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Veevee says
Syrelle , this is supposed to be an infiltration mission. Quiet Sneaky!
She will move back to help Syrelle, pulling her Corona Laser Pistol as she moves.
If we can drop this one and sneak away, maybe the others will think the turret malfunction got them?
Sneak to hide from the far ones as she moves
Swing again at the guard vs KAC
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<<I'm almost positive we were trying not to be noticed. Weren't we? Did I miss another memo?>>
Khavarku waffles for a moment, caught between loyalty to his companions and his personal creed. Sighing deeply, he moves back towards the fighting and draws his thunderstrike pistol. He reluctantly readies an attack on White, if they start acting in a threatening manner.
Veevee and Syrelle take out the dark grey guard with two hits. Khavarku tries to daze the light grey one.
The guard is dazed for a round.
While all this is happening, Duthuj tries to hack the door open. However when he gets to the door, he finds that the only real access point is an intercom. it takes a moment to get the cover off, but hacking into the system to actually force the door open will take some time, at least 30 secs if everything goes well.
However standing right there makes him a little too easily noticed.
He stays hidden.
The turret near Black fires on him again.
It guns down black.
Light grey is dazed.
★ --- ★ --- ★ --- ★
Round 3: Everyone one was kung fu fighting!
General active conditions None
★ --- ★ --- ★ --- ★
❕ Veevee
Round 4:
❕ Duthuj:
❕ Khavarku
❕ Syrelle (Zirul)
Turrets
Yellow -7
Blue -7
Guards
- Light gray
Door hacking 1/5
Bolded may act.
>>>Maps<<<
attack guard again
Duthuj decides not to interrupt anyone's fun.
Though this would be easier without so many distractions.
I doublemove towards the other guard then.
Syrelle moves up to the last guard as Duthuj keeps working on the door.
The final guard spots Duthuj as Syrelle comes up to the guard. He gives a shout, "HEY! You shouldn't be there! Get away or else!"
★ --- ★ --- ★ --- ★
Round 3: I'm not quite IN!
General active conditions None
★ --- ★ --- ★ --- ★
❕ Veevee
Round 4:
Duthuj
❕ Khavarku
Syrelle (Zirul)
Turrets
Yellow -7
Blue -7
Guards
- Light gray
Door hacking 2/5
Bolded may act.
>>>Maps<<<
Veevee also moves in closer to the fight trying to get the excitement on camera, while preparing to help Syrelle if she can.
Khavarku tries to get a non-lethal shot off, to knock out the guard but his conscience gets the better of him and he fires off into the bushes instead.
The turret near the gaurd trains it's aim on the last gaurd.
The guard takes some heavy burns from the turret, but ignoring that, and even ignoring the scary Syrelle right next to him, he takes a guarded step away from the turret and pahtra and takes aim at Duthuj, hoping to keep the ijtikri from hacking the bases front door.
He misses.
★ --- ★ --- ★ --- ★
Round 4: Everyone one was kung fu fighting!
General active conditions None
★ --- ★ --- ★ --- ★
❕ Veevee
Round 5:
❕ Duthuj:
❕ Khavarku
❕ Syrelle (Zirul)
Turrets
Yellow -7
Blue -7
Guards
- Light gray -10
Door hacking 2/5
Bolded may act.
>>>Maps<<<
Duthuj trusts their team to cover them.
"Yes! That's the algorithm I need!"
Move to guard, light gray and swing vs KAC
Duthuj gets their program working faster and more efficiently, knocking a few seconds off the hack time.
Veevee fires a shot at the last guard, but has a small moment of conflict and fries a plant instead.
Syrelle and Khavarku both fire and swing at the same time taking the guard down.
On the Livechat, everyone gives a cheer, the stream flooding with emojis for a moment, with a few people ribbing Veevee for being such a poor shot with her pistol.
As Duthuj finishes hacking the door open, there’s a crackle as your comms flare to life again. But instead of the excitable tones of Vyrnandi, a gruff male voice taunts you, “So you’re the members of the Mrraheen who stole my files. I know what you’re trying to do, but you’ll never make it past the outpost’s defenses. I’m feeling generous, so I’ll give you one chance: turn tail and run if you value your miserable lives…” Consul Shethris laughs as he starts to describe details, [b] “... or I’ll find you and flay your skin and then cut the still living flesh from your bones as I-” There’s a moment of silence followed by the voice of Vyrnandi cutting in “-ose a good girl? That’s a good computer, boot the mean old consul out of the comms. Right, crew, can you hear me? Seems he-whose-name-would-get-us-unneccessary-attention hacked our comms there for a moment. He’s onto us, we need to hurry before the place is teeming with guards.”
