Starfinder Cadet Trilogy - Book 6: Precious Cargo (Inactive)

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Naitier shield is broken as it expends energy blocking most, but not all of the blast.

Expending scouring aura to prevent 2 of the 3 damage.

With the turrets dispatched Natiier notes, "we probably should look to repairing them even still. I doubt we are leaving a good impression as we tear through the ship. That probably should wait until after we have convinced the controller of the ship of our good intent."

"At least that is my hope."

Naitier joins the others in keeping a more wary eye out for sensors and other things that might trigger security systems.

Perception: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (9) + 12 = 21

"I hope they understand why we had to destroy those. I agree with Naitier, we are not making the best impression here." He says sheepishly.

Triage will do a quick look over the crew for bodily harm before we continue on. He sees the copaxi's burns and goes to treat them with a soothing ointment.

Medicine: 1d20 + 13 ⇒ (2) + 13 = 15

Triage helps sooth the burns, but the damage will need time to heal.

Failed the treat deadly wounds check.

With the turrets destroyed, the crew takes a look around the area. There appears to be nothing salvageable from the turrets, and the doorways out of the hallways while locked appear to be safe from further traps. Opening them proves to be a trivial matter now that you no longer have guns pointed at you. Following the map, you make your way to engineering.

This room houses the ship’s engines and power core. There are several consoles around the room, each attached to the piece of machinery it controls. The room’s layout is chaotic to the untrained eye, but to you who've worked in engineering on a starship before you can find some method to the madness. The intercom activates and you are greeted by the same voice from earlier.

“I need AutoMaint 13! They can fix me! They fix me every time they’re here! It’s not my engines, or navigation, or scanners, or anything like that. It’s me that’s broken! When they’re next to me I am in good repair, but whenever they aren’t I malfunction. Somehow, they always repair me. Please, something’s wrong with my systems and I don’t know what, but AutoMaint 13 does, and can fix me! Why can’t you see that!? Why won’t you help!? We just need to be together!”

Two things happen suddenly. The fabrication stations all thrum to life and begin producing spare parts in an extremely rapid rate. The sudden activity causes a creature to leap out of what must have been its hiding spot and scamper backwards to safety. It turns and hisses at the party, while suddenly one of the manufactured parts are hurled towards you!

Initiative:
Ikmanji: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (10) + 3 = 13
Naitier: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (5) + 1 = 6
Djaker: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (7) + 3 = 10
I-apvii: 1d20 + 0 ⇒ (4) + 0 = 4
Triage: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (16) + 2 = 18
Jek: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (4) + 1 = 5
Fabrication Machines: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (6) + 2 = 8
Creature: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (1) + 4 = 5

Round 1:
Triage
Ikmanji
Djakar
Fabrication Machines
Naitier
Creature
Jek
I-apvii

Life Science: 20 + 13 = 33

To ID the creature.

Triage snaps to attention. He sees the creature rushing towards them and lets off a shot before running deeper into the room.

Tactical Formian Venomcaster: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (5) + 5 = 10
Piercing Damage: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 1 = 3

Ikmanji rushes up to the creature and slaps it with their tentacle. Not sure if this is really a dangerous beast or a pet, the slap is aimed at the creature’s nose.
Entropic Strike, non-lethal vs EAC: 1d20 + 7 - 4 ⇒ (7) + 7 - 4 = 10
Non-Lethal Blunt Damage: 1d3 + 6 ⇒ (1) + 6 = 7

“Down!”

I-apvii might recognize either and be able to call out advice.

life science: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (11) + 7 = 18
engineering: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (10) + 9 = 19

Although it might be a little late for that, Ikmanji attempts to figure out if there is some way to handle this other than killing the creature.
Survival: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (4) + 9 = 13

Research Rat’s Life Science or Mysticism: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (6) + 7 = 13

Research Rat, hiding behind Djakar as she moves in, tries to identify the creature.

Regardless of what Research Rat remembers, Djakar tries to calm the creature. She has a Wildwise augmentation.

