2 as I have 2 of such boons on same character)
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Just FYI next week 31 August - 5th of September I will be at vacation practicing man trailing with my dogs. That might make my posting infrequent during that time period. I hope to be able to post normally but I will know better after the first couple of days. The location is fairly remote (as much as one can find a remote place in Europe :P)
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Name: Farol
Character Name: Buddy Jabo
SFS ID and character number: 2359780-711
Faction: Second Seekers (Ehu Hadif)
Day job Roll:
Boons (Happy for this to occur after the briefing) No boons, beyond Skittermander personal and a Ehu Hadif Champion.
Just for the record I might want to reshape Buddy a bit after the scenario. This is my first take on the furball
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@Shifty - I allowed myself to ping Mjolbeard as I did not saw him posting in gameplay. And then I noticed that he is not listed in characters tab (which means that he did not dot, or you removed him ;)).
I don't know if he simply resigned from the game (but then probably we would see some post) or simply did not dot and lost the link to this table (happens to the best of us, and this was my bet).
Either way, I wanted to help, as every skittermander would, so I did what I did :)
All good - appreciated :)
Hey Squizzer,
No worries,these are some crazy times, we all do what we can. Take care of your nufriends ;)
P.s.
The Internet is flaky here like a skittermander beard. I am less certain of my frequent posting this week
Hey there crew! I'm very sorry for dropping out as I have on this group! I misunderstood when this game would be starting, thinking it was to start as part of Gameday, and that I might therefore be able to finish the other game my skittermander is involved in. Unfortunately, it looks like I was wrong on both counts--I see the game has already started, and my skitter is still embroiled in the other scenario, though it seems like she's in the final fight for the scenario. To be fair to this crew then, I think I will have to resign my spot here.
Thanks for the opportunity to play with you all, and sorry for the confusion!
Mjolbeard/Szama
Ok no worries :) Glad all is ok!
I'm likely to have some minor disruption to my ability to post from 21-28 Sep (inclusive).
Work needs to send me away for another Covid task. I'm expecting super long days and a long transit time there and back.
I should still be able to post at least once daily but may miss a day here or there.
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Youd also know the creature is CR3 with about 40hp - so plan accordingly...
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Youd also know the creature is CR3 with about 40hp - so plan accordingly...
Oh, I have tears in my eyes now:D
I can make 3 attacks 1d8 each. Let us be optimistic and say that I will hit 2 of them for average 4 dmg each. That is 8, which leaves us 32 rounds of Squizzer doing the hazard damage ;)
The name of the game: full defense and wait for it through :D
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I can help if it doesn't go away in a round....I have the ability to make level 1 antiemetic that for 10 minutes will give +1 to saves vs. sickened or nausea. It will give an immediate reroll for you Buddy...but my guess--dealing with PFS 1e--this is 1 round effect (used to be called distraction). Though I still might do it to all that will be targeted to help buff the save by 1.
It's nauseated for just one round... if you can get out of the creature and stay out it will clear up :)
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One idea came to me. If we follow RAW, I need 4 charges in the battery to do the automatic attack. Meaning a minimum of 2 shots needs to be made in which case the attack is within the cone, and damages swarm 'normally'. Joes two batteries hold 40 charges in total, which would allow to shoot 10 times instead of 2, if we can transfer 4 charges to my depleted battery. As automatic shooting uses all charges within battery.
We could do it with technomancer with a transfer charge. But maybe Joe with his +10 engineering check can assemble something to transfer charges from one battery to the other on the fly ;)
But that would probably require a green light from GM, and Joe ;)
Auto-fire in Starfinder is a bit silly in how it consumes a whole clip/battery. You are right that it takes two charges as there is one target, so the rest of the charge going into space is really quite annoying.
There are ways to transfer charges through spells, but can't see one RAW that lets you. I believe it was in another Starfinder scenario where you could engineer battery to battery charges, but can't see RAW on it.
:(
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I honestly don't think we can win...maybe we can think 'out of the box' here....if we can't figure how to explode the reactor (or at least have it shunt all the power into the swarm)...maybe we can lock it in a room? These are space ship doors. I doubt it can go through a non-existent crack that ships doors have.....
Besides those two thoughts.....Joe has no idea...and is frankly useless in this fight.
The Second scenario in this series has been announced and will drop 28 October.
I estimate this table probably has about two weeks left before completion (as I will have a slower posting pace next week)
Come up with your cunning plan and talk it through and we can give it a crack.
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On the second thought, maybe we should try the room that we used to enter this space? The small 6 square room would case the swarm to attack 3-4 people in one round. And if the plan fails then we are in deep troubles.
If there is a way around we can simply walk into the long 'corridor' like chamber and close two doors. Then walk around to meetup. Thoughts?
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We could send one skitter into that room, and then everybody else get farther away....it might go for the closest warmblooded creature....
That way one skitter runs in, and lures it in..then runs out and closes the door.
Joe would volunteer...after sticking herself with one of her medicinals { to get a +1 to nausea) and a basic booster (for either +2 to skill checks, or +10 speed...)
Yep still happy to hear the plan :)
Congrats!
See you all soon for #3-09: Frozen Ambitions: Freeing the Herd starting 28 Oct :)
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@Shifty - chronicle looks good.
First and foremost, thank you for running this table for us. As always you did a great job! And I have very little to add here. You did well and I liked the story, I was a bit afraid at two moments during the scenario: fighting the swarm and the crystal monster but I am glad that we were able to soldier through them.
@Team - thank you for the all skitter experience, I really liked it and would enjoy playing with you the 3-09. I was afraid that all skitter team would make playing more absurd, but I am glad that we find a way to have a feel of skittermanders without taking it to far.
Great Job, I loved Joe and Mujina RP! It is a shame to all interrupts that Squizzer and Taneka experienced, I hope you are well and you are able to handle everything that this crazy times throws our way.
If you need a pat at the back and a bit of a pep talk, let me know ;) As remotely I can't really aid anyone in a different manner :D
See you at 3-09, Buddy is out!
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Following Buddy on this...this was loads of fun! As he said, I was a little worried that there would be too much skitter antics...but it didn't. As with Kitkul (my formian sterilized solarian) I think Joe will have to be online only. Kitkul because trying to remember to use the words 'itself' 'oneself' such is harder when you are doing it IRL. Joe...her talking being run-on sentences will be hard. But she was fun.
I wouldn't mind more Skitter antics...if Shifty doesn't mind it....
You guys can Skitter-antic away to your hearts content.
That scenario didn't really give much opportunity though - about the only thing you could have done there was go off on a tangent and 'skitterfy' the hermits spaceship house. Totally needed more colour and inspirational quotes painted through it.