Empire Wreckers

S13E02 - Over the Rainbow

Empire Wreckers Season 13 Episode 2

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The Clone Wars have begun! Following an explosive battle on Geonosis, Jedi Knights across the galaxy have been called to serve as commanders in the Republic's Grand Clone Army.

Sneaking off before being ordered to the front lines, Exploration Group 6-B of the Jedi Service Corps embarked on a mission of their own, seeking the mythical planet Bimmis, whose waters are said to cure injuries of the body, mind, and spirit.

Finding a map to the planet inside a sunken, pirate-controlled temple, the group and their Jedi Captain now make their way to the lost planet of eternal life....

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SPEAKER_03

Hey everyone, thanks for listening to Star Wars Empire Wreckers, the Star Wars actual play podcast that has emerged from its burrow and seen its own shadow. Who's ready for six more weeks of winter today?

SPEAKER_08

Chrysant is ready to party at any time, at any temperature.

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Oh shit, Calaisette still needs a second to think. I was really wanting to bring it around to Tony's glazed hole, but I don't think there's a way.

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Frosting. Frosting. Frosting.

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Calaisette's ready to spend the next six weeks feeling like she's just been eating the same glazed hole over and over and over again.

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Starzan, the Starzarian, is from the beautiful jungle planet of Egorice. And Leslie has no understanding of this winter of which you speak.

SPEAKER_05

Do you come from a borough?

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, we just emerged from it.

SPEAKER_04

Oh yeah. And Elyria, the chiss consular healer. Are we supposed to introduce ourselves since it's uh first season?

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, we should be doing it every episode. But it's interesting.

SPEAKER_05

Listen. You guys did it, and then I'm like, shit, maybe I should have. Should we go again? We could probably go again. Let's go again.

SPEAKER_10

You can go again. And then we might take it.

SPEAKER_05

Just pieces together. Callissette, the uh the Balisar seeker hunter, is ready for six more weeks of winter where she's gonna be eating Tony's glazed hole over and over and over again.

SPEAKER_08

Chriss uh Croissant Croissant!

SPEAKER_05

Croissant holes.

SPEAKER_08

Uh bonjour, my name is Croissant. I am a falling, but I am also a mystic advisor. And I am ready to party at any temperature, at any time, no matter what. No groundhog piece of shit is gonna tell me when to stop partying.

SPEAKER_03

Is Chris's main pickup line, I'm falling for you?

SPEAKER_08

It works surprisingly well.

SPEAKER_05

Surprisingly little.

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And Elyria, the Chis Consular Healer, is ready to withstand another six weeks of winter and to build all the character. That brings Oh god, I suck at this.

SPEAKER_03

Alright, we're in a time loop thing, so take three.

SPEAKER_04

And Elyria, the Chis Consular Healer, is ready to withstand six more weeks of winter that will bring her closer to the force.

SPEAKER_08

You're not gonna edit any of this shit, are you?

SPEAKER_03

And if you're ready to put your little hand in mine, why don't you come along with us to a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away in Star Wars? The clone wars have begun! Following an explosive battle on Geonosis, Jedi Knights across the galaxy have been called to serve as commanders in the Republic's Grand Clone Army. Sneaking off before being ordered to the front lines, Exploration Group 6B of the Jedi Service Corps embarked on a mission of their own, seeking the mythical planet Bimis, whose waters are said to cure injuries of the body, mind, and spirit. Finding a map to the planet inside a sunken pirate-controlled temple, the group and their Jedi captain now make their way to the lost planet of eternal life.

SPEAKER_05

Hell yeah, I don't wanna w I don't wanna go to war. Let's go find a planet!

SPEAKER_03

Can go find a planet. Uh, your hyperspace coordinates have been locked in to the planet Bimis. Hopefully, some of you uh will be able to recover some of that strain you accrued from drowning.

SPEAKER_05

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_03

Uh but there is, you know, it it is a little bit out of the way, so um, you can take a night's rest to recover your strain. Uh the next morning over after the overnight trip, the proximity alarm chimes, and you can drop out of hyperspace towards the lush, beautiful, completely dry planet Bimis.

