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

Game Master Nik B.

Celly feels a bit sad she couldn't reach the last Joro in time. She just sits in the middle of the floor meditating and refocusing until the last of her rage leaves her.

Don't suppose anyone can hack into the robot's control circuit and find out where the hack came from? she asks.

"I think we need to let the non-joros know that someone is targeting them. We need to find out what is going on with this situation."

"An excellent idea, Tariana."

He turns to the draelik. "Do you know how to quickly contact the other divergents? Send them a message that we think they -- I mean all of us non-joro clones -- are being targeted."

Meanwhile, he looks at the drones to see if there's anything useful. Certainly they had a weapon mounted on them, but who knows what else he might find.

Perception, Take 10: 10 + 9 = 19

When he's done with whatever he finds (or doesn't find) on the robot, he takes a seat and waits for his teammates to recover.

Celly moves over to Seggas and whispers Mistress Seggas? Have you got a side profession you're not telling us about? Or is that just a tiefling thing?

The draelik is a bit stunned by the carnage around him, "...umm, meet at the BoThumbsUp? That's where they normally stay"

Computers to hack the robot is that is the plan

"Very well. Go there to meet them, if you feel well enough. Or stay here. It is up to you," Skorpahlich says and mentally dismisses the draelik from any further thoughts as he returns to picking through the remains of the robot.

Skorpy wasn't trying to hack it, just looking to see if anything was usable or salvageable amongst its weapons or parts.

Seggas takes a look at the one person they weren't able to save and gives a sorrowful slither of her tongue. She instead focuses her attention on the problem Celly put forth of hacking the computer chips still left on the robots instead of starting to blame herself and grieve.

She picks over one of the robots and prays that she finds an mostly intact control unit.

Computers: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (13) + 7 = 20

She thinks she has lucked out, as she pulls a mostly phyiscally intact device out but she's not sure if she can get it to boot up properly...

As she works on the thing, Celly is able to blind side her with the her whispered conversation and the tiefling stops for a moment, before slowly whispering back, "It's more of a hobby than a profession... but it could be a tiefling thing, though. I've met more tieflings through this shared interest than through anything else. Also he was kinda cute..."

"Sure, this place doesn't look so good!" the Draelik notes the trashed hospital.

Skorp finds the bots just had the integrated weaponry they were firing.

Seggas rips out the command module and starts hacking it - the command signals appear to come from the area where the Draelik was attacked - a spot on the far edge of the vault...

Celly just gives Seggas a knowing smile. It may be. My tiefling best friend, Chryssi, yeah .... well .... lemme put it this way. I've had to refer to her as Mistress Chryssi on occasions. And I'm sorry you had to see me do, as Chryssi would say, release my inner tiefling, although she would have been laughing seeing me attacking a robot with a chair. And yeah ... she was in Mistress mode when she 'suggested' I wear this see-thru armour.

Celly had to blush a bit while saying all that.

Maybe you've met her already. Technomancer, artistic model, pushes the limits of dress codes, and we work at the same club

A bit louder. Right ... I think we got the invitation. Who wants to gate crash a party?

Perception: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (18) + 9 = 27

Skorpahlich happens to overhear only a portion of the ladies' conversation. Nevertheless he's ... intrigued. He has almost no experience being physical with other genders or species, and certainly not in the manner he thinks they're talking about. He looks at Seggas in a new light, and he remembers thinking earlier about the "trouble" that Celly and Chryssi probably get into together. He abruptly steps away from the conversation before he gets too distracted. Or aroused.

"Yes. It is the time to resolve all of this," he says perhaps a bit too loudly.

You head to the area and it becomes pretty clear where you need to be; the trail leads to an out-of-the-way juncture on the border of the vault beyond the holographic border. Here, the Joros’ community aesthetic fades, revealing a complex network of metal pipes, circuitry, and scaffolding akin to the rest of Salvation’s End.

The metal ceilings are 12 feet high, all doors are automated sliding steel doors that open automatically when someone stands in front of them for six seconds.

Map up! Please mark your path to your desired destination!

Skorpahlich considers the options as he scans the complex for threats.

"Without any leads, one direction is as good as any other," he says as he turns to his right. "South first? then anti-spinward from there?"

If no one objects, he begins moving that way, hoping that Tariana will soon take the lead.

Perception: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (3) + 9 = 12

"Anti-spinward" being future-speak for counterclockwise. Cause why would they still have analog 12-hour clock faces in the far future?

Celly just follows along behind, behind the front liners.

As long as one marks a course :p

Tariana has her sword out, plus her two survival knives, and stays near the front.
Perception: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (13) + 9 = 22
Well, Absalom Station still operates on a 24 hour day cycle. Would make sense to have them there

You move down the hall, Tariana can see a number of cameras tracking your movement - as you arrive at the first door you find it locked.

The lights suddenly go out, enveloping you all in darkness. "Really? You think you're all walking in here and expecting to walk back out? You must be BozoJoros!"

