SFS 3-11 - Into the Veskarium [Gameday X] (KS) (Inactive)

Game Master phaeton_nz

((Red: -32; Green: -12; Blue: -15))

Navasi, still prone, draws her pistol and fires at red!!

tactical semi-auto pistol vs KAC: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (19) + 5 = 24
P damage: 1d6 + 2 ⇒ (5) + 2 = 7

Red does not look too healthy

((Red: -39; Green: -12; Blue: -15))

Waiting on Delea and Tanila

Tanila draws her static arc pistol and shoots at the red one.
attack: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (12) + 4 = 16
damage: 1d6 + 2 ⇒ (6) + 2 = 8

Sorry, I can't get the map to load for me. I'll need some help finishing off my turn.

Sighing that these creatures are immune to most of her magic, Delea uses her mind to pick up a bit of junk to toss at one.

attack: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (13) + 4 = 17
damage: 1d6 ⇒ 6

unable to pick target or know if I need to move without the map working for me

Red is downed before it gets a chance to escape. Delia manages to hit Blue

(Green: -12; Blue: -21)

The two solenoid worms continue attacking the scanners, breaking them even further. Instead of attacking a worm someone can fix a scanner with successful engineering checks. The one nearest where you started was damaged by the earthquake.

Kataali full attacks Green
efd: 1d20 + 11 - 4 ⇒ (1) + 11 - 4 = 8 fire: 1d8 + 8 ⇒ (2) + 8 = 10
efd: 1d20 + 11 - 4 ⇒ (3) + 11 - 4 = 10 fire: 1d8 + 8 ⇒ (3) + 8 = 11

All PCs are up.

Kneepuncher moves to support Sir Feighnswelle.

Double move. Entropy 4.

Sir Feignswelle rolls into an advantageous position.
Step
Spending another 1 RP for Entropy.

He then swings at the creature!
Melee (entropic strike) v blue EAC, flank: 1d20 + 6 + 2 ⇒ (12) + 6 + 2 = 20
Damage (Acid & B): 1d4 + 7 + 1d4 ⇒ (4) + 7 + (4) = 15

(Green: -12; Blue: -36)

Navasi, stands up from prone and fires at blue!

tactical semi-auto pistol vs KAC: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (4) + 5 = 9
P damage: 1d6 + 2 ⇒ (6) + 2 = 8

Tanila repairs the scanner she is next to.
Engineering: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (10) + 11 = 21

The Specialist, relunctantly, slings his huchket rifle and works on the scanner he's next to.

Engineering: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (19) + 14 = 33

That scanner is returned to full working order. The other two are still being threatened by worms and are in a worse state.

((Waiting on Delea))

"Focus on the worms, team! I'll head to the other scanners and make sure they're working!" shouts The Specialist.

Delea moves over to where she can heal Kneepuncher if he starts to take damage while working on the rig.

She also magically throws junk at the nearest worm.

attack: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (17) + 4 = 21
damage: 1d6 ⇒ 1

(Green: -12; Blue: -37)

Green completely ignores Kataali and wallops the scanner but Blue turns it's rage onto Sir Feignswelle

bite: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (5) + 12 = 17 piercing: 1d6 + 7 ⇒ (1) + 7 = 8

Kataali full attacks Green - It looks like she's setting up for an explosion.

efd: 1d20 + 11 - 4 ⇒ (15) + 11 - 4 = 22 fire: 1d8 + 8 ⇒ (4) + 8 = 12
efd: 1d20 + 11 - 4 ⇒ (16) + 11 - 4 = 23 fire: 1d8 + 8 ⇒ (1) + 8 = 9

All PCs are up.

Sir Feignswelle gives the creature the old one, two!

Melee (entropic strike) v blue EAC, flank, full-attack: 1d20 + 6 + 2 - 4 ⇒ (1) + 6 + 2 - 4 = 5
Damage (Acid & B): 1d4 + 7 ⇒ (3) + 7 = 10
Melee (entropic strike) v blue EAC, flank, full-attack: 1d20 + 6 + 2 - 4 ⇒ (3) + 6 + 2 - 4 = 7
Damage (Acid & B): 1d4 + 7 ⇒ (4) + 7 = 11

Kneepuncher follows up with a three-four!

Entropic Strike: 1d20 + 6 - 2 + 2 ⇒ (18) + 6 - 2 + 2 = 24 vs. EAC
Acid and Bludgeoning Damage: 1d4 + 9 ⇒ (1) + 9 = 10

Entropic Strike: 1d20 + 6 - 2 + 2 ⇒ (5) + 6 - 2 + 2 = 11 vs. EAC
Acid and Bludgeoning Damage: 1d4 + 9 ⇒ (2) + 9 = 11

And that's Blue out of the picture

Navasi yells "Two down, one to go! Get the last worm before it destroys the scanner!"