SPEAKER_05

Completely dry.

SPEAKER_04

You would describe something as lush and completely dry.

SPEAKER_05

The lush, a lush desert.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, that's as you drop out of hyperspace, lush, beautiful, completely dry.

SPEAKER_05

Thank god, no water.

SPEAKER_03

No water, brown from space. It seems so similar to any of the other millions of desert planets that are scattered across the galaxy. She sounds like my ex-girlfriend.

SPEAKER_05

I feel like that's a razz on yourself more than anything else, Chris. Also, when you said a night's rest.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, no, no, if you guys were getting a night's rest, you wouldn't be in the service core.

SPEAKER_04

I know. I was just like, oh, is that like a special Jedi meditation?

SPEAKER_05

No.

SPEAKER_04

Ah, a night's rest.

SPEAKER_05

Only the knights do this. So so as we're approaching, it just looks like uh generic desert planet.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, the uh uh according to the myths, uh, the planet Bimis is home to he like resplendent, plentiful healing waters.

SPEAKER_05

Oh. So uh Master Master Hallen, this is uh healing waters place, right?

SPEAKER_03

Uh so the myths say.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah, um I'm not seeing much water? Is that gonna be an issue?

SPEAKER_03

I hope not. This is the correct coordinates. I'm certain of it. I can feel the power of the force radiating from this world. If there is water, it's surely to have the properties we seek, or at least we hope.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah. Unless it's like a dunesy thing, and you just have to like bury yourself in sand like a little trap-door spider.

SPEAKER_03

Perhaps. I'm not maybe it was something to do with the Kravaki translations. Maybe their language has similar words for water and sand? I hope not.

SPEAKER_08

Wait, a scan of a little sand? Can can can can can I uh is there like a zoology or no, that it wouldn't be zoology, fuck. Um like an education education to like know if that if like that's deck stuck in my head is something that I might know about the language.

SPEAKER_03

Um you guys didn't really know that much about the Kravaki last time, uh, but maybe on the on the way over you brushed up, so that, yeah, it could probably be a knowledge education, knowledge lore, or outer rim.

SPEAKER_06

Let's check out my skills. Uh we'll call it a two purple and a black. Two purple and a black, okay. So it'd be lore.

SPEAKER_04

One success, two threat. Three failures, two advantage.

SPEAKER_05

I don't suppose you would allow me to roll perception to see if there's anything I can visually notice from orbit.

SPEAKER_03

Um, I mean if you want to like check the ship's scopes, you could.

SPEAKER_05

Okay, sure.

SPEAKER_03

Which would probably be uh computers.

SPEAKER_05

Aww, computers.

SPEAKER_03

There would only be one purple for computers.

SPEAKER_05

Okay. I think I only have two to computers. Yeah, one purple. One advantage, oh yeah. Okay.

SPEAKER_03

So, uh Illyria, you got success with threat knowing about uh the Kravaki. So uh since the Kravaki written language did come up last time, uh, you may have done some brushing up on them since they were taking people to Bimis. Uh unfortunately, because you got that threat, you couldn't find any confirmation one way or the other whether water and sand like have the same word or the same meaning. Uh so because you didn't find any evidence, they might be separate, but you never know. Maybe you just weren't looking in the right books.

SPEAKER_04

With hard work and determination, I will find out the answer.

SPEAKER_03

Uh Chris, um, you got failure with advantage. So you didn't you don't know anything about the Kravaki, but uh this planet Bimis that does kind of ping something f in in your brain. There is a planet called Bimisari that is home to uh two completely different species, both known as the Bim. One of them is a Bim from Bimis. Yeah, so so on Bimassari there are two species, both of them called the Bim. One of them are a kind of like rodent-like blue furred species uh that are native to the planet. The other bims are uh short uh humans or near humans that immigrated to Bimassari in ancient times from parts unknown. Since you're since this is the lost planet Abimis, it's possible that this planet is actually the homeworld of those near-human bims. So if you're looking for any cultural signifiers of what you should be looking for, maybe it would be better to study the bims rather than the Kravakki. Ah, look to the BIMs. And Kala, uh, you got advantage on uh your uh checking the scopes. Yeah, my computers. So unfortunately, uh your scopes aren't really giving you a lot of information. It seems like there might be some signs of like civilization or technology. It's really hard to say though, uh, because a lot of the planet is dotted in what appears to be sandstorms that are kind of messing with your scopes.

