SPECIAL FORCES

Round 18

Star Wars Special Forces, Round 18
In Orbit around Lazerian IV

From ICQ Chat - Started on Sun Jul 11 23:14:50 1999
 

<greyshade> Okay, here's as best as I can remember... shuttle/L4 16 from space station, TIE's 5 behind the lightwing (& she's 5 behind a pair of ties?
<Blackhawk> No,  2 TIE Defenders behind the Lightwing, 2 in front :)
<greyshade> The two tie's are 5 space units behind u. :)
<Blackhawk> ooohhhh!  <chuckle>  I was thinking that ten might be a *bit* of a challenge.
<Yule>  yes.
<Darkstar> Yah, with no weapons you couldn't handle more than 4.
<Yule> Chris one point.  I think it would be much fairer on Leslie if you would play Are as a NPC during this combat.  We normally have all three of us on the bridge during manuvers.  I am on the freighter but just because Sandy can't time schedule worth beans doesn't mean we should loose those skills that we normally depend on.
<Blackhawk> Bothis's gunnery vs. Are's gunnery...
<Darkstar> Let's get started.
<Darkstar> Since we are all about to die or be captured by the empire, why wait?
<Yule> I re-read the "remain Conscious" skill and it does Not require me to have it up before.  I think you are thinking of resist stun.  maybe we were.  ok.  anyway.  my first action of the next round will be "remain consicous" second action will be to learn to spell.
<greyshade> Bif is not going unconscious, he's just stunned.  :))))
<Yule> I am confused.  I thought stun = unconscious.
<greyshade> No sue, stun=minus one die rest of the round and the next round.
<Yule> I am still not seeing anything in bob's box.  just a black hole
<Yule> OHHHHHH (stun enlightenment)
<Darkstar> We who are about to boarded by the empire, salute your shorts.
<greyshade> All right, let's begin with engineering.  What happened last was Sha forced open the door and Bif sprang through, seeing Mattac bending over the unmoving form of DT.  Mattac and Bif managed to stun each other (-1D to all actions next round, folks)
<Darkstar> Hey, DT you are just stunned aren't you?
<Blackhawk> Nope, GM discretion.  Gonna wake up with a deck print on my cheek.  :)
<greyshade> we are now beginning the next round.  Bob and Sue, declare how many actions you want your characters to take. v SUE?
<Bob> One....Chaarggeeeeee!
<greyshade> Okay.  How many?  Nope.  Okay, let's resolve Sha's actions since he is the only one not stunned in the room...
<Bob> Ok, in more detail, Sha is charging Mattac and basically going to flatten him.
<Yule> Sorry.  I am trying to change my  thinking I thought I was unconscious.  Give me a second...read read read
<greyshade> Sha, a running tackle is a brawling roll.  Mattac is going to try to dodge.
<Yule> I am going to look for the big red hyperdrive off button to push.  If I see it, I will turn it back on.
<greyshade> Good enough.  Mattac almost makes it away (Rolled a 6 on his wild die) but is too groggy to avoid the charging reptillian.  Roll your STR in damage.  If you don't want to use the extra for the arm, you don't have to.
<greyshade> Sue, make a search roll for Bif.
<Yule> 22 with a 6 wild.
<Yule> sorry make that 23. forgot the +1
<greyshade> Allright bob, this is basically a body check.
<Bob> ok, checking my dice...getting my dice now...Sha rolls a 22.  Ok, I won't since he's not sure it's fully operational yet...U roll an 18.
<greyshade> Mattac slams against the bulkhead and immediately goes unconscious.  Perfect... he is not terribly physically damaged, just knocked for a loop.
<greyshade> Bif, you see the controls and can get there this round.
<greyshade> We go noncombat for a sec.  Sha can pick up Mattac's blaster.  Bif, you look at the control panel.  What do you do?
<Yule> I want to turn the hyperdrive back on.
<Bob> Sha's next action (when available) is to pick up his blaster.
<Yule> I turn to DT.  DT  what did he do???
<greyshade> You enter the correct codes (an easy action) but nothing happens.  Looks like some reprogramming is in order.  DT is uncon.... out.
<Yule> "damn."
<Bob> Sha will look for a way to tie up or restrain Mattac quickly.
<greyshade> Sha, there is some wire in the engineering that can be used to truss Mattac -- it will take one round.
<Bob> Ok, Sha will tie Mattac up.  Let me know when I'm done.
<greyshade> Sue, you have a round while Mattac is being trussed.
<Yule> I am going to do a computer programming /repair attempt.  Oh wee   stinky.  9 (lucky the ones weren't on the wild die)
<greyshade> At this point the L4 shudders, as if something just bumped against it....
<greyshade> Feel free to TALK (But take no other actions) in engineering...

