Tavern Watch Plays Starfinder: Murder in Metal City, episode 2: Hot on the trail

With a lead in their hot little hands freshly pried from the storage of a hijacked murder-drone, our crew of Starfinder adventurers — brought together first to meet their friend Tier-99-Professor, then by happenstance to investigate his murder — dive into the back alleys and data storage centers of Striving to see if they can pin down any clues as to why someone would want the good Professor dead. What they find may put themselves (and others!) in danger instead as they get embroiled in matters way out of their pay grade.

Liz Harper is here to GM for us yet again, and our group of intrepid investigators (one of them is even an actual detective!) are:

• Joe Perez as “Nitpick” Bennit, Ysoki Witchwarper, who always knows a guy, and is a daft hand with both magic and technology
• Phil Ulrich as Lunar-17, Android Mystic, who’s so terminally online that it gave her magic powers
• Matt Rossi as Tooth Hug, Skittermander Solarian, who could really use a snack right now
• Special guest Trish Olson, a.k.a. AwkwardishPanda, as Jaedana, a Kasatha Operative gamer who’s uncannily good with a gun, but doesn’t know why she’s here

This is the second in a three-part actual play series of the Starfinder 2E published adventure Murder in Metal City — you can check out the first episode here, and be on the lookout for new episodes every Monday!

This game was played using the second edition of Paizo’s Starfinder, which expands their Pathfinder game into space. We’re really fomd of this rollicking science-fantasy game system — so much so that we’ve even played it before on the show — and if you like what you hear today, you can easily pick it up for yourself!

Music from this episode is “Start a Trek,” by Edgar Henderson; you can check out more of his music on Soundcloud.

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