SPEAKER_05

Kind of tap on the reado just like.

SPEAKER_03

So if you have to fly down, you'll get a you'll get a blue if you have to deal with them.

SPEAKER_05

Okay, that's good. Okay.

SPEAKER_08

Do we uh does our does the ship that we're on have any kind of uh munitions at all? You mean guns? Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, it's got some guns, it's got uh a couple of forward-mounted laser guns as well as a dorsal turret.

SPEAKER_05

Does Callisat mention there might be civilization and you're like, okay, man, the guns? Let's blow it up, baby. Just in case. Just in case. Just in case they do not understand the Jedi way. I mean, wouldn't be the first time. They need to be taught by force. So, uh, what what are we uh what are we thinking? Do we want to try to go for uh somewhere where there's some civilization or avoid it?

SPEAKER_08

Let's see if we can avoid it.

SPEAKER_05

Avoid it? Okay, first contact expert. I'll I'll see if I can find somewhere to sit down that uh does not have people.

SPEAKER_03

Okay, so uh you can bring the ship down towards the desert surface of Bimis. Uh, as you observe, sandstorms are kicking up. So if you want to avoid those, and if you want to uh try and sit down away from where there may be some civilizations, uh this is it's gonna be starting as a two purple. You guys don't have any destiny points since there are some storms. Uh, I'm gonna give you one, change that into a red and a purple. Uh and we'll throw a black on there because even if you are trying to avoid the storms, there is a lot of wind, just kind of residual wind that's kicking up.

SPEAKER_05

Okay. Would that be piloting space?

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, and you can add that blue from being aware of the storms and prepare it appropriately.

SPEAKER_05

Hmm. One failure, but for advantage.

SPEAKER_03

Okay. So you were trying specifically to avoid uh like civilization. Yeah. Well, you don't. So uh you fail avoiding civilization. But as you are bringing the ship towards the surface, you do kind of get caught up in this massive sandstorm. Uh your ship, although it is an advanced sort of uh Jedi built craft, or at least it's one that's good enough to be used by Jedi on a regular basis. You guys have used the Shack T pretty regularly on your adventures, you know it fairly well. But the sandstorm does kind of almost sneak up on you, and your ship is sent whirling through the skies of this planet, pelted with tiny little shards of sand. You can hear it just like sheets of rain almost on the hull. And because you got those advantages, when your vision clears, you do see a little civilization. You do see a uh a small makeshift, almost like scavenger's village. It seems sort of post-apocalyptic. There are some buildings that seem to have been damaged by previous sandstorms and patched and repatched, but mostly what you notice as well is that there are flashes of light on the ground as it seems like the village is being attacked by maybe raiders or pirates or some force is come to this village and has decided to open fire on the people there. Oh shit. Oh, you guys should probably save these people. Yeah, if you save them, you might you might that might help you in terms of your first contact. Let's save them.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah, let's all save them. What's what's this you guys' business, Chris? You guys should go out there and save them.

SPEAKER_03

I am not very good at fighting. Well, you you're still in the ship, you're still in the air. Uh if you want to man the gun turrets, you could. If you want to try and set down outside, what's your uh I don't think my Oh, my gunnery's not bad.

SPEAKER_05

When you say not bad, because like if you're firing on something that's significantly smaller than our ship, then there's also gonna be like it's gonna be much more difficult. So I don't know if it would be better for us to set down and uh go out, or if you feel confident in pot shotting some raiders.

SPEAKER_04

Uh how close are they to the civilians? Yeah, that's the other thing.

SPEAKER_03

So what you can see is that they do have some really worn down looking speeders, and some of them even are just like riding pack animals. But it seems like the the raiders are uh coming from outside the town. You can see where they are, you can see where their speeders are parked. So the speeders would be like silhouette 2, maybe silhouette 3, depending on how big they are, but they are all kind of clustered together at the entrance to this town.

