[SFS/Farol] #1-16: Dreaming of the Future (low tier) (Inactive)

Game Master Farol

"hidden ships? That's pretty possible... Even likely! But! I'll find them right away!" Declares Mel before aiming the ship's sensors towards the asteroids perhaps smaller ships are hidden behind them?

Computers: 1d20 + 9 + 2 ⇒ (5) + 9 + 2 = 16

Keeping the comms intentionally open, Harmony very loudly says "Laanok, I want you to hit the asteroid next to them as warning!"

She opens a video-only channel to the gunner's terminal and shakes her head "no" while she's saying the above and uses her hands to point at the vesk , makes a gun with one and a ship looking figure with the other, indicating that he should still shoot them.

Overly complicated RP way of saying I'm Taunting the other ship!

Won't that just make them just think we have bad aim? says the vesk, wishing the asteroids were filled with lava like last time he shot at asteroids.Ok but I think he'll be Mr. Laugh instead of Mr. Smile. he aims the targeting computer at the asteroid to the ship and fires at it.

attack gunnery: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (14) + 3 = 17

coilgun: 4d4 ⇒ (2, 2, 3, 2) = 9

Tik used the coilgun already this round.

The turret gun should have a great shot.

The enemy starship flew first, burning for the safety of the asteroid cluster expecting for you to fly on them from the front, but Twila-4 did surprise them. Despite his best effort, Scruffy was unable to divert the power. He is not sure where it went but not to the engines.
Mel scanned the asteroids and found that there is a hidden turret amongst the rocks, which she was able to cut of from power. I will mark the deactivated turret on the map later on.
Harmony-6 taunted the enemy gunner, who was impacted by it, but his aim was to good for it to have an impact.

Tik shots from the coilgun was almost accurate, the enemy pilot predicted his aim and dodged the shots.

Despite his best effort Laanok was unable to take a shot due to lack of cannons from that side. The whole team could have heard the Vesk scream

The River Rat did not miss however blowing away the Loreseeker shields in the aft quadrant.

Initiative, River Rat: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (15) + 8 = 23
Initiative, Loreseeker: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (2) + 11 = 13

Loreseeker moves

River Rat full
Loreseeker: forward/port/starboar/aft 10/10/10/0

I will mark the deactivated turret on the map later on.

I'd like to know the location of that turret before I plan the ship's movement, if it makes sense that Twila-4 could know that at this point.

"A Turret!? These guys are crafty I gotta give that to them, well at least there isn't any giant space monster in the asteroids..." Remarks the Technomancer as she keeps herself busy with the ship's computers.

Scruffy still thinks a boost of speed and some maneuverability is the best bet.

"Twila. You've got this! Dive, swerve!"

Computers: 1d20 + 9 + 2 ⇒ (14) + 9 + 2 = 25

Rolling to scan the other asteroids

Rrrrgh! Cursing herself silently despite her deadpan face, Twila-4 coaxes the controls to bring the ship around, trying to make its flight path wobble enough that any shots at it will be more likely to miss.

Queuing up a shot when it's time; apply mods as necessary:

Coilgun again, incl. +1 from ship: 1d20 + 6 + 1 ⇒ (7) + 6 + 1 = 14
Damage, if applicable: 4d4 ⇒ (2, 2, 1, 3) = 8

"Laanok, shoot them with whichever laser is in-arc!"

Per the Starship Operations Manual (p. 48), gunners can fire any weapon from any station regardless of arc.

Ouch! I rolled nat 20 for their gunnery check with 15 points of damage on 4d4 :(

The enemy ship turns around in front of the asteroids and flies towards the Loreseeker. The turret on top of the River rat shredded through the front shields of the Starfinder ship and damaged the hull. For a moment the lights flickered and red lights began to shine. Quick glance at the computers told you that Life Support is glitching.

During that, Scruffy was able to restore some of the aft shields, while Mel was able to locate the second hidden turret and disable it. She is fairly confident that there are no more turrets there.

Tik opens fire wiping out enemy front shields and hitting their hull.

