GM Zoomba's The Day the River Died [GAMEDAY XIII][SFS] (Inactive)

Game Master Zoomba

Discussion thread!!!

Hullo everyone! Kishmo here. Was thinking of bringing my lvl 6 space-dinosaur spell speaker space-bard! He plays best with spellcasters in the party, since he can buff allied spells. We appear to have a lvl 6 witchwarper, mystic, and technomancer, so - great use-case for the ol' spell speaker!

The only spell Freeman knows is 'Fix stuff.' :)

Cast 'Fist'?

I mean, those are both very fine spells :D

I plan on bringing a Witchwarper.

FYI: I just realized the official start date is Sunday and i'll be on vacation! Per the VRBO reviews there's good wifi so I'll be checking in but may be less timely and verbose than I should be on day one.

Not a big problem, but thanks for the heads up anyways!

Slides and a sign-in sheet have been linked at the top of the Campagin. If you could add your preferred tokens and intiative details that would be helpful.

Also note that this is a "STARSHIP" tagged adventure. Feel free to discuss what roles each of your characters might generally take on a starship in this thread (as well as which starship you may wish to bring)

Freeman is good at engineering or the science guy stuff. Piloting is OK but there's always someone better so...
Better if others were gunners or the captain.

Amy either pilots (+12) or sciences (+12)

Threaga can Captain (Dipl +15 Intim +13) or Magic Officer (+10)

As an envoy, Embidi is a great captain, but also a passable Magic Officer or Gunner. Happy to switch-hit between whatever's needed.

Unless we hear otherwise during the briefing, the usual vote is "Drake with Finest Weapons." Sounds like this mission is about flying in and about a space-bound river, though - so maybe the speed and handling of a Pegasus would be better? TBD after the briefing :)

No special starships on this PC, but, I do have Defender of the Fleet from 1-99:

Numbers might help...
Computers +16
Engineering +16
Piloting +12

Dang. Didn't think to look at my sheets before left town. I remember also having a good Starhip one, might be the same one. Won't know until I get back home late Tuesday...

Just noticed the opening on this one and signed up. I updated my profile and stat line with the important stuff. Will do a quick check tomorrow on my equipment and other details tomorrow morning as we're starting up.

For starship combat, my best role is probably my Computers+15 as Science Officer, since Freeman seems to have me beat on Engineering.

Great to see us all getting our good rolls out of the way during the mission briefing.

I don't have a preference on the ship. From an Engineering/Science Officer perspective the Pegasus is a little better, but you do have 20 fewer hit points. I usually leave it to the pilot to decide if they want more speed/maneuverability or more hit points.

In regards to Embidi's question: I have a level 1 life bubble spell chip, which means I can only cast it on one person for an emergency. I could buy a higher level spell chip ... but I notice that Amy has life bubble so think that should cover us all since she's level 6.

Here are my slotted boons:
Personal: Possessed Augmentation (convention)
Faction: Dataphiles Champion - Recover 1 RP when you succeed at a Computers or Engineering check written into the adventure (1/adventure)
Social: Rabid Fan Base (convention)
Ally: Digital Imp
Starship: Relaxation Suite Expansion Bay
Slotless:
Digital Presence (Tier 3) - Extra Dataphile reputation on this adventure
Memories of the Past (limited use)
Magical Breakthrough
Planar Preparations
Backup Info Check

Ally: Professional Hireling Access (Medic)
Faction: Second Seekers (Ehu Hadif) Champion
Personal: Liberation of Azlati Allies
Promotional: Promotional Reroll
Social: Instructor
Starship: Defender of the Fleet
Slotless: Marked Field Agent, Star Sugar Heartlove!!!, Hexoglin Pup, Enemy of the Organization, Year of the Scoured Stars, Pstchic Echoes of the Swarm

Thraega's Slotted Boons

Boons slotted
- Faction -
* Exo-Guardians Champion: gain Rep and Fame for faction
- Promotional -
* Promotional Reroll: 1/adventure reroll a d20 with a +3 to the roll
- Ally -
* Preservation of AA-126D: as Basic Hireling Boon with any 3 of Culture, Life Science, Mysticism, or Physical Science
- Personal -
* [X] [ ] [ ] [ ] Sudden Attunement: enter a stellar mode as a solarian of your lvl
- Social -
* [ ] [ ] [ ] Contractor's Respect, Knights of Golarion: loaned weapon/armor up to lvl +1 (max 8th)
- Starship -
* Drift Maven
- Slotless -
* [ ] For the Future First: +4 Rep with new First Seeker
* Marked Field Agent: subdermal implant increase light level by 1 in 5’
* Private Vault: 20x20 area in Communion Vault
* [ ] Star Sugar Heartlove!: owns Strawberry Machinecake album
* Triunite Technotheurgy
* Year of the Scoured Stars: +2 to Cha

Boons!
Personal: Iztheptar Research
Faction: Acquisitives
Promotional: t-shirt re-roll
Ally: Master Hireling (Tech Support)
Social: Known Quality
Starship: Defender of the Fleet (we have three of these, looks like, so we can get all of the benefits)
Slotless: Planar Preparations (x1/session, treat Resist of 1 ID'd Outsider as 5 less)
Envar's Gift (Swift action: fascinate non-allies for 1 round)
Year of the Scoured Stars (+2 Dex)
Flower of Celebration (Festive Dazzling Flares x 1 / day)

Made a small msitake, Freeman does not have the Defender of the fleet. I had that Chronicle fro my higher level character in front of his chronicles with a clear note stating it's there for informational purposes due to using something from that Chronicle for Freeman.

