The goblins fire and again the hail of shrapnel produced by their flak throwers just sails wide of the Pegasus. Keskodai notices that the shrapnel passing below the Pegasus takes a sudden sharp turn toward the moon.
Obozaya lands a solid hit through the trailing goblin's open front shields. The ship disappears in an explosive flurry of bright sparks and debris. When it emerges, it's flight path is wobbly. A plume of vapor blows out the left side of the hull, and it's sensor signal is weak. The ship is clearly on its last legs.
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Keskodai telepathically hums a bit as he meditates on the fates of these goblins. Their enthusiasm for scrap, both figuratively as battle and literally as salvage, had brought them to their doom. How many more had suffered similar fates for this moon, he wondered. He focuses these thoughts and turns its energy to the guns in order to bring this dogfight to its conclusion...
The blue goblin ship's pilot realizes he's going to overshoot and wracks his craft in a tight circle to keep close to his fellow.
"Gunner's be ready to take your shot."
TK423 fires the thrusters and then shuts down the power, igniting the maneuvering jets to flip the ship over and fires the thrusters to have the bow weapons pointing right at the yellow ship.
Ka-bloom! The goblin charged straight in, too intent on reeking havoc on the pegasus to avoid its own destruction. It's flak cannon rocks your ship as well, scoring the goblin's first damage on your ship.
[oc] Finally![/ooc]
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"Lets have them try and chase us for a bit."
And TK423 hits the bow thrusters to make the ship go backwards
Before Iseph can execute his plan, the goblin kicks in a sudden burst of speed and zooms past the Pegasus at close range.
Next attack ...
Blue F 5, P 5 S 5 A 5 Damage 0
Pegasus Shields all shields 15.
Iseph maneuvers to re-open the range, but before Obo can fire the ship lurches and spins on its axis against his control. You've been seized in a tractor beam!
Obo damages the goblin's forward shield on it's flyby attempt.
Showing the vivid imaginative tactics that goblins are known for, the goblin ship bears in, and Obo's next shot crushes the damaged shield and sparks damage to the hull.
The goblin ship spins away and plunges for the moon's surface where it disappears into a canyon.
Iseph has his hands full fighting the tractor beam. As the beam tries to drag him down to the surface, he manages a burst of thrust that lets the Pegasus dodge behind a ridge and breaks the beam.
Still flying low, you triangulate the signal over the next few minutes and land out of sight, not far from the source, an amalgam of crudely tethered starships rising from the pocked outer crust of Salvation’s End, like a broken finger pathetically reaching towards the stars.
The entrance into this carapace of hulls—the exposed hanger bay of a doomed space transport—rests at the base of a quarter-mile of crushed starship hulls. In the low gravity of the moon's surface, it's an easy walk from your landing spot.
Caredfully approaching you see that a shattered spacecraft covers the entry area and back end of this immense hangar. The remains of the ship spread across the exposed northern bulkhead. Several sparks flash amid exposed wiring. The telltale shrieks of goblin songs ring out from the hangar’s rear, accompanied by the recognizable bangs and whirrs of a salvaging crew. A ship hull plate sits discarded near the entrance. Just below a number designation, in bold red letters, reads the ship’s call sign: Archer.
Obozaya pauses in the airlock. "Thin atmosphere. Best seal your armor."
Peering into the hangar you can make out the forms of several space goblins working on the wreckage on the hangar floor. They are singing a vicious song revering the fire that currently burns here.
Three space goblins patrol the raised platform. The upper group’s goblins occasionally toss scrap metal down on their kin on the floor. A piece of scrap strikes one of the floor goblins and all the others erupt into laughter.
Thinner atmospheres tend to cause a nonacclimated creature
to have difficulty breathing and become extremely tired. A
typical thin atmosphere requires such a creature to succeed at
a Fortitude save each hour (DC = 15 +1 per previous check) or
become fatigued. The fatigue ends when the creature returns to
a normal atmosphere.
Severely thin atmospheres can cause long-term oxygen
deprivation to those affected in addition to the effects of a
standard thin atmosphere. The first time a creature in a severely
thin atmosphere fails its Fortitude save, it must succeed at a
DC 25 Fortitude save or take 1 damage to all ability scores.
