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Did the the 5th nova get achieved during Skalcon?

Yup, I was at the table.

It was a fun game!

Sorry, but I need the chronicle modified. The information I originally gave was incorrect, I need it based on the updated information that I gave once I found the problem. See the post right after that for the corrected credits as well.

Food and drink first. People deal with bad news better on a full stomach.

Neon walks among the survivors, trying to calm them down. "Yes, I know it is confusing. Be patient and we will get everyone to safely!"

He checks on Diniel and the injured miner, making sure they are alright. He lets Charli take care of treating anyone needing help -- without a junkbot he really can't do much about medical problems.

He asks the mercenaries and soldiers to keep an eye out for any trouble. Call them if there are any signs of further complications.

Oops, forgot. Yes, I will take the additional stamina points.

I have extra batteries and a static arc pistol for electrical damage. Neon projects while continuing his spell.

"Concentrate on green drone, so it can't take Diniel! We want to get everyone out of here!"

Then via Charli's telepathic ability, he projects Charli, shoot first but get into position to wake the miner. I'm going to summon some help so they have something else to shoot at!

Having said that, Neon starts casting from within the shadow of the building.

Summon Monster II, it will not appear until next round.

If someone becomes conscious, do the drones look strong enough to hold them?

Neon has also moved on the map this round. I’m done. Looks like I lost my name on the initiative order. :)

Goose and Quirk both need to act and move before the world around them is recycled.

Seeing that yellow miner is in trouble, Neon fires off two magic missiles at it and continues moving along the cliff.

Magic Missile vs Yellow Drone: 2d4 + 2 ⇒ (2, 1) + 2 = 5

I think from context he was talking about your position relative to them in initiative.

Works for me.

As he moves away from the collapsing ground, Neon makes sure that the miners, guards and Nelli safely get to the bottom of the cliff.

I believe I have acted for this round, gathering information from the comm station.
Ivok has force soles, I suspect he used them to just walk down the cliff.

Seeing the shield that the drones uses, Neon says “Focus Fire, the shield only blocks one shot at a time! We can overwhelm it by all shooting the same one.”

Do i have to intimidate every time or will once do?

I don’t think we have seen an answer here. Did they abandon their luggage and now move at 40’ / round or does it require an intimidate check each round?

Alright, it will have to wait until next round at which point we will see if it matters. Not sure I could do the search waiting a round.

Fearing that he only has this one chance, Neon quickly tries to find anything of use in the building.

Engineering, full round action: 1d20 + 20 ⇒ (2) + 20 = 22 Going to reroll that, especially since it cost me a full round action!
Engineering, full round action, 2 nova: 1d20 + 20 + 2 ⇒ (6) + 20 + 2 = 28

In response to Ivok's question, he says over the comms "I can make a cloud of fog, but I'm not sure if that would help enough. Otherwise once I get someplace clear of impending doom I could summon a small azata to help us fight. They can fly and would hate to see the people captured like this."

I was assuming the survivors would not be able to go down the cliff. Given you have to get to the bottom corner anyway, apart from getting away from the most immediate collapse, heading down the cliff doesn't actually buy you a lot.

I wish you had stated that before my move. It looked more like a slope in the area we started, turning to a cliff later.

I have Flight, which means in one round up to 9 of them could jump off the cliff and I could make them land safely with Flight 1 using a single spell. It would require them organizing the jump -- everyone except one does a ready action to jump.

Oh well. Guess we will see where we are in a round or two.

Do we want to mark a path for the NPCs to follow?

Assuming the cliffs can be gone down, I think it is slightly faster to go down there and cut across than it is to go along the L route. Honesty, with as slow as they move getting a little distance between them and the collapsing ground would be good.

. "It might be that crappy vidseries, Neon, but the special effects are better here!"

“I’m Neon! Goose said that and shot the drone!”

We aren’t even the same coloration!

Worried, Neon tells the others with what he knows about the drones.

He then says “I can search the communications post, Charli can you take care of keeping people calm and moving? We will need to focus fire on those drones, they are pretty study.”

Neon then casts Mirror Image on himself and scampers over to the communications post.

Mirror Image: 1d4 ⇒ 1 Well, that won’t last long...

Ouch! It is going to take around a dozen rounds for the people to make it to the exit. Makes me really wish I had bought one of the items I had been considering, the Motospheres from Pact Worlds.

Guess we will need Charli and maybe others to do some intimidate checks.

So, couple of questions on the situation shown on the new map.

Survivors move at 30', maybe a bit faster if you intimidate them into dropping their luggage and moving faster
[snip]

Also:
1: Moving to the right is difficult (counts as difficult terrain).
2: The terrain to to left of the map is being rapidly consumed by the simulation. Anyone in the red area at initiative 0 will fall into the reclamation furnaces.