<greyshade> Roberta, back to the bridge.  The Assault shuttle is coming in and you hear it hit the side of the L4.  what do you do?
<Darkstar> I will lock the hatches if possible. Are they coming through the lock or the bulkhead?
<greyshade> They have mated with the Port Airlock.  Make a Starship Repair or Security roll, whichever you prefer.
<Darkstar> 18 on security
<greyshade> Good.  Which doors do you want to lock?  do you have the L4 deck in front of you?
<Darkstar> Ok, I want to secure the doors of the Bridge and of the inside Port Airlock.
<greyshade> The doors slam shut.  you have locked them securely, although the Ass. shuttle has docked this round.  Anything else quick?  (ie, communications, checking a system, etc?)
<Darkstar> Will do a systems check to see if Mattac has planned any more surprises. I don't suppose there is anyway to flood the airlock with sleeping gas?
<greyshade> No sleeping gas onboard.
<greyshade> Okay, the systems check will take a while.  get back to you in a moment....

<greyshade> Leslie, what is Blackhawk going to do?
<Blackhawk> One action, dodge until R4 can get the weapons back on line.  Though I'd like to keep on Red 5... Dex's 6 o'clock if I can.
<Blackhawk> pilot roll to dodge but remain on Dex = 33
<greyshade> Leslie, the proton launcher is still offline, but the conc. miss. launcher and the other beam weapons come back this round.
<greyshade> The ties behind fire at you... No chance.
<greyshade> Dex attempts to get away & in a better position...WOW!  a 42!!!!  He swings around and is coming up underneath you.  Are (now magically in the turret) will take a shot at the other TIE...  A hit!
<Blackhawk> Comm -  "Very nice, Red 5.  You've been practicing."
<Bob> ...the rabbit comes out of the hole, around the tree....mutter, mutter....
<greyshade> The laser hit blows the shields on the second tie. (Dex's wingman)
<Blackhawk> "Thank you, Mr. Miklot."  Joan mutters under her breath.

<greyshade> Speaking of engineering.... Bif can tell that this sabotage job is a doozy.   It would take someone very experienced to undo it.  His glance falls upon the recumbant form of DT...
<greyshade> You both in engineering get another round.  whattaya do?
<greyshade> Yes, there is an emergency med pack you can find this round. <greyshade> Sha can speak into the com...
<greyshade> Wei Ping, the system lockout seems to be the only thing Mattac has done.  Of course, there are some systems you can't get to, so you don't know if there is more damage/sabotage until they come back online.
<Bob> "Welcome our company, I will do..."Sha moves to the com panel..."where is the attack shuttle boarding us?"
<Darkstar> Wei Ping reaches over and answers the com.
<Darkstar> "They are knocking at the Port Airlock, folks. Prepare to repel boarders."
<Darkstar> "How is the repair work coming on the engines?"
<Darkstar> Will look around for something that can be used as a weapon to repel boarders.
<greyshade> Wei Ping, other than talking on the com, any other action?
<Bob> Sha will grab the door from engineering on his way out, taking it with him if possible.
<Darkstar> Ok, how about a blow torch or an oxygen tank. I'm thinking it's McGyver time here.
<greyshade> There's probably a wrench or something in a spare tool kit, but she ususally does better with her bare hands.  Unfortunately, there are no blasters laying around on the bridge.  Nope.  There are some in engineering, but....
<Darkstar> I have my own blaster, but I can only shoot so many at a time.
<greyshade> Oh good, you have a blaster.  Yes, a fire extinguisher (one of leslie's favorite weapons).  you can retrieve that this round if you wish.
<Blackhawk> (Hey, it works excellently against Zombies and all sorts of monsters. :)
<greyshade> At the end of this round, both Wei Ping and Sha can hear noises from the port airlock.  It sounds like...someone cutting through airlock doors with laser cutters.  :)
<Darkstar> Is there video pick up from inside the airlock? Can I see what's happening?
<greyshade> No, there is not a handy video pickup in the airlock.
<Darkstar> mutter... cheap ass ship.
<Bob> (I think you would find a fire extinguisher)

<greyshade> Sha, about this time you reach the inner airlock doors. The way the airlock works is that you actually enter from outside and take a left or a right, into the bridge or the hallway.  So through this hall you have to pass through the port airlock to get to the bridge.  However, standing there with a part of a door under your arm. the airlock does not open.  What do you do?
<Bob> Sha will check to see if the airlock is occupied (using the readout next to the door).
<greyshade> Nope, not listed as occupied, but shows locked.
<Bob> Can he use his Security roll to unlock it?
<greyshade> Yep.  you have to beat Roberta's roll of 18.
<Bob> Looking up my dice....nope, a 15, but can he tell if it was locked out from the bridge or jammed by the boarders?
<greyshade> With a 15, yes you can tell it is a security lockout, just one you didn't quite circumvent.
<greyshade> Wei Ping, the sounds of cutting continue.  What do you do?
<Darkstar> I am taking up a defensive position on the bridge and preparing to fire at anything that comes through the airlock.
<Darkstar> "Come around the other way. I've got the door locked pretty well at this point and I don't know if I can reset before they cut through.
<Bob> "Wei Ping, Sha is at the aft door of the port lock.  Please unlock."
<greyshade> Okay, both the board on the bridge and the telltale next to the airlock door show that the outer doors have been breached.
<Yule> Breached = no air?
<greyshade> No, just hull breach.  Airlock still reads air.
<Darkstar> "Too late, they've just broken through. Stand there and keep them from going aft. I'll protect the bridge."
<Bob> "No, I will try to unlock only this door from hear so they don't have easy access to the bridge."

