[SFS/Shifty/OP4] #3-17: Clone Batch Catastrophe (A) (Inactive)

Game Master Nik B.

It's very short notice, but I'm going to be busy for the rest of today and all of tomorrow (Sunday) so I'm not likely to be back until Monday (so about 48 hours.) I'll post something now, but if there's need for Seggas to roll something, feel free to bot her, she has a robust character sheet on her profile page. Apologies for the short notice and I hope that this isn't too disruptive.

Apologies, but I may not be able to make a good post for the next 48 hours. I'm doing annual simulator training and testing (checkride) today and tomorrow. I meant to let you all know, but got wrapped up in prepping for it.

Friday afternoon here - heading into work and up into the mountains with a crew for a couple of days for some adventures with mud and chainsaws due to the 'rain bomb' that has hit the region. Back Sunday night my time (~48 hrs)

Will post if I can get comms up there but otherwise offline.

Wait, I thought Autralia was only 2ish hours ahead of Japan, not 3+ hours... huh.

Hah it was 1107am - must have been ahead of myself.

it now looks like serious rain and I'm trying to sort out getting a recovery team into a flooded region to help with sandbagging a clean up... seriously Fire/Fire/Covid/Flood/Flood - been at this since Oct 19 and would like a break soon plzkthx...

Tariana has an illegal option selected. She is currently being updated. Apologies for the delay

Feat Boost: Multi-Weapon Versatility replaced with Gear Boost: Melee Striker.

Cheers

Did we lose our fifth?

I'm still here sorry, it's the start of a new school year in Japan so I've been busy at work and had less time to post than I expected. It should be settling down soon, and I should be getting back into regular patterns and postings.

Did we lose our fifth?

Short answer: Yes, we're down to four now.

Long answer: LightHacker - who was playing Dhony - is my adult son. Right after the scenario actually started, his life blew up pretty badly. He hadn't even responded to my texts for a couple weeks, although I knew that he was alive & healthy. It was just a lot of other stuff.

We finally had a chance for a short chat tonight.

He said he thought he'd already withdrawn from the game.

Meanwhile, I had been waiting to see if he might rejoin us, and didn't want to pester him about it.

I want to apologize to everyone on behalf of both of us for not having addressed this earlier, but yes, Dhony should be withdrawn from the game.

No worries, I just wanted to make sure that we weren't skipping over their actions.

Ohhh, shoot! I hadn't even noticed! I hope he is okay and his life settles down soon then.

Whoops, I meant to address Seggas's title here. I'm fine out of character and she's fine in character with how everyone addresses her. She introduced herself by her first name and considers everyone an equal/part of her in-group and therefore is happy with non-degrading names. The patient was not extended this consideration for 2 reasons, 1 he is a potential patient and 2 I play her as having some moderate to severe (depending on rolls and my ability to in depth posts) social anxiety and having a formal barrier is one way of handling that. Thank-you for apologizing, but calling her Doctor Seggas is okay... just not in front of the patients. :P

Ah, okay. That actually makes complete sense. Then he'll chalk it up to habit and not knowing the rules. Thanks for the explanation.

@GM: Point of clarification - Is that a door that the Red robot went out through? If so, can the door be closed now that the bot has left the room? If not, what parts of the walls/furniture impede movement and ranged attacks?

Also, this is 4-player adjusted?

@Celly and Seggas: I see that you both have electricity resistance 5. Would you accept a d8 of electricity damage (so potentially 0-3 damage after your resistance on a failed save) from a shock grenade? In addition, you'd get a +2 on your reflex save.

The robot backed out the door it came through.

For 4 player adjust you still get the same two creatures, Tariana DID hit with one swing - went back and double checked the attack, but there was a lot of delaying to bluff etc by the party at the start - and swinging with a chair against the killbots probably isn't going to get a quick victory.

