Locket smashes the head of the lead jinsul, arcs the orb around to catch the one trying to slide by on his left, then slings the orb into that one again as it reaches out for Faelyn. Both collapse at his feet.
Zephyr punches a laser beam into Flag's thorax. Its screeches click up a notch. His second beam clips the edge of the platform instead the jinsul leader.
Faelyn finds his intended victim dead at his feet. Instead he taunts and attacks the one behind Locket.
Harlan alters reality for the last jinsul engaged in melee and the one by the spire.
The door to Harlan's right slides open and two more jinsul appear.
“Is your job to stand there looking stupid? Cuz' you're really good at it.”
“We’ve got company! Let’s get ‘em all!”
The explosive blast overwhelms Zephyr’s force field and thermal capacitor, but they absorb the bulk of the damage.
Zephyr gains another twenty feet in altitude and lines up a shot on the flag-draped Jinsul, trying to take it out!
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The jinsul on the high platform gets a running start and leaps for Zephyr. It slams into him and claws at the android but can't latch on and drops into the depths of the room.
The jinsul (green) by the spire charges forward and leaps the gap toward Locket. Its leg-blades slash at him as it descends to land beside him. It misses and lands awkwardly on the deck.
Flags screeches some more. Zephyr finds himself engulfed by a cloud hand-sized bots that materialize all around him, restricting his movements.
The large doors beside the landbound party members slides open and two fresh jinsuls swarm onto the platform. Leg-blades bristling, they close with Faelyn and Harlan. Faelyn gracefully sidesteps a slash, but Harlan is not as fortunate. You can glimpse more jinsuls coming behind them.
Zephyr's black force field
Harlan, +2 AC each round he casts
Flags, haste and 9 rounds of forcefield left ? microbots concentration +1
Next reinforcements Round 7.
... P) or
Microbot Assault
Source Starfinder Core Rulebook pg. 364
Classes Technomancer 2
School conjuration (creation)
Casting Time 1 standard action
Range close (25 ft. + 5 ft./2 levels)
Effect distracting cloud of microbots
Duration concentration + 1 round
Saving Throw none; Spell Resistance no
Description
You pull latent technological energy from the air to form a cloud of fist-sized hindering microbots that fill an area you designate. The microbots begin in a 10-foot-square area when you create them, and you can create the cloud so that it shares the space of other creatures. If no creatures are within the cloud’s area, the microbots pursue and harass the nearest creature that is hostile to you as best they can each round. Although the microbots generally know which creatures are your enemies, you have no control over their targets or direction of travel. If there are multiple valid targets the microbots can harass, the cloud will split into a maximum of four 5-foot-square segments and pursue different targets.
The cloud (and any segments thereof) has a fly speed of 20 feet. Each round on your turn, the microbot cloud grants harrying fire (see page 247) against the foes in its spaces. In addition, the cloud grants covering fire (see page 246) to anyone attacked by foes in its spaces. The microbots constantly repair themselves and the cloud generates new microbots every few seconds, so any attack against them is essentially ineffective.
... P) or
... P)
Harlan grunts in disgust as the creatures slips past his wards and armor. What a scam those were. He lifts up from the ground and carefully floats 5-ft away from the black jinsul. He then casts another spell to blaze straight through the two new jinsul and head down into the pit to hopefully get out of their melee range and direct line of sight.
Locket's kusari-fundo zings out to meet the incoming jinsul as it lands on the platform beside him.
With the arrival of jinsul reinforcements, Locket and Faelyn find themselves outnumbered two-to-one. "Be ready to duck!" he calls to his companion.
Adjusting the orbit of his twirling weapon, Locket attempts to take advantage of the jinsul's poor landing, sending it arcing out again toward the creature. Quickly pivoting his foot, he turns and sends the flaming orb arcing toward the cluster of foes surrounding Faelyn.
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Faelyn's taunt strikes home, so does his pistol. {ooc] I'm assuimg the pistol shot was at orange, not blue. [/ooc]
Zephyr blasts the wall just over the flag-draped jinsul's head.
Harlan blazes a trail, scorching the jinsuls and leaving a line of fire on the deck behind him. He ends floating in the air.
