[SFS] 5-15 Beta Test (Inactive)

Game Master Kludde

Dr. Zandhi concentrates on guiding his blue bell squox to dash across the gap.

Acrobatics: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (19) + 7 = 26

Somewhat surprised that it worked, the blue bell squox wearing the experimental medical gauntlet teleports across the gap. Smiling, the squox says, "This is surprisingly enjoyable!"

Neroo connects the VR game to her camera drone so she can stream the game easily and jump right in!

Sqox! ∆ash

Katrina selects lavender for her sqoux which, incidentally, is the same colour as her mermaid tail.

Seems easy enough she says as she reads the instructions and the tutorial notes. I wonder if I can fit my jump jets onto the squox ... and can my sqoux breathe water. The manual suggests that's possible.

She invokes the Dash command.
acrobatics: 1d20 + 26 ⇒ (20) + 26 = 46

Benoit is finds his new body quite disgusting.

"Bloody skittermanders! I'd rather have me beard shorn right off and used as a wig for a bald dwarven woman than to be made into a skittermander."

Still, he attempts to dash forward.

Computers: 1d20 + 23 ⇒ (3) + 23 = 26

I assume drones are included in the simulation also.

Xin-Da-Rik takes some time to give his squox a blood-red shade of fur. Then he tries to control the body of this creature, although it is clear that virtual reality is something new for him and he manages with difficulty.

Athletics: 1d20 + 22 ⇒ (2) + 22 = 24

Are we high tier?

Good point. 11-12-12-13-13-14 puts you at exactly 12.5, making it your choice whether to low or high tier. Please let me know which is your preference.

Benoit finds his drone listed in his inventory. Nobody seems to be having any trouble clearing the obstacle (Still need a roll to Dash from Neroo - you can also jump (DC 15 Athletics) or fly across) thus far, and with a happy chime, a tick appears next to 'Dash'

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On the other side of the chasm, a five-foot square of sand changes texture to dirt and it looks like there’s something buried underneath the surface.

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Objective: complete the following actions:
[X] Open journal
[X] Dash
[O] Dig
[O] Water
[O] Save
Reward: Access Tortoiseshell Beach
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Katrina-squox wanders over and starts digging.

I am a squox and I'm digging a hole ... Diggy diggy hole, diggy diggy hole .....

athletics: 1d20 + 22 ⇒ (4) + 22 = 26

She spends a ResolvePoint to make it work.

Acrobatics: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (10) + 6 = 16 Using 1RP to make it a success

Neroo don't like physical exercice and need to find inner ressources to Dash!

Physical Science: 1d20 + 23 ⇒ (15) + 23 = 38

She more easily Dig.

Sqox! she also changes her sqox skin to a tri colored hue, purple, white and pink.

"Dig, dig, she says, I'm too old for this s@#$."

Computers: 1d20 + 23 ⇒ (8) + 23 = 31

High tier please, Benoit needs the extra credits to continue to maintain his arsenal.

The blue bell squox moves over to the dirt and begins to dig

Physical Science: 1d20 + 26 ⇒ (5) + 26 = 31

The squox looks much more relaxed than Dr. Zandhi did in the real world.

I'm ok with either low or high tier. I have a slight preference towards high, since that's the tier my character is in, but I understand that it's sometimes frustrating to play up - I've been there all too often. I vote that the players with the lower level characters should decide!

I would prefer high tier, but can manage with low

Going to stick with high unless that current sentiment dramatically reverses

One by one, the adventurers dig into the group, uncovering a strange seed which is added to their inventory with a label(<--- A mysterious seed. What could it grow?)

--(Dig)
Katrina
Neroo
Dr Tavan
Benoit
Xin-Da-Rik
Compucast
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Compucast selects 'dig' from his drop down menu.

computers DC 29+2: 1d20 + 26 ⇒ (6) + 26 = 32

"Ahh a seed! I wonder..." he puts in on the ground and tries to water it from his watering can.

Looking around he wonders where his "bed" is.

Athletics: 1d20 + 22 ⇒ (7) + 22 = 29
+1 for high tier

Do our drones have to do these skill challenges also?

The challenges are one per player. If your drone can help you, you can use it, but the success counts against you. The drone is part of your inventory and moves with you.

Xin-Da-Rik is the last player to receive a tick mark next to 'Dig' in his journal, as the heap of dirt expands into a wide zone of rolling hills.

Meanwhile, to the north, the ocean rushes forward, until only a 20-foot stretch of sand remains between the ocean and the hills.

The disembodied narrator remarks: If only that was fresh water...

With a ding, a tin watering can full of water spawns into each player's inventory.

After watering the plants, a tortoiseshell covered in moss and the size of a small building appears between the beach and field. A floating arrow appears over the shell, alongside the words “rest in your bed to save your game!”

Inside the shell is a color-coordinated bamboo mat for each squox avatar, which additional arrows point to. After spending a full round there, the game announces “You have saved your game. In the future, you can exit the game after you save.”

