Professor Serj Harlequinn's page

Serj watches as Bull Market eviscerates the spider.

"Well done, my little creation" he pats it on the top.

"Until our future enterprise!" he greets his partymates, and stepping back through the maze, departs this realm to return to tend to his finances...

◆) Interact to Draw Flickmace
◆) Raise Shield
◆) Strike

Gnome Flickmace w/ Overdrive (+2) w/ Anthem (+1/+1) vs Huge Spider: 1d20 + 10 + 1 ⇒ (4) + 10 + 1 = 152d6 + 3 + 2 + 1 ⇒ (5, 5) + 3 + 2 + 1 = 16

A chute deploys a miniature wrecking ball which whips around wildly and uncontrolled as Serj tries to guide it towards the spider!

Serj mashes - the engine chokes - then a loud combustion of fumes incinerates the carbon rocks that had clogged the pistons - a secondary cooling system clears the heat - and the contraption attached to both creator and creation sing in noxious oscillating harmony!

◆) Overdrive
◆) Raise Shield (to AC 24)
◆) Stride

Overdrive (Crafting, Expert) vs Level Four DC (19): 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (16) + 11 = 27

Serj doesn’t even have to ask…

~) Repair

10 minutes to Repair Bull Market (Crafting, Expert) vs Level Four (DC 19): 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (15) + 11 = 26 @ +10 HP

"Did you think that I didn't notice you rewriting your own source code!"

Maniacal laughter!

"I programmed you to rewrite your own source code, my little creation!!"

It escalates!!

"Did you really think you possessed something which I had not already bestowed you with?"

Crescendos!!!

"I am your MASTER, my little creation. And THIS is the TRUE Field Test!!!"

◆) Stride
◆◆) Command Bull Market

Serj smiles as he walks over to distract the final dog.

"Bull Market: Rake Dividends!" he commands!

Serj Fortitude vs Gaze (DC 20): 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (4) + 9 = 13

”What is that blasted thing?” our shrewd hero exclaims, finally looking up from his work.

Whirling on the dogs, Serj powers up his suit, his hand affectionately touching Bull Market on his top.

"Field Test!" he exclaims with excitement!

◆) Overdrive
◆◆) Command Bull Market

Overdrive (Crafting, Expert) vs Level Four DC (19): 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (5) + 11 = 16

Futzing with his rigging, Serj fails to choke the engine...

"Blast!"

...meanwhile...

Serj busts out a welding torch and plies Bull Market "Hold Still!" it writhes in his grasp, freed from it's programming!

~) Repair

10 minutes to Repair (Crafting, Expert) vs Level Four (DC 19): 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (14) + 11 = 25 @ +10 HP to Full

He fires up his engine, ready to fight the incoming hounds!

Serj Basic Reflex vs 8 bludgeon (DC 18): 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (9) + 7 = 16 (@ 8 damage to Serj)
Bull MarketBasic Reflex vs 8 bludgeon (DC 18): 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (7) + 12 = 19 (@ 4 damage to Bull Market)

◆◆) Manipulate Eternity Arch w/ Reverse Engineer and Tamper

Crafting (Expert) to Disable Device (DC 18): 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (16) + 11 = 27

With rubble flying into his face, Serj maintains unifocus - unlocking another dimension with his madness!

"YEESSS!!!!"

◆) Command Bull Market
◆◆) Manipulate Eternity Arch w/ Reverse Engineer and Tamper

Crafting (Expert) to Disable Device (DC 18): 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (15) + 11 = 26

Oblivious to the do-gooding of his willful construct companion, tunnel vision takes our focused genius's mind - a tunnel that turns into a wormhole that flashes inspiration - Serj yells.

"Eureka!" And turns around to see if his creation bore witness to his marvel of improvisational engineering... only to discover disappointment! "Bull Market!!" he yells, looks around "Come!!!" he mashes some buttons on his control panel, but alas - the algorithm has overwritten his manual override! "Blast!!!!" hanging his head in embarrassment...

◆) Interact to Attune
◆◆) Manipulate w/ Reverse Engineer and Tamper

Fortitude (DC 19): 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (18) + 9 = 27
Crafting (Expert) to Disable Device (DC 18): 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (3) + 11 = 14

"Planetary gears - hard to work on, but eases operator shifting action as overcompensation. Hmm..."

