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Chronicles are HERE! Thank you everyone!

Hi GM, Google is telling me that I need access. Thanks.

Sorry to slow things down there at the end - busy the last few days with the holiday weekend.

Shaan gets uncharacteristically misty-eyed seeing the two old friends reunited across the chasm of time. "Well it ain't often that a fighting fellow like myself gets to see a nice ole happy ending. It warms me cold-blooded heart."

Thanks for running, GM! This was really fun, especially as a follow up to the Pathfinder special - I hope they do more specials that tie the two campaigns together.

If we have time to rest, Shaan spends 1 Resolve to restore his lost stamina.

Shaan grimaces as the Silver creature hits him yet again. He hefts his doshko with determination and tries to give back as much or more.

Ember Flame Doshko, Get'Em: 1d20 + 8 + 1 ⇒ (15) + 8 + 1 = 24
F dmg: 1d8 + 10 ⇒ (5) + 10 = 15

I'm an academic too - humanities at a liberal arts college but physics was one of my other loves once upon a time :-)

Shaan swings his supercharged doshko at the beast next to him.

Ember flame doshko: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (11) + 8 = 19
F dmg: 1d8 + 10 ⇒ (1) + 10 = 11 + Supercharge!: 4d6 ⇒ (2, 3, 6, 6) = 17

The vesk nods appreciatively at the android technomancer. "Thanks, Helios-4 - that's a handy trick!"

Shaan's KAC is 20, so I think that Claw attack hits.

Shaan continues trying to beat down Silver, first stepping into a flanking position.

Ember Flame Doshko, flank: 1d20 + 8 + 2 ⇒ (7) + 8 + 2 = 17
F dmg: 1d8 + 10 ⇒ (3) + 10 = 13

Presuming that the creatures are hostile, Shaan steps 5' closer and bashes the closest one with his doshko twice.

Ember Flame Doshko: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (10) + 4 = 14
Fire dmg: 1d8 + 10 ⇒ (7) + 10 = 17

Ember Flame Doshko: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (6) + 4 = 10
Fire dmg: 1d8 + 10 ⇒ (5) + 10 = 15

Guarded step followed by full attack

With a night's rest, Shaan recovers his 1 spent Resolve as well as the 4 remaining hp that he was still down - back to full health.

Having already used his only healing resources after the deadly fight earlier, Shaan appreciatively tucks away one of the serums of healing.

"I'll take the grenades if no one else has any use for 'em. I tend to like to run on into battle but I guess that last fight showed me that's not always the wisest approach!"

He looks at the primitive weapons with studied interest. "Fascinating to think that soldiers used to have to rely on such tools..."

Shaan stands by silently, keeping watch for any further trouble that may be lurking.

While all this is going on, Shaan takes the time to catch his breath and recover from the previous battle.

Spend 1 Resolve (now have 5/6) to recover (all?) Stamina points, leaving Shaan at 36/36 Stamina and 30/34 HP

Shaan directs his hireling to look over the Priest's shoulder and see if he can be of any use.

Elite Hireling, Mysticism: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (10) + 10 = 20

Shaan chugs down the healing broth as well.

MK II healing: 3d8 ⇒ (1, 7, 4) = 12

GM, how long does it take to do the various skill checks we are doing now? Can Shaan rest for 10 minutes during that time, especially since it's his hireling that's actually doing the skill check?

Sorry for the posting delay - work has been hectic this week.

So I'm a little vague about how healing works in Starfinder. Shaan is currently down all his Stamina (0/36) and he's got 11 out of 34 hp. I think I can spend 1 Resolve to restore Stamina (how much? All of it? or some variable amount?) which I'll definitely do. For hp, it looks like all I have are two Mk 1 Serum of Healing (1d8 hp each). I'll take those but are there other healing resources we have available? I'm a little unclear how this works - in PF1 we would just be passing around the happy stick at this point but I don't think there's anything comparable in SF? And this is the first time that Shaan has been beat up enough to get into his hp in any significant way!

Moaning and groaning from his wounds, Shaan chugs down two healing serum.
Healing: 2d8 ⇒ (2, 5) = 7
Also spend 1 Resolve to restore X Stamina, leaving Shaan at ?/36 Stamina and 18/34 hp

While he is recovering, Shaan directs his (Elite) hireling to assist the rest of the group. The only one of this skills that I have is Mysticism +10 from the elite hireling.

Gravely wounded, Shaan staggers backwards out of the fray.

Full withdrawal action

I'm having trouble making sense of all the arrows on the map. Are Green and Red still standing just next to Shaan or have they been carried off? If the latter, Shaan will use a move action to follow and then attack. Otherwise just attack

ember flame doshko: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (10) + 8 = 18
F dmg: 1d8 + 10 ⇒ (2) + 10 = 12

With three spears sticking out of him, Shaan roars with anger, drops the useless cannon, and begins to flail about with his doshko.

ember flame doshko: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (18) + 8 = 26
F dmg: 1d8 + 10 ⇒ (2) + 10 = 12

Then he steps back 5'.