SPEAKER_05

Okay, so you could just blow up their speeders and then we could like take out the raiders.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, I would like to take out these raiders if I could. Okay. Uh so do we want to, since it is very windy, uh, do you want to pilot to help Chris out?

SPEAKER_05

Yeah, I'll see if I can if I can stabilize it so he has an easier shot.

SPEAKER_03

Okay. Uh, so that'll be we'll call this a co-piloting.

SPEAKER_05

Okay.

SPEAKER_03

On his gunnery. And I'll give you another destiny point, so we'll call that a red and a purple.

SPEAKER_05

Okay. Uh, one success, two advantage, one triumph and a despair. Okay.

SPEAKER_10

Jesus Christ.

SPEAKER_05

We're loaded.

SPEAKER_03

We're loaded.

SPEAKER_10

So here's that darkness.

SPEAKER_03

So, uh, success, advantage, and triumph. How many advantages is that? Uh, two advantage. Okay, so you can add a blue. We can you can downgrade it. So these guys, if you're shooting at them, your ship is silhouette four. The cluster of uh speeders together would be probably about silhouette four altogether. So we'll call this a two purple. The triumph is you're gonna be able to upgrade that, but because of the uh despair, that is also going to upgrade the roll against you. So that'll be against a red and a purple gunnery.

SPEAKER_08

Red and a purple gunnery. Okay. And I add a blue too, right? Yeah. Okay. Oh. I got uh four success, but a threat.

SPEAKER_03

Ooh. So you can fire at these speeders, these raider speeders that are parked along the edge of the city. However, because you got that threat, this is also coming into play from Kala's piloting. Like, as you're coming in, she's not slowing down as you're making your approach. So you don't you guys don't, it's a good thing it's soft sand, because you guys don't really land so much as like do a controlled crash through the wreckage of these speeders. And you can even kind of see, like, as you're coming down, like the raiders that survived, like, look up just in time to be totally smushed by your ship and ground into the sand, leaving presumably a pretty nasty uh blood trail in your wake.

SPEAKER_05

Okay, but I love Chris on like okay, I'm on the guns, I'm on the guns.

SPEAKER_08

We took them out, and then just like I do I do appreciate how it wasn't me shooting the guns that killed these guys.

SPEAKER_03

It was you blew them up and then you crushed the survivors.

SPEAKER_05

Just to make sure they're extra dead. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04

But how are the civilians?

SPEAKER_05

Yeah, the civilians okay.

SPEAKER_03

So you can see there's a lot of sand kicked up, a lot of smoke. Uh, but as you can as the smoke kind of clears, you can see that your ship has kind of spun and turned as it crashed and is now facing into the center of this village. There seems to be like a well at the center that they've kind of built their village around. You've avoided crushing any of their buildings. It seems okay. Like there is some superficial damage to the gate protecting the city, but that was blown open anyway. And you can see that uh it seems like the residents of this uh village are Bim, and they're kind of like looking at your ship with fear and awe.

SPEAKER_05

We are gods!

SPEAKER_08

No, we don't say that.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah, Chris, you're the first contact expert. Uh smooth this over.

SPEAKER_08

Uh how am I how am I communicating with them?

SPEAKER_06

Am I just on a a god mic or uh well are you are you leaving the ship or are you are you staying?

SPEAKER_08

Oh, I'm leaving the ship, yeah. If we're if we've yeah. Okay, so I'm leaving I'm leaving the ship. I come out with my hands uh uh up and I'm just kind of like bonjour. My name is Chrissant. We are part of Z uh Z Jedi Order, and uh uh we have come here to save you.

SPEAKER_03

And they all kind of like look around and whisper to each other in like hushed tones, and it seems like they've never like there's you're a falling, you're with a Balisar, which looks human enough. You have antenna, but they're retractable antenna. I don't know if your antenna are retracted or visible at this point. You've got a chis with you, another human, and a tweelex, so it seems that they've like never seen a lot of your type of creatures before, but they throw up their hands mimicking you, Chris, and they say, Bonjour!