Locket's kusari-fundo leaves chill trails spiraling around him as it ricochets off all the opponents around him.
Only black and flags remain standing.
The black jinsul focuses on the nearest target, Faelyn. Its leg-blades rip into the aasimar. (27 damage)
Another small cubic object flies toward the party and explodes violently. There's a certain cold-bloodedness in the action because the jinsul with you is also incinerated.
(33 damage for Locket, Harlan, and Faelyn. DC 20 save for half. )
... P; critical 1d6 bleed)
... P; critical 1d6 bleed)
With the strange hands harrying him, Zephyr orients his precision sniper rifle on the flag Jinsul and takes careful aim.
Bleeding and smoking from the attacks, Faelyn steps toward Locket and looks straight into black’s eyes as he raises his pistol.
“Fine… attack with something I’m not naturally resistant to. I see how this is going to be. Let’s get that one.”
Harlan somehow dodges the explosion while in the air, just getting a little burned. Well, maybe more than a little. He's looking rather rough. He floats his way north and west, staying underneath the platform in order to reduce the ability of the enemy jinsul to target him. He turns himself invisible while out of direct line of sight.
Caught on the tail-end of his all-out attack, this time Locket is unable to avoid the incoming explosion.
Twisting his torso to a side, Locket draws his arm across his body, bringing the weighted end of the kusari-fundo curving with the motion. Extending his arm out before him, he redirects the weapon's path and, with a step toward the lone jinsul in his proximity, he sends it arcing toward his foe in a rapid combination counter-attack.
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Zephyr lances Flags with another laser beam. The cloud of bots disolves into the air. Fron his high vantage the android has a clear view of the flag-bearing jinsul.
Harlan flies forward and disappears.
Faelyn dispatches the last jinsul nearby with a clean headshot at point blank range.
Over the last fallen jinsul, Faelyn and Locket get a good look down the corridor. They doesn't see any jinsuls yet, but the Starfinders can hear them clicking down the corridor, and they can move fast. The control panels beside the doors have gone dark except for a steady yellow light.
Only Flags remains in the power room. He screeches from his high platform behind the spires of the power core. He also crouches down.
Harlan -52
Zephyr -15
Faelyn -45 (did I forget to record some damage? You seem to think Faelyn is worse off than I do. )
Locket -56
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Flags -36 still to go after Locket decides.
Zephyr's black force field Expires after Round 10. Heals 3 HP per round. Current temp HP 6
Harlan, +2 AC each round he casts
Flags, haste and Forcefield. Expires after Round 10. Heals 2 HP per round. Current temp HP 0
Next reinforcements 1d4 ⇒ 4 Round 7.
With the last of the jinsul mob falls to Faelyn's blast, Locket moves toward the other end of the platform to help support Harlan and Zephyr.
Although his angle on the flag-draped jinsul is hampered by distance and the lower vantage point, Locket draws his arm back and whips forth a line of energy in the foe's direction.
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Faelyn's normal immaculate clothing is spotted with unsightly blood stains.
Locket moves to a firing position with a good line of sight to his target, but his energy bolt only scorches the wall.
Flags scuttles into the corner and squats so that the platform provides more cover from Locket.
Zephyr's black force field Expires after Round 10. Heals 3 HP per round. Current temp HP 9/10
Harlan, +2 AC each round he casts
Flags, haste and Forcefield. Expires after Round 10. Heals 2 HP per round. Current temp HP 0
Next reinforcements in Round 7.
"He seems to have used some kind of magic or technology to create duplicate images," says Zephyr into the comms.
Zephyr continues shooting, hoping to either damage the foe or destabilize some images! Meanwhile, his forcefield has almost fully regenerated.
Harlan floats invisibly underneath the platform and to the west. He floats back up once he's on the other side, but doesn't have the opportunity to do much more after he gets eyes on the duplicated jinsul spellcaster. He floats just slightly down so light of sight is broken once more, just in case the jinsul can pierce invisibility.
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Zephyr misses cleanly with one shot and eliminates an image with his second.
Aloft and invisible, Harlan stalks the jinsul with cold calculation.
