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I have been working on a med-bot who used to work as a drone for a mechanic until his owner died. Something happened and he became a sapient SRO, now delivering aid and comfort to his allies as a bio hacker.

What roles are people planning to fill? I was thinking of doing a healer-type. I haven’t played one of those yet.

Zephyr holds his position and readies a laser shot at the first Jinsul that comes into view should the others not get the door closed in time.

Readied Artillery Laser Attack: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (9) + 14 = 23
Laser Damage: 2d8 + 14 ⇒ (6, 5) + 14 = 25

Zephyr steps up to partially block the hallway as he drops the nearly spent battery out of his artillery laser. Sliding a fresh one in, he smiles as the whine of the powerful heavy weapon indicates it has returned to full charge and is ready to unleash deadly coherent light at any arriving foes.

”Preparing for the next wave,” he says, as the weapon orients its targeting system down the hallway.

Very thankful that his expensive powered armor is doing an excellent job of keeping him safe, Zephyr unloads on the blue Jinsul as suggested. Still blocking the path to his injured allies, the android once again activates the powerful bludgeoning fists of the armor.

Armor Bludgeon Full Attack with Get Em: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (4) + 11 = 15
Damage: 1d10 + 12 ⇒ (4) + 12 = 16

Armor Bludgeon Full Attack with Get Em: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (15) + 11 = 26
Damage: 1d10 + 12 ⇒ (3) + 12 = 15

Into the comms, Zephyr says, ”I have these bottled up. Take care of the others first.”

Switching from lasers to his powered armor fists, Zephyr starts pummeling the green Jinsul, hoping to buy time for his injured friends to finish off the ones already in the main room.

Powered Armor Slam Full Attack: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (9) + 9 = 18
Bludgeoning Damage: 1d10 + 12 ⇒ (5) + 12 = 17

Powered Armor Slam Full Attack: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (10) + 9 = 19
Bludgeoning Damage: 1d10 + 12 ⇒ (9) + 12 = 21

Zephyr is back on the platform and blocking the path for the Jinsul reinforcements (making himself a target). Altitude is zero relative to the walkway.

As encouraged, Zephyr takes a single shot at the black Jinsul, then moves down in front of the green one to block the incoming flow of reinforcements. His laser battery running low, it only seems appropriate to act as a melee blocker now and protect his injured companions.

Artillery Laser with Get em: 1d20 + 16 ⇒ (12) + 16 = 28
Laser Damage: 2d8 + 14 ⇒ (5, 8) + 14 = 27

Zephyr’s force field starts recharging a bit as he keeps shooting at Flags, hoping the creature will eventually go down!

Artillery Laser Full Attack get em: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (14) + 12 = 26
Laser Damage: 2d8 + 14 ⇒ (2, 2) + 14 = 18

Artillery Laser Full Attack get em: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (18) + 12 = 30
Laser Damage: 2d8 + 14 ⇒ (7, 1) + 14 = 22

(As long as Flags is still up, Zephyr will keep firing, so no change to his actions)

Zephyr keeps up the rapid fire, hoping he can finally hit the actual spellcasting Jinsul this time!

Artillery Laser Full Attack: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (4) + 10 = 14
Artillery Laser Damage: 2d8 + 14 ⇒ (3, 6) + 14 = 23

Artillery Laser Full Attack: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (12) + 10 = 22
Artillery Laser Damage: 2d8 + 14 ⇒ (4, 1) + 14 = 19

With the remaining Jinsul down to one image and exploded by Harlan’s Explosive Blast (should be down another 24 or 48 hp), Zephyr fires another pair of laser bolts even as his force field begins to recover.

Artillery laser full attack with get em: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (19) + 12 = 31
Damage: 2d8 + 14 ⇒ (8, 1) + 14 = 23

Artillery laser full attack with get em: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (5) + 12 = 17
Damage: 2d8 + 14 ⇒ (5, 2) + 14 = 21

Between Zephyr’s force field and thermal capacitor, the heat-draining energy that strikes him is greatly reduced (my calculations 5 off from thermal capacitor and 9 off from force field—not sure if damage counter shown is before or after this is taken into account).

Expecting reinforcements soon, Zephyr keeps firing at the tricky Jinsul!