Oh, yeah, no I wouldn't have thought that a chair would have been effective (still not real sure why Celly did that). I was just asking to make sure. Obviously there's "stuff" going on behind the scenes that we don't see. I was just more concerned that there was no way a party of 4 could fight 2 bots <and> stabilize 3 Joros simultaneously. That would even be tough with a 6 person party if only 1 PC had healing and/or was Medicine trained, but at least the others could keep the bots at bay.

Thank you for double checking Tariana's attacks. I'm holding my action until I hear from Celly and Seggas regarding their willingness to risk a little hair-frizzing electricity.

It was a nasty roll of the dice from the hazard - a 50/50 chance you get some (likely) fatalities. Basically, this is starting to paint a picture of increased resistance to your presence in the colony...

You can't save everyone (I suspect) I guess it comes down to what you attempt to do.

I'm okay with that, Seggas would probably want to rest up after this for her biohacks back anyways. Also assuming we have more than 1 or 2 rounds to handle the dying Joros, Seggas can probably get to all three in time. Though if someone wants to help the last one that would be a help.

Celly will take the hair frizzing, and once she sees people down, her aasimar instincts will kick back in.

I have demounted the Flood recovery task - HUZZAH - but an flying to another state for two more weeks with work, and that will be fairly 'involved', that said I expect to post at least daily still.

We are almost at the end, just one more section to complete. This was a long and rp heavy scenario!

Further to the above...

I have drafted up the chronicles tonight ahead of time as I wont have good access to computers etc, but it means I can get something to you when we get to the end (instead of waiting a while)

Reporting
I have everyones details, final day of the event is 27 April. We should hit that but need to keep to a decent post rate to get there.

Boons
Per Outpost IV the following applies:
*In your next post below, roll a D20.
* A 19 or 20 wins a boon.
* If you or a player win a boon, Roll a d4 to determine which one you get.

Boon? 1d20 ⇒ 9

Boon!: 1d20 ⇒ 19
1d4 ⇒ 3

Woohoo!

boon: 1d20 ⇒ 6

Boon: 1d20 ⇒ 131d4 ⇒ 2

OH, Right! Boons!

Boon me up Scotty: 1d20 ⇒ 18
Dang close but no cigar

Seggas, make sure to roll that crit damage, and any effect.

Dangit, I always get the crit rules between PF2 and SF mixed up.

Chronicles HERE

Thanks all - that was a super strange scenario but I quite liked it. Very long, but also very 'Paranoia' inspired in parts.

Tariana's Day Job Roll
[/dice=Bladedancer]1d20+2d4+13[/dice]
EDIT: BAD SYNTAX
Bladedancer: 1d20 + 2d4 + 13 ⇒ (17) + (1, 1) + 13 = 32
Additionally, Izalguun Profiteer boon, for Tier 3-4, for an additional 140 credits

Thanks everyone. Thanks for running this Shifty.

Sorry about the issue with Dhony / LightHacker. His life is more stable now, and hopefully he'll get back into a game at some point. Thanks for being patient and understanding.

The boon I won is Possessed Augmentation. If anyone is interested in trading for it, PM me. It's not one I'll likely ever use.

Hope to see you all in another game soon!

All good mate - glad things have gotten better :)

Thanks for running this Shifty

Thank-you for running this! I was not expecting it to be a longer scenario, but it was fun to play with everyone!

Quick question for future roleplay purposes, along the way were any of us infected with Joro clone biomass and now find ourselves oddly attracted to specific pastimes in ways we never were before (or perhaps we avoided this fate)?

The chronicle summary lists both possibilities. Personally it sounds like we weren't but I also don't know the mechanics behind this scenario as well.

You didn't get poisoned by the Joro needle shooting cameras so no Joro-morphing :)

Oh, but didn't Skorpahlich fail a roll? Does that mean what I think it does? It gives a completely new meaning to that last post of his!

you are fine, whether Skorp starts engaging you in boardgames and choir rehearsals is up to them to reveal though