Diplomacy: 1d20 + 12 + 1d6 ⇒ (6) + 12 + (2) = 20

If that fails...

Diplomacy, Campaign Coin: 1d20 + 12 + 5 + 1d6 ⇒ (13) + 12 + 5 + (2) = 32

"Oh, hi there! I'm so sorry we scared you. Do you want a treat?" She reaches in her bag for a ration.

20 passes. Especially given that ration.

Triage checks his biolab for info on the creature. The predator is a nocoli, a mammal native to the desert world Ilgron-5. Nocolis can survive for extended periods without atmosphere. They’re solitary hunters who tend to prefer smaller prey, and exhibit stalking behavior followed by pouncing ambushes. It cowers back as Ikmanji advances, swatting in its general direction and cornering it. Finally Djakar moves up slowly, guessing that it may be hungry. Turns out she is quite right. The nocali whimpers and back up a bit further but seems to be overcome by a desire for food and snatches the ration from Djakar before (guarded) stepping back in a corner and eating it.

In the meanwhile, the AI continues its more and more desperate pleas as the fabrication machines begin to jettison freshly made parts at high velocity. "GET ME AUTOMAINT-13!"

I-apvii recognizes that the fabricators are apparently being controlled to hurl the pieces at you. Likely by the AI. Given how they function, you may want to be careful with your weapons lest you wish your swords to be turned to plowshares.

With that, a few of the fabricators roll closer to the party, and the lot of them emit a barrage of ducts and conduits to shower the party while several attempt to use them as printing material.

Red Debris vs Djakar KAC 18: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (6) + 3 = 9 Miss
Orange Slam Ikmanji KAC 18: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (7) + 7 = 14 Miss
Yellow Slam vs Naitier KAC 13+4 (Cover): 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (13) + 7 = 20
Damage (B): 1d6 + 3 ⇒ (4) + 3 = 7
Green Debris vs Ikmanji KAC 18: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (17) + 3 = 20
Damage (B): 1d6 ⇒ 6
Blue Slam vs I-apvii KAC 12: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (16) + 3 = 19
Damage (B): 1d6 + 3 ⇒ (1) + 3 = 4
Pink Slam vs Naitier KAC 13: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (4) + 7 = 11 Miss

Leaving the creature on the initiative in case anything changes, but it is currently tame and a non-combatant.

Round 1/2:
Fabrication Machines
Naitier (-8 SP, -3 HP)
Creature (Eating, tame)
Jek (-4 SP)
I-apvii (-7 SP)
Triage
Ikmanji (-6 from one hit in case vanguard stuff, -4 SP leftover)
Djakar

Took enough damage to gain an EP

As they area hit by the barrage of junk, Ikmanji yells “Stop that! You are acting like a petulant child! Who are you?”

Having said that, they charge up their tentacle and attempt to teach orange the errros of their way.
Move action to spent 1 EP for extra damage
Entropic Strike: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (15) + 7 = 22
Acid Damage, spend an Entropy: 1d3 + 6 + 1d4 ⇒ (2) + 6 + (2) = 10

Seeing Naitier injured, Djakar shouts, "Get the Pink one!"

Get 'Em on Pink. +1 to Attack

Zap! (called pulsecaster rifle)+Get ‘em: 1d20 + 4 + 1 ⇒ (7) + 4 + 1 = 12
Nonlethal Electric Damage: 1d6 + 3 ⇒ (6) + 3 = 9

She tries in vain to follow her own advice, but cover gets in the way.

"I am Avid Dreamer! I'll stop it when you LEAVE AND GET ME AUTOMAINT-13! Please... I need them to fix me!"

The fabrication station nearly splits in two but continues making battered pieces.

Djakar fires off a round at another one but cant line up a shot through the line of friends.

"Is Automaint-13 your friend?" Djakar asks. "Because I believe that we do have people that can fix mechanical errors. But matters of the heart... that's harder."

"Automaint-13 is the one that can fix me! The only one! Nobody else can do it correctly..."