Artillery Laser Full Attack: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (15) + 10 = 25
Laser Damage: 2d8 + 14 ⇒ (5, 3) + 14 = 22

Artillery Laser Full Attack: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (3) + 10 = 13
Laser Damage: 2d8 + 14 ⇒ (1, 8) + 14 = 23

"He seems to have used some kind of magic or technology to create duplicate images," says Zephyr into the comms.

Zephyr continues shooting, hoping to either damage the foe or destabilize some images! Meanwhile, his forcefield has almost fully regenerated.

Artillery Laser Full Attack: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (1) + 10 = 11
1d5 for Jinsul image hit: 1d5 ⇒ 5
Damage on a hit: 2d8 + 14 ⇒ (4, 3) + 14 = 21

Artillery Laser Full Attack: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (10) + 10 = 20
1d5 for Jinsul image hit: 1d5 ⇒ 4
Damage on a hit: 2d8 + 14 ⇒ (2, 3) + 14 = 19

With the strange hands harrying him, Zephyr orients his precision sniper rifle on the flag Jinsul and takes careful aim.

Aimed Sniper Laser with -2: 1d20 + 17 - 2 ⇒ (17) + 17 - 2 = 32
Laser Damage: 2d8 + 8 ⇒ (3, 7) + 8 = 18

When Zephyr gained 20 feet in altitude, did the weird hand things stay with him?

Zephyr gains another twenty feet in altitude and lines up a shot on the flag-draped Jinsul, trying to take it out!

Artillery Laser: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (7) + 14 = 21
Laser Damage: 2d8 + 14 ⇒ (3, 1) + 14 = 18

Reflex Save: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (9) + 8 = 17

The explosive blast overwhelms Zephyr’s force field and thermal capacitor, but they absorb the bulk of the damage.

(Let’s leave Zephyr where he is, even given the only 5’ increase in altitude, assuming he has a clear shot on the flag Jinsul. It seems only fair given that is where I put him in the horizontal plane.)

Drawing a bead on the flag-draped Jinsul, Zephyr launches a double-blast of coherent light from his artillery laser!

Corona Artillery Laser full Attack: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (17) + 10 = 27
Laser Damage: 2d8 + 14 ⇒ (6, 7) + 14 = 27

Corona Artillery Laser full Attack: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (6) + 10 = 16
Laser Damage: 2d8 + 14 ⇒ (6, 4) + 14 = 24

(With a fly speed of 40’, Zephyr was trying to go 30’ or so horizontally and at least 30’ up…he has seen how well those jinsuls can jump! Trig suggests he can gain about 26.5 feet in altitude.)

Zephyr takes to the air in his hover suit powered armor gaining altitude and putting open space below him. He stops when he has a clear line of sight on the flag-draped leader and has some good separation from the other jinsuls on the catwalks, making it tough for them to engage him in melee.

He then engages his Black Forcefield and orients both shoulder-mounted lasers at the leader threateningly!

(10 temporary hp with 3 hp per round regen)

Shrugging, Zephyr slots in the keycard and moves into the room.

”Right. We’re on the clock here,” says Zephyr, preparing for battle. “Open the door and I’ll move in, leading the way to neutralizing any resistance.”

”Uh, I haven’t learned to actually talk with the Lil’ Sucker yet,” replies Zephyr, ”But I think someone should take a run at the computer…”

Engineering: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (14) + 6 = 20

Perception: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (1) + 12 = 13

”Right, let’s move on,” says Zephyr with a small pat on the critter’s head. Wearing it like an oversized armband, he makes sure it is clear of any of the mechanisms of his powered armor and heads out of the room.

”I have never had an organic as a pet. What should we call it?” he asks.

Zephyr reaches up and starts to gently but firmly remove the being from his face. He puts little strength into it at first, just letting the critter know it needs to let go with physical direction, not brute force.

"I am not currently injured. Please show restraint," he says into the comms, hoping that this is mere friendliness and not an attack.

Zephyr will try to calm the creature as Harlan opens to door.

Survival: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (16) + 10 = 26

"Well, it's not one of the bugs, and it doesn't seem to mean us harm. We can't leave it here to starve, can we?" asks Zephyr, trying to get an assessment of the creature's attitude...