<Yule> I look at DT....."got to get her awake asap" he mutters.  He looks frantically...no...quickly around for the engine room emergency med packs.  He runs to go get it and then crouch next to DT in preparation for next round.
<greyshade> In engineering.... will you apply the medkit, Bif?
<Yule> Yes.  rolling....15
<Yule> 16 keep forgetting the +1's.
<greyshade> Good going.  DT., make me a stamina roll. (defaults to STR)
<Blackhawk> 4 , don't got much stamina  :)
<Blackhawk> DT rolls over on her side and dry heaves.  "ggggnnnnn."  A couple of coughs.  "Damn!  He shot me!"
<Yule> Chris, medpacks bypass that roll.
<greyshade> Just seeing how groggy she will be when she awakens.
<Yule> humph ok. I am going to do another action this round.  I am goimg to do the first (control roll) \for (control others pain.)
<greyshade> All right, drop a die and make the roll sue.
<greyshade> DT, you feel like you have a world class hangover, but are awake.
<Yule> 12 yep
<greyshade> Good enough, sue.
<Blackhawk> DT's eyes look up at John.  "HE SHOT ME!" Heaves again and looks very unhappy.

<greyshade> leslie, can you split your mind and tell me what Blackhawk's in for?
<Blackhawk> 2 actions, Dodge and Pilot to regain position.
<Blackhawk> Dodge = 18 (mutter, mutter wild die)
<Blackhawk> Wait!!  Ship adds What? 1d6 + 2 crap.
<Blackhawk> Dodge = 22
 
<greyshade> Sha, you can make another roll.  (You know you can use character points if you have any to add a dice to a roll by spending it.)   There is a small window -- enough to see shapes, not detail.  Want to make a perception roll?  There are two large armored figures in the airlock.   One seems to be doing something to the far door.
<greyshade> On the lightwing....
<Bob> Sha will attempt to unlock the door again, let me know when....12, he'll keep working until (can he see into the airlock or is the door solid?) ok....11, trying just to see if the storm troopers have entered it yet.

<greyshade> Proton torps still not fixed (R4 keeps rolling a 1 on the wild die)
<greyshade> Are fires the laser cannons....  Dex's wingman explodes in a ball of flame!!!
<Blackhawk> Pilot = 38
<greyshade> "That's one for you, Black 1", says Dex over the comm.  "You won't get another"  He maneuvers and fires.
<Blackhawk> "Same offer stands, Black Five.  Walk while you can."
<greyshade> OOOH... it just grazes the lightwing (he rolls a 1 on the wild die)  you have also out-maneuvered him and are in the superior position.  The other 2 ties are struggling to keep up..... but they fall behind this impressive piloting display.
<greyshade> Yep.   "Not walking, One.  I'm back working for the Empire -- or what's left of it -- like you should be."
<greyshade> What does joan do?
<Blackhawk> Can we do two rounds?
<Blackhawk> Two Actions --
 

<greyshade> Sue, make the second roll for control others pain.
<Yule> 8
<greyshade> Sue, I think that's good enough.
<Darkstar> (Question, can I unlock the aft port airlock door without opening the bridge side door?)
<greyshade> Roberta, yes you can do that.
<Darkstar> "All right, Sha. I hope the hell you know what you are doing." She reaches over and releases the lock on the aft door of the port airlock.

<Blackhawk> Pilot - hit the trailing two defenders with the (crap what was the name of that maneuver - kind of like a reverse Immelman.  Joan's signature)
<greyshade> Leslie, I know what you mean.  make the rolls...
<Blackhawk> Roll = 26
 
<Yule> Bif touches DT and closes his eyes for a second.....When he opens them....(GM). (her headache is gone, correct?) Can I talk to her this round or do I need to wait a round?
<greyshade> (YES sue?) (Yes, feeling fit.)
<greyshade> You can talk this round, but we must wait until Blackhawk is done....

<Bob> "Wei Ping, they are in the airlock and working on the bridge door.  You should unlock now if you can."
<Darkstar> Ok.

<Blackhawk> Int. com.  "Pilot on Port target"
<greyshade> Blackhawk, the TIEs seem wise to this maneuver.  Someone must have briefed them.  you don't get the position you would like.  What's the Ion cannon roll?
<Blackhawk> Shoot the ion cannons.  Roll = 24
<greyshade> A grazing hit.  Roll damage on ion cannons(4D) -- It glances off the shields.
<greyshade> Are fires...  He hits (a 6 on wild die)... He blows down the shields on this one.
<Blackhawk> Yep, I got the stats on the Lightwing open, now.  :)  And a mighty 19 for damage.

