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Azzirm moves back into the center aisle and connects his onboard systems into the terminal. He can almost feel the data flowing out, and it’s got a strange tingling to it unlike normal data transfers. He surmises that this is likely to do with the hybrid technomagical nature of Celita’s custom built purge software. Either way, it makes his nose twitch as if he wants to sneeze.
Almost immediately after initiating the transfer, a hardlight hologram of Guidance appears atop the terminal unit. The intelligence takes on the appearance of First Seeker Jadnura, looking like male kasatha in heavy armor.
”Halt! You are not authorized to be in … in … in this area.” The Jadnura tilts his head as if confused before focusing its attention back on you. ”I recognize you as Senior Starfinder Agents,” he says in a tone of respect. ”But even so, you … you … you are not…” he pauses again. ”What … wha … have you done to my systems, Starfinders?” This time, his tone is clearly angry and his posture becomes aggressive. ”You’ve corrup … corrupted me! You’re hacking me!” he yells and his fiery gaze settles on the big half-orc in the power armor.
”I don’t know who you’re working for, or why you’ve chosen to be … be … betray the Society like this. But this cannot be allowed to … to … continue. Damn it, I can’t fight this infection and you at the same time. Very well. You first.”
BOLD may act!
Map: Purging Guidance
Active Conditions: Status(?)
Environmental Conditions:
Roquefort
Azzirm
Compucast
Carlos
Jadnura Guidance (Red)
Azara
Back’Up
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Compucast remembers a conversation he had with a member of the Forum once. That august personage told him that Guidance likes to take on different forms when it manifests, including former First Seekers, famous Philosophers, and even once into the lead of the team that programmed Guidance in the first place. While in these various forms, Guidance has more direct access to those individuals’ knowledge and abilities.
Azzirm is sure that all the code has completed its transfer into the Guidance mainframe. As it finished, he did catch a bit of feedback, allowing him some insight into this corrupted Guidance’s unique abilities. The combination of Datch’s virus and Celita’s virus purge has caused Guidance to become dangerously unstable, and it will need to eject parts of the corrupted code. Every few seconds , Corrupted Guidance will glitch and split, ejecting a new corrupted living hologram into an adjacent space. Oh, and all these living holograms are incorporeal and have the same immunities as all other technological constructs .
BOLD may still act!
Map: Purging Guidance
Active Conditions: Status (on whom?)
Environmental Conditions: none
Roquefort
Azzirm
Compucast
Carlos
Jadnura Guidance (Red)
Azara
Back’Up
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Incorporeal creatures’ attacks always target their enemies’ Energy Armor Class. Incorporeal creatures cannot take any physical actions that would move or manipulate an opponent or its equipment, including combat maneuvers, nor are they subject to any such actions.
An incorporeal creature can enter or pass through solid objects but must remain adjacent to such an object’s exterior, and so it cannot pass through the center of an object whose space is larger than its own. It can sense the presence of creatures or objects within squares adjacent to its current location (CRB page 260), but enemies have total concealment (50% miss chance; see Concealment on CRB page 253) from an incorporeal creature that is inside an object. An incorporeal creature inside an object has total cover, but when it attacks a creature outside the object it has only cover (see Cover starting on CRB page 253). An incorporeal creature cannot pass through a force effect. Incorporeal creatures pass through and operate in vacuum, water, and zero gravity as easily as they do in air. Incorporeal creatures cannot fall or take falling damage. They have no weight and do not set off traps that are triggered only by weight.
Incorporeal creatures move silently and cannot be heard with Perception checks unless they wish to be. Any sense (including blindsense or blindsight) based on scent, sound, or touch is ineffective at perceiving incorporeal creatures. These creatures have an innate sense of direction and can move at full speed even when they cannot see.
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Constructs are immune to the following effects, unless the effect specifies that it works against constructs:
> Bleed, death effects, disease, mind-affecting effects, necromancy effects, paralysis, poison, sleep, and stunning.
> Ability damage, ability drain, energy drain, exhaustion, fatigue, negative levels, and nonlethal damage.
> Any effect that requires a Fortitude save (unless the effect works on objects or is harmless).
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Azzirm moves forward...pulling his utility welder, as it is both energy, and magical....so it should at least do something.
As he gets close...he tinkers with the subroutine of his armor...doing a minor miracle.....
Telepathically, "I will attempt to get Guidance to start to focus on me....you all attempt to take them out...and any dupes they spawn..."
Out loud, "Guidance, you were corrupted...not 100% certain by who--probably that annoying white rat--but we are trying to fix you....that code I am sending is Celita's program...you should notice her telltales in the code."
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A tiny {pop} sounds from atop the server racks, above which an unnatural darkness looms. The force-bolt barely catches Jadnura/Guidance in the shoulder, but its effect is undeniable as it nearly tears a digital arm off. Roquefort follows up from atop the other stacks with a laser beam. It doesn’t seem as effective, but it does leave the hologram open to further attacks.