Sense Motive: 1d20 - 1 ⇒ (11) - 1 = 10

"Maybe we should try and talk to it," he adds.

”I’ll cover you,” says Zephyr, moving to the front and into the room. He braces himself for any tentacled attack, setting his feet to hopefully keep him steady should this creature prove hostile.

Moving forward slowly and protecting Riggs immediately behind him, Zephyr stops when his ally says they are close enough for the creature to be identified.

”See if you can tell what it is without getting so close you need to blast it,” suggests Zephyr, ”But beware of its reach—does anyone have a remote sensor of some kind?”

(Dis that detect magic or perception check reveal anything?)

"I considered wrecking the vials over there in case it is a poison or disease intended to be delivered by the torpedo...But if we blow up this place anyway, it shouldn't matter," says Zephyr, ready to move on.

”Be careful, there may be more invisible torpedoes here,” suggests Zephyr.

Zephyr activates his own environmental protections as well, though he usually doesn’t bother since he doesn’t need to respirate.

Taking the key card, he says, ”Any of this equipment of use to anyone? Anything we don’t take we should pitch back into the hoop so as not to leave a trail behind us.”

Zephyr Fortitude save: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (14) + 9 = 23

Maybe it is his own hardiness or the fact that he doesn’t need to breathe (+2 vs poison to the above roll), but Zephyr seems to be unaffected by the gas.

Firing up his hover suit, Zephyr pilots himself over to the vesk body and armor, trying to gently fish it out of the muck. He tries to make sure whatever that yellow bit is comes with it.

Pilot: 1d20 + 21 ⇒ (3) + 21 = 24
Athletics: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (17) + 14 = 31, +2 more if Acrobatics applies better.

"I can go in and hover over the sludge," offers Zephyr, "With the powered armor I have plenty of strength to drag it over and out."

Life Science: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (15) + 3 = 18

”Unless it says, Danger—Power Core, I’ll agree with you,” replies Zephyr.

”There are sounds of sludge and motion through the door to the right. Shall we investigate?” asks Zephyr.

Zephyr listens to both doors. Unless he hears something intriguing, he agrees with the door to the right.

Perception: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (5) + 12 = 17

"Does anyone have enough skill to implant a virus into this system? One that perhaps will activate whenever the computer is started and send the Jinsul fleet data through some encrypted data relays to our intel operatives?" asks Zephyr, "That might be worth a try."

With the red crab bot in his face, Zephyr repositions and slams his powered armor hover suit fists at the creature.

Armored Smash Full Attack: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (17) + 9 = 26
Armored Smash Damage: 1d10 + 12 ⇒ (3) + 12 = 15

Armored Smash Full Attack: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (16) + 9 = 25
Armored Smash Damage: 1d10 + 12 ⇒ (4) + 12 = 16

With his heavy artillery laser’s range, the green construct crab is well within firing distance. Zephyr reorients on it and sends out another pair of laser shots!

Artillery Laser Full Attack with Get ‘Em: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (18) + 12 = 30
Artillery Laser Damage: 3d8 + 14 ⇒ (4, 2, 2) + 14 = 22

Artillery Laser Full Attack with Get ‘Em: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (9) + 12 = 21
Artillery Laser Damage: 3d8 + 14 ⇒ (4, 6, 7) + 14 = 31

Zephyr turns and sees the red crab attacking! He orients his artillery laser on the creature and sends out a pair of powerful laser bolts at it!

Artillery Laser Full Attack: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (3) + 10 = 13
Laser Damage: 3d8 + 14 ⇒ (1, 8, 2) + 14 = 25

Artillery Laser Full Attack: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (7) + 10 = 17
Laser Damage: 3d8 + 14 ⇒ (4, 5, 5) + 14 = 28

Zephyr gets on one of the consoles and readies to copy Harlan’s keystrokes simultaneously.

Perception: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (20) + 12 = 32

Zephyr takes a defensive position inside the room, then closes the door behind them so anyone passing by in the main hallway will not immediately see them as intruders.

"This looks like an important cluster of computers. Perhaps we can get some schematics or at least directions to the power source from here?" suggests Zephyr.