[Game Thread] An Orc a Bar and Some Adventures

[RWBY2019]

 

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An Orc a Bar and Some Adventures You all walk in to the bar tapping the snow off your boots as you enter. A large orc behind the bar greets you in a gruff voice "Take a seat anywhere Mari will take your order shortly ". you know him as Xel he runs the bar which doubles as the adventures guild a neutral place where if you fight you'd better have the scratch to pay for the damages as he doesn't care who you are as long as you pay. As you sit down a young woman comes over "what'll it be hon " she speaks in an accent similar to the one from old earth cowboy vids most simply assume shes descended from them but to you shes Mari Xel's wife and partner from the brood wars. you don't understand why but for the last week you have seen the same people come in with you as if your all drawn to this place. Xel comes out from behind the bar as he always on Fridays "Everyone do I have a job for you it just came in now and its paying handsomely a retrieval job from the Defenders of Adun would the people wanting to under take this contract stand so I can register them."as you stand the people that have entered with you for the past week stand as well. the bar applauds you all as taking jobs from the hands or defenders is usually suicide Xel acknowledges you all and takes you to the back room where you meet the client and in most unorthodox fashion the leader Executor Ynorich of the Defenders of Adun is here to brief you.

An Orc a Bar and a Briefing The Executor waits for Xel to leave and then speaks in a regal but commanding tone. "Thank you all for coming and taking this job, as you may understand I am Executor Ynorich leader of the Defenders of Adun and Unofficial governor of New Servain, but before you leave this job is for the town not the defenders". The Executor places a holo projector down and the snowy wastes of Servain can be seen and in the center a Protoss shuttle crashed in the middle of a zerg hive. "That shuttle has building materials and food for the town and the hands shot it down. seeing as its in the middle of a zerg hive we aren't sending you in empty handed one of our finest new carriers will provide air support and take out the zerg mutalisks. we also found a rather run down seige tank form the brood wars collecting dust in a abandoned mine we were using for storage. our phase smith Kossys worked over time to fix it and whether this mission succeeds of fails you will be paid"

[Dylan Scott]

Cross Cross was having a good day. A long exhausting day but a good one. the contract for the Mining Conglomerate was done for now and no one had been lost this time. The hours were long and cold but for once the White had blessed him and he hadn't had to fire more than a warning shot to keep the workers safe this time and even more miraculously he had been paid on time and without any runaround so he had a fresh new credstick burning a hole in his pocket as he rolled into town on the Cat. A warm shower and a warmer bed called to him but first a stop at Xel's for a well deserved drink. The spines on his boots kept him steady as he hopped down and pulled his Breather mask free before he reached the door, the extreme cold air biting at his face for a moment before he crossed the threshold of the Bar, perking him up after a very long day in the White. Folding the mask into its compact form and stowing it in his jacket as he entered, a man doesn't keep his hat on in Xel's after all. Cross loved this place, the whole atmosphere of the place a comfort to the boy inside him who grew up on Old Earth Cowboy Vid's, Raising his chin in greeting to the Orc behind the Bar, Xel, Cross found himself a seat, surprisingly few available today, the Bar more packed than usual. Familiar faces mixed in the crowd with others he didn't know. Finding a seat he sits with a weary groan, stretching out like a cat, his neck cracking as he twists and stretches. A smile crossing his face as he see's Mira approaching, raising back to his feet "Ma'am, Black coffee please, Strong and thick enough i can use it in the cat outside" making his usual order with a smile, in all his travels of Servain, Only Mira seemed to have the knack for making it the way he liked Cross was taking his first heavenly sip of the thick dark brew when Xel stepped out to make his announcement, Cross sinking into his seat further to avoid the Large Orcs searching eyes Oh come on Xel, I've just got back At the mention of the Defender of Adun though he knew he would be volunteering, and he knew Xel would know it too. it was stubborn of him, and yes it was childish but Cross didnt raise with the others but he knew Xel would be watching and he raised his coffee mug as Xel locked eyes with him and raised an eyebrow, giving the Orc a nod. He should have stood but he knew Xel would add his name to the List anyway. One of the things he both loved and hated about the man, he might take advantage at times but he hadn't steered him wrong yet so if Xel thought he should go then he would trust his friend and accept Following the others into the room, Cross was very surprised to see the Protoss Executor there, his interest piqued. in another situation Cross would have gone over and greeted his friend properly but he could tell this wasn't the time or place, so as the Protoss governor sweep his eyes across the room he gave him a smile and a silent formal greeting gesture of respect from his place at the back of the room, before leaning back against the wall and savouring his Hot Coffee, listening to the Executor make his announcement, His mind a whirl as he focused on the image of the terrain around the zerg hive, trying to place it in his mind and access the best routes to reach the survivors of the crash quickly, though if that Zerg hive was still active then the chance of there being any was very slim. When their was a lull in the announcement, Cross spoke up, calling out to Executor Ynorich in Khalani from habit, before repeating himself in Terran for some of the others in the room giving him confused looks "Executor, How many Crew were onboard the shuttle?"