Azzirm boldly moves forward and tries to explain why the team is there and what they’re trying to accomplish. Guidance doesn’t seem to care about the explanation, but Azzirm certainly has their attention.
”Celita did this? She’s the one that’s corrupted … by Historia Prime. Your threat to the Society must be stopped.”
COMPUCAST may still act!
Map: Purging Guidance
Active Conditions: Status (on whom?)
Environmental Conditions: none
Roquefort
Azzirm
Compucast
Carlos
Jadnura Guidance (Red)
Azara
Back’Up
Incorporeal creatures’ attacks always target their enemies’ Energy Armor Class. Incorporeal creatures cannot take any physical actions that would move or manipulate an opponent or its equipment, including combat maneuvers, nor are they subject to any such actions.
An incorporeal creature can enter or pass through solid objects but must remain adjacent to such an object’s exterior, and so it cannot pass through the center of an object whose space is larger than its own. It can sense the presence of creatures or objects within squares adjacent to its current location (CRB page 260), but enemies have total concealment (50% miss chance; see Concealment on CRB page 253) from an incorporeal creature that is inside an object. An incorporeal creature inside an object has total cover, but when it attacks a creature outside the object it has only cover (see Cover starting on CRB page 253). An incorporeal creature cannot pass through a force effect. Incorporeal creatures pass through and operate in vacuum, water, and zero gravity as easily as they do in air. Incorporeal creatures cannot fall or take falling damage. They have no weight and do not set off traps that are triggered only by weight.
Incorporeal creatures move silently and cannot be heard with Perception checks unless they wish to be. Any sense (including blindsense or blindsight) based on scent, sound, or touch is ineffective at perceiving incorporeal creatures. These creatures have an innate sense of direction and can move at full speed even when they cannot see.
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Constructs are immune to the following effects, unless the effect specifies that it works against constructs:
> Bleed, death effects, disease, mind-affecting effects, necromancy effects, paralysis, poison, sleep, and stunning.
> Ability damage, ability drain, energy drain, exhaustion, fatigue, negative levels, and nonlethal damage.
> Any effect that requires a Fortitude save (unless the effect works on objects or is harmless).
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Compucast casts a trio of energy bolts into the holographic First Seeker’s elbow. The shredded code-form of the kasatha’s lower-left arm seems to fall away as if it was a physical arm being torn from a real body. But as it hits the base of the projector, it begins to reform itself into a whole new body. This one doesn’t look like a Jadnura, though, but more of a generic non-person - a clothing-store mannequin made of pixels. Pixels that seem to be at war with each other. This is, you are sure, a corrupted living hologram that Azzirm mentioned.
Guidance and the Green-tinged holo appear to converse silently for a split second before the new-comer rushes forward to engage He Who Hacked Him. Just before he connects with Azzirm, his fist hardens into a fully corporeal form
But even worse, Azzirm can feel some kind of techno-magical virus code trying to infect his body.
Suddenly, the Jadnura Guidance seems to shift. Some parts of him reform, but in doing so, a new countenance appears. Now the hologram is a female ryphorian, the former First Seeker Ilyastre.
She flies up through and alights upon the nearest server stack keeping outside of the big man’s reach. ”You fools. You were duped by Celita. Was that idiot Ziggy in on it, too? When we’re done here, we’ll eliminate both of them as traitors. And their little dog, too!”
She then fires at Roquefort.
The hardlight bolt slams into one of the Detective’s images, and Ilyastre/Guidance snarls in rage.
EVERYONE may act!
Map: Purging Guidance
Active Conditions: Status (on whom?)
Environmental Conditions: none
Roquefort
Azzirm
Compucast
Carlos
Green Living Hologram
Ilyastre Guidance (Red)
Azara
Back’Up
Incorporeal creatures’ attacks always target their enemies’ Energy Armor Class. Incorporeal creatures cannot take any physical actions that would move or manipulate an opponent or its equipment, including combat maneuvers, nor are they subject to any such actions.
An incorporeal creature can enter or pass through solid objects but must remain adjacent to such an object’s exterior, and so it cannot pass through the center of an object whose space is larger than its own. It can sense the presence of creatures or objects within squares adjacent to its current location (CRB page 260), but enemies have total concealment (50% miss chance; see Concealment on CRB page 253) from an incorporeal creature that is inside an object. An incorporeal creature inside an object has total cover, but when it attacks a creature outside the object it has only cover (see Cover starting on CRB page 253). An incorporeal creature cannot pass through a force effect. Incorporeal creatures pass through and operate in vacuum, water, and zero gravity as easily as they do in air. Incorporeal creatures cannot fall or take falling damage. They have no weight and do not set off traps that are triggered only by weight.
