Main - Chapter 7.2: Neptunia

Thete is an argument for Boost Engines and Escape Combat.

Hold on. We now have a problem this round/turn.

Douklan already spent 2 CP to improve our AC. Now Corbin has spent 2 CP to improve our speed. Escape Combat requires 4 CP to perform. The Captain effective gave 2 CP. Morgan gave 1 CP. Mercer gave 2 CP. That means we only have 1 CP left and we need three more to get Escape Combat. Another issue is that, from what I can tell, literally the only character with skill-2 in anything is Hank's Trade-2. Can anyone give me some excuse to apply Trade to this combat. If so, then I guess I will cancel Hank's Do Your Duty and instead Go Above and Beyond with his trade skill to get the needed 3 CP so we can also try to Escape Combat.

Going forward, we need to focus *only* on Boost Engines (2CP) and Escape Combat (4CP). That requires 6 CP. The Captain "gives" 2 CP. Comms, Gunnery, and Mercer can give 3 CP by just Doing Your Duty. But that only gives 5, not 6. But, if we try to Go Above and Beyond, and it fails, then we drop to 3 CP, which isn't even enough for the Escape Combat maneuver. So, we need to decide if just going for Escape Combat gives enough chance, or we have to carefully chain together multiple Go Above and Beyond attempts.

Reasoning: PbP makes it kind of hard to sync all players, so I am always letting you change things if there is CP left at the end. In this situation, there is.

This is a hard one to pull off. =)

I can certainly understand Pilot, Fix, Program or even Shoot, but Trade? This has to be good.

Yeah, if this Escape Combat doesn't work I think we're in trouble.
It certainly may not work.
Also I know I have only so many applicable Talk rolls before I'm retreading ground. Which is why if we don't escape soon we may not, I will run out of applicable Above and Beyond actions.

Only thing that comes to Mind on a trade roll would be something like, knowing what type of boxes expensive commodities usually are traded in and jettisoned some of those to try and change the attackers focus, or maybe being able to repackage some of our cargo and leave empty boxes for them.

Escape Combat is an opposed roll. So, Douklan rolls 2d6+3+0. The enemy rolls 2d6+2+3. So, they have an inherent advantage due to their speed. If we can do both Escape Combat AND Boost Engines, then the roll is 2d6+3+2 for Douklan and 2d6+2+3 for the enemy, i.e. an even test. So, that seems to be our best bet to get out of this alive. The question is whether we can consistently GAAB successfully and if they can disable us before we can get those three Escape Points.

Also, if htech is going to allow for changing of minds, then I strongly suggest that Douklan drop the Evasive Maneuvers and just try the Escape Combat as he will have to +2 to the roll because of the Boost Engines that succeeded this round.

@htech, how many CP do they get?

As for using Trade, I have a couple ideas, but they are pretty wild and I don't even want to try them until I have to. Basically, If Mercer succeeds with his GAAB roll, then we get our 6 CP even if Peter and Hank just DYD. When Mercer runs out of ideas, then Peter can give them his tries. The time that Hank will have to pull out the Trade is if the GAAB roll fails. At that point the Trade is needed to overcompensate for the lost CP from the failed GAAB roll. Alternatively, Hank can do the GAAB roll more often as he has the 3d6h2 roll for Program.

GAAB = Go Above and Beyond
DYD = Do Your Duty

The standard 5 of a NPC ship.
Spaceseeker19, what do you do? I will end this round after your answer.

Sure, I'm willing to amend the action from Evasive Maneuvers to Escape Combat. As others have pointed out, Escape Combat is not a great option, merely our best one, given that we don't want to fight. A whole lot of dice rolling needs to be lucky with approximately even odds for it to succeed.

Ideally, I'd like the roll I already made for this round (the Evasive Maneuvers) to apply to the Escape Combat, but in case you'd like a new roll, here it is.