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Mine looks good. Thanks for a fun scenario!

"Oh, I can relate. I'm much more comfortable chatting with folks than shooting at them."

Diplo to aid: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (13) + 11 = 24

Thanks, Kultainen! Shoo's mental voice rings out in the envoy's head. Glad someone was able to get a read on him. He's a tough nut to crack!

Outloud, meanwhile, he picks up the thread of conversation with Imako. "Well, we appreciate you taking time to meet with us, Commander. I suppose you must learn about all sorts of interesting people in your line of work. Is it difficult to relate, sometimes?"

Sense Motive: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (18) + 9 = 27

I agree on Vaska (only because I don't think Imako was one of the options).

Seeing Viper take another shot, Shoo flies forward with his jetpack, getting into position should her wounds become more severe.

Shoo moves up behind Jim and focuses his attention on the nearer foe, tilting his head a bit as he probes the person's mind. Casting mind thrust level 1 vs. yellow.

Mind thrust vs. yellow, DC18: 2d10 ⇒ (6, 6) = 12

Hm, good idea, Q! How about a test? Shoo focuses his mind on the approaching leader, beginning small to probe Imako's defenses. Casting level 1 mind thrust.

Mind thrust vs. purple, DC 18: 2d10 ⇒ (9, 8) = 17

Well, if they're all going to bunch up like that...

Shoo moves into the room, weaving his arm in an increasingly tight circle as he conjurs a small, spinning disk of force. He hurls the magical weapon at the leader, where it then ricochets into several of the other foes. Casting hurl forcedisk.

Hurl forcedisk primary attack vs. Purple EAC, get 'em: 1d20 + 7 + 1 ⇒ (6) + 7 + 1 = 14
Force damage (primary): 3d6 ⇒ (5, 4, 2) = 11

Hurl forcedisk secondary attack vs. Green EAC: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (12) + 7 = 19
Force damage (secondary): 2d6 ⇒ (3, 2) = 5

Hurl forcedisk secondary attack vs. Red EAC: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (19) + 7 = 26
Force damage (secondary): 2d6 ⇒ (5, 4) = 9

Hurl forcedisk secondary attack vs. Blue EAC: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (3) + 7 = 10
Force damage (secondary): 2d6 ⇒ (2, 2) = 4

telepathic message. Sadly I can only get 5 of the 6 of us.

May as well leave Shoo out then. He has telepathy already, being a Shirren, and isn't too likely to be doing complex tactical plans with anyone.

Shoo takes up position near the back of the group, and draws his bug-like pistol emblazoned with the holy symbol of Weydan (holy membrane holdout pistol). Once everyone is assembled, he twitches his antennae and mutters a brief prayer, and a thin film of energy appears surrounding himself and all of his allies (casting life bubble). It will be more impressive if everyone can see our faces while we're fighting! He continues his incantation, causing his eyes to glow with holy energy (and see invisibility).

Culture: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (13) + 8 = 21

Hey, I've seen this before! Shoo's excited voice rings in your ears. This was on one of Zo!'s shows! They use bigger versions of these arenas to entertain their populace and display their military might.

Sense Motive 1: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (7) + 9 = 16
Sense Motive 2: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (19) + 9 = 28

Why are you antagonizing them? Shoo's voice rings out in Viper's head. Aren't we supposed to be making friends? He then psychically relays what he noticed (meaning the spoilered info) to everyone else.

Did my Survival check vs. Vaska get resolved?

"Well, thank you for an interesting conversation, Commander." Shoo, stymied by his lack of success connecting to Commander Imako, excuses himself and makes his way over to Overlord Vaska. After some small talk, Shoo steers the conversation toward some of the interesting planets he's visited. "Have you ever heard of a planet called Elytrio? Ruined long ego by the ravages of war, the planet has become so hostile that the survivors have physically adapted in two diverging paths, based on their home. It's truly a fascinating place to visit, though it takes quite a bit of care when traveling." He goes on to describe some of the skills and techniques used by the Husk Ghibrani to survive in the wilderness of Elytrio. Shoo did both Yesteryear's Sorrow and Yesteryear's Truth.

Survival: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (15) + 9 = 24

Shoo shakes his head, dismayed with his own lack of attention. He tries to refocus himself and get some sort of lead on how to impress Commander Imako.

