I pinged Sedoriku (who also wanted to play that scenario, altho he is after boons :D) so maybe he will respond. If not, I am fine going with 3 players.
But we need to keep an eye on our skills and probably bring hirelings to cover missing skills.
Relij is Operative but a SPY (so he has higher CHA) and I made him not really proficient with Engineering/Computers. And with Vanguard and Mystic we can be lacking in the tech space :D
Hey Folks, signing up with my Operative (Spy) lvl 3 for the Truth of the seeker. Just an FYI: it is part of the 'metaplot' but it does not give the boon for the Scoured Stars (I don't know if Agent Eclipse is after the story or the boon).
Hye CaptainBacon! Good to be playing with you again!
Incendiaeternus - it is a pleasure to meet you. We seem to be playing at two tables so on this thread I will introduce myself and on the other pretend to be knowing you already ;)
Hi Jim, Thanks for the offer of playing this game with you.
@team - I am glad to have the chance to play with you, even thou I don't think I know anyone besides DireGM.
Player Name/Alias: Farol
Character Name: Relij
Character Level: Operative Lvl 2 (Spy)
Organized Play # / Character #: 2359780-705
Perception Modifier: +6
Initiative Modifier: +4
What is your quest Day Job (if any) Roll:Acquisition specialist = 'black marketeer':1d20 + 11 ⇒ (4) + 11 = 15
Few notes:
Relij is my conglomerate of characters. So I never post under his profile but an alias that represents his disguise. It does not matter that much, but I wanted to say that. He is an Operative mostly focusing on Charisma skills so he does not provide coverage for intelligence-related skills (computers, engineering, *sciences ;) )
On top of that, I have troubles RP'ing him so bare with me, I will do my best.
And I played this scenario 2 times: first when I was introduced to Starfinder and it was not registered for SFS and 2nd time as one of the first few games that I played. Due to that I will let others take the lead and try to aid the plan as best as I can.
Ok, so I got my last chronicle, I've updated my PC to level 2 and most likely I will go with my Alter Ego: Catsial. For that purpose, I change the avatar (has the same size and border etc.) and filled out the rolls for Perception and Initiative.
yeah, that is unfortunate news. However, Relij was involved in the quest into the unknown that we cut short due to Gameday (we skipped last space combat) so I am in the process of suggesting that we should finish it off. Then I will present myself
Looks good. Do I understand correctly that we didn't get the max amount of credits due to messing something up? (Not delivering carnage in the mall for example)? Asking out of curiousity
Catsial listens with interested to what Ambassador is saying and take a look at the brochure
Culture:1d20 + 6 ⇒ (7) + 6 = 13
"I heard of this cruise, the company that is doing them is called Periphery Stars, however, they endured some problems in the past years. I am not entirely sure what would be the quality of their services. If you don't mind Ambassador Zugblub give us a couple of minutes to verify that their services would be up to your standards."
Catsial says it smiling, which you can only say by his eyes as his mouth is covered.
If no one will roll better:
Catsial would leave the room and call the company asking about how new is the ship? Who is the guide doing the trip? And would emphasize that this would be an ambassador taking that trip.
"Greetings Ambassador Zuglub. My name is Catsial Drun and I represent House Khadil in pursuit of artifacts and knowledge. It will be an honor to accompany you today, especially that I never had an opportunity to talk to an alien from the planet Wymdd."
He nods politely, putting his right hand to his chest as he is doing so.
"I just recently joined Starfinder Society so I can share with you my initial thoughts as a new joiner. The only mission that I was part of was for datafiles faction and involved infiltrating the organization to capture information in a rather stealthy manner..." I don't want to spoil any more of that scenario but let's imagine that Catsial shares stories of that mission. Trying to present theft of data as an honorable acquisition of crucial information ;)
Culture:1d20 + 6 ⇒ (18) + 6 = 24 Sense Motive:1d20 + 6 ⇒ (15) + 6 = 21My bonuses are equal so I am doing 1 roll for each ;)
Adding a Bluff roll as I try to present the mission in the more favorable light. Bluff:1d20 + 10 ⇒ (20) + 10 = 30
Ally -
Faction - Dataphiles Champion
Personal -
Promotional -
Social - Envar's Attention
Starship -
Slotless -
I would also want to do some purchases:
Diasporan rifle + glamered fusion (350 + 120)
Called fusion to be placed on my semi-auto pistol (120)
Total: 590
Catsial listens carefully to the asked questions and adds one of his own slowly gesticulating:
"I imagine us having some budget to accommodate our guest? I can see how a diversity of races in this group could work to our advantage while dealing with an Embri Ambassador, it's a good job done by Starfinder Society to select such agents."
Kasatha set his cane next to the table and shares a comment related to
Silver Streak wrote:
And they control their emotions while using a mask to hide their own emotions. Odd considering they can 'sense' emotions in others
"Some of the races work toward eliminating certain actions or behaviors from their societies. Due to that, they might get very proficient at spotting that behavior. I think the same happened with Embri. They try hard to eliminate emotions due to that they might get good at sensing even the slightest hints. Yet I wonder what kind of emotions they are familiar with."
