Deurr takes a carefull shot at the man, not bothering with the stun-setting this time. They didn't need anymore prisoners to slow them down and he was still a bit grumpy about not being allowed to blow up the two troopers.
Deurr's shot is a 19 and that hits. So the Imperial takes 11 more damage.
Viria's next. Autofire attack roll is a natural 1. So But, since its autofire, the Imperial still takes half damage, and that's 10 more.
Istara's up and I'd say she can get a shot in without having to move. Her attack is a 14. That's a miss.
And now for Lia. That 24 hits. Since its stun, it does 4 more damage...and through all that, the poor Imperial is still on his feet.
Brings us to the next round, so he jumps into the Initiative order with a 14. Puts the new order at Kay, Deurr, Viria, Imperial, Istara, Lia. Actions?
Deurr's blaster bolt rings out loudly in the enclosed space of the corridor, catching the Imperial across the shoulder and burning a deep black mark into his uniform. The stench of ozone and burnt flesh are immediately apparent, but are overwhelmed by his yelp of pain....which is immediately drowned out by a stream of blaster fire from Viria's rifle, spraying the area around him and catching the man in the leg while doing no significant damage to anything else but the floor.
Reeling from the shots, the Imperial falls back against the consoles in time to throw Istara's aim off, sending her blaster bolt across the space he had been and into the consoles at the far end of the small room and creating a dramatic showering of sparks. With the Imperial stationary again, its easy enough for Lia to line up a quick stun bolt, which impacts him in the chest and causes a sickly look to come across his features.
But despite all of it, he was still on his feet, yelling out and scrambling for the blaster pistol at his hip.
Speeder Bike Group:
OOC:
Spoiler:
No sign of OnlytheStrong for about 3 days...so going to NPC Kyne here so you two are still moving. We'll jump into combat as it is and I'll just keep things moving.
Initiative wise, just going to roll for the speeder and have both characters act on that turn. So the speeder bike gets a 33. The stormtroopers(there are 5) get a 19. Guess who goes first.
Okay...so Kyne will line the bike at one of the troopers in front and fire the vehicle's cannon. Attack is a 19, and that's a hit. Does 17 damage and that's enough to bring one down.
For Yuul...his shot against another of the stormtroopers is a 17. That's a hit and does 12 damage. Two stormtroopers down, 3 remain.
All three attack.... First shot is a against the bike and its a 23. That actually hits and does 16 damage to the speeder bike. Second Stormtrooper fires at Yuul. Attack is a natural 1...miss. Third Stormtrooper shoots at Kyne...that attack is a 16 and a miss.
Upon exiting the thick jungle into the somewhat-more-clear area around the YT-2000, five Stormtroopers spun around, immediately aiming their rifles at the incoming speeder bike. Kyne banked the vehicle to the side, lining up with one of the troopers and letting loose a shot from the speeder's single cannon, which caught the trooper in the chestplate and sent him down as the speeder bike shot over and began to circle the area to provide Yuul with a shot.
It was easy enough for Yuul to hang on and still take a shot at one of the nearby Stormtroopers, the blaster bolt streaking out and hitting the trooper in the helmet, causing him to flip over onto his back and getting a muffled yelp as the speeder bike continued around the YT-2000 to make another pass.
As the speeder bike headed around, though, the three remaining Stormtroopers weren't foolish enough to stand around, taking aim with their rifles and firing at the fast moving targets. Two of the shots went high and far away, but one caught the speeder bike in the tail end right behind where Yuul sat. The vehicle shook slightly and let a slight trail of smoke out, but continued on at the same quick pace without going to pieces.
Garret:
It was only a short amount of time before the Stormtrooper patrol was far enough off for you to safely move. But by then, you saw another coming. Thankfully, however, they were still a ways off and you had time to, hopefully, safely duck into the forest and head for the supposed location of the transport a little farther to the north.
Leaving behind the clearing and the Temples, you head north as quickly and carefully as you can manage. The thick underbrush of the jungle doesn't make it easy, and you can hear transports and TIEs flying above, though the canopy above makes it impossible to see much beyond blurs. There are even the sounds of speeders not far off, but you never actually see one so, hopefully, they don't see you either.
But after only a few minutes and when you should have been just another couple of minutes from the YT-2000, your comlink beeps. Its an odd sound, as it isn't the normal beep heard from an encryption or a click used as acknowledgment of a message when one can't risk speaking. Instead, its a bit higher pitched, and repeats a couple of times before stopping for a few moments and then repeating again. It could almost be written off as static or a malfunction on the channel, but there's an obvious pattern to it. Three beeps, a long stop, then three, then a long stop, etc.
OOC: I was planning on having Istara use the Aim action so she could ignore cover (which she figured her fellow party members would otherwise have provided). Since that takes two swift actions, she wouldn't have got a shot off in the surprise round (she'd just take the first swift action, which would allow her to continue aiming, fire, and move in the first non-surprise round). If we were arranged so that the Imperial didn't have cover from her, then I guess she'd've taken the shot.
Istara lines up another shot, and fires if the Imperial refuses Kay's surrender demand. (Aim if the bad guy has cover, otherwise don't bother)
"Surrender, you don't have to die. Tell us what we need to know and you survive. Has the data already been copied, yes or no?"
[Kay is performing a full-round action to intimidate the Imperial, Taking 10 for a 25. (it only needs to beat his Will defense, and that should be lower thanks to his being knocked down the condition track at least a bit)
Please don't kill him before we see what he does, ie ready attacks, but don't put him down, corpses aren't as a rule good with answering questions.]
"Damnit human!" Deurr curses rasping but holds his trigger to hear the imperial's reply. He keeps his trigger almost fully squeesed though, and prepares to fire if the man does anything except raise his hands.
ooc
ready to fire if he does anything but clearly surrenders. Attack +6, Damage 3d10+2
Dr. Viria digs the rifle into her shoulder, and waits to see if the imperial surrenders.
