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You contact Radaszam and he and two other obsidian spiders show up to take the unconscious assassin. "Well done. You will all make fine agents" As you reassemble back in the Gala hall, Luwazi takes the stage. “I had planned for this evening’s announcement to be an exciting one, but I’ll admit this is not quite what I had in mind,” the First Seeker begins, her smile wry but determined. “Now I find my resolve only further galvanized. “As many of you know, the First Seeker has the privilege and the responsibility for choosing the direction of the Starfinder Society’s research efforts. I have refrained from setting such a direction while we regroup and rebuild—an undertaking which all of you here have made possible. Also, the fact that Guidance has not yet chosen to formalize my election is another matter, but not one the Society can risk dwelling on. Now that the Society is again in a position to reach for the stars, I am pleased to formally announce the focus of our efforts during my tenure. Thanks to the tireless research of my associate Royo, we have identified a lead on understanding the Scoured Stars incident. And so, the Starfinder Society will continue researching the Scoured Stars, in the hopes of reuniting with our lost colleagues and better understanding this phenomenon.”
Kneepuncher quickly moves in and gets close to the assassin. Grimace exits the room with a lot of grace and style. Zo! notices and applauds. Gammer gets in and tries to take a shot, but is unable to out wit his opponent.
Xic moves to the door and then tries to cause a head ache with Triloteya
Dr. Soryn moves tries to harry the assassin
Triloteya uncannily moves away from Kneepuncher tyring to set him off guard and takes a shot with her pistol.
Not tricking the vanguard but still hitting him with the electric pistol
Grimace realizes that he was going the wrong way, but pulls of the "I meant to to do that" look with style.
Ulrich, you do notice some of the missing tools scattered about here. The mitflits were using them to dig and expand the cave. There are still some odd things like the spooked horses and Andor's condition seems more than the mitflits could have managed. It could be just bad luck and coincident or...Well the main issue is solved for now. You head back to the village and already the heavy clouds of mosquitos have abated. Some of the more advneterous villagers are already outside surveying what will need to be done next. But at least mosquitos won't be the problem. Haru also returns with Andor, they looked briefly around the clearing but aside from the gear, no actual body of Lastre was found. However, you are able to bring Andor back with you in order to get treatment for his disease, but he is done with his field investigation days. Haru recovers and says she will still go and see if she can discover anything more about the disposition of her friend. Venture Captain Smine is pleased with the reports and says he will keep an eye on the goings on in Shimmerford. In fact he did get a report while you were returning to Tymon, that the locals found the cave where the mitflits were burrowed had collapsed and the found a small and intricate paper doll of the Mosquito Witch found in the mud nearby.
A number of the mitflits answer. "It wasn't us. Well it was us, but not us us. Gwibble scared us in to doing it. He though by telling the bugs to attack humans we would drive them out and be safe here. But that angered the real Mosquito Witch! It did it did! But we can go now? We won't come back if you let us go" In short you realize that mitflit have an affinity to talk with vermin and used that ability along with the stories of the Mosquito Witch to cause the current issue driving the towns folk away. You can tell some what immediately that the bugs have started to die down and get back to "normal" level of annoyance.
Emoubu moves up and gets ready to strike, then Jiki swing and the fey does its quick dodge and move again. Not before getting hit by the Bard's Blade. Before running to the other side of Jiki. Jiki's second strike misses
Ulrich's razor however does not seem to gain any purchase.
But then the Boss starts to cower to Mafalda's evil eye. With all that distraction, Suzzavyan explodes in a flash of deadly steel that cuts down the Gwibble the head Mitflit Taking a moment you gather your breath and scout a head. In one room you find almost another dozen mitflits, but they immediately cower and surrender to your approach.
Grimace and Kneepucher take some time to smash the one of the devices while Gammer quietly and deftly disarms the other two with a bit more finesses. You have just enough time to make to the service hall ways before Zo! finishes his impromptu sales pitch/performance.
You know she is in the A/V booth. Fortunately the doors are currently unlocked Initiative:
Ulrich Dazzles the small creature and then strikes it down. It slumps to the ground. Korakai brings his comapanion up from the brink of death then casts his shield.
Suzzavyan recovers and tumbles up to stab the surprised boss Mitflit. With no one left to support him, the creature flails his sword three times at Suzzavyan
Not as deadly without his adding companions.
Suzzavyan leaps forward but can not hit the cowering creature. It the sucurreis around the Tengu and strikes at him twice
Then the boss come around the corner and flanks the swashbuckler
hitting Twice
The remaining Mitflit comes around the "wall" and catches back up with everyone.
Honeysuckle bounds up but is unable to connect with the fast moving fey It the turns it attention to the Jiki stabbing twice then moving around the Flatulist
Mafalada has no idea what these creatures are. Suzzavyan gets one hit on the bloodsucker on Ulrich. +??
The other two Mitflits shocked that there is a wall now start to move around it
With the extra super charged punch, The first explosive is smashed. Gammer looks at the one device and goes.
Overhearing the chatter, Ykris takes notice and moves towards the stage looking to cheer on Zo!, but then symbiot detaches briefly and crawls under the stage to disable the central device.
The Small fey take some of the electical damage but both are still up. The larger bloodsucker buzzes up to Ulrich and attemps to stick to him.
Jiki starts his preformance and moves up but the little fay to too fast for him. Honeysuckle does come around and in one swing smashes the creature back to the first world. Emoubu does frighten the other one, and steps up stabing the creature critically. With blinding speed the yellow fey creature dashes up to Emoubu and stabs twice v FF
v FF Arendel's flying staff misses the Quickling. Which he recall that they unlike other Fey they are weak to silver due to their blazing speed. The remaining Milfit, embolden with its master helping it, strikes with its sword at Emoubu with vengeful anger. v FF
v FF
Critically stabbing once, then missing with its remaining strikes
You take your path and start your way though this cave system. It seems to be a abandoned Iron Mine. Ulrich notices that it is low-grade but very abundant. This would be the reason for compasses to go wrong near here. Noticing:
As you go around, you hear a loud buzzing. A larger bloodseeker appears with a small blue humanoid creature. The small blue creature yells out and alarm and two more can be seen coming from the other hall way. Initiative:
It seems the little guards get the drop on you. The one from the far side rushes over and the throws a Dart at Mafalada
The near one does the same to pick off the lagging party member
Mafalda finds herself stuck with many needles. Korakai can now act.
Note about Map; Green areas are light underbrush, creating difficult terrain and allowing creatures within to Hide and Sneak. The Milfits scurry across the open area to the brush on your side an then each throws a dart at the nearest perons Attack on Jiki
Attack on Arendel
Haru is taken aback by the chiding. She is a experiences adventurer in her own right. "Yes heading in to unknown woods without back up is risky. But it is risks we take every day. I would still like to find Lasarte's remains. I will need to rest a bit longer before making it back to town. But I think I can keep your friend there well and we can make our way back once I recover a bit more strength." She does dig in to here pack, and pulls out a cold iron dagger as well as two vials of holy water. "I am not sure what you may be facing down there, but take these. One of these should be useful" Leaving Haru, Andor, and Peaches safely with each other, you make your way to the hidden cave that Haru mentioned. As you get closer you do find more small footed tracks scattered about. This seems to be the place. It is dark in here with no other light then that of the entrance.
Notice?:
You all move about and nothing goes boom yet. Grimace and Xic do manage to locate one bomb At this point Zo! takes notice and senses what is going on. He heads up to the stage and beings to speak. "What a wonderful party by the Starfinders! Fantastic people. I see a lot of exciting opportunities with them in the future. Maybe even some Dinosuars!" Zo! appears to be doing what he does best. Get Attention. And it looks like he could go on for a while.
ROUND 2
Secret Roller:
Ulric spends some time investigating the potion while other tend to wounds. At first glance is seems like a invisibility potion, but on closer examination it is cursed. When drunk the recipient would be under the effect of some type of prolonged fear spell. Haru responds. "Yes, Lasarte is my friend. But seeing her armor here tells me that all is not well with her."
The bloodseeker is engorged and slow enough that you can pull it off with ease then smash it. A quick look over, she is fine except for the loss of blood that she will recover in time. As she stirs, "Wha...How....Who?" She looks up and sees you then sees Peaches waging its tail. "Well thank you. I am glad Peaches found you. I don't know how I got here" She looks around and sees the scattered equipment. "Though I know how this is. These are Lasarte's gear" The elven hunter in the golden armor that also came though. She holds up the sack. "I found this near by too" In the sack is an inky black potion. "I think it was heres" You do realize that the scattered equipment is here, but no body. Perception:
Mafalda notice more small footed tracks leading out of the clearing with more scraps of clothing. As well as drag marks of a body. Looks like Lasarte was drag off that way. Ulrich studies the runes and frowns. He realizes that these symbols aren’t actually occult runes or a real language, just scribbles intended to look frightening. Another false lead. Haru speaks up. "I am not sure what you see there, but in that direction," she points towards the other side of the clearing, "I
Urwal appears next to Valais without startling her this time.
You look over from where you are standing MAP and make out two small blue fey as well as one really fast moving yellowish one. Initiative:
Honeysuckle can act fist before any of the fey go.
The dog clams down and recognizes you from before. She pads up and barks expectant and then starts to lead off to a near by clearing. It turns and barks trying to get you to follow. Assuming you do.... About a hundred yards away there is a clearing. Ulrich notices as you enter the area, that everyone's compass and wayfinders are not working. They spin and point in random directions. The trees also have cryptic runes on them. In the clearing is Haru, who is currently in a daze with a very engorged bloodseeker attached to her. Scattered around is also additional gear. A gold plated breast plate hangs off a branch, with strips of tattered red fabric waving out from it being blown by the occasional breeze. A sword and a dagger are also haphazardly around the area. Haur is holding on to some type of rucksack, that is covered in dirt and local leaves. Andor looks up at the hanging breastplate and smirks. "I Think that is my statue"
Xic's inital survey of the hall determines that Triloteya (the Assassin) is no longer in the hall. However you are sure she is close by observing the situation. Options: * Locate a device (Perception)
If you attempt to locate or disable a device you must either preform a stealth check to hide your actions, or someone needs to be making a distraction for the round. ROUND 1
Mafalda recognizes these as bloodseekrs or "stirges" and they do exactly that. They attach to you and then slow drain your blood. Suuzzavyan strides forward and readies their sword. Koraki waits till they bugs get close. And they oblige, slowing moving up towards Syzzavyan.
They take some damage but then attempt to latch on to Suzzavyan
One of them succeeds. Peaches growls at the party while keeping you at bay.
Gammer quickly bypasses the second firewall and discovers: The module contains a file with a list of names, dates, and locations, cumulating with an alarming entry: “Luwazi Elsebo; Lorespire Complex, Skyreach Room, gala” and the present date. With a few minutes of research using the local infosphere, you ascertain that every individual on the list is recently deceased, save for Luwazi; the obituary dates and locations correspond with the dates and locations in the files, but the causes of death are widely varied. Most notably, those few that are documented as homicides all list radically different perpetrators: individuals of varying gender, race, and background --- You had back to the Skyreach Room Radaszam acknowledges your report. "This is dire. Sounds like there are two problems. One is the assassin themselves and the other is the bombs. You will need to find and deal with the assassin. I can have my Obsidian Spiders take care of the bombs unless you feel up to the challenge to deal with both. It would be a good way to show of the versatility of the Starfinders." You also recieve the following: Naiaj, hearing about the plot has 6 mk1 serums of healing waiting for you when you get back to the Skyreach Room. You also get a message from Royo. He was able to analyze the data on the bombs you had gathered and says that aside from disabling the electronics, the explosive itself is stable against kinetic damage. So you could safely smash the device as well.
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