Waterbrick Down

MM Note: @Duvors can you give an action for Ronin?

“There’s no way Max is getting out of there, better to help reinforce his position.” OoC: Fixed, Valesia could move to E1 but that would leave Max stranded. Valesia could spend a turn meditating, but given the enemy’s low health, there’s a good chance a rallied Max and Soren could finish it off this turn.

MM Note: Got it. It would be helpful to bold actions instead of dialog if you'd like to make a check. Yelana Insight Proficiency Check (DC 3,5) - (6,4,4,6) 4 Successes Yelana considers her interactions with Query and postulates that the program is likely deadcode, but there are lingering bits of the program's protocol that hint at something different, but currently unascertainable. Yelana Persuasion Proficiency Check (DC 3,5) - (3,2,2,+1) 1 Success "Do not be concerned Agent Fennix... As long as your other... missions... do not jeopardize the security of the Hall... you have no reason to fear my monitoring." Yelana Insight Proficiency Check (DC 3) - (5,5,4,6) 4 Successes Based upon her limited interactions with the program, Yelana is certain that Query is monitoring her actions through the headset, though what the program would do with said information is not currently known.

MM Note: You are allowed to try and repeat the same action as last turn. Otherwise both Polaris and Ronin can make separate attempts to secure the Gator's mouth shut.

"There is no value to me in answering your questions. You downloaded me, my sentience is unnecessary for your monitoring." MM Note: To be clear, Query is intertwined with the data from the library. As long as Yelana has the data, she has Query.

Valesia holds her side, blood beginning to pool. "Pharx, that stung!" The Cladrasith rolls over to B1 and rallies her fellow hero. "Hold tight Max, we'll make it out of this alive. Now bring that thing down!"

"Max, Dear, would you be a Sweetie and hold your position and keep firing."

The heroes leap at the reptile as it emerges from the frozen lake. Polaris offers her expertise in nature to point out the gator's weaknesses as Enson chucks a flare in its face, causing the creature to swing madly around. Decker protects the Chimeran while Aysu takes her first shot at the beast scoring a hit in the creature's tough exterior. Ronin spurred on by Polaris's insight tries to wrangle the beast, but miscalculates on how slick the predator's scales would be and can't seem to secure the rope around the monster's jaws. Infuriated by the hero jumping on top of it, the gator does a barrel role and chomps down on Ronin's arm leaving a nasty wound. Round 1 Polaris Tries Something - Assist Ronin with Nature = +1 to Ronin's next Try Something action Enson Tries Something - Enson Athletics Proficiency vs. Polar Gator's Skill Attribute - (5,4,6) 3 Successes vs. (6,3,4) 2 Successes = Polar Gator Blinded for next Turn Decker Defends Polaris - +1 Dice to Polaris's next Defensive Combat Check Aysu attacks Polar Gator - (3,3,3,+2) 2 Successes vs. (2,2,6) 1 Success = 1 Damage, Polar Gator Slowed for Next Three Rounds Ronin Tries Something - Ronin Athletics Proficiency vs. Gator's Athletics Proficiency - (5,6,1,6,3) 3 Successes vs. (4,6,5,5,5) 5 Successes = Gator not bound Polar Gator attacks Ronin - (5,1,6,1,+2) 4 Successes vs. (6,2,1,1) 1 Success = 3 Damage Party Ensonvilterayquis (Enson) (Duvors) *Mission Leader* 60 cycles old male Quo'ri Character Points: 4/17 Vitality: 5/5 Velocity: 2 Strength: 1 Skill: 2 Smarts: 2 Spirit: 2/2 Proficiencies: Insight 1, Medicine 2, Melee Weapons 1, Religion 2, Survival 1 Spells: Healing Light, Purging Font Credits: 20 Equipment: Void Star Hammer (+1 Melee Elemental), Utility Belt (Tool, grants +1 Engineering or Medicine Check Successes) Inventory: Nanite Elixir 2x, Plasma Potion 2x Polaris Ursaring [with M.I.L.E.S.] (samurai-turtle)15 cycle old female "Chimeran" Character Points: 4/17Vitality: 8/8Velocity: 2Strength: 2 Skill: 2Smarts: 2Spirit: 1/1Proficiencies: Coding 1*, Engineering 1 (+1, tool), Medicine 1 (+1, tool), Melee Weapons 1, Nature 1, Short Range Weapons 1, Spells: Elemental Evocation, Credits: 0 Equipment: Mecha Strike (Standard, Kinetic, Melee Range Weapon), Utility Belt (tool) Grants +1 Engineering or Medicine Check Success, Inventory: Plasma Potion (x2) Aysu Kundakçı (Peppermint_M) 22 Rotations Old, Female? Adopted Human. Character Points: 3/16Vitality: 6/6Velocity: 2Strength: 2Skill: 3Smarts: 1Spirit: 1Proficiencies: Long Range Weapons 3, Nature 1, Survival 1Spell: Enhanced VisionCredits: 75Equipment: Environment Safe Ammunition "ESA" Rifle (Calibrated Long Range, Energy deals Slowed), Farsight GogglesInventory: Plasma Potion 2x, Essence of Glibness, Pack of Crystalline Feathers (6) Ronin (Yzalirk)[REDACTED] Male [REDACTED]Character Points: 4/14Vitality: 2/5Velocity: 2 3Strength: 1Skill: 3 4Smarts: 3Spirit: 0/0Proficiencies: Athletics 1, Deception 1, Melee Weapons 2, Stealth 1Known Spells: NoneCredits: 10Equipment: Cloaking Generator, Hard Light Katana (Calibrated Energy Melee Weapon, deals Slowed)Inventory: Crimson Wart (Apply to a weapon to cause Poisoned 1 when damage is dealt (Poison) (Consumable)) Decker DaCabe (Endgame) 24 year old male Human Character Points: 4/14 Vitality: 6/6 Velocity: 2 Strength: 3 Skill: 1 Smarts: 1 Proficiencies: Melee Weapons 1, Short Range Weapons 2 Credits: 10 Equipment: Whirlwind Boomerang (Standard, Elemental, Short Range Weapon), Sandblasted Cuirass (Standard Kinetic Armor), Wyrmsfoot (Apply to a weapon to cause Slow* when damage is dealt (Poison) (Consumable)), Unloaded Pistol (Calibrated Kinetic Melee Weapon) Inventory: Enemy Polar Gator *Large* *Slowed* (3 Rounds Remaining) Vitality: 14/15 Velocity: 2 1 Strength: 4 Skill: 3 Smarts: 1 Proficiencies: Melee Weapons 4, Short Range Weapons 4, Athletics 2, Perception 2 Equipment: None Innate: Gripping Maw (Calibrated Kinetic Melee Weapon), Swiping Tail (Calibrated Kinetic Short Range Weapon), Toughened Hide (Standard Kinetic Armor) Passive Abilities: Feast - The Polar Gator restores 2 Vitality whenever it drops a hero to 0 Vitality Aquatic - The Polar Gator can move through water squares unimpeded