<greyshade> Okay, away from the Lightwing -- DT and "John" talk while I deal with the others...
<greyshade> Wei Ping, do you open the port airlock doors?  Opened or just unlocked?
<Darkstar> Just unlocked
<Bob> Damn, I just wanted them unlocked, oh well...
<greyshade> you're okay, Sha.  What do you do now that the doors show unlocked?
<Bob> Ok, the plan is to hold the door from Engineering in front of him and cycle the airlock.  His next action depends on what he sees, he's going to be looking at the equipment on the two troopers. (He really wants a grenade...)
<Bob> Perception roll = 15
<Darkstar> Oh, just great, explosives in small areas. Just blow a hole in the side.
<Bob>   [yes, but hopefully not "our" small area ;-)]
<greyshade> The airlock cycles open.  Standing in the airlock are two Spacetroopers. (see http://www.angelfire.com/wa/greyshade/r17.html if you want a visual) One of them is cutting the opposite wall with a laser cutter.
<greyshade> The one Looking at you has a blaster rifle over his shoulder and is carrying... I'm not kidding... a grenade launcher.  He makes that wonderful stormtrooper "what?"  You can also see another trooper hovering beyond the hole in the outer airlock.
<Darkstar> [Now all you have to do is take it away from him ;-)]
<Bob> ok, Sha will charge with the door leading the way, he wants to body block both troopers into the far wall.  Roll = 19
<greyshade> Make a brawling roll.  He is surprised so he's not trying to dodge.
<greyshade> That's a hit.  It's enough to shove him back into the other one.  Roll your damage.
<Bob> He'll use his arm for this one, roll = 26, got a 6 on the wild die!
<Yule> (sha - go get um spanky)
<Bob> I'm hoping even if not stunned, being pinned by the door will interfere with their weapons.
<greyshade> Wow.  you Wounded a spacetrooper!  I'll apply 1/2 the damage to the other one... Nothing gets through.
<greyshade> Yes, a Wounded character "falls prone, can take no other action this round, and is at -1D until healed)  good work.
<Bob> How accommodating of him.
<greyshade> Wei Ping, you hear a loud clang in the airlock and the laser cutter shuts off.  What do you do?
<Darkstar> Will wait to see what develops. Standing by to try to fly this tub if we get power back.
<Bob> Next round Sha will try to pick up the grenade launcher while holding the other trooper pinned to the bulkhead. (I'm envisioning him leaning into the door and turning, using his shoulder to hold the door.)

<Blackhawk> DT - "Whaaaa?... Whad'ja DO!"  She looks at John, fear creeping into her eyes.  "What?
<Yule> "DT please be calm..I need your help.  He has disabled the hyperdrive"
<Blackhawk> "Calm?!?  Calm!!!"  Then she takes a deep breath.  "Okay.  Calm."  And mutters under her breath as she starts to stand.  "Goddamn, superheroes.  I am *not* cut out for this.  Being shot.... shit!"
<Blackhawk> She looks around slightly disoriented.  "Hyperdrive, hyperdrive."
<Yule> "he did something to the computer program over there..." point.
<Blackhawk> "Oh, hmmmm. You know, he could rekeyed the Xenoid interlocks... or maybe..."  DT's muttering gets real technical and she steps over to the computer.
<Yule> Bif rolls his eyes.
<Blackhawk> "Hey!"  she looks back at John.  "I'm gonna want a raise for this.  Gettin' shot was definitely not in the contract!"  Then she starts working at the panel.
<Darkstar> Call down to engineering. "Engineering, what is the status, please."
<Yule> "engineering here...um working on hyperdrive repair...is shuttle docked?"
<Darkstar> "How about thrusters. Hyper won't do much good if we can't maneuver."
<Blackhawk> DT snorts.
<Darkstar> "We have been boarded, they are trying to cut through to the bridge. I believe Sha has engaged with some troopers. Haven't heard from him since I opened the airlock security."
<Yule> "DT is working on it.  I will apprise when we know something."
<Darkstar> "Any orders?"
<Yule> "Delay, delay, delay. I am going to stay here to protect DT."
<Darkstar> Delay, how the hell am I suppose to delay an assault shuttle full of Imperial troops?
<Blackhawk> DT's eyes get real big.  She stops muttering and begins typing furiously at the computer.  Locked down and on task.
<Blackhawk> There's a slight pause in the tech's typing, then she continues as lightning fast as before.  What kind of tech roll you want from the poptart tech?
<greyshade> Roll a Computer Prog/Repair, then a Starship Repair (full dice on each)
<Blackhawk> CPR =21 (double six wild!!! yeah!)
<Darkstar> [Look, DT is performing CPR on the ship]
<Yule> Chris - Bif is looking over her shoulder at the screen.  (17 on comp prog)
<greyshade> Cool!  You beat the opposed roll vs. Mattac's.  DT has cracked the computer lockout.
<Blackhawk> SR = 19
<Yule> "All right! you are the ace.."
<Blackhawk> DT grins proudly -- she knows that was better than she should've done.  But continues, nose to the grindstone.
<greyshade> Okay, on the bridge the telltales light up that you have helm control now.
<Darkstar> Does that mean thrusters?
<greyshade> Yep, thrusters -- sublight drives, etc.  The space transports roll shows that Mattac has taken the Jump drives physically offline -- looks like it will take a while to reconnect.
<Yule> "That bastard."
<Blackhawk> "Crap!!"  DT shouts and leaps out of her chair, pulling a hydrospanner like a six-shooter.  She practically barrels over John to get to the main hyperdrive.
<Yule> "Wei Ping - you have the helm control back.  Start shaking us around."
<Darkstar> "Ok, hold on to something, here we go."
<Bob> Does Sha hear this?
<greyshade> Sha can make a perception roll -- but he's a bit distracted so it'll be hard.
<Bob> roll = 10
<greyshade> Nope.  He can tell that something is being said over the comm but not what.
<greyshade> Wei Ping, what are you doing?
<Darkstar> Plot a course to try to 1. shake the shuttle loose, or 2) run the shuttle into something.
<greyshade> Well, the closest thing stationary is the space station.  There are other ships around, but they're moving.
<Darkstar> That'll do, they're the ones that held us here.
<Darkstar> 18 with a 6 on the wild die +2 from the ship that's 20
<greyshade> The L4 lunges forward.  It's going 2 space units right now (I rounded up from half it's normal 3 -- half is starting speed) So You're 14 units from the station.  you can keep making piloting rolls each round to increase the speed.
<Darkstar> Ok, let me know when to roll.

