Session 3 (May 27, 2026)

Pal Go Lucky (Don) — Pal opened every encounter with diplomatic honesty of varying accuracy. At the first locked hatch, he climbed up and told the grung guard that they absolutely had permission to be up there and had been specifically requested. The DM ruled this was deception, not persuasion, and asked him to roll accordingly. On the second locked hatch, when a grung challenged what business they had in the reactor room, Pal simply bought time with a lucky-point advantage roll while someone else hacked the console. When a grung critted him on the bridge stairs, he used his guardian emblem to reduce it from 22 to 12 — exactly equal to his temporary hit points. He also distributed four-leaf clovers to everyone at the table at the start of the session, especially the new ones.

Pierce (Mike) — Pierce opened the final phase of the engine room fight by casting Twilight Sanctuary, giving everyone in his 30-foot radius 12 temporary hit points, then took Steps of Night to fly up and position himself. He hacked one of the consoles — suppressing the defense systems enough to halve the damage from the poison gas — and ended the engine room with Mass Healing Word for 11 to everyone who needed it. On the bridge, he flew in, cast Toll the Dead on the wounded Slad, and followed with a level-5 Spiritual Weapon for 30 force damage. His diagnosis of the hostages — Slad tadpoles, treatable with Greater Restoration — closed the mission cleanly.

Mattrum (Trey) — Matrim arrived as the session's most-traveled pub crawler, having been to every prior plane with this or similar groups, trailing a Sphinx familiar and a growing reputation for creative resource use. In the engine room, he sent his cat familiar to hack a console — "it's arcane capable," he noted, as if this were obvious — and the cat succeeded on its second attempt, shutting down one of the three security systems. He spent the reactor fight bouncing between Eldritch Blasts and bardic action management, keeping his Aberrant Spirit Slad up and fighting while working around the damage resistance. His suggestion to throw a fireball up the ladder before everyone climbed was vetoed by Hedy. She then threw the fireball herself two rounds later.

Hedy (Gon) — Hedy was the engine room's primary console hacker and the reason the party got through the blast doors at all. At the first locked hatch, she hard-cast Comprehend Languages, read the Gith writing, and used Arcana with guidance for a 20 to open it. In the engine room, she hacked three of the four consoles — the security drones, the defense systems, and finally the main drive itself — using Arcana checks of 36, 18, and others, with her owl Alley providing Help action advantage. She also used her diviner's portents to guarantee a failure on one of the larger enemies. The session's decisive blow was hers: a 5th-level fireball that hit two transforming grung, rolled 33 damage, and dropped one outright. Then she turned invisible.

Therion Starblade (Mark) — Therion spent the engine room fight hacking consoles, taking a crit reduced to 10 damage by his guardian emblem, and surviving a lightning floor trap with a successful save. On the bridge, he fired a True Strike arrow into the grung on the ladder for 29 damage and Action Surged to take out the last one before anyone else could reach it. He also suggested using the destroyed animated swords as door jams to prop the blast doors open, which was accepted immediately and worked. The party recovered the sword fragments afterward as salvage.

Sparrow (Michael) — Sparrow moved through the engine room's confined curved space with practiced ease, opening with a 26 to hit that became a crit — 38 damage to the helmed hoarder on the first swing, followed by a dagger for a two-for-one clear. She ended the combat by using a luck point on Investigation to shut down the last console, which caused the fourth hidden console to appear in the middle of the room. She also picked all six of the crew's locked boxes in the quarters level with a single roll of 35, noting it was nearly impossible to fail. The boxes held 250 gold in crew savings and enough makeup to assemble full disguise kits. The party did not use the disguise kits.

Alcor (XZ) — Alcor introduced himself as a Stars Druid-for-hire, a freelancer. He opened the engine room fight in Starry Form: Archer, casting Guiding Bolt for a crit of 23 radiant damage, then using the Luminous Arrow follow-up from Starry Form to add another 15. In subsequent rounds he deleted two animated swords with a pair of ranged attacks — 9 and 11 damage — and provided the Guiding Bolt advantage to other attackers. On the bridge, he dropped Spike Growth across the whole deck before anyone climbed the ladder, dealing 2d6 per movement to everything on the floor. He also had the idea to use inspiration before the last roll of the engine room and took it.