Ebonfist's SFS #2-00 Fate of the Scoured God (Inactive)

Game Master EbonFist

For chitting and chatting.

Feel free to introduce yourselves and provide the below info:

Name:
Character Name:
SFS ID and character number:
Faction:
Day job Roll:
Boons (Happy for this to occur after the briefing)

Name: Nomadical
Character Name: Mahari Jones
SFS ID and character number: 151562-704
Faction: Dataphiles
Day job Roll: TBD

I've played this before at Tier 5-6, though I honestly don't remember much.

I have the Manticore (starship) charity boon, and I think there's starship combat (see, I said I don't remember much). If so, and if no one else has a better starship option available, I'd like to slot that and use it as our ship.

Mahari is a Face operative: all Charisma, Bluff, Diplo, etc. and is just okay at shooting things. She has Jack of All Trades allowing her to make any skill check as if trained. Her day job will be a Profession check based on something that occurs in the scenario.

She has Trap Spotter, automatically receiving a Perception check to notice traps when passing within 10 ft.

For starship roles she can easily Captain, but can also Pilot adequately.
Diplo +13
Bluff +16
Intimidate +13
Piloting +12

Thanks for GMing!

Name: noral
Character Name: Donovan Borde
SFS ID and character number: 314670-701
Faction: Exoguardians
Day job Roll: none
Boons (Happy for this to occur after the briefing)

I need to update the profile to level 4.

Hello. I was able to play some online games this last weekend and leveled my character "Rhubarby" to level 3. I will be updating my character info etc tonight. I figured this was ok since we have not started yet.

Thank you.

Don't thank me, yet, Noral. I may do a terrible job.

You're absolutely right Rhubarbie, you can play right up until the last day. Your character isn't locked in until the first real gameplay post.

Ha ha! You are an awesome GM! Looking forward to this ... I am really bad with Starfinder rules so I will make mistakes. :-) Just a heads-up.

FWIW, I'm planning to play Mahari one more time before the start. She won't level, but she'll certainly go shopping.

Regarding using the Manticore ship, it's better than a Drake but not nearly as powerful as a Gorgon. It can be enhanced with Starship boons of other players, too. Here's the stats:

STARFINDER SOCIETY MANTICORE TIER 4
Medium explorer
Speed 6; Maneuverability good (turn 1); Drift 1
AC 14; TL 15
HP 65; DT —; CT 13
Shields Light 70; forward 20, port 15, starboard 15, aft 20
Attack (Forward) Railgun (8d4)
Attack (Port) Gyrolaser (1d8) [Broad Arc]
Attack (Starboard) Gyrolaser (1d8) [Broad Arc]
Attack (Turret) High explosive missile launcher (4d8)
Power Core Pulse Red (175 PCU); Drift Engine Signal Basic;
Systems Mk 2 duonode computer (+2 twice),
crew quarters (common), basic short range sensors, mk 4
armor, mk 5 defenses
Modifiers +2 Computers, +2 Piloting, +2 to two other checks

We're just under a week out but I've posted the slide deck.

Please put your perception and initiative modifier and token on slide 2.

Feel free to enter your reporting information over there, as well.

I'd like to switch Mahari's slotted Faction to SS: Jadnura.

Hello everybody. I have played this special before and will be using the Tier 1 Jadnura Seeker of Knowledge boon in order to replay it. I also will be spending 3 Fame to purchase the Basic & Amateur hireling boons for Bluff/Diplomacy/Intimidate.

Name: azjauthor
Character Name: Officer Wilson
SFS ID and character number: 108452-708
Faction: Second Seeker (Jadnura)
Day job Roll: Profession(private security guard): 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (6) + 9 = 15

Faction Boon: SS-J Champion
Promotional Re-roll: T-shirt re-roll
Personal Boon: Scoured Stars Survivor
Ally Boon: Amateur Hireling Boon (+4 to Bluff/Diplomacy/Intimidate)
Starship Boon: Defenders of the Fleet - I am leaning toward choosing the "Finest Weapons" option, allowing any Starship weapon die rolls of 1 to be re-rolled, but let me know if someone would prefer this focus on improving the Computers or Engines instead.

Sorry for my silence, guys. My power has been out since Monday afternoon.

I've asked for a backup GM until I can make significant posts.

And hello! I'll be your guide for a bit until power and heat decide to cooperate with EbonFist.

Hello. Question on these challenges...Do we work them as a team or just do individual attempts with dice rolls? Thank you

You can each choose to aid someone else, or can attempt your own checks.

Hi GM zoomba. Looks like we were updating at the same time. Do you need me to remove my game post? Not trying to be distracting.

The statewide outages are over but the lines at my house are down. I'm hoping to be back online tomorrow.

Hi GM zoomba. Looks like we were updating at the same time. Do you need me to remove my game post? Not trying to be distracting.

Don't worry Rhubarbie. Those things happen :)

Right now just let me know which mission you would like to tackle first! 'Votes' can be here or IC in the main thread: as soon as I get two votes for any of them we'll head right in.

(Don't worry, there will be time for many of these)

As much as I'd love to take the Manticore out for a spin, we only have 4 players, so maybe we pass on starship combat until or unless that's all that's left.

I vote for Callion-2, the Captive Interview to start off with.

I just realized, when going through Chronicles on another character ... When I played this before, it was in the 7-8 tier. This one's replayable by tiers, isn't it? So playing it in this Tier won't take my Seeker of Knowledge boon, right? Sweet!

Correct: this special is replayable up to 3 times: once in the 1-4 tier, once in the 5-8, and once from 9-12.

Right on! Callion-2 sounds like a fine ship!

