Chapter 3: High Noon on Walston

Feb 1, 2025 9:14 pm

"Whoa, Seally. You'll have them shaking in their boots with that speech."

Zuni was impressed with her impassioned threat. "Remind never to get on your wrong side!" he says as he again prepares to steer the ship out of harm's way.

Rolls

Pilot - (2d6+1)

(42) + 1 = 7

Feb 2, 2025 1:34 am

Fallon "Chief Master Blaster" Verdt

Round 5
Manoeuvre Step > Attack Step > Actions Step

Zuni pushes the Wayward Wind's throttle to full, and aggressively approaches the Calibrandr, determined to finish it off.

Gunners: Sight your marks and rain destruction!

Pulse Lasers: Target in range! You have no negative modifiers on this attack as your closer range will cancel out their evasive manoeuvres, giving you a full +6 to hit: +1 Skill, +1 Dex, +2 Pulse Laser Accuracy, and +2 fire control software.

Missile Turret: Missile rack is loaded and ready, 8/12 missiles remaining. You should have a total of +4 to hit: +1 to hit from 1 missile in the salvo, and +3 from the Tech differential.

nezzeraj

Feb 2, 2025 12:15 pm

Fallon grins wolfishly, finally having her targets where she wants them. "No sequels this time." She pushes the buttons for missiles and pulse lasers simultaneously.

Rolls

Pulse lasers - (2d6+6)

(53) + 6 = 14

Missile - (2d6+4)

(43) + 4 = 11

Feb 3, 2025 1:56 am

Speeches were one thing, but taking the thorn out of their side for good was better! Alerio holds her applause and lesson-giving until she could give it basking in the glow of the sword worlder’s ship going up in flames.

She feels another missile shunt off into space, and tries to get a view of it crossing the space between her and them.

"Come on, come on!"

Feb 4, 2025 4:24 am

OOC:

Pulse laser inflicts a level 1 crit and 2D damage + 6, minus 4 for armor = 11 damage. That triggers a structural crit.
Missile hits for 39 damage, causing a Severity 3 critical hit and 2 more structural crits.
Beowulf launches a missile ....

[ +- ] Critical Hit Location Table

Rolls

Pulse laser crit location - (2d6)

(44) = 8

Pulse laser Damage - (2d6+2)

(54) + 2 = 11

Structural crit location - (2d6)

(31) = 4

Missile hit - (4d6-4)

(4265) - 4 = 13

Severity 3 critical hit - (2d6)

(31) = 4

Strucutral crits - (2d6, 2d6)

2d6 : (66) = 12

2d6 : (12) = 3

Beowulf Missile 8+ - (2d6+3)

(51) + 3 = 9

Beowulf missile damage - (4D6-4)

(2332) - 4 = 6

Referee

Feb 4, 2025 4:41 am

Fallon "Chief Master Blaster" Verdt

The combined firepower of the Wayward Wind and the Beowulf hammers into the crippled Calibrandr. Explosions envelope the corsair, and the pulse laser rips through their fuel tanks, triggering a catastrophic chain reaction. In a final, fiery blast, the Sword Worlder vessel is utterly annihilated—erased from the stars in a decisive victory!

nezzeraj

Feb 4, 2025 5:30 am

Fallon lets out a cheer so loud the reverberations in her turret room hurts her ears and makes her wince afterward. "Let's see you come back from that! You got blown apart so hard even your atoms got concussions!" Fallon can't keep the grin off her face as she switches to internal comms. "Thank you, thank you, I can hear your applause from here. I think we can all agree I have already lived up to my new title of Chief Master Blaster! Let's get to rescuing the Beowulf and then I think we deserve a nice vacation at a clothing-optional beach. Over."

Feb 5, 2025 12:33 am

"Over!" Alerio calls back, and she can’t hide the trembling happiness in her voice! She’s much more comfortable on the ground: having never really grown too accustomed to space combat!

"Glad we pulled through! Should we call up the Beowulf and invite them for cocktails?" she adds. They needed the assist, but that was hidden within all the celebratory chatter!

Seally Llewyn

Qralloq

Feb 5, 2025 1:15 am

Seally laughs, the tension released. "They're still hanging on by a razors edge. Let's see if we can help them stabilize."

She first signals Alerio. "Alerio, everything okay down there? I want to offer the Beowulf our, your, assistance."