Get' Em placed on last worm. "As a move action, Navasi selects one foe within 60 feet that she can see or hear, and that can see or hear her. Navasi and her allies gain a +1 morale bonus to attack rolls against that foe until the end of her next turn."

tactical semi-auto pistol vs KAC, get 'em: 1d20 + 5 + 1 ⇒ (14) + 5 + 1 = 20
P damage: 1d6 + 2 ⇒ (6) + 2 = 8

And Navasi kill-steals from a rather surprised Kataali as Green drops in front of her before she gets to supernova.

=== Combat over ===

You have two malfunctioning and one wrecked scanner to fix.

Unless I can aid with an untrained Engineering check, I am done.

Kneepuncher keeps and eye out for further worms.

Navasi says to Tanila and The Specialist, "Well, I can help if there are any software issues but I'm not gonna be of much use with patching up the hardware."

Sir Feighnswell shrugs. "Don't look at me. Such technobaubles are rather foreign to me."

"I'll see what I can do," says The Specialist. He pulls a cable from his artificial arm and snaps it into a dataport on the first malfunctioning scanner. He pulls an engineering toolset from his backpack and removes an esoteric plier-scanner-welder device and goes to work.

Engineering: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (14) + 14 = 28

Delea watches with interest as the techie companions go to work.

The malfunctioning scanner is set back to glitching. Another successful check will fully repair it. The wrecked scanner will need three successful checks to fix assuming it succeeds on a ten percent or over chance not to break.

overload: 1d100 ⇒ 84 - still wrecked but repairable

The malfunctioning scanner is set back to glitching. Another successful check will fully repair it. The wrecked scanner will need three successful checks to fix assuming it succeeds on a ten percent or over chance not to break.

Engineering: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (3) + 14 = 17

Engineering: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (6) + 14 = 20
Engineering: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (13) + 14 = 27
Engineering: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (5) + 14 = 19

and another, just in case

Engineering: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (17) + 14 = 31

The Specialist fixes the now glitching scanner.

10% break chance: 1d100 ⇒ 28
10% break chance: 1d100 ⇒ 98

Fortunately the critically damaged scanner doesn't break completely while he is working on it and that is restored in four rounds.

This leaves only one other malfunctioning scanner that needs two checks to fix

Tanila pulls out a roll of duct tape, a soldering iron and a piece of solder and starts working on the other scanner.
engineering: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (19) + 11 = 30
After soldering some sliced wires, she wraps the cracks in duct tape.
engineering: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (12) + 11 = 23

With all four scanners fixed you are able to make the scans. All you need now is a Phys Sci check to analyse the results.

Good job, team! Who can finish the scan?

"Sorry, can't say I can help with the analysis. Scientific analysis isn't an area I have much experience with. Anyone else?"

"I got this."
Phys Science: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (14) + 12 = 26

Tanila does indeed have this. She is able to analyse the results from the scan and discover what was thought to be ruins was a network of underground caverns. Elgir hangs back as you prepare to leave the site.

Starfinders, huh? says Elgr, watching his team jump to attention at Kataali’s order. I’ll make sure everyone knows how much you helped us today. Kataali’s happily back to work, you saved Rukka’s precious scanners, and the rest have put aside their suspicions for now. Maybe I’ll see you out there someday. I love my planet, but it must be so exciting to explore the stars. Elgr’s eyes glisten behind his goggles. Anyway. Can’t waste a second, Kataali’s calling. Thanks again!

Next stop - Vesk 6

Erm - Vesk 5

This part involves Starship Combat - please specify which ship frame you would like to use and your roles on the Starship

You have reached Spaceport 5.1, a joint military installation and civilian settlement that orbits one of Vesk-5’s moons. (see Handout 3). The pit stop Venture-Captain Naiaj warned PCs about turned into four days of calibrations and repairs after an electrical storm damaged their ship’s engines.

By now, you are growing familiar with the spaceport and its bustling, eclectic population. Their ship’s repairs are finally complete, despite the attentions of a “helpful” skittermander mechanic eager to install experimental drive systems. However, the paperwork required to authorize the ship’s departure appears lost in the mists of the Veskarium’s imperial bureaucracy.

How have you spent the last four days? Spaceport 5.1 features an array of eateries, holovid theatres, shopping centers, and a few state-sanctioned clubs concealing quasilegal casinos.

The Specialist wanders the corridors of Spaceport 5.1 until he finds a low-grav section. And then, he promptly finds a club. And intoxicants.

He grows less positive and more morose with each sniff, drink and injection.