Sense Motive: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (6) + 9 = 15 Alright, time to give up on this guy, the dice just don't want it to happen for me.

Frowning a little at the cool reception he got from Commander Imako, Shoo makes small talk for a while, trying to get a sense of what might capture the commander's attention.

Sense Motive: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (1) + 9 = 10
Sense Motive (using communalism to re-roll): 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (5) + 9 = 14 Well, dang.

Despite a bolstered focus from a nearby Lucky Sevens, he finds himself distracted by all of the conversations nearby.

Interesting, thanks. Sort of the opposite of how these influence challenges usually go (you usually do want to talk to the about what they know/are interested in).

Neither of those skills help to make headway with Commander Imako.

Hm. Maybe should have done sense motive first or something. I thought for sure based on the description describing him as being "quite knowledgeable about cultures outside the Authority, and he has a keen interest in other civilizations" that Culture would be a good approach.

Do I get any sort of sense of whether Culture might work if I rolled higher, or if it just doesn't seem at all interesting to him?

Shoo shrugs, drawing a number of small arms and light melee weapons from various holsters and pouches about his person and setting them all into one of the lockers. "There we go! I think that's all of them." After a moment's consideration he unslings his whole pack and stuffs it into the locker as well. Probably won't need any of that in here.

I'm going to go talk to Commander Imako, I think we might have some interests in common!

Fine with me. I think that's best anyway, since lodge leadership want everyone to delay so all the games start at the same time.

Sorry for the delay! Got Shoo updated and ready to go.

Aaaand just in time for the delay.

A young shirren man comes running into the room just as Fitch is about to begin. "Sorry, sorry! I got distracted talking to a new Morlamaw agent. She has the most fascinating carvings on her tusks! Anyway, I'm here now!" He wears a holy symbol of Weydan, and carries an odd, almost insectile pistol on his hip. My name's Shoo, by the way, he continues telepathically, so as not to interrupt Fitch. Shoo Fly. That's what the Drow called me when I was little, anyway, after my parents disappeared through that arch.

When Fitch finishes, he raises his hand. "Didn't you just say they had some ruins for us to explore, and that's what we were going to negotiate with?"

Diplomacy (Gather Info): 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (9) + 11 = 20

Sorry for the delay! Got Shoo updated and ready to go.

Player Name: Dennis Muldoon
Character Name (class, level, theme): Shoo Fly (mystic [healing connection], 6, Xenoseeker)
PFS ID: 215589-701
Starting reputation with factions: Wayfinders 36, SS(LE) 3, SS(J) 2, Acquisitives 2, Exo 1
Starting fame: 34
Downtime Activity (with roll, if applicable): Profession (herbalist): 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (6) + 9 = 15
Other relevant info the GM should know:

Please post the following info, although decisions may be adjusted following your adventure briefing.

Purchases:
Boons slotted for this scenario
- Ally: First Seeker's Intuition
- Faction: Wayfinders Champion
- Personal: Jinsul Witness
- Promotional: Year of the Scoured Stars T-shirt
- Social: Faction's Friend
- Starship:
- Slotless: Marked Field Agent, Star Sugar Heartlove!!!

Sorry, I had dotted in a few weeks ago but GenCon prep (it was nice meeting you there, BTW) left me with no time to update my profile and what not so I didn't post at the time. I'll get everything set in the next few days.

Yeah, that would be too much for me. I'm playing in 5 or 6 (including one AP) and GMing 3 right now, though two of them I took over for other GMs that needed to shed games. Altogether that's bit more than I prefer, and I'll be glad to get a couple done in the next few days.

Thanks Aerondor!

"Wow, what an interesting culture! To think they would choose to go back to the Scoured Stars...fascinating!"

Yeah, I don't think fighting endless waves of mooks is all that interesting. I'd vote to cut scene.

"Thataway Pangea! Get it!" Shoo clenches his fist around his symbol of Weydan and a wave of positive energy sweeps out from him, washing over himself, Pangea, and M'shak (though only Pangea is down HP at the moment, I think). Spending 1 RP to channel.

