[IC] SWS/DnD5, Star Wars the Old Republic – A Gathering Darkness

[Shayuri]

Rolling attack again because I'm a DOOF [roll0]

 

[GreenKarl]

As the team spreads out over the area, the gaping spiders suddenly surge over the pit rim!! There are well over thirty of the creepy crawly giant monstrosities and most leap into the air or race towards the fleeing miners, but a few focus on the team…

Both Reks and Kacela slash at a pair of creatures with their lightsabers but the spiders are nimble on their feet and avoid their attacks. This Gand unleashes a burst of blaster fire at the pair of creatures that appear near where Jihahna’s has parked the landspeeder (by the broken elevator lift access controls), and blasts the creatures causing one to fall dead and the other to tip back over the rim and disappear back down the pit.

But more keep coming, and an additional pair leap into the air towards the Jedi, one missing Kacela but the other striking Reks and forcing him back, while biting him on his right leg. An additional spider leaps over by where Jihahna is, causing Thirteen to cry out “Oh dear me, please mistress Jihahna, don’t let it get me!!!”

Another pair of spiders leap down onto the elevator scaffolding on opposite sides of the speederbike, causing Targo to cry out in fear and blast at one of them shouting “I’s hates spiders I do indeed!” He might indeed have an fear of spiders as his shot goes wild, coming nowhere near the creature…

GM: Initiative 17 – Cal 15 – Gaping Spiders 8 – Reks 7 – This Gand 4 – Kacela Still need an Initiative roll for Jihahna although it is not as important on the first round (her action was to drive over to this spot and jump out of the landspeeder). ROUND 1 Cal shots and a spider and knocks it to 1 hit point. As a beast I am going to say its automatically Reeling. As Reks and Kacela were readied from last round, they both go before the spiders but both missed their targets. This Gand was also ready (in a sense) and killed to two spiders near Jihahna. You cannot fire Auto-Fire into melee (and Spiders will be in melee with her), without also hitting Jihahna. Firing single shots is at a Disadvantage unless you have the Precise Shot feat. The Gaping Spiders come over the rim and two attack each of the Jedi, one that they had engaged in melee with and one leaping through the air to attack them!! Kacela was missed with both attack, but Reks was hit by the flying one for 4 points of damage (you still have wounds from the Swamp fight) and he needs to make a DC 10 Strength check or fall prone!! When you are prone you are at a disadvantage to attack with melee weapons and melee attacks are at an advantage against you. That’s the end of Round 1. At present there are 36 Gaping Spiders over the rim of the Mine Pit. Most are cashing after miners. Two are attacking Reks in melee Two are attacking Kacela in melee One is attacking Jihahna in melee Two are about to jump at this Gand and Targo, one from each side. They are about 5-6 meters away for them There are about six additional spiders (one that is Reeling and has 1 HP) that will move into melee with the team on round 3. For Round 2, actions and rolls!! Yes the Spiders go before you (except Cal and maybe Jihahna depending on her Initiative check)

 

[Sezarious]

"Play dead Thirteen". Jihahna yells out swiftly. "Even if they crawl on you, hold still, even power down if you have to". With that, Jihahna stads atop the speeder. Her heartbeat skips a beat, then speeds itself up. Her pupils dilate a little as her breathing seems to deepen. The high pitched ringing of her vibrobayonet activates, a sound she can hear only for a moment as it goes beyond human hearing.

She jumps down to the panel and begins her work as swiftly as possible. As she seems to believe she is not quiet doing what she needs to, she reaches deeper still to try and make this work....

OOC: Spent a force point to gain resistance to damage, then spending another to enhance her roll from before of 12. Calling on light side. Her Initiative (Sorry i think i forgot it every time i posted): _: 1D20+5 = [19]+5 = 24 Her force point to add to the skill check from before: _: 1D4+1 = [2]+1 = 3 So a total of 15... Hmm.

 

[Binder Fred]

jumble whirr "Vehicular assault?" mildly suggests the gand, pointing to the spider blocking their path off the platform.

Meanwhile she travels her fire back over the enemy's second rank, trying to paint the six additional spiders that are getting ready to pounce on the rim team!