A mechanical noise comes from the direction of one of the cameras.

vs Tariana
Attack 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (7) + 11 = 18
The dart flattens on Tarianas armour, you can see some strange fluid in it...poison?

Action tracking
Celly
Seggas
Skorp
Tariana
ENEMY

Skorpahlich activates the IR sensors on his armor and attempts to track where the dart came from. He gingerly picks it up and carefully hands it to Seggas. "Can you tell what's in this? More importantly, can you conteract it if need be?" he asks their expert as he remembers her dart from their very first meeting.

Addressing the camera, he says "You've locked yourself in, safe and sound. Afraid of us, ChickenJoro?" he taunts the disembodied voice.

Skorp turns back to this comrades. "Come, let us find another way in."

He then marches south to the next set of doors.

Where are the cameras on the map? Can we reach them, or do we need to use reach/ranged attacks?

Seggas gives a giddy laugh at the idea of a new poison. Her eyes already made to see in the dark she has no trouble taking the dart and pulling a sample of the poison off with a fingernail as he custom made medkit intergrated into her spinal cord with lines to her hands and fingers starts to whirr and analyze the liquid.

Medicine or Life Sciences, Chemalyzer: 1d20 + 8 + 4 ⇒ (14) + 8 + 4 = 26 If this is a Life Sciences check she has a -5 to the DCs of identifying consumables such as drugs, medicinals, poisons, food, and drink

She also keeps an eye out for a gun or camera and tries to head for cover if she sees one.

Natural Darkvision here!

Celly also has Darkvision. She aloo has an annoyed look on her face.

Hm ... ChickenJoros she says quietly.

Louder. So ... would you like to talk to us? Explain what's going on? It would be nice if we could resolve this .. erm ... conflict without any more bloodshed. So .. what would you like to say?

diplomacy: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (12) + 11 = 23

Where are the cameras on the map? Can we reach them, or do we need to use reach/ranged attacks?

That depends on how keen you are to slow down and start making perception checks as move actions at this point.

Skorp gets going forward!

***

Seggas takes out her kit and conducts a prelim analysis of the unknown agent, it seems to be a relaxant (Charimsa track) with some other qualities.

Thats your moves for this round

***

Celly tries continuing the conversation but the voice chimes in "Oh no, I'm sorry it won't be like that at all I'm afraid, see right now you have created some problems, and I need to get things back the way they were before you started messing with things - I also can't have you leaving now as you'll just encourage more people to come. Nope, I need to harvest you"

***

Tariana up

I've kinda taken a liberty with her custom medlab, as it can be added to a brain or arm augmentation and I've made it so it works like both, which may or may not be kosher with the rules, but at a minimum it can be 'configured so it doesn't take up a hand to use' so her hands should be free.

Since Tariana saw many cameras with her previous check, what can she determine from where those were, in response to Skorpahlich's request?

They're marked on the map (small purple lights) - you are certain it was one of them adjacent the door that just shot at you

"You harvest clones that don't fit your outlook? You aren't a deity, so stop acting like one."
Tariana swings at the camera next to her.
Attack v k: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (16) + 9 = 251d8 + 10 ⇒ (2) + 10 = 12

Tariana destroys the camera.

"I'll be harvesting your biomass and will be turning you into a proper Joro like the rest of us - maybe you'll be made to balance the whizdisk teams, rectify the board game shipping delays during Forklift Joro’s medical leave, and to add a few more tenors to the Joros Choros community choir"

Another hiss as a dart flies from another location to the south.

vs Skorpalich
Attack 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (6) + 11 = 17
Damage [dice[3d6[/dice]
+Fort save

This dart hits

Action tracking
Celly
Seggas
Skorp
Tariana
ENEMY

Tariana screams "You can keep your stupid choirs and boardgames" as she rushes towards Skorpahlich, then upon seeing another camera at the intersection, she pivots and strikes at it.
Attack v k: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (10) + 9 = 191d8 + 10 ⇒ (7) + 10 = 17

Are you this Vault's guiding intelligence? Celly asks, her voice full of curiosity. We only came here from Outside to learn.

She then tries to detect any minds within 30ft that aren't the party using her Psychic Sense. Also, admitting that they're from Outside might throw whoever it is.

Seggas gives a full, long and hearty laugh at the idea of her 'biomass' being added to, well, ANYTHING. "You, want, my BIOMASS? Buwahahahaa! You realize my genetics are a flipping mess and I'm carrying enough retroviruses that if you added to any collective biomass you'd have to dump the whole mess or never have a 'proper Joro' produced from it ever again, right? I've also been working on an anti-swarm biomass converter genetic 'kill switch.' It'd be awesome to see if it works on yours!"

Still chuckling at the idiocracy of the idea, Seggas moves forward some and tries to take a shot at the camera in the hallway that Tariana hasn't shot yet.

BioBolter (Castrolance) vs EAC: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (20) + 3 = 23
Acid Damage: 1d6 ⇒ 2

Correction:
vs Skorpalich
Damage 3d6 ⇒ (2, 1, 6) = 9
+Fort save

Tariana smashes a camera.

