Dawn's shot strikes the enemy ship, though the flak is absorbed by the enemy shields, and does not actually penetrate through to the hull.
Drone Platform:
AC: 17 TL: 16 (evading)
Shields: F 2?, P 10?, S 0?, A 10?
Hull: 56/70
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Thuldas maintains his lock on the enemy ship's power core while Wint moves the Calico Wanderer in for the kill.
. . Round 5 Initiative Phase: Calico Wanderer is Ship B and moves Second. Ship A Helm Phase
Ship B Helm Phase
Ship B Gunnery Phase
Ship A Gunnery Phase
---------------------- CALICO WANDERER:
Drone Platform:
Drone Fighter (red):
Drone Fighter (orange & pink & green):
Drone Fighter (purple):
Though Dawn and Stell are unable to hit, Iolas manages to lock on one of the stray missiles. The first missile finally catches up to the drone platform, and it strikes the starboard side with a huge explosion! The drone platform turns and heads towards the Calico Wanderer. Meanwhile the drones jockey for position, moving closer to the Wanderer's expected path. dice: Evade DC 13
Divert DC 13 Balance DC 11
. . Round 4 Initiative Phase: Calico Wanderer is Ship A and moves first. Ship A Helm Phase[/b]
Ship B Helm Phase
Ship B Gunnery Phase
Ship A Gunnery Phase
---------------------- CALICO WANDERER:
Drone Platform:
Drone Fighter (red):
Drone Fighter (orange & pink):
Drone Fighter (purple & green):
Thuldas tweaks the sensors madly, trying to get a fix on the enemy power core. He nearly gives up when at the last second he manages to get a fix!
Wint flies the Calico Wanderer under the enemy drone and on ahead, but the drone seems prepared for this maneuver and fires a shot at the Wanderer. But the Calico Wanderer is moving too fast and escapes unharmed. dice:
Evade DC 13
Evade DC 13
The drone platform accelerates away, trying to put more distance between it and the missiles that are rapidly closing in. As it makes a final turn it launches another drone. Meanwhile, the drones targeting the Calico Wanderer wheel and pursue, firing their lasers. The other two jockey for position and target the missiles closing in on the platform. But none of the drones manage to score a hit.
If allowed, I'll take the previous roll (28).
Guys: I've been having internet connectivity issues the last few days. My connection has been going out for long periods. I'm hoping that the problem is over but I can't say for sure. I'm going to try and get caught up but since my window for posting may be limited I will handle threads that require short posts first.
. . Round 4 Initiative Phase: Calico Wanderer is Ship A and moves first. Ship A Helm Phase
Ship B Helm Phase
Ship B Gunnery Phase
Ship A Gunnery Phase
---------------------- CALICO WANDERER:
Drone Platform:
Drone Fighter (red):
Drone Fighter (orange):
Drone Fighter (purple):
Drone Fighter (pink):
Wint pilots the ship evasively while the crew fires their weapons. But the enemy ships are too nimble and no one scores any hits. Spoiler:
VS AC 18 VS AC 18 VS AC 20
One of the drones manages to score a hit on the Calico Wanderer, though the hit is absorbed by the starboard shield. The Drone Platform launches another drone, which exits via a bay to the platform's aft.
. . Round 3 Initiative Phase: Calico Wanderer is Ship B and moves second. Ship A Helm Phase
Ship B Helm Phase
Ship B Gunnery Phase
Ship A Gunnery Phase[/b]
---------------------- CALICO WANDERER:
Drone Platform:
Drone Fighter (red):
Drone Fighter (orange):
Drone Fighter (purple):
Dawn's flak bursts strike the drone fighter, causing considerable damage. Iolas' missile manages to lock on, but Dawn's torpedo does not establish a lock and simply thrusts forward into space. Spoiler:
Engines Sensors Evade DC 13
Evade DC 13
The drone platform peels away, trying to stay out of reach of the missiles. The newest drone pulls a tight turn, trying to line up on the first missile, while the other two drones take up positions to fire on the Calico Wanderer.
dice:
. . Round 2 Initiative Phase: Calico Wanderer is Ship A and moves first. Ship A Helm Phase
Ship B Helm Phase
Ship B Gunnery Phase
Ship A Gunnery Phase
---------------------- CALICO WANDERER:
Drone Platform:
Drone Fighter (red):
Drone Fighter (orange):
Drone Fighter (purple):
Spoiler:
Evade DC 13
Divert Engines DC 13 Target Engines DC 11 Evade auto VS AC 18 Evade auto VS AC 20 The enemy platform thrusts away powerfully, putting more distance between it and the Calico Wanderer. As it moves the drone bay opens again and another drone is disgorged. Meanwhile, the drone that already attacked the Calico Wanderer continues to do so, inching closer and flying an evasive pattern. The newer drone fires on the nuclear missile speeding towards the target. But neither laser bolt finds their mark. The nuclear missile continues to speed towards the enemy ship.
Dawn's bursts of flak burst too early and get lost in the void. But Iolas' missile locks on and homes in towards the target.