Feb 5, 2025 3:14 am

Zuni practically dances in his chair when the corsair is blown to smithereens.

"Damn, we did it! Now let's go save the Beowolf."

Feb 5, 2025 8:29 am

"All good down here! I didn’t have much to do… thankfully!" she says, and means it. That doesn’t mean the next few hours wouldn’t be hectic.

They were a long way from being done!

Free Trader Beowulf

Feb 5, 2025 3:49 pm

Free Trader Beowulf

Captain Falkirk’s weathered voice crackles over the radio - audio only. Even though he's a gritty old spacer who’s seen his share of close calls, the sound of relief is clear. "Wayward Wind, I’ll be damned. Your plan actually worked. That was some damn fine flying and sharp shooting. We owe you, no question. If you're still feeling generous and you’ve got an extra engineer or a medic to spare, we could sure use the help. Life support’s shot, so if you’re coming aboard, bring vacc suits."

Salvor Dreks

Feb 5, 2025 4:02 pm

Fallon "Chief Master Blaster" Verdt

Salvor Dreks

You also see there is a transmission incoming from the Walston starport. Salvor Dreks appears on your screen.
The comm crackles to life, and a voice slithers through the speakers like oil over rusted metal.

"At last, we speak face to face. I am Salvor Dreks, rightful captain of the fine vessel you so rudely stole from me. I was worried I’d have to hunt you across the stars, but instead, you’ve saved me the trouble by bringing my ship right back to me."

A low, amused chuckle drifts through the transmission, full of malice.

"I must say, you handled the Calibrandr well. Hardly a scratch on my ship. That’s good. Returning my property to me in better shape than I left it does put me in a rare good mood. Let’s talk business, shall we?"

The amusement vanishes, his voice turning cold, sharp as a blade.

"You see, I have the Walston starport under my thumb right now, along with the shitty little town beside it. Good, hardworking folk, scared and waiting. I told them you'd be smart enough to see reason. Because if you’re not, well…"

A distant sound filters through—the unmistakable muffled sobs of terrified people. Then a sharp cry, cut off abruptly.

"I don’t think I need to spell it out for you."

nezzeraj

Feb 6, 2025 8:11 am

Fallon replies to the Beowulf. "I'm no doctor but I am the closest thing our ship has to a medic. I can come over and give you a hand." Then Dreks interrupts and Fallon has to bite her tongue to keep back a volley of vicious invective. The Wayward Wind is technically Seally's ship and she is their leader so she begins to suit up in her vacc suit while waiting for Seally's response.

Last edited February 6, 2025 8:11 am

Feb 6, 2025 3:57 pm

Zuni can't help but be proud of the compliment from Beowulf's Captain. But the happy feeling didn't last long when their nemesis appeared on the screen.

Bastard! Zuni had gone from ebullient to seething in the span of a few seconds. They were caught in a very sticky situation with a ruthless amoral man. Zuni looks wide-eyed to Sealy for inspiration.

Seally Llewyn

Qralloq

Feb 6, 2025 7:18 pm

Seally thinks a moment and then answers Dreks. "Hi baby, did you have a good nap? Your friends are no more, unfortunately. I was hoping to salvage some gear off the Calibrandr, but unfortunately she just fell apart at the slightest jostle. Nothing remains of them. Now, if you could just send us your exact coordinates, we'll resolve this quickly. If your other friends are listening, tell them they should take a few steps away."[/f] She waves sweetly and cuts the channel.

To Zuni she says, "Ahead to the Beowolf, Mr. Zuni, and get us into docking range. I want one of the Heretic Squad to accompany each of Alerio and Fallon. They might need their strength to move girders and so forth."

Feb 6, 2025 11:52 pm

"Aye aye captain. Oh wait, that's at sea isn't it? Yes sir, captain sir, I mean ma'am." Zuni reminds himself once again of all the years he wasted watching ancient movies from earth.

"I'm on it."

The excited and excitable pilot tries to deftly maneuver the ship into docking range.

Feb 8, 2025 9:09 am

Alerio makes her way up to the others as Seally pokes at Dreks! This is why she likes to be in the mix! If she had Dreks within arms reach, she could throttle him before he could harm any of the people Alerio had met before…

From this distance… She doesn’t share Seally’s bravado. But they are committed and they’d know the outcome by end of day!

"On my way." she offers to the captain of the Beowulf over comms!

Salvor Dreks

Feb 8, 2025 11:32 pm