Episode 2.01: Brushfire!

[Davy, aka GM]

OOC: Okay, that gives Cole a total of 5 Work. How do you want to spend the 4 Momentum?

By the way, those 5 Work also reduce the Work track to 0, so you gents will achieve 2 Breakthroughs (which is the maximum number you can achieve in a single roll).

So, you don't need to spend any Momentum on Work this turn, so you can Create Opportunity for the first PC in the next round, or you can Create Disadvantage for the poor Apellans, or Create Advantage to help Styles and his team (something like Forces Drawn Away), or something else that helps in the future. (There's one more fight scene after this.)

[Patrick Goodman]

IMO, we should absolutely take some of the heat off Styles. Hell, we have a metric buttload of Momentum here; can we do 2 different things to help him out?

[Davy, aka GM]

OOC: Sure can. You have enough Momentum to create two Advantages. One could be "Reinforcements," representing Treyva or another member of the team encountering Tyreen and directing them to help Styles. The other can be the effect I mentioned earlier, Forces Drawn Away, representing the thinning of the Apellan "line" on the landing party's side of the fight. Feel free to be creative.

[Renny]

OOC: I'm ok with spending Momentum to help Styles if everyone else is in agreement.

[Nolmir]

OOC: Yep, that sounds good to me too.

[Doug Burke]

I love this plan!

[Patrick Goodman]

Okay, we all seem to be in agreement then. So let's for sure make the "Help Is On the Way" Advantage, where we get some Tyreen forces over to help Styles. Perhaps a Disadvantage for the Apellans, "Turning Tides" or some such, which gives them an increase in Difficulty in their endeavors against the Tyreens.

These sound good, guys?

[Renny]

OOC: Yep, sounds good to me.

[Davy, aka GM]

OOC: Barring any dissent, I'll activate those. (I guess this means I really need to resolve Styles' part of the battle.  )

The Apellan squad leader attempts to rally his warriors.

OOC: Apellans Daring + Command (10/0) vs. Difficulty 2, increased to Difficulty 3 by Turning Tide Disadvantage
Rolled 2d20 : 14, 14, total 28

Status
Drake Landing Party (Difficulty 0, +1[CD] Work)
Current Resistance 0
Work Completed (20) 0 7 15 11 16 20
Breakthroughs (6) 0 1 2 3 5

Apellan Warriors (Difficulty 2)
Current Resistance 0 2
Work Completed (20) 0 3
Breakthroughs (6) 0

Skills
Tobin: Insight + Security, assisted by the ship's Sensors + Security
Landing Party PCs and Supporting Characters (and Apellan Warriors): Control + Security, Daring + Security, Fitness + Security, Daring + Command, or Daring + Medicine

Note: To replicate the PCs each having to attempt a task during the scene, the Apellans have to attempt each of the "Landing Party" (yes, I changed the name to be clearer what skills are available to y'all) tasks once.

Remaining Stress
Treyva 10
Cole* 17 11
Ally 14
Tann-Tyra 14
Kowalski 12 9
Dietrich 12

Kowalski and Dietrich have Control 10, Daring 10, Fitness 9, Command 2, Security 2, and Medicine 1. Their stat line for the Repeater is Ranged, 5 [CD], Vicious 1, Deadly.

Current
Momentum 4
Threat 4

Well-Oiled Machine Advantage (when a PC or supporting character assists a PC on a shipboard task)
More Aggressive Strategy Advantage (Tyreen)
Educated Guess Advantage (when using ship's sensors to actively scan for cloaked ships)
Help Is On the Way Advantage (Styles' landing party in the current battle, representing Tyreen reinforcements)
Turning Tide Disadvantage (Apellans in the current battle)

Weapon: Repeating Rifle (ranged, 3+Sec [CD], Vicious 1, Deadly)

[Davy, aka GM]

Dietrich attempts to push the landing party's advantage.

OOC: Dietrich Control + Security (10/2) vs. Difficulty 0

Rolled 2d20 : 15, 6, total 21

[Davy, aka GM]

OOC: 1 Success vs. Difficulty 0. Success, plus 1 Momentum generated.

Work 4[CD] + 1 cbonus [CD]

Rolled 5d6 : 4, 6, 4, 4, 1, total 19

[Davy, aka GM]

OOC: Spending that 1 Momentum to reroll the three nil results.

Rolled 3d6 : 1, 2, 6, total 9

[Patrick Goodman]

Go Dietrich!!

[Davy, aka GM]

OOC: 6 Work performed. 1 Breakthrough for additional work after clearing the work track. 1 Breakthrough for 5+ Work performed.

7 Breakthroughs achieved. Extended challenge won by the landing party.

Through a combined effort, the landing party is able to scatter the surviving members of the Apellan squad; they watch as the Apellans flee the field down the rocky hill, then move forward to ensure the remainder of the flank is clear. With Kowalski on point and Dietrich not far behind him, the party enters a graded area, a flat section of slightly above them to the left, and a drop-off to their right.

Kowalski holds up a hand and the rest of the officers and specialists stop in their tracks. He reacts to something up ahead, and a shot rings out.

OOC: Sorry to leave you gents in a cliffhanger, but I have to finish up the map for this final skirmish before continuing.

[Renny]

OOC: Never complain about a cliffhanger