[SFS_Aerondor] 04-07 A Haven for Scoured Machines (tier 7-10) (Inactive)

Game Master Aerondor

ref DC20: 1d20 ⇒ 13
The robot swings around, avoiding the worst of the blast, but not all of it.

Status: bold may post
Big Jim 0/73SP; 35/61hp; 6/8RP; has benefitted from inspiring boost
Buster (BJ's drone) 0/80
Robot 79 damage - In fog, so 50% miss for melee attacks. Head is sticking out the top so you can target it without miss chance with missile if you like. Of course, it can do the same with you. Used AOO.
Rani 72/72SP; 8/9RP;
Moxie 0/49SP; 14/46hp; 5/8RP;
Desha 20/56SP - someone may post for her;
Daata 0/42SP; hp 40/48 7/9RP; has benefitted from inspiring boost.
Mikey(Daata's drone) 80/80hp;
Sefel 0/40SP; 32/44hp - needs botting

Nah, doesn't need botting. Was just a long day :)

Sefel gets even more nervous as the drone is trashed in front of them. He closes his eyes and emits an array of force missiles that he knows in his heart is very likely not enough to make this big scary problem go away.

[full action] cast magic missile

Force damage (3 missiles): 3d4 + 3 ⇒ (2, 2, 2) + 3 = 9

He opens one eye to see the results.

Maybe...?

Jim sneers at the machine that had been beating on him "This is for Buster!" and he opens up with the laser, fuelled by rage and Moxie!

Attack 1d20 + 10 - 4 + 2 ⇒ (19) + 10 - 4 + 2 = 27 vs EAC
Damage 2d6 + 9 ⇒ (1, 1) + 9 = 11 F

Attack 1d20 + 10 - 4 + 2 ⇒ (14) + 10 - 4 + 2 = 22 vs EAC
Damage 2d6 + 9 ⇒ (6, 5) + 9 = 20 F

Jim's shot is Right On Target. Buddy claps! If only there was air to hear.

Happy to go with MM rather than the energy blast for Sefel, only one point difference in damage

Deciding that a magical opponent needed to be prioritized, the Robot turns its attention on Sefel.

laser vs KAC25: 1d20 + 19 - 4 ⇒ (18) + 19 - 4 = 33
F damage: 2d10 + 15 ⇒ (4, 9) + 15 = 28
laser vs KAC24: 1d20 + 19 - 4 ⇒ (9) + 19 - 4 = 24
F damage: 2d10 + 15 ⇒ (1, 6) + 15 = 22

Finally dropping the pesky technomancer. The voice taunts you "Another Recruit!"

Status: bold may post
Rani 72/72SP; 8/9RP;
Moxie 0/49SP; 14/46hp; 5/8RP;
Desha 20/56SP - someone may post for her;
Daata 0/42SP; hp 40/48 7/9RP; has benefitted from inspiring boost.
Mikey(Daata's drone) 80/80hp;
Sefel 0/40SP; 0/44hp; dying
Big Jim 0/73SP; 35/61hp; 6/8RP; has benefitted from inspiring boost
Buster (BJ's drone) 0/80
Robot 89 damage - In fog, so 50% miss for melee attacks. Head is sticking out the top so you can target it without miss chance with missile if you like. Of course, it can do the same with you.

The mist swirls and you realise the second shot did more damage than you initially realised to the robot. It looks unhappy with BJ. Guess it wants to finish the job. Soon.

Status: bold may post
Rani 72/72SP; 8/9RP;
Moxie 0/49SP; 14/46hp; 5/8RP;
Desha 20/56SP - someone may post for her;
Daata 0/42SP; hp 40/48 7/9RP; has benefitted from inspiring boost.
Mikey(Daata's drone) 80/80hp;
Sefel 0/40SP; 0/44hp; dying
Big Jim 0/73SP; 35/61hp; 6/8RP; has benefitted from inspiring boost
Buster (BJ's drone) 0/80
Robot 109 damage - In fog, so 50% miss for melee attacks. Head is sticking out the top so you can target it without miss chance with missile if you like. Of course, it can do the same with you.

Rani does another flip and burn shoot.

trick CL: Taking 10 for CL 12
v EAC: 1d20 + 12 + 2 ⇒ (19) + 12 + 2 = 33
electricity: 2d4 + 5 ⇒ (1, 4) + 5 = 10
trick damage: 4d8 ⇒ (1, 8, 5, 3) = 17

Jim continues to sneer and snarl in defiance as he continues to unload on the robot "This is for Sefel!" still riding high on rage and Moxie.

Rani, I assume it is flat-footed to everyone, or are you applying a different condition?

Assumption is that Moxie is continuing the Get 'Em
Attack 1d20 + 10 - 4 + 2 ⇒ (7) + 10 - 4 + 2 = 15 vs EAC
Damage 2d6 + 9 ⇒ (3, 2) + 9 = 14 F

Attack 1d20 + 10 - 4 + 2 ⇒ (20) + 10 - 4 + 2 = 28 vs EAC
Damage 2d6 + 9 ⇒ (1, 6) + 9 = 16 F
+Crit damage 2d6 + 9 ⇒ (4, 6) + 9 = 19
+Burn 1d6 ⇒ 1

Flatfooted unless it already is, then it would be off-target

Gritting her teeth, Moxie keeps firing her sonic pistol as fast as she can, because her life depends on it.