<greyshade> Let's go to Sha.  Sha, you temporarily have 2 troopers pinned and another at the outer airlock entering from the assault shuttle yelling "halt!"  How many actions?
<Bob> Two I think, grab the grenade launcher and fire thru the airlock.
<greyshade> Make a brawling roll to grab the launcher (remember each action is at -1D since you're taking 2 actions)
<Bob> grab = 15
<greyshade> You got it.  Make me a perception roll at -1D.
<Bob> oops, roll = 4 with a 1 on the wild die!  He's clueless!  What skill?
<greyshade> Okay, roll to hit.  The skill would be blaster.
<Bob> roll = 13
<greyshade> how far into the shuttle did you want it to land?
<greyshade> Okay, the grenade goes whizzing into the shuttle and lands past where Sha can see.  There is a poof and a loud hissing sound, and Sha gets the whiff of gas.
<greyshade> You can make another perception roll next round.  Hang on....
<Yule> (lizards can hold breath long time no?) :)
<greyshade> The gas was far enough away that Sha is not affected, but it bothers the troopers none whatsoever. How far did Sha fire the grenade into the shuttle?
<Bob> As far as possible since he doesn't know what is in the launcher.  Bummer, I was afraid of that.  Ok, plan two.  [yeah, I'm thinking some armor would be nice about now ;-) ]

<greyshade> Over to Blackhawk.  What do you do?  (Remember, you have the concussion missilies as well as the ion cannon that you can fire)
<Blackhawk> Yeah, but the concussion missiles are from the weapons turret, I think...
<greyshade> Nope.  All weapons except the turret can be fired by the pilot.
<greyshade> Lessee...
<Blackhawk> Okay, three actions
<greyshade> damn!  the proton torpedoes are broke.  That's 3 1's in  a row to the wild die to fix them by R4.  What does Joan do?  (You mean fire Ion cannon.)
<Blackhawk> Pilot to retain position. Fire Ion cannons.  Dodge.  Are can fire turret laser and missile launcher -- that missile launcher is his baby, always gave him wet dreams.
<greyshade> Actually, yes.  Okay.  Roll the rolls.  Who is the target of the weapons?
<Blackhawk> IC - same one Joan shot last time.
<Blackhawk> Pilot = 25
<Blackhawk> Fire IC = 19
<Blackhawk> Dodge = 29 (cause I *know* Dex is 'sneaking up' :)
<greyshade> 'kay.  Actually, he is.
<greyshade> All right, you hit with the IC.  roll damage.
<Blackhawk> 13 (Is there a wild on damage or not?  not that it mattes this time) Thanks.
<greyshade> There isn't a wild die on damage, but there is on skill rolls to resist damage.  As far as I can tell. :)
<Blackhawk> Shouldn't Are concentrate on the one he hit?  Course it is gunner's discretion.  :)
<greyshade> The TIE defender goes dead in space.  A nice, meaty target for Are.  That is the one he hit, I thought.  I've been applying...   Okay.  the IC was on which one -- the one w/shields or one w/o.
<Blackhawk> Nope, two defenders.  Joan grazed one but it didn't penetrate the sheilds.  Are knocked the sheilds on the other.  IC on grazed ship - sheilds up.
<greyshade> Okay. lemme make a different roll.
<greyshade> The shields drop on #2 as well.  Are shoots at the other one...  a good hit with a 6 on the WD!  damages it...  fires a missile...   The missile rocks the TIE and it begins to disintegrate....
<greyshade> His chance to strike back...  He misses.  Comm -- Dex is swearing "dammit, Black One, just die or get out of my life!  Why did you have to be my first assignment under Grand Moff Worsel?"
<Yule> {boy testy isn't he}
<Blackhawk> Comm - "That's two, Black Five.  No go on the Imperial recruitment."
<greyshade> We actually need another round out here to catch up....
<Yule> okay
<Blackhawk> NOT on the comm.  "Damn."
<greyshade> Joan, make a perception roll.
<Blackhawk> PR = 9 (don't see shit do I?:)
<greyshade> You don't notice, but are calls .... "hey, the L4 is moving!"
<Blackhawk> Int comm = "Acknowledged."
<Blackhawk> 3 actions - Dodge, pilot to retain position, fire IC
<greyshade> All right, Blackhawk.  next round.  Rollem.
<Blackhawk> Dodge = 29
<Blackhawk> Pilot = 29
<Blackhawk> Fire = 27
<greyshade> you hit.  roll damage.
<Blackhawk> (yipe, good round, crappy damage - 10)
<greyshade> The controls are ionized on the tie.  Are lines up... good roll....  bad damage... missile... hits... BBBOOOOOM!
<Blackhawk> Comm - "Black Five.  Better job now than the one you had.  But Worsel and I are on each other's sixes.... Dex..."  Joan's call falters off.
<greyshade> Oh my.  Dex had an incredible round this time too.  he hits with lazers.  roll the ships defense (2D+1 twice & add em)  (Missile hit the last TIE but Dex.  It's just Lightwing & dex now)
<greyshade> Lightly damaged... oops.  The turret is "hit and destroyed"  Are takes damage.  The lightwing rocks and stuff flies from above.  Let's see how bad it is...
<Blackhawk> Shields and hull = 17
<Yule> missle hits where? lucky boy.
<greyshade> Are falls to the deck, unconscious.
<Darkstar> [That'll teach Sandy not to show up for a game]
<greyshade> Pieces of turbolaser drift off into the void....