Zephyr's black force field Expires after Round 10. Heals 3 HP per round. Current temp HP 9/10
Harlan, +2 AC each round he casts
Flags, haste and Forcefield. Expires after Round 10. Heals 2 HP per round. Current temp HP 2/5
Next reinforcements in Round 7.
Drawing his hands together before him - thumbs, index and middle fingers of each hand touching to form a triangle - Locket breathes deeply as he pulls his hands toward his chest. Exhaling, he slowly pushes the triangle back away from his body. Extending his left hand out to the side, the pahtra rotates his wrist, moving his fingers in an arc.
The wall at his back ripples along its length, like water disturbed by a stone. Locket turns and steps toward the wall, his front foot finding purchase knee-height above floor level. Continuing his stride, the pahtra lifts his back foot from the floor, his body rotating out and down toward the floor as his centre of gravity reorients to the wall's vertical plane.
Gathering energy into a ball between his hands, he snaps his arm back and flicks a trail of energy in the huddled jinsul's direction.
Nym moves along the platform away from the door. As he does, he reaches into his backpack and pulls out a Mk 2 serum of healing.
He takes a deep breath and downs the serum.
“If we have company coming, I’d better get ready for them.”
His body warms from the liquid, but he still feels worse than he hoped.
Catching his breath, he taps comms. “We found the power core, plus a bunch of jinsuls. We’re down to the leader of the first wave, but more are on the way. Sending our location.”
He sends a link to the Find My Comm Device feature on his pad so the sabotage team can follow.
“Can anyone try the door controls and see if we can lock this room? His backup team is coming.”
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The control panels beside the doors have gone dark except for a single steady yellow light.
Faelyn tries to rejuvenate himself with a serum.
Flags remains crouched in the corner. It draws a pistol and fires frantically at Zephyr. One beam actually strikes the android and he feels heat bleed out of his armor.
Zephyr's black force field Expires after Round 10. Heals 3 HP per round. Current temp HP 10/10
Harlan, +2 AC each round he casts
Flags, haste and Forcefield. Expires after Round 10. Heals 2 HP per round. Current temp HP 4/5
Next reinforcements in Round 7.
... C; critical blind)
... C; critical blind)
Between Zephyr’s force field and thermal capacitor, the heat-draining energy that strikes him is greatly reduced .
Expecting reinforcements soon, Zephyr keeps firing at the tricky Jinsul!
Locket moves vertically up the walls to improve his line of sight on the jinsul.
Flinging his arm first back and then out, he whips an arc of energy crackling across the room toward the jinsul.
Harlan stays out of view of the jinsul as he lobs another explosive blast up and above the platform the creature is on. He angles it to flood the entire platform with fire without also catching himself in the blast.
Now revealed, he flies down and away to hide under the nearby catwalk and stay out of the foe's view.
Faelyn opens his wings and ascends 15’ diagonally, moving forward one square in the process.
“Let’s get Flags!”
((second range increment))
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Zephyr's laser reduces the confusion of bodies and limbs that appears to be Flags.
Locket's plasma blast is wide again.
Harlan solves the confusing image problem by blasting the entire platform.
Apparently feeling better, Faelyn shows everyone how its done. His gelid blast apparently obliterates on version of Flags, but only one.
You're still faced with two banner-strewn, outraged jinsuls in the corner of the higher platform. At least you can count the legs now.
It's a frustrated, jerkily moving jinsul that swings its pistol away from Zephyr and tries to shoot Locket off the wall. Cold drains the warmth from the pahtra's shoulder.
Clatter click and shadows of two jinsuls at the door. Reinforcements have arrived. [ooc] They actually get here after you go in round 6. I just want you to feel the approaching menace. MWHa, HA HA!
Zephyr hits
Faelyn hits
... C; critical blind)
Zephyr's black force field Expires after Round 10. Heals 3 HP per round. Current temp HP 0/10
Harlan, +2 AC each round he casts
Flags, haste and Forcefield. Expires after Round 10. Heals 2 HP per round. Current temp HP 4/5
Next reinforcements in Round 7.
With the remaining Jinsul down to one image and exploded by Harlan’s Explosive Blast , Zephyr fires another pair of laser bolts even as his force field begins to recover.