Over the comms: clacketty drone slurr, whirr click jumble clack slur "There is an explosive's shed behind Kacela and Reks Seviir, to the left?" Backed up against the side of the gorge, the squat, permacrete structure is triple-poached with yellow DANGER, BARADIUM signs.


Action: Ignore the reeling one in the bunch but try to get as many of the other five spiders as he/she can: Thinning the herd: 1D20+5-5 = [2]+5-5 = 2; 3D8+4 = [8, 5, 4]+4 = 21. Miss, 10 points of damage to what it hits BUT all are Reeling thanks to Devastating Attack!

As for the rest, the gand is suggesting they ram/trample their way out, maybe as a riff on a warhorse's Trampling Charge?

[sblock=Trampling Charge]If the horse moves at least 20 feet straight toward a creature and then hits it with a hooves attack on the same turn, that target must succeed on a DC 14 Strength saving throw or be knocked prone. If the target is prone, the horse can make another attack with its hooves against it as a bonus action.[/sblock]

 

[Shayuri]

Too many, Kacela realized as she ducked a mandible and rolled away from one of the pouncing attacks. Too many, and more coming.

She turned to look away from Reks, into the growing ocean of glittering eyes coming up from the mineshaft, and extended her left hand.

There was a rattling around her, as loose pieces of rock and ore began to wiggle and rumble around, shoved by an unseen force. A few empty crates and loose tools joined the dance, and as she flicked her outstretched fingers abruptly down, all of these things levitated up, and shot into the growing crowd, peppering the spiders with a barrage of impacts!

(Force Slam, positioning the cone to hit as many spiders as possible without getting Reks or an ally. Use the Force: [roll0] and [roll1] damage.)

 

[Trogdor1992]

With the spiders still coming Reks jumps on one and hacks at it with both lightsabers, seemingly losing humanity as he does so with reckless abandon.

 

[GreenKarl]

Jihahna calls on powers she still did not quite understand and gets to work on the elevator lift control box. Ripping open the casing she started trying to figure out what is wrong to get the lift to the surface and away from any additional spiders from below. She thought she found the problem it’s was just not an easy fix and would take her some time… time she might not have as one of the huge spider things raced towards her with hungry jaws snapping!

Cal, shifting his aim, trying to shot the spider racing at Jihahna but his shot went wide as the battle haze and confusion fouled his shot. He cursed under his breath and started to aim, his training making him confident that he would not strike the ex-merc with his follow-up shot.

Reks hacks into one of the spider attacking him, both of his lightsabers piercing through the creature’s body as it let out a weak squeal and expired. The remaining one was unfazed by the death of its companion and raised up on four of its hind legs in front of the young Padawan.

This Gand was again able to strike at a good size mob of spider things and while they only suffered shrapnel and blast damage it send the creatures reeling. Targo was not quick so lucky and screaming, maybe partly in fear and angry, tried to ram one of the spiders off the scaffolding but it easily avoided the mercenary and the speederbike.

Kacela then unleashed the power of the Force against the pair of spider things facing her sending the reeling away from her and back over the rim to tumble back down the pit!!

The gaping spider on Jihahna tried to bite her but in its rush for “meat” only bite some scaffolding near her. The one remaining on Reks however was able to get past the Jedi’s defenses for a minor wound on his right arm. One of the spider then leaped up onto Targo and bit him on his arm. He let out a scream and was able to hold it off, while the one he tried to ram crawled up the side of the bike but could not get at him. Other gaping spiders started move back toward the team, one racing up to Cal and another pair moving to within striking distance of Reks and Kacela!!! The miners continued to race away with over a score of the spiders still chasing them!