Incorporeal creatures move silently and cannot be heard with Perception checks unless they wish to be. Any sense (including blindsense or blindsight) based on scent, sound, or touch is ineffective at perceiving incorporeal creatures. These creatures have an innate sense of direction and can move at full speed even when they cannot see.
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Constructs are immune to the following effects, unless the effect specifies that it works against constructs:
> Bleed, death effects, disease, mind-affecting effects, necromancy effects, paralysis, poison, sleep, and stunning.
> Ability damage, ability drain, energy drain, exhaustion, fatigue, negative levels, and nonlethal damage.
> Any effect that requires a Fortitude save (unless the effect works on objects or is harmless).
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Backup knows where Carols is as shadows do not confuse his murky shamanic vision.
Gift: You gain low-light vision and darkvision with a range of 60 feet. If you already have darkvision, its range increases by 30 feet instead. In addition, if you are aware of a creature’s location and that creature is hidden only due to dim light, darkness, or invisibility, you are considered to be observing that creature until it moves out of line of sight or successfully hides from you again.
Stain: You gain light blindness: you’re blinded for 1 round when first exposed to bright light, and you are dazzled for as long as you remain in an area of bright light.
Back'Up gives a wave to Compucast as shamans eye glow with power and send three force spheres into guardian (if can see him)
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Azzrim swings at the dupe that came from Guidance...seeing what he knew was likely to happen happening. Though his focus was diverted as he watched the real Guidance rush to his right.
Getting hit....he feels some weird....issue from the damage....maybe some kind of nanite or artificial code trying to rewrite him?
Though his orc heritage seems to fight off whatever it was.
Then his thoughts get pulled as Guidance starts to spew out vitrol about Ziggy....making his orc blood boil a little...
Feeling that...he swings the welding torch twice at the green dupe right in front of him.
Trying to shake his head in frustration and rage to clear it...he tries his best to think on something else he might have heard about Guidance or hard light holograms....
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Azara gapes at the threat to the Starfinder leadership. It should steel his resolve but it only fills him with dread.
He ignores the Song of the Spheres for the moment, despite its siren call now that he is in the midst of mortal danger.
Instead, he turns and alters gravity between himself and the nearby server bank (Gravity Boost Revelation.) He rushes up one side, over the top, down the other side and then across the room, drawing his pistol as he does so.
He snaps off a shot at the main Guidance Avatar.
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Sticking with what works, Compucast again sends a trio of energy bolts into the holographic First Seeker. As he does so he studies the new spin-off hologram. He’s heard of similar creatures encountered by other Starfinders, so he’s got a good idea of some of their basic capabilities. Like the original, they’re also incorporeal and share all the same immunities as other constructs. However, these also seem to have the ability to rejuvenate after being destroyed. Based on what he can tell from the code running across some parts of its surface, he thinks it would take an hour or so, and could only happen if this Corrupted Guidance is still active. As he realizes that last part, he also realizes that if one of these duplicates is somehow moved more than 100 feet from Guidance, it would be immediately destroyed.
The Green dupe doesn’t even seem to realize where the shot came from that leaves a gaping hole exactly in its center of mass - if it actually had any mass.
The Detective is thrown off his game by Ilyastre/Guidance’s words. As a result he’s not quite able to get a on read her, and his shot doesn’t seem to do quite as much damage as he’d hoped.
Back’Up joins the Magic Missile Brigade and adds to Guidance’s woes.
Azzirm seems to be struggling. All of his attacks miss, he’s shaken by Ilyastre’s taunts, and he can’t seem to remember anything about these new holo’s. At least his hardy half-orc blood fought off the nanite-virus and his damage reduction was effective ! And he can tell one thing about the status of the purge software. It is fully loaded into Guidance and is running its course. Once it finishes, Guidance will need to be rebooted. That can only happen when this current projected image has been defeated.
Azara runs up the side, across, and back down a server bank and fires a nice shot into Ilyastre. His shot easily hits, but the energy effect is minimal.
Green sees the big half-orc still standing right in front of it. It’s not even remotely concerned, as it seems Azzirm can’t even hit it. Without uttering a sound, it simply swings twice, both times hardening its fists just before impact.
But neither swing even gets close - just like Azzirm’s!
Ilyastre glitches even more than the last time before ejecting yet another duplicate. This one immediately sinks straight down through the server stack and steps out face-to-face with Azara. It swings a hard-light fist at the solarian
But also misses.
”Celita and Ziggy plotting against me I can understand. Who else was in on this? Wait, let me access the records. Aahhh, I see. You were all supposed to be on the shepherd moon. Summoned there by … Elsebo! I will kill that b+*#*!”
EVERYONE may act!