Laanok shoot for round 2 pending, aimed at the front shields of the River Rat.

Initiative round 3, River Rat: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (5) + 8 = 13
Initiative round 3, Loreseeker: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (13) + 11 = 24

River Rat moving first, I made the move.

River Rat
Shields forward/port/starboar/aft 0/6/6/6
Hull: -2
Loreseeker:
Shields forward/port/starboar/aft 0/10/10/8
Hull: -5 life support glitching (-2 to all captain actions)

I'm not sure it's possible to crit in ship-to-ship combat, but will check.

I'm not sure it's possible to crit in ship-to-ship combat, but will check.

Crit is possible but does not do extra damage: Damage => Long story short, if a gunner roll nat 20 and the damage hits the hull it trigger a critical damage effect. The same as when you cross the critical threshold. If a science officer will use an action to target given system then 19 and 20 are crits and you don't roll for the effect but rather the target system suffers.

"Guh...ok, we really need to land a shot or two! Twila, keep them in position, please!"

"hmm wher'd I put the dang ion tape..."

"Fuuuaaaahhh! What was that!? Scruffy how is the ship doing? The life support seems to be somehow damaged... What? Oh yeah the enemy!" the blonde human was a little dazed for half a second after the Loreseeke is hit by the enemy's Turret but she regains her cool soon enough and starts to type in the computer terminal, there are no more turrets - or so it seems- so she now takes a more offensive approach in reprisal to the damage dealt to their life supports.

Computers to Target system: Core: 1d20 + 9 + 2 ⇒ (7) + 9 + 2 = 18

"Twila, keep them in position, please!"

"Aye, Captain." Twila-4 drones as she uses minimal evasive maneuvers to angle their starboard side toward the enemy ship and to provide a clear shot at its damaged fore.

Round 3 turret shot:

With the unshielded bow in his sights, Tik puts a burst of hypervelocity missiles into the enemy vessel.

Coilgun attack, including ship bonus: 1d20 + 6 + 1 ⇒ (17) + 6 + 1 = 24
Coilgun damage: 4d4 ⇒ (3, 1, 2, 4) = 10

Laanok shoots a bolt at the ship after nearly falling from the blast of the river rat.

Gunnery : 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (7) + 3 = 10
Damage : 2d4 ⇒ (3, 2) = 5

Laanok, you get to take 2 attacks; one for Round 2, and one for Round 3.

Botting Laanok gun from previous round: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (11) + 3 = 14
Damage: 2d4 ⇒ (2, 2) = 4 That would be a hit

Laanok aimed true and made few holes in the hull of the River rat.

Scruffy used his engineering expertise and patch the Life Support system, you can actually hear few crew members to take a deep breath after the red lights were turned off. Patching worked!

With or without the life support Harmony-6 is aiding Twila-4 in her work. Twila-4 is moving the ship just a bit but keeps evading enemy gunner. Enemy missed

Small portion of the shields restored by River rat is blown to pieces by Tik impeccable shooting and does more damage to the hull. Thanks to your sensors you can see that some of the damage is more severe than it looked at glance.

Tik damage went over the CT and caused the glitching of Core as targeted by Mel.

Initiative, River Rat: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (19) + 8 = 27
Initiative, Loreseeker: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (13) + 11 = 24

Loreseeker goes first!

River Rat
Shields forward/port/starboard/aft 0/6/6/6
Hull: -11 core glitching (-2 to engineering actions)
Loreseeker:
Shields forward/port/starboard/aft 0/10/10/8
Hull: -5 life support glitching-patched

I doubt it will happen any time soon, but there are certain attack angles where you can target an enemy ship with both FWD/Port or FWD/Starboard weapon arcs. Gunners don't forget if there is an extra gun pointed at our enemy you can full attack. It's still -4 but this is level 1-2 and there is a 20 on every die.

"Nice, nice, just a few more damage to their hull and they'll be begging for mercy... Huh? Oh! Try shooting with as many of our weapons as possible! Don't forget the Turret." adds the blonde trying to lift the spirit of the crew.

