[YEE/SFS/ACE] 7-03 Aucturn Asunder (Inactive)

Game Master Kludde

Iseph tries to break free.

Acrobatics: 1d20 + 18 ⇒ (8) + 18 = 26.

Yarameh flies a little forward and up and shoots once more at the leader.

Plasma Bolter + Deadly Aim: 1d20 + 12 + 2 ⇒ (8) + 12 + 2 = 222d8 + 11 ⇒ (4, 6) + 11 = 21

Patrick launches another volley of bolts at the leader
mm: 3d4 + 3 ⇒ (3, 2, 4) + 3 = 12

Anyone positively identified them yet?

Cavaler's cold blast hits the leader, and one of the shielding cultists whinces in pain, and the pattern repeats when Gil-Oloth lands her hit.

The Doc misses while Iseph breaks free of the grappl-hold. Yarameh scores a near-hit, and fortunately for Patrick, magic missiles are unerring, slamming into the leader.

The cultist keep advancing, with the frontmost two firing their machine guns, while the cultist leader keeps harassing Iseph.

SMG, Yarameh: 1d20 + 15 ⇒ (10) + 15 = 253d4 + 6 ⇒ (4, 4, 1) + 6 = 15
SMG, Iseph: 1d20 + 15 ⇒ (11) + 15 = 263d4 + 6 ⇒ (4, 4, 4) + 6 = 18

Claw, Iseph: 1d20 + 20 ⇒ (17) + 20 = 372d8 + 13 ⇒ (7, 1) + 13 = 21 Grappled again

---Round 3---
Gil Oloth
Cavaler
---Round 4---
Doc
Patrick
Iseph
Yarameh
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Cultist - Red (33)
Cultist
Cultist Leader (73)
Cultist - (SO - 51)
Cultist
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Iseph, well and truly bloodied, tries to stab the leader.

Trick Attack - 32. Flat-Footed for 1 round.

Tactical Knife: 1d20 + 10 - 2 ⇒ (20) + 10 - 2 = 28, for 2d4 + 6 + 4d8 ⇒ (4, 3) + 6 + (8, 7, 4, 8) = 40 Slashing damage.

Extra Crit Damage: 2d4 + 6 + 4d8 ⇒ (3, 4) + 6 + (1, 2, 7, 2) = 25 Slashing damage.

"Yes! Stop the LEADER!"
Improved Get 'em, +2 to hit

Doc lets loose with a laser rifle.
Attack 1d20 + 9 + 2 ⇒ (6) + 9 + 2 = 17 vs EAC
Damage 2d6 + 7 ⇒ (5, 6) + 7 = 18 F

If the attack from Iseph killed the leader, Doc will pivot to RED

Life Science: 1d20 + 17 ⇒ (3) + 17 = 20

Gil-Oloth after trying to recognize the creatures continues to shoot at the leader of the creatures.

Laser vs EAC leader: 1d20 + 13 + 2 + 2 - 4 ⇒ (15) + 13 + 2 + 2 - 4 = 28
Damages, F&So: 3d6 + 10 + 2 ⇒ (1, 6, 5) + 10 + 2 = 24
Laser vs EAC leader: 1d20 + 13 + 2 + 2 - 4 ⇒ (15) + 13 + 2 + 2 - 4 = 28
Damages, F&So: 3d6 + 10 + 2 ⇒ (4, 4, 6) + 10 + 2 = 26

Her couch still in the air.

Cavaler keeps aiming down the iron sights on his carbine and sending bad intentions in the cult leader's direction.

Ice Carbine + Get 'Em vs. Leader KAC: 1d20 + 12 + 2 - 2 ⇒ (20) + 12 + 2 - 2 = 32
Cold/Piercing Damage: 3d8 + 9 ⇒ (8, 6, 6) + 9 = 29

Ice Carbine + Get 'Em vs. Leader KAC: 1d20 + 12 + 2 - 2 ⇒ (7) + 12 + 2 - 2 = 19
Cold/Piercing Damage: 3d8 + 9 ⇒ (4, 6, 4) + 9 = 23

Critical Cold/Piercing Damage: 3d8 + 9 ⇒ (4, 2, 8) + 9 = 23

Patrick also tries to identify them.
life science: 1d20 + 18 ⇒ (4) + 18 = 22

before firing.
neutriad pistol: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (5) + 8 = 13 force: 1d6 + 4 ⇒ (6) + 4 = 10

Yarameh flies even closer to the leader of the cultists. The flashes of her weapon, matching in rhythm with the heavy metal playing from the musical drone, make the alien eyes of the cultist squint.