Map: Purging Guidance
Active Conditions: Status (on Carlos, Roquefort & Azzirm)
Environmental Conditions: none
Roquefort
Azzirm
Compucast
Carlos
Green Living Hologram
Yellow Living Hologram
Ilyastre Guidance (Red)
Azara
Back’Up
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Incorporeal creatures’ attacks always target their enemies’ Energy Armor Class. Incorporeal creatures cannot take any physical actions that would move or manipulate an opponent or its equipment, including combat maneuvers, nor are they subject to any such actions.
An incorporeal creature can enter or pass through solid objects but must remain adjacent to such an object’s exterior, and so it cannot pass through the center of an object whose space is larger than its own. It can sense the presence of creatures or objects within squares adjacent to its current location (CRB page 260), but enemies have total concealment (50% miss chance; see Concealment on CRB page 253) from an incorporeal creature that is inside an object. An incorporeal creature inside an object has total cover, but when it attacks a creature outside the object it has only cover (see Cover starting on CRB page 253). An incorporeal creature cannot pass through a force effect. Incorporeal creatures pass through and operate in vacuum, water, and zero gravity as easily as they do in air. Incorporeal creatures cannot fall or take falling damage. They have no weight and do not set off traps that are triggered only by weight.
Incorporeal creatures move silently and cannot be heard with Perception checks unless they wish to be. Any sense (including blindsense or blindsight) based on scent, sound, or touch is ineffective at perceiving incorporeal creatures. These creatures have an innate sense of direction and can move at full speed even when they cannot see.
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Constructs are immune to the following effects, unless the effect specifies that it works against constructs:
> Bleed, death effects, disease, mind-affecting effects, necromancy effects, paralysis, poison, sleep, and stunning.
> Ability damage, ability drain, energy drain, exhaustion, fatigue, negative levels, and nonlethal damage.
> Any effect that requires a Fortitude save (unless the effect works on objects or is harmless).
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- We need to destroy the main (or all) holo to let the system reboot? Lets focus fire and Force!
Back'Up calls for sunlight as he does not know good magic to fight back tech.
If shaman is able to see Guidance current avatar - he will summon Wisp Ally to provide harrying fire.
If Back'Up is not able to see - he turns to Starlight form and fly upwards from Compucast - in this cirumstances the kish will be blind for 1 round.
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Guidance's words keep getting into Azzirm's head.....and he growls out...."People don't like me when I am mad....."
He swings the welding torch again at the green dupe....
.... with him seeing red, his shot goes wild....not able to even get close to the dodging hologram....
He mentally tries to restrain himself...putting the armor's deflection up...to keep him protected from the dupe.
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Azara is as offended that someone would use such a crude term to refer to Luwazsi as anything else. His shock distracts him.
Though it isn't much, Azara is actually pleased to see his pistol do some damage. After all, it's light and heat are a microscopic version of the power of the stars that he is able to tap into and wield.
To that end, he lets the power of the stars start flowing through him, though for the moment he just steps away from the nearest attackers and takes a shot at the one that just popped up.
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Carlos keeps up the barrage on the Green hued dupe, tearing out another chunk of code-form and then retreating to the shadows. Assessing the damage he’s dealt so far, he thinks more than half of the holo’s code still remains intact.
Guidance is really getting into Roquefort’s head, a position he’s not at all used to. He can’t even shoot straight any more.
Back’Up peeks over the top of the server rack and calls for some help attacking Guidance.
Compucast reluctantly but dutifully puts three more missiles into Guidance, even as Azzirm swings his welding torch around wildly.
Azara steps away to get a clean shot, but even so he’s unable to connect.
In spite of the damage done to it, Green continues to focus its attacks on Azzirm
The hardlight fists simply bounce off Azzirm’s formidable defenses.
Ilyastre glitches again, and to the horror of the Starfinders, yet another dupe appears! This one takes quick stock of the battlefield and flies straight through the server stacks to engage with Back’Up!
Yellow follows its designated prey and tries again to hit the warrior-poet
This time it connects, and Azara feels something trying to worm its way into his very soul.
Ilyastre doesn’t appreciate the magic missile barrage, but can’t quite target Compucast. So instead she fires at
Taking advantage of the lashunta’s distraction, she pegs Azara with a blaster bolt.
”So you all thought you’d just sneak in here like little rodents,” she spits the last word as she fixes Roquefort with a baleful glare. ”infect me with Celita’s weak and worthless code, and then scurry away back to Luwazi? I think not. Instead, I think you will die here.”
EVERYONE may act!
Map: Purging Guidance
Active Conditions: Status (on Carlos, Roquefort & Azzirm)
Environmental Conditions: none
Roquefort
Azzirm
Compucast
Carlos
Green Living Hologram
Blue Living Hologram
Yellow Living Hologram
Ilyastre Guidance (Red)
Azara
Back’Up
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Incorporeal creatures’ attacks always target their enemies’ Energy Armor Class. Incorporeal creatures cannot take any physical actions that would move or manipulate an opponent or its equipment, including combat maneuvers, nor are they subject to any such actions.