Shaan advances forward, unslinging a bulky cannon as he does, and then shoots out a blast of sound at the nearest enemies.

First, is Starfinder like Pathfinder 1e in allowing me to combine drawing a weapon as part of a move action (as long as I have a BAB of at least +1)? If not, this won't work.

Second, this is the first time I've actually used this weapon (I purchased it at the advice of a friend but soon discovered that Shaan is really best at melee) so it's possible that I'm interpreting its usage incorrectly.

The harmonic dirge cannon has the antibiological property - it only affects living targets - from the description it sounds like there's a chance that these guys might be living? But if they are straight up robots then ignore everything - it has no effect. From the picture they look robot-ish but from the description it sounds like they might be a little bit alive-ish? Anyway, Shaan doesn't have the skills to know.

The dirge cannon also has the blast property with a range of 20'. I think that means the cone will hit Red and Blue but Green is unaffected. As I understand it, I roll the attack separately for each target (with a -2 penalty) but just roll the dmg once and apply the same dmg to everyone it hits.

harmonic dirge cannon, blast penalty, vs Red: 1d20 + 4 - 2 ⇒ (12) + 4 - 2 = 14
harmonic dirge cannon, blast penalty, vs Blue: 1d20 + 4 - 2 ⇒ (16) + 4 - 2 = 18
Sonic dmg: 1d8 + 4 ⇒ (5) + 4 = 9

Shaan grins at Gletch - "Thanks, much obliged - I'm not much with all those engineering doodads If y' know what I mean!"

Vote for Mission 3

Shaan tries to get past the rubble and catch up with the others.

Athletics: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (15) + 10 = 25

A reminder. A PC can also choose to give up their own action in the round to assist a companion, rolling the check on behalf of another PC with their own modifiers; if they succeed, their ally moves to the next zone, but the assisting PC remains where they are.

GM, that's what I thought I had done for Gletch on my last turn. If a 17 beat the DC that would have been good enough to get Gletch to the next obstacle, in which case their latest roll would have been for the Dead End instead of the Falling Rubble?

"C'mon, Gletch, we've got to catch up with the others!"

Athletics (for Gletch): 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (7) + 10 = 17

Sorry, busy day yesterday

Reflex DC 14: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (19) + 3 = 22

Shaan bravely stupidly dashes forward and immediately nearly falls through a gaping hole. He manages to leap to safety though. "Uh oh, everyone. Mind the gap."

As the rubble collapses around them, Shaan uses brute force to try to push it aside. Seeing Vyecmuraf struggling, he focusses first on clearing a path for the envoy.

Athletics (for Vyecmuraf): 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (13) + 10 = 23

"Through the untrapped trap door and then... who knows? Sure, what could possibly go wrong?" Without delay, Shaan grabs his gear and heads towards the ruins.

Shaan agrees. "To the singing pillars! What could possibly go wrong?"

Will, Emissary: 1d20 + 5 + 1 ⇒ (11) + 5 + 1 = 17 +2 if fear

Shaan glares at the vision, certain that such nonsense cannot possibly be real! And yet it does seem so...

Sense Motive: 1d20 + 0 ⇒ (6) + 0 = 6

Shaan isn't too sure what the Emissary would like to hear about but does his best to recount the time he helped sort out some trouble with a scoured god.

Diplomacy: 1d20 + 0 ⇒ (2) + 0 = 2

He has trouble remembering many of the details though.

If the Sense Motive check results were known before Shaan's check he would have attempted Mysticism instead (the Hireling has +10 for Mysticism, and Nat and Life Sciences) if it's possible to switch to that.

Boons:

Social: Cultivating a Faith - use Downtime to promote the proper worship and respect due to Pharasma, which far too many have forgotten.

Starship: Defender of the Fleet

Personal: Scoured Stars Survivor

Earlier, assisting the various faction leaders (if it's not too late):
Shaan doesn't know much about much but he asks his trusty assistant to help out where he can.
Mysticism (Elite Hireling) to help Arvin: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (9) + 10 = 19
No training in any of the other skills that are still needed

At present: in the room with the Emissary -

Shaan listens to the discussion with the Emissary with interest but not much understanding. Perhaps his trusty assistant can once again help him make sense of what such a creature might be? He whispers to the assistant, "Try usin' some o' that egghead stuff yer always talkin'"

The assistant steps forward a half-step, or perhaps a bit less, and rather nervously tries to explain the Starfinder Society's interest in advancing the purest lines of scientific inquiry.

Natural Science (Elite Hireling): 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (8) + 10 = 18

Whether it makes much of an impression on the Emissary, it is clear that Shaan himself hasn't the least interest in hypotheses and data analysis. "Egghead." he mutters to himself.

Back from vacation and catching up now. Sorry for any delay I've caused.

Player: Abraham Z.
Character: Shaan Poloo (Soldier 4) 100198-701
Faction: Wayfinders

I'm an experienced Pathfinder player/gm but still pretty new to Starfinder so sometimes I get confused about the rules differences in the Starfinder system.

