Zoomba's Fragment of the 4th (Tier 9-12) (Inactive)

Game Master Zoomba

Rani waits until Charli declares which one to aim at before firing.

Taking Acrobatics 10 for 33 to trick.
fh + Get 'Em + MW: 1d20 + 12 + 2 + 2 ⇒ (3) + 12 + 2 + 2 = 19
electricity: 1d10 + 5 + 2 + 2 ⇒ (8) + 5 + 2 + 2 = 17
trick dam: 5d8 ⇒ (5, 7, 5, 1, 4) = 22

"Get them all, but Green first."

Then Charli addresses the kasathans. "We slew Dhurus, the herald of Kadrical, and he was a REAL god. Your Fragment was just a pathetic and delusional wannabe, and now it is dead too! Is that what you want for yourselves? Death? Lay down your weapons, or join your false idol in oblivion!"

She shoots Green.

Boom (Merciful Called Holy Ghostkiller Surge Staccato Rifle+Get ‘Em: 1d20 + 12 + 2 ⇒ (18) + 12 + 2 = 32
Sonic Damage: 2d10 + 10 + 2 ⇒ (5, 3) + 10 + 2 = 20

Yes, another Resolve spent for +2 to attack and damage on all targets.

Rani's shot's even bigger with Neroo's Supercharge! more: 4d6 ⇒ (2, 5, 2, 6) = 15
Though...

The kasathan before her cuts into Rani as she fires at her friend, but the nick doesn't disrupt the halfling's shot. It strikes the distracted and singed cultist by Azara, who has already just been shot by Charli to the north who's yelling smack at the top of her lungs.

AoO: 1d20 + 19 - 2 ⇒ (18) + 19 - 2 = 35 for Slashing: 2d8 + 17 ⇒ (4, 2) + 17 = 23

The female warrior by Azara glances somewhat nervously north as the gnome yells out discouragement. But with a target for her anger in front of her she continues to lash out at the solarion, hitting once and very narrowly failing on a follo-up

Attack v KAC: 1d20 + 19 + 2 ⇒ (10) + 19 + 2 = 31 for Slashing: 2d8 + 17 ⇒ (7, 1) + 17 = 25
Attack v KAC: 1d20 + 19 + 2 ⇒ (5) + 19 + 2 = 26 for Slashing: 2d8 + 17 ⇒ (7, 6) + 17 = 30

Reflex vs hot armor: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (15) + 8 = 23

Initiative

Maverick 73/96 SP, hasted
Yith 20/64 SP ,hasted, Divine Aspected
Red kasatahn
Green kasatahn 79 damage
Neroo 29/72 SP, hasted, drone 88 damage & Miracle Worked
Blue kasatahn, shaken
Fragment
Rani 38/81 SP, hasted, weapon Miracle worked (+2 attack and damage)
Charli, hasted
Pink kasathan 5 damage
Azara 21/80 SP, hasted, photon 2

Azara does not drop his attunement with the universe but he does pause the fire from the rune plates and does not release the energy pent up in him.

"Your cause is lost, do not lose your life over it, as well. We are all trying to find answers to the current crisis and if Fragment is one, we will figure out the right way to do what is necessary. But fighting now does none of us any good," he says to the woman who just attacked him.

Diplomacy: 1d20 + 18 ⇒ (9) + 18 = 27

I love your kind heart, Azara. I hope she listens. Charli speaks in Azara's mind.

The other kasathan surrounding, Azara doesn't look hesitant or likely to surrender. Maverick, levels the laser sight on his semi-auto pistol on him and pulls the trigger as he zooms across the battlefield and makes a strafing run on his target. Shot on the Run

Acrobatics Trick Attack (Flat Footed): 10 + 25 = 35
Semi-Auto Pistol + Improved Get 'Em vs. Green KAC: 1d20 + 17 + 2 ⇒ (20) + 17 + 2 = 39
Piercing/Fire Damage + Improved Get 'Em: 4d6 + 6 + 2 ⇒ (2, 4, 6, 5) + 6 + 2 = 25
Piercing/Fire Trick Attack Damage: 6d8 ⇒ (7, 1, 8, 5, 2, 4) = 27
Fire Damage: 2d4 ⇒ (4, 3) = 7 Amplified diatha rounds, DC 27 reflex save or green is afflicted with the burning condition at the beginning of its turn.

Critical Hit Fire Damage + Improved Get 'Em: 4d6 + 6 + 2 ⇒ (1, 2, 5, 6) + 6 + 2 = 22
Critical Hit Fire Trick Attack Damage: 6d8 ⇒ (5, 6, 7, 7, 3, 5) = 33
Critical Hit Fire Damage: 2d4 ⇒ (3, 1) = 4 Amplified diatha rounds, DC 27 reflex save or green is afflicted with the burning condition at the beginning of its turn.