Double Tap: 1d20 + 10 + 1 ⇒ (15) + 10 + 1 = 26
Sonic: 1d8 + 7 ⇒ (2) + 7 = 9

And using Get Em for +2 to attack rolls

Daata steps closer and hurls his axe at the robot, while Mikey retrieves the izalguun's second serum and flies it toward the fallen lashunta.

Move, standard attack; AI move draw serum, move fly.

Attack vs KAC: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (1) + 9 = 10
Damage (S, magic): 1d6 + 10 ⇒ (1) + 10 = 11 Yeesh.

Spending 2 RP to stablize

I'm not dead yet. I think I'm getting better!

And with but a single opponent left, down one drone and one technomancer, the team opens fire on the misted robot.

It's big. It's tough. But it's already taken quite a beating, and it turns out, it is not quite big and tough enough. With the sound of tearing metal is slowly topples to the ground.

Wait? Tearing metal? How can you hear that. The voice has added sound-effects to its hijacking of your suit coms. The tearing sound is slowly replaced with a slow clap.

"“Again, we behold Starfinders doing the only thing at which they are marginally competent: breaking things. I’m sure the station’s self-destruct protocol will put your ‘accomplishment’ here to shame. Hardly a great loss, since there are plenty of similar factories up and running and my personality lives in hundreds of other robots far more capable than the one you just scrapped. Ah well, ‘til we meet again—and by ‘we,’ I mean the next batch of the Society’s cannon fodder, since I doubt you’ll survive the impending blast.”

You look along the long, curving corridor as slowly, one by one the small pods start to seal their doors. Even as you watch the furthest away pod drops out of position...

The showers of sparks from overloading power cells provides wonderful pyrotechnical effects to accompany the shudders as the station starts to... tear itself apart...

"I think it is time to leave" Jim gathers up what he can and starts looking for a way out of here and back to the ship before this thing implodes - bad - or explodes - also bad.

"This artificial idiot reckons we break things, but all I have seen it do is trash things, and recycle junk into killing machines that break everything they come across, what a fool"

Rani makes a grab for the central processor of the robot as well as the data core, hoping there's a clue to Zigvigix's location in it.

She also gathers up Buster unless Big Jim already has

Moxie runs over to Sefel and slings his arm around her shoulder. She starts dragging him towards the exit. "We need to get moving people!"

Well, the rate things are going, you are not too sure if you can really make it out in time... the pod-evac however hasn't *quite* got up to the ones you came in through...

"We need to hitch a ride on the pods!". Still carrying Sefel, Moxie runs to one of the un-launched pods and grabs ahold of it.

Rani also grabs a pod.

"Everyone in the pod..." Jim groans "We might see how they work, and maybe where they are headed"

Daata banks a hard turn toward the pod as he gallops using all four lower legs.

Standing by to participate in Weekend at Sefel's

You drag your poor beaten forms into a pod, and look, worriedly at the large number of robots standing to attention within it.

Seconds after entry, the door slams shut and then you are away. The pod has no safety harnesses, you suppose that the robot must have some type of magnetic hold from their feet. After a few seconds rapid acceleration you are ejected, along with a multitude of other pods out the "rear" of the factory.

Looking back, you can see explosions start to blow the place apart, working their way around the ring until Boom

Luckily you had earlier hacked the pods computers so while they all seem to be scattering, you can redirect this one back toward the Pegasus, whose shields protected it from the worst of the blast.

Nursing a multitude of injuries you quickly get Sefel back to consciousness and head for home.

The trip through the drift is ..without event.. luckily and you get back to Absalom station where Celita is eagerly awaiting your report.

Chronicles will be posted this evening.

Rani is still carrying the bits of the robot in the hope that it's useful to Celita.

She's also pushing the Pegasus to it's limits to get back as quickly as possible.

Moxie dictates her report, making sure to highlight the danger such a malevolent foe with seemingly endless resources could pose. She also highlights that at least the being is not one of superhuman intelligence or coldly rational, as it seemed to feel genuine hatred and pettiness towards the Pathfinders and emotions are driving it's behavior. She even speculates that it could be a sentient being merely posing as an AI. The clearest thing is that it definitely feels like it has been mistreated by the Starfinder Society and is seeking revenge.

And if it is actually a superior intellect, than Moxie was still not impressed and makes that clear in her debriefing.

Afterwards she has her agent contact Big Jim's people to see if some kind of crossover could be set up.

Celita gathers all your information, and is especially interested in Moxie's analysis of the guiding intelligence and its hatred for Starfinders.

Ehu Hadif also sits in on the debrief, listening with horror about how Starfinder agents have been reanimated and .... augmented.

"This isn't the first time we have encountered this haughty artificial personality." they add in disgust. "Different copies of the same personality seem to be in control of varying arms of the whole operation."

When (assuming you do) you mention some of the things it said in detail, in particular about Zigvigix hope enters your leaders eyes "We will redouble our efforts to locate him. IF Zig is alive, we must try a rescue."

And that is a wrap. I'll mark this inactive in a couple of days.

Afterwards she has her agent contact Big Jim's people to see if some kind of crossover could be set up.

My people will talk to your people, we can make something happen

**

Thanks GM, that was a rough one!

Rani also turns over the affects of the dead Starfinders with appropriate reverence.

Just say when sir she says to Ehu And I'll go get him, no matter how many robots I have to go through

Later on, she talks to Moxie about that movie offer.

Yeah... if they hadn't gotten me out of there, I might be wandering around that ship right now without my right mind.

His antennae slink down over his forehead as he slumps at the thought.

But think about all those free augmentations!