He goes quiet seeing how difficult it might be for him to share his point of view:
"To give you an example, Kasathas have a complex set of words, gestures, and emotions that mean and represent respect. Respect shown to parents, to siblings or members of your house all are different and hard to explain to other races not familiar with kasatha culture. On the other hand, some Ysokis that I met expressed only extreme joy or anger both with shouting, coursing, and gesticulations. I had a hard time with spotting grades of those even that I was certain of their existence."
He is wearing pants and tunic of dark red with elements of purple colors. The attire contains an emblem of a four-arm dragon holding a skull, sword, scroll and a scepter.
Frequently Catsial carries a bag on his arm. In his hand, you can see a fashionable cane in the same colors as his clothing. Kasatha does not seem to need a cane so it seems to be part of the attire.
Overall he looks smart, he does not carry any weapon from what you can see.
To those present in the room he would approach and introduce himself using Common language:
"Good day, My name is Catsial Drun I was sent to this mission to spend some time with the ambassador. With whom I have the honor to speak?"
Spider looks at the movement of the enemy ship and smiles under his bandana. "Now I've got you."
He makes a tight U-turn pulling everything out of the drake to position the ship a bit behind the enemy one.
As he flies before the enemy ship he makes a set of evasive movements to make sure the ship will not get hit.
Evade DC=13:1d20 + 7 + 1 ⇒ (9) + 7 + 1 = 17
"Mustachio orders one of the shooters to fire two guns now. The previous ship was easier to be hit with torpedoes. With your screaming and the small distance they could make it."
If you use intimidate on one of our gunners that person can shoot 2 guns in this round without any penalty (your +4 and -4 evens out). And if this ship also has TL 13 we have two weapons that target that. Alternatively Fixit you can skip next engineering round and man (I meant ysoki:P) the 3rd weapon.
Crap, I forgot that it was gyrolaser which could shoot at other arcs: https://thehiddentruth.info/player/starship/other/weapon.php?page=Gyrolaser but as we replaced it with the other weapon, we are out of luck :( Completely forgot about it.
"Those bastards try to flank us! Hold on to something I will push this baby a bit. Prepare for some turning!"
With that his four arms move with great speed to try to position the ship in the best possible spot. After a set of turns and increase of throttle, Drake is positioned near one of the patrol ships
Yeah Drake tier 2. With regards to spore torpedos. The only drawback is that it has 5 missles. If the fight takes longer than that we would be left with only a turret. Can it replace the build in torpedoes (also have 5 missles only)?
Spider dropped his clown disguise and switched his cane to a one with Besmara symbol on it. There is another Besmara symbol set next to the control panel.
Kasatha swears under his breath and speaks through comms to his teammates.
"To your battle stations! Two enemy spaceships are behind us. I will make a turn to face them forward arc. Take what you can! Give nothing back!"
With saying that Spider forces the Drake to turn to make few dodges along the way.
If no one minds I would take the +1 for my piloting roll.
After the picture was taken, Spider takes a look around the room to go through things. Later he takes a sit on one of the chairs, reloads his pistol and recovers a bit after the fight.
Spider limps away, leaning his weigh on the wall and his cane. His hands, neck, and face are covered in burns and his clothing have a burned out holes in it. After gaining some ground he turns and says:
"This is your last chance to surrender. We will spare your life. You have 3 seconds. Three, two..."
Not waiting for an answer Spider takes a shot at the elemental
Full action: Trick attack
Spider pretends to make a stab with his cane trying to take the attention of the elemental from the real threat - Buster. When the elemental shift his attention to Spider he says:
Spider seeing an enemy a bit closer than he would like to feels his strength to come back after inspiration from Mustachio. If he survives it he needs to buy him a drink. Making a horrified face (which should not be hard given the amount of damage that he took), he tumbles his cylinder from his head and starts running away screaming:
"Run Envar, you are too important to be hurt!"
Almost falling down Spider runs next to the elemental and moves toward his Ysoki colleagues. Just before stopping he turns around and shoots with his pistol at the enemy.
Full action: trick attack. If I succeed in the bluff part I should not provoke AOO. I couldn't find if my Bluff-based trick attack is dependent on senses or shared language. So I leave it for you to decide
Bluff for trick attack:1d20 + 10 + 4 ⇒ (6) + 10 + 4 = 20Fail => my movent provoke AOO Trick attack extra damage:1d4 ⇒ 2 Attack at red vs KAC:1d20 + 2 ⇒ (18) + 2 = 20 Dmg:1d6 ⇒ 6 Ammo:6/9
When the security officers come, Spider looks at his blade being glad that there is some blood at the edge of it. He cleans it and hides it, being left with a cane.
After the whole buzz goes away he goes and checks on Piper:
"You alright? The blow that you took could have killed a crest-eater. Let's take one of the tables to the side and take some rest."
Spider looks at Buster making a workshop out of the bar and says:
"People want to drink here friend, and not play Space Jenga with you. Why don't we move your toys to the table that we just found?"
Spider winks at the bartender, what a six arm beauty she is, and says: "Sorry for making a mess dear, we will be on our best behavior."
If the above is the case, then I believe that Mustachio should get 2 more dmg. As his critical was calculate using formula 2d12+2. And I assume that 2 is str modifier from basic attack by Vesk. So it should be +4 on crit, right?
Given that I am last in the initiative order I will let others respond to the idea of delaying action.
Can you do a guarded step in difficult terrain? If no then it was a sneaky action from you Buster. Getting an attack of opportunity is impressive. I salute you ;)
Spider decides to bite off for attacking Mustachio. He turns the handle on his cane and pulls out a small. With a hand holding a sword sheath he hit Vesks elbow hoping to hide his true intent. Immediately after he makes a fast stab with his sword aiming at a tie of a Vesk (green one).
Move action: draw a weapon. Standard action: attack.
Asking out of curiosity, can Envoy use Inspiring Boost on himself?
Is there any way to shift initiative around so that our team and their moves on one go? At the moment GM need to updated opponents actions and movement 3 times within one round? Can our team delay our action, to let them all move and then we would go? By doing that the fight will go smoother.
Spider curses the moment when he thought that his pistol will not be needed. Seeing where things are heading he walks toward the bar, spilling the rest of his drink on his clothing. He orders a bottle of cheapest rum and slowly walks toward Mustachio talking under his breath, taking sips from time to time.
Is Stellar someone that I could have heard as a Space Pirate. Theme knowledge allows me to reduce the DC of recalling info on low lives, smugglers and others. If there is something I will roll culture check if you need one.
Culture:1d20 + 6 ⇒ (8) + 6 = 14
He put an arm around Mustachio and blinks pretending to be drunk and unable to fight.
Spider walks after Envar. He looks around with interest around the "Eclipse". While they pass the maitre-de he passes his cylinder, cape and pistol saying:
"I prefer to depart with my weapon before the party. Being drunk and armed never had proved to be a good idea."
Spider leaves the cane with him. For a moment he feels out of place in his weird makeup and his tux. But then he looks at Envar in his clothing, Gordon with artificial fur and Mustachio looking like a 3-year-old on a first costume party, and he decided that he actually looks great. With that, he walks straight to the bar, hearing about Veskrium whiskey he responds:
"Don't mind if I do!"
Taking a glass he takes a sip and asks:
"What kind of other attractions does your lounge have? Karaoke? Dancing? We should use this evening as best as we can!"
"That is an interesting technique Mr. Piper. I need to try it out. Till now I simply used 'Password1'. And when the policy forced me to change it I used 'Password2' and so on. Haha. Those passwords are so annoying that I need to help myself with them."
"Of course, famous Envar Tamm. We fought long and hard for the ability to meet you and be part of the greatest gladiator fights in the galaxy. I must say all the information that we've heard are not reflective of your greatness."
With that, he bows modestly to the host. Some might think how Spider is able to say that with the straight face, but maybe the reason why he bows is to hide his smirk.
If Mustachio tries doing any diplomacy check, Spider with his flatteries tries to aid him in that.
Spider keep flanking, walking slowly behind Buster and Ears while doing so he addresses the crowd
"Here we can see the beginning of next great victory of Piped Piper! Look how the beast is struggling to fight his horde!"
While doing the show Spider pretends to be only the observer, not participating in the fight. As soon as he walks out of the pillar and has a clear shot at the monster he takes a shot with his pistol.
However, his movement was too obvious and neither the crowd nor the beast was fooled by his actions. His shot at the crest-eater leg ricocheted to the ground.
Spider walks confidently in his clown-like makup, with smiling lips drawn on the piece of cloth hiding his mouth. His red cylinder stands out, especially that most of his teammates could comfortably hide in high grass.
Listening to the employee, he addresses the other gladiators:
"Ok, Mr.Piper we will do it as in other fights. I will go first and introduce you to the audience. Please come in after you hear your name. The ferocious horde can enter after they hear you playing on that flute."
He reaches for a device in his pocket: "I took it from the ship and loaded the songs that you send me. The speaker is not loud but it might sound as you are playing it."
Spider pass the device to Mr. Piper.
After the doors open, Spider walks toward the entrance and glances back:
"I do hope that this time we are walking first on the stage. Good luck!"
With that, he fixes his cylinder and his tux. And runs on the stage.
As he enters he checks if he is safe, make a bow and yells:
"Ladies and Gentleman! From the far end of the known galaxy, a mysterious figure appeared. He spread fear in the hearts of men! Females feint on the sound of his name! He can charm the beasts and monsters with a sound of his flute."
While he says that he lifts his cane like a flute and hold it close to his mouth.
"He first made an appearance in Akitonian mines, hired to clean it from monsters that scared of the miners. After doing his magic, the giant shobhad decided not to pay for his services. His end was horrible!"
Spider makes a turn making sure that his cape adds a swoosh to it.
"Here he is, one and only! The devourer himself spit his horde back! The unstoppable and undefeated Piped Piper! "