<greyshade> Back to the L4.  DT, quickly, make a Starship repair roll to see how it's going.
<Yule> Bif is helping "quote unquote" her.  14.
<Blackhawk> Gonna need it, totally screwed by the wild dice.  Rolled a 5 on 5 dice.
<Yule> bad words.
<greyshade> DT, in her haste, plugs something in the wrong socket and gets scorched eyebrows.
<Blackhawk> DT takes a look at the tailored mess of wires that Mattac's set up and screams in frustration.  The singe doesn't seem to bother her though.  :)
<greyshade> Wei Ping, make a piloting roll.  Are you trying to floor the sucker?
<Darkstar> you betcha
<Darkstar> 22 with 6 on wild die and +2 from ship = 24
<greyshade> The ship shudders, but pulls amazingly ahead with Wei Ping's superb roll.  Let's see how fast...
<greyshade> okay, it's now going "High speed" - twice it's movement.  It careens ahead at a 6 .  Now 10 space units to the station.
<greyshade> Sha, make another perception roll (I'll be nice and no minuses)
<Bob> roll = 13
<greyshade> you notice that the grenade launcher is filled with 2 types of grenades -- gas/stun grenades and concussion grenades.  The trooper on the ground is struggling to get up and the one pinned to get unpinned.  The one in the door is lowering a blaster cannon at you.
<Bob> oh, how nice of them.  Cannon?  OK.
<greyshade> actions?
<Bob> 1) help Mr. Doormat to his feet - between me and the cannon!
<Bob> 2) Switch to concussion grenades and fire thru door again.
<greyshade> Make a brawling roll to grab the guy.
<Bob> brawling = 11, ugh
<Yule> go sha go sha  better
<Bob> 4D+1, +1D for cybernetic arm which he will use
<greyshade> What's sha's str?  Okay, you heft him but are unfamiliar with how bulky these guys are.  He's kind of in your grip but not blocking the cannon shot.  Fire away.
<Bob> fire = 14 including 6 on WD
<greyshade> There is a loud boom in the shuttle, and many shouting voices.  pieces of chairs and equipment fly back into the airlock.
<Darkstar> [All right, direct hit on the Barkalounger]
<Blackhawk> (That chair will never comfort Imperial rears again. ?
<Bob> Including one trooper?
<greyshade> The trooper retains his feet, but I'll give him -1D for the shaking up.
<greyshade> He fires and hits the lethal lizard.  Roll STR to resist damage.
<Bob> roll = 20
<greyshade> you are merely stunned (-1D to all actions next round) despite the size of the blast that struck you full in the chest.  Roll STR at -1D to keep holding this trooper shield.
<Bob> Do I get to use the extra 1D for my arm
<greyshade> Yep.  You still have him.  The other one (mr lazer torch) is out from under the door piece, however.
<Bob> roll = 13
<Darkstar> Ok, tell me again what happens when you roll a 1 on the wild die
<Yule> bad things. thats what happens.
<greyshade> Okay.  Pilot roll for Wei Ping first.  Are you trying to go faster?  You can go up to 12 units/round.  You drop the highest rolled die and I come up with some nasty to minor complication (like singed eyebrows).
<Darkstar> Ok, I got a 3 +2 from the ship for a 5 with a 1 on the wild die.
<Darkstar> I was just trying to hit the station with the shuttle.
<greyshade> Yikes.  Good news = You weren't going fast enough to reach the station. You would have had to made the Pilot roll to increase -- you were going 6 units and were 10 from the station.  4 units from the station something bad happends.  let me check my movement failure chart...
<Darkstar> 13
<greyshade> Minor collision!  you collide with another ship coming out of the station!  roll the L4's hull....  lesse, 4D.
<Bob> (no, no you're supposed to scrape them off on the station, not us!)
<greyshade> No damage gets through.  But you cripple a passenger shuttle that shouldn't have been out here in the first place...
<Blackhawk> I'm thinking -- she couldn't run into a drifting TIE or Dex,  nope got's to be civilians.
<Yule> sigh shuttle couldn't hit. no had to be the L4.  geeze its enough to make a jedi think of retiring.
<Yule> yeah right. snort.  that hopped up excuse for an aristocrat. not likely.
<Blackhawk> Hey, Biff I hear Worsel's hiring.  :)
<greyshade> Biff and DT, make Repair Rolls.
<Blackhawk> DT - "Ooooh!  The green one."  oops, sorry Chris can't add - SR = 21
<Yule> 14
<Yule> "huh - oh that one."
<greyshade> You can see the light at the end of the tunnell.....  The hyperdrive will be back online next round.
<Blackhawk> DT keeps furiously at it.  Parts flying, hydrospanner working. "Boss, ask her what that bump was?"
<Yule> "Wei ping - have we lost the shuttle by any chance?"
<Darkstar> "The shuttle?...not exactly."
<Yule> "Wei ping - what was that bump?"
<Darkstar> "Uhh, just hit some debris." under her breath, "It is now, anyway."

