Overall, our group is super pleased with it, and we all had a blast during our first, albeit highly impromptu and initally-supposed-to-be-noncanon session on roll20 (there's two character sheet choices on there, one more elaborate and newb-friendly, and one more minimalistic and requiring more manual work, for those who choose to play online) - it was only one, fairly straightforward combat encounter in a hastily-thrown-together dungeon (after which the party decided to retreat back).
For context, the party consists of:
- A Buzz Lightyear-esque human with a jetpack, a gun, and an over-the-top hero personality. (George Lightspeed)
- A femme goth psychic alien cyborg/mad scientist, hellbent on finding a cure for death. (Falmarine the Technomage)
- A giant limbless worm in power armor with a shotgun. (Worm)
- A three-armed flame-punching gal with a robotic pet (which she describes as though it's a Roomba). (Multah Aroiric and Beeps)
- A seemingly nice but actually kinda vengeful human mechanic/engineer. (Don Grindspark)
- A crystal gem rock singer. (Prasiolite)
The party, at least half of which have criminal backgrounds, were all thrown together into a half-military, half-hero
star squad* of Dimstar, and sent off to fight in a war against the Xul'tonian Empire - a vast interstellar force ran by mind-controlling, three-eyed snakelike aliens, after their refusal to join the Pan-Galactic Federation on its terms, which, among other things, would force them to let go of their species-enslaving ways.
So, the party arrives at this cliffside bunker on some desert planet that's been in the warzone for a while, where supposedly some Xul'tonian forces have been hiding and conducting some nasty things.
As they hop off their ship, they notice a heavy metal door built into the side of the mountain. Falmarine's first thought is to try and go invisible and...try and sneak in? Not sure right now, but whatever the case, her cloaking device malfunctioned slightly and made a loud buzzing noise, which alerted somebody inside, who went to investigate - immediately after seeing the group, they ran back inside, and after a short while, the party followed them into the base, running straight into a room guarded by five Xul'tonian soldiers.
So at this point, full-on combat erupts between the two, and some highlights include:
- George Lightspeed charging in first, guns blazing, but being focused down rather quickly (and almost, but not quite, dying)
- Prasiolite being the first one to die - however, a portion of their shattered crystal body was used by Multah as a makeshift weapon, which surprisingly enough did manage to damage an enemy, though not by much.
- Falmarine constructing a robot drone, driving it between two enemies and detonating it, killing one and damaging the other.
- Don running out of the room during the party's attempt to retreat, but also being mad at the aliens for killing one of his partners, therefore trying to run back in and get some revenge...and basically missing his shot and almost dying on the second way back.
- Don and Falmarine trying to revv the ship's engines for roughly four combat rounds in a row.
- Overall many people being knocked uncoscious and almost dying, but proceeded to be brought back up.
- Quite a few spectacular rolls thanks to dice explosions.
Eventually, despite their initial doubts, the party did manage to kill all the enemies in that first room (of which there were like only five or six, for the record), but still decided to head back to base - however, Falmarine brought some of the enemy corpses with her and using her....tech, brought them back to life as cyberzombies, though maybe not as strong as she would've liked. By the same token, she also brought Prasiolite back from the dead, though also with some imperfections.
Now, the Federation seems to be gaining control over the planet, however this one Xul'tonian bunker still stands, but seems to have gone quiet recently - usually people would see lights and hear noises coming from its general vicinity, but now they seem to have stopped - the Federation sent out a scout squad to try and investigate, but they have not made it back, therefore they're sending this one force that already was there to try and take that place on instead. And that's where the next session will start.