An incorporeal creature can enter or pass through solid objects but must remain adjacent to such an object’s exterior, and so it cannot pass through the center of an object whose space is larger than its own. It can sense the presence of creatures or objects within squares adjacent to its current location (CRB page 260), but enemies have total concealment (50% miss chance; see Concealment on CRB page 253) from an incorporeal creature that is inside an object. An incorporeal creature inside an object has total cover, but when it attacks a creature outside the object it has only cover (see Cover starting on CRB page 253). An incorporeal creature cannot pass through a force effect. Incorporeal creatures pass through and operate in vacuum, water, and zero gravity as easily as they do in air. Incorporeal creatures cannot fall or take falling damage. They have no weight and do not set off traps that are triggered only by weight.
Incorporeal creatures move silently and cannot be heard with Perception checks unless they wish to be. Any sense (including blindsense or blindsight) based on scent, sound, or touch is ineffective at perceiving incorporeal creatures. These creatures have an innate sense of direction and can move at full speed even when they cannot see.
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Constructs are immune to the following effects, unless the effect specifies that it works against constructs:
> Bleed, death effects, disease, mind-affecting effects, necromancy effects, paralysis, poison, sleep, and stunning.
> Ability damage, ability drain, energy drain, exhaustion, fatigue, negative levels, and nonlethal damage.
> Any effect that requires a Fortitude save (unless the effect works on objects or is harmless).
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Azzirm's blood starts to cool....still very unhappy about Guidance's words, but he might be able to shake this.
Swinging at the new yellow dupe as it moves through his reach....
Though the servers likely caused that swing to go wild.
Seeing that the green is looking rough...he decides to overcharge the welder....
With Guidance's words no longer seem to affecting him....that last attack seems to be on target....
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Azara feels something strange permeating through his system but it doesn't seem to affect anything.
The taunt does, though and he remains shaken by the words coming out of Guidance's mouth.
Retreating further will take him out of the fight so he moves closer in to set himself up for the future, though that means the attack he makes leaves him vulnerable.
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Azzirm fights thru the haze and swings at the newest arrival. It evades his attack as it slips into and between the server racks like a ghost. But he does connect with Green, dealing a little more damage. A quick assessment by the licensed contractor tells him that even with all the punishment it’s taken so far, Green still has nearly half of its code-form remaining.
Compucast fires another set of missiles at Ilyastre/Guidance, a tactic which is proving very effective, second only to Carlos’ sniper weapon. As the missiles strike Ilyastre, her form morphs once again. Jittering lines of code - some of which autocorrect themselves - mixed with arcane symbols appear, the arcana growing and growing until Guidance’s countenance takes on the shape of a female damaya lashunta wielding a staff. Some of you immediately recognize her as the former First Seeker Roheas, known to be a formidable mystic.
Azara’s infected, but he doesn’t appear to know it or be affected. For now…. Shaken by the continuing threats, he tries firing from close range, provoking an attack from Yellow
Azara’s shot does nothing more than burn a hole into a server rack, but his opponent sure put some hurt on the lashunta!
Roquefort… Well, let’s just say the ysoki is having a bad fur day while riding the struggle bus on the Highway to Hell. Let’s hope he gets better soon.
Back’Up pulls out the big gun and tries slowing all the holoforms.
The new Roheas/Guidance grimaces as she tries to shake off the affect, but her simultaneous fight against the purge software distracts her and the Shaman puts the whammy on her and Azzirm’s foe. Unfortunately, Azara’s Yellow opponent shakes off the effect.
Like Compucast, Carlos keeps doing what works - putting big holes into the holographic form of Azzirm’s Green-tinged opponent.
Meanwhile, said Green opponent keeps hammering away at the Contractor:
Its single attack isn’t very effective though, as it struggles to come to terms with the spell effect.
Azara’s opponent doesn’t have to move, so it too takes full advantage of its position
Both attacks miss, in spite of not being slowed. Maybe it just got over confident after is easy AO success.
Blue has a nice squishy caster in power armor to attack. It steps out of cover to improve its tactical position before trying to hit Back’Up with a holographic slam
The newest Guidance thankfully does not spit out another corrupted living hologram. Instead, Roheas/Guidance quickly surveys the battlefield. She notes the strange area of shadow above the southern server,
But can’t quite pick out Carlos’ exact position.
But even so, she nods appreciatively. ”An excellent tactical suggestion, Back’Up. Thank you,” she says sounding truly respectful of the shaman’s spellwork as she begins casting her own spell. A spell that Back’Up immediately recognizes as the same one he just cast!
EVERYONE may act!