<greyshade> Okay, Sha.  you've got one confused trooper in your grip and two pissed ones looking at you.  What do you do?
<Bob> I'm thinking this room ain't exactly big enough for all of us...I'm going to use the one I'm holding to bash the others, not as concerned  with damage as getting amongst them and preventing them from aiming big rifles or cannons at me.  Does that include the -1D from stunning last round?
<greyshade> Okay.  This will be -2D to brawling since the two targets aren't exactly side by side.  But It is close quarters.
<greyshade> Let's just say -2 total and make it simple.
<Bob> roll = 13
<greyshade> The one in the doorway dodges, the other does not.  Roll damage (include arm)
<greyshade> They clang togther nicely.
<Bob> damage = 17
<greyshade> Mr. torch tries to grab you to make you stop.  He accidentally grabs the other trooper.  Keep this up and you can play "red rover"  :)
<greyshade> The competent one in the doorway fires at you again.  Damn.  another 1 on the wild die.  guess he's not so competent.  he scorches the bulkhead.  From inside the shuttle you hear a voice yell.  "Take the bridge already.  We're on collision course with the station!"
 
<greyshade> Back to the Lightwing.  It's Joan vs. Sennen.
<Blackhawk> 2 Actions - Pilot to get position.  Fire IC
<greyshade> Roll.
<Blackhawk> Pilot - crap wild dice, 19 w/ a one on the wild dice.
<greyshade> :)  Well, Dex rolled crappy too but he beat that.
<greyshade> Okay, fire away.  IC?  Sorry, miss.
<Blackhawk> ic = 19
<greyshade> Dex fires back... Hits.... Roll the Lightwing's hull & shields. <Blackhawk> sh = 4 w/1 on the wd
<Blackhawk> hull =17 (double sixes on th wd.)
<greyshade> Dex scores a great hit but the shields absorb it all.
<greyshade> Next round to catch up.  Blackhawk?  Roll.
<Blackhawk> 3 rounds, pilot for position, dodge, fire.
<Blackhawk> Pilot = 28 Dodge = 25
<greyshade> You tie on pilot -- no advantage.
<Blackhawk> IC = :)  32
<Blackhawk> Dam = 15
<greyshade> Wow.  Roll IC damage.  Eek.  Shields blown completely.
<Blackhawk> :)  It's a hell of a dogfight.  Anyone on the station taping it. :)
<Blackhawk> Sh = 7
<Blackhawk> Hu = 8
<greyshade> Sennen fires back and hits.  roll the defense.
<Blackhawk> (2 pips or -gulp- 2 dice.)  <sigh>
<greyshade> Yikes.  Drives hit.  -2 move.  (Now a normal move of 6 instead of 8)  Makes it slower, not less nimble.