If green survives all that damage she is also knocked prone. All the critical hit damage is fire damage since diatha rounds have the fiery special property.

Yith steps around the remains of Fragment and walks up to Pink.
"Yes. Surrender would be a good choice right now!"
She empathizes the message with a twirl of her Doshko towards his face...

Doshko: 1d20 + 9 + 2 + 2 ⇒ (4) + 9 + 2 + 2 = 17
Piercing Damage: 2d12 + 11 + 2 ⇒ (7, 2) + 11 + 2 = 22

Sigh. Dicebot!!!! :)

If green survives…

That ‘if’ is quite the modifier, as:

Distracted as he is by Fragment’s fall and Azara and Charli’s exhortations, green is caught completely off guard from a crack-shot from Maverick above. He slumps over, bleeding and burning.

The flying cultist strikes twice at the flying robot next to it. ”N-No! You can’t have killed them. They-they were the only way back. You-you’re just a machine!”

Attack: 1d20 + 19 - 4 ⇒ (6) + 19 - 4 = 21 for Slashing: 2d8 + 17 ⇒ (3, 3) + 17 = 23
Attack: 1d20 + 19 - 4 ⇒ (3) + 19 - 4 = 18 for Slashing: 2d8 + 17 ⇒ (4, 2) + 17 = 23

Her slashes seem increasingly desperate, and the drone’s armor holds up well.

Initaitve
Get 'Em up for everything (+2 attack and damage)

Maverick 73/96 SP, hasted
Yith 20/64 SP ,hasted, Divine Aspected, need Will save[/b]
Red kasathan
Green kasathan
Neroo 29/72 SP, hasted, drone 88 damage & Miracle Worked
Blue kasatahn, shaken
Fragment
Rani 38/81 SP, hasted, weapon Miracle worked (+2 attack and damage)
Charli, hasted
Pink kasathan 5 damage
Azara 21/80 SP, hasted, photon 3

As you can see, the remaining three are still fighting, though their resolve is quickly shattering…

Stop attacking! It's pointless. says Neroo to the Kasathans.

She takes a guarded step and shoots at the one attacking her drone while commanding it to shoots back.

Arc Pistol Static (+Get'Em) vs EAC: 1d20 + 10 + 2 ⇒ (1) + 10 + 2 = 13
Damages, E (non lethal): 1d6 + 6 + 2 ⇒ (4) + 6 + 2 = 12

The hasted drone takes also a guarded step and full attacks the same Kasathan as her creator. Using 1RP to reduce the malus to attack to -4 rather than -6

Enhanced Staccato Rigle Surge #1 vs EAC: 1d20 + 14 + 2 + 1 - 4 ⇒ (14) + 14 + 2 + 1 - 4 = 27
Damages, So: 2d10 + 11 + 2 ⇒ (10, 1) + 11 + 2 = 24
Enhanced Staccato Rigle Surge #2 vs EAC: 1d20 + 14 + 2 + 1 - 4 ⇒ (1) + 14 + 2 + 1 - 4 = 14
Damages, So: 2d10 + 11 + 2 ⇒ (9, 2) + 11 + 2 = 24

A real tale of '20s' and '1s' this mission.

"It is not pointless!" The female near Neroo yells as she slashing twice at Rani. "The 4th is real! They have to be! And they'll...they'll send another piece of themselves. Again and again until they set everything right!"

Attack: 1d20 + 19 - 2 - 4 ⇒ (16) + 19 - 2 - 4 = 29 for Slashing: 2d8 + 17 ⇒ (8, 5) + 17 = 30
Attack: 1d20 + 19 - 2 - 4 ⇒ (16) + 19 - 2 - 4 = 29 for Slashing: 2d8 + 17 ⇒ (8, 3) + 17 = 28

You're skeptical of their divine accuracy, but some sort of luck is on her side as she cuts the halfling deeply.

Initiative

Maverick 73/96 SP, hasted
Yith 20/64 SP ,hasted, Divine Aspected[/b]
Red kasathan 24 damage
Neroo 29/72 SP, hasted, drone 88 damage & Miracle Worked
Blue kasatahn, shaken
Fragment
Rani 0/81 SP, 32/56 HP hasted, weapon Miracle worked (+2 attack and damage)
Charli, hasted
Pink kasathan 5 damage
Azara 21/80 SP, hasted, photon 3

"Stand down!"

What sort of action is it to call for a Surrender and have it work, GM? Is there a mechanic here that I am missing?