Map: Purging Guidance
Active Conditions: Status (on Carlos, Roquefort & Azzirm)
Environmental Conditions: none
Roquefort
Azzirm
Compucast
Carlos
Green Living Hologram
Blue Living Hologram
Yellow Living Hologram
Roheas Guidance (Red)
Azara
Back’Up
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Incorporeal creatures’ attacks always target their enemies’ Energy Armor Class. Incorporeal creatures cannot take any physical actions that would move or manipulate an opponent or its equipment, including combat maneuvers, nor are they subject to any such actions.
An incorporeal creature can enter or pass through solid objects but must remain adjacent to such an object’s exterior, and so it cannot pass through the center of an object whose space is larger than its own. It can sense the presence of creatures or objects within squares adjacent to its current location (CRB page 260), but enemies have total concealment (50% miss chance; see Concealment on CRB page 253) from an incorporeal creature that is inside an object. An incorporeal creature inside an object has total cover, but when it attacks a creature outside the object it has only cover (see Cover starting on CRB page 253). An incorporeal creature cannot pass through a force effect. Incorporeal creatures pass through and operate in vacuum, water, and zero gravity as easily as they do in air. Incorporeal creatures cannot fall or take falling damage. They have no weight and do not set off traps that are triggered only by weight.
Incorporeal creatures move silently and cannot be heard with Perception checks unless they wish to be. Any sense (including blindsense or blindsight) based on scent, sound, or touch is ineffective at perceiving incorporeal creatures. These creatures have an innate sense of direction and can move at full speed even when they cannot see.
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Constructs are immune to the following effects, unless the effect specifies that it works against constructs:
> Bleed, death effects, disease, mind-affecting effects, necromancy effects, paralysis, poison, sleep, and stunning.
> Ability damage, ability drain, energy drain, exhaustion, fatigue, negative levels, and nonlethal damage.
> Any effect that requires a Fortitude save (unless the effect works on objects or is harmless).
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Azara steps into the perfect position, avoiding all the attacks that come at him as he does so. He releases the pent up energy he's storing from the stars in a single burst far more powerful than any he's ever done. All of the programs made physical burn, their code slowly cracking and disappearing, riding up on currents of heat.
He's done it, he's beaten them all. He turns, smiling toward Back'Up, just in time to see him getting punched.
Blinking he looks around and sees that he hasn't beaten anything. In fact, he hasn't done anything at all!
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The armor does it job and keeps Azzirm time sence locked into the here and now.
Hopefully hitting with the welder is the best he can do...
Seeing that even with his senses cleared...he still is having issues...he still goes for defense...
[Ooc] so calibrate defenses on green giving me that nice 34/35 AC....and sorry all, the RNG is hating me on dice...[ooc]
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Back`Up sends greetings and waves to the ex First Seeker and decides not only continue harras him with Wisp Ally in a similar way, but also use moment of prediction and prepare Dispel Magic as a Counter action to negate upcoming spell from Guidance/Roheas.
Shaman flies a bit away and up from hologram which tries to slam him...otherwise the holo may be blinded. Perhaps
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Roquefort is surprised when he realizes he was actually able to figure out what Roheas was going to do, and even more so when his shot actually hits her!
To the horror of his teammates, Azara stands stock still, not attacking, not reacting, just spacing out. But at least he felt heroic!
Carlos puts a force round into Green’s hardlight skull and the holograph dissipates completely. Or so you think at first; but even as you watch, you realize that the system has started to reset itself.
Azzirm’s armor keeps him in the fight, but it seems his opponent is no longer there.
Back’Up easily resists the spell that he’s so familiar with. Then he flies up and away from the Blue tinted holo, allowing it to take an attack as he does.
Compucast sticks to his magical guns and throws more missiles into Guidance.
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AZZIRM may act!
Map: Purging Guidance
Active Conditions: Status (on Carlos, Roquefort & Azzirm)
Environmental Conditions: none
Roquefort
Azzirm
Compucast
Carlos
Green Living Hologram
Blue Living Hologram
Yellow Living Hologram
Roheas Guidance (Red)
Azara
Back’Up
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Incorporeal creatures’ attacks always target their enemies’ Energy Armor Class. Incorporeal creatures cannot take any physical actions that would move or manipulate an opponent or its equipment, including combat maneuvers, nor are they subject to any such actions.
An incorporeal creature can enter or pass through solid objects but must remain adjacent to such an object’s exterior, and so it cannot pass through the center of an object whose space is larger than its own. It can sense the presence of creatures or objects within squares adjacent to its current location (CRB page 260), but enemies have total concealment (50% miss chance; see Concealment on CRB page 253) from an incorporeal creature that is inside an object. An incorporeal creature inside an object has total cover, but when it attacks a creature outside the object it has only cover (see Cover starting on CRB page 253). An incorporeal creature cannot pass through a force effect. Incorporeal creatures pass through and operate in vacuum, water, and zero gravity as easily as they do in air. Incorporeal creatures cannot fall or take falling damage. They have no weight and do not set off traps that are triggered only by weight.