Too busy with his "work" to register the threat of life nearby, our shrewd hero digs into his toolkit and struggles with the alien engineering!

"Insure me" patting Bull Market on the Top, Serj decides how to approach the problem.

◆) Step
◆) Interact to Connect
◆) Interact to Attune

Basic Will (DC 18) vs Mental (4d4): 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (15) + 8 = 234d4 ⇒ (1, 3, 2, 4) = 10 @ 5 damage
Fortitude (DC 19) vs Clumsy: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (8) + 9 = 17 @ Clumsy 1

Stepping forward, our shrewd hero examines the Eternity Arch. He imagines writing a perfect algorithm, one which when applied to a volatile financial market, somehow aggregates the wasted capital into a single fund stream, wired directly to his own personal slush fund. The metaphor seems to work, and for the first time in Serj's life... he believes in magic...

”Stand back 500 feet!” Serj slaps his forehead “imbeciles!” as pathfinders are sucked into the temporal-electromagnetic pull of the rift ”Bull Market - Operation Angel Investor!”

Whirling on the dogs, Serj powers up his suit, his hand affectionately touching Bull Market on his top.

"Field Test!" he exclaims with excitement!

◆) Overdrive
◆◆) ??

Overdrive (Crafting, Expert) vs Level Four DC (19): 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (18) + 11 = 29

Slamming a button with his whole fist, the engine clears it's flood, and begins growling with ferocious and noxious fumes, which splutter out to cover the 1d4 ⇒ 2nd PC to post next. Full combustion presses every nozel and meter to needle fully - nearly poking out of each measurement housing! - as our mad hero's eyes grow with proportional mania to the sound of lubricated metal, smell of oxidized hydrocarbon, and cloud of incinerating smog.

"Yes. YES! YEEESSS!! YEEEEESSSSSSSS!!!"

Athletics (Trained) w/ Hefty Hauler: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (3) + 9 = 12
Athletics (Trained) w/ Hefty Hauler: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (20) + 9 = 29

Accustomed to shouldering around fried robot parts made of chunks of welded allows, Serj demonstrates surprising strength for his stature heaving the heavy pod up and bearing it across the gap to where it would be deposited.

”Management of this load is underway - let yourself not be miserly with your exertion!” he scolds, rushing ahead with obsessive-compulsive mania!

Serj raises an eyebrow as he approaches ”How difficult can it be? Core principles all share certain axioms…”

Crafting (Expert) w/ Reverse Engineer: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (12) + 11 = 23
Crafting (Expert) w/ Reverse Engineer: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (13) + 11 = 24

~) Reverse Engineer

”Replicating the effect of Cryogenic Hypostasis by extrapolating the Zeroth Law of Thermodynamics into Temporal Sequency Simulations - it’s a cute trick, but easy to overtune, even epistemically…” grabbing an ohmmeter and soldering iron from his robotic toolkit, our innovative hero rescrambles the central circuit board, causing the entire housing to shutter a couple times before stabilizing once more!

"Bring me to this device, but first..." depressing a button from his gauntlet-mounted control module, Bull Market snaps into forced movement, manually overriding his nascient AI "...Please sign below - a customary commision whose fine print barely worth a read protects the Integrity of the Transaction!" the robot prints 3d6 ⇒ (1, 5, 6) = 12 pages at the bottom of which, below "Harlequinn Enterprises LLC" lies a big X and a "____________________" to sign under.

Our shrewd hero grins, a glint of greed in his eye!

I vote "Repair the Stasis Pod" iff it involves the Crafting skill!

Aside: "Herexia - that sounds like a good LLC name..."

Serj strides right up to the dragon "My colleagues and I have come to invest our time on behalf of the malfunction of a Beacon which has inextricably led us to you" he smiles here, always enjoying the long route by way of introduction before deigning himself to actually answer questions "I am Councilman Professor Serj Harlequinn of Harlequinn Enterprises appearing before coterminously as an Agent of the Pathfinder Society" puffing his chest to inflate his importance before "And these are my colleagues" the disproportion in time allotted to introductions something our shrewd hero intended out of pure ego - he continues undaunted "I am confident that we can come to an arrangement that my employer and you may find to be compromising to both of you" he snorts at his own pun here "For you see, we are no mere misers here to request the liquidation of your business affairs - No! - we seek only to put an end to the disturbances that reverberate across time and space and interfere with our transportation initiatives back home"

"What say you: Will you be satisfied to negotiate?" he winks at her as he makes his request!

