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Yep, all is good. Looking forward to future tables of yours!

Later in the week you each receive a message from Envar. It is a digital invitation to his 24th birthday party, described as an all-inclusive trip to a pleasure yacht in high orbit over Verces, with a note, “Join me for an encore performance of our glorious victory!”

The Monstruwacan is laying low in his tiny one-room apartment, surrounded by film memorabilia and makeshift holoscreens, when he receives the invitation. "Huh. I guess our disguises didn't fool Envar Tamm after all", he thinks to himself. And starts looking into the price of a starship passage to Verces...

"Thank you, Historia-7, it was a p-pleasure to serve the society, and a honor to w-work with you all. See you around… well… yeah… bye".

The Monstruwacan awkwardly shakes hands and appendages before moving out. As he approaches the local public transportation, he starts checking his backlog of holovids that accumulated while he was away, a tiny smile on his face.

Other than a little bit of trouble with the elementals, we just tore through this scenario. Pretty good!

The Monstruwacan launches the 6th missile against Green.
Heavy explosive missile vs. TL: 1d20 + 5 + 1 ⇒ (14) + 5 + 1 = 20
Forward quadrant: 4d8 ⇒ (3, 3, 3, 4) = 13 For a total of 37

Critical damage effect: 1d100 ⇒ 63 61–80 - Engines: glitching (-2)
Critical damage effect: 1d100 ⇒ 71 61–80 - Engines: malfunctioning (-4, no push actions)

“T-there… it’s over… I hope someone r-rescues them” he mumbles.

No, no he can't.

The Monstruwacan launches the 5th missile against Green.
Heavy explosive missile vs. TL: 1d20 + 5 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 5 + 1 = 7

Then he gets on the comms: "Alright, that w-will be our only warning missile and shot. Now g-give up and go rescue your companions… please".

To his party: "That was the l-last regular missile, I’ll have to use our emergency stash now. Thanks f-for the help, K'ssatak-Sul".

The Monstruwacan launches the 4th missile against Red.

Heavy explosive missile vs. TL: 1d20 + 5 + 1 ⇒ (20) + 5 + 1 = 26
Forward quadrant: 4d8 ⇒ (7, 4, 8, 8) = 27 Reaching 52 hull damage, for the 4th and 5th critical, and another one from the natural 20
Critical damage effect: 1d100 ⇒ 87 81–100 - Power core: glitching (-2)
Critical damage effect: 1d100 ⇒ 72 61–80 - Engines: glitching (-2)
Critical damage effect: 1d100 ⇒ 55 31–60 - Weapons array
Random weapons array: 1d2 ⇒ 2 Malfunctioning (-4, no push actions)

"Oh… oh no… I-I hope they are well in there…", he says, staring wide-eyed at the destruction he caused.

An useless crit, but I'll take it!

Too bad I can't use the missiles on the free attack as well.

Monstruwacan keeps the heat on red!
Heavy explosive missile vs. TL: 1d20 + 5 + 1 + 1 ⇒ (18) + 5 + 1 + 1 = 25
Aft quadrant: 4d8 ⇒ (3, 4, 2, 1) = 10 Reaching 25 hull damage, for the 3rd critical
Critical damage effect: 1d100 ⇒ 19 11–30 - Sensors: glitching (-2 penalty)

“These m-missiles, man! They are pretty good!”

For botting K’ssatak-Sul, may I suggest using either of the following Open Crew Actions?

Prioritize Calculation (Open)
You use a command terminal to temporarily suspend background computer tasks running noncritical systems throughout the ship, prioritizing the combat calculations made at one specific crew station. One crew member attempting a check this round and using a bonus from the ship’s computer can increase that bonus by 1.

Range Finding (Open)
You use any one of a number of your ship’s systems to identify the range to a specific target or spatial feature, and you relay that information to another crew member so that they are free to focus on other aspects of the task they’re attempting this round. Select one crew member filling the gunner, pilot, or science officer role. They gain +1 bonus to one attack roll or skill check of their choice related to starship combat that’s attempted before the end of this turn.

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They don’t require skill checks, and the gunners could really use the bonus, specially Zoomer against their abnormally high AC.

“I’ll keep f-firing on red, since I got him e-earlier”, rebels the Monstruwacan.

Once again using the ship’s computer, he locks the high explosive missile launcher on the red ship and fires the second missile.

heavy explosive missile vs. TL: 1d20 + 5 + 1 ⇒ (13) + 5 + 1 = 19
Forward quadrant: 4d8 ⇒ (6, 5, 1, 2) = 14 Reaching 20 damage total, for 2 criticals

Critical damage effect: 1d100 ⇒ 40 31-60 - Weapons array: glitching (-2 penalty)
Weapon array: 1d2 ⇒ 2

Critical damage effect: 1d100 ⇒ 43 31-60 - Weapons array: glitching (-2 penalty)
Weapon array: 1d2 ⇒ 1

“T-that’s gotta sting!” celebrates the bloodthirsty Monstruwacan.

