Not yet but I will add it to my shopping list. Thanks.
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I seem to have confused people with the layout of the village to date. I've tried to reconcile it with a map.
And now, a pep-talk from your GM: You all need to work together to solve this problem. There's information in spoilers that other people don't know that could be useful, but the people who have the information . Nope, I'm not telling you what information and who has it.
Additionally, you all need to try to influence these aliens as per a 'first contact' scenario. You need some information; they have the information. They are difficult to communicate with and have alien ways. There's a certain number of successes that you need to get before you get a certain number of failures. And no again, I'm not telling you what checks count and which ones don't, but you're guaranteed to fail to get the info if you don't try.
Of course, you can also ignore these aliens and move along if you so choose, but where's the fun in that?
Any chance I can use my racial limited telepathy to communicate some basic things like Verne did before? Technically, I'm only able to use it with creatures with whom I share a language.
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Mallura and Drusnok at Nakon
We were getting close to eliminating all Drusnok everywhere
It had crossed my mind after I had posted earlier that I didn't mention they were speaking telepathically to JD, but got busy and never went back to edit.
Jarix is going around with his datapad up in the air recording all that he can.
I love the mental image of Jarix walking around with the datapad like this.
I expect that we're going to need some sort of quest item to cure the Light Pop, but I'd like to try to treat it anyway right now.
Can I just walk over there and roll a medicine check?
It might be worth trying a treat disease check under the medicine skills, but you may be right, we might find out more about the disease when we find the exile.
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I listen to to many podcasts, that's all I hear when I read "the square space"
Use promo code "Abadar" for 15% off your new website at square space. Now, back to the campaign.
I listen to to many podcasts, that's all I hear when I read "the square space"
Hahaha! Same!
So sorry to hear about your uncle, please take care of yourself.
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Only a single Acrobatics check is needed, Jarix. Your first one counts. Could both Jarix and JD tell me what their intended movement speed will be as they cross? I see your positions on the map. A single move of 30 feet would put you halfway across the bridge. I think JD has moved too far and Jarix hasn't moved enough. I've corrected your positions to what I think you've done - JD has completed a single move; Jarix has dashed across the bridge with two move actions.
That sounds great. I was both feeling out the bridge and the gameplay mechanic.
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Mayhem looks confused because his character sheet tells me that he only has one shock grenade, which he threw last round, and a shout rifle that deals non-lethal sonic damage. Robots are immune to non-lethal damage.
I probably over-called it by allowing him to shatter the security camera in the other room, but I thought it was a fun roleplaying moment.
If I can't make a guarded step back, can I make a withdrawal through the crowd?
Mal has an engineering kit. Not sure if we can share one to get an aid on the same check, though.
So there was hidden soldier armour in my inventory, and now Lih has the squad defence armour. Is Jarix or Mayhem (or anyone else) want the hidden soldier armour? Heavy armour, +3 EAC +5 KAC
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I added the newest loot to the spreadsheet instead of working, because this is more fun that what I am supposed to be doing.
Just a suggestion for the unclaimed loot, if there's multiple people who are interested we could have a roll off. Roll for an item with a single d20 and the highest roll takes it.
For example, JD kinda wants the Estex suit and the Sonic rifle.
Anyway, just a suggestion to make things fair.
edit: oh wow, now I feel bad for rolling.
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Oh no! I didn't check the discussion thread, JD! I like the roll-off idea, so here goes my roll for the armor...
Well, looks like I won after all! Haha! JK, of course we'll go by the base roll. The suit is yours!
EDIT: Well dang. Looks like the dice-bot didn't appreciate that little joke...
I did say "for example", there's no reason I should get all the good stuff. I am happy to reroll.
Maybe add a column for who is currently carrying the loot?
@JD - Either way, my actual roll (minus the fake bonus) was a Nat 1, so you go ahead and take it. We'll get more gear sooner or later. Maybe AbadarCorp will send out a friendly Shop Drone or something. Haha!
I will wait and see if anyone else wants it.
As far as environmental protection, does second skin offer any kind of breather? Or can JD borrow Lih's extra hidden soldier armour helmet, and not take any armour bonus. Just for story, and to kinda look like Boba Fett.
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According to the Core Rulebook, all armour can protect against inhaled poisons by allowing for rebreathing to occur - even second skin. I’m simply a jerk GM who rolled for your Fort saves secretly through the combats (i.e. a few extra unlabelled d20 rolls here are there) assuming that you wouldn’t say anything like “we are sleeping in our armour”.
Geez! Not this again. It's that sort of 'trickery' that makes a player want to do declare that they are always sleeping in their armor. Why not assume that we've tested the environment to determine if it's safe or not to turn off the environmental protections and take off our armor? I also DM and I get the allure of 'sticking it to characters', but this is literally a matter of life and death to a PC. Isn't it reasonable to assume that we would check before just turning off our enviro-seals?
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I cannot assume what you do as characters. I can only see what you say you do and what you specifically don't do.
You had tested the environment. You hadn't tested for the disease that The Exile had. An inhaled disease is different, I think, then whether the air is decent to breathe. To peel back a bit of the mystery: The Exile specifically had a form of the light-pop disease that could be transmitted to non-drusnock. Additionally, from a plot standpoint, it makes your return to the drusnock village a bit more meaningful.
Regardless, it's a matter of fortitude rolls and medicine checks. Additionally, diseases/afflictions/poisons in Starfinder work way differently than in other games you may have played.
I'm sorry that you've had lousy experiences in your roleplaying games, Jarix. I like creating a meaningful and weighty narrative in my games and with my characters. I truly believe that a bit of weight on the instability of mortality is vital to highlight the dangers - and in this case, alien and unknown dangers - that y'all are facing. It's part of your story.
But in the end, you contracted an illness. You will likely survive it. You've got skilled medical teammates and an advanced medkit on your side. You may have other things as well that are as of yet to be identified. We will see.
OK. I'll just have to roll with it.
Jarix and Verne, last call for estex 2 armour or shock rifle.
I'll call it now, here are my official rolls for the gear, if this is a system we wanna use.
On the glass cannon podcast, a good argument why your character should have it could be worth a +2, which I most certainly do NOT have!
Mayhem had the one that verne located in the equipment room, a static shock caster rifle. Which he assured us was the prettiest weapon he'd ever seen. We found one on the exiles body which is the thunderstruck.
It's there: if you go to the 'Equipment' tab, it lists everything that you've got. The 'Hero' column indicates who is carrying what.
Got it.
Jarix and Verne, last call for estex 2 armour or shock rifle.
I wouldn't mind both, but if I had to grab one, I'd probably take the rifle since it makes sense for my character to take up the rear.
I'll put mine in for the
Awesome word, Verne
Good to know my studies in healthcare could be put to good use in this campaign ;)
Would we know if the spell gems are single use or have multiple charges?
If they are single use, or have limited uses, would it be better to allow them their saves with Lih's medicine check bonuses before we burn them?
So, with the advanced medkit, Lih should get a +2 to giving the sick crew members a +4. As long as one recovered on their own, we shouldn't have to dump any bodies out the airlock.