Diplomacy (Expert, Glasses) vs DC ??: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (11) + 10 = 21

Diplomacy (Expert, Glasses) vs DC 18: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (14) + 10 = 24

Serj finds a new marketplace to hawk his schemes…

Diplomacy (Expert, Glasses) vs DC 18: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (18) + 10 = 28

There is a saying in high-pressure sales: After the third “no”, only then might the persistent snatch victory from defeat. Serj recalls that the principal applies too to high-risk investments; he persists!

Basic Fortitude (DC 18) vs Cold: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (13) + 9 = 222d8 ⇒ (6, 3) = 9 @ 4 damage

Serj runs around thinking he can just boss people around as if they were his subordinates.

But the joyful presence of Bull Market - who actually offers to help by giving a boost to a shorter pathfinder, holding a tool while someone works, or even producing his own when needed - all while chirping in binary - renders the unintentional routine akin to "good cog, bad cog" - perhaps inspiring those with magical skills the ability to perform beyond their ordinary capability. Eventually, Serj recognizes what is going on.

"Watch as your Zone of Proximal Development expands through our partnership!" he expounds, meanwhile tandem-searching for prospective "partners" to ply his future financial schemes...

Diplomacy (Expert, Glasses) vs DC 18: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (7) + 10 = 17

.

”Elementary”

~) Repair

10 minutes to Repair (Crafting, Expert) vs Level Four (DC 19): 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (17) + 11 = 28 @ +10 HP

Welding the hairline cracks back together, Serj hands the fighter his shield, and asks ”That’s stronger than steel. Easy enough for me to work with, but what is its constitution? It didn’t smell alchemical…” he asks with honest intent.

Bruised and bloodied, Serj goes Science First on his creation, neglecting his own wounds...

~) Repair

10 minutes to Repair (Crafting, Expert) vs Level Four (DC 19): 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (17) + 11 = 28 @ +10 HP

Bull Market @ 46/46 after 10 minutes

Fortitude vs DC 22: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (6) + 9 = 15 @ Enfeebled 2

Re-bloodied and re-beat, Serj continues to get the pounding he probably deserves...

Fortitude vs DC 22: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (13) + 9 = 22

The Professor's suffering continues - but persistence (and madness) sees him through...

Serj comes to.

”Blasted (redacted)!” he curses a nasty slur.

Reaching for his shield, he commands from the ground ”Destry these (redacted)’s!”

◆) Interact to grab fallen shield
◆◆) Command

◆) Stride
◆◆) Command

Limping a little from weakness, Serj moves into position, and releases his control from his robot, smiling, observing how it acts when set to decide it's own algorithms.

Serj to Fortitude vs DC 22: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (7) + 9 = 16

Coughing and wheezing, our hero feels his limbs grow heavy... ...thoroughly compromised, he diverts auxiliary power to his construct "Bull Market: Laissez-Faire subroutine!"

◆) Overdrive (untyped bonus stacks w/ Anthem)
◆◆) Command Bull Market w/ Construct Innovation

Overdrive (Crafting, Expert) vs Level Four DC (19): 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (9) + 11 = 20

◆) Raise Shield (to AC 24)
◆) Command Bull Market
◆) Overdrive
↺) Shield Block (if 17 or less, or to stay up)

Overdrive (Crafting, Expert) vs Level Four DC (19): 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (2) + 11 = 13

Engine spluttering sloppily once again, our mad hero curses "Bull Market - hurry up and bring the Genius Lube!"

With a mad grin, Serj clicks his heels together to deploy two miniature exhaust pipes from his metal boots, and slamming a button on his gauntlet-mounted control panel, he flies into the air with a loud combustive POP, exploding over to land on target, next to and behind the strange red woman.

Long Jump (Athletics) w/ Moderate Blast Boots: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (14) + 9 = 23 @ Long Jump up to 60 feet

"I was trying to make Contact, but it seems we revert to Hostile Measures!" lifting the heavy steel plate to interpose between himself and his adversary (and her cudgelvine...), he calls back to his faithful construct.

"Hurry up Bull Market! We haven't time!"

