The gangsters take possession of the crates of blasters and load them into the shuttle, adding the two crates that the stormtroopers had already moved into the armory. These should fetch a pretty credit for Uncle Sed.
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Do we really need to pillage the armory? That sounds like too much danger if the amount we currently have in these crates is enough for Sed and Meeda. No you don't. What you have is sufficient. (The stormtroopers were loading these crates into the Armory.)
Inside the crates are loads of E-11 blaster carbines. They should fetch a good price on the black market.
The shuttle pilot and the droid both surrender.
That is correct
Nato's blaster shot disarms the shuttle pilot, who is now badly wounded.
PLAYER
The Imperial shuttle pilot is badly wounded by Tinn's blaster, and he dives for cover behind the door to the cockpit. Status:
Shuttle Pilot 6 wounds.
Droid 7 wounds.
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Tarlor
Nato is up, followed by anyone (even Nato, if he wants).
With a single pull of the trigger, Tarlor Choh takes down all three stormtroopers. The droid, badly damaged, says, "Oh my! We're under attack." and tries to escape into the shuttle.
Another voice can be heard from inside the shuttle, "You will feel the might of the Empire come down on you, scum!" Blaster fire from within targets Nato.
Ni'Kol and Ildun definitely heard the blasts from Tarlor Choh's big gun. _____________________________________
Tarlor
Ildun and Ni'Kol hear chatter on the commlink regarding possible blaster fire within the outpost, reported near the shuttle. _____________________________________
PLAYER
Tinn sneaks up behind the Imperial protocol droid and shanks him. Meanwhile, Tarlor goes for the stormtroopers but fires his weapon prematurely. Fortunately, this provides an opening for Nato to take his shot at the bucketheads. [ooc](Nato gets a boost die to attack the stormies.)[ooc] Status:
Tinn is Engaged with the droid.
The Droid has 7 wounds. Tarlor is Short range from everyone, next to the shuttle. _______________________
Nato is up, then anyone else. (Jorn has dropped from the game, sadly.) Also, I'm absorbing the Imperial Stormtrooper Sergeant into the minion group. There are still 3 stormtroopers, just none of them has the sergeant stats (to compensate for losing Jorn). PLAYER
The droid is injured, but still functioning. I will post soon.
The even more confused Imperial starts to raise a hand, then stops, shakes his head, and leaves the room, possibly to find his superiors. Nobody told him about any drills tonight.
The Imperial officer stares at Ildun for a moment, confused.
Im not a great story teller though. I should have somehow had us sneak past them instead of hide but we will see what happens... lol. "Desk Rabbit." Choose Moss. Whenever presented with that choice, always go with Moss.
Ni'Kol grabs Ildun by the collar and pulls him under a desk. The two hide briefly as the Imperial officers walk by, oblivious. The gangsters continue on their way, and easily locate the Computer Operations Center. The door is open and they sneak into a room filled with a row of computer terminals. Another Imperial officer is seated at the computer terminal working on something, but he seems to not have noticed the intruders.
Meanwhile... Ni'Kol picks up one of the other carbines dropped by the stormtroopers. Ildun De and Ni'Kol Jazmin make their way toward the computer core. As they are moving through one of the rooms in the operations center, they hear a couple of Imperial officers approaching. They must quickly decide what to do.
@Ni'Kol: You can grab an E-11 blaster carbine from one of the stormtroopers.
The gang gathers under the nose of the Sheathipede, well hidden from the stormtroopers and droid.
Initiative Rolls:
Nato: Cool 1.0.0 --> 11 Jorn: Cool 0.1.0 --> 10 Tarlor: Cool 1.2.0 --> 23 Tinn: Cool 0.2.0 --> 1 Stormtrooper Sergeant: Vigilance 2.1.0 --> 15
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Initiative
ALL of the players get to act in the surprise round, then one of you will get to act at the top of Round 1.
@Ildun: when you finish your checks, may I suggest that you and Ni'Kol head off to look for the Computer core?
@Ildun, maybe you could spend those 3 advantage on your mechanics check to test again once you get done with the first repairs? See if you notice anything else while you're mucking about in the guts of the speeder? No spending advantage on a roll to get a reroll. Sorry. However, I have spent 2 of Ildun's successes to allow him to notice the next problem down the list. :) This doesn't mean this is the end of this. He might find other problems once you guys start piloting the darn thing! :D
Ildun De repairs the burnt out power transfer unit, and in record time! In so doing, he has noticed that the Computer Interface Processor is offline.
Perception checks (No peeky!):
Tinn: 1.0.0+0.2.1 [0, -1, 0, 0]
Jorn: 1.0.0+0.2.1 [-1, 0, 0, 0] Tarlor: 1.2.0+0.2.1 [-1, 4, 0, 0] Nato: 1.2.0+0.2.0 [-1, 2, 0, 0] Tarlor notices that it looks like they are almost finished unloading the shuttle.
The Sheathipede is a very small shuttle. It won't fit a speeder bike. (That doesn't mean you can't still try to take it.) Also, I think you guys stashed your bikes, so you don't need to worry about them.
Ildun and Ni'kol work on the landspeeder while the others head deeper into the base in search of the armory.
Tinn, Jorn, Nato, and Tarlor follow several passages that lead to the courtyard of the outpost. Tarlor points to another small building across the compound, "That is the armory." There is a Neimoidian sheathipede-class shuttle on a pad near the armory. Two stormtroopers and a stormtrooper sergeant are moving crates from the shuttle into the armory, supervised by a black RA-7 protocol droid.