<Yule> Chris - you did 2 rounds for Sha & Joan but only one in drive room. its ok just wanted to make sure we got caught up.
<greyshade> I'll make up for it now, then.  Drive room, hyperdrive is online.
<Blackhawk> "Yeah!  You're good to go, boss!"
<greyshade> (She can't lock the door, half of it is missing) :)
<Yule> "Ok  can you stay here in engine room with him? " points at trussed Mattac  "Lock the door, I'm going to go forward"  "Don't do him any more damage unless he starts to try to get free please..."  Biff runs for the door "Wei Ping - Hyperdrive is yours"  "I'm coming forward to help get that shuttle free"  (Bif has totally forgotten that there is no longer a door on the engine room)  Bif heads forward at a run to the front of the ship. Yep.
<Blackhawk> DT nods.  The look she shoots the unconcious(?) Mattac... DT wrinkles her nose at John's telepathy but nods.
<Blackhawk> DT 'closes' the job on the hyperdrive and starts looking for other possible surprises... while nervously keeping on eye on Mattoc and the open engineering door.
<greyshade> It will take you a round to get to the airlock, whre in the second round you see Sha holding a space trooper, then swinging him into another.  Make a per roll to see the other in the doorway.
<Yule> 11
<greyshade> Yep, there he is with a big boomer on his shoulder.  You get a round while they're not looking. :)
<Yule> My mind just went blank.  Um.  I'll try to shoot the one with the "boomer" roll = 10
<greyshade> That's good enough.  Roll damage for the surprise blast.
<Yule> dam 12
<greyshade> It pings off his heavy armor.  Let's do one more round with Sha and Bif before the (potential) collision.
<greyshade> Bif, Sha, what now?  Any other action Bif?  You'll just be down 1d for drawing the sabre.  Okay.  Biff, make that roll at normal since the - and + cancel out.
<Yule> Bif is going to drop the blaster pistol and draw his lightsaber. I am going to expend a  character point and start the first roll of lightsaber combat skill.
<Yule> love those wild die.  control of 20
<greyshade> Despite the chaos raging around, Bif is able to center himself quite easily.
<Bob> Since Sha has one trooper and another is holding him, I figure he can try to take both of them and body block them back thru the door into Mr. Boomer.  That's what he's trying anyhow.
<greyshade> Sha, make a brawling roll,  you have no minuses this round since you are no longer stunned.
<Bob> Roll = 28, the good news, but the bad is WD =1.  Figure that one out.  Without the cyber bonus I assume? roll = 15
<greyshade> Well, Sha makes an amazing crack-the-whip move, but there is an alarming crackle from the servos in his arm.  roll your strength damage.  No, include the arm bonus -- it's being overstressed by the effort.
<greyshade> There's no damage evident, but the three go down like tenpins, piled in the doorway of the outer airlock.

<greyshade> Do you folks want to quit here or see if you crash into the station first?
<Darkstar> Oh, let's crash into the station.
<Yule> oh please lets try to get though it.
<Blackhawk> Crumpling metal sounds good to me.
<greyshade> Wei ping, Make a piloting roll and tell me exactly what you're trying to do.
<Darkstar> I am trying to roll the L-4 so that the shuttle will be scraped into the side of the station.
<Darkstar> 14 + 2 for ship = 16. And that's with a 6 on the wild die.
<greyshade> Okay, the roll is pretty good.  What happens is that you don't exactly scrape it off, but go hurtling through some of the station's superstructure.  It scrapes both sides of the L4 and tears at the shuttle.  Roll the L4's hull to resist damage.
<Darkstar> 14
 <greyshade> The L4 weathers it pretty well.  Minor cosmetic damage to the big freighter.  The shuttle is not so lucky.  Sha and Bif hear the whoof of explosive decompression from within the shuttle and a wind begins to tug them toward the airlock.....
<Yule> Biff eyes the airlock control panel
<Blackhawk> DT's eyes look upward at the hull as the sound of scraping vibrates through the ship.  She bites her lip and shakes her head.
<greyshade> To rush through:  Blackhawk, make a perception roll.
<Blackhawk> 7
<greyshade> well, you don't see the crash.
<greyshade> Dex sends over the comm the equivalent of "mission fubared, I'm outta here, hope we never bump heads again." And zips away.  Will you pursue?
<Blackhawk> No, not at all.  Call Bothis for what happened to Are?  Look around for the L4.
<greyshade> "Are hit, not bad.  Bothis bring him to bed again?"
<greyshade> Wei Ping, make another Pilot roll.  Blackhawk, I'll give you this per roll.
<Darkstar> 14 +2 for the ship for 16
<greyshade> Blackhawk sees the L4 plow out of a portion of the space station with a mostly-intact assault shuttle hanging on like a leech.

<greyshade> Sha and Bif, what do you do?
<Yule> Chris I need people locations.  I am outside the airlock where is Sha & party?
<greyshade> Sha is in the airlock.  The troopers are on the floor of the outer airlock doorway.
<Yule> I am finishing my lightsaber combat & moving to grab wall just outside airlock.
<Bob> Sha will try to get out of the airlock thru the aft door (where Bif is I believe!), and then close the door.
<greyshade> Okay.  I think I'll call it a running roll to get out of the door.  It's at -1d since you'll be activating the door as well.
<Bob> run = 13 w/6 on WD
<Yule> 15 on sense roll str 13  (6 on wild)
<greyshade> your ls combat is up.  make a str roll to hang onto the wall.  Very good.  You do not suck.  Or, you are not blown out the airlock. :) Excellent work on both your parts.  Okay, closing the airlock door is a gimme.

<Blackhawk> Comm - "Lightwing to freighter.  Do you require assistance?"
<Darkstar> "Freighter here, negative lightwing. Let's blow this system."
<Blackhawk> Comm - "Acknowledged."
<Blackhawk> Plot course freighter, best speed the injured Lightwing can make.
<greyshade> The Lightwing closes on the freigher as the assualt shuttle disintegrates, spewing spacetroopers hither and yon.
<Yule> "Wei ping get us away from the station & planet"
<Darkstar> "Yes, sir. We are moving to hyper jump point on previous plot."
<greyshade> Okay, you hit hyperspace like a bunch of weasels on crack.
<Yule> "Shit - did we just jump?"
<Darkstar> Good place to stop. Yah, we are off planet and away.
 

 

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