Can you bot me for the time being?
Pained and poisoned by the slashing crystals, Saja retrieves one of the bulbs provided by the ysoki in the Vat Garden. He finds it to be crunchy, but bland.
He also finds it effective.
Party Post-Storm Status
0x320
Cletus Gravelfinger
Kybosh -2 SP
Mizzrym -5 SP
Pinkie -2 SP
Saja Joseung -5 SP
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anyone got coffee?
My shop only serves tea... upon invitation. Saja points to his deck of cards and wonders about the dangers that lie ahead. He flicks through the cards one by one, then looks up with a surprised face at Mizzrym.
Mizzrym of House Zeizerer, he says, and after a brief moment of hesitation adds it seems you have your fate in your own hands.
Mizzrym requests a short rest.
After a ten-minute rest, the party is free to continue on. When it does so, you find that you have time as there seems to be no life-forms on the surface of the planet to disrupt your rest.
Then, please move your token(s) onto the revealed portion of the Map.
Once you resume your travels, it is not long before you see what appears to be an object sticking out of the sands ahead at, what your sensors indicate, should be the crash site.
Party Post-Rest Status
0x320
Cletus Gravelfinger
Kybosh -1 RP
Mizzrym -1 RP
Pinkie -1 RP
Saja Joseung -1 RP
Might be ... anyone bring binoculars? Oh .. I did. Hee hee
He has a look through those.
The morlamaw readily spots a piece of the wreck half buried in the sand, which appears to contain the Unbounded Wayfarer’s antipersonnel weapon, a tactical X-gen gun. The reloading mechanism of the heavy weapon looks damaged, but it otherwise appears as though it may still be operational. Affixed to a heavy section of fractured hull and partially covered in sand, it looks as though it cannot be readily moved.
Surprise Round!
Suddenly, the sand beneath your feet begins to give way as the ground trembles as a long, monstrous creature erupts from the sands between you. Light glistens off of the creature’s crystal carapace, reflected from the scorching desert sun, as remnants of the sound that once contained it now cascade off the towering beast like tiny waterfalls.
Yet, the most fearsome feature of this monster, at least of those portions of which are now above ground, are its enormous mandibles, which emit a continuous buzzing-like sound as they energetically thrum with anticipation.
It attempts to bite one of the Starfinders!
The creature's mighty mandibles crunches through the android's technoframe, their vibrations rattling apart the Starfinder's circuits.
Location of creature now on Map.
This creature is a skreebara, a 14-foot-long burrowing beast with six powerful legs. Its carapace is made of thick reflective crystal and it bears enormous mandibles that thrum with sonic energy. The tough, overlapping crystals that make up its carapace are valuable and fetch a sizeable sum of credits if properly harvested. If sufficiently desperate or frustrated, a skreebara may let loose a line of sonic energy, but it can only do so once approximately every six hours.
SAND AND DELIVER! Round One Begins!
0x320
Pinkie -1 RP
Cletus Gravelfinger
Mizzrym -1 RP
Creature
Kybosh -1 RP
Saja Joseung -1 RP
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After viewing this horrific display, Cletus once again wonders why he didn't listen to his mother about this Starfinder Society thing. More out of desperation, he stands where he is, draws his pistol, and starts firing.
On the other hand, his drone exhibits cold, emotionless efficiency as its protocols kick in and it fires its heavy weapon.
Pinkie's doshko strike bounces off the creature's crystalline carapace.
Cletus' shot as well as that of the drone, each injure the beast.
The creature turns its mandibles on the nearest Starfinders.
SAND AND DELIVER! Round One Cont'd/Round Two Begins!
0x320
Pinkie (fatigued) -1 RP
Cletus Gravelfinger
Mizzrym -1 RP
Creature -12 HP
Kybosh (fatigued) -10 SP | -1 RP
Saja Joseung -1 RP
0x320
Pinkie -8 SP | -4 HP |(fatigued) -1 RP
Cletus Gravelfinger
Mizzrym -1 RP
Pinkie pops the predator before parting.
Saja decides to take a step back and bombard the mind of the thing.
The spell ravages the creature's alien mind.
SAND AND DELIVER! Round Two Cont'd
Kybosh (fatigued) -10 SP | -1 RP
Saja Joseung -1 RP
0x320 -1 RP
Pinkie -8 SP | -4 HP |(fatigued) -1 RP
Cletus Gravelfinger
Mizzrym -1 RP
Creature -32 HP
The vesk's reptilian claws finish the beast's assault.