Plasma Bolter + Deadly Aim: 1d20 + 12 + 2 ⇒ (19) + 12 + 2 = 332d8 + 11 ⇒ (6, 5) + 11 = 22
vs leader | it is DAZZLED for 1 round

Isephs hits the flying cult leader, but it's the fanatic on the ground that groans really loudly, almost falling to his knees. The doc misses, but Gil-Oloth manages to hits, and with a pained scream the cultist on the ground collapses, despite not being the target. Unprotected and exposed, the cultist then gets shot by Cavaler, which is enough for the plant-like flying creature to plummet to the ground.

Gil-Oloth and Patrick identify the cultists as human, bipedal creatures that have evolved from simians.

Yarameh retargets to the nearest cultist, and this one looks to be quite hurt as well now.

The cultists divide their fire between the Starfinders

SMG, Yarameh: 1d20 + 15 ⇒ (9) + 15 = 243d4 + 6 ⇒ (1, 4, 3) + 6 = 14
SMG, Iseph: 1d20 + 15 ⇒ (9) + 15 = 243d4 + 6 ⇒ (2, 1, 1) + 6 = 10
SMG, Cavaler: 1d20 + 15 ⇒ (14) + 15 = 293d4 + 6 ⇒ (2, 4, 3) + 6 = 15

---Round 4---
Gil Oloth
Cavaler
---Round 5---
Doc
Patrick
Iseph
Yarameh
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Cultist - Red (55)
Cultist
Cultist Leader (DEAD)
Cultist - (DEAD)
Cultist
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SMG rounds streak into Cavaler's armor and deflect off of it, but not before rattling the elf inside. Cavaler steadies himself and lines up another cultist in his carbine's sights.

"Pour it on Starfinders, we've got them on the run."

Ice Carbine vs. Green: 1d20 + 12 - 2 ⇒ (8) + 12 - 2 = 18
Cold/Piercing Damage: 3d8 + 9 ⇒ (3, 8, 3) + 9 = 23

Ice Carbine vs. Green: 1d20 + 12 - 2 ⇒ (5) + 12 - 2 = 15
Cold/Piercing Damage: 3d8 + 9 ⇒ (8, 6, 5) + 9 = 28

Iseph breathes a ragged sigh of relief, then backs up to a safe distance.

Double move.

Gil-Oloth continues to shoot at the cultist, redirecting her aim at the wounded cultist.

Laser vs EAC Red: 1d20 + 13 + 2 - 4 ⇒ (6) + 13 + 2 - 4 = 17
Damages, F&So: 3d6 + 10 + 2 ⇒ (6, 1, 4) + 10 + 2 = 23

Laser vs EAC Red: 1d20 + 13 + 2 - 4 ⇒ (6) + 13 + 2 - 4 = 17
Damages, F&So: 3d6 + 10 + 2 ⇒ (2, 3, 1) + 10 + 2 = 18

Her couch still flying above the fray.

"Make RED dead!"
Improved Get 'em, +2 to hit

Doc lets loose with a laser rifle.
Attack 1d20 + 9 + 2 ⇒ (7) + 9 + 2 = 18 vs EAC
Damage 2d6 + 7 ⇒ (2, 1) + 7 = 10 F

Adds +2 to my rolls against Red (hit 19EAC instead of 17)

Patrick, not wanting to waste spells, shoots at Red.
neutriad pistol: 1d20 + 8 + 2 ⇒ (6) + 8 + 2 = 16 force: 1d6 + 4 ⇒ (1) + 4 = 5

He sighs and concludes that he's better stick to force bolts - at least they don't miss. He can also hear a certain tiefling's laughter in his mind when Chryssi insisted he accompany her while gun shopping before testing weapons at the range.

Yep - if there's a way to jam an unjammable weapon, I'll find it

Yarameh laughs under a hail of bullets and begins to sing a death song in response.

Shout Projector + Deadly Aim: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (18) + 12 = 302d6 + 11 ⇒ (2, 3) + 11 = 16
ORANE & GREEN - Reflex DC19 to half damage
+ GREEN is dazzled

Cavaler just barely misses, while Gil-Oloth hits both shots. Iseph moves to safety, while the Doc eggs on his comrades, while barely missing a shot himself. Patrick misses as well, so it's up to Yarameh to deal some loud damage.