GM: Initiative 24 - Jihahna 17 – Cal 15 – Gaping Spiders 8 – Reks 7 – This Gand 4 – Kacela OK I generally use group initiative but next time I will make more than one “bad guy group” initiative checks but for this game its fine… ROUND 2 Jihahna starts working on the elevator lift. This is going to take more than one round, unless you get a great success. You need to make another roll for next round… Cal shot and missed Reks hit both times, killing one of the Gaping Spiders on him This Gand shots at another group of four Gaping Spiders and sends the bunch Reeling. Targo tried to drive over one of the spiders but failed badly… Kacela force slammed and killed both spiders on her. Gaping Spider #5 bites at Jihahna but misses. Gaping Spider #2 bits at Reks and hits him for 5 points of damage (he has now taken 9 points this battle) Gaping Spider #6 leaps to bite at Targo, hitting him for 4 damage (he now has 7 HP left) but he made his Strength check and is still in the seat of the speederbike. Gaping Spider #7 crawls up to try and bite Targo but missed. Reeling Spider #8 makes a CON check vs. TN 10, made it. It takes your Action to recover from Reeling, but you still can move. So this spider moves to melee combat distance with Cal. New set of Reeling Spiders #9 made it, #10 failed, #11 made it, #12 made it. All four Spiders move towards miners but they can take no other action this round. Spider #13 and #14 move to within leaping distance of either Reks or Kacela this round. Actions and rolls for ROUND 3? Where creatures and players are now in relations to everyone else… Jihahna is about 40 meters away from the main group in melee combat with a Gaping Spider and working on the lift Reks and Kacela are within 10 meters of each other. Reks is in melee with one gaping spider. There are two additional spiders within 10 meters of the pair and about ready to leap at them. There is a wounded spider that is in melee combat with Cal now. On the scaffolding, this Gand and Targo are now in melee combat with two spiders. The other spiders are chasing miners as far as you can see. This Gand, with his passive perception AND where he is, see another group of the Gaping Spiders heading up the side of the mine pit (maybe another 20 or so). They are two rounds away from the top right now.

 

[Binder Fred]

From the side, the compact little alien draws his heavy blaster and levels it right between the eyes - the many eyes - of the gaping spider presently biting into Targo's arm, firing twice into the spider-thing's brain.

It lets go with an odd cry of anger/pain but is somehow still alive!

guttural click WHIRR "These ones should depart?" she suggests, even as she pivots to wildly fire out of the back of the sidecar, trying to keep the spiders off of them.

Worse still, looking down his compound eyes catch sight of another group of the Gaping Spiders heading up the side of the mine pit (maybe another 20 or so).

slurr clicketty mumble clack "More spiders are coming," announces the feminine voice over the comm, though even it seems to be getting a bit concerned... Or is she? There is a buzz, an actual buzz: guttural jumble slur rmumble, slur click "This humble one suggests switching to a fighting retreat?"

If they make it out of there, he will firmly point Targo towards the nearest explosives depot, please.


[sblock=Actions]Using Pistoleer to fire a ranged weapon in melee without Disadvantage. First shot: 1D20+5 = [9]+5 = 14; 3D8+4 = [3, 2, 2]+4 = 11
Second shot: 1D20+5 = [9]+5 = 14; 3D8+4 = [2, 7, 2]+4 = 15

Swears: two misses! Using a force point on the second one Guidance: 1D4+1 = [3]+1 = 4 for a hit and 15 damage, Reeling.

Hoping the firing will draw the AoO from the non-reeling spider his/her way?[/sblock]

 

[Sezarious]

If others could witness Jihahna in her present state, it would be as if she were totally unaware of the chaos around her. Her focus was on the job at hand. She softly mutters to herself as she works, taking up the wire stripper, she attempts to locate a functional power source with her power tester. If she can... She'll jury-rig a sol- THUD, the impact from the spider interrupts her thoughts momentarily... "Yeah yeah, I going as fast as I can... Keep it down everyone." She mutters in the spider's direction.

Hmmph... As Jihahna was thinking before interruption... She will attempt to use the wire stripper to expose a functional power source if she can find one, then hook up the power wire to the non-functional lift directly.

OOC: Not a great role! The same again. http://roll.coyotecode.net/lookup.php?rollid=126080]_: 1D20+3 = [9]+3 = 12 [/url]

 

[Trogdor1992]

His arm hurt from the spider attacking him Reks snaps into a blind fury, viciously cutting into the creature with his lightsabers, and for a moment he almost seems to have lost control of his own actions.

[sblock=OOC] _: 1D20+6 = [2]+6 = 8
_: 1D20+6 = [18]+6 = 24
Assuming the 8 misses here's a damage roll: _: 2D8+3 = [2, 8]+3 = 13
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