"H'wuz jusht a kid ya know?" he slurs to the ijtikri sitting next to him. "But I neeeeeeded an arm, ya know? <hiccup> Ann the corp don give arms away fer <hiccup> free. I hadda do it. Ann I'm good at wha I do, bu' wha I do ain't good. Heh. Yup. Amoral <hicc> contractor fer hire. Thass me."

He looks at a nearby group of Brethedan corporate types sampling the club's wares.

"Fuggin' corps," The Specialist mumbles as he slumps to the floor.

Three days in various clubs and one in a quickie detox center later, the now quite positive mechanic finds the rest of the team.

"Oh yeah! Let's finish this mission, team! I just KNOW its gonna be a good one! I can feel it. Positive energy, folks! Positive energy."

His face is a bit tight with that last gush of enthusiasm; his words a bit forced, to anybody watching closely.

Navasi heads straight to the clubs!! She'll surface now and then to head to the eateries. But unless called upon, she disappears back into the clubs as soon as she's done eating.

On the occassions you catch her outside of the club, she'll have a big smile on her face. "Win some. Lose some. But the ride sure is fun the entire way there!!!"

Kneepuncher's last visit to the Veskarium only got as close to the star as Vesk-8, so he appreciates the opportunity to stay somewhere a bit warmer. He will sightsee a bit during the day and see if he can ply his trade in the evening - and wonders if skittermanders have an advantage because of all those hands, or a disadvantage because of all those teeth.

Tanila spends most of her time playing vidgames, and eventually ends up in the same club as Navasi. who she winds up passed out next to. The last day she has cleaned up and is ready to go.

((Delia and Sir Feignswelle to post - if they want to))

Sir Feighnswelle decides to take in a good deal of the local cuisine, regaling any who will listen about his bouts on Arniselle and pointing at the hash marks on each of his four tusks demonstrating the prowess he had during his glory days.

"Was a jolly good time, it was. A jolly good one!"

Delia mentioned some RL items have popped up so I'm assuming she won't have time to throw something up.

While they're at the gambling tables, wanting to make sure Tanila has a good time, Navasi ensures the free alcohol streams ceasely to Tanila. And because Tanila's passing out is largely Navasi's fault, Navasi will be sure to help Tanila get cleaned and ready to go before the mission restarts!!

With a wink and a smile, Navasi says, "Tanila, I totally got you! You're my GIRL!!! Dang you were so crazy last night trying to get up and dance on that blackjack table before you passed out! Don't you worry, I tipped the dealer and the pit manager so they didn't mind... In fact they're happy to have you back anytime!!"

Tanila looks confused and nervous when Navasi tells her about the incident with the blackjack table.
"Oh dear, I really hope I didn't do anything else..."

Well ... it appears that no one got arrested although Delea seems to be rather tight lipped about what she was up to. It's always the quiet ones some entities say.

Anyway, wherever you are on the station, you enjoy a prime view of the dreadnought Talon’s Razor docking in the spaceport’s bay. As the Starfinders watch, a vesk brigadier dismounts from Talon’s Razor. She bears a cybernetic right eye and is dressed in a sharp, decorated military uniform. Her armoured mobility chair incorporates a holster on the right armrest for her doshko.

She pauses and inspects your ship. Pact Worlds travellers? she asks. You’re a long way from home. Unless... are you Starfinders, by any chance?

Culture: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (11) + 4 = 15

Previously...

"Oh don't you worry Tanila. Nothing that'll result in us getting detained. Well, at least not before we wrap up our mission and exit the Veskarium anyways..."

Navasi avoids looking directly at Tanila and whistles innocently while wearing her signature mischievous grin...

Now I'm imagining Navasi and Tanila had some crazy side adventures in the spirit of The Hangover.

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Presently....

Culture: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (2) + 9 = 11

"Yes we are. My name's Navasi. How may we be of assistance?"

She claps Navasi eagerly on the shoulder and exclaims: Fantastic! It’s been a long time since I’ve met one of your ilk! I fought with several of your Exo-Guardians against the Swarm some decades ago. Tell me of your battles!

"Well, I was sitting in a bar on Absalom Station one day when I heard some commotion from outside. One of our agents was outside, being attacked by a group we would eventually find out was called Keepers of the Lie. I grabbed my shield and ran outside, where..."

Scenario #2-19 "Truth Keepers", from which Kneepuncher has the "Into the Veskarium" boon.

Culture: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (1) + 7 = 8

"Not only do you just so happen to be within the presence of Starfinders, but you are within the presence of Sir Feighnswelle of Arniselle, Pugilist and Fighter Extraordinaire! My successful streak of title bouts aside, I have bested shimmersheen dealers, a murder van, a series of clones, and even something akin to a dragon!"