Proficiency Checks are (3 + Proficiency dice). It is not a combined check. Yelana is getting an idea of how competent Query is at monitoring.

Yelana Insight Proficiency Check (DC 1) - (4,3,5,4) 3 Successes Query Coding Proficiency Check - (2,4,6,5,1,6,4,5,+1) 7 Successes Yelana is certain the program is not bluffing. "Irrelevant questions to my operations. As long as my data remains on this device I will monitor for threats."

"Why should I seek to prove anything? My purpose is to assess threats to Heroica Hall... Are you asserting that you do mean to threaten the Hall?"

"That for the moment you are not a threat to the Hall... Hmmm...You store an interesting assortment of files here..."

Yelana suspects that the code is present on both the Hall's network as well as her visor.

"Negative... Consider it an exchange. Your data for the library's data." MM Note: To be clear Query's voice is coming through Yelana's headset, they are not physically present.

"I have been tasked... with ensuring the security of Heroica Hall's data. As for your... name. Consider it an exchange of information."

Yelana Coding Proficiency Check (DC 7) - (1,3,2,4,+1) 2 Successes "I'm afraid... it won't be that easy. Agent... Fennix." Yelana finds that she is unable to isolate the program as it seems completely intermeshed with the data she had downloaded.

"Oh certainly. The paper collection, is extensive as well, though we don't get it out much these days as most of it is digitized."

"There's plenty of people claiming it worked, but whether or not they were paid by Lupin, or were just suffering from some sort of placebo effect hasn't been studied in depth yet." "I have not been given a formal... designation... One moment..." "After searching, I believe a suitable 'name' would be... Query" Yelana is certain from her code analysis that the voice is originating from the data she has downloaded and is independent of the terminal and seems to be a part of it. MM Note: You are correct. Probably a Smarts Check then.

"I should hopefully have it for the next round. We may need to scramble soon though as my connection to the Æther is weakening."

Currently a mission specific item. I generally like to test things in missions to see how balanced they are before making them available to everyone via the Trade Bazar. It also encourages folks to engage with the setting because they might find opportunities to buy things in their specific mission that would be hard to find elsewhere.

Yelana Coding Proficiency Check (DC 3) - (5,6,6,4,+1) 5 Successes Yelana assesses that the voice is interwoven with the data that she has downloaded. "Hmmm... well considering you downloaded me... I am data... but perhaps not the data you intended to collect." "Correct." "They've reported success, but I don't believe there's been any peer reviewed studies on it yet. Still that doesn't stop people from hoping."

OoC: So rules as currently written a player or enemy cannot target themselves with the Rally action. Valesia coughs as dust and dirt go spraying everywhere. "Everyone still in one piece?" The Cladrasith holds her ground and continues to attempt to hampering hold the drone in place.

"As one of the leading suppliers of plasma potions they were viewed fairly positively for their humanitarian donations during the Five Year War. As of late, I can't think of any major scandals that would sour public opinion about them." "You are quite correct, that's how most of the major corporations operate, at least within the Empire and League. If you get out of the oft explored systems I'm sure you'd fine more independent firms, but their reach and influence would be limited." "The actual dimensional aspects of the cosmology are hotly debated. Some would liken it to a layered model as you indicated, others more of an overlapping spherical model with orbits and such, still others would doubt the actual interaction of the spheres altogether and would argue that their perception is all delusional based controlled by powers of this world more dreadful and exotic than we can imagine." Yelana Coding Proficiency Check (DC 1,3,5,7) - (5,4,4,2,+1) 4 Successes Yelana manages to download approximately 33% of the library's files, containing most of the readily available information and a few deep dives. MM Note: I'm not going to go into everything available in the library as I have neither the time or space. Suffice it to say, Yelana can access the information that's already published in this Thread and during missions can make a History Check with an appropriate DC to see if she managed to acquire information on anything else she may be seeking. A voice goes off in Yelana's headset. "Well this is... interesting... a cozy space..."

MM Note: Whomever is doing the tying, will be making a contested athletics test, unless they've got a good reasoning for it to be something else. If Polaris is assisting, simply have something stated in-character about the Nature of the Gator will suffice. For example if you were utilizing Perception: Polaris studies the Gator perceiving whether the Gator tended to favor one side of its body vs. another perhaps to avoid an old scarred wound, thus presenting an opening to the heroes trying to grapple it.

It's more for if you're making Proficiency checks during combat as the "Try Something" action.