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I was wondering if this could be updated so that it shows the weapon ranges in map hexes. Also, I'm in two Starfinder Play-by-Post campaigns and in one, the GM house ruled some of the Starship Combat with modified speed rules. Was that you or my other campaign? I don't have time to look through all the past discussion threads of both campaigns to find out at the moment. Thanks. Okay, Can do. Also yes, this is the campaign with the reduces speed and ranges. Note that under speed it says "4 hexes."
Spoiler:
. . Round 1 ...
Round 2 Initiative Phase: Calico Wanderer is Ship A and moves first. Ship A Helm Phase
Ship B Helm Phase
Ship B Gunnery Phase
Ship A Gunnery Phase
CALICO WANDERER:
Drone Platform:
Drone Fighter (red):
Drone Fighter (orange):
dice:
Maneuver DC 18 Divert DC 13 Target Engines DC 11 Evade auto
The drone turns quickly, and eagerly sprints toward the Calico Wanderer. It fires a shot with its laser... Hit! The laser bolt is easily absorbed by the Calico Wanderer's forward shields. The enemy platform performs a tight turn, sharper than Wint thinks it would normally turn. Once it has completed its turn, a bay opens on its underside, and another drone is disgorged! The platform does not fire any weapons.
Just made this up:
Round 1 Initiative Phase: Calico Wanderer is Ship A and moves second. Ship A Helm Phase
Ship B Helm Phase
Ship B Gunnery Phase
Ship A Gunnery Phase CALICO WANDERER:
Drone Platform:
Drone Fighter:
dice:
Round 1 Initiative Phase: Calico Wanderer is Ship A and moves second. Ship A Helm Phase
Ship B Helm Phase
Ship B Gunnery Phase
Ship A Gunnery Phase CALICO WANDERER:
Drone Platform:
Drone Fighter:
After the group takes the translator off the drone, the drone speeds off down the street, heading for its next errand. The group takes some time in the shopping districts purchasing supplies, and then returns to their ship, to find that the Starfinder Society's tech division are resupplying the ship's missile magazines. Soon the ship is ready for launch. Once again the ship clears Absalom space and then enters the drift.
The thirteen-day trip to Elytrio is mostly uneventful. Four days out, the Calico Wanderer passes within comm range of another ship, the Clutter Collector, a small salvage ship. The ship’s captain, a ysoki named Winks opens a communication link to talk to the Calico Wanderer, more out of boredom than anything else. She thanks the PCs for any conversation they engage in before having to end the link an hour later as her ship moves out of range. When the Calico Wanderer finally emerges from the drift, Elytrio is only a few hours away. As you approach Elytrio, your comms suddenly squawk to life, filled with a crackling robotic voice in an alien language. The tone of the message is strident. Make a Culture or Sense Motive check, then open this:
If you get 13 or better open this: Spoiler: The message is clearly a warning. If you cast Comperehend Languages:
You catch the warning as it repeats: “Unknown vessel: turn back or be destroyed.” Subsequent recurrences of the message stutter and distort like a corrupted audio file, eventually cutting off with a loud burst of static. Simultaneously, a hemispheric vessel comes into view from behind one of the planet’s moons. It approaches the Calico Wanderer, and while it has no visible weapons, it does emit a ring of red light from the edges of its flat bottom hull. Make a Computers or Engineering check, then open this:
If you get 15 or better open this: Spoiler: The hemispherical ship is part of an automated system and is
completely unoccupied. Shortly afterward, apertures open on the platform’s bottom hull as the vessel enters a combat posture.
Ready to head back to the Calico Wanderer, the group heads down to the lobby of the Lorespire complex. A small robotic drone intercepts the group as they depart from their building. The floating drone projects a holoscreen in front of it. The screen comes alive and a confused-looking Ysoki child appears on the screen, whose head is quickly pushed out of the screen by an older Ysoki woman.
Working extra hours again last night. Next post this afternoon or evening.
After a week of relaxation and station life, the group gets a message from Venture-Captain Arvin. Got you another mission, the message reads. Pulled some useful data from the logs of the Unbounded Wayfarer. Meet me at my office at Lorespire for a briefing tomorrow morning 0900 station time. The next day you arrive at the Venture-Captain's office and are ushered in by his assistant. The stacks of papers, charts, and data screens are still there, but the space in the center of the office has been cleared to to make room for a holoprojector, and seats are clustered around it, leaving the corners of the room stacked with files and other detritus. Venture-Captain Arvin stands before a hologram of a planet that appears to have been ravaged by some disaster; there is very little water and no obvious greenery.
Guys, I'm going to go ahead and start the intro for the next mission. Leveling and shopping don't need to be finished until you are ready to leave.
The values at the top of the sheet show the sell value* of all the items you have. It doesn't include cash because cash has no impact on your character's abilities until you actually spend it. However, for your starting gear I just assumed 1000 credits of stuff for everyone rather than figuring out what exact gear you had at the start. I haven't added the credits yet but they will improve "Cash Available" by 2500. I figured that in cases where one character gets more actual items from the loot pile, you might allow characters that didn't take stuff to have more cash. How you actually spend the cash or divide it is up to you. I could re-do the sheet so that each character would have a separate "Wallet" so cash would be tracked by character but that would take some more work. * Note: some items, mainly implants, cannot be resold and are useless once removed. But they still show up here since they affect the value of your character's overall gear.