Seggas half cooks one.

Celly is sure there is a person in the room nearby.

Action tracking
Celly - casting
Seggas - attacked
Skorp
Tariana - attacked
ENEMY

Skorpahlich pulls the dart from his leg, tosses it aside and enters the room.

Fort save : 1d20 ⇒ 3

The failed save won't matter. He'll be dead after one more shot like that.

Skorp gets into the room.

It appears to be some sort of roughly put together hangout for a group of people, but no one is currently here.

Action tracking
Celly
Seggas
Skorp
Tariana
ENEMY

Perception: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (11) + 9 = 20

Skorpahlich takes a look around the room.

If there is anything worth investigating he'll use the remainder of his action to investigate it. If there's nothing here, he'll use his action to move through the northern door.

Skorp finds the other room to be full of pretty mundane joro personal effects and piles of heat and eat comfort food for the hang out.

Celly points in the direction she detected the mind. In there she whispers.

Whoops she critted: 1d6 ⇒ 1 Only an injection DC +2 for a crit which is useless here.

Seggas decides to stop risking getting shot at in the hallway and barrels into the door to her left, where Celly is pointing and whispering something at. As she goes she loads a genetic inhibitor into the device.

You move down the hall, Tariana can see a number of cameras tracking your movement - as you arrive at the first door you find it locked.

GM said that door was locked. That's why Skorp moved on to the south, to see if we can find a key, or to lure whoever is in there out.

The door is not playing, Seggas gets nowhere.

Action tracking
Celly
Seggas -acted
Skorp - acted
Tariana
ENEMY

Celly does her best to heal up Skorp when she finally realises he is hurt bad.

mystic cure: 1d8 + 2 ⇒ (3) + 2 = 5

We should take ten when we get a chance she whispers to him.

The spell also allows her to transfer some of her points to him to top him up. One more point is moved.

"Thank you," Skorpahlich stammers at Celly's soft and warm touch near the dart wound. "I'm afraid we might not get the chance, though," he replies grumpily to her suggestion.

Seriously. Thank you.

Tariana moves down the hallway, slashing at the camera at the end.
Attack v k: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (14) + 9 = 231d8 + 10 ⇒ (4) + 10 = 14

Seggas gives a foul look at the door as she rubs her bruised shoulder. Missed that the thing was locked oops She tries to look for a lock on the thing, curious if it's something she could pick, hack or better yet, melt off.

Perception: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (9) + 8 = 17

If she doesn't find any better way in she decides to join the rest of the group in exploring rooms and smashing cameras.

You know ... why don't we find an empty room, lock ourselves in, and make them come to us Celly suggests. At the least, we'd be able to take ten

Celly is 65' from Skorp, not sure she can double move AND heal
Celly heads off to heal Skorp.

Tariana smashes a camera.

***

The locked door opens - a Joro in armour with a weaponised whizdick steps out "Time to get harvested!"

Action tracking
Celly
Seggas
Skorp
Tariana
ENEMY

Celly, just follow Skorp back out into the hall and heal him there.

"Ah, they've come out to play. Very well," Skorpahlich says to himself as he heads back into the hall drawing one of his last incendiary grenades as he does. He tosses it over Seggas' head to land at the Joro's feet.

Grenade, 2nd range increment: 1d20 + 2 - 2 ⇒ (17) + 2 - 2 = 17
Fire, DC 12: 1d6 ⇒ 4
Burn 1d4

Tariana, hearing the explosion, heads back and seeing the door open, closes the distance.
Two move actions

Tariana doubles back.

Skorp had lobbed a grenade...
Ref 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (11) + 6 = 17
The Joro is quicker than quick.

FJ 2

Seggas gives a laugh at the thought of her getting harvested for her biomass. "Your still on that kick? I've told you, you should not be using me to fuel any biomass."
She loads in a minor biohack as she moves in closer and takes a shot.

BioBolter (Castrolance) vs EAC: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (1) + 3 = 4
Acid Damage: 1d6 ⇒ 3

Celly moves forward to the Joro and proceeds to Mind Thrust him

mt: 2d10 ⇒ (6, 2) = 8 DC 13.

Seggas fires wide.

Celly tries mentally blasting the First Joro.
Will 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (16) + 4 = 20
But the swirling mental images of boardgames, whizdisk, and community choir groups baffles Cellys attack

***

The Joro swings at Tariana.

Attack 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (18) + 9 = 27
Damage 1d4 + 5 ⇒ (4) + 5 = 9
Sharpened Whizdisks hurt a lot it seems.

R2
Celly
Seggas
Skorp
Tariana
ENEMY

FJ 6

Tariana winces as the whizdisk bites into her armor and tears some of her scales.
She angrily raises her longsword and slashes twice at the Joro.
Attack 1 v k: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (7) + 5 = 121d8 + 10 ⇒ (1) + 10 = 11
Attack 2 v k: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (18) + 5 = 231d8 + 10 ⇒ (2) + 10 = 12