Okay, well then it's onward to the armory for me then! What does the hallway beyond look like? TL;DR: It's a hallway. ;P I think what you are asking is what is the layout of the place. In case I'm wrong, and you want a description of the outpost, it is built in the Imperial Brutalist style of pre-fab architecture. Meaning lots of cold, blank, metallic surfaces, with odd protrusions, meant to invoke unease. Regarding layout... I'm GMing this a little experimentally. I don't have a map for the place, and I don't want to create a map. For the most part, hallways will be unimportant, here and elsewhere. I won't put traps in them, or anything like that, and I generally won't describe them too much unless the descriptions are for setting the mood. I will rarely put encounters in them unless I have a strong plot-driven reason to do so (such as a chase, or in the case of the fleeing droid, an encounter spills out into one). Why?
Let's try this instead:
I really want this to feel like we are creating a movie together. For example, I have no idea what the actual layout of the Death Star looks like. I bet we could create some cool scenes there, though, just from what we know: there are different levels, some big open spaces, hangars, prison blocks, trash compactors, bridges, etc. Ok, I'm off my soapbox. :) Some of the locations within the outpost are: the armory, the computer room, command, communications, barracks, mess, shuttle pads, TIE fighter pads (still under construction), cargo and freight, etc. If there are any other areas that you think should be in an Imperial outpost, feel free to suggest them and we can go there too. :)
Can we extract any information out of the droid's memory? Yes. With a Hard Computers check. But you need a computer or datapad to interface with the droid's memory core.
I'll let you guys decide what comes next. But you don't need to wait for Ildun to make his checks that I called for. We can put everything back in the right order later. Let's just hear what you guys want to do. :)
The gang investigates the disassembled T-44 landspeeder.
1st >>BAM<<:
The Power Transfer Unit is burnt out — probably as a result of the Main Power Coupling being connected to a ground-state device, in this case a member of the Imperial Vehicle Corps. It requires a Hard Mechanics check to replace it, or the vehicle won't start.
2nd >>BAM<<:
The Computer Interface Processor is offline. It can be rebooted with an Average Computers check or bypassed with a Hard Mechanics check. Operating the landspeeder without the Computer Interface Processor adds ⬛ to all Piloting (Planetary) checks.
3rd >>BAM<<:
The Motor-Control Relay is disconnected. Without it, one cannot adjust the throttle on the landspeeder. It requires an Easy Mechanics check to reconnect. Piloting the landspeeder without the Motor-Control Relay adds ⬛ to all Piloting (Planetary) checks when operating the vehicle.
4th >>BAM<<:
The Steering Trim Actuator (sometimes referred to by laymen as horizontal baffling) is out of adjustment. An Average Mechanics check will allow you to center it, otherwise it will suffer ⬛ on all Piloting (Planetary) checks when operating the vehicle.
Jorn's whirlwind attack from his double-bladed vibrosword downs one stormtrooper with the forward stroke, then cleaves through the other two one the backswing! They all fall to the ground with a series of plastic THUDs.
Upkeep: Everyone earns 5 XP. (I had forgotten to assign XP from bypassing the stormtroopers in the first place, so I'm adding it here.)
Recover strain that you suffered this encounter, up to your Presence rating. If you suffered 3 strain, and you have Presence 2, you recover 2 strain. @Tinn can get an E-11 blaster carbine from one of the stormtroopers. In addition, everyone else gets 125 credits.
The stormtroopers seem hardly fazed by Ildun's blaster shot. Status:
⚈ Ildun De is standing near the closest T-44 landspeeder; everyone else is in the center of the room at Short range from him. He is behind the T-44, and has cover.
⚈ There are 3 stormtroopers in that minion group, with 3 wounds. They are standing in the open garage door. ⚈ The little imperial astromech droid is defeated. ⚈ Tarlor is badly injured. ______________________________________
"Waaahhh!" The droid is blasted against the wall, and all of its tools shutter, before it collapses in the hallway. ______________________________________
I was thinking maybe one of us try and chase down the droid and either blast it, or try and shut it down (somehow) I'd be happy to chase but I'd only be able to shoot it...What do y'all think? Do it! :)
Status:
⚈ Ildun De is standing near the closest T-44 landspeeder; everyone else is in the center of the room at Short range from him. ⚈ There are 3 stormtroopers in that minion group, with 2 wounds. They are standing in the open garage door. ⚈ The little imperial astromech droid has 9 wounds, and is zipping down the hallway. It is about to make a turn deeper into the outpost. It is Medium range away from the group, and Long range away from Ildun De or the Stormtroopers, neither of which have line of sight on him anyway. ⚈ Tarlor is badly injured. ______________________________________
Tinn stabs and slashes at one of the stormtroopers, and her vibroknife cuts into his plastoid armor, drawing blood. The astromech whirs, "Bbeep bloorp! Whizzah!" and opens a door that connects to the rest of the complex, and begins heading down a short passageway. Binary:
"Help us! Intruders!" GM Screen:
3 Stormtroopers: 2 wounds. Astromech: 0 wounds ______________________________________
Tarlor I am glad we are on the same page of thinking on the droid! Yay!
The garage door opens, and the three stormtroopers who were guarding the entrance level their E-11 blaster carbines. "Blast them!"
>>BZOWT!<< Blaster fire tears through the motor pool, hitting Tarlor hard, and possibly alerting other troopers in the base.
"What's going on in there?!" the stormtroopes guarding the outside yell through the metal garage doors.
>>ZAP!<< Ildun De zaps both of the Imperials with the power cable charging the battery, knocking them both unconscious.
The astromech droid beeps in fright, "WAAAAHHH!" and makes for the exit. Initiative Rolls:
Jorn = [0 0 0 0] = 0 Nato = [1 1 0 0] = 11 Ni'Kol = [1 0 0 0] = 10 Ildun De = [2 1 0 0] = 21 Tarlor = [3 1 0 0] =31 Tinn = [1 1 0 0] = 11 Droid = [2 1 0 0] = 21
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