Computers to target system:Life Supports: 1d20 + 9 + 2 ⇒ (7) + 9 + 2 = 18

I usually limit myself to scanning but targeting system is fun

"Good work everyone, let's keep it up! Keep those guns trained on them! Tik!, hit 'em and hit 'em hard!"

Harmony-6 please specify which gunner are you encouraging ;)

Sorry, implied Tik from the RP fluff. So Tik

:D Ok I blended Tik with hit them and missed his name, mb. Tik it is.

<sigh> I prefer one-sided fights. When they're in my favor. Continuing her use of evasive maneuvers, Twila-4 tries to position the ship so the enemy will be hard pressed to get a clear shot of the Pathfinders' unprotected forward bow.

Laanok cheers after breaching the hull.

YEAHHH!

firing again

gunner: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (10) + 3 = 13 + Aid

dmg: 2d4 ⇒ (1, 3) = 4

The River Rat takes a turn and flies next to Loreseeker. Its pilot does a barrel roll, while the gunner hits Loreseeker starboard side despite Twila-4 efforts. Hit to the starboard shields for 11 points. 10 takes out shields, 1 goes to the hull.

Scruffy was able to patch the Life Support system as Mel again focus on targeting the gunners.

Harmony-6 gave a motivating spiel to Tik, who seems frozen...

Laanok in the meantime was able to land a hit seriously damaging enemy shields.

Initiative, River Rat: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (1) + 8 = 9
Initiative, Loreseeker: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (4) + 11 = 15

River Rat
Shields forward/port/starboard/aft 5/6/2/6 - one-shot pending from Tik into starboard due to Barrel Roll
Hull: -11 core glitching (-2 to engineering actions)
Loreseeker:
Shields forward/port/starboard/aft 0/10/0/8
Hull: -6 life support glitching-patched

Tik takes his shot as the River Rat rolls.

Coilgun attack, including ship bonus and encouragement: 1d20 + 6 + 1 + 2 ⇒ (4) + 6 + 1 + 2 = 13
Coilgun damage, if applicable: 4d4 ⇒ (1, 3, 3, 3) = 10

Tik shot just barely hits the River Rat, but it was enough to break the shields and leave some more wholes in the hull.

River Rat
Shields forward/port/starboard/aft 5/6/0/6 - one-shot pending from Tik into starboard due to Barrel Roll
Hull: -19 core glitching (-2 to engineering actions)
Loreseeker:
Shields forward/port/starboard/aft 0/10/0/8
Hull: -6 life support glitching-patched

River Rat moved - Starfinders are up!

"Guh! Not good! Tik, keep firing!"

The ysoki doesn't hesitate, and his attack is once again on target. River Rat's shields collapse under the impact.

Coilgun attack, including ship bonus and encouragement: 1d20 + 6 + 1 + 2 ⇒ (13) + 6 + 1 + 2 = 22
Coilgun damage: 4d4 ⇒ (3, 4, 4, 1) = 12

Weaving among the asteroids, Twila-4 skims between the River Rat and an asteroid before threading the Lorespeaker between another set of asteroids, trying for the life of her to protect the unshielded parts of the ship. I underestimated them. She doesn't have time to mentally kick herself too hard yet. That'll have to come later, once they're out of danger.

A little late to ask, but does the targeting for the gunnery phase occur at any point along the flight path, or just at the ships' final spot for the round?

Laanok fires the laser again but his aim is messed up by the weaving ship

Gunnery : 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (5) + 3 = 8
Damage : 2d4 ⇒ (2, 4) = 6

Taking a more magical approach to the situation the Technomancer uses what she knows of divination magic to take a peek at the near future.

Mysticism (Precognition): 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (19) + 4 = 23

@Twila-4 the shooting happens after you stop moving.

The Ysoki engineer was able to restore the damaged shields in the starboard arc. Just like Scruffy was able to restore in Loreseeker.

@Scruffy - when restoring it would be good for you to say how you want them distributed. I went ahead and put it in the arc that you will be targeted.