◆) Interact to Activate Moderate Blast Boots to Long Jump
◆) Raise Shield (to AC 24)
◆) Command Bull Market
↺) Shield Block (if 17 or less)

◆◆) Stride

With Bull Market following dutifully behind (◆◆ to Stride), Serj opens blunt "This Purple Rift" he indicates the sun-shaped anomaly "Would it be connected to the Eternity Arch?" he pauses, unsure of the hooded ones' response "You see, I and my colleagues, on behalf of our employer, are sent from our world to yours - from our time to yours - chasing the unruly problem of having been contacted by a Beacon, which, with our collected estimation, leads us to confirm the hypothesis of it's presence being nearby - or here - perhaps too the genesis of whatever portal is created before you" he pauses "May I inspect it?" he smiles a most curious, if pensive, grin.

Diplomacy (Expert) w/ Glasses: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (3) + 10 = 13
Hero Point!
Diplomacy (Expert) w/ Glasses: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (13) + 10 = 23

Pulling out his trusty wrecking ball, Serj gets to pounding.

Fortitude vs Sick (DC 16) w/ Sickened (-1): 1d20 + 9 - 1 ⇒ (10) + 9 - 1 = 18

◆) Command Bull Market
◆) Interact to Draw Flickmace
◆) Strike

Gnome Flickmace (B) w/ Sickened (-1) vs Pink: 1d20 + 10 - 1 ⇒ (5) + 10 - 1 = 142d6 + 3 ⇒ (6, 6) + 3 = 15

Overdrive (Crafting, Expert) w/ Sick (-1) vs Level Four DC (19): 1d20 + 11 - 1 ⇒ (7) + 11 - 1 = 17

"Blast!"

◆) Raise Shield (to AC 24)
◆) Overdrive
◆) Command Bull Market
↺) Shield Block (if 15 or less; hardness 6)

Another malfunction, Serj shakes the gauntlet-mounted controller, wondering why it simply won't work.

His construct, meanwhile, has an idea...

A flip plate deploys, turning the ghoul's bite into a mouthful of metal.

↺) Shield block (Shield 22/24 HPs)

"Ha!" our shrewd hero celebrates - until he notices the puncture mark...

Fortitude vs Disease (DC 16) w/ Sickened (-1): 1d20 + 9 - 1 ⇒ (11) + 9 - 1 = 19
Fortitude vs Paralysis (DC 16) w/ Sickened (-1): 1d20 + 9 - 1 ⇒ (5) + 9 - 1 = 13
Hero Point!
Fortitude vs Paralysis (DC 16) w/ Sickened (-1): 1d20 + 9 - 1 ⇒ (8) + 9 - 1 = 16

Nearly seizing in his armor, Serj twitches his pelvic floor, activating an emergency booster shot that adrenalizes his sympathetic nervous system - he narrowly retains his ability to move!

Fortitude vs Sick (DC 16): 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (6) + 9 = 15 @ Sickened 1

Serj loses his lunch - or rather, having forgotten to eat for a few days (busy scheming new schemes to scheme) - bile!

There is a great...

Overdrive (Crafting, Expert) vs Level Four DC (19): 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (3) + 11 = 14

...fizzle.

"Blast!" our mad hero curses, breaking the throttle stick to the auxiliary power cell.

◆) Raise Shield (to AC 24)
◆) Overdrive
◆) Command Bull Market
↺) Shield Block (if 17 or less)

"Bull Market:" he gives a specific command "Silent Partner!"

"Hmm... undecided yet. Perhaps some sort of Investment Forecast Machine, to, err..." he momentarily forgets he is a Pathfinder, but regains his composure, and instead has the Osirian colleague translate the following in Akitonian:

"On our planet, similar to your dreams, this device is sending a Beacon to us, and causing some trouble with the Transportation Device my employers use to sojourn tither and yon. We are contracted here to investigate the source"

”Don’t worry” Serj explains with egotism ”They are with me” over-extrapolating the importance of his attendance.

"Ah - sentients!" a grin escapes as our ironclad hero and his trusty tin can approach closer.

"Greetings, locals" Serj assumes the ratfolks live here - wherever they are "Presuming that you don't worship the object that serves as the focal point of our venture - (Indeed, Let's hope your intelligence grants the wherewithal to produce less unworthy idolatry) - may we inquire as to the set of coordinates whereby rests the, as to what it is referred, Eternity Arch"

Diplomacy (Expert) w/ Glasses: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (11) + 10 = 21

Serj - a gnome who would never under any circumstances refer to his Prime Asset as a mere "faulty instruments between ears" closes them with his fingers, wincing at the terrible "island tune"!