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Objective complete
Reward: Access Tortoiseshell Beach
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The letters 'Tortoiseshell beach' briefly appear and disappear.

Outside the picturesque tortoiseshell home, an idyllic beach scene features the salt-crusted smell of the ocean, the songs of chirping birds, and the feeling of sand shifting underfoot.

Across the water, a small island holds a palm tree. To the south, sand gives way to earth and grass fields. Amid these fields is a freestanding arch, curtained with vines.

A new quest has appeared in the journal called 'Explore'.

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Objective: Explore
[O] ??? (Objective are hidden until the players discovers them! Look around!)
[O] ???
[O] ???
Reward: 10 iron ingots
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Benoit decides to walk out to the island.

"Under that palm tree would be a nice place to take a nap since this game is putting me to sleep."

Benoit Perception: 1d20 + 17 ⇒ (19) + 17 = 36
TEC-9 Perception: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (18) + 14 = 32

Benoit's attention goes toward the little island with the palm tree on it. There, he spots something glistening at the base of the palm tree, a little flower.

Immediately, his journal chimes in with an additonal message.

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Objective: Explore
[O] Collect the restobloom
[O] ???(Objective are hidden until the players discovers them! Look around!)
[O] ???
Reward: 10 iron ingots
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As he walks up to the beach, he notices the currents in the water can be quite treacherous, and there is a strong wind.

Atheltics to swim, acrobatics check if you have the means to fly

Katrina-squox, after resting, decides to go for a swim. She is also interested to see if this avatar will breathe water. May as well try for the island.

athletics: 1d20 + 22 ⇒ (3) + 22 = 25

Hopefully the avatar also has the Swimming Mastery feat.

Speaking of avatars: I've generated some and added them to the map. Just let me know if you prefer left or right, and I'll make a token

Right

Compucast eyes up the archway covered in vines, but as the others are making ways toward the island, he follows them.

Activating his force-soles he walks just above the waves and over toward the palmtree. As the wind starts to buffer him, he reluncantly drops down into the waves and starts to swim.

athletics: 1d20 + 16 ⇒ (12) + 16 = 28

"I wonder if we can plant this?" he says, picking up the blossum.

I'm assuming that island is just a shade too far to use the dash ability to get to?

Right, I like the blue coat. So we have to make an acrobatics check if we want to fly to the island?

Dr. Zandhi looks around before exploring.

Perception: 1d20 + 22 ⇒ (11) + 22 = 33

Benoit gets onto the riding saddle on TEC-9's back, and the combat drone lifts off the ground, propelled by its jetpack.

Acrobatics: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (10) + 12 = 22

Left please.

Katrina manages to reach the island easily, and notices that she can indeed breathe underwater. Quite a feat for a little lavender-colored squox!

Compucast peers out, wondering how far a Dash action might take him - just far enough to get his ankles wet. Either way, he manages to get across swimming.

Yes, acrobatics if you want to fly (and have the ability to do so)

Once on the island the pyrple flower can be picked with ease, and grows back immediately for another player to pick. The flower is immediately transfered to the player's inventory as 'Restobloom'

At this point, you can also make a(n additional) Medicine or Profession(vidgamer) check

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Objective: Explore!
[X] Collect the restobloom (Katrina, Compucast, Benoit, Dr Tavan)
[O] Collect the restobloom (Neroo, Xin-Da-Rik)
[O] ???(Objective are hidden until the players discovers them! Look around!)
[O] ???
Reward: 10 iron ingots
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Computer: 1d20 + 29 ⇒ (17) + 29 = 46

Sqox Neroo decides to swim graciously toward the island.

Once there she wonders about the strange flower.

Life Science: 1d20 + 22 ⇒ (12) + 22 = 34
Medicine: 1d20 + 24 ⇒ (9) + 24 = 33

Then she starts looking around Perception: 1d20 + 21 ⇒ (9) + 21 = 30

Compucast also examines the bloom. "I wonder if this has health restoring properties?"

life science: 1d20 + 22 ⇒ (5) + 22 = 27
medicine: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (20) + 10 = 30

medicine: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (16) + 11 = 27
medicine: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (12) + 11 = 23

After achieving that objective Katrina-squox goes exploring the waters around the island to see if there are any more game objectives down there.

Benoit takes a seat under the palm tree, but keeps his eyes open for anything interesting.

Benoit Perception: 1d20 + 17 ⇒ (11) + 17 = 28
Benoit Medicine: 1d20 + 19 ⇒ (4) + 19 = 23
TEC-9 Perception: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (11) + 14 = 25

Squox Zandhi swims across to pick the flower.

Computers: 1d20 + 22 ⇒ (5) + 22 = 27

Life Science: 1d20 + 29 ⇒ (3) + 29 = 32

Medicine: 1d20 + 28 ⇒ (9) + 28 = 37

"I wonder if there is treasure under the tree?"