Stat Block   Nathan Cross Neutral Good | Terran - Bounty Hunter | Operative (Level 3) Stamina: 30 |HP: 22 | Resolve Points: 5 EAC: 20 | KAC: 22 | Initiative: +6 Speed: 40 | Base Attack Bonus: +2 STR 13(+1) | DEX 18 (+4) | CON 16 (+3) | INT 14 (+2) | WIS 12 (+1) | CHA11 (0) Fort Save: +6 (Airborne Poison/Toxins +8. Cold/Heat +10)| Reflex Save: +7 | Will Save: +4 Weapons: Archaic, Sniper (2-handed).Range (70/1,000) +6 Ranged (2d6+3 Damage)Specialist Coil Rifle | Range(30) +6 Ranged (1d6+2 Damage)Tactical Semi Auto Pistol | +3 Attack (1d4+2 Damage)Survival Knife | -1 Attack (1D8 Damage, Cuts Through Tungsten)Daelaam Protoss Psi-Blade Features and Abilities: Common, Common (Servain Dialect), Hunter Sign (Visual), Hunter Sign (Tactile), Protoss (Khalani), Protoss (Nerazim), Protoss (Tal-Darim)Languages | Armor: Light Weapons: Simple Melee, Small Arms & Sniper Saving Throws: Dexterity, Constitution Skills: Acrobatics: +12, Athletics: +9, Bluff: +2, Computers: +9, Culture: +13, Diplomacy: +2, Disguise: +2, Engineering: +9, Intimidation: +6, Life Science: +6, Medicine: +10, Perception: +9, Physical Science: +6, Piloting: +11, Profession (Hunter): +9, Sense Motive: +8, Sleight of Hand: +11, Stealth: +12, Survival: +13Proficiencies Feats:You are particularly adept at a certain skill. You gain a +3 insight bonus to checks involving the chosen skillSkill Focus - Survival |You are particularly adept at a certain skill. You gain a +3 insight bonus to checks involving the chosen skillSkill Focus - Culture |You are resistant to diseases, poisons, and other maladies. You gain a +2 bonus to Fortitude saving throwsGreat Fortitude |You have enhanced physical resilience, and harsh conditions or long exertions don’t easily tire you. For every character level you have (and whenever you gain a new level), you gain 1 Stamina Point. In addition, you gain a +4 bonus to Constitution checks to continue running, to avoid damage from a forced march, to hold your breath, and to avoid damage from starvation or thirst. You also gain a +4 bonus to Fortitude saving throws to avoid taking damage from hot or cold environments, to withstand the harmful effects of thick and thin atmospheres, to avoid choking when breathing in heavy smoke, and to avoid fatigue caused by sleep deprivationToughness |You remain accurate at longer ranges.You take only a –1 penalty per full range increment between you and your target when using a ranged weaponFar Shot |You know how to get the full damage out of a weapon type your class doesn’t normally use.You gain specialization in that weapon type, which means you add your character level to damage with the selected weapon type, or half your character level for small arms or operative melee weapons. You can never have specialization in grenades. Weapon Specialization Bounty Hunter Traits: Your mind is a cold steel trap when it comes to scraps of information about the creatures you’re tracking down. Choose a specific sentient creature that you can identify by name, alias,or specific identity to be your mark. Reduce the DC of Culture or Profession (bounty hunter) checks to recall knowledge aboutyour mark, as well as to recall knowledge about law-enforcement individuals and practices, by 5. If you choose a mark that is known only by an alias or secret identity, this ability helps you learn facts only about the identity you know about, not any other unknown identities. Once you defeat your mark, as an action that takes 1 minute, you can study dossiers and database information about another individual to be your new mark. You can instead abandon your mark for a new one without defeating it, but if you do so, you take a –2 penalty to all skill checks for 1 week. Survival is a class skill for you, though if it is a class skill from the class you take at 1st level, you instead gain a +1 bonus to Survival checks.Theme Knowledge - Bounty Hunting Operative Traits: Your diverse training as an operative grants you a +2 insight bonus to initiative checks and to skill checks.Operatives Edge +2 | Your specialization represents your primary area of expertise. Pick one specialization upon taking your 1st level of the operative class. Once made, this choice cannot be changed. Your specialization grants you the Skill Focus feat in your specialization’s associated skills, and you gain a free skill rank in each of those skills at each operative level (this does not allow you to exceed the maximum number of skill ranks in a single skill).Specialisation | You’re a skilled sharpshooter who deals death over vast distances with sniper weapons. As a full action, you can move up to 1/4 your speed. Whether or not you moved, you can then make an attack with a melee weapon with the operative property, a small arm, or a sniper weapon. If the weapon has the sniper property, you can use the property as if you had used a move action to aim. Just before making your attack, attempt a Perception or Stealth check (or a check associated with your specialization) with a DC of 20 + 1-1/2 your target’s CR. If you succeed at the check, the target is flat-footed against the attack and you deal 1d3 additional damage. This damage increases to 1d6 additional damage at 3rd level, plus an additional 1d6 damage for every 2 levels thereafter. You can’t use this ability with a weapon that has the unwieldy special property unless it also has the sniper special property, in which case this ability doesn’t allow you to move before attacking.Sniper +1D6 | If you succeed at a Reflex save against an effect that normally has a partial effect on a successful save, you instead suffer no effect. You gain this benefit only when unencumbered and wearing light armor or no armor, and you lose the benefit when you are helpless or otherwise unable to move Evasion | As you gain experience, you learn special tricks called operative exploits. If an operative exploit allows a saving throw to resist its effects, the DC is equal to 10 + half your operative level + your Dexterity modifier. If it requires an enemy to attempt a skill check, the DC is equal to 10 + 1-1/2 × your operative level + your Dexterity modifier Operative Exploit | As long as you are unencumbered and wearing light armor or no armor, your land speed increases by 10 feet Quick Movement | You gain the Weapon Specialization feat as a bonus feat for each weapon type with which this class grants you proficiency.Weapon Specialisation Operative Specialisation: You’re an expert in scouting out dangerous locations using your knowledge and survival skills -Associated Skills: Culture and Survival. You can attempt a Survival check with a +4 bonus to make a sniper attack by using your surroundings to your advantageExplorer Operative Exploit: You can attempt Survival checks in place of Life Science checks to identify animal, plant, and vermin creatures. You can move at your full overland speed when using Survival to live off the land, and your successful check provides food and water for an additional number of creatures equal to your operative’s edge bonusEfficient Forager

