Escape from Spacecataz
Jun. 28th, 2005 10:52 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
terryclothWe had a session of Jeff's game last night. We escaped from a prison, that was suddenly full of Sith for no apparent reason. Luckily, Sepna saved the day against impossible odds, by using powers in impossible ways (full round action -> free action) and rolling 'natural 20s' on several skill checks.
Plus the technology involved kept changing to make whatever we were trying to do at the time useless. It's really hard to plan around that sort of thing.
Last session, the party left off with them captured by the native military in an undersea base. They'd searched the room for cameras and not found any, and so had used force powers to cure their own diseases.
This session, we start with the party in a sith base, watched by several video cameras that they found after searching again. Since the droid that brought them food was able to easily pass through the force field holding them in, they decided to disassemble him while Kuu made dioramas of the room with them sleeping in front of each camera so as not to arouse suspicion.
GM: "You can't do that -- you're not allowed to hide things with illusion. You can hide things behind other things, but you can't make them invisible."
Me: "That's what I'm doing -- the cameras have a single field of vision each, so I can just make a flat placard of the room in front of each of them that the real room will be hidden behind."
GM: "No, that won't work, you can't make things invisible."
So instead, various party members casually stood in front of each camera while the rest pounded on the droid and searched for his force-field key or whatever. It turned out that what let him pass through the force field was a personal force field of his own, that Ituda could probably power for a minute or so, but only one small person could use it.
Kuu volunteered to take it outside and convince the guards to open the force fields somehow, but Sepna pointed out that like in the dream, the force field emitters were easily force-gripped, so they could just break them and escape instead of messing about with the PFF. So they did that, rushed out into the hallway, were seen by one of the guards that they'd been watching for days and had never turned back to look at the cell before (and certainly hadn't heard anything, since the force fields were soundproof), and then couldn't do anything to actually escape because the force field out of the cell block didn't have an emitter to smash, and the soundproofness kept the guard from being affect-mindified.
So, lightsabers through the walls. Oh no! Sith! Five stormtroopers and one force adept nearly wiped out the party, but they barely managed to survive, working together. Unfortunately, the adept blew himself up, ripping a hole in the floor, so the prison started filling up with water. They closed a door behind them, and headed for the hangar.
They were able to pick up some glop grenades and explosives and blaster pistols in an armory on the way, then opened another door and ran into a group of Sith three times as big as the last one. Kuu's illusion of an obscuring mist did nothing [the GM rolled once, "They all made their saves. They can't see through the mist but their sensors will tell them what squares you're in, so a 50% miss chance." Then later, when I noticed him not rolling any miss chances, "Oh, they're just firing at the people in the hallway in general, so they don't have a miss chance."], and no one could carry Ituda, who'd been dropped by a single bolt from an e-web... and even if they were willing to leave him, only half the party had burst of speed.
But Sepna was able to turn himself invisible, sneak over and set explosive charges by all the dangerous enemies (10 charges in three different places, all in one round!), and basically kill them all instantly. That left eight clone troopers, but the glop grenades took care of them, for the most part.
So they stole a crestrunner [The GM started describing its stats, but the group was like "Why are you telling us this? It's not like we won't lose it as soon as we park it anywhere."] and headed for Aquarius, where they'd been told they had friends, while the complex exploded behind them, thanks to more of Sepna's bombs.
During the travel time, they had dreams about what might have been happening elsewhere -- the general in orbit blowing up his escort carrier and taking half the imperial garrison with it, and Vidal being captured and tortured by sith.
GM: "Three days later, you're hailed by traffic control for Aquarius. They want to know why you're here or they'll fire."
Us: "Wait, what?!"
Anyway, Druu gave them the password, and they were allowed to park and granted an audience with the rebel leader. This time, the weapons scanners detected their lightsabers, and Kunda refused to give his up, although Druu Kai and Kuu handed them over (after being assured they would get them back).