Serj @ 28/44 before any healing

Serj gets to work banging out the dents in his creation's body, taking as much time as allowed to get his beloved robot back into fighting shape.

"Hold still!" he prods with a welding torch while Bull Market flinches and beeps...

~) Repair

10 minutes to Repair (Crafting, Expert) vs Level Four (DC 19): 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (7) + 11 = 18 @ +0 HP
10 minutes to Repair (Crafting, Expert) vs Level Four (DC 19): 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (10) + 11 = 21 @ +10 HP
10 minutes to Repair (Crafting, Expert) vs Level Four (DC 19): 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (6) + 11 = 17 @ +0 HP
10 minutes to Repair (Crafting, Expert) vs Level Four (DC 19): 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (19) + 11 = 30 @ +20 HP
10 minutes to Repair (Crafting, Expert) vs Level Four (DC 19): 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (13) + 11 = 24 @ +10 HP
10 minutes to Repair (Crafting, Expert) vs Level Four (DC 19): 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (8) + 11 = 19 @ +10 HP to Full Capacity

Bull Market @ 46/46 after 60 minutes

Fortitude Basic vs 7 acid (DC 19): 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (4) + 9 = 13
Fortitude Basic vs 9 acid (DC 19): 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (8) + 9 = 17

Serj mobilizes.

”No!”

Robotic First Aid (Crafting) vs DC 16: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (18) + 11 = 29

Deploying various drills, handheld modules, fluid capsules, and a couple of shims, the mad Professor, in an unexpected display of care, works meticulously to repair his creation!

◆) Command
◆◆) Strike x2

Gnome Flickmace w/ Overdrive (+2) w/ Anthem (+1/+1) vs Yellow Blob (Flanked): 1d20 + 10 + 1 ⇒ (11) + 10 + 1 = 222d6 + 3 + 2 + 1 ⇒ (3, 1) + 3 + 2 + 1 = 10
Gnome Flickmace w/ Overdrive (+2) w/ Anthem (+1/+1) w/ MAP (-5) vs Yellow Blob (Flanked): 1d20 + 10 + 1 - 5 ⇒ (5) + 10 + 1 - 5 = 112d6 + 3 + 2 + 1 ⇒ (6, 2) + 3 + 2 + 1 = 14

On the other side, while is creation crawls, the bashing ball balls!

"Ha HA!" Serj's eyes manic, having a grand old time!!

◆) Command
◆) Interact to draw flickmace
◆) Strike

Gnome Flickmace w/ Overdrive (+2) w/ Anthem (+1/+1) vs flanked blob: 1d20 + 10 + 1 ⇒ (12) + 10 + 1 = 232d6 + 3 + 2 + 1 ⇒ (5, 3) + 3 + 2 + 1 = 14

A long articulated power-chain extends from the mad inventor’s armor ”Die under my Wrecking Ball!” he screams while his invention kicks into a low gear to climb the back of the hapless blob, two metal spheres pounding the creatures to push while engines hum and splutter smog into the cool chamber!

"Well then. What have we here? You guys are just in time for the exam!"

◆) Raise Shield (to AC 24)
◆) Stride
◆) Overdrive
↺) Shield Block (if 17 or less damage)

Overdrive (Crafting, Expert) vs Level Four DC (19): 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (10) + 11 = 21

This time it works. The professor's armor, as well as his creation's hollow housing, begin to pulse and throttle with internal combust, spewing smog into the tight chamber, loud and obnoxious.

"Yes. YES. MORE POWER!!!"

...additional sounds of internal combustion, currently stalled, splutter and choke on fuel...

...the Professor pauses only a moment...

...no animal whisperers seem to emerge...

...he releases a clutch, and the engine purrs with mechanical pleasure, and shifting into gear...

Overdrive w/ Crafting (Expert) vs Level Four DC (19): 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (3) + 11 = 14

...backfires with a loud POP and one final quake before dying out...

"Blast!"

Serj grins with sadistic glee.

Slamming a button on his gauntlet-powered control panel, the battery inside his armor, and that of his companion, begins to spark and crackle with electrical menace!

"Let's try this again, shall we?"

◆) Overdrive

Irritated, Serj slams a button on his gauntlet-mounted control panel, and rubber earplugs block his ear ways from the incessant rhyming!