Hoth: Blood and Ice

Tethys Carrack wrote: ↑

Thu Aug 18, 2022 7:31 pm

Thank you!

As you can probably tell, I was out most of the day and am just belatedly scrambling to catch up on all the stuff that's happened

I've noticed you've got a lot to shovel.

If there is room for another I'm keen to go. ME and Petey are good friends after all.

OK, since we are now in combat time, my usual is that Hacha goes last.

He probably has some of the least damage output, and since we get a player slot, NPC slot, all other player slots, second NPC initiative it would make sense to me to let someone go first. If someone has a buff that prevents them from attacking this turn, now might be a good time to use it.

Oops, I forgot we had a coordination thread and put a query for you guys in the scene instead.

The question was, who wants first turn? Only Galen could potentially attack, but probably only if he’s using a ranged weapon or has some kind of action economy saving talent (one maneuver to draw, enemy is at Medium so he couldn’t regular-move to Engaged).

Otherwise, Moyr could activate Sense (I’m pretty sure you can’t do that for free when rolling init, unfortunately, it’s a full action) or Hacha could get his gun, or maybe Baes has a prep action she needs to take a turn do? Tethys doesn’t, particularly, so it makes more sense for her to go after the killbot uncloaks.

Correct there is a house rule to start with it for combat scenes but this didn't start that way so she will have to activate it on her turn.

Well I decided to move the trip wure so at least we will be informed how how humped we are

I do have ranged attacks, but Galen has no real idea of what's going on. So, he wouldn't attack yet anyway.

Well, now we know we’re being attacked!

Does shock/strain damage soak as normal, incidentally?

Yes it can be soaked.

Hmm.

Does the ship we took have Gunnery weapons? I'm not sure we established that.

Also I'll get thinking on how to disable the camo

You took a truck, I thought, it's unclear.

It has maybe a crane, if it is Baes.

We brought Moyr's ship. Baes' truck is on board, I believe.

I'm on my way to work. So, It will be a bit before I can do much.

Ok. I'm a good ways away from acting so I'm spitballing.

I'm trying to think of how Hacha would figure out a flaw in the camo to exploit. Education or Mechanics maybe.

Also, I'd imagine that snow would play havoc with it. Maybe we can get the roof open?

There is a blizzard on, so if we bring the outside in then we are also taking weather penalties to certain checks (visual, hearing/speaking, I’d be surprised if not ranged and gunnery).

Force users gotta force user, so I assume that Moyr and I both need to fight at engaged, and I personally wouldn’t love to take a despair hit from a gunnery-sized weapon. But maybe? Alternatively, C5 is communicating with or controlling it remotely, so if Hacha really wants to try some kind of tech shenanigans instead of just shooting it, maybe there’s a way to communicate with it ourselves, or hack it. That’s if Dapper wants to allow that route—we’ve had minimal luck slicing gree tech previously.

My plan is a simple one, personally: bonk it with a glowstick till it turns off.

I like wacky shenanigans go for it.

I am all for wacky tech shenanigans. Like opening up the roof to dump snow on it, slicing wars etc

Maybe will flip a destiny to get a control panel nearby.

So this might not be so much slicing Gree tech as slicing the newer stuff that is controlling it

We now have a chunk of PC turns so I don’t think it matters too much what order we go. Galen’s busy at work and he’s the only one who might be able to attack, action economy wise (unless Moyr wants to skip that enhance activation, I guess), so I’ll do my turn and ready stuff!

If people have extra maneuvers (I don’t, alas), we might spread out to avoid getting grenaded again. The first one may already have missed Hacha if he was at the ship?

I did the spreading out. Need to be careful with Strain.

Also, perhaps ship's guns could be used?

This is the profile.

Silhouette 4; Speed 2; Handling -2; Defenses (Forward 1/Port 0/Starboard 0/Aft 1) Armor 2; HT Threshold 25; SS Threshold 15

Hull Type/Class: Light Freighter
Manufacturer: Varies
Hyperdrive: Primary: Class 3; Secondary: None
Navicomputer: Yes
Sensor Range: Medium
Ship's Complement: One Pilot, One Co-Pilot
Encumbrance Capacity: 80
Passenger Capacity: 6
Consumables: 1 Month
Price/Rarity: 50,000 credits/5
Customization Hard Points: 4
Weapons: Front Mounted Auto Blaster (Fire Arc Forward); Range Close, Dam 3, Crit 5, Autofire
Turret Mounted Blaster Cannon (Fire Arc All) Range Close, Dam 4, Crit 4
Rear Mounted Auto Blaster (Fire Arc, Aft); Range Close, Dam 3, Crit 5, Autofire

My ionsaber might finally shine again! I can't post in the fight right now but I plan to fan out and attack in melee if I can get my defenses up

commiting is incidental, right?

Committing is an action.

shoot

I intend to.

Edit: I am silly, Bae goes, then the droid, then top

Initiative order says the droid has another action at the end of the round, I think that's an adversary thing?

Top of round, since Tethys and probably Moyr and Baes(?) would need to close to melee range, perhaps Galen would like to shoot again before we get in there?

Hmm... did Baes roll init? Is she actually in the fight?