Veevee’s live chat goes wild for a few moments, some people still believing this is a staged publicity event, while others are hurling insults at the consul, and the chat moderators are having to handle more than a few expletives.
The party starts moving down the 10 foot wide stairs into a 20 foot square room where various guard supplies, weapons and anti-plant and bug sprays are stored. The group moves down a second set of stairs as Vyrnandi continues, “But good job handling all that! I really like the touch of hacking the turrets, and even better you didn’t leave any witnesses behind to possibly alert others. I’ve been watching your progress on Veevee’s stream, and it seems you are generating a lot of buzz, so keep it up! I’ll go quiet now so as to not tip anyone off in there, but remember If you need any help or advice I’m here.” Vyrnandi sighs wistfully, ”Maybe next time I’ll get off support duty and get in on the action…”
The door at the bottom of the second stairs opens into a dimly-lit entryway. Another door directly across seems to lead further in to the bunker. Thick metal walls silence any sounds from the world above, leaving the place with an eerie, hushed atmosphere, the only sounds coming from the low hum of a circulating fan and a computer on a neatly arranged desk with the chair pushed in. Between you and the door however are two robots who activate when you open the door and quickly realize you don’t have ID badges.
”STOP RIGHT THERE AND SURRENDER. THIS IS A RESTRICTED PLACE. YOU ARE UNAUTHORIZED TO BE HERE. YOU ARE UNDER ARREST. DO NOT RESIST.”
Only Duthuj gets the drop on the robots.
★ --- ★ --- ★ --- ★
Round 1: Beep Boop robots!
General active conditions None
★ --- ★ --- ★ --- ★
❕ Duthuj:
Robots:
-Red
-Black
Khavarku
Syrelle (Zirul)
Veevee
Bolded may act.
>>>Maps<<<
Duthuj enters the room and tries to sneak past Black while taking a shot.
Duthuj nearly disappears into the shadows sneaking around the backside of the black robot and firing a frigid blast right into the contruct's back, leaving it reeling for a moment.
The robots then turn and retaliate. The one in red opens a small channel in its chest and fires a grenade at everyone in the entryway still.
The second one in balck tries to delay Duthuj who just shot it.
Both grenades explode on target, threatening to entangle and trap everyone around them.
★ --- ★ --- ★ --- ★
Round 1: Beep Boop robots!
General active conditions None
Before your turn:
Khavarku DC 12 reflex save vs. 6 rounds of entangled
Syrelle (Zirul): DC 12 reflex save vs. 6 rounds of entangled
Veevee: DC 12 reflex save vs. 6 rounds of entangled
Duthuj: DC 12 reflex save vs. 8 rounds of entangled
★ --- ★ --- ★ --- ★
❕ Khavarku
❕ Syrelle (Zirul)
❕ Veevee
Round 2:
❕ Duthuj
Robots:
-Red
-Black: -16, Flat footed
Bolded may act.
>>>Maps<<<
Avoiding the sticky grenade, Duthuj crosses the room and plugs Black again.
Khavarku fails to get out of the sticky explosion radius, but does land a solid shot on the black robot. It reels but doesn't go down just yet.
Duthuj pops out of another shadow and freezes another part of the black robot, it proves to be too brittle and when the robot tries to respond, it snaps some important wires and collapses in pieces.
Veevee also fails to avoid getting sticky bombed, moving slowly, but getting her weapon out and helping focus everyone's fire on the Red one.
Syrelle barely avoids getting the stick gunk in her fur as she draws out her gun and fires a shot.
She puts a good hole in the wall behind the robot instead.
With a few clomping steps the robot closes in on the entangled Veevee and swings out with a big cushioned arm.
It slams her face, knocking her breath out of her for a second.
Some of the live chat flares at the mistreatment of their host.
Lucyla: Wow, those robots are... kind of cute!
WanderingWeydanite: my sister’s a merc, she’s fought those before. Least they try to take people alive instead of blitzing ‘em.