The lumbering creature convulses then crashes to the sandy ground dead.
Glancing at the tough, overlapping crystals that make up the skreebara’s carapace, you conclude that they could be valuable.
You can harvest crystals worth 800 credits from the creature.
You cannot harvest the crystals without causing some damage to the carapace. Although you are able to harvest 400 credits worth, you realize that this is likely only half of the carapace’s full value.
Once you reach the wreckage of the Unbounded Wayfarer, you can plainly see that the vessel is far beyond repair. The tactical X-gen gun affixed to a section of shattered hull, however, can be removed with about ten minutes of work. Although the weapon is too damaged to be functional, you figure that it can be sold as scrap for a couple hundred credits.
You recognize characteristic impact marks of heavy metallic slugs, such as those used in coilguns or railguns on starships. The damage on the ship’s hull indicates that it tried to dodge the strafing fire, but darted the wrong way. You now understand, firsthand, how the Lawblight must have oriented its attacks with its coilguns against at least two of the ships that it attacked.
Entering the interior of the wreckage, you find that the distress beacon has been activated. Although one of the Starfinders must have survived long enough to activate it, there are no survivors—seven desiccated corpses remain in the wreckage, while the remaining crew members were likely pulled out by the desert creature and devoured.
Nothing else of value appears to remain in the wreck; anything obviously worth salvaging was likely taken by the Corpse Fleet explorer that plundered it earlier.
Although the Unbounded Wayfarer’s computers are beyond repair, they still retain a minimal amount of power. Further, the computer interface ports contain an indentation in the same shape of the Starfinder insignias that retrieved from Julzakama some time ago.
The computer flares to life just enough to display a datafile of worlds previously explored by crew of the Unbounded Wayfarer. They include:
• A wasteland planet called Elytrio that displayed signs of scattered technology.
• A sentient asteroid called Lamentia teeming with morlock “children” in the Vast.
• A massive space station called End of Bright Things stuck between the orbits of two blue dwarf stars.
• A stormy, oceanic world called Wealdriad, with upthrust columns of basalt piercing the storm-tossed ocean’s surface.
You can easily download this data into any personal data device, or send a wireless transmission of the files to the Odyssey for storage.
The final location’s coordinates are too damaged to display, but the computer has enough power to open a slot containing a single item, perhaps salvaged from the lost location. Within a once hidden compartment, that has now opened on the side of the ship, you find an iridescent spindle aeon stone. You can find no further details regarding the item’s history.
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Karen Gravelfinger arrives at the Lorespire complex to pick up Cletus and take him home. "Cletus! I can't believe you let that poor android lay there on that alien planet!"
Karen turns to T Ox32O. "I'm so sorry. He's usually quite considerate. I hope you're doing better after almost getting bit in half by that creature. CLETUS! Come with me. We're going home. Did you take your stomach pills today?"
Cletus looks dejected as he leaves all of you.
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"Has anyone seen T Ox32O lately?"
Instead of looking for T 0x320, Saja just rummages through his deck of cards, until he concludes The android is alive, he is not part of my assignment.
The thin human did briefly pause looking over one of the cards, and offers the dejected dwarf some parting word You acted commendably, Cletus. Just bear with this a little longer...
Having recovered the data module from the Unbounded Wayfarer, you are free to recover the bodies of the Starfinders a gesture sure to be appreciated by their families back on Absalom Station.
Your mission on the world complete, you can safely retrace your steps to the Odyssey and leave the surface of Ulmarid. You know with certainty that you will be well-compensated for reaching the wreck of the Unbound Wayfarer and returning with the information stored within the ship’s computer.
More of your future, however, is less certain. The strike upon the []Odyssey’s[/i] shields as you approached Ulmarid may well have been a foreshadowing of a more perilous navigation through the planet's asteroid field that could await you upon departure. Further, the threat of the Lawblight, the pirate vessel that brought low the Unbounded Wayfarer, has yet to be accounted for and, for all you know, could be lying in wait even now as you set out for Absalom Station.
Regardless of what the future may hold, you can be sure that the life of a Starfinder Society agent will be one of excitement, challenge, and new discoveries!