Hey, Aerondor, hope it's not too late to join. I'll double check Ears' information tonight.
Warah, good to see you again. The party was a little combat heavy or I would have brought Burn along.
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Slotted:
AbadarCorp Acquaintance (Social Boon): [Respect]
True Savior of Tasch (Slotless Boon; Limited Use): 1 of 5 complete
SLotted Boons:
Friend of the Ghibrani (Social Boon): [Husk and Membrane]
Envar’s Attention (Ally Boon): During your mission to the space station Brilliance, you managed to impress Arch
Energy’s notorious chief procurement officer, Envar Tamm. How this influence will play out in the future is not yet
clear, but you have nevertheless ingratiated yourself with Envar Tamm—for good or for ill. You will be told if this boon
is important to a future scenario prior to slotting your boons.
Solar Powered Weapon System (Starship Boon): The files you retrieved from Brilliance also included blueprints for
experimental innovations by the Arch Energy Consortium. When you slot this starship boon, select a single weapon
on your starship with the word “laser” in its title; you gain a +1 bonus to damage rolls with that weapon. A gunner can
spend a Resolve Point prior to firing the selected weapon to increase the bonus to 4 for 1 round. A starship weapon can
be improved only by a single copy of this boon, but copies of this boon can be applied to different weapons.
Honorbound Allies (Ally or Starship Boon): You will be told if this boon is important to a future scenario prior to slotting your boons.
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Slotted Boons:
Faction: Second Seekers (Luwazi Elsebo) Champion
Tactical Nuclear Missile Launcher: [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ]
Heavy Nuclear Missile Launcher: [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ]
distant future, thanks to the time-bending Eternity Arch. Residual magic from the Eternity Arch clings to you. You can check a
box that precedes this boon as a standard action to use one of the following spell-like abilities based on your character level.
For any spell-like ability, use your caster level as your character level.
Levels 1+: mindlink, share memory (Character Operations Manual 141)
Levels 3+: augury, predict foe (Character Operations Manual 139)
Levels 5+: haste, slow
Levels 7+: displace memory (Character Operations Manual 134), divination
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slotted boons
Society Diversification (Cognates) Slotless boon; gain extra Reputation for completing a scenario with at least 4 different character classes. Must have at least 5 Reputation with the Cognates to download.
Klikharp Companion (SFS Intro: Year of Redemption's Rise) Ally boon; gain a klikharp companion that can provide a morale bonus. Must have played SFS Intro: Year of Redemption's Rise to download. (Currently not traveling with my klikharp companion)
Society Subdermal Graft (SFS Intro #1: The First Test) Gain a free augmentation to show your membership in the Starfinder Society. Must have played SFS Intro #1: The First Test to download.
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If you don't see me post after a few hours please bot me it's likely because my internet connection has been cut again. On Monday I had the phone company out fixing my connection and the repair tech cut the line to the entire neighborhood while working on my line. I woke up today and they had fixed it. Just an hour ago some other company put in a new internet pole in our backyard next to the current box and ever since I've lost my connection every 5 or 10 minutes.
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I'd have let you do it with a slightly harder DC. Some skill in moving stuff around in a careful manner after all is required for archeology.
But we are onto the next task now. You guys are making good progress. Essentially with six of you, you need to get to three successes and then can move onto the next obstacle.
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From our PC's perspective:
Would fighting these creatures aid us in achieving our goals? Probably not.
Would spending the time to fight them and having to heal ourselves a bunch drain us of both resources, which are limited during this mission? Probably yes.
I, the player, don't like fleeing a fight, but my PC doesn't like dying more. So I'm okay with running if the group prefers.
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I got grenades and area-of-effect spells if we can get them on a bottle neck some of my range-of-effects spells last for 4 rounds. The problem is I can't use them if the swarms are on top of us, although I've been known to drop a grenade on myself when surrounded, I can't do that to other PC's in organized play. So if everyone runs from them I can do see what I can do to them. If everyone runs for the bottleneck I can try to acid-myst it to stop them from going through.
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I got grenades and area-of-effect spells if we can get them on a bottle neck some of my range-of-effects spells last for 4 rounds. The problem is I can't use them if the swarms are on top of us, although I've been known to drop a grenade on myself when surrounded, I can't do that to other PC's in organized play. So if everyone runs from them I can do see what I can do to them. If everyone runs for the bottleneck I can try to acid-myst it to stop them from going through.
I like it!
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If no one else has any area of attack options. I can cast acidic mist 3 more times and have 2 grenades left. Assuming I don't become nauseated. The other problem is using area of effects in such a way as to not also target other PCs. Jek makes a last stand might be our best option. wait until I'm down to try to save me.
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I can see no reason why you couldn't chain cast acid mist spells.
Note there is nothing to stop the swarms going right over the top of someone. But there is no reason for them to either... well, so long as there is not more things to eat further away :-)
I will try to get the swarms to not overlap each other though.
New plan. Supercharge the grenades. That will add 2d6 to their damage.
Some brave souls deliver grenades to Ears and possibly Option-8. Jek runs. We toss grenades.
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Mechanics wise, the hp damage comes from having to make a save vs the radiation in the creatures bites. So in addition to the normal sp damage you are automatically taking from them, you will be taking the three hp damage (and the poison/radiation save).
Warning: As you weaken from the poison, you will eventually need to start to make additional saves.
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That was brutal enough towards the end I was thinking what my next character might be. I think the radiation messed with Jek's head enough to think clearly, that Jek will be hanging back following orders from the rest of the team.
Are we still doing fortitude saves from the poison? If so I can attempt a medicine check for everyone to give a +4 to their saving throw.
Yikes. That was a tough one. I hate swarms.
Don't worry about Ear's attitude. He went way outside his comfort zone in that fight, largely because Jek was so selfless first. A little straightforward demo work should be just the thing to bring back his bon homie.
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I got 1 MK2 frag and 1 MK2 shock grenade left, if anyone wants to use them for the rest of the mission. I can still cast acidic mist 2 more times so have other area of effect options.
Think we deserve a little celebration after that last encounter, If we make it out of this mission alive Jeks knows a great pizza place back on Absalon Station that has lots of options!
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First time playing a scenario that has a clock and other tables not sure how all that works.
My thought on a bigger plan was that each step we succeeded at would contribute to the overall number of successes needed. But that's up to the GM if it works that way.
Or on my own, I can do 8 perception or survival checks, if that's something that can aid someone let me know. It sounded like the DC are higher so looking for ways I could aid others.
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Jek can check in with Twila-5 as she heads into enemy territory and relay info from the other PCs to aid some of her checks while she's out there on her own. Someone could create a distraction or covering fire while she's in there. Just thoughts. Obviously everyone can play their characters how they prefer.
Sorry to hear about your mother-in-law, Qstor. Hope she rallies soon.