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Yes - huge thanks to HMM and Chris for the hard work! This was an awesome scenario and I'm looking forward to running it at my FLGS!
Matarno stands alone in his crew quarters, taking apart a sandwich that the culinary synthesizer has put together for him. He pulls out a floppy disk of indeterminate protein that he tosses over his shoulder - but instead of hitting the floor, it drops 10 feet into the pit that he's created in his crew quarters, slapping wetly onto the stasis cocoon that he's storing in the pit. Matarno stares intently at the festooned cocoon for a minute, but sighs as the meatstuff slides off of the cocoon and makes a soft *splat* on the ground. Subject does not appear to be able to voluntarily leave the stasis cocoon for sustenance, Matarno types into his mission notes.
Matarno chimes in. "Well, technically the ship is bound for the Ethereal Plane. Now that we know where it was going, we could try to track it in the future... but it didn't seem prudent to leave someone behind to keep eyes on the ship."
Matarno winds up contributing nothing, mostly just standing with his new cocoon and saying things like Wait, did you check that footlocker yet? to Xesh.
Matarno strides through the other rooms, alerting everyone to what he discovers, until he gets to the Stasis Hold. His eyes light up at the information he's able to gleam, and he immediately goes into trying to dislodge a cocoon.
Matarno comes out of the stasis hold, carrying one of the cocoons like a baby in his arms. Look what we have here... he emotes to whoever is around. I imagine that Tophoric and Karyn will want to begin examinations here on our trip back. As he carries the cocoon through the crew quarters, he sees Xesh trying to search the room, and will set down his discovery to help out.
I'm going to check the rooms ahead for anything interesting - meet you all back at the ship?
Matarno shrugs at Xesh's question. I suppose we could see what happens if we ride it to the Ethereal Plane, but I didn't quite pack for that... And I'm not entirely certain whether our ship would travel with it. I can think of worse places to be stranded, but not much worse.
Matarno looks at Xesh in the sudden quiet. That was incredibly foolhardy and I am very sorry I did not film it, the lashunta says simply as he goes to check out the hardware on the bridge.
Matarno purses his lips while examining the magical energies coursing unchecked through the ship. That idiot Aldroxis's effort to activate the Drift engine is causing the destructive feedback loop of planar energies, which risks obliterating the King Xeros in short order. Disengaging all Azlanti modifications would reset the system and avert the disaster, but the ship would then default back to its base programming: sailing back into the Ethereal Plane. Given the lack of time and resources... This is the only reasonable option for saving the King Xeros.
Matarno ducks and covers as the grenades begin going off, but comes up with eyes blazing. "I imagine that you're not very good bodyguards when you can't reach your Richard of a boss," Matarno says, twisting his cane as he bends reality to his whims. Suddenly, the black hex guard and purple triangle guard find themselves in a pit, ten feet below where Sauros is beating their commander.
Catching up now!
The wife and I are travelling back to our old hometown for a couple of days, so my posting may be scarce - please bot me if I'm holding things up! Happy New Year, everyone!
Matarno looks aghast at Tophoric. And I spent all that time gargling their damn orders in my throat? He shakes his head and takes up vanguard's position in the back of the party.
Matarno's face pales as he looks at the drift engine and the lens. Ladies, gentlemen, and others, we have a tangled interplanar navigation system here. For those not well-versed, that means we have about 10 minutes before extraplanar energies turn us and this ship into so much stardust in a rather spectacular explosion. He gives a winning smile. So - let's move along? Unless someone can fix this?
Matarno sighs at the order. Just once, I'd like for the orders to go "good work, c'mon home and ignore that wildly dangerous artifact," he emotes to JJ from the bridge. Come now, let us round up the others.
Matarno decides to try to keep their engineer from recharging the shields. "Belay that order!" barks the lashunta in Azlanti, trying to confuse their engineers. "Redirect power to the medical bay, we have wounded down here that need it!"
At least, that's what Matarno tries to say. Given that he doesn't actually speak any Azlanti, it might just sound like a garbled transmission, or like the captain of the opposing ship was having a stroke.
Hey, a little belated, but hoping everyone had a good holiday break! Definitely glad we took a gap, I had 0 time or extra bandwidth to be posting...
I can live with that!
That's a-ok - glad you're doing that work. We can wait ^.^
Matarno grips JJ's chair. Keep us where we need to be, JJ - our gunners are going to have their work cut out for them no matter what, might as well give them a soft target to fire on.
Hey, we have a dinner with the headmaster at my wife's school so if someone wants to both Matarno, please do. Not sure whether negating the Quantum Defender with taunts or an auto-aid would be more advantageous.
Matarno reaches out to the Xeros through the comms. "Pilot - keep the aft pointed at these suicidal fools! We won't let them escape the best weapons we have!"
He does, however, break into that coughing fit again. I swear, JJ, Azlanti was designed to punish it's speakers, he telepathically complains to the pilot.
"Xesh, keep up the fire. If we can get those shields down, I can try to befuddle their engineers to make sure the shields stay down."
"Affirmative," Matarno calmly says to the venture captain. He's again on the bridge, calmly watching the readouts as JJ pilots. He then switches comms transmission through the ship. "Alright, preparing my best impression of an Azlanti captain giving the worst directions possible - let me know when we really really want to muck them up. Naiaj chose us because we're the best the Society has right now - let's go prove her right."