After some discussion, realizing how dangerous it could be to take the pirates alive onto the Calico Wanderer, and realizing that the pirates themselves clearly have taken no prisoners (as their ship cannot house them), the group decides to destroy the Lawblight with all hands aboard. A few torpedo hits and the lawblight breaks apart, its reactor flaring with a secondary explosion. Satisfied that the crew of the Unbound Wayfarer has been avenged, the crew rides the Calico Wanderer into the drift. The bright beacon of Absalom Station calls the group home, and after only a single day they find themselves back in the Pact Worlds.
They return to the station to report to Venture-Captain Arvin.
Okay, I put together a Loot Spreadsheet. The spreadsheet doesn't keep track of individual "wallets" - I could do that but it would get more complex. By my calculations the party has a total of 1998.5 credits floating around unspent. I am also putting consumable items like serums and grenades under "party use" since once you use them they are gone. A few things remain unclear:
Who took the Iridescent Spindle Aeon Stone? It was on the crashed ship, and it means you don't need to breathe (so it is useless to Dawn). Iolas took the frostbite rifle and Thuldas took some armor, the datajack, and the Ring of Resistance, so they seem to have the most value of goods at the moment. Wint has the least, and what he's picked up is just consumable stuff.
Guys, did we end up generating a loot spreadsheet? I'm just thinking about whether I need to up the final rewards for the adventure.
The Lawblight's expansion bays do not include accommodation for passengers or prisoners. It has five bays and they are all cargo holds.
A deep scan of the ship reveals that in addition to a wrecked engine the ship has a glitching power core. A small amount of shield energy still clings to the fore and aft of the ship. Lifesign scans indicate six living crew members aboard.
Dawn's flak bursts detonate too short of the pirate vessel to deal any damage, and Thuldas is only able to gather basic information about the Lawblight that you already have. But Wint nimbly pulls the Calico Wanderer around in a graceful curve, and Stell fires a torpedo into the Lawblight's flank, and more explosions ripple through the enemy vessel. There seem to be no shields remaining to protect the enemy. The Lawblight's guns fire desperately, but only the gyrolaser is able to make a hit, which barely dents the Calico Wanderer's forward shields. Iolas follows this up with a nuclear missile that punches into the hole left by the torpedo. The nuclear blast bursts out the other side, spraying debris in all directions. The flickering engines of the Lawblight go out, and the pirate vessel beginst to spin slowly end over end. She is a drift, and crippled.
Dice:
Shields: F: 10/15, P 0/5, S 0/5, A 5/5
Main drives sputtering, the Lawblight drifts forward, using mostly stored energy. She turns lazily away from the Calico Wanderer. Perhaps she now wishes to flee? Round 5 Initiative Phase: Calico Wanderer is Ship B and moves second. Ship A Helm Phase
Ship B Helm Phase
Ship B Gunnery Phase
Ship A Gunnery Phase
CALICO WANDERER:
Lawblight:
As the Calico Wanderer flies past the Lawblihgt, Stell, not wanting to waste Nuclear missiles and fearful of being too close to the blast, instead fires a torpedo at the pirate vessel. The torpedo pierces the enemy shields and strikes the enemy hull! More explosions can be seen bursting from within the enemy ship.
Iolas steers the wandering nuclear missile into attack position and locks on to the Lawblight. The missile strikes the enemy shields, ripping through them, and another blossom of nuclear fire burns the pirates. Though you can't tell exactly how damaged the Lawblight is, it looks to be in very bad shape indeed.
dice:
Demand Pilot Fix Engine Glitch Flip & Burn Balance Once again the Lawblight guns forward and then flips end over end, turning to face the Calico Wanderer. Its guns open up, and it fires a missile! But through a combination of Wint's fancy flying and sheer luck, the Calico Wanderer escapes unscathed! Round 4 Initiative Phase: Calico Wanderer is Ship A and moves first. Ship A Helm Phase
Ship B Helm Phase
Ship B Gunnery Phase
Ship A Gunnery Phase
CALICO WANDERER:
Lawblight:
Wow, that nuclear missile did a lot of damage. If you can sustain those hits this fight may not last that long. Which isn't a bad thing, necessarily.
Wint pulls the ship around to once again come alongside the Lawblight. Dawn fires but the ship is turning too quickly and her aim was thrown off. Meanwhile, Iolas takes control of the stray missile, and turns it back around on a new heading. At the same time, he fires another nuclear missile at the Lawblight, which strikes the enemy ship! The devastating blast shakes the enemy ship. First blood! Iolas can see explosions occurring within the Lawblight's Hull!
The Lawblight returns fire! But once again both it's coilgun and its gyrolaser fire uselessly into space! Dice:
Engines Glitching Round 4 Initiative Phase: Calico Wanderer is Ship A and moves first. Ship A Helm Phase
Ship B Helm Phase
Ship B Gunnery Phase Ship A Gunnery Phase
CALICO WANDERER:
Lawblight:
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