MURDER MOST FOUL GAMEPLAY THREAD

A stealth drone hovering just outside Analog shoots at the image, missing all living targets but perfectly striking Tier-99-Professor’s hologram in an ominous echo of your fate. The drone flies away immediately, activating its adaptive cloaking module to try to blend in with its metal surroundings. Its camouflage is imperfect though while in motion, allowing the you a glimpse of a blur streaking away from the window and down
the alley across the street. How do you specifically react to the sudden flyby?

Vorza:
Roll for Intiative using Perception. If there is another skill that you think you should be rolling Initiative with then I am open to it.

Old-Growth:
Did you have the machine gun with you as you walked into the cafe? I think you may have been arrested if you did. If it was concealed then let me know how.

This scene uses Starfinder’s chase scene rules. The chase scene involves the fleeing drone and the PCs progressing through a series of obstacles in a specified order. Each round, the fleeing drone makes a specified amount of progress, and each PC may attempt a check to see how much progress they make, as represented by Chase Points. Each obstacle requires a certain number of Chase Points to overcome.

On a character’s turn, they describe what they do to help the group get past the obstacle. They then attempt any required roll, or perform the required action for a choice without a check. If they attempt a roll, the result determines how many Chase Points the character gains for the party.

Critical Success The PCs gain 2 Chase Points.
Success The PCs gain 1 Chase Point.
Critical Failure The PCs lose 1 Chase Point.

Once the PCs earn enough Chase Points as a group, to overcome an obstacle, the entire party moves to the next obstacle. Extra points don’t carry over, but anyone who hasn’t taken their turn yet can act against the new obstacle. The drone acts first each round, followed by the PCs. The drone flees toward a programmed pickup point. It starts at the traffic crossing obstacle and moves at a rate of 1 obstacle per round; when it completes its turn on the first round, it’s at the safety crossing obstacle.

Did the laser blast shatter the window or did it burn a neat little super-heated hole through it?
The laser was an underslung laser pistol.

About how far away is the stealth drone?
The Aballon Spy Drone was outside the cafe and is now racing away while using its adaptive cloaking module to blend into its surroundings.

Roll your Culture Check.

So just waiting on Initiative from Lunar-17 and Old-Growth.

So just waiting on Initiative from Lunar-17 and Old-Growth.

Jaedana: Some Starfinder chases involve vehicles or starships, but this chase takes place at street level in busy downgrid Striving as you pursue a hovering stealth drone on foot.

The drones Speed 25 feet.