A creature acclimated to high altitude (see Hill and Mountain
Terrain on page 397) gains a +4 insight bonus to its saving
throw to resist this effect.
Low-gravity worlds are liberating to most species acclimated to
standard-gravity worlds. Such characters’ muscles are far more
effective than normal. On a low-gravity world, where the gravity
is no greater than a third of standard gravity, PCs can jump three
times as high and as far and lift three times as much. (Movement
speed, however, stays the same, as moving in great bounds is
awkward and difficult to control.) Thrown weapons have their
range categories tripled.
"Hey whozzat?!" One of the goblins on the catwalk points toward the party. The goblins at ground level scurry out from between two large pieces of fuselage.
"Longshanks! Get'em!"
They start drawing weapons.
Raia:
Obozaya:
Iseph:
Monster:
Monster:
Keskodai:
"Nasty little creatures. Stripping parts and other things from these poor start ships. They should have more respect for such fine machines."
And he moves forward pulling a frag grenade I then throwing it at the groups of three in front of him.
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Raia makes few steps forward and conjures Grease under two goblins. (Reflex DC 15)
Immidiately after Obozata rushes forward into probably falling goblin to end his misirable life with flaming doshko
The vesk likes to provide goblins some fun with fire. Maybe being at grease will be especially interesting for them.
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Iseph's grenade falls short and skips into the center of the goblins before exploding. The burst sends them scurrying apart. One of them doesn't get far. He slips and falls in the slippery goo that Raia conjures under foot. The other, larger goblin is more nimble. He scurries out of the grease, firing his blaster as he goes, and takes cover behind a piece of Archer's fusleage.
The goblin outside the grease also scurries for cover. The one in the grease rolls away and tries to shoot his gun, but Obo crushes him with her doshko.
The goblins unleasha flurry of shots, mostly aimed at Obo. Two of the goblins on the catwalk target Raia and Iseph. Obo and Iseph suffer the sting of the goblin's weapons.
Keskodai tries to get a shot off, but it explodes against a piece of starship instead of hitting the target.
Status begining of round 2. Bold may go.
Raia:
Obozaya: (4 damage)
Iseph: (5 damage)
Black (1 damage)
Grey
Yellow (1 damage)
Green
Pink
Keskodai
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Grease: You cover a solid surface with a layer of slippery grease. Any creature in the area when the spell is cast must succeed at a Reflex save or fall prone. A creature can walk within or through the area of grease at half normal speed with a successful DC 10 Acrobatics check. Failure means the creature can’t move that round and must then succeed at a Reflex save or fall prone, while failure by 5 or more means it falls prone (see the Acrobatics skill on page 135 for details). A creature that doesn’t move on its turn doesn’t need to attempt this check and isn’t considered flat-footed. The spell can also be used to create a greasy coating on an item. Unattended material objects are always affected by this spell. If you attempt to affect an object in a creature’s possession, the creature can attempt a Reflex save to negate the effect. If the creature fails the initial saving throw, it immediately drops the item and must attempt a new save each round it attempts to pick up, hold, or use the item. A creature wearing greased armor or clothing gains a +5 circumstance bonus to Acrobatics checks to escape a grapple and a +2 circumstance bonus to its AC against grapple combat maneuvers.
Raia's missiles strike the goblin. It drops its gun over the edge of the catwalk and it sways back and forth before tumbling forward, spinning around the lower bar of the safety railing, and plunging head first to the hangar floor below.
Obo's goblin looks surprised that the vesk can even reach her, but still manages to duck the doshko.
The android pulls his pistol, and advances behind Obo, and hopefully a bit of cover from the nearby chunk of fuselage. He raises the pistol and fires.
... P; analog)
The goblins shriek and unleash a hail of laser fire at Obozaya! One of the beams even hits.
The goblin on the south end of the catwalk moves so that he can draw a bead on Iseph. His shot lases into fuselage chunk.