"If you want to fix the Drift, work with us. The Starfinder Society has some of the best experts in the galaxy working on rescue missions. I believe there will be a way to restore Triune and reset the Drift, but it will happen through cooperation and science, not murder and lies. Join us and stop fighting!" She gazes at them. "If you want to save the Universe, take this lifeline that I am offering to you."

Rani takes a guarded step away from Blue, but holds her fire in case they do surrender. If they don't, she will fire at Blue.

Rani steps back, while Charli makes another appeal to the kasathans to stand down.

The female cultist by Azara looks up at the gnome, then at the brightly glowing fighter next to her with blade drawn but momentarily restrained, then at the crumbled and still form of Fragment next to her. "We just...there needs to be a way to fix it. To bring them back. Everyone lost in the Crash, they can't just be gone forever. There has to be...has to have been..."

Her sword and gun fall to the ground as she herself crumbles to her knees rolling slightly away from the very hot armor or Azara. Seeing this, the other two kasathans follow suit shortly.

COMBAT OVER!!!
Maverick 73/96 SP, hasted
Yith 20/64 SP
Neroo 29/72 SP, drone 88 damage
Rani 0/81 SP, 32/56 HP
Azara 21/80 SP

Seeing the Kasathans surrender, Yith runs over to help Accordant-contemplator-16.

Rani also runs over to help AC-16.

Have to show you how to get out of that she quips.

Yith and Rani rush over to Accordant-Contemplator-16. The invisible forces pinning them in place seem to be fading as the anacite looks up at the vesk and halfing with a combination of relief and confusion.

<Rani. Yith. Steadfast allies! But why are you here? How? Thankful of course. Are you okay? That creature, Fragment, tried to convert me to its beliefs. But beliefs were alien, heresy, goals impossible.>

Yeah .... well .... when some entities get a belief, sometimes they hang on to it in desperation, even when the facts say otherwise.

She winced in pain. But what's important is that you're safe now, which can't be said for the rest of your crew ... well ... we did rescue a kiirinta

I can sort of understand their point of view though. The Drift is broken and many souls were lost. They are desperate to fix it - and I sort of agree. This might not be the way but, hopefully, we'll find one.

Azara releases the energy of the cosmos, not in a single flash of heat and light but in an invisible beam that reaches out to the sky and diffuses throughout the universe, ready to be tapped by some other creature.

He deactivates his rune plates and they cool with a rapidity that can only be explained by magic.

Kneeling next to the kasathan, he gently cradles her.

"What is gone may not be lost
We must keep our hopes
That it will all be returned.

"The Starfinder society will find a solution. We'll help those who are lost and those who have lost something. It's what we do. The gods may help us but we will do it even if they don't."

Neroo is happy to see the Kasatha surrender as no more blood will need to be spilled today.

We will help you as we've helped many other, to find a solution. We will spare no effort to repair the Drift or to find a solution. she says full of hope.

Then she turns to AC16 for tending their wounds.

They wanted to believe that something was amiss and to find a reason to "the Crash". Their goal was good but their mean bad...
As Azara says, we will find a solution together. Something broken could always be repaired!

Still Neroo has some question about "Fragment" is it really a divine being? In this case, from which God? or which divine entity?

She then go to the corps of Fragment, her drone at her heels and takes a better look at the dead entity...

Yith will happily use up her remaining spell slots for Mystic cures for Rani and AC16.

Charli provides medical assistance to everyone with hit point damage if it's needed.

"Now... what can we do to fix the Drift Beacon?"

Sorry about the delay; at first wanted to give everone time/a chance to respond, then have been feeling a bit out of sorts today

Within minutes of Fragment falling, while Yith is tending to the injured and the rest of oyu are seeing to 'AC16' and catching your breaths, the towering stone at the clearing's center settles. The cracks within it rapidly heal and wisps of golden code again resume their spiral orbits about it.

An exhausted Accordant-Contemplator-16 looks at the stone and says <This was the beacon's core access hub. It should be reverting to normal, now that the interference has been ceased. But we...I need to return back. This must be reported.>

Nainiimii who had been staying back during the fighting, combat being far from her talents flies quickly over to the anacite to help them. As 'AC16' walks towards you, and towards your ship, they glances back at the kasathans sitting in a daze. <Fragment's claims about this '4th' cannot be true. Their climas about Triune dying are in all likelihood thus also false. Yet it is concerning. This creature gained such a zealous following, willing to kill in the name of "completeing" the All-Code. And even before the Crisis, heretical factions seem on the rise.> Something those who played 4-15 Feuding Faiths may recall what they are thinking about. <The universe is seeming more unsettled by the week. I am concerned as to what it could mean to our church going forwards. To all churches and peoples.>

You are able to escort Accordant-Contemplator-16 and Nainiimii back to the Thunderbolt And are you taking the three remaining kasathans as well? They have surrendered to you. From there it is only a few day's journey back to reconvene with the Master of Stars.

