Scene 3: They mostly come at night

Your turn next, @microtheMacroBear/Singleton.

If you want to get to Macwhirr, you'd need to run inside the lock, close the outer door behind you, and open the inner door.

That would be three fast actions, and you can only do two per turn - so you would need to open the inner door on your next turn - or Hirsch could do it on his next turn if he moved in with you (I'll allow Hirsch to have taken his move to join you inside the lock if he wants to).

Or you could do what Macwhirr says and run...

Or something else...!

Picking up the gun is a Fast Action, and then firing it is a slow action.

Holroyd has used his Fast Action to pick up the gun, so can't use the Aim action (another Fast Action) which would give an extra two dice to the pool.

Holroyd/@C1NDER would roll 6d6 (attribute agility 6, skill ranged combat 1, -1 for agility rolls due to penalty from killing Komiskey).

Bolt Gun does 3 damage. Xeno has 8 armour, but Bolt gun is armor-piercing, so is effectively 4 armor for this roll. Xeno rolls 4 armor dice, each 6 rolled removes one point of damage.

Rolling the armour now... more info to follow after the roll...

EDIT no mitigation by armor, so xeno takes 3 damage.

Acid Splash rating for this xeno is 8 - so everyone within engaged range takes 8+3d6 (i.e. 8 plus damage inflicted on xeno for this attack) damage i.e. 11d6 and damage is taken for every 6 rolled.

However, neither Macwhirr or Holroyd are in Engaged range, so they aren't hit by the acid.

The Bolt Gun isn't intended as a weapon - it needs to be reloaded (a Slow Action) after each shot. So to use the Bolt Gun again will likely take Holroyd two turns - as reload and fire weapon are both slow actions, and you only get one slow action per turn.

Hirsch, your turn next, I assume you continue to book it towards the shuttle... In which case it's again the Xeno's turn...

Rolling for the Xeno's Special Attack... 6 is Headbite...!

Headbite does an attack of 9d6 - if it does any damage, it causes a major critical injury...

If Holroyd were human, as the xeno rolled one 6 i.e. one success, the human would now be dead.

But synthetics deal differently with critical injuries.

In this case (the rules are ambiguous on this specific case) I'll rule that Holroyd suffers Critical Injury 6 - System Shutdown "The android is torn to shreds or crushed. Core systems are severely damaged and a COMTECH roll is required to communicate with the android."

EDIT the above was written before Holroyd used his Resilience talent, which was able to successfully negate both points of damage done by the xeno's attack...

EDIT I struck through the content about Holroyd's body being wrecked, as Holroyd rolled successfully to mitigate all damage caused by the xeno's attack using his Resilient talent.

Rolling for xeno signature attack... It's again Deadly Grab - the beast snatches up Macwhirr, and attacks with ten base dice, damage 1... it rolls a single 6, so Macwhirr's health goes down to 1 (I've edited the sheet to reflect that). Macwhirr is now prone and makes a Panic Roll... She gets 9, Drop Item, so she drops her kinfe, and takes an extra Stress (I've added that to the sheet).

It's now Macwhirr's turn...

Yes, still running for the shuttle!

You're right - Holroyd DOES have a chance to resist the attacks with Resilient! Glad there's a way to keep this going... For me this is part of why the name of the game is better as it is, Alien RPG, not Aliens RPG - the level of lethality is much closer to that in the first film. It can all be over VERY quickly for PC if they come up against xenos...

The Headbite attack is Damage 2, so if Holroyd can mitigate those two damages, the killing blow doesn't land.

"HEADBITE: The Xenomorph opens its outer jaws wide, and the deadly inner jaws lean out, gnashing in anticipation before snapping forwards. The attack has a strength of nine Base Dice, Damage 2. If it causes any damage it automatically inflicts critical injury #64, killing the victim in one dreadful blow. However, should the GM wish it, the victim remains just alive enough for the Xenomorph to initiate the ovomorphing process."

I'm assuming you're just going to keep booking it for the shuttle - I'll continue narrating with that in mind, unless you let me know you want to do something different...

Retconing here - I'm going to strike through the altered parts of the previous post once I've made this one.

see previous posts for the consequences of the xeno's attack on Macwhirr

It's still Macwhirr's turn. Then Holroyd. Then the xeno gets its two turns.

Hey @McButterpants - RAW this might be an OBSERVATION roll or something like that, or require several minutes searching for a random object.

But the point is to have fun here, and I reckon it's not unlikely there'd be a huge wrench lying around here. So yes, you got one you can pick up if you want to.

Having said that, with this stress level, almost any Panic Roll is going to negate your action - you'd have to roll a 1 on the die on the panic roll to be able to keep any successes you got to your action (you're at STRESS 8, so you'll roll 1d6+8, and all results 10+ replace the intended action with a Panic action. So if you roll any 1s on the 8 STRESS dice, it's unlikely you'll be able to get an attack off.

This is meta, but also it's representing Macwhirr being unspeakably stressed and terrified atm.

So your choice whether you pick up the huge wrench (a Fast Action - it'll be Damage 1 if you hit) and swing with it (Slow Action), or crawl away and maybe try and get the inner door open or something like that.