tt's The Elsebo Way

Game Master therealthom

Sorry for the gap in posting. Long work hours, travel and chores at home are conspiring to keep me from posting. Still traveling this week.

This week's road trip for work had longer hours than usual. Good news is I've got a few days off. Bad news is they'll be family heavy with a visit to my parents Sunday -- no internet there.

Merry Christmas or Happy Holidays, as you will. I hope you can enjoy them with your own families.

So, we are waiting on Jaeric still? I am guessing Veda is out having not posted in almost 2 months.

Posted. (Sorry about that. Didn't realize we'd come back around to Jaeric already.)

Also, Happy New Year! May the dice roll better for you than they've been rolling for me.

Posted. (Sorry about that. Didn't realize we'd come back around to Jaeric already.)

Also, Happy New Year! May the dice roll better for you than they've been rolling for me.

No problem for me...Even with the best of intentions, sometimes we end up waiting on someone else and the someone else turns out to be us! I am guessing Veda is truly gone, though...

Seems that way to me, as well. Not sure what issues Veda/Hayato ran into...but Veda's last post was 11/4...and Hayato's last post was 11/28...

By the way, I see fire suppressors in three corners of the room, but not the upper left corner where the control panel is. Is there a suppressor tucked away in that corner somewhere that Zephyr could shoot on his turn?

Bummer about Veda. We have a solid core four but this fight is evidence that we're overmatched unless everything breaks our way. Could use another Soldier in this party, or something + Mystic for extra healing to support Jaeric.

I'm guessing HK's gone for good too. We should think about recruiting a fifth or sixth. Does anyone have a friend that they'd like to bring in?

Jaeric, if you have reach and can get into flanking with Zephyr, that could be helpful…

Also, Zephyr’s nanites are hard at work, but have repaired him as best they can so far (at -0 hp right now).

Would have been bad if Loomarch had hit you. His melee attack was pretty bad, but he had a grapple and kill you follow up.

I think Lorne might be able to kill the hell hound if he rolls spectacularly.

This is a killer fight.

We all know the odds of Lorne rolling spectacularly. About 1 in 2000. Anyway, let's go verify that I'm going to get my neck ripped open . . ..

Did we get Loomarch or is he still in the fight?

I read that as you got him.

Loomarch is no more.

Score!

GM, do you need Zephyr to take a different action for this round since his intended target was actually dead at the time of his turn, or did Zephyr’s attack occur at the same time and Zephyr’s turn is done for this round?

Didn't even think about that. By all means retcon Zephyrs move.

Well done, team. Some post-mission RP and we'll wrap this one up.

Then we can look forward to the next adventure.

@GM, is there any value to Loomarch's armor? Is it possible to use it as armor without the special properties that bind a hellknight together?

The way it's written the armor only has value if the scenario is run in level 5-6. Fortunately we're not playing SFS official.

To keep balance, you'll still have to take the price out of your funds.

Hellknight Plate, Lictor
Source Pact Worlds pg. 196
Level 5; Price 3,300; Category Heavy
EAC Bonus +9; KAC Bonus +10; Max. Dex Bonus +2
Armor Check Penalty -2; Speed Adjustment -10 ft.
Upgrade Slots 2; Bulk 3

I'll keep my Lashunta Ringwear.

Have we finished the scenario?

It seems so...aside from any post-mission roleplay.

Yep. All done. I wanted to write a better ending-summary post, but real life.

Jaeric's line of questioning might be fun to RP.

I'll buy the next scenario and starts prepping the next adventure. Watch this place for instructions on leveling up.

Time to level up.

We're going to 5th level. You get 9,000 credits.

Therenger, something to keep in mind for the future. By virtue of scavenging Loomarch's armor, at seventh level you'll have access to Maralictor Hellknight Plate.

Hellknight Plate, Maralictor
Source Pact Worlds pg. 196
Level 9; Price 14,500; Category Heavy
EAC Bonus +16; KAC Bonus +17; Max. Dex Bonus +2
Armor Check Penalty -2; Speed Adjustment -10 ft.
Upgrade Slots 4; Bulk 3

Or maybe we could engineer something halfway between Lictor and Maralictor.

Zephyr is buying powered armor and upgrading his artillery laser.

Purchases:
Armor upgrade: Electrostatic field, mk 1 3000 cr (Resistance 5 vs electricity dmg, 1d6 electricity damage to any creature that touches you or deals melee dmg)
Personal upgrade, mk 1 (+2 Str) 1400 cr
Ring of Resistance, mk 2 4200 cr (+2 Will save)

Hey, everybody,

Monday I was handed a boatload of work. I'm going to be flat-out for about three weeks. I think I'll find a little time between now and then to set up the game, but not enough time to run it.