Keskodai
Raia:
Obozaya: (0 SP 11 HP left)
Iseph: (5 damage)
Black (7 damage)
Grey
Yellow (dead)
Green
Pink
... F; critical burn 1d4)
... F; critical burn 1d4)
... F; critical burn 1d4)
... F; critical burn 1d4)
... F; critical burn 1d4)
... F; critical burn 1d4)
anged junklaser +3 (1d4 F; critical burn 1d4)
Obo crunches her doshko through the goblin's armor, and chest. She wrenches it out of the suddenly limp form, breathes in the odor of burnt flesh and turns to face the last goblin visible on the ground floor.
Raia uses her pistol against another goblin on the catwalk. This one is made of tougher stuff than the first. It claps a hand to its wounded shoulder and starts to level its pistol at the damaya....
Until Keskodai rushes forward and attacks its mind. The goblin slumps down on the catwalk.
Iseph raises his pistol and fires on the last goblin on the catwalk. His shot flies wide.
... P; analog)
The goblin on the ground draws a notched blade and runs around the grease to challenge Obo face to face. The knife, thrust underhand glances off the vesk's greave.
The goblin on the catwalk unleashes another flurry of shots which blast the ground and fuselage wreckage, but leave the vesk untouched. Then it falls to its knees. "Mercy. Mercy! I give up"
The goblin facing Obo snarls, "Suck it up, wimpface. Attack the intruders!"
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... F; critical burn 1d4)
... F; critical burn 1d4)
Keskodai
Raia:
Obozaya: (10 damage)
Iseph: (5 damage)
Black (7 damage)
Pink (on catwalk pleading for mercy)
Raia wings the bold goblin. It staggers under the pressure wave of sound, but still roars defiance. Somehow Obo manages to miss it with a sheet of flame by firing above its head.
Iseph raises his pistol at te last enemy combatant....
... P; analog)
The enemy's body bucks under the impact of three pistol attacks and collapses.
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- Huh? Just some scratches. These small bastards are not a big deal. , - Obo walkes around to look at goblin bodies.
Raia goes upstairs to see maybe some technics tere is working. Se is careful about traps, but in general wnat to talk to surrendered goblin.
Maybe with some help of pictures from datapad for better communication
Still pointing his pistol at the one on the catwalk.
"You come down NOW! And no funny business. As you can tell I know how to use this thing."
Despite being the main focus of the goblin attacks, Obozaya's armor is barely scuffed.
The goblin equipment is mostly garbage. Junklasers, normal or souped up, scrap metal knives, random tools. Obo grunts in disgust. "Predictable.
Trash. "
"OK. OK. I'll be right down!" The goblin seems quite cowed. It shuffles quickly along the catwalk, through the control room, and is almost halfway down the staircase, which is so steep that it's more nearly a ladder, when it meets Raia coming up.
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"Oh, good! You've got solid scales, my friend!" Keskodai says, breathing a sigh of relief.
"Hold on, Raia, lemme get up there!" he then calls as he scampers up to join her. "Sometimes a small decision can be all that changes one's fate," he says to the goblin when he arrives. "We do have some questions for you, since your decision saved you from joining your crew-mates before the Lady."
... "Sometimes a small decision can be all that changes one's fate," he says to the goblin when he arrives. "We do have some questions for you, since your decision saved you from joining your crew-mates before the Lady."
"Shoot. No NO! I mean ask away, your holy imminents!" The goblin cowers.
Raia leads everyone up the stairs and into the command room. A soft glow radiates from flickering computer screens, washing the various numerous workstations under a film of light the color of sea foam. The constant hum of electronics floods the room, enhanced periodically by several nagging pings from blinking console alarms.
The four chairs in front of these workstations appear unused.
A green-screened mainframe computer terminal covers the eastern side of the command center. It periodically showers the area in harmless sparks as thick cables sprawl from underneath its exposed bulk. The cables partially bury the charred remains of a goblin.
Raia listens to the discussion while she examines the consoles and mainframe computer in this room.
Obozaya is last up the ladder and maintains watch from the platform outside the room.
"Hi ya. I'm Wingtooth." He points to a crooked bicuspid that stands horizontally from his upper jaw. It's tip sticks just outside his lips, and pulls the right corner of his mouth back in a thin leer.
He gestures toward the mainframe. "Be careful with the glowing green god. She doesn't like it if you don't show respect. At least that's what Gut-proud said. She killed him anyway, when he tried to get her to give us miracles again."
He kicks the dead goblin.