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Yes, I am interested in Fury's Toil.
Oh, I was actually signing up for Hmm's Fury's Toil, but I double checked and I haven't played this one either.
I'd be interested in this. I have GM'd it, but not played it. I have a variety of characters that can play in 1-4 so I'm willing to fit in what role is needed. My first choice would be a LVL 3 Swashbuckler.
It should be reported, and Makai, your updated sheet should be uploaded
With your reticence to respond Luwazi seems to take that you don't want to do further missions with Zo!. Live Exploration Extreme premiers to the wider Pact Worlds after going through extensive editing. The heavily edited footage seems to create a storyline of a rivalry between Shari and Makai out of nothing. Shari's voice is heard over a quick in-real-time-meaningless glance at Makai that "Only I am the leader here. Just because I let creatures do the work doesn't mean I've stopped being a leader." "I don't really trust Shari, the business that she operates in.... The fact that she is good at it changes nothing." At another point, they edit Aurora missing with her solar weapon and splice it with footage of Rattus dodging. "Well Im going to be honest here. I was was worried.... That.... I... Maybe sort of was going to get him killed."
Hey, Rattus, you didn't give me your Organized Play Number so Ican't report this. The Chronicle sheets are here. Please let me know if I need to change something
"I think that's a wrap for our live broadcast portion," Wazasha says as she starts tapping onto her wrist-computer. "I think we can catch the end..." she says as she pulls up the broadcast. “What a discovery! What a destination! What a band of unlikely heroes! What could lie deeper in Salvation’s End? Find out on the next episode of Live Exploration Extreme! when the Starfinder Society returns to—” “What?” shouts Luwazi with alarm from near Zo!’s microphone. “That was not part of our deal, Zo! You can’t just add a sequel when we haven’t—” Zo!’s voice insistently cuts back in. “Ha ha! And now a word from our sponsors!” Wazasha orders her to start retracing their way back through the simulation, and adds that the Venture Captain probably would want a full debriefing. Back on Zo!'s ship, Luwazi will explain that Zo! has been pushing for more filmed expeditions, but wants your opinion before she commits either way on doing more with the undead.
So despite Aurora really giving it her all, she doesn't succeed at getting the crowd to like her. The fickle whims of fame, you could call it. But the set-up that Rattus makes to get the door open gets around SpaceTikTok as a viral sensation. The door creaks, open with white fog blocking the view. "Oh, that's a great shot. Let us get inside and we'll shoot your entrance." The ghoul camera crew scurries in and takes position and then signals you to come in. "Cut, lets do it one more time, Makai, we really want to see some shock or awe on your face as you enter? Back to one." The crew has you enter a couple times so they can get coverage from different angles. The door exits onto an elevated walkway that runs along the length of a horizontal cylindrical space that’s several hundred feet in diameter and that extends as far as the eye can see to the right and left. At several points along its visible length lie heavy doors like the one you just opened. Most notably, though, you spot a digital terminal near their door, its display glowing with strange alien text that quickly cycles through various forms before stopping on Common;
The crew ushers you into the confessional booth. "What do you think the last room means? Any theories?
The gulchgun punches through his armor and finishes off the goblin. The goblins have several caches of crude explosives and pirated gear. The group finds a modern door at the southern end of cavern. It seems to be lodged shut.
With two shots going wide, the goblin genius has a chance to bring some more pain to the party. "I told you, stay back there!" the goblin yells at the drow, trying to take off her head with a swing of his sword-arm.
Polbak runs around and tries to stab Makai again. "I start collection of Dwarf heads, kill you lot, then kill dumb dwarves down too!"
Polbak's big genius armor takes a pounding from Makai, Rattus and Aurora's gun. His armor starts to spark and smoke. Polbak steps closer to Makai and attempts to skewer the dwarf. "You don't look like other dwarves," he muses.
Greg takes a swing against Makai
He dies happy knowing that his blade has Makai's blood on it. Makai might be happy as her gulchgun blows a hole clean through Greg's midsection.
Polbak steps up and tries to shish-kebab the Ysoki.
"Stay there, Drow, I go help Greg now!" Polbak says, sticking out his tongue. His jump jets barely get him next to Rattus, but the stream of superheated matter coming from might fry the poor rat.
Greg still stands, battered by Rattus's shot, and he steps forward and attempts to stab Makai.
"You die now," the big genius goblin says in a sing-song voice; Aurora's blows were just not enough to break through either goblin's armor. Shari's laser blast too failed to pierce his armor.
With her blood still on his blade, Polbak approaches Shari.
With a clean shot, Makai's gulchgun punches through Marsha's armor straight through the other side. The Ysoki's shot is stopped by the Big Genius's big genius armor. "My wife! You kill my wife! I kill you!" Greg the goblin shrieks and runs forward.
The thick fog prevents Shari from getting a bead on him, and her shot goes wide, but Aurora roars close and pierces into his armor with her solar weapon. "You want, I hurt you instead?" Big Genius Polbak says devilishly.
Despite her wounds, Aurora still stands.
Shari's able to knick the goblin as he lands. Marsha goes up and rips off an important regulator on the goblin's armor. Marsha immediately starts gagging and seems weakened from the poison. Marsha pulls out her dogslicer and tries to stab Makai. "No! No!" She howls as her blade finds purchase within Makai's armor. She seems even more deluded by the poison's effects on her. "Marsha, no! Greg yells as he tries to get closer. He takes a confident shot at Aurora. But fails to actually hit her.
"Oi, I'm too far away for ya? How about I get closer?!" The goblin shrieks as his jump jets activate and blast him across the cavern and next to Aurora and Shari. But these aren't modern, safe jumpjets. These look to be Blast-o-Matics 700s, an old model of jump jets and not particularly well-maintained ones. The blast of fire emitting from them is a danger to everyone around him as he lands!
He then swings his big robotic arm that has only a giant blade instead any hand at Aurora.
Polbak looks like an even bigger genius as Rattus's shot just barely misses. Marsha takes a shot at Makai and then darts to some other rocks further into the cavern.
But the zap goes wide and sparkles in front of Rattus's eyes. Greg takes another shot, this time against Aurora.
Aurora's armor is too stout to provide the glancing blow any damage. Round 2
"Oooh, they're not all $^##$ing $%!&* dwarfs! They got actual guns worth taking! Get 'em! Kill 'em!" Big Genius Polbak says, quite genuisly. He shoots his big ol' rifle at Shari.
Aurora gets shocked and jerks as the bolt strike her armor. Marsha darts away and takes a shot at Makai. "Kill the dwarf!" She giggles.
Greg on the other hand, darts the other way. "Oooh, a drow! We can sell their corpse back on Apostae!"
Unfortunately, his shot goes wide.
Holsin helps guide the group through the tunnels towards the "short orc" encampment. He believes their leader is named "Polbak" and the orc has some sort of strange metal armor that increases the creature's strength. The tunnel begins to fill with blue smoke, and not being entirely suicidal, the party turns on their environmental protections of their amror. The "short orcs" are chittering away but they all seem to have taken cover against the rocks. An errant laser blast shows that they aren't willing to discuss matters.
DC 12 Engineering:
The armor of "short orcs" are not particularly well made. Anyone who is trained in Engineering can attempt a Engineering check as standard action against an adjacent goblin and deactivate their armor. The red goblin, whose armor looks more advanced, and is probably Polbak, will need to be significantly damaged before their armor would be deactivated.
Big Genius Polbak weaves forward in the rocks and with his big genius gun takes a big genius shot, hooting and hollering as he does, at Aurora.
"Torag is the creator of us dwarves. The god of the forge! Obviously, something is very wrong with the surface if you have forgotten him."
"What are... stars?" says a man who has never seen the sky. "What do you mean lost contact with Torag?" the old man looks worried and concerned. "I think we are very close to the surface. The short orcs have gone to the surface to get their magic wands and used vile surface magic to poison the air that fills a cavern that lies in our path. If the clan is to survive, we'd need someone to clear the cavern of the short orcs." DC 5 Physical Science or Engineering: The "short orcs" or space goblins's poisonous air is either some sort of gas or radiation. Either way, modern armor's environmental protection would let you go after the goblins.
Makai is easily able to find some leverage and get the old dwarven man out from underneath the fallen masonry. "What are those strange magic wands that you use? The short orcs had wand like those. I thought it must be some sort gift from their orc gods, but it looks like Torag has blessed you with those wands as well." "I think Torag's been angry with us. These quakes... I think we're near the surface. Torag's gifts to us seem to grow fainter the closer we get to Golarion's surface."
With a shot to the center, the pink ooze splatters all over the room. The old man groans. <"Please help me, I can't get this off me."> he says in Dwarven.
Both Aurora and Makai get good shots on the blue ooze and Shari's grenade causes it to completely dissolve into a pile of blue non-motile goo. The pink ooze also finds itself taking the full brunt of Shari's grenade.
The pink ooze reforms itself upward and oozes forward. But Makai's grease is absorbent of the ooze, and it falls again. Makai
Somehow the ooze falls prone. It squirts some acid at Aurora. Rattus's shot goes wide and misses the prone ooze. The blue ooze skirts into the room and spits at Shari. Aurora's suit sizzles with the acid, but Shari is missed.
Makai
Everyone gets covered in synthetic lubricant that Makai identified earlier. It gets everywhere; everyone's slipping and sliding around. Kind of fun, but it also makes it hard to run or even walk. Getting into the dwarf temple, it is simple, small and practical. Some walls have carvings showing dwarves doing great deeds, creating items on vast forges, fighting enemies, but most of the walls are completely bare. There's an archaic forge in the temple. But perhaps more importantly, there's an elderly dwarf pinned by some fallen masonry and several odd looking oozes moving around including one that looks to be headed toward the pinned dwarf! Also, you're all lubed up!
Makai
But if you just want to climb through the crack, you can, just roll some athletic checks. But you'll want to decide together.
A swarm of tiny camera drones follow Shari down the fissure. Its not too deep, she can still most get hoisted back up by her party member without much issue, but probably not Makai as Makai follows Shari into the crevasse. The liquid comes up to Shari's thigh, or a little past Makai's waist. DC 13 Engineering or Physical Science:
The liquid in the crevasse is some sort synthetic lubricant, similar to what one would find in hydraulic system or a mechanical engine. It shouldn't be a long-term health hazard but its going to be extremely difficult to clean off.
There are no signs of any gravimetric waves or quantum flux that would explain that type of time distortion. <"We should get back and speak to our chief priest of Torag, Holsin Nolskirt."> DC 11 Mysticism:
Torag, of course, has been missing from the universe since the gap The dwarves lead you deeper into the station, through many natural looking caverns. They lead you to a relatively well stocked camp. The buildings look like they must have been here at least a year. However, from the stone walls, it looks like pipes running through the stone have burst, and every so often, the entire cavern shakes. Less than an hour ago, a fissure split down the middle of the settlement’s cavern, dropping a massive chunk of stone to crash into the Temple of Torag’s facade. <"We think there's possibly a way into the temple via the fissure to rescue Holsin,"[/b> one of the dwarves standing in front of the stone chunk says to Ynga, <[b]"The math checks out that the fissure should lead to the back rooms of the tunnel, but there's unknown substance in the fissure, some sort viscous fluid. Or we can try to remove the boulder." At this point, your crew's director, Wazasha pipes up, "Oh, Zo! isn't going to let the dwarves be the heroes. In fact he's already put up a poll for our live audience. They seem to really like the idea of you guys climbing into the fissure and sneaking into this church."
<"Did you meet these strange creatures in a cavern near here?"?> Ylga asks, motioning to the crew and non-dwarf Starfinders. <"We've not encountered anything like them before, but I suppose we'll see new things the closer we get to the surface of Golarion.">
The dwarves yelp and dive for cover as Makai shoots the ceiling. <"Your words make little sense to me. You set a net on your skin? To catch what? And this net makes your skin change color? Is it magic? We've heard of hats that can change your appearance but not a net."> <"We should head back to the rest of the clan, there could orcs about, and they'd be drawn by the wizard's fire magic."> <"They do love fire, Mookard, you're not wrong. I would welcome you and your strange companions to the Marbleheart caravan. And I would avoid using your magic on the ceiling. The earthquakes have increased as of late, and tunnel collapses are not uncommon."> Mookard moves over to the hole opening and peers down into the darkness. <"Looks like they've encountered some orcs already.">
The dwarves look around warily. One, who appears to be the leader, steps forward and confidently announces to Shari, Rattus and Aurora. "Sequence Initated." They do not seem to be hostile, but they don't seem to understand what the Starfinders are saying. When Makai starts speaking Dwarvish, they start to come closer to Makai. Several start speaking at once.
<"Your hair is quite differently colored, what caused that?"> <"What is that?"> they say pointing at Makai's gulchgun. The leader speaks up, <"I am Ylga Tulgarst, daughter of Ulfrodi. I speak for my clan. We are scouting ahead for our clan. What is this word 'ship'?">
Aurora bungles badly, loses her grip as she's climbing and hits her head on the way down, taking damage. Shari shows off her rope skill; hopefully something that she did not learn from her clients' movies. However, the camera zooms in and captures her intricate ropework, and a certain segment of the population *really* likes it. Lashuro, with a dashing wink, clambers up the wall, swings with cable up and into the hole. They then let the rope down and assist the remaining 4 Starfinders. The camera crew captures the image and the clip briefly trends. With the Starfinders up and into the hole, the Camera crew takes a set of grapplers, shoots it to the bottom of the hole-in-the-wall and calmly gets back into position to continue filming. The Starfinders find themselves in a large cavern with phospherant fungi giving off light.
Just as the ghouls get the last of their equipment up into the cavern, a party of dwarves enters via tunnel. They have old iron picks and iron armor that seem more at home on a historical holovid. They seem shocked and wary.
Lashuro fails to get up. It seems their showboating was enough to stop keep them from getting up into the hole that the goblins blew out. Shari begs for a rope or anyone else to try to do something.
Shari is easily able to climb up, leaving four Star finders on the ground.
The creature's heart stops immediately and collapses, stone cold dead.
The wreckage to the southeast opens up to a hole, but it'll require some work to get up to the top.
Makai doesn't get the sense that the creature is particularly intelligent. It may not understand speech, at least not as sapient creatures do. But it does understand pain as her shot tears into it for big damage! Shari cowers, covering her head and vital organs with her arms. The S.A.C.* attacks Lashuro twice!
Neither claw can find purchase under her armor! *ed note: Strange Armadillo Creature Shari (-20)
Both Lashuro and Rattus are able to pierce the S.A.C*'s heavily armored hide. It squeals in distress.
Shari (-20, blinded for one rounds)
I can't make any promises. I am by nature, a slower GM than average both in person and in PBP. I'll try to step on the gas if possible.
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