SPEAKER_01

Thank you, wizard, for saving our village!

SPEAKER_08

Ah, you see that? Uh some uh finally some rec some recognition. Okay, so uh sorry, what was it that we were doing here again?

SPEAKER_05

Looking for the waters, we're looking for the healing waters. Hey, you know where we find some water?

SPEAKER_01

Well, great wizards, our well has water to drink. However, uh I I'm afraid that you may have uh uh have your own water, I I think, right? Because you landed your house on top of the enemies that came to destroy us.

SPEAKER_08

I mean, we do, but we're looking specifically for your water. We feel as though it could be help uh helpful for the good of uh galaxy kind.

SPEAKER_01

Well that's what the raiders were after as well.

SPEAKER_08

Yes, but they're there for the bad of Galaxy Kind.

SPEAKER_01

Oh, we know that. Ever since that wicked witch destroyed the wizard of the crystal city, our water's really been oh boy. It didn't used to be a desert here, you know.

SPEAKER_08

Ah, so there's so there was water. Do you have any water left?

SPEAKER_01

Well, if you look inside our well, the the water is uh quite low to the bottom. It is a long time to pull a bucket back up. Is that a Is it a witch? Yes, oh a wicked witch came to our planet uncounted seasons ago and killed the wizard who was protecting us and making sure that the waters flowed freely. The waters, she took them from us, took them deep into the ground, and now we have naught but to spare.

SPEAKER_08

Wait, are we in a fucking Wizard of Oz recreation?

SPEAKER_05

Um We didn't land our house on some evil guys.

SPEAKER_08

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_05

Um, okay, see if a good witch comes down in a fucking bubble. She was a fucking princess, man.

SPEAKER_08

Do you think uh do you think we could possibly uh possibly uh find uh somebody to uncurse you so that water could come back roarin' in this place?

SPEAKER_01

Well, you appear to be a great wizard yourself. If you would do us the pleasure of destroying the evil witch so that the water may return, then yes, you can drink freely of our water.

SPEAKER_08

Do you think that uh killing the witch will uh solve this? Or is does she have some kind of booby-trap curse kind of thing?

SPEAKER_01

Well, she has taken control of the crystal city and her minions patrol. The raiders there, you see, they they come and they come for our water and those of the villages nearby.

SPEAKER_06

Okay.

SPEAKER_05

Do the the raiders they are they independent or do they do they work for the witch? They wear her face!

SPEAKER_08

That's fucked up. What?

SPEAKER_05

Are any of the raiders intact enough that I can look at them and see what the hell they're talking about?

SPEAKER_03

Uh they're probably pretty mangled, so give me a two purple and a black perception. Two purple and black perception.

SPEAKER_05

No, I can remove a black, haha. Two success, one advantage.

SPEAKER_08

Two threat. I ge I gag at the sight of all this blood and gore. I'm like, ooh.

SPEAKER_10

Yeah, you take some strain at the sight of it. Two failures, one triumph, three advantage.

SPEAKER_04

Huh. Two success, two threat.

SPEAKER_03

So, um, Illyria. The threat is that there is something that seems valuable. Like in the mangled remains of one of these raiders, like you do see something interesting, but it involves like sticking your hand into the gore in the viscera of his remains and pulling it out, which is not a pleasant sensation. And it appears to be give me uh since you got the threat, you you won't know what this is right away, but uh if you want to give me either a computer's or a lore, two purple.

SPEAKER_04

Oh, I can do either. Uh two purple?

SPEAKER_03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04

Oh, oh, three success for advantage.