He does have the Heavy solar cannon upgrade, which could easily be as good or better than the weapon upgrade from that boon.

Faction: Dataphiles champion
Social: Pharmaceutical forewarning
Starship: Heavy solar cannon upgrade
Slotless: Counter innovation

Boons:
Faction: Cognates
Ally: Dream Whispers
Social: Live Air Celebrity
Starship: Star Monster Slayer
Slotless, Data Scourge Savior, Private Vaults

I don't think we finished picking starting seats. My suggestion:

Kalhoun - Pilot
Embidi - Gunner
Freeman - Engineer
Gletch - Science Officer
Amy +- Magic Officer or Chief Mate
Thraega - Captain or Gunner

What level Drake do we have?

Tier 6

Man, that space pirate art is legit

Man, that space pirate art is legit

Yeah, I mean, is it possible we can just join up with these guys instead? They look way cooler than the Starfinders.

Mutiny!

Though that holographic moustache...

Anyway, mutiny!

As we are now very close to reaching the end of your mission, please re-confirm your sign-in info/SFS# details. And if you have Day Jobs or other sorts of downtime you're doing, feel free to note/roll that here as well!

crafting, small explosive objects and/or ammunition: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (20) + 9 = 29

profession: 1d20 + 16 ⇒ (9) + 16 = 25

Thraega
Profession: Smuggler: 1d20 + 13 ⇒ (20) + 13 = 33

No day job, checking box on Instructor boon.

Profession Fortune Teller Dayjob: 1d20 + 18 + 1 ⇒ (11) + 18 + 1 = 30
Embidi has Known Quality slotted, so that's x 2 x 3 = 180.

Day Job (Professor): 1d20 + 17 ⇒ (17) + 17 = 34

Also a quick reminder that I'm using my Tier 3 Digital Presence boon, so get an Dataphiles Reputation point.

Zoomba: What was the CR on that Sarcesian angel/solarian thing? To check off the last box on my Possessed Augmentation boon, I need to participate in the "defeat" of an enemy at with a CR at least two above my character level, so I'm hoping it was CR 7. It did seem to pack quite a punch.

It was indeed exactly a CR 7, so check away!

And chronicles are up HERE Please let me know if there are any issues; I will hold off on reporting for a day or two (currently travelling) but am happy to correct any problems as soon as I'm able!

Chronicle received, applied and filed.

Thanks.

Got it. Thank you;.

Fantastic game as always Zoomba. Great group as well. Sorry I was less present since yesterday AM. Water leak in the house, a crew has been here since yesterday early Am replacing all our water pipes...

Water leak in the house, a crew has been here since yesterday early Am replacing all our water pipes...

Have you checked for pirates or failing magitech? ;)

Chronicle looks good. Thanks for the great game, everyone, especially Zoomba for running.

I just read the module and I want to thank you for adding the details about the scientists etc that wasn't in the module itself. That really enhanced the roleplaying aspect for me and I appreciated it.

Thanks again. You made this scenario awesome. Now Amy is actually choreographing a memorial star dance to honour Those who Soar as well as telling the story of their sacrifice in creating the River. She's using Sarcesian traditional space dances as it's base in such a way to respect their culture and traditions.

It was my pleasure. It certainly isn't an upbeat scenario, but I'm glad you all enjoyed it and I enjoyed running it for you!

And one of the benefits to running in PbP is that when I get posed a perfectly good question - like 'what do we know about the missing scientists' - the format buys myself a bit of time to elaborate on some worldbuilding that the scenario might not go deep into :)

Have you checked for pirates or failing magitech? ;)

Heh. No. My city is expanding and their solution is to just keep raising the water pressure to accommodate new housing areas and apartments and businesses. On top of that apparently the excess Chlorine that's in our water has been proven to slowly damage the pipes they were using around 1987 when my house was built.

Magitek would've been a cooler problem...

Everything looks great! Thanks so much.

Has this been reported? Only, I'm very curious about this One with the Solar Stream boon :D

Doesn't look it yet - and Amy might want to fly on the Solar Stream ... or surf it.

It is reported now. The boon looks pretty cool. One of those neat abilities that isn't a game changer but adds some flavor.

That is neat, useful, but not crazy wild. seeing it for the first time myself :p

I'll also be marking this campaign closed in the next day or so, so just a heads up. Thanks again for playing, and I'm sure I'll see you all around on the boards!

Not seeing it on my list of boons yet? I'm curious though, what does it do?