Do the survivors have a move of 30’, meaning they can double move up to 60’ a round? I want to make sure that is the case before doing other things.

When you say the area to the right is difficult terrain, do you mean the area that is shown as cliff face or everything in the lower portion?

Init: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (19) + 4 = 23
Engineering: ID drones, LC: 1d20 + 20 + 4 ⇒ (8) + 20 + 4 = 32 Resistances/DR, how tough do they look?

As people are leaving the compound, the healing junkbot falls apart. Fortunately it had a chance to get some of the most badly injured moved to the hover tank before doing so. Duration is only 9 rounds, would have expired by now I expect.

When the drones start to follow the convoy, Neon tries to figure out how sturdy they are.

As part of his Starfinder training, Neon learned a lot about orienteering and tracking his position. He gives his best estimate of the fastest course out.

Survival: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (17) + 14 = 31

Looks like Quirk ninjaed me, but I would have given it a separate roll anyways.

Your speed isn’t that great, I would say retreat and see if any follow us. If they do, it will be much easier to take them.

Since Nelli hasn’t done anything, if Ivok doesn’t have need of her Neon could use a stamina boost from her.

No worries. If you can include the energy resistance in your tag line that would be very helpful to me.

No need for extra medicine checks at this stage.

Done! Tag line is pretty busy, let me know if you want them listed someplace else. I figured near the AC was probably best.

Hearing the big guns go off and then the sounds of something crashing, Neon suspects the mech is finally down. He goes dashing back to the computers to try and make a grab for a little more data before everyone has to leave.

Computers: 1d20 + 21 ⇒ (17) + 21 = 38
I have mobility feat, so if the elf is waiting for him and fires as soon as she sees him Neon would have +4 AC.

Minor correction to my status, sorry it took so long to figure out why our values differed.

In this post our figures matched, 38 SP remaining.

In this post you mentioned the storm but the damage was hidden in a spoiler. I had missed it. He has a Thermal Capacitor armor upgrade, so he would only have taken 1 damage.

Neon should be at 37 SP until the next time you hurt him. I don’t expect it will be long now...

So right now the options appear to be:
* fight the remaining NPC attackers
* download data
* flee

Are further medical checks of any use? Not sure on this one.

Are there more citizens we need to get to safety?

It is sounding like next round some engineering checks for the tank become useful.

Goose may want to give alternate targeting on his post in case the artillery takes out the mech.

Primary: Mech. We need that gone now.
Secondary: Help with one of the other tasks before we leave or target the most hurt NPC visible.

Question for the GM: Can we take one of the downed NPCs? I would imagine questioning one of the attacking elves or dwarves would be valuable.

I have put an explosion symbol where I would suggest we send the artillery round. Hopefully it will finish off the mech and maybe blue elf.

Panting, Neon asks “Did I get the mech? Sorry my spell had to get that close to you, Ivok!”

This time Neon springs back to his feet, goes running back out near the building, pausing just long enough to fire off another arcing surge through the Aeon, Purple and the mech very narrowly missing Ivok, and then hides from Purple and Red behind the building before he even has time to see the results of his spell.

Arcing Surge: 10d6 ⇒ (5, 1, 1, 6, 4, 5, 6, 2, 5, 2) = 37 120 foot line, DC 20 reflex to avoid
SR if needed for Aeon: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (12) + 9 = 21

Ysoki moxie to stand from prone as a swift action
Use his spell cache to cast Arcing Surge
Nimble Spell to move, cast, finish the move.
Should have cover from the building at the time of casting if the Aeon has reach

“The hag is down, concentrate fire on the mech! Ivok, please move to one side or the other!” Neon sends over the comms.

Could we perhaps replace the red square with a red line indicating the danger zone?

I get the impression that the red, green and blue zones were mostly about starting positions since we have been using the areas outside that for some of the battle stuff.

Line
A line-shaped effect extends away from you in a line in the direction you designate. It starts from any corner of your square and extends to the limit of its range or until it strikes a barrier that blocks line of effect (see page 271). A line-shaped effect applies to all creatures in squares through which the line passes.

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Although I would have loved for the Arcing Surge to start anywhere in range, it appears it does start from where you cast it. I had made a small mistake in that I should be doing it at a vertex, but I don’t think that would have affected things.

This is specific to the line and cone areas — both state they start from any corner of your square.

60’ is a single move for Neon: 30’ base + 10’ Fleet feat + 20’ standard speed suspension. I just got tripped up by using a keyword when I wasn’t intending that. Probably should have said scurry or something like that in the description.