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McConners Dominik pushed the door shut behind him, shutting out the cold air and swirling flakes. He pulled his hood down and stomped his boots to get the snow off; the squat mechanical droid beside him tapped its pointed feet on the floor in a similar fashion. He grunts in response to the orc's terse greeting. At his table, he sits and absentmindedly drums his fingers on the surface. The square droid sits just beside his chair. When Mira comes and asks for his order, he seems a bit surprised. "Uh... what I want? Oh, of course. A glass of water is fine." After Mira leaves, he quietly curses at himself. It had been too long since he's visited an establishment of any sort. When Xel calls for volunteers to stand, Dominik sighs. Damn, he thought, making a scene of myself not an hour after I re-enter society. Nonetheless, he stands and gives a nod to the surly orc. He listens closely to the Executioner speak, and nods a couple times during the briefing. When he hears another volunteer ask a question, he perks up and glances over at the gentleman. "Executor, How many Crew were onboard the shuttle?" Dominik takes in the other gentleman; the scar running down his face definitely looked old, but Dom would guess that the other man earned it. His clothes seemed suited for the cold, and he wore them well. Also judging by the way he referred to the Protoss man, he had been on-world for a while. "I don't think there's any people on the shuttle, son. Just materials. You from around here? It'd be good to have you with us if you know the area." The unlit cigarette sticking from his teeth bobbed up and down when he spoke, and he fiddled with the pin of a grenade inside his pocket.

[RWBY2019]

"A very good question luckily any crew on board got out safely"the Executor sits in a chair near by "before we go any further you all need to be acquainted with each other so that you can work together efficiently so please take the day to get acquainted with each other
and meet back here tomorrow"

[Ursinorum]

M-38S It was a slow day, nothing noteworthy happened. The last job ended a couple of days ago and M-38S was... well, not bored, but what it considered a calm restlessness. *..the pains of an unknown freelancer, apparently..* The android had ordered some old meat and strong liquor, and asked its nanites to consume the organic matter like ants would, without buzzing about and scaring the other patrons. The tiny robots didn't really need organic matter, but the nanocyte noticed that they would become a bit sluggish after feeding only off the energy of its reactor. As the android was 'busy' counting the condensation droplets run down the windows, the owner, Xel, stood up and offered a gig. Despite M-38S stood up together with the others, none of the patrons really cheered its way. *..well, I didn't go 'solo' for the glory anyways..* --- Once in the back room, the android noticed that none of the Terrans acknowledged the Protoss, so he also ignored Ynorich's higher status. "The food on the ship better had been well packaged. Also if the mission where we retrieve goods from a zerg nest fails, I don't think we'll be able to collect our fees. Other than that, the terms of the contract are satisfactory."

[Dylan Scott]

Cross At the mans question, Cross made his way forward to the Protoss Holo, looking closer for a moment before replying "Yes Sir, as Native as it gets in these parts. I know the area, Looks like Ghost Ridge. Used to be a major trading route till the zerg established a Hive there. Its rough terrain but this time of year it should be passable for a siege tank. I can get us there but its dangerous land. that Hive is the biggest around for miles, heavily protected" Cross turned to look at the man who spoke, a stranger in town but that was nothing new in Servain, it was a hard life and few could make it last so there was a constant rotating pool of colony personnel and workers. Cross made a point of looking at the mans hands, you could tell alot about a man by his hands his father had told him, back when he was coherent. This mans hands were clean, meticulously clean. not a good sign as far as Cross was concerned, especially for a mission like this one but they were also a contridiction to the rest of his appearance. This one is more than he seems, worth keeping an eye on Glancing around the room he saw some familiar faces, but fewer than he would have liked "If we are going to get to know each other then i need more of Mira's coffee or im going to pass out on you. I've been out in the White for a long time and a warm bed is calling. I'm Cross, Search and Rescue and Overwatch, if something needs shooting while you focus on work, I'm your guy" Stepping forward and offering his hand to the older man sitting in the crowd with the Drone by his side, unlit cigarette in his mouth "Drinks are on me but i dont raise a glass with a man if i dont know his name" he says with a wry smile A smile which disappeared from his face as he heard the monotone voice of the MS Drone across the room accept the contract with Executor Ynorich, flicking his gaze around the room for its operator from the Hands of Man