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Zephyr's laser vaporizes the last image.
Zephyr's black force field Expires after Round 10. Heals 3 HP per round. Current temp HP 0/10
Harlan, +2 AC each round he casts
Flags, haste and Forcefield. Expires after Round 10. Heals 2 HP per round. Current temp HP 0/5
Next reinforcements in Round 7.
"We've got company on the way!" Locket calls in warning.
Having gained some altitude, he dashes along the wall to a point directly across from the jinsul.
Gathering the energy before him, he sends another lash cracking across the room.
Confident that Flags' days are numbered, Harlan floats up enough to get his beady eyes on it. The moment he has a visual he waves his hand and sends a pair of force bolts at the foe. "Company, eh? I wonder how they'll like seeing the smoldering leftovers we're leavin' here?"
Faelyn sees the shot hit Locket. He moves closer for support.
“You’ve got this, Locket. Stay strong!”
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Locket shuffles along the wall, then unleashes a plasma blast straight up from his altered frame of reference. This one catches Flags semi-erect and screeching at high volume. When the blast's glare clears, Flags is looking small in the corner again.
Harlan bolts Flags.
The flying Faelyn drifts closer to support Locket.
Two jinsul soldiers rush in. Locket's the first intruder that they see and they make a rush at him, firing their pistols. A bolt of cold frosts the wall behind Locket. The other catches him squarely.
Perhaps encouraged by his new troops, perhaps just more pissed than usual, Flags straightens and sidesteps along his platform to line up Harlan and Locket. It crouches down, reaches below the edge and unleashes a surging arc of electricity.
Zephyr's black force field Expires after Round 10. Heals 3 HP per round. Current temp HP in status
Harlan, +2 AC each round he casts
Flags, armor haste and Forcefield. Expires after Round 10. Heals 2 HP per round. Current temp HP 0/5
Next reinforcements
... C; critical blind)
... C; critical blind)
Trying to dodge the incoming attacks, Locket nods his appreciation of Nym's words of encouragement. "I'm on it," he assures his companion.
Locket extends his left arm again, thumb and first two fingers extended as he rotates his hand, tracing an arc in the air. This time, the wall leading toward the jinsul leader ripples as he skips into the air, flipping his body backward to orient toward the new gravity.
Landing lightly on the wall, he continues his march forward, closing on the main jinsul's position.
Harlan thoroughly regrets his decision to reveal himself as he smolders. He flicks two more magical bolts at Flags, then dives back into cover before he can get further injured. He stays under the platform but puts the pillar in between himself and the enemy spellcaster.
Zephyr keeps up the rapid fire, hoping he can finally hit the actual spellcasting Jinsul this time!
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When the plasma blast clears a very scorched and wilted looking Flags stands still on the platform looking directly at Locket. One of the poles holding a banner snaps and as it drags the banner down the fabric twists and momentarily folds in such a way that the banner symbols spell out "Ouch!" Then the fabric is pulled taut and the word disappears.
[dice=Reflex vs. lightning]d20+5
“Let’s take down Flags! Get ‘em!!”
((second range increment))
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Faelyn fails to freeze the frenetic jinsul leader, but somehow the shot still inspires the rest of the team.
Still smoking slightly, a screeching Flags waves his arms and extends one toward Locket. Lightning arcs along the wall toward the pahtra.
Two more jinsuls clatter into the room. One charges full bore forward firing at Harlan. The other catches Zephyr side eye, skids to a stop and fires on the android.
The two jinsuls already in the room turn their weapons on Harlan. The half-orc is surrounded by a literal web of frozen vapor. Miraculously Harlan is in the interstices between all the strands.
Zephyr's black force field Expires after Round 10. Heals 3 HP per round. Current temp HP in status
Harlan, +2 AC each round he casts
Flags, armor haste and Forcefield. Expires after Round 10. Heals 2 HP per round. Current temp HP 2/5
Next reinforcements 1d4 ⇒ 1
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... C; critical blind)
... C; critical blind)
... C; critical blind)
... C; critical blind)
... C; critical blind)
... C; critical blind)
Zephyr’s force field starts recharging a bit as he keeps shooting at Flags, hoping the creature will eventually go down!