Incorporeal creatures move silently and cannot be heard with Perception checks unless they wish to be. Any sense (including blindsense or blindsight) based on scent, sound, or touch is ineffective at perceiving incorporeal creatures. These creatures have an innate sense of direction and can move at full speed even when they cannot see.
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Constructs are immune to the following effects, unless the effect specifies that it works against constructs:
> Bleed, death effects, disease, mind-affecting effects, necromancy effects, paralysis, poison, sleep, and stunning.
> Ability damage, ability drain, energy drain, exhaustion, fatigue, negative levels, and nonlethal damage.
> Any effect that requires a Fortitude save (unless the effect works on objects or is harmless).
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Azzirm does indeed miss, his shot pinging off the closed door you came in from.
Compucast takes a good look at the target of his multiple magic missile barrages. He thinks that Guidance has about half of its code integrity remaining.
Green’s pixels continue to coalesce, but it looks like it’s going to take a bit of time until it comes back. But come back it will….
With Back’Up flying above the fray, Blue phases into the server rack and then pops back up still facing the shaman.
Yellow shows no sign of being pleased at Azara’s infection, but certainly takes advantage of the solarian’s confusion.
Only the second swing connects as Azara comes to his senses just enough to dodge the first blow. But he’s definitely not looking good.
Roheas gestures and the Starfinders hear a small {pop} centered a midst the server stacks. A wave of mental fog washes across them, trying to unseat them from reality.
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EVERYONE may act!
Map: Purging Guidance
Active Conditions: Status (on Carlos, Roquefort & Azzirm)
Environmental Conditions: none
Roquefort
Azzirm
Compucast
Carlos
Green Living Hologram
Blue Living Hologram
Yellow Living Hologram
Roheas Guidance (Red)
Azara
Back’Up
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Incorporeal creatures’ attacks always target their enemies’ Energy Armor Class. Incorporeal creatures cannot take any physical actions that would move or manipulate an opponent or its equipment, including combat maneuvers, nor are they subject to any such actions.
An incorporeal creature can enter or pass through solid objects but must remain adjacent to such an object’s exterior, and so it cannot pass through the center of an object whose space is larger than its own. It can sense the presence of creatures or objects within squares adjacent to its current location (CRB page 260), but enemies have total concealment (50% miss chance; see Concealment on CRB page 253) from an incorporeal creature that is inside an object. An incorporeal creature inside an object has total cover, but when it attacks a creature outside the object it has only cover (see Cover starting on CRB page 253). An incorporeal creature cannot pass through a force effect. Incorporeal creatures pass through and operate in vacuum, water, and zero gravity as easily as they do in air. Incorporeal creatures cannot fall or take falling damage. They have no weight and do not set off traps that are triggered only by weight.
Incorporeal creatures move silently and cannot be heard with Perception checks unless they wish to be. Any sense (including blindsense or blindsight) based on scent, sound, or touch is ineffective at perceiving incorporeal creatures. These creatures have an innate sense of direction and can move at full speed even when they cannot see.
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Constructs are immune to the following effects, unless the effect specifies that it works against constructs:
> Bleed, death effects, disease, mind-affecting effects, necromancy effects, paralysis, poison, sleep, and stunning.
> Ability damage, ability drain, energy drain, exhaustion, fatigue, negative levels, and nonlethal damage.
> Any effect that requires a Fortitude save (unless the effect works on objects or is harmless).
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Compucast resists the fog threatening to overwhelm his powerful mind. He retaliates with another barrage which, of course, strike true.
Roheas/Guidance glitches again. The arcane symbols begin to disappear as her form morphs, becoming smaller, whiter, and blurry. No, not blurry - furry! Guidance now resembles a certain white female ysoki that you all know and loathe - Datch! But this one - like her code - is corrupted, and instead of her normal healthy self, she appears as a decaying version almost like a zombie with glowing green eyes and a rotted apple held in one hand.
”You! You’re ruining everything! I wormed my way in here like a worm in an apple,” she pauses her vitriol to take a bite of her holographic apple, and indeed a digital worm slides out of it and plops onto the server rack, instantly disappearing. ”I had full access, full CONTROL! But I know who you are, and I know what you FEAR.”
She looks around at each of you, and her sickly green eyes settle on the Detective first. ”Cousin, don’t think I’ll go easy on you. It is coming for you. The great dark Old One you fear. The data here in Guidance tells me where it lies and how to call it. I will most certainly feed It your name.”
She peers into the darkness atop the other server. ”I know you’re in there, Carlos, hiding and sniping in the darkness. You keep hiding there, and someday it will turn into forever. Some day you’ll slip into the darkness - and you won’t come out.”