Hey guys, Texas is no longer a 3rd world country (until next winter, anyway) and temperatures are supposed to be in the 60's and 70's next week.

So, with many thanks to Zoomba, I'll be taking the table back over.

Donovan Borde could tap the aid for Mahari. He has a +16 (!) to Intimidate. I only mention it in case we're running behind or if he doesn't post.

Combat!

Donovan and Rhubarbie, please place your icons in the bridge on Slide 1 for your turns.

Since combat is generally pretty fast and we want to keep pace, everyone can vote here for the next mission you want to do. First 2 agreeing votes get the green light.

The available missions are on Slide 2.

I will vote on Recovery Efforts

I will vote on Recovery Efforts

I've role-played that Mahari despises zero-g previously, but "recovery efforts" does fit in with her background and motivation for being here, and in the interest of giving GM time to prep it, sure let's go puke our guts out rescue someone or something.

@GM, Welcome back. Hope the "recovery efforts" down your way are going well.

I'll remind you of this when you get ready to do the chronicles, but the reason Mahari says she was rescued is because she was built using a Scoured Stars Veteran: Rescued Starfinder boon from my -702 character having played #1-99 and that boon starts her at 2nd level, so she "advanced to 2nd level as a result of (it)." Thus when you do the XP and credits, the Overcome the Past boon on this chronicle will apply to her. We can sort it out then, but I just wanted to give you a head's up.

Recovery Efforts sounds fine to me.

Good job guys. Success reported and rolling right into the next one.

Wilson motions from Mahari to the console. "Hey, I think you're the best tech we have on this squad ... What's up with that?"

Donovan got that check already. The roll is labeled as a Medicine check, but what he said in quotes in his last post is under the DC 20 Computers spoiler. His Medicine and Computers bonuses are the same, and I couldn't understand why he was rolling Medicine and then saying a bunch of stuff about transmission towers and countermeasures, so I went ahead and peeked at the spoiler to see if I needed to roll it or not.

But Mahari thanks you for the compliment :)

Is intimidating mind affecting? It says demoralize is only sense dependent in the skill so I’ll try vs undead.

This question has been asked before, and the consensus I've seen is that it is only sense dependent, not mind-affecting. As written it works on constructs and undead as long as they can sense you. I think if they'd wanted to change it, they certainly had the chance when they reissued the CRB last year.

This mission should be wrapping up soon.

Please decide where you want to go next. Two of the scout missions are closed and I've crossed them off the scout mission list. That opened up two action missions, which I've highlighted on the action mission list.

I'll take the first 2 agreeing votes.

@GM do you have any visibility on which missions, if any, are NOT getting close to closing out? Usually at live cons, they'll have up on a screen some kind of status updates so that groups can go where it looks like they're really needed, instead of everyone going to the same mission.

Scout hunt is lagging way behind (as starship missions often do.) The other two open ones are both pretty close to being done. In fact, if we get a success here, we may close out Recovery Efforts.

Might as well go with the Scout Hunt.

Scout Hunt sounds great.

Told ya we'd tip the balance in Recovery Efforts.

Scout Hunt, starting up. I'm excited to see the Mean Grrl in action. I think this will be the first time I've seen ship to ship combat with a custom frame.

Here's the Manticore stats I posted earlier.

Wilson has Defender's of the Fleet. I agree Finest Weapons would be good. The railgun does 8d4 and the turret missiles do 4d8. Having a reroll of 1's on that many dice wouldn't hurt.

I don't see that Donovan or Rhubarbie ever posted their slotted starship boon. Does anyone have one of those boons that lets you bring an additional crew member, like the Skitter Pal boon from Withering World?

Otherwise, looks like crew roles could be:

Donovan Capt
Mahari Pilot (+12)
Rhubarbie Science & Engineer (+10 both)
Wilson Gunner

The Manticore provides a +2 Piloting, +2 Computers and +2 to two other checks.

I'll drop a Manticore token onto Slide 5 with the other PC tokens.

Came here to say I could likely perform Engineering or Science.

Hey guys, our table has a boosted allied offensive aid token. Since we should keep them moving, do you want to apply it's effects to Wilson's attack so that we can pass it on? (it would be an additional 2d8 damage.)

Sure. Might as well since we won't get many more shots before they reach whatever threshold qualifies as having escaped.

This is the problem with having only 4 people in a party for a) starship combat and b) a Special which doesn't have 4-party adjustments. We only have 1 Gunner unless Donovan moves to the turret. We don't have anyone to target their systems since Rhubarbie has to use her turn just to get us a +2 to speed that still isn't enough. Half our party has no Starship boons slotted. Not sure how many turns we bother to play this out before they just escape.

/frustrated rant.
Sorry.

Though I do appreciate the way you're doing Initiative. Makes sense and speeds up starship combat for PBP.

I say use the allied aid token for the damage.

I don't know what to say Mahari. I see your point. Is there anything we can do? I have a piloting of 7, so I could also gun...If we don't need the Engineering of Science.

I can also gun although I’m not that good at it.

Hello!! I'm stopping by to drop off an aid token. Use it well and good luck!!

This is a great adventure! :-)

I vote for whatever is not ship combat.

I agree with Donovan.

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.

I voted. No stress Mahari! Hope it goes well.

I vote for the direct attack on the planet.

Unfortunately, the "no starship" battle option is not an option. Part 3 is all starship combat.

Fortunately, it is short and is the sort of stand up fight that is going to play to the Mean Gurl's strengths.

As long as I can use pretend swear words, I am good.

You're frakkin' right you can use flippin' pretend swear words.

I'd like to see someone flamin' try to stop you.

Fuuuudge...