SPEAKER_03

So this the BIM, uh, they mentioned like the witch lives in some kind of a crystal city. And what this is, is a small, you could identify it as a memory crystal. It's a type of data storage device, almost like a fiber optic, where information is stored inside the crystal as a pulse of light. And you can see this crystal once you wash the gunk off of it. There is a softly kind of pulsing, bouncing light inside of it. It's very small, about the size of your thumbnail. But it seems that like this crystal is almost you can see like some of the other raiders have it as well. It's and based on what kind of where it was on his, for lack of a better term, uniform, it seems that they're using it as a kind of pass key or code key, which is weird because like memory crystals are number one tough to get working because you need really, really high quality crystals to do it. Like kyber, you can do it with. The Jedi sometimes use memory crystals to store important information. But primarily it's used by smugglers just because of how uh hard it is to get information into them. It's very uncommon for it to be used. Only people who have very important information or very secret information use it. But the people of the crystal city seem to be just throwing this shit around with wild abandon. Like all of their raiders have these little memory crystals, which is uh suggests that maybe the crystals have something to do with the properties of the water.

SPEAKER_05

Interesting.

SPEAKER_03

You got success with advantage?

SPEAKER_05

Uh yeah, two success, one advantage.

SPEAKER_03

So what you can see, like, all of the raiders are Miri Allen's, and they all like they all do look very like they have the same, what at least what you can gather from the remains of their faces, is that a lot of their faces do share similar features.

SPEAKER_05

Okay. Are they like similar enough that it's like the same face or like a family?

SPEAKER_03

It it seems like it's a family, like they're they're all very like particular features. Um, they're not a handsome family either. They are kind of like ugly, I guess you could say. Oh no, is this gonna be an inbreeding situation? Are there any with like single eyes? None of them have I mean, some of them have single eyes now. As as mangled as they are, I don't know if you can get that deep, but they are all definitely a family. They're not an attractive family. That may just be because they're pirates or something, but uh, or maybe if this witch does have these powers, maybe she's cooking something up. And Starzan, you got uh triumph, failure, and advantage. So you can't notice anything about these particular goons here. Uh, but if you want to notice something else or try something else, you could if you want to investigate, I guess, the well or the bims, or is there anything else that you think would be useful to know about that isn't these raiders? I'll check out the well. So the well I got distracted by it. Yeah, so the well, as they say, you can look into it, and it is quite deep and it is quite dark. But if you pull up like a bucket from the well as they're investigating all of this gore and these uh busted up raiders, you can, you know, crank the handle on the side, and the rope gets pulled up after several minutes of them looking looking through these remains, and you can kind of get a little splash of water from this bucket. The bucket is only even like half full. So there's not a lot, but what you can do you drink this water? Shh yes. So Star Z would 100% drink this water. So you you can drink this water and you can feel any sort of stress or fear or injury just like melting away. You feel at peace, you feel like so. Right now you have 57 morality, you gain a morality point from drinking this water.

SPEAKER_05

Whoa, what it works like that?

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, like it heals your body, it heals your mind, it heals your spirit. Yeah, who's not an idiot anymore?

SPEAKER_02

So you got heal your mind.

SPEAKER_03

So your next three rolls, because you've drank this water, they're all gonna have a blue on them.

SPEAKER_02

Wow. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

Can he choose which rolls or just the next three rolls? Well, then after that, uh, if he doesn't drink any more water, the effects will wear off. Oh no. Okay.

SPEAKER_05

Okay, so like uh what's the direction of this crystal city? Said it is underground?

SPEAKER_01

No, the water has been taken underground. The crystal city is quite above ground, and we used to visit it often before the witch came and did what she did. I remember, oh must have been 150 years ago. I last ventured towards that direction, and even then the witch and her minions had taken control, and afeared as I was, I didn't even make it past the trees, past the grove on the road. 150 years? God damn, how old are you?

SPEAKER_03

I am more than 150 years old. After a certain point, you stop counting. And you notice, like, all these bim, like, they do look like very youthful. Like none of them look a day over 25.

SPEAKER_05

Whoa, is this a fountain of youth in the Emerald City?

SPEAKER_03

I mean, when you hit 25, that is when your body starts to decay. So if you're drinking this water, it just never decays.

SPEAKER_08

That sounds like something that'll make me party all the time.

SPEAKER_05

So you could give us directions then, is what you're saying.

SPEAKER_01

I can, but I can only wish you good luck on your success, as as you've seen, the witch's forces are powerful. Are you going to crush her with your house too? Uh maybe.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah. We'll see. We'll see where the wind takