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Rax grimaces at the readouts. "Well Captain, I'm not getting Drift beacons near Eox any longer, so if we jump, we're still slogging through normal space, just from a different direction. Let's warm up our guns and our thrusters, we'll punch through these weak little smoothskins and then have the next few days of travel to repair shields and hull."

"That's... not ideal. But it sounds like a problem for Future-Us. Agreed with your assessment. Get ready." Iruaka smiles, despite the coming threat, thinking how lucky she is to have a crew on the same page as she is. There wouldn't have been time for disagreements, and if it entered into anyone's mind to surrender the Captain, they never spoke it.

Loram takes his usual position in the gunnery control room. "Ready here, Captain. Lets give these pirates the answer they deserve."

Kibbens hops onto his miniture console and begins pressing buttons and pulling levers, some altogether unnecessary. "A traditional Ysoki greeting to pirates usually involves our largest gun. Permission to fire captain?"

"You've got it, my comets. Fire when ready. Let's make them work for it."

As the ship launches forward and she waits for the guns to begin firing, Iruaka looks at the readout of the other ship's stats. "Hmm... They don't have us on maneuverability or speed..." She mutters. "If they have us beat on guns, though, we'll have to get creative..."

Bluff: 1d20 + 19 ⇒ (12) + 19 = 31

"Technically we're probably the pirates here." Iruaka mutters, before opening up the comms channel. "You must have us confused with someone else, I'm the only Captain on board this vessel."

Glancing back over her shoulder, she mutters, "Doubt they'll fall for that but you never know." Louder into the internal comms, "Hope you're ready on those guns, gentlemen. Rax, how long until we can jump?"

While her pacing back and forth across the bridge had previously been out of boredom and impatience, the approaching ship had brought a chance to Captain Iruaka's movements. She was more rigid, and kept making glances from the corner of her eyes at the various displays. "Neither do I." She responds to Loram, pausing in her stride to place a hand on his shoulder, before continuing on her way, back and forth across the bridge. "'Course, I'm not sure I'd like the look of any ship right now, so I might be biased."

Still, it did look particularly menacing... Pausing, she frowns. "Rax, how much longer until we can jump?"

This all sounds great to me!

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So, correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the following ship positions are set:
- Xera - Android Mystic - Pilot
- Deneth - Lashunta Technomancer - Science Officer
- Raxsortun - Vesk Mechanic - Engineering

Which leaves the rest of us to run around like chickens, plus one Captain.
- Kibbens - Ysoki Solarian
- Loram - Kasathas Soldier
- "Wraith" - Human Operative
- Iruaka - Shirren Envoy

Given what kind of ship we are as far as our mission, I suspect that Wraith or Loram would be a good fit for being our captain.

GM: since there are seven players, could we house rule an extra control position to allow all seven characters to participate in space combat? If 3 BP allows you to add an extra gun position. maybe 3 BP would allow an extra chair and cnosole to be installed on the bridge?

I think that would be a good solution to allow us some flexibility.

By the way, the only person in the party to have maxed Medicine is the Vesk mechanic, Raxsortun. There are a few others with 1-2 ranks.

I actually have maxed Medicine as well. +20-25

Forums have been down all day, just wanted to say that I'm happy to be here! I'll get some actual thoughts / character sheet up tomorrow.

Ack, sorry guys, Easter weekend, I've been a bit preoccupied.

Apologies, the site was down for maintenance last night when I went to post.

The night before

Iruaka looks down in surprise as the group takes out the Shamblers with little trouble. 'Perhaps we have underestimated them.' He thinks, continuing to contemplate their abilities long into the night.

The next day

The morning sun is met with cold disdain from Iruaka, and it has barely more than risen before he has his hood up, blocking himself as much as he can from its bright rays. He watches the others go about their morning routines, dreading travel during the day, and thinking that this is by far the worst part of being a bodyguard.

Hrm, since I'm still 40 feet away, I'm going to do a double move to get closer, still staying on the trees, and continuing to do the Study maneuver. I want to get pretty much directly above them so that I can drop down on one next round.

Acrobatics: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (12) + 9 = 21

Initiative: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (16) + 5 = 21

Seeing the Shamblers still some distance away, Iruaka narrows his eyes, watching the others prepare to run towards them. Shaking his head, he thought to himself how risky that kind of thing was, and how much better it might be not to play their game. Scaling a tree, he began to leap across, getting close to them while still keeping a safe distance.

Acrobatics: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (10) + 9 = 19

Jumping from tree to tree to get closer, if any of them looks more dangerous than the others, I'd like to study him as I go, otherwise any of them is probably fine. I'm not sure how long it'll take to get to them, so death attack might not work anyway.

Acrobatics: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (11) + 9 = 20

As the others busy themselves with getting a fire going, Iruaka begins immediately scaling trees, and leaping between them gracefully, doing his best to get a look in each direction, for anything that might be a danger. 'Is this what life has come to?' He thinks to himself, leaping from one tree to another with ease. The past several days had been easy.

Really the worst part of the job was that everyone insisted on traveling during the day. Iruaka wasn't sure that he could ever get used to that, and took as many watches as he could, while still being able to get some sleep. He suspected that his desire to stay up all night seemed suspicious, but hardly cared. He said he would protect the caravan, he had done so, that was what mattered.

Glancing down at the camp, Iruaka can not fathom why Lambrecht would want to camp here. It was open and exposed, and the fact that others used it frequently meant only that it was a known spot. If there were truly bandits around, surely they would come here, where others rested and felt safe.

Iruaka gently rakes his blades against a tree, ensuring that they were sharp. 'That will not happen.' He insists. Looking down at the others gathering around the fire, they seem like children somehow, with their teasing and games. He had not gotten to know any of them, more concerned with how useful they were in a fight than why they joined up. Still, it might be beneficial to have their trust, especially if battle was indeed going to befall them.

Survival: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (11) + 6 = 17

Gathering up several decent branches, Iruaka carries them over to the group. He says nothing, but regards the others with his golden eyes, cocking his head at them as he does so. After a few seconds, he places the pile of branches down on the ground.

Wooo! I'm excited for this.

1) Are racial languages a thing in this or does everyone just know Common? I still need to choose my languages for my Int score and don't really know what would be useful.

2) Assuming that the racial trait doesn't mean I start with 2 ragh naka, how much do they cost from my starting gold?

I threw together a relatively quick background, which I'm not super happy with, but it works for a first draft. The book is a little sparse on Koroku information, so I took a few liberties, but hopefully nothing too out of line. I am, of course, entirely open to feedback on it.

@Jonakhan Hi Jonakhan. I like Hrusk the Heft, but how do you get that much damage with the greataxe?

The Greataxe is a 1d12 weapon for Medium characters. For Large characters, it goes up one step, which takes it to 3d6, as described here.

I still need to finish my own fluff, which I will be hopefully doing today.

Great, thanks Chingo! My crunch is done, aside from Equipment. Going to be working on the fluff tomorrow!