Let me tentatively set a start date of Feb 15th. I will keep you posted on any changes.

TT

Hello all. I am happy to join the group to continue on when the game picks back up. I am playing Sparky, a ysoki exocortex mechanic xenoarcheaolgist. He isn't a combat specialist but since he been doing things alone he has found ways to cover for that weakness when things go south. However he prefers to stay hidden and ambush his enemies or plant explosives to deal with threats. But to really know that and more should be roleplayed perhaps.
He has the cheapest pulsecaster rifle but nice ysoki refractor armor he just got, but dressed in his shipbuilder clothing and looks tattered and well used. He is 3ft 8in with burn marks and some scaring on his arms and face. Chunk of ear missing. His exocortex has piece over his eye to create a visual interface with datajack port at base skull. He has on a nice backpack and some items hanging off the side and blanket rolled up on top wrapped all together with what looks like tape. A single clear stone rotates around his head.
I see the group is going to Absalom station so his background of working for Historia-7 in the Dataphiles of starfinder society may be a way to meet.
I don't mind the waits I never get to play so happy to be here. Umm never done play by post though so may need help with how things done here if that's ok.

I believe I have Sparky all set up now and ready to roll come time to game.

Excellent. Welcome aboard.

Welcome, Sparky. Since you're new to Play-by-Post, you might want to visit the Gameplay thread (there's a link at the top of the page here), so you can read up on how we post in-character and interact with the GM. In the meantime, if you have any questions, feel free to drop them here and we can fill you in.

For the rest of the team, I've leveled up Jaeric (with 2 more mystic levels) and updated his profile. However, I haven't spent any of the 9K credits we were given...and, frankly, I'm not the best at picking thru the Starfinder equipment guides for good options for a mystic/envoy. So, for those of you who are a bit more experienced/proficient with that, I'd welcome any suggestions for better armor, weapons, gear, etc. Thanks.

Rings of Resistance and Personal Upgrades are always useful.

Thank you for having me. I will check that out again and have spoken a little with gm about it. Combat will be fine just don't want to post to much out of turn during roleplay moments and downtime, honestly I am home with kids once out of work and able to post alot at evening and weekends.

Items for a mystic primary /envoy? Well there is the staff of healing to give an extra class heal ability, kind of expensive. But I think off top of my head the biggest things would be spell gems so if run out slots you have ability to cast spells still. Especially healing kinds. And healing serums Mk1 is only 50 credits but amazing outside of combat way to heal hp to full. Also just checked and there is a medobserver armor upgrade to give you life sense 10 ft and bonus to medicine checks and stuff like that.

Okay. I've gone with the following for now:

mk 1 ring of resistance (Fortitude) - 735 credits
mk 1 ability crystal personal upgrade (Wisdom +2) - 1400 credits
Lashunta mind mail I - 4250 credits

I've still got 2800 credits left, so I may pick up some spell gems or armor upgrades a bit later.

Ready to move ahead?

I believe we're reconvening around 2/15 as our GM deals with a bunch of real-life work and plans out the next storyline of the game.

Yeah that's my understanding as well. He has alot of work until then. And on top of all regular game setup has me to incorporate now to. Which if anyone has questions or anything about character or myself I'm glad to chat.

We starting back up today or this week? Looking forward to gaming with everyone when ready to go.

Sorry, I could not log into Paizo last night. Finally got in with some help from tech support a few minutes ago, but I'm out of lunch time. I'll post tonight.

Yeah it was a cookies issue that plagued alot of people I know. Happens.

Could not log in from home again last night. Flushed my cookies (TM) last night and everything. I'll try to take care of you guys at lunch.

First Post of the new mission is finally up. SOrry for the delay. Login issues and home life.

BrotherG, thanks for hunting down and modding the Pegasus stats.

Everyone, please try the new map links. You should have write access to the google slides.

Is Lorne still in game?

As far as I know.

Doesn't appear that he's posted since Jan. 10th...almost 2 months ago now. Might want to ping him. I'd hate to lose Lorne. I like what his dwarf brings to the game.

hustonj hasn't replied. We'll give him a few days. Meanwhile we'll assume the ship roles are as described already.

Sorry for the mistaken ID, Never. That's what I get for posting quickly from my phone.

BTW, Sensors give a +4 to computer checks, and the computer can give another +3 when not otherwise occupied, so that roll of 34 was at least a 38 if not a 41...