Also, I'm taking my kid for a beach vacation and likely won't be able to post again until Thursday. Hope that's ok and please bot me as needed. Thanks.

A burly Vesk enters next and greets the other members of the team. "Shaan, Shaan Poloo's the name. Simple name fer a simple fella. Least that's what mama always said... Not too sure what she meant by that anyhow..." He shakes his head quizzically before turning his attention to the mission at hand.

Shaan carries little besides a battered and well-used doshko and a cannon that looks like is may still be in its shrink wrap.

Thanks!

I have a single SFS character and he has received these two boons from chronicle sheets:

Some questions:

1. Can I use both of these on the same character, to have a Morlamaw who begins at 2nd level?

2. My PC #1 has not quite reached tier 3 with the Wayfinders yet, so the first boon can't be applied yet. I'm waiting to start character #2 until I can apply this racial boon. If I play the skittermander series at a con in a couple of weeks (using those scenarios' pregens), can I apply the chronicles from those scenarios to the as-yet uncreated level 2 Morlamaw?

Thanks for any guidance!

Sorry for the posting delay - I also got my chronicle and everything looks great - thanks again for running, GM - I thoroughly enjoyed this one!

I think Alejandro's Inspiring Boost should have restored 10 SP to Shaan (leaving him at 17/18 SP), in which case the latest attack would leave Shaan at 8/18 SP, 20/20 HP. Or did I miss something?

Shaan retaliates against the creature with a wild swing of his force baton!

baton, get 'em: 1d20 + 6 + 1 ⇒ (15) + 6 + 1 = 22
force dmg: 1d4 + 4 ⇒ (1) + 4 = 5

Shaan doesn't appreciate the creature's attention at all and once again tries to bludgeon it with the baton.

force baton, Get 'em: 1d20 + 6 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 6 + 1 = 9
force dmg: 1d4 + 4 ⇒ (4) + 4 = 8

But the storm rocking the ship has completely thrown off his timing. He glares out the windows in annoyance.

Shaan swings his force baton with all his might, hoping that it will actually connect with the incorporeal monstrosity.

force baton: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (16) + 6 = 22
force dmg: 1d4 + 4 ⇒ (1) + 4 = 5

"Begone, foul creature! It is time that this ship and its crew were laid to rest - and that you were destroyed!"

Will DC 12: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (11) + 3 = 14 +2 vs fear

Init: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (4) + 6 = 10

Shaan is so busy resisting the awful sound of its "singing" that he nearly forgets to swing his force baton at it.

I'll vote For Combat.

Oops. I forgot. Thanks!

Shaan looks puzzled. "If the ghost is trapped inside the suit of armor by a force shield... who trapped it there? And where are they!?! Maybe there's someone else on this ship, even tougher than a ghost!"

Shaan is not the brightest...

Regardless, Shaan gathers the items from the compartment and brings them to the doorway to show his companions. "What do you think? If these are sufficient then I guess we can just leave, though I agree with Prim about not wanting to leave the ghost undefeated to harm others in the future..."

Shaan will go either way but if a tie breaker is needed he'll vote to fight it. Though I'm not sure we even know that the ghost is in the armor and being kept there by the force shield.

Shaan glances back at the armor. "Is that force shield keeping something inside it? Or giving additional defense to whoever wears it? Because if it's trapped there by the battery, I expect that when the storm hits the ship it may break loose. And come find us on OUR ship!"

Shaan enters the room, grim-faced at the carnage. When Prim spots the hidden compartment he takes a quick look to see if it's trapped, and then opens it.

Perception: 1d20 + 0 ⇒ (9) + 0 = 9

"Maybe we should disconnect the armor from the battery? In the video, wasn't the ghost wearing kasatha armor?" It's possible I've got this detail mixed up...

Shaan stands by the door and hefts the force baton in his hand. "Aye, ready!"

If it seems like it will take 10 minutes for the others to investigate the computers, Shaan will spend 1 Resolve to recover all his Stamina.

Also, incidentally, my Resolve as listed in my tagline was incorrect - I should have 5, not 4.

Shaan wheezes slightly as he catches his breath and bends over to retrieve the dropped force baton. "Well, and here I was expecting a ghost, not some creepy space insect!"

Why does your doshko do +6 damage, rather than +4?

It's +6 to hit (+4 from STR and +2 from BAB) and +4 dmg (+4 from STR)

Seeing that the creature seems to be made of flesh and blood, Shaan drops the force baton, draws his doshko, and then tries to bash its brains out. If it has brains.

I assume that, like PF, it's a free action to drop and a move action to draw, and neither provokes?

ember flame doshko: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (14) + 6 = 20
F dmg: 1d8 + 4 ⇒ (8) + 4 = 12

Shaan has the Step Up feat and will use it if it tries to move away

Fort: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (2) + 5 = 7
Uh oh. Are there any options for rerolls, like there are in Pathfinder Society? Or can I use Resolve for anything useful here?

Also, does 4/18 SP mean that I have 4 SP remaining? Or that I've taken 4 SP dmg?

Also, is this thing incorporeal?

Init: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (19) + 6 = 25