Colonel Ackbar was very friendly, if a bit of a doof, and let them have their weapons back in his presence for some reason. They sort of vaguely discussed what to do next, but didn't really have any ideas.
last session | next session
I don't think I'm going to bother trying to use illusion again, it just never works.
Plus the technology involved kept changing to make whatever we were trying to do at the time useless. It's really hard to plan around that sort of thing.
Last session, the party left off with them captured by the native military in an undersea base. They'd searched the room for cameras and not found any, and so had used force powers to cure their own diseases.
This session, we start with the party in a sith base, watched by several video cameras that they found after searching again. Since the droid that brought them food was able to easily pass through the force field holding them in, they decided to disassemble him while Kuu made dioramas of the room with them sleeping in front of each camera so as not to arouse suspicion.
GM: "You can't do that -- you're not allowed to hide things with illusion. You can hide things behind other things, but you can't make them invisible."
Me: "That's what I'm doing -- the cameras have a single field of vision each, so I can just make a flat placard of the room in front of each of them that the real room will be hidden behind."
GM: "No, that won't work, you can't make things invisible."
So instead, various party members casually stood in front of each camera while the rest pounded on the droid and searched for his force-field key or whatever. It turned out that what let him pass through the force field was a personal force field of his own, that Ituda could probably power for a minute or so, but only one small person could use it.
Kuu volunteered to take it outside and convince the guards to open the force fields somehow, but Sepna pointed out that like in the dream, the force field emitters were easily force-gripped, so they could just break them and escape instead of messing about with the PFF. So they did that, rushed out into the hallway, were seen by one of the guards that they'd been watching for days and had never turned back to look at the cell before (and certainly hadn't heard anything, since the force fields were soundproof), and then couldn't do anything to actually escape because the force field out of the cell block didn't have an emitter to smash, and the soundproofness kept the guard from being affect-mindified.
So, lightsabers through the walls. Oh no! Sith! Five stormtroopers and one force adept nearly wiped out the party, but they barely managed to survive, working together. Unfortunately, the adept blew himself up, ripping a hole in the floor, so the prison started filling up with water. They closed a door behind them, and headed for the hangar.
They were able to pick up some glop grenades and explosives and blaster pistols in an armory on the way, then opened another door and ran into a group of Sith three times as big as the last one. Kuu's illusion of an obscuring mist did nothing [the GM rolled once, "They all made their saves. They can't see through the mist but their sensors will tell them what squares you're in, so a 50% miss chance." Then later, when I noticed him not rolling any miss chances, "Oh, they're just firing at the people in the hallway in general, so they don't have a miss chance."], and no one could carry Ituda, who'd been dropped by a single bolt from an e-web... and even if they were willing to leave him, only half the party had burst of speed.
But Sepna was able to turn himself invisible, sneak over and set explosive charges by all the dangerous enemies (10 charges in three different places, all in one round!), and basically kill them all instantly. That left eight clone troopers, but the glop grenades took care of them, for the most part.
So they stole a crestrunner [The GM started describing its stats, but the group was like "Why are you telling us this? It's not like we won't lose it as soon as we park it anywhere."] and headed for Aquarius, where they'd been told they had friends, while the complex exploded behind them, thanks to more of Sepna's bombs.
During the travel time, they had dreams about what might have been happening elsewhere -- the general in orbit blowing up his escort carrier and taking half the imperial garrison with it, and Vidal being captured and tortured by sith.
GM: "Three days later, you're hailed by traffic control for Aquarius. They want to know why you're here or they'll fire."
Us: "Wait, what?!"
Anyway, Druu gave them the password, and they were allowed to park and granted an audience with the rebel leader. This time, the weapons scanners detected their lightsabers, and Kunda refused to give his up, although Druu Kai and Kuu handed them over (after being assured they would get them back).
Colonel Ackbar was very friendly, if a bit of a doof, and let them have their weapons back in his presence for some reason. They sort of vaguely discussed what to do next, but didn't really have any ideas.
last session | next session
I don't think I'm going to bother trying to use illusion again, it just never works.