HP healing: 6d8 ⇒ (8, 6, 3, 6, 2, 7) = 32

Yeah. I like the fog cloud to begin with, I just think the 'create endless fog and always hide in it' turns into a slog after a while.

Seeing Pangea's wounds, Shoo flies to the other platform. Hold on, I'm coming to heal you! As he lands, he fires his pistol at the demon, the etched symbol of Weydan glowing as he does. Too far to channel this round, so I'll get into position to heal Pangea next time.

Holy membrane holdout pistol: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (14) + 7 = 21
Fire damage: 1d6 + 3 ⇒ (3) + 3 = 6 Holy fusion bypasses any energy resistance.

Yeah, I'm not a fan of this last encounter. It was a slog when I ran it in person recently, too.

Yeah. I'm not sure what we can really do but have Jadnura keep clearing the fog and readying to attack it in the brief window we have.

"We gotta take down this fiend so the boss can evacuate us!" Shoo maintains his readied action.

Shoo continues to stare at the dissipating clouds, ready to employ the power of his mind should he see the demon. Continuing his readied action.

"It's not invisible! Maybe it teleported?"

Shoo tries to figure out how the demon disappeared:

Mysticism to identify Spell being cast: 1d20 + 16 ⇒ (2) + 16 = 18 DC equal to 10 + 5 × the level of the Spell

He then follows Pangea toward the other cloud, readying another mental blast should he get a chance to target the demon.

Shoo has see invisibility up. Can he still see it?

Too bad Shirren only have blindsense, not blindsight.

Seeing it begin to dissipate, Shoo moves back to the edge of the fog and readies to cast mind thrust (level 2) on the demon as soon as it becomes visible.

The description in the book just says 'you gain a fly speed', which to me implies that it doesn't take an extra action. Haste circuit and force fields both list actions to start them, and there's no such action listed for jetpack, which to me also implies it's part of the movement.

I've always taken it to be part of the move action of flying, but I don't have anything to point to there.

Shoo flies up to the top platform to help pinpoint the fiend. Double move.

Perception: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (2) + 9 = 11

"Medric, if you can get up here then we'll have a longer firing line before they get to us." Shoo fires his pistol down at the pink Jinsul, keeping an eye on his teammates, ready to go provide healing if any of them get wounded.

Holy membrane holdout pistol: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (20) + 7 = 27
Fire damage: 1d6 + 3 ⇒ (5) + 3 = 8
Crit damage: 1d6 + 3 ⇒ (4) + 3 = 7

Shoo focuses his mind on the injured brown jinsul, hoping to finish it off so Medric can focus on its companion. Mind thrust, level 1

Mental damage, DC 16 Will for half: 2d10 ⇒ (6, 1) = 7 Bah, that's a disappointing roll.

"Me and Medric can take care of these two, and the boss is helping with the approaching ones! You go get that fiend!"

"Um...I don't think I have anything for that."

Shoo flies straight up the wall, staring at brown as he flies, and landing neatly at the top. Fly via jetpack, cast mind thrust on brown (1st level).

Psychic damage: 2d10 ⇒ (6, 4) = 10 DC 16 Will for half.

"Anyone got ideas how we can hit that thing? It's gonna be hard to get these Starfinders out with it there!"

Shoo flies to the foot of the stairs as he begins to cast a spell. He stares at the blue jinsul, his head cocked as he bores into the creature's mind, forcing it to focus on the pain of its wounds. Level 1 mind thrust on blue. DC 16 Will save for half.

Mental damage: 2d10 ⇒ (8, 1) = 9

"Oh! So nice of them to gather closer!" Shoo moves away from the wall, swirling his hand in a spiral as he conjures a disk of force and hurls it at the far Jinsul and watching it ricochet between them.

Force Disk vs. Red EAC: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (18) + 7 = 25
Force damage (primary): 3d6 ⇒ (4, 2, 4) = 10

Force Disk vs. Yellow EAC: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (13) + 7 = 20
Force damage (secondary): 2d6 ⇒ (1, 4) = 5

Force Disk vs. Green EAC: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (6) + 7 = 13
Force damage (secondary): 2d6 ⇒ (2, 2) = 4

Force Disk vs. Blue EAC: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (5) + 7 = 12
Force damage (secondary): 2d6 ⇒ (4, 3) = 7