The AI is engaging you enough that you think you might be able to talk it down again (full round actions to attempt)

"I feel like my culture has placed me in a poor position to be prepared for this, but AutoMaint 13 isn't able to come at the moment. I would suggest we talk this through without sending turrets or other things to reconfigure ourselves."

I will hold off a second. If I get some room, I can step back and cast a spell to dispatch the fabricator Dirindi is attacking.

Clearly confused by the name, Ikmanji asks “Are you a Liavaran dreamer?”

A bit more open as they hear the AI continue to speak through the comms, although it being terse dialogue, Naitier goes off of Djakar's dialogue ot try to calm the AI down. "We want to be able to help you. I might not understand what you are going through, but together with our friends I'm sure we can put it right enough so that you can rejoin Automaint-13 again."

Full Round to try to talk down.
Diplomacy: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (19) + 8 = 27

"I... I... I don't need to answer you! I need to be repaired." The fabricators slow for a moment, but continue their assault. The AI seems to be considering your words... Naitier has made progress towards calming it down... but they are still attacking. Diplomacy, Bluff, or Intimidate can work as a check to try to talk it down.

Jek searches the data package from the mission briefing for access codes and AutoMaint 13 then tries the codes.

with Communalism searches for useful maintenance info and AutoMaint 13
Profession maintenance worker: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (14) + 8 = 22
Profession maintenance worker: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (13) + 8 = 21

Diplomacy: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (18) + 1 = 19

"Access code ________ enter. We're here the help please stop attacking us as we access info on AutoMaint 13."

"If you kill us, we wont be able to get AutoMaint-13 for you!" He crosses one of his fingers, hoping to get through to the disembodied voice.

Diplomacy: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (15) + 6 = 21

I-apvii has none of those skills, and decides to hold off to avoid making the situation worse.

Jek can't seem to find an active interface to use the codes, and relaying a 2048 character key verbally doesn't quite work out. Triage's argument however seems to strike a nerve? Interface? Circuit?

You hear a strange sound... maybe a crying sound? The fabricators halt, and one of them hurls a conduit at a wall before they all fall silent.

The animal curls up in the corner, obviously scared of you but not hostile.

Combat over

"Hey, baby, come here." Djakar whistles and makes petting gestures at the animal, stepping away from the rest of the team for a minute to do so. "Do you want some more food? Some pets?"

And, then, she says in a slightly louder voice, "You know, we all need companionship and love. It's part of being sapient. AI, would you like someone to talk to? I'm a very good listener."

Baffled, Ikmanji looks to the others in the group and asks “Can someone explain to me who this Avid Dreamer is?”

The Nocoli shies away from Djakar. It seems to be accepting of you, happy with the food, but definitely not a good idea to try to pet. The AI gives no response to Djakar's statement and remains completely silent.

A large series of consoles line the room and would likely be a good place to pull logs from, however they are all unpowered at the moment, and the breakers are all showing nominal. The power issue likely is upstream, and from your working knowledge of the typical starship layout, the repair bay would likely be the most accessible location. Anything else useful in the room seems to have been turned into projectiles by the fabricators.

"I guess we need to go deeper." Triage stows his weapon, nods towards the team, then proceeds along the hall. He will keep an eye out for any accessible console to try and access more of this ship's digital frame.

Djakar nods and follows Triage. "You know..." Djakar says to any listening AIs. "This is a team of Starfinders. I'm an investigative journalist. With more information, perhaps we could not only help you, but find AutoMaint-13. But first we need to help you, and it would be great if you stopped shooting at us."

Djakar gives the Nocoli space, and lets it follow.

Djakar gets no response from the AI.

The group heads down the hall out of engineering and towards the main hallways. The Nocoli follows a safe distance behind. As you enter a long hallway that splits out towards your destination, another quartet of turrets emerge from the walls on gantries, identical to the ones from earlier. They twitch for a moment, then droop, not firing a single shot.

"I think our best course of action is the repair bay. We need to learn more before we're caught off guard once again."

Is there a roll to be made for that name, Avid Dreamer?