Stat Block   Nathan Cross Neutral Good | Terran - Bounty Hunter | Operative (Level 3) Stamina: 30 |HP: 22 | Resolve Points: 5 EAC: 20 | KAC: 22 | Initiative: +6 Speed: 40 | Base Attack Bonus: +2 STR 13(+1) | DEX 18 (+4) | CON 16 (+3) | INT 14 (+2) | WIS 12 (+1) | CHA11 (0) Fort Save: +6 (Airborne Poison/Toxins +8. Cold/Heat +10)| Reflex Save: +7 | Will Save: +4 Weapons: Archaic, Sniper (2-handed).Range (70/1,000) +6 Ranged (2d6+3 Damage)Specialist Coil Rifle | Range(30) +6 Ranged (1d6+2 Damage)Tactical Semi Auto Pistol | +3 Attack (1d4+2 Damage)Survival Knife | -1 Attack (1D8 Damage, Cuts Through Tungsten)Daelaam Protoss Psi-Blade Features and Abilities: Common, Common (Servain Dialect), Hunter Sign (Visual), Hunter Sign (Tactile), Protoss (Khalani), Protoss (Nerazim), Protoss (Tal-Darim)Languages | Armor: Light Weapons: Simple Melee, Small Arms & Sniper Saving Throws: Dexterity, Constitution Skills: Acrobatics: +12, Athletics: +9, Bluff: +2, Computers: +9, Culture: +13, Diplomacy: +2, Disguise: +2, Engineering: +9, Intimidation: +6, Life Science: +6, Medicine: +10, Perception: +9, Physical Science: +6, Piloting: +11, Profession (Hunter): +9, Sense Motive: +8, Sleight of Hand: +11, Stealth: +12, Survival: +13Proficiencies Feats:You are particularly adept at a certain skill. You gain a +3 insight bonus to checks involving the chosen skillSkill Focus - Survival |You are particularly adept at a certain skill. You gain a +3 insight bonus to checks involving the chosen skillSkill Focus - Culture |You are resistant to diseases, poisons, and other maladies. You gain a +2 bonus to Fortitude saving throwsGreat Fortitude |You have enhanced physical resilience, and harsh conditions or long exertions don’t easily tire you. For every character level you have (and whenever you gain a new level), you gain 1 Stamina Point. In addition, you gain a +4 bonus to Constitution checks to continue running, to avoid damage from a forced march, to hold your breath, and to avoid damage from starvation or thirst. You also gain a +4 bonus to Fortitude saving throws to avoid taking damage from hot or cold environments, to withstand the harmful effects of thick and thin atmospheres, to avoid choking when breathing in heavy smoke, and to avoid fatigue caused by sleep deprivationToughness |You remain accurate at longer ranges.You take only a –1 penalty per full range increment between you and your target when using a ranged weaponFar Shot |You know how to get the full damage out of a weapon type your class doesn’t normally use.You gain specialization in that weapon type, which means you add your character level to damage with the selected weapon type, or half your character level for small arms or operative melee weapons. You can never have specialization in grenades. Weapon Specialization Bounty Hunter Traits: Your mind is a cold steel trap when it comes to scraps of information about the creatures you’re tracking down. Choose a specific sentient creature that you can identify by name, alias,or specific identity to be your mark. Reduce the DC of Culture or Profession (bounty hunter) checks to recall knowledge aboutyour mark, as well as to recall knowledge about law-enforcement individuals and practices, by 5. If you choose a mark that is known only by an alias or secret identity, this ability helps you learn facts only about the identity you know about, not any other unknown identities. Once you defeat your mark, as an action that takes 1 minute, you can study dossiers and database information about another individual to be your new mark. You can instead abandon your mark for a new one without defeating it, but if you do so, you take a –2 penalty to all skill checks for 1 week. Survival is a class skill for you, though if it is a class skill from the class you take at 1st level, you instead gain a +1 bonus to Survival checks.Theme Knowledge - Bounty Hunting Operative Traits: Your diverse training as an operative grants you a +2 insight bonus to initiative checks and to skill checks.Operatives Edge +2 | Your specialization represents your primary area of expertise. Pick one specialization upon taking your 1st level of the operative class. Once made, this choice cannot be changed. Your specialization grants you the Skill Focus feat in your specialization’s associated skills, and you gain a free skill rank in each of those skills at each operative level (this does not allow you to exceed the maximum number of skill ranks in a single skill).Specialisation | You’re a skilled sharpshooter who deals death over vast distances with sniper weapons. As a full action, you can move up to 1/4 your speed. Whether or not you moved, you can then make an attack with a melee weapon with the operative property, a small arm, or a sniper weapon. If the weapon has the sniper property, you can use the property as if you had used a move action to aim. Just before making your attack, attempt a Perception or Stealth check (or a check associated with your specialization) with a DC of 20 + 1-1/2 your target’s CR. If you succeed at the check, the target is flat-footed against the attack and you deal 1d3 additional damage. This damage increases to 1d6 additional damage at 3rd level, plus an additional 1d6 damage for every 2 levels thereafter. You can’t use this ability with a weapon that has the unwieldy special property unless it also has the sniper special property, in which case this ability doesn’t allow you to move before attacking.Sniper +1D6 | If you succeed at a Reflex save against an effect that normally has a partial effect on a successful save, you instead suffer no effect. You gain this benefit only when unencumbered and wearing light armor or no armor, and you lose the benefit when you are helpless or otherwise unable to move Evasion | As you gain experience, you learn special tricks called operative exploits. If an operative exploit allows a saving throw to resist its effects, the DC is equal to 10 + half your operative level + your Dexterity modifier. If it requires an enemy to attempt a skill check, the DC is equal to 10 + 1-1/2 × your operative level + your Dexterity modifier Operative Exploit | As long as you are unencumbered and wearing light armor or no armor, your land speed increases by 10 feet Quick Movement | You gain the Weapon Specialization feat as a bonus feat for each weapon type with which this class grants you proficiency.Weapon Specialisation Operative Specialisation: You’re an expert in scouting out dangerous locations using your knowledge and survival skills -Associated Skills: Culture and Survival. You can attempt a Survival check with a +4 bonus to make a sniper attack by using your surroundings to your advantageExplorer Operative Exploit: You can attempt Survival checks in place of Life Science checks to identify animal, plant, and vermin creatures. You can move at your full overland speed when using Survival to live off the land, and your successful check provides food and water for an additional number of creatures equal to your operative’s edge bonusEfficient Forager