Edit: forgot to randomize the weapons arrays!

Missing that was pretty bad... these tiny ships have a lot of hull points, and at first glance, seem better built than our ship - they balance some serious investment in armor (mk 2 or mk 3) with cheap but reasonable weapons.

They can hardly take us out unless they start doing flybys all the time, but they'll sure give us a hard time.

1 hull point away from a critical threshold, amazing.

The Monstruwacan, with the aid of the ship’s computer, locks the high explosive missile launcher on the red ship and fires the first missile, following almost the same route their ship took, and hitting the enemy.

Heavy explosive missile vs. TL: 1d20 + 5 + 1 ⇒ (13) + 5 + 1 = 19
Forward quadrant: 4d8 ⇒ (2, 2, 1, 6) = 11

“W-what?I hit it dead on, b-but it looks like the missile was almost a dud…”

Round 1
Gunner action: shoot

Alright, the Monstruwacan and Zoomer are both on turret weapons with long range.

Our missiles have a speed of 12 and theirs only 10. We don't have any point weapons, so if you keep us at least 11 or 12 hexes away from the enemy ships, we can keep dodging their micromissile battery while (probably) hitting them.

By the way, the Magic Officer acts on the engineering phase.

Or are you talking about letting them board us? That would also depend on the the result of the scanners, if there's only 1 or 2 people inside each ship, that'd be an easy fight, more than that, our odds on a starship battle are probably better - not to mention faster.

Medium transport:

Speed 8; Maneuverability average (turn 2); Drift 1
AC 14; TL 14
HP 85; DT —; CT 17
Shields light 70; forward 20, port 15, starboard 15, aft 20
Attack (Forward) coilgun (4d4), heavy laser cannon (4d8)
Attack (Aft) coilgun (4d4)
Attack (Turret) coilgun (4d4), high explosive missile
launcher (4d8)
Power Core Pulse Green (150 PCU); Drift Engine Signal Basic;
Systems budget medium-range sensors, crew quarters
(good), mk 1 trinode computer, mk 4 armor, mk 4
defenses; Expansion Bays cargo hold,
escape pods;
Complement 4–7

Seeing how the ship on the second slide is much less impressive than this one, I checked the starships stat blocks on the society guide - this one above is actually the tier 4 version!

The tier 2 has no heavy weapons, so we can't use the solar weapon boon either. This is going to be a much tougher battle than I thought, considering how crummy the society ships are.

These new Open Crew Actions are pretty good - they even seem better than all the stuff the Chief Mate can do.

"Let's scan t-them and see if we can fight or if we have to run away."

Glowing Dome gives Envar a hug before leaving. “T-take care man, thanks for the tour.”
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“Oh c-crap! Do you think the gig is up?”

Glowing Dome opens up communications: “W-what? Whos is this? What are you talking about?” and waits tensely for the fighters to respond.

“This looks v-very expensive. Let’s s-set up the game, then”, Glowing Dome eggs Envar on, waiting for him to access the computer.

Glowing Dome assists Radokama in “setting up the game on the computer”/hacking the information we were looking for.
Computers Aid Another: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (11) + 8 = 19

“I-I understand. I am c-curious, where are the...uh… big decisions made? Is that your m-mom’s office?” Glowing Dome is trying to stir the party towards the objective, but he lacks subtlety!

"D-do you have your own office? I bet it must be really, uh... cool"

"You s-should capture some of those for the arena, tough ones!", says Glowing Dome, as he approaches the loot and begins to collect.

1 fire extinguisher
1 high-capacity battery
1 set of station casual wear
1 splayflesh can

"Might come in handy, y-you never know", he whispers to the party.

Looking for a better shot, Glowing Dome climbs on top of the computer console and takes another shot at the solar elemental.
hunting rifle vs. KAC (red): 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (8) + 5 = 13
Piercing: 1d8 ⇒ 8

Round 4
Move action: move your speed
Standard action: attack

Though it probably will be dead by round 4

Only Chetna (+3) and K'ssatak-Sul (+7) have mysticism, could their bots perhaps squeeze an identify creature somewhere in their rounds?