MachineCakeFan099: But they shouldn't be hitting Veevee anywyas! Go team gooooo! Fry their circuits!
RadiantShadow: they’re really good! How do I spend channel points
again?
Kererara: Cool choreography!
Hesperheart: ... seriously, it’s not staged
★ --- ★ --- ★ --- ★
Round 2: Beep Boop robots!
General active conditions Get ‘em: Red
★ --- ★ --- ★ --- ★
❕ Khavarku: Entangled 5/6
❕ Syrelle (Zirul)
❕ Veevee: SP 23/35 HP 32/32; Entangled 5/6
Round 3:
❕ Duthuj
Robots:
-Red
-Black:
Bolded may act.
>>>Maps<<<
How many times do I get to do this move before Chat gets bored of it?
Fire again at the red one, tactical x-gen gun vs KAC
Duthuj gets a pretty immediate answer to his unvoiced question about his trick attack. Trying the same manuerver as last time, the chat is flooded shortly with comments on him being a one trick pony in a fight, how it’s boring, a request for a backflip and even a disparaging comment about ‘this being why he didn’t get into the fight outside.’ All this distracts the ijtkri enough he fails to be sneaky and alerts the robot he’s moving, but his shot still aims true, hurting the robot slightly.
Syrelle on the other hand, gets some encouragement for their missed shot earlier and this time hits with her shot.
Veevee calls out for advice on these bots, when WanderingWeydenite comments, “These interceptor bots aren’t grounded properly! super susceptible to electricity” pointing out they have an electricity weakness. Veevee pulls out her ‘Gruff-Skit’s All-Purpose Survival Knife’ and for a moment forgets she’s not doing yet another promotion for the sponsor, and tries to open the ‘can’ of the softly padded robot’s arm.
★ --- ★ --- ★ --- ★
Round 2: Beep Boop robots!
General active conditions none
★ --- ★ --- ★ --- ★
❕ Khavarku: Entangled 5/6
Syrelle (Zirul)
Veevee: SP 23/35 HP 32/32; Entangled 5/6
Round 3:
Duthuj
Robots:
-Red -14
Bolded may act.
>>>Maps<<<
Khavarku fires two shots at the robot, the first one hits but the second one is just barely misses due to the sticky threads Khavarku's arm.
The robot tries to non-lethally incapacitate Veevee.
Both slams miss the skittermander, as the chat goes wild about how good Veevee is at dodging things.
★ --- ★ --- ★ --- ★
Round 3: Beep Boop robots!
General active conditions Get ‘em: Red
★ --- ★ --- ★ --- ★
❕ Khavarku: Entangled 5/6
❕ Syrelle (Zirul)
❕ Veevee: SP 23/35 HP 32/32; Entangled 5/6
Round 4:
❕ Duthuj
Robots:
-Red -18
Bolded may act.
>>>Maps<<<
Fire at red again with his x-gen gun vs KAC
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Frustrated with Chat, Duthuj tries a different tactic - running out in front of the robot and yelling, "Vive la résistance, Motherboarder!"
And proves why they rely on their one trick.
Syrelle misses the robot with her gun again, maybe she needs to get her sights fixed on it or something.
Duthuj's one trick is definitely clear to the robot by now, but the one-liner is an instant hit with the chat.
Khavarku fails to hit the first time, but lands a solid hit with the second shot, the chat giving them some encouragement.
Veevee, one she gets out of promotion mode, stabs the robot in the arm and tears out some circuitry. It stays standing though.
In response it blares, "STOP RESISTING. YOU WILL BE PUT UNCONCIOUS FOR YOUR AND OTHER'S SAFETY."
The robot then grabs the skittermander. "NOW STAY STILL!"
★ --- ★ --- ★ --- ★
Round 4: Beep Boop robots!
General active conditions Get ‘em: Red
★ --- ★ --- ★ --- ★
❕ Khavarku: Entangled 3/6
❕ Syrelle (Zirul)
❕ Veevee: SP 4/35 HP 32/32; Entangled 3/6, grabbed
Round 4:
❕ Duthuj
Robots:
-Red -30
Bolded may act.
>>>Maps<<<
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Veevee is still vidcasting
Aha! Now we see the violence inherent in the system! Come and see the violence inherent in the system! HELP, HELP, I'M BEING REPRESSED!