Spoiler:
Two swift actions to brace, and a standard action to ready herself to use autofire if he doesn't surrender.
I love autofire, even a natural 1 is still some damage.
Still feeling the heat from the blaster shot that connected just centimeters away from his body, Yuul lets out a deep breath and answers Garret. "Garret, just a few bucketheads over here, take the S.O.S. until further notice. Where's it coming from, if you don't mind?"
As he is finishing his sentence, he fires again at one of the remaining troopers as the bike makes another sweep around the ship.
Kay's intimidate is, indeed, enough to beat the Imperial's Will defense. And Deurr and Viria are readying actions now, soooo...
At Kay's words, the Imperial stops going for his blaster. His eyes seem to actually take in the situation in front of him for the first time, and its easy to see that he's looking at the various types of blasters currently aimed at him. Intelligence seemed to kick in at that point, and the man pointed nervously to the datapad he had been holding, which was now on the floor at his feet and looked to still be connected to a data port by a long, small cable, "I just...just got here..."
Lia:
Spoiler:
You notice that the Imperial doesn't really seem to be looking directly at Kay or any of you, for that matter. Its slight, but it almost looks like he's trying to look past all of you.
Istara:
Spoiler:
You can hear a faint sound echoing down the corridor that could very well be movement of some kind. It still looks to be empty, though.
Speeder Bike Group
Combat Info:
Spoiler:
Kyne brings the speederbike around the YT-2000 to come up around the 3 remaining troopers and fires the vehicle's weapon again. The shot is a 22. Easily a hit on one of the troopers and does 13 damage. Another trooper down.
Yuul's shot at another of the troopers is a 20. Hits and does 15 damage. Another down. Leaves one left...
The bulky-looking space transport only provides cover for the smoking speederbike for a short couple of seconds as Kyne sweeps around the rear of it to come up behind the three remaining Stormtroopers. They are, of course, turning around to aim straight at the speederbike, not completely stupid. But Kyne takes down the nearest of them with a quick burst of fire from the vehicles main cannon. At about the same time, Yuul is able to line up another shot and put a blaster bolt into another Stormtrooper's chestplate, dropping the white-armoured trooper to the dirt hard.
As the speederbike begins to swoop around again to make another pass in the small, somewhat cramped clearing, something slightly odd happens. The last of the Stormtroopers does not fire. He turns and bolts into the jungle, getting into the thick trees and, from the looks of the white figure moving in the green, continues to run as fast as he can towards the south...and the Great Temple.
Garret:
It could be an S.O.S., but its definitely not any normal signal you've ever seen used before. It definitely does sound like more than a malfunction on the channel, though, and you're fairly sure the Imperials haven't broken the encryption on it just yet, otherwise you'd have likely been ambushed by a few hundred of them already. Its also probably close by, as the signal is somewhat faint coming out of the comlink and moving farther north causes it to grow even more faint. That kind of weak signal would definitely be easily missed by Imperial scans, and its arguably pure luck you've even picked up the signal at all.
"Good, that was the smart move." Kay tells the man as he moves his hand away from his blaster. Stepping around to his left, Kay pulls the pistol from the man's holster and slides it under her built. "Once you have downloaded the data where are you suppoused to take it?"
The corellian pushes the datapad over to Istara with her boot. "D, do your thing so we can get out of here before more show up."
"I think I heard something. Down the corridor." The blonde-haired noblewoman says, before picking up the datapad, and hastily pulling out her portable computer and connecting the two.
"I assume you want me to see if he has transmitted anything yet?" Istara said.
OOC: Use computer +18 if she can use her computer's bonuses, +15 otherwise.
"Ay" is the only word Deurr raspes as he drops the blaster to hang from it's shoulder-strap and starts setting the charges to the consoles.
OOC
Are the two charges enough to take out all the consoles? If not, I'm going to scatter the thermal detonators to strategic points too.
I'll try and find the perfect places for the charges, taking ten, which gives me 25, just enough to deal x2 damage and ignore any hardness of the consoles they are set on. I'll just set the detonators to normal, having already determined the frequency.
So the charges do 12d6 x2 damage to the consoles they are attached and 12d6 to everything else in radius. Now the question is, do they detonate the thermal detonators if they are left in the area?
"Keep it moving. I'll cover the hallway." While waiting on the group to finish planting the charges, the doctor switches in a fresh power cell for her rifle, made sure that grenade launcher isn't loaded with stun grenades.
Yuul taps Kyne on the shoulder as the Stormtrooper begins to flee. "It's not over just yet," he says and points to the target. "Better go after him; the last thing we need is to go through all that just to be ambushed later. I'll get the ship up and running, and we can take off when you get back." He hops off the back of the speeder bike, and approaches the ship as Kyne begins pursuit.
He has a second thought, and decides to radio Garret. Enycrypted Comm to Garret "Garret, not sure of your position, but be on the watch for a fleeing buckethead towards the Great Temple."
He then moves quickly to the entrance of the ship, on the lookout for any signs of a trap or other danger (Notice check).
Seeing the Imperial look past the group, Lia quickly turns around, bringing her blaster pistol up. "He's definately expecting someone or something, that's for sure," she says to the rest of the group.
__________________ "Sometimes things must be broken in order to be rebuilt." --Sith Proverb.
Encrypted Comlink to Yuul and Kyn: "It looks like the signal is from the South. Heading there now.
Thanks for the warning."
Garret heads towards the south - where the signal is emanating. He stays hidden as much as possible and does stop to look and use his electrobinoc's as they come handy. If he finds a high point he will stop while hidden for a little bit, and look for a fleeing bucket head or anything else of interest.
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