With a jolt of... well, something, from Tophoric, Matarno manages to get his mind around the speaking patterns of the Azlanti captain. He begins to practice the Azlanti phrases phonetically, trying to get into the tone and mindset of an arrogant xenophobic isolationist in command.
(Matarno, it might be most useful for you to just try the Bluff again; my Bluff is decent, but I've used both my checks at this point, so you might be our last best shot at the speech patterns.
Matarno clears his throat. "Charli, darling, I'm truly in need of another mug of that tea," he speaks into the comms, before attempting to reattempt mimicking Aldorxis.
He coughs heavily. Ugh. What a truly distasteful language, he emotes again as he glares at the voice recognition platform in consternation.
Matarno tries one more time, but just resumes coughing. Gods, it's like trying to gargle an ooze, he complains.
Matarno takes a few seconds to regain his composure and cast a quick spell on himself . Thus fortified, he begins attempting to master Aldorxis' speech patterns.
After butchering a few common Azlanti phrases, he gives up, and instead settles for helping other people out.
Aww, AP #4 was my favorite one to run. Such good flavor! Though definitely check the boards for errata on the big bad because he was built with the wrong rule set Spoiler: I'm 100% making a kish soldier using the Pact Worlds gear boost that lets you use archaic weapons without penalty - he's gonna be such a surly bad-ass!
Matarno looks confusedly at his gun - normally he doesn't hit nearly that well.
I will buy a bottle of top-shelf intoxicant for whoever takes down this smug singing piece of sh- His last word is lost as he fires off a few shots with his tetrad rings.
Damn, this is the fastest-posting group I've played with since the vesk soldier and the kasatha solarion started flirting in a Dead Suns pbp Went to bed caught up, and woke up to about 20 posts of combat-related flirty banter
Matarno scowls at the flying specialist. Sorry, Sauros, this is needed elsewhere, he emotes, directing the wisp ally to begin attacking the specialist.
And you! STOP. SINGING. Matarno directs his telepathy and another spell at the specialist - this time attempting to grease his gun.
I thought Infinite Worlds was a bit lackluster when I first read it but now I realize you can create Hard/Total cover basically anywhere once you can raise/lower terrain. Yeah, my first read was "Oh, that's... weird." But then the teamwork of having everyone have, say, coordinating energy types so the witchwarper can turn an electricity trap into a fire trap and then trigger it safely and freely since everyone has fire protection, or sliding enemies to negate their flying around... ;) This has been a crazy game so far. I hope you're all enjoying yourselves as much as I am! It's great! Really enjoying watching the new classes in action. Biohackers are exactly as much fun to see in action as I though they'd be :)
Matarno stops paying attention to the wisp, which continues to attack the izepthar autonomously, and glares at the specialist. Monologuing?? What a boor! With a flick of his wrist, he attempts to shift the specialist's reality down 10 feet. If the specialist saves::
Matarno swears in ysoki and fires at the specialist with his tetrad rings.
If the specialist fails the save:: Matarno grins and shifts the world underneath Xesh - the ground suddenly is 10 feet taller, putting the shirren on a pillar of earth right next to the specialist.
Yeah, you read my mind - I didn't realize he was flying, so I'm going to try to Shifting Step the specialist down, then raise Xesh up 10 ft if the specialist fails the save.
Matarno wrinkles his nose at Karyn's question. "Oh, definitely magic. My stomach turns thinking about having an acid gland or bone blades inserted inside my body. Far too biologic for my tastes." He summons a glowing ball of light practically on top of the izepthar. With minute motions of his fingers Matarno bounces the wisp off of the izepthar over and over.
Matarno takes advantage of the haste to make it partway up the stairs and fires a stream of acid at the damaged aeon guard.
Up and at them, everyone - hostiles present. Matarno grants everyone haste, then runs forward, drawing his pistol as he goes, trying to get to the cover of rocks.
Matorno stands in the bridge with JJ, smiling tapping his cane along with the music. Up and to the port, he says telepathically by way of encouragement.
Matarno telepathically asserts agreement. I'm with Xesh. With the soil having extraplanar properties, too... I think we all have some idea of what we'll find in a construction bay, but any surprises are going to come from that greenhouse. We should strike there first.
Matarno can contribute a +17 to Diplomacy (slightly worse captaining than JJ) or a +9 to shooting... Ah, the old "forgot about spaceship combat during character creation" conundrum.
Matarno sits with his fingers steepled in front of his face as Naiaj briefs them. He does chime in with a question in his speechvoice, a surprisingly deep baritone. "Have the refugees given us any expectations as to what resources the Azlanti brought with them to the base?" He also tries to remember anything he might know about Peak Of Evening himself.
A tall lashunta man joins the cluster of Starfinders standing around the tea cart, smiling warmly at everyone there. Contemplation sounds wonderful, ma'am. Matarno Imani - I don't believe we've had the pleasure of being acquainted. He is dressed in tempweave, but of very fine material - not the cutting edge of fashion, but more of a 'classic' look, with a number of discrete technological enhancements running through it. He carries a cane with him.
He looks in interest at JJ, and Sauros' reaction to the youth, but can't quite put his finger on the connection - he mentally shrugs. Floating his cup of tea to himself with psychokinetic hand, he looks with interest at the others. Anyone know what we're in for today? he asks.
Ok, great. Made a basic one that I'll flesh out as I get to know Matarno a little better :) Ready to rock!
Alias made, finishing spell selection and purchasing during a slow day at work and then I'll be post-ready! Does anyone have a good example of a Bot Me spoiler? Never made one, want to take a look. |