Veevee will attempt and Escape using Acrobatics
He will move due East to the corner
Move action Bluff check to create a diversion. Maybe it will help others?
Duthuj goes back to sneaking and lets Veevee declaim about our anarcho-syndicalist commune.
Veevee escapes from the grips of the robot and into the corner to avoid getting hit again as the chat starts cheering for their host.
Duthuj finds that the robot isn't paying attention to their actions anymore and fires a shot into the back of the robot as it dies to the ice pistol.
❕ Veevee: SP 4/35 HP 32/32;
With the two robots down and gone, the room can be investigated.
The computer could try being hacked into , or you could move onto the next room.
Duthuj tries to get into the system.
Duthuj gets into the computers and finds a few things they could do inside the system.
They first check to see if they could just upload the data they want to send from here, but that system is physically sperate from the rest of the facility. However, the facility controls aren't.
You can get access to a blueprint of the outpost as well as the geotagging of the various employees here.
You do find another set of guards in the guard rooms quickly getting into gear in response to an alert from the robot, but you could lock the doors down to those rooms, fry the circuits with a few extra amps of power and leave them likely trapped for a few hours.
Khavarku is able to lock the doors with a single command and then as Veevee rests up, patches in a small streaming device into the camera feed from the barracks and adding the resultant image to the stream as a smaller screen.
During the down time, the footage proves to be enough to keep people interested, with the vesk stuck inside trying various tactics to get out, culminating in jousting with the door with a doshko. The door wins, handily!
After Veevee rests and Khavarku finishes his work on the computer and his spell, the group moves onto the next room, where the computer was giving a read out of a single pahtra in the space.
The single steel door leads into a 20-foot long corridor, with another door at the end of the hall. The metal walls give the corridor a harsh, industrial feel. A faint hum of machinery suffuses the area, though no source is visible.
At the other end of the hallway is a male pahtra doing some work on the keypad to the next door. He glances over his shoulder, taking a hurried step through the doorway next to him as he taps out the last few numbers on the keypad on the otherside. “Sh—shoo! Please. Please just go. I don’t know who you are or what you want, but I just work here. S-sorry.”[/b] He gulps, his knees shaking. “You really shouldn’t have come here. Do you know what they do to people who anger them?”[/b]
As he finishes the number sequence and before you can react, the far door slams shut and locks followed quickly by the door you just came through. A few thin panels slide aside on the walls as the machinery behind them whirs to life.
The trap takes too long to activate, giving everyone a chance to react to it before it starts flinging what sounds like blades of force into the room.
★ --- ★ --- ★ --- ★
Round 1: It’s a TRAP!
General active conditions None
★ --- ★ --- ★ --- ★
❕ Khavarku:
❕ Syrelle (Zirul)
❕ Veevee:
❕ Duthuj
Oh trap!
Bolded may act.
>>>Maps<<<
Duthuj tries to puzzle out how the trap works.
Syrelle will try to dodge
Veevee spends a little too long looking at chat and fails to get any actual progress done on the trap workings. However that proves to be a benefit as Duthuj recognizes these types of traps. A common installation in Veskarium institutions from last decade that added a second trap that triggers when the first is disabled, most of these kinds of traps were decommissioned due to ethical considerations (and problems that accidental triggerings caused.) This one seems to have a secondary electric floor trap added to it. They luckily know how to disable them in one fell swoop.
Syrelle readies to dodge the trap when it activates, but fails to note he has hooked his gun strap on the door knob behind him.
still to act for round 1
Kavarku, unable to help with disabling, tries to protect himself from the trap as it gears up to fire.
He avoids the trap with aplomb.
The trap then activates. It gives a whirr and then nearly invisible saw blade-like discs of force come flying out of the walls at set interevals and angles.
Everyone gets slammed for a good deal of damage.
★ --- ★ --- ★ --- ★
Round 2: It’s a TRAP!
General active conditions None
★ --- ★ --- ★ --- ★
❕ Khavarku: (Assuming the Resistant Armor is set to Physical) SP 33/40 HP 36/36
❕ Syrelle (Zirul) SP 28/45 HP 39/39
❕ Veevee: SP 18/35 HP 32/32;
❕ Duthuj SP 24/40 HP 36/36
Oh trap!
Bolded may act.
>>>Maps<<<