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McConners Dominik reached out and clasped the man's. "Dominik McConners, at your service. Retired Terran military engineer. Glad to hear you know your way around, and I'd hope you're as a good a shot as you say you are. If the Hive's active, things might get nasty. Although I hear there might be a siege tank or something of the sort at our disposal; that'll give us more than a fighting chance, I'd say. I don't think I got your name yet." Before the other man could respond, the stranger flicked his head around. The mahogany stranger seemed to be searching for someone or something in the room. Following suit, Dominik began to scan the faces of the people in the room. Almost immediately, his eye was caught by the squat, mechanical drone sitting by a window. They stood out from the other, fleshy patrons, not to mention the silent but roiling cloud that surrounded their shoulders. Dominik watched in stunned fascination as the stimuli-input modules inside the opened visor blinked and modulated with brightness. Dominik could just swear this drone was something unusual. Usually, Terran machines were designed to have a person at the wheel - yet here stood what looked to be a worker bot, utterly without signal antennae or pickup beacons. Not to mention the cloud surrounding it. The quadrupedal drone beside his chair moved for the first time in a while; with the sound of whirring gears, it clambered onto its pointed feet. With a rhythmical 'tick-tack, tick-tack, tick-tack,' it walked over to the foot of the bipedal drone. Making a small circle around the bipedal drone's ankles, the squarish drone's small visual processor blinked rapidly, almost excitedly. Dominik chuckled. "'Scuse him. He gets excited when he sees bipedal drones; he thinks it's real impressive how you can balance on just two legs. He gave up trying to balance on two when he fell and bent his barrel. Right embarrassing, that was."

[Ursinorum]

M-38S Not fully clear on the concept of 'getting to know each others', despite the given examples, the android simply lifted his hand stating: "Pleasure. I am M-38S." As the small drone pranced around him, the nanocyte tried to track its movements, but it was way too fast for its stand-by mode. "Excitement and ambition. Impressive emotional cortex for such a minute drone, what's its denomination?"

[Dylan Scott]

Cross Watching the interaction between the Drone and McConnors, Cross's mind was a whirl of thoughts, memories trying to make sense of the interaction, something bothering him, his distrust of all things Hands of Man was apparent and his eyes still scanned the room for the drone operator but the way it spoke was odd and it piqued his interest. Some drones were capable to independent speech but it was all programmed rote syntax, key phrases, whatever M-38S was saying was more than programmed response which made him think of an operator using a transmitter to speak through the drone but even then the response was wrong, too robotic, not a human voice through a drone voicebox It took a few moments but Cross remembered what had been nagging at him "M-38S? your the drone thats suppose to be sentient? from the mine collapse?" he watched the two drones interacting with each other until he realised he hadn't answered the other mans questions. "Nathan Cross, everyone just calls me Cross, its a pleasure to meet you Mr McConnors" Absent mindedly Cross rain his thumb across the scar on his face "My Ma would tan my hide for being arrogant enough to say i never miss, but im good enough that the mining conglomerates keep paying me to do it. Military Engineer? that will come in handy, i know a little engineering myself but a siege tank is beyond my talents with a wrench. i take it you know how to pilot the tank then? we will need it. Last time i was out Ghost Ridge way that hive was definitely active"

Stat Block   Nathan Cross Neutral Good | Terran - Bounty Hunter | Operative (Level 3) Stamina: 30 |HP: 22 | Resolve Points: 5 EAC: 20 | KAC: 22 | Initiative: +6 Speed: 40 | Base Attack Bonus: +2 STR 13(+1) | DEX 18 (+4) | CON 16 (+3) | INT 14 (+2) | WIS 12 (+1) | CHA11 (0) Fort Save: +6 (Airborne Poison/Toxins +8. Cold/Heat +10)| Reflex Save: +7 | Will Save: +4 Weapons: Archaic, Sniper (2-handed).Range (70/1,000) +6 Ranged (2d6+3 Damage)Specialist Coil Rifle | Range(30) +6 Ranged (1d6+2 Damage)Tactical Semi Auto Pistol | +3 Attack (1d4+2 Damage)Survival Knife | -1 Attack (1D8 Damage, Cuts Through Tungsten)Daelaam Protoss Psi-Blade Features and Abilities: Common, Common (Servain Dialect), Hunter Sign (Visual), Hunter Sign (Tactile), Protoss (Khalani), Protoss (Nerazim), Protoss (Tal-Darim)Languages | Armor: Light Weapons: Simple Melee, Small Arms & Sniper Saving Throws: Dexterity, Constitution Skills: Acrobatics: +12, Athletics: +9, Bluff: +2, Computers: +9, Culture: +13, Diplomacy: +2, Disguise: +2, Engineering: +9, Intimidation: +6, Life Science: +6, Medicine: +10, Perception: +9, Physical Science: +6, Piloting: +11, Profession (Hunter): +9, Sense Motive: +8, Sleight of Hand: +11, Stealth: +12, Survival: +13Proficiencies Feats:You are particularly adept at a certain skill. You gain a +3 insight bonus to checks involving the chosen skillSkill Focus - Survival |You are particularly adept at a certain skill. You gain a +3 insight bonus to checks involving the chosen skillSkill Focus - Culture |You are resistant to diseases, poisons, and other maladies. You gain a +2 bonus to Fortitude saving throwsGreat Fortitude |You have enhanced physical resilience, and harsh conditions or long exertions don’t easily tire you. For every character level you have (and whenever you gain a new level), you gain 1 Stamina Point. In addition, you gain a +4 bonus to Constitution checks to continue running, to avoid damage from a forced march, to hold your breath, and to avoid damage from starvation or thirst. You also gain a +4 bonus to Fortitude saving throws to avoid taking damage from hot or cold environments, to withstand the harmful effects of thick and thin atmospheres, to avoid choking when breathing in heavy smoke, and to avoid fatigue caused by sleep deprivationToughness |You remain accurate at longer ranges.You take only a –1 penalty per full range increment between you and your target when using a ranged weaponFar Shot |You know how to get the full damage out of a weapon type your class doesn’t normally use.You gain specialization in that weapon type, which means you add your character level to damage with the selected weapon type, or half your character level for small arms or operative melee weapons. You can never have specialization in grenades. Weapon Specialization Bounty Hunter Traits: Your mind is a cold steel trap when it comes to scraps of information about the creatures you’re tracking down. Choose a specific sentient creature that you can identify by name, alias,or specific identity to be your mark. Reduce the DC of Culture or Profession (bounty hunter) checks to recall knowledge aboutyour mark, as well as to recall knowledge about law-enforcement individuals and practices, by 5. If you choose a mark that is known only by an alias or secret identity, this ability helps you learn facts only about the identity you know about, not any other unknown identities. Once you defeat your mark, as an action that takes 1 minute, you can study dossiers and database information about another individual to be your new mark. You can instead abandon your mark for a new one without defeating it, but if you do so, you take a –2 penalty to all skill checks for 1 week. Survival is a class skill for you, though if it is a class skill from the class you take at 1st level, you instead gain a +1 bonus to Survival checks.Theme Knowledge - Bounty Hunting Operative Traits: Your diverse training as an operative grants you a +2 insight bonus to initiative checks and to skill checks.Operatives Edge +2 | Your specialization represents your primary area of expertise. Pick one specialization upon taking your 1st level of the operative class. Once made, this choice cannot be changed. Your specialization grants you the Skill Focus feat in your specialization’s associated skills, and you gain a free skill rank in each of those skills at each operative level (this does not allow you to exceed the maximum number of skill ranks in a single skill).Specialisation | You’re a skilled sharpshooter who deals death over vast distances with sniper weapons. As a full action, you can move up to 1/4 your speed. Whether or not you moved, you can then make an attack with a melee weapon with the operative property, a small arm, or a sniper weapon. If the weapon has the sniper property, you can use the property as if you had used a move action to aim. Just before making your attack, attempt a Perception or Stealth check (or a check associated with your specialization) with a DC of 20 + 1-1/2 your target’s CR. If you succeed at the check, the target is flat-footed against the attack and you deal 1d3 additional damage. This damage increases to 1d6 additional damage at 3rd level, plus an additional 1d6 damage for every 2 levels thereafter. You can’t use this ability with a weapon that has the unwieldy special property unless it also has the sniper special property, in which case this ability doesn’t allow you to move before attacking.Sniper +1D6 | If you succeed at a Reflex save against an effect that normally has a partial effect on a successful save, you instead suffer no effect. You gain this benefit only when unencumbered and wearing light armor or no armor, and you lose the benefit when you are helpless or otherwise unable to move Evasion | As you gain experience, you learn special tricks called operative exploits. If an operative exploit allows a saving throw to resist its effects, the DC is equal to 10 + half your operative level + your Dexterity modifier. If it requires an enemy to attempt a skill check, the DC is equal to 10 + 1-1/2 × your operative level + your Dexterity modifier Operative Exploit | As long as you are unencumbered and wearing light armor or no armor, your land speed increases by 10 feet Quick Movement | You gain the Weapon Specialization feat as a bonus feat for each weapon type with which this class grants you proficiency.Weapon Specialisation Operative Specialisation: You’re an expert in scouting out dangerous locations using your knowledge and survival skills -Associated Skills: Culture and Survival. You can attempt a Survival check with a +4 bonus to make a sniper attack by using your surroundings to your advantageExplorer Operative Exploit: You can attempt Survival checks in place of Life Science checks to identify animal, plant, and vermin creatures. You can move at your full overland speed when using Survival to live off the land, and your successful check provides food and water for an additional number of creatures equal to your operative’s edge bonusEfficient Forager

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McConners Dominik responded to M-38S, a little unnerved to be speaking to a bot that was... looking at him. "Orion's his name. I named him after one of those constellations back on Earth. A hunter, I think it was. And yup, he's got some serious emotional processors in there. Put them in in a moment of weakness; I needed a friend to watch my back. This little guy's gotten me out of more sticky situations than I could count." Dominik turned to the stranger when he offered his name; "The pleasure's mine, Cross. And I could drive one sure as stars shine; I know the guts and cockpit like the back of my hand. Hell, put me in a junkyard with a box of screws and I could damn well build one." Dominik turned his attention back to M-38S, and whistled for Orion to come back beside his chair. "Oh, you've heard of this bot?" Dominik inquired to Cross. "Know anything about the peculiar... aura our friend is giving off?" As Dominik talked, he wiped his hands on his clothes a couple times. Then his hand went back inside his pocket to fiddle with the pin of a frag.

[Dylan Scott]

Cross Cross watched as the small drone Orion responded to the whistle, a smile crossing his face "Makes perfect sense to me, I have Rose for the same reason. The White can get very lonely at times when your out on your own for as long as i am" "As for Gears here, if i remember it right. the Hands of Men used some experimental tech to fix up some drones damaged in a mine collapse and it reacted strangely in one of them and gave it sentience. i'm not sure what Aura your referring too though, like i said i'm clearly not the engineer you are but maybe it has something to do with the Tech they used?" Cross glanced over at M-38S but all he could make out was an MS Drone, other than its Front Cowling being open and it talking more than normal it looked like a standard model to him "I haven't heard of anyone having a bad reaction to whatever it is your seeing so i'm guessing the aura is safe"

Stat Block   Nathan Cross Neutral Good | Terran - Bounty Hunter | Operative (Level 3) Stamina: 30 |HP: 22 | Resolve Points: 5 EAC: 20 | KAC: 22 | Initiative: +6 Speed: 40 | Base Attack Bonus: +2 STR 13(+1) | DEX 18 (+4) | CON 16 (+3) | INT 14 (+2) | WIS 12 (+1) | CHA11 (0) Fort Save: +6 (Airborne Poison/Toxins +8. Cold/Heat +10)| Reflex Save: +7 | Will Save: +4 Weapons: Archaic, Sniper (2-handed).Range (70/1,000) +6 Ranged (2d6+3 Damage)Specialist Coil Rifle | Range(30) +6 Ranged (1d6+2 Damage)Tactical Semi Auto Pistol | +3 Attack (1d4+2 Damage)Survival Knife | -1 Attack (1D8 Damage, Cuts Through Tungsten)Daelaam Protoss Psi-Blade Features and Abilities: Common, Common (Servain Dialect), Hunter Sign (Visual), Hunter Sign (Tactile), Protoss (Khalani), Protoss (Nerazim), Protoss (Tal-Darim)Languages | Armor: Light Weapons: Simple Melee, Small Arms & Sniper Saving Throws: Dexterity, Constitution Skills: Acrobatics: +12, Athletics: +9, Bluff: +2, Computers: +9, Culture: +13, Diplomacy: +2, Disguise: +2, Engineering: +9, Intimidation: +6, Life Science: +6, Medicine: +10, Perception: +9, Physical Science: +6, Piloting: +11, Profession (Hunter): +9, Sense Motive: +8, Sleight of Hand: +11, Stealth: +12, Survival: +13Proficiencies Feats:You are particularly adept at a certain skill. You gain a +3 insight bonus to checks involving the chosen skillSkill Focus - Survival |You are particularly adept at a certain skill. You gain a +3 insight bonus to checks involving the chosen skillSkill Focus - Culture |You are resistant to diseases, poisons, and other maladies. You gain a +2 bonus to Fortitude saving throwsGreat Fortitude |You have enhanced physical resilience, and harsh conditions or long exertions don’t easily tire you. For every character level you have (and whenever you gain a new level), you gain 1 Stamina Point. In addition, you gain a +4 bonus to Constitution checks to continue running, to avoid damage from a forced march, to hold your breath, and to avoid damage from starvation or thirst. You also gain a +4 bonus to Fortitude saving throws to avoid taking damage from hot or cold environments, to withstand the harmful effects of thick and thin atmospheres, to avoid choking when breathing in heavy smoke, and to avoid fatigue caused by sleep deprivationToughness |You remain accurate at longer ranges.You take only a –1 penalty per full range increment between you and your target when using a ranged weaponFar Shot |You know how to get the full damage out of a weapon type your class doesn’t normally use.You gain specialization in that weapon type, which means you add your character level to damage with the selected weapon type, or half your character level for small arms or operative melee weapons. You can never have specialization in grenades. Weapon Specialization Bounty Hunter Traits: Your mind is a cold steel trap when it comes to scraps of information about the creatures you’re tracking down. Choose a specific sentient creature that you can identify by name, alias,or specific identity to be your mark. Reduce the DC of Culture or Profession (bounty hunter) checks to recall knowledge aboutyour mark, as well as to recall knowledge about law-enforcement individuals and practices, by 5. If you choose a mark that is known only by an alias or secret identity, this ability helps you learn facts only about the identity you know about, not any other unknown identities. Once you defeat your mark, as an action that takes 1 minute, you can study dossiers and database information about another individual to be your new mark. You can instead abandon your mark for a new one without defeating it, but if you do so, you take a –2 penalty to all skill checks for 1 week. Survival is a class skill for you, though if it is a class skill from the class you take at 1st level, you instead gain a +1 bonus to Survival checks.Theme Knowledge - Bounty Hunting Operative Traits: Your diverse training as an operative grants you a +2 insight bonus to initiative checks and to skill checks.Operatives Edge +2 | Your specialization represents your primary area of expertise. Pick one specialization upon taking your 1st level of the operative class. Once made, this choice cannot be changed. Your specialization grants you the Skill Focus feat in your specialization’s associated skills, and you gain a free skill rank in each of those skills at each operative level (this does not allow you to exceed the maximum number of skill ranks in a single skill).Specialisation | You’re a skilled sharpshooter who deals death over vast distances with sniper weapons. As a full action, you can move up to 1/4 your speed. Whether or not you moved, you can then make an attack with a melee weapon with the operative property, a small arm, or a sniper weapon. If the weapon has the sniper property, you can use the property as if you had used a move action to aim. Just before making your attack, attempt a Perception or Stealth check (or a check associated with your specialization) with a DC of 20 + 1-1/2 your target’s CR. If you succeed at the check, the target is flat-footed against the attack and you deal 1d3 additional damage. This damage increases to 1d6 additional damage at 3rd level, plus an additional 1d6 damage for every 2 levels thereafter. You can’t use this ability with a weapon that has the unwieldy special property unless it also has the sniper special property, in which case this ability doesn’t allow you to move before attacking.Sniper +1D6 | If you succeed at a Reflex save against an effect that normally has a partial effect on a successful save, you instead suffer no effect. You gain this benefit only when unencumbered and wearing light armor or no armor, and you lose the benefit when you are helpless or otherwise unable to move Evasion | As you gain experience, you learn special tricks called operative exploits. If an operative exploit allows a saving throw to resist its effects, the DC is equal to 10 + half your operative level + your Dexterity modifier. If it requires an enemy to attempt a skill check, the DC is equal to 10 + 1-1/2 × your operative level + your Dexterity modifier Operative Exploit | As long as you are unencumbered and wearing light armor or no armor, your land speed increases by 10 feet Quick Movement | You gain the Weapon Specialization feat as a bonus feat for each weapon type with which this class grants you proficiency.Weapon Specialisation Operative Specialisation: You’re an expert in scouting out dangerous locations using your knowledge and survival skills -Associated Skills: Culture and Survival. You can attempt a Survival check with a +4 bonus to make a sniper attack by using your surroundings to your advantageExplorer Operative Exploit: You can attempt Survival checks in place of Life Science checks to identify animal, plant, and vermin creatures. You can move at your full overland speed when using Survival to live off the land, and your successful check provides food and water for an additional number of creatures equal to your operative’s edge bonusEfficient Forager