"It has been several days, but I believe the original message might from this ship used that name, Avid Dreamer." Naitier looks around at the ship as they take in the scene before adding, "their mechanical nature seemed apparent with the way they spoke following our entry, but I was still assuming they were the pilot. My world does not have any creatures with notable artificial intelligence, so I didn't realize what forms they could take. With the number of androids, holograms, and robots, I had begun to limit my thoughts to imagine them as humanoid in their limits. It seems like, much like my grasp of the nature of stellar forces, I am far out of my depth. Avid Dreamer is the starship we are currently walking through?"

"Hold it, let me replay the footage that I have here..." Research Rat's whiskers twitch as he replays the original distress signal. "Yep, this ship is the Avid Dreamer!"

The ysoki pats one the inert turrets, and whispers, "Thanks for not killing us this time. I like my fur intact."

Moving onward, you make it to the repair bay. The repair bay contains machinery and drones used for automated processes within the ship, as well as terminals that grant manual access to the ship’s systems. A hatch atop a platform in the southeastern corner allows repair drones to exit the ship for outside repairs. Emergency lighting seems to indicate that power is coming into this room, but isn't being distributed. A glance over at the breaker panel confirms that they have been tripper.

To restore power to the consoles in this room and in engineering you can make engineering or computers checks to reset the breakers at the access panel, or athletics to force it at the physical disconnect.

Using the maintenance manuals from the data package as a reference, Jek attempts to help using a wrench on any of the stuck breakers needing a physical disconnect.

Profession maintenance worker with tool kit: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (12) + 12 = 24

I-apvii looks around the room
engineering to assess the situation: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (2) + 9 = 11
but sees nothing beyond the clearly tripped breaker
engineering to repair the damage: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (16) + 9 = 25
and heads over to fix it.

"I am becoming convinced that intentionally or unintentionally, the organization that created this ship supplied it with a true AI, and that it is not the simple "automation" that they claimed. To leave a newly berthed AI alone and untaught in this manner is unconscionable negligence."

Jek and I-apvii have no issues getting the power back on in the ship. The breaker controls work well, and there doesn't appear to be any lingering shorts in the system that would cause them to trip. The lights turn on and the consoles all begin to boot up as the intercom crackles to life. A familiar voice erupts from the ship’s speakers. “I need you to contact Multifold Industries so they will dispatch AutoMaint 13! Please, I beg you, bring AutoMaint 13 to me!”

The closet doors open up and you see a quartet of repair drones begin to power up and move towards you with torch welders and cutting lasers!

Round 1:
Jek
I-apvii
Triage
Djakar
Repair Drones
Ikmanji
Naitier

"We are trying Avid Dreamer! We just need to get power flowing through the ship again and we will call them from the bridge!" Triage calls into the air.

Diplomacy: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (1) + 6 = 7

“Constantly attacking people trying to help isn’t a good way to treat others.”

I-apvii sighs quietly, and sends their frisky little pup off to play.

"At least she can get some exercise while we talk this out."

combat maneuver vs KAC+8: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (12) + 3 = 15 (GM's choice whether the puppy plays tug of war (grapple) or tries to bowl it over licking (Trip))

as I-apvii moves closer in case it is necessary to temporarily disassemble these things.

engineering to identify: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (7) + 9 = 16

Trying to avoid combat Jek tried to change the subject to music...

"Avid Dreamer Triage is right. We can't call for AutoMaint 13 until we get to the bridge. Let us through, and we'll make the call. Avid Dreamer, I was wondering what kind of music do you like, do you and AutoMaint 13 have a favorite song?"

Culture: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (14) + 5 = 19

"Avid Dreamer, we are committed to finding AutoMaint 13 too. But we need to take this in order. Let us restore your power."

Diplomacy: 1d20 + 12 + 1d6 ⇒ (10) + 12 + (2) = 24

Djakar turns her three eyes on her hireling. "Research Rat, can you play 'Baby, Your Battery's Full' for Avid Dreamer while they're waiting for us to do repairs?"

"Okay, okay... I think I got it here..."