I totally forgot my “Loud and Proud” style technique gives my weapon the blind critical hit effect or the deafen critical hit effect! Red has to roll a Reflex DC 14 or be blinded for 1d3 rounds. Though I doubt that will matter against an elemental…

“Doesn’t anyone know w-what those are?”, complains Glowing Dome, as he fires at the creature near him and moves away.

hunting rifle vs. KAC (red): 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (10) + 5 = 15
Piercing: 1d8 ⇒ 6

Round 3
Standard action: attack
Move action: move your speed

“They are d-dangerous!”, from his position Glowing Dome either fires one shot at each, trying not to pose as too much of a threat, or, if one was destroyed, both shots at the remaining one.

Hunting rifle vs. KAC (yellow): 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 1 = 3
Piercing: 1d8 ⇒ 4

Hunting rifle vs. KAC (red): 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (20) + 1 = 21
Piercing: 1d8 ⇒ 2
Piercing (critical): 1d8 ⇒ 8

Round 2
Full action: full attack

“What the c-crap is that!? Fire elementals?”, yells Glowing Dome as he moves back towards the other door, calling his hunting rifle and taking a shot at the yellow one, making the area even brighter due to the weapon’s bright special property.

Hunting rifle vs. KAC (yellow): 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (8) + 5 = 13
Piercing damage: 1d8 ⇒ 4

Round 1
Move action: move your speed
Standard action: attack

Glowing Dome sees Radokama closing his armor and does the same. "G-good idea".

Glowing Dome approaches Envar and tries to see what he's doing on the control panel.

Computers check: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (17) + 8 = 25

If it's an engineering check, the modifier is also a +8.

"Very beautiful, mr. E-envar. I really like bright and glowing things" says Glowing Dome. "Is it really okay for us to be here? I bet there is very expensive s-stuff around... do you have your access card with you?". Glowing Dome is going to try to get his hands on the thing.

Glowing Dome gets up and follows behind Envar, without having drunk anything - he's not a big drinker, but would have liked to try something fancy, on the host's credits - so he is a bit disappointed.

"I guess it's "Not very sporting to fire on an unarmed opponent", b-but I doubt she'll surrender. Just do a pincer maneuver and she's done", wraps up Glowing Dome.

Piloting: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (9) + 8 = 17

His worst advice yet, maybe Razor shouldn't be taken lightly even though she's practically done...

"She recovered from that b-blunder, but she's wide open on that other end", Glowing Dome tries to recover his cool.

Piloting: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (19) + 8 = 27

Do we have to come up with different strategies, or use other skills?

"Now she's t-totally open on that side of the field", Glowing Dome points out again, almost getting in the way.

"I-it's like she never even watched any of the classic holo adaptations of famous starship wars" he smirks.

Piloting: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (20) + 8 = 28

"That squadron looks really v-vulnerable, you should attack it first", advises Glowing Dome.

Piloting: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (16) + 8 = 24

I'll stand next to her giving my expert opinion on piloting.

"Yeah, we have the b-brains besides the brawn"", says Glowing Dome, putting his arms down. "Let's gamble!

I don't mind wits, and it might be faster than combat - I also have no strength

Good, otherwise I'd look really silly

Glowing Dome also readies an action to call his hunting rifle to him, in case the vesks attack Envar, but right now considers only shooting after they rough him up a little bit.

Glowing Dome moves behind one of the vesk, 10 ft. away from him, and holds his hands up, as if he was wielding an invisible rifle pointed at his skull.

Stealth: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (4) + 8 = 12 Subtle!

Are we at 100 feet or less from the place they are holding our weapons and coats?

Chief Mate and Magic Officer roles are now SFS legal: https://paizo.com/starfindersociety/additional

Culture check: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (20) + 3 = 23

"Y-yeah! We might have to intervene before they kill him!"

Can we roll something to recognize the ysoki? Must be Someone to walk into this place and talk to Envar like this.

“Our host has been so nice, I would like to b-buy him a drink - do you know what he likes?” Glowing Dome approaches the bartender Tolara.

I’ll try to get him sloshed

“S-sure”. Glowing Dome gives up his hunting rifle, but tries to hide his tactical baton.

Sleigh of hand: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (8) + 8 = 16

I suggest small-talk during the walk to up him from friendly (which he seems to be already) to helpful: diplomacy and bluff.

We can also try a sleight of hand to pickpocket that keycard (his perception must be garbage right now) and hack it, but this might be getting ahead of ourselves - and wouldn’t do much for the eye scan (I suppose someone will need to hack the security database and add some retinas)

“I’m Glowing D-dome, space gladiator, defender… uh… yeah...hello, sir Tamm”, chips in, finally, Glowing Dome, trying to fade in the background.

Glowing Dome reloads his rifle and puts it away before approaching their target - but lacking good communication skills, he’ll let the rest of the party do the talking.