The enemy pilot tried to dodged but failed in doing so which the whole Ysoki crew felt when Tik opened fire. Laanok was not that successful in missing his shot, maybe the lack of evading from the enemy distracted him.

With the encouragement from Harmony-6, Tik wrecked enemy shields and did some damage to the enemy turret which is not turning as smoothly as it used to. Crit, enemy gunner will get -2 penalty

The enemy shots have also found their mark-making a few more holes in the hull. Hit for 10 damage. 8 goes to the newly restored shield by Scruffy 2 into the hull.

Mel was able to predict enemy movements helping Twila-4 to get an upper hand next round

Initiative, River Rat: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (20) + 8 = 28
Initiative, Loreseeker, precognition: 1d20 + 11 + 2 ⇒ (15) + 11 + 2 = 28 Tie! Both pilots have 1 rank in Piloting so repeating the initiative

Initiative, River Rat: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (18) + 8 = 26
Initiative, Loreseeker, precognition: 1d20 + 11 + 2 ⇒ (19) + 11 + 2 = 32

River Rat
Shields forward/port/starboard/aft 5/6/0/6 - one-shot pending from Tik into starboard due to Barrel Roll
Hull: -26 core glitching| turret glitching (-2 to engineering actions, -2 to gunner actions)
Loreseeker:
Shields forward/port/starboard/aft 0/10/0/8
Hull: -8 life support glitching-patched

River Rat moved. Spacefinders are up!

I'm actually fairly certain I don't get to pick where it goes. The power is distributed evenly with the excess going to the forward shields. Rebalancing lets you move points around.

"Let's stay on those guns, Tik!"

Computers, Target system: Engines: 1d20 + 9 + 2 ⇒ (13) + 9 + 2 = 24

Fingers dancing over the weapons console, Tik fires as soon as the location Mel marked comes into the crosshairs. Another burst of hypervelocity projectiles tears through the River Rat's shields and into the enemy vessel's engine room.

Coilgun attack, including ship bonus and encouragement: 1d20 + 6 + 1 + 2 ⇒ (19) + 6 + 1 + 2 = 28

Coilgun damage: 4d4 ⇒ (3, 2, 1, 4) = 10

We gotta finish this or we'll die a death by a thousand cuts. Twila-4 arcs around an asteroid, swerving unpredictably as she brings the intact port side around to face the River Rat. Gotta get our port along their starboard stat!

At this time the Starfinders worked like a well-oiled machine. Twila-4 was comfortable evading the enemy gunner shooting. Scruffy was able to regain some of the power into their shields. Mel aided targeting which helped Tik, encouraged by Harmony-6, to deal serious damage to the River Rat. Targeting by Mel caused, 19 rolled by Tik to be critical.

Even before Laanok was able to shot the lights on the River Rat turned off, and the ship began to drift.

Combat is over!

After few heartbeats, you receive a new communication this time on your screens you can see a female dwarf still with goggles on her forehead

"Nice flying, Starfinders. That ought to teach those skulking thieves to keep away from what isn’t theirs! Now then, as promised, we’ll send you the one chunk of the tablet they didn’t get their grubby hands on. And after you get that, we get to sweep the station for any other ‘surprises’ they might have left behind."

She looks to the side and nods her head to something

"If we will find any traces of the remaining tables on the station we will let you know. "

After getting your hands on the second tablet you reach out to Venture-Captain Arvin

"I've sent you the third and last dream that you saw previously in my office." Please have a look at the Handout 3

"We got some information from the Silverbrew Clan after they regained control on their stations. One of the three tablets that they discovered there they kept and gave to you, but it seems that the remaining two pieces were sold by Mr. Smiles to Karelite Bogdin from Verces. One of them was stolen by Lerecti whom you met on Aballon. So it seems that you should head towards Verces and recover the last tablet."

Arvin opens something on his computer and says

"Keep the Loreseeker, for now, it might make your travel faster. Beware that verthani Karelite. If the allegation is true he is dipping his fingers in some nasty business. Good luck!"

You are heading towards Verces