Research Rat hits a button, and connects the song to the ship's speakers so that it sounds great.

♫ Do you ever feel like you're out of charge
Drifting through the void
Wanting to start again?

You just gotta ignite the light
And let it shine
Just own the night
Bioluminesce
Show your joy and effervesce
Show em that your battery's full
Make 'em go "Oh, oh, oh!"
As you shoot across the sky-y-y ♫

"You... just you again... why won't you listen to me? You aren't the ones to fix me! You shouldn't be here! You should be leaving... to call Multifold."

For some reason after the outburst, the intercom doesn't cut out and it sounds as though the AI is... humming along? (Progress made in calming the AI.)

The repair drones push forward and begin to attempt a disassembly job.

One of them tries to weld the dog while the two of the others use their cutting lasers to slice through the party. The final one moves in to attempt to... weld the damaged Triage back together?

Red's Laser dmg vs I-apvii and Djakar: 1d10 ⇒ 2 Ref DC 10 for half

Yellow's Laser dmg vs Triage and Naitier: 1d10 ⇒ 4 Ref DC 10 for half

Green Welding vs Dog, FA: 1d20 + 9 - 4 ⇒ (2) + 9 - 4 = 7
Green Welding vs Dog, FA: 1d20 + 9 - 4 ⇒ (2) + 9 - 4 = 7
Double miss

Blue Welding vs Triage: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (7) + 9 = 16 Dmg: 1d6 + 2 ⇒ (4) + 2 = 6

Round 1/2:
Repair Drones
Ikmanji
Naitier (-3 pending save)
Jek
I-apvii (-2 pending save)
Triage (-3, -4 pending save)
Djakar (-2 pending save)

Telekinetic Projectile @ blue
Projectile: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (5) + 2 = 7
Bludgeon damage: 1d6 ⇒ 6

The guarded step next to Triage.

["Triage step back I'll try to keep these two busy"[/b]

I-apvii attempts to avoid the worst of the blast:

Reflex Save: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (6) + 1 = 7

Then steps up and smashes Red

Swarm Strike To Hit (Vs KAC): 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (5) + 7 = 12 (+2 higher if Naitier provides flank?)
Swarm Strike Damage: 1d3 + 7 ⇒ (2) + 7 = 9 (B)

"Sorry, I promise we will put it back together later.

Meanwhile the puppy sits back and cocks her head and tries to figure out why the wielder is having so much trouble petting her.

Ikmanji says “I-apvii I think you can handle these. I’m going to help Triage and Jek.” and then goes scuttling off to attack the robot that just attacked Triage.

Entropic Strike: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (13) + 7 = 20
Acid Damage: 1d3 + 6 ⇒ (1) + 6 = 7

"Thank you for the assist." Triage puts a hand on Jek's shoulder and squeezes softly before stepping back and firing at the one that rushed him.

Guarded Step back, then fire at blue.

Reflex: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (1) + 3 = 4

Ouch. I take all 10 damage.

Tactical Formian Venomcaster: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (17) + 5 = 22
Piercing Damage: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (6) + 1 = 7

Reflex: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (14) + 5 = 19

"Yikes!" Djakar mostly leaps out of the way of the Red Laser. "This is Djakar for DNN with a quick update! Triage appeared to take heavy damage, but looking at the numbers, it appears to be only a light flesh wound. Why, it's healing already."

Take back 10 stamina, Triage.

If the Blue drone is still up, Djakar points at the drone and yells, "Get 'em!" If it went down before her turn, she points at the Red one instead.

Reflex: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (1) + 2 = 3
Reflex: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (10) + 2 = 12

Naitier is shocked by the sudden laser blast, but is faster at dodging the second. They stifle any audible alarm as the armor seals away the damage and Naitier focuses on helping calm trying to calm the AI. "You can trust us though, we heard your call and Multifold sent us here to help. We don't want to leave you when it will still take a long time to send more help."

Diplomacy: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (6) + 8 = 14

The tone suffers as Naitier ducks and dodges the weapon fire.