Upon your arrival Fitch has a full medical team ready to great you and tend to the anacite to give them a full checkup. The ysoki turns to you six. "Well, I was getting worried. Never a good sign when so many top tier agents go off on their own for a bit: tends to mean there's something big enough to justify all that firepower. Got your preliminary reports on your approach." Fitch's expression darkens. "Chronicler lost with almost all hands. So many innocent lives gone. But you managed to rescue Accordant-Contemplator-16 and that kiirinta Nainiimi. That alone's worthy of celebration, even before the whole rest of it."

Fitch motions for you to follow her into a side room before continuing. "Also heard about this 'Fragment' cult. The basics at least, I'm sure the Forum and the like may want a full debrief soon. I know you killed it, but whatever it was was making some BIG claims. If their false, still not good so many people are willing to believe them. And raises some concerns about if this was truly the only cult thinking that. And if any of them have any merit..." she clutches her forhead with a paw and rubs it. "Well, implications like that are way above my paygrade. Not even my god anyway. But we'll deal with it in time. Either way, you did a fantastic job. All six of you. Acknowledge it, enjoy the accomplishments, and then rest up. The Crisis is still causing a lot of trouble everywhere. And stuff like this means there may be new trouble coming we've never even heard of before. Doubt it'll be too long before we'll need you to step up and ship out again!"

Yeah. she says to Accordant-Contemplator-16 I get the Church of Desna is getting some flak too. Have you heard anything like that Yith? Maybe we should check

On the way back, Rani puts on a show for the rest of the crew, acrobatics and escapes, including a rather dangerous looking underwater escape.
((see day job))

After the show, while drying off, she says to Spoons and Charli Hey, here's an idea for an ad. I've been tossed into the water, all tied and chained up. After I escape I swim back to the side of the pool where a mug of tea is sitting and I drink it. I then look at the camera and say Not even unexpected events will keep me from my Poshkettle Tea. Poshkettle, the tea to relax you after a crisis. She paused for a bit. What do you think? she then says hopefully.

After listening to Fitch.
People want hope that the Drift is going to be fixed and their loved ones come home, and they'll grasp onto anything to make that happen. It's gonna be hard sifting through all the rumours, lies, fake news, and conspiracy theories to find the truth. And yeah ... as soon as the Spitfire is ready, I'd like to get back to work and rescue more folks, maybe even tow the Chronicler home. I know where we left her.

But first, I better call my partner. Last I heard, she was dealing with some leftover stuff from Historia Prime on the station. Something about a property he had.

"Whatever you say, Fitch this crisis isn't over yet and I'm always ready when there's a mission that needs to be done."

Yes, we take the 3 Kasatha with us! and the two that we met and have not fought.

Neroo was happy to have been able to prevent more death and that Charli was able to convince the last fighting Kasatha to surrender. So much pain and death for a, maybe, false god!

During the flight back to the Master of Star Neroo gives her viewers a heavy modified show of her adventures, rescue, conspiracy theory debunked, heroic Starfinders and beautiful landscape.

Back at the base, she listen to Fitch agreeing with her.

People need to believe in something, being true or not, to explain the unexplainable... I fear more problems will arise. Maverick's right, this crisis is not over, but I hope we will be able to help stop anything that could be as problematic as this "Fragment".
Let me know, if you you need me for the next mission.

To Rani: "I have hear rumblings of issues at some gatherings and some remote shrines to Desna. I fear this may be some concerted effort by an unknown entity or group."
She shrugs and smiles. "Could just be my imagination but it seems to happen too often."

Yith smiles at Rani's idea, while enjoying a nice large mug of said tea and joins in discussions with everyone on the way back. She will also check on their captives, make sure they are well and try to talk to them a little, not as interrogator, they'll get hat soon enough, just as a kind soul traveling through the stars...

After the debrief: "I will also be ready to fight against the wickedness of this universe."

Azara spends time with the prisoners on the way back, trying to help them see the promise of the future despite what they have seen in the past.

While the others talk with Fitch, Azara works on his next epic.

"Six Starfinders faced Fragment
The Son of the Sun
Underwater Acrobat."

"A Tea Maven and far more.
A true Maverick.
And an Idol of millions."

"Servant of Desna the last
How do they relax?
Always with Poshkettle Tea."

Charli films a series of Poshkettle tea advertisements with everyone on the flight back, and has great fun doing so.

"I'm always ready to serve, Fitch. One thing the cultists had right is that we need to figure out this Drift Crisis. Is there a Starfinder team working on this? If so, I'd love to be on it."