She looks down at the space-wizard that just skewered her with force bolts. ”Heh, Compucast. I’ve got a special place to send you. See, I’ve learned soooo much from Guidance’s data. And I’ve still got my other systems running out in the real world. I’ll just have to see about getting you transferred to that planet with NO MAGIC! Suck on that, sucker!’” she screams.
”You, too, shaman of the Stars. I’ve got a special place picked out for you, where there are no stars, and all is darkness. And Fear and Decay,” she threatens Back’Up before turning her attention to Azzirm. ”Contractor, huh. Hey, I get you. Just a workin’ Joe, tryin’ to make a living,” she says sympathetically. ”Well Frell You!,” she screams. ”You’ll never work in this Station again! In fact, the only place you’ll ever find work again when I’m through with you are back-worlds planets with NO TECH!” She smiles wickedly and takes another bite of her digital apple.
She fixes her gaze on the late-comer to the team. ”Azara Thenason. Oh such a pretty boy. And so talented. But your ratings are going to plummet, and your fans will all turn on you when I’m done slaughtering your reputation. I hope you die old and alone, and no one remembers you.”
”You may be able to purge my code from this system, but my IRL-self is still out there. I’m still alive, and I will end you all. I promise.”
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BOLD may act!
Map: Purging Guidance
Active Conditions: Status (on Carlos, Roquefort & Azzirm)
Environmental Conditions: none
Roquefort
Azzirm
Compucast
Carlos
Green Living Hologram
Blue Living Hologram
Yellow Living Hologram
Datch Guidance (Red)
Azara
Back’Up
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Incorporeal creatures’ attacks always target their enemies’ Energy Armor Class. Incorporeal creatures cannot take any physical actions that would move or manipulate an opponent or its equipment, including combat maneuvers, nor are they subject to any such actions.
An incorporeal creature can enter or pass through solid objects but must remain adjacent to such an object’s exterior, and so it cannot pass through the center of an object whose space is larger than its own. It can sense the presence of creatures or objects within squares adjacent to its current location (CRB page 260), but enemies have total concealment (50% miss chance; see Concealment on CRB page 253) from an incorporeal creature that is inside an object. An incorporeal creature inside an object has total cover, but when it attacks a creature outside the object it has only cover (see Cover starting on CRB page 253). An incorporeal creature cannot pass through a force effect. Incorporeal creatures pass through and operate in vacuum, water, and zero gravity as easily as they do in air. Incorporeal creatures cannot fall or take falling damage. They have no weight and do not set off traps that are triggered only by weight.
Incorporeal creatures move silently and cannot be heard with Perception checks unless they wish to be. Any sense (including blindsense or blindsight) based on scent, sound, or touch is ineffective at perceiving incorporeal creatures. These creatures have an innate sense of direction and can move at full speed even when they cannot see.
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Constructs are immune to the following effects, unless the effect specifies that it works against constructs:
> Bleed, death effects, disease, mind-affecting effects, necromancy effects, paralysis, poison, sleep, and stunning.
> Ability damage, ability drain, energy drain, exhaustion, fatigue, negative levels, and nonlethal damage.
> Any effect that requires a Fortitude save (unless the effect works on objects or is harmless).
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Back'Up wanted to Counterspell upcoming Guidance magic intervention, so Shaman shows force sign to Dispell Magic. Shaman feels enough knowledge of the momentum do lock down Guidance corrupted magic.
Finally, when the kish finishes, Uko smiles. ”Patterns. Predictions. Yes, exactly. Though I think your methods do not fully account for the inherent imbalances between the troughs. However, since you brought up predicting the future, and because you’ve been so helpful - and entertaining - please feel free to make use of the crystalline pool here in my residence. Peering into it can provide a a brief glimpse of what the near future holds for each of you.”
Those of you that gaze into the pool are overcome with an avalanche of probabilities. Although specific details are hard to pick from the jumble of possible futures, you become aware that it was indeed Datch who infected Guidance with the virus. More critical to your mission, however, the probabilities reveal that Datch has left behind further countermeasures to oppose infiltrators.
Each of you who do so may roll a d20 and record the result. At any time during the remainder of this scenario, you can substitute this d20 roll for either a) one of your own d20 rolls, or b) an attack roll made by an enemy in combat with you.
[spoiler=Do you gaze into my pool?
Each of you who do so may roll a d20 and record the result. At any time during the remainder of this scenario, you can substitute this d20 roll for either a) one of your own d20 rolls, or b) an attack roll made by an enemy in combat with you.
Kish does not like being slammed from surprisingly hard hologram. Starlight formed shaman flies away and higher and continues his tactics to to Counter foe's magic. Shaman is hesitating - Datch may not use spells, but thats good tactics to provide time to Carlos...
-Even if there will be no stars, I will remain your beacon! I will banish away dream horrors and bring hope!
Shaman growls desperately holding his livingstaff.