Compucast moves over to the palm and tries to dig
computers: 1d20 + 26 ⇒ (6) + 26 = 32

After picking the flower and getting a satisfying chime from the journal, Compucast starts digging while Benoit looks around. The digging doesn't yield too much, but Benoit - now having a nice vantage point on the island, spots some glistening ashore. There's a grassy area just beyong the beach containing wildflowers that seem to sparkle, and there's an arch of vines all the way in the back.

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Objective: Explore!
[X] Collect the restobloom (Katrina, Compucast, Benoit, Neroo, Dr Tavan)
[O] Collect the restobloom (Xin-Da-Rik)
[O] ???(Objective are hidden until the players discovers them! Look around!)
[O] ???
Reward: 10 iron ingots
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"Lets try that archway..." suggests Compucast. He steps back into the sea and again dashes" to the shore.

computers: 1d20 + 26 ⇒ (18) + 26 = 44

He stops along the way at the patch of sparkling wildflowers, and again tries to dig

The blue squox moves to check out the grassy area.

Computers: 1d20 + 22 ⇒ (7) + 22 = 29

Perception: 1d20 + 22 ⇒ (18) + 22 = 40

Benoit continues to enjoy the view from underneath his palm tree.

Perception: 1d20 + 17 ⇒ (1) + 17 = 18

The sun and the gentle slapping of the water on the shore must be getting to him because he dozes off and begins to snore loudly.

Katrina-squox swims to shore and coughs out the water in her lungs.

Needs more detail down there she comments. But I guess the designers weren't planning on aquatic squoxes.

She shakes herself to removes most of the water then checks her inventory for a towel. Every cool frood should know where their towel is she quips.

One roll in the long grass later she trots off towards the arch. She also looks around for the other squoxes wondering who is who. Maybe that's why she keeps talking to herself.

Every cool frood should know where their towel is she quips.

Dr. Zandhi's blue squox chuckles at Katrina's comment.

Benoit stays on the island while Dr Zandhi, Compucast and Katrina move back to the mainland.

Compucast moves to the flower patch, and his journal lights up with 'Grow your first plant!'. With another 'ding' an 'Mysterious Seed' is added to Compucasts inventory. The helper text helps pointing out the obvious: You can plant seeds in the ground! Watering plants help them grow!

Katrina moves out to the vine arch, but before she gets there, Dr. Tavan spots something dangerous in the arch and warns the Lavender Squox. Upon closer inspection, there's a dangerous snaring plant hidden in the arch.

Life Science (deactivate tendrils) or Survival (uproot plants) to deactivate

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Objective: Explore!
[X] Collect the restobloom (Katrina, Compucast, Benoit, Neroo, Dr Tavan)
[O] Collect the restobloom (Xin-Da-Rik)
[O] Grow your first plant! (You can plant seeds in the ground! Watering
plants help them grow!)
[O] ???
Reward: 10 iron ingots
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Compucast plants his mysterious seed. Then, selecting his watering can, proceeds to empty it over the seed.

"I wonder what it will grow?" he muses. Stepping back, just in case it is unexpectedly large.

Benoit wakes up long enough to take another look around.

Benoit Perception: 1d20 + 17 ⇒ (13) + 17 = 30
TEC-9 Perception: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (16) + 14 = 30

I ..... think I'll let someone else deal with that Katrina-squox squeaks while backing off.

She retreats to a spot where she can plant that mysterious seed then waters it. This had better not be a plant called Audrey

Dr. Zandhi attempts to deactivate the tendrils

Life Science: 1d20 + 29 ⇒ (9) + 29 = 38

He will then plant and water the seed.

Compucast put a seed in the ground, and as he water it, it sprouts a tiny little leaf. Katrina and Dr Tavan follow suit, and the plant grows a little larger every time. The journal doesn't chime with a completed objective, and a little callout encourages the players to 'Keep watering! A little more should do it!'

Benoit has another look around, but sees nothing more of note. When Dr Tavan deactivates the nasty tendrils, the journal dings with a message [i]'Discover the Hill Zone!'[i]

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Objective: Explore!
[X] Collect the restobloom (Katrina, Compucast, Benoit, Neroo, Dr Tavan)
([O] Collect the restobloom (Xin-Da-Rik))
[O] Grow your first plant! (Keep watering! A little more should do it!)
[O] Discover the Hill Zone (The Hill Zone contains valuable resources!)
Reward: 10 iron ingots
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Tavan continues to water the seed, hoping to hear the 'ding' of a completed quest.

Dr. Zandhi then looks around for the hill zone, his blue squox sporting a content smile.

Perception: 1d20 + 22 ⇒ (12) + 22 = 34

Tavan's watering can is empty...

Compucast looks around for where his bed might be.

"How do we rest again? I'm sure it said a rest fills out watering cans."

Or is there a stream or pond we might also use?

No, just the sea with salty water. When you rest in the tortoiseshell house you save and refill your watering can, which only takes a full action

In the house. I'm heading there now