[Ursinorum]

M-38S "Orion the hunter.. " the android pondered. "Fitting." Tilting up to Dominik he added "I take solace to know that there is a competent engineer in our group. I can perform routine maintenance on myself but I am limited in my self-repair skills." M-38S moved its torso so that the sensors would center Cross. "You are correct, the Hand of Man used nanites of dubious source in an attempt to repair me, to their detriment. I turned out to be a terrible investment on their part."

OOC I'm a doofus and didn't think that a robot might be happy about the presence of a mechanic. Fixed now.

[mpowell60]

Ta'arn The door to the tavern bangs open, the stiff winter wind pushing the portal all the way open. A newcomer steps in, struggling to close the door against the wind, and remove his heavy winter hood at the same time. "Captain Ta'arn! Close the door and come on in.. yer lettin the warm out!" bellows Xel the Barkeep at the being. in reply, the newcomer waves one of his 4 arms in a rude gesture and yells back "If you would put in an entryway as an airlock.. like I have suggested for YEARS.. then we wouldn't have that problem...now would we!" giving witnesses the feeling like this is an old, familiar exchange between friends. slamming the door to, the newcomer turns and dis-coats to reveal a tall, slender, gray-skinned Kasatha, dressed in heavy winter gear. he looks around curiously at the odd gathering, unusual in the tavern and approaches the bar. "Let me have the usual, and whats up here? I come in for my monthly beer and supply run and you have company? Are you having a party, and I missed my invite?"

[RWBY2019]

Xel walk back bringing Ta'arn his beer "you haven't missed any thing in fact its just getting started in the back" he places a contract sheet down in front of the kastha "you should take it up I here that the others could use a good pilot"

Mari comes carrying a tray with beer on it and a bottle of whisky handing to cross with a wink "its on me tonight" hand out the beers to his comrades coming back with his coffee as well just as he likes it.

Screams In The Night Just as the the group is enjoying their drinks they all hear something on the blizzard wind screaming at first the screams, sounded like a whistle in wind but they grew to be greater screams of pure terror, and the tell tale screeching of the zerg can be heard as the back up chorus. Suddenly a warp signal intrudes on all frequency's in the bar and several defenders of Adun warp into the bar. "Executor the city is under attack" the Executor stands with a start looking at cross "Talandar I humbly request you fight next to me as you have before" one of the Protoss steps forward, "I am phase smith Kossys the tank we repaired is outside ready for service"the other warriors rush out of the bar shouting Khalani. "For the home of Servain", the zerg shrieking can be heard louder and the thunder of protoss immortal cannons can be heard among the cries of the people of Servain but there is a new sound among them a deep rumbling from both the sky and earth after a few moments the shriek is heard a zerg nydus worm has just surfaced but the simultaneous, thunder of protoss ship cannons can, be heard the dying shrieking of zerg is heard as more worms surface.

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McConners Dominik stood quickly, sending his chair crashing to the ground behind him. "Zergs, here? Now? Dammit!" Dominik shrugged his rifle from his back. He pulled out a mag, checked it, and clicked it into his gun. Orion clambered onto his feet once again. With a crackle, a faintly purple haze appeared around the little bot. "Shields up, Orion, you know the drill. Thanks, Kossys, much appreciated. Hey, you, newcomer. You a pilot? There's a siege tank outside with your name on the seat. Now's a good time to do some fancy driving, four-arms. Spit's just hit the fan." Dominik stands with his longarm in his hands. Orion, beside him, squats with the barrels of his machine gun spinning in excitement. "Ready when y'all are. Let's kick us some super-organism ass." Initiative: Dice Roll: 1d20+4 (3)+4 Total = 7