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

Game Master Nik B.

Well this is a moral quandary. To fight effectively, we may have to escalate to lethal weapons. Even Mega would have trouble inflicting damage with unarmed attacks. Anybody have non-lethal weapons? I usually outfit envoys with pulsecasters, but Tel got a needler for some reason. Probably because I thought I was in a pulsecaster rut.

Like i said. I have a pulsecaster.

We can hit them with lethal attacks as long as the final blow is non lethal. That way we won't kill them.

That's the real trick. Knowing which blow is the last! :-p

OK Coral. The harrying DC is probably higher than the actual to-hit roll for these guys in flight suits.

OK Coral. Sorry I misread your Friday at 2:19 post. I thought you were going to use harrying fire to help the melee fighters. Now I see you're shooting for real in the game thread, and you meant that we should help you.

Sometimes I'm just dense.

This ok. The real Thorn.

I was tempted to use one of my solarian ability but now, i will full attack. That is the power of get's them.

But we'll see what Shifty says.

Are Mega and I the only ones injured?

** spoiler omitted **

But we'll see what Shifty says.

Are Mega and I the only ones injured?

I took a hit at the start, so could use 10 mins to brood. I also figured out RZMR is a bit weak on the whole 'having mercy in combat' thing, most of his attacks are lethal.

So it looks like Mega killed one of them?

So it looks like Mega killed one of them?

Yup. His Joro's family will be devastated by this news.

And we are now "cop" killers.

I wasn't expecting to crit, but I did. The plan was to finish them off with nonlethal after dealing close to 10 hit points worth of damage cause of accuracy issues. Plan failed. I'll have to accept the consequences which probably means 1 infamy.

The GM has a lot of discretion. Maybe we'll be able to revive any dead Joros. Or he could rule the death was accidental in the course of self defense. I was worried that Telirix might accidentally kill a Joro because he only had lethal weapons.

Or maybe you want that infamy. It would make a great RP pivot for Mega.

Want the infamy? No. I'll most likely purchase the boon to erase. But, I might have to suffer the short term consequences. Should have bought a sap, but woulda coulda, shoulda.

You can make non lethal attacks with any normal weapon. You just take a -4 on the attack roll.

You can make non lethal attacks with any normal weapon. You just take a -4 on the attack roll.

Yeah and -4 is quite a lot. So if I have a 65% chance of hitting an enemy, I now have a 45% chance of hitting an enemy. A sap which is nonlethal to begin with means I don't take any penalty.

Well now, we have 4 good saps for the rest of the adventure. (and pulsecaster!)

I actually was hoping for a good old fist fight with Joros, but I forgot the archaic trait of that :( I don't think I ever took part in a bar brawl in SFS ;)

You now have 4 saps and 4 pulsecasters.

When I take things in turn and amend Orange to Red, then play out the attacks it ends with none being slain my lethal damage.

I actually was hoping for a good old fist fight with Joros, but I forgot the archaic trait of that :( I don't think I ever took part in a bar brawl in SFS ;)

I was hoping too. Tel's readied action at the beginning of the fight was predicted on some fisticuffs. I wonder if the writer forgot about the whole archaic thing, and had envisioned a bare-knuckles brawl.

PS. DG , I still think Mega would have rocked the badass half-orc image with a smack of infamy about him.

I guess it would have been good roleplay, but I don't want to roleplay the racist card in D&D. I'm an orc/half-orc so I'm discriminated against. I can't even identify with people who are discriminated against, I don't know how that feels in the real world.

Istilnar, doesn't have any points in medicine.

No. Medecine And i regret to not have buy a hireling now.

...This is the first time a module like this gave my group and I such trouble! (Laugh and cries.)

Still, it is an occasion of learning.

The mascots are robots so we don't have to worry about non lethal damage. How high is the ceiling? I want Istilnar to climb up it using spider climb.

The mascots are robots so we don't have to worry about non lethal damage. How high is the ceiling? I want Istilnar to climb up it using spider climb.

We are playing in a world where robots are acknowledged as equal beings to any other alien life form. You could say that if they are not sentient you can destroy them, but I am not sure about the legal and moral aspects of that.

Either way Triune will find that message of yours so don't go to Aballon ;)

10' ceiling, and the hover bots are 5' up.

Either way Triune will find that message of yours so don't go to Aballon ;)

Triune is an impostor, there is but one true living god!

Please mind the gap between the platform and the train

Lol.

I am wondering the reason of this double speak of RZMR. It feels like he is a true A.I. (with megalomania) that can't erase his original programing.

I blatantly stole took a lot of inspiration from System Shock 2, and mixed in a bit of Alpha Centauri, Icelandic band Hatari, and pondered the question "what would happen if you fed a chatbot random ideology books?" (and there's the obvious reference to Golarion's Razmiran)

I won't disclose what causes the strange utterances of RZMR. Maybe it's because he started his career as a shipboard announcement computer?

(I also feel it takes a bit of the edge off the rather sharp edicts he tends to utter, making him a bit nicer character to play with, perhaps?)

RZMR's non-sequiturs are a hoot! Great stuff!

I understand this fun. But this behavior make his relatable. He thinks he is all seen and perfect, but he cannot control everything about himself and i suppose that deep down he suffers from it.

He makes me thinks of Isnogood. The visir who to be calife, but can't because of his own flaws make his schemes fail all the time.

Can we contact the venture-captain? We need a team to recuperate the non-joros. They are in danger!

Hah - I think the Joros are probably looking for less Starfinders than more at this stage...!

I have demounted the Flood recovery task - HUZZAH - but am 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 this section to complete. This was a long and rp heavy scenario!

Grats Shifty! And good luck with whatever you are facing.

Keep in mind that you can always throw more drop bears at the problem!

Cheers :)

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 ⇒ 11

Boon: 1d20 ⇒ 5

Boon, How about now?: 1d20 ⇒ 10
Boon, How about now?: 1d20 ⇒ 1
Boon, How about now?: 1d20 ⇒ 10

Damn!

Boon: 1d20 ⇒ 15

Farol, at least you got those bad rolls out of the way outside combat.

Boon: 1d20 ⇒ 16

It ain't letting me post boon: 1d20 ⇒ 9

Curse you, forum! How dare you challenge a perfect immortal machine and let me not post my boon roll!

Boon: 1d20 ⇒ 16

I think the gm said we can't take 10 minute break. Also, i think this joro will call renforcement. Maybe someone has a serum of healing.

You'd find something would likely occur if you paused - you are in rounds for a reason :p

Argh!!!!

RZMR's got two actions, and Mega's got an action. Will they put Joro1 down before he can run or attack? He's standing in front of a door.

I'll get'em next turn if they don't.

It is sad that our characters don't know this is the first Joro. We would have some fun barter like " You tabletop Nerd!" or "For the first Joro, you sure don't act like one. Are you sure that you have correctly sequence your DNA?" Or "So tell us the truth, did you learn medecine in a kid show?"

We could still use " You tabletop Nerd!" or "So tell us the truth, did you learn medicine in a kid show?" but they kind of pale compared to RZMR's diatribe.

I did like OK's whizdisc to a gunfight comment. Very apropos.

Question gm. To where ok is. Do you think he has cover?

He has partial cover to you, assuming you went before Mega. Where Mega now is the Joro has cover.