Starfinder Society Scenario #7-07: Submerged Stars

Enough said really. Cool space walrus lore reveals, cool adventuring, boss fight is super hard though especially for party where nobody has right equipment for it(one character did have the fusion, but not on underwater weapon) and we failed to pick up hints that the one weapon in room would have been really useful in chaos of it.

I do think its okay to have more difficult encounters like this occasionally, but I do feel like I have to take one star away (I think this is 4 star otherwise) because the encounter is super brutal and I don't think you are really able to prepare for it because let's say you get the hint about hauntings with dc 25 knowledge check or have seen the cover? Well you still need to invest money on fusion AND underwater weapon and not everyone has lot of money left for that purpose. Encounter itself is in such small room that boss' certain ability always triggers and it has so high damage potential that level 5-6 characters are really squirming.(not to mention boss having high dcs and multiple aoe options to disable characters) We did almost win it even with us almost having tpk though, but we were forced to retreat since everyone was almost dead and almost out of stamina and even then that good situation was because gm allowed us to retreat once to take 10 minute rest before coming back. Still though while its bummer to fail, it is nice to have difficult fights in SFS as well, though I have feedback on encounter too.