I will have to look more closely at the rules, it may be I have also been making assumptions on the arcing surge based on too many years of AD&D and Pathfinder. Would be great if I could start it at range,

@Neon Yes she should, map updated to reflect the text.

Nice call on Arcing surge. I didn't realise that you could start it anywhere in range, but that certainly looks to be the case. Something for my technomancer to remember for the future.

Sorry, that isn’t what happened,

He ran forward 30’, cast the spell, ran back 30’ then dropped prone. Agile Casting allows him to move both before and after the spell is cast.

I don’t think you can start it anywhere in range. My understanding is you must start it from the caster and draw a line out.

Shouldn't Nelli have retreated? Charli asked her to and I think we could have used the help at the back.

Neon moves forward, let's loose another arcing surge, and retreats back to where he started. Once he is there, he drops prone so the rifles will have a harder time hitting him. The surge is lined up to get the hag, purple elf and the mech at the back.

Arcing Surge, electrical damage: 10d6 ⇒ (1, 2, 6, 1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 1, 5) = 26 120' line, DC 20 Reflex for half
SR: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (12) + 9 = 21

"You are surrounded, now is when you need to fall back!"

The front gate area is now overrun. Anyone in there will take automatic damage and is automatically flanked.

Just a few moments later, he adds “Also stay out of the line from the mech through purple and the hag to the garrison!”

So this scenario seems to be set up such that we can’t do everything. We have the data download (which I don’t know what effect it has had), medicine checks, rescu8ng the miners, obvious NPCs and then the mech.

The only thing we can see mechanically doing anything is hitting the significant NPCs for damage.

I would like a little more insight as to what we are achieving by taking these choices. Was the ability to call in a strike because we got to a certain point in the download? Do we think downloading more would open new options?

There are some great things in this scenario, but I am feeling frustrated by having to make decisions where I can’t see any positive impact from taking certain actions.

So the longer the mech is active, the more of the unseen NPCs die?

Neon repeats part of Charli’s orders over the comms.

“Fall back, concentrate fire on the mech or the hag!”

...and another correction,

Starting credits: 35874

Just realized today I had missed applying one chronicle. Updating from original information.

New information:

Chronicle: 26
Player name: BretI
Character name: Neon Ten
Organized play #-#: 141981-2001
Faction: Dataphiles
XP: 26
Fame: 39
Credits: 27349
Day job: STEMM Pundit, clothing + tools: 36 = 36
Reputation:

Overall 77 Tier 4
Acquisitives 12 Tier 1
Dataphiles 44 Tier 3
Exo-Guardians 2 Tier 0
Wayfinders 2 Tier 0
Second Seekers (Luwazi Elsebo) 11 Tier 1
Manifold Host 0 Tier 0
Second Seekers (Judnura) 2 Tier 0

Boons:

Ally:
Faction: Improved Dataphiles
Personal: Scoured Stars Survivor
Promotional: Reroll: Messenger bag
Social: Street Cred
Starship: N/A
(Relevant) Slotless: Surviving Companion, Marked Field Agent

Purchases:
Accelerated Datajack 8525
Standard Speed Suspension 8800

The siege mech rumbles forward, blowing a massive hole in the fence. The enemy surge through surrounding those of you at the gate. "Pull back, pull back" is the command from the garrison.

Why hasn’t the siege mech moved on the map?

I am confused because the descriptions don’t match what is on the maps. I evidently also completely misunderstood how the explosives were set. I thought they would be triggered by enemies coming into the area where they were.

Will: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (19) + 6 = 25

Wait, it isn’t possible for me to make another junkbot...I don’t have another spellgem!

Neon activates his spell gem and the pile of junk starts moving. The drone motors are separated from the body and meld to sections of the vending machine. The shell of the coffee dispenser is remolded into rotors for the engines, while some of the tubing thins and gets connected into the main body. The tubes connect to a piece of medical equipment, perhaps a blood tester? The avionics from the drone are combined with electrics from a child’s toy.

A whole new construct starts to form out of the junk,

Is is clear that Neon has learned something from Radaszam and his work with the Acquisitives. Emblazoned across the body of the robot is the phrase “Complements of Neon Ten and the Starfinder Society” complete with the society emblem,

Activating spell gem of healing junkbot, complete with advertising!

Mysticism checks

Neon considers what he has seen, but is too distracted by other things — including the guns firing at him!
Mysticism #1: 1d20 + 15 ⇒ (7) + 15 = 22
Mysticism #2: 1d20 + 15 ⇒ (9) + 15 = 24
Mysticism #3: 1d20 + 15 ⇒ (8) + 15 = 23
Mysticism #4: 1d20 + 15 ⇒ (6) + 15 = 21