Reflex: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (18) + 7 = 25
Reflex: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (7) + 7 = 14

The cultists keep moving in, with two of them taking the time to fire shots at Cavaler and Yarameh

SMG, Cavaler: 1d20 + 15 ⇒ (8) + 15 = 233d4 + 6 ⇒ (2, 2, 4) + 6 = 14
SMG, Yarameh: 1d20 + 15 ⇒ (18) + 15 = 333d4 + 6 ⇒ (4, 1, 2) + 6 = 13

---Round 5---
Gil Oloth
Cavaler
---Round 6---
Doc
Patrick
Iseph
Yarameh
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Cultist - Red (96)
Cultist - Orange (8)
Cultist Leader (DEAD)
Cultist - (DEAD)
Cultist - Green (16 - Dazzled)
---

More force bolts hit Red
fb: 3d4 + 3 ⇒ (4, 4, 3) + 3 = 14

Patrick force bolts are enough to take down another cultist, leaving two remaining fanatics

---Round 5---
Gil Oloth
Cavaler
---Round 6---
Doc
Patrick
Iseph
Yarameh
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Cultist - Red (DEAD)
Cultist - Orange (8)
Cultist Leader (DEAD)
Cultist - (DEAD)
Cultist - Green (16 - Dazzled)
---

Gil-Oloth continues to shoot at the cultists. It was time to put and end to this timeline.

Laser vs EAC Green (if red falls under Patrick's MM): 1d20 + 13 + 2 - 4 ⇒ (9) + 13 + 2 - 4 = 20
Damages, F&So: 3d6 + 10 + 2 ⇒ (2, 5, 1) + 10 + 2 = 20
Laser vs EAC Green (if red falls under Patrick's MM): 1d20 + 13 + 2 - 4 ⇒ (19) + 13 + 2 - 4 = 30
Damages, F&So: 3d6 + 10 + 2 ⇒ (3, 5, 1) + 10 + 2 = 21

Her couch still putting Gil-Oloth far from the cultist's claws.

Cavaler fires another volley from his ice carbine.

"Shoot the cultists Patrick they are the ones with the SMG's," Cavaler says matter of factly.

Ice Carbine vs. Green KAC: 1d20 + 12 - 2 ⇒ (9) + 12 - 2 = 19
Cold/Piercing Damage: 3d8 + 9 ⇒ (7, 6, 6) + 9 = 28

Ice Carbine vs. Green KAC: 1d20 + 12 - 2 ⇒ (7) + 12 - 2 = 17
Cold/Piercing Damage: 3d8 + 9 ⇒ (6, 5, 4) + 9 = 24

Iseph obligingly slides across, and fires upon Green.

Trick 'Take 10' = 32. Flat-footed for 1 round on a success.

Ghost Killer Thunderstrike Sonic Pistol: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (5) + 10 = 15, for 2d6 + 4 + 4d8 ⇒ (1, 2) + 4 + (5, 8, 5, 8) = 33 Sonic damage.

"Green jacket cultist it is!!"
Improved Get 'em, +2 to hit

Doc lets loose with a laser rifle.
Attack 1d20 + 9 + 2 ⇒ (8) + 9 + 2 = 19 vs EAC
Damage 2d6 + 7 ⇒ (2, 5) + 7 = 14 F

Plasma Bolter + Deadly Aim: 1d20 + 12 + 2 ⇒ (13) + 12 + 2 = 272d8 + 11 ⇒ (6, 3) + 11 = 20
vs GREEN

Are you saying you prefer me to use my weapon than my spells?

Another cultist falls under the concentrated fire of Gil-Oloth and Cavaler, causing the rest of the group to retarget at the last cultist. Iseph barely misses, but the Doc and Yarameh severly injure the last cultist, who just off a cliff in self-sacrifice.

Combat over!

With his dying words, the cultist leader sputters through gurglings of blood “You’re too late. We did not cause the contractions. The Newborn quickens still. You cannot stop it. Rejoice, for its birth will be the last thing you
see as you die.”

Those ar ehis dying words, but after that, a woman slumped over the mi-go’s
sacrificial altar lets out a desperate cry for help.

Gil-Oloth's couch flies over the place and gets the elf near the crying woman.

She looks around, making sure that liberating the woman will not provoke something worse as she looks into the future. Use Flash of Prescience: is liberating the woman dangerous.

Mysticism: 1d20 + 17 ⇒ (9) + 17 = 26
Perception: 1d20 + 21 ⇒ (4) + 21 = 25

>Flash of Prescience: When you fully open yourself to the psychic resonance around you, especially in the split second when your life is on the line, time seems to come to a halt. In these fleeting moments, you can sense the reverberations of actions that you have not yet taken, and guide your course accordingly. Once per day as a standard action, you can cast augury as a spell-like ability, though you can see only 1 minute into the future. This functions in all other ways as augury.

Iseph, borderline needing help themselves, hustles over to render aid to the woman slumped at the altar.

I thought that was a mi-go

He races up to see if there is anything he can do to help.

Cavaler moves in to render aid, but waits until Gil gives the all clear first.

"I'm saying if you decide to use your weapon try to hit your target next time."

Gil-Oloth quickly concludes that in this timeline, helping the woman is beneficial. When the group then comes in to render aid, she says My name is Caulthwan. You were wise to disrupt the ritual, the cultist were trying to make the Newborn a vessel for Nyarlathotep’s return to reality.

The people Yggodwyv victimized were disciples of the 13 Midwives, dedicated to quickening the godling’s birth and soothing its pain and confusion. The Midwives themselves vanished in a flash following an immense display of lights on the horizon

She continues to explain I believe they were rewarded for their service, ascended to cosmic vassals of the Newborn.

There is nothing you can do to stop the Newborn’s birth... there will not even be time to evacuate Aucturn - the people of Amniek have embraced their fate and the cultists within the Citadel of the Black have likely fled already.

It may still be possible to rescue some people from Grindhold, but you must hurry. I must stay here, and complete my vigil with the birth of a new god

The ground is now quaking regularly, the once psychic cries of the Newborn now fully physicalized in a subterranean crescendo.

As the group scrambles back to their parked starship, an important decision must be made: do they attempt to evacuate Grindhold?

If you do, I need the following check:
- One lead Diplomacy check to productively direct the refugees
- One check for the other players: Intimidate check to give orders, a
Piloting check to keep the starship steady but moving, or Athletics to pull people aboard.

Not another Kortus IV!

Piloting: 1d20 + 17 ⇒ (10) + 17 = 27

Having already lived the death of a planet, Gil-Oloth decides to help the best she could by taking the commands of the ship.

With Gil-Oloth behind the wheel, Iseph instead attempts to pull people aboard.

Athletics: 1d20 + 16 ⇒ (13) + 16 = 29.

"People of Grinhold, heed my warning, now is the time to evacuate the planet. We must move quickly and efficiently. Follow my commands and you will all survive."

Diplomacy: 1d20 + 16 + 1d6 + 2 ⇒ (9) + 16 + (2) + 2 = 29

Patrick helps with the piloting.
piloting: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (4) + 7 = 11

... or tries to.

Do what Cavalier Traleth said, and QUICKLY, QUICKLY, QUICKLY, damn you!

Intimidate: 1d20 + 16 ⇒ (16) + 16 = 32

Yarameh's voice, amplified many times by the acoustic system, can be heard for miles around, and this is the voice of an experienced and strict commander, whom people want to obey on an instinctive level.

The group manages to gather the citizen of Grindhold, with the starship becoming heavier and heavier. Although you're over the reported take-off weight, the thruster blast heavily and make it off the ground.

Just in time, it seems! Aucturn's crust erupts everywhere, and flying chunks of matter are flying everywhere.

At least one PC must attempt a Piloting check to dodge swaths of space bound terrain, while the others must attempt a Computers check to rebalance shields to the aft quadrant, a gunnery check to shoot incoming debris, or a Perception check to accurately frame their ship’s position in the chaos

Computers 1d20 + 15 ⇒ (3) + 15 = 18

"Loading, please wait"

computers: 1d20 + 21 ⇒ (11) + 21 = 32

"Time to go!"

Iseph guns the engines!

Piloting: 1d20 + 19 ⇒ (6) + 19 = 25.

Turrets, Lasers and Missiles: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (2) + 12 = 14

"Evasive maneuvers, Iseph. Patrick secure the civilians; we need them to stay calm. Doc rebalance our shields to the aft quadrant." Cavaler orders from the captain's chair.

Perception: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (9) + 14 = 23

Turrets, lasers and Missiles: 1d20 + 17 ⇒ (15) + 17 = 32

With her sixth sense, Gil-Oloth shoots at the incoming debris.

Patrick sets all aft sensors to 'record' mode and goes to calm the passengers as instructed.

diplomacy: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (15) + 5 = 20

Updating... please do not turn off computer is all that the doc gets, until Patrick has the lucidity to yank the off-button and boot the thing in emergency mode. Iseph blasts the thrusters with Cavaler on the lookout and Gil-Oloth on the turret. Patrick then takes a moment to calm down passengers.

The psychic storm from the Newborn’s emergence throws Aucturn’s illusory field far astray, and as a consuence astrogation is going nuts.

Checks: At least one PC must attempt a Computers check to troubleshoot the ship’s scanners, while the others each must attempt a Engineering check to manually support the scanner functions, a Piloting check to keep the ship safe from orbiting detritus, or a Survival check to use celestial landmarks as touchstones.

Iseph does their best to dodge the erratically-moving orbital debris.

Piloting: 1d20 + 19 ⇒ (11) + 19 = 30.

Gil-Oloth works on the ship's computer to make sure the astrogation is correct.

Computer: 1d20 + 22 ⇒ (1) + 22 = 23
Computer (reroll computer idol): 1d20 + 22 ⇒ (8) + 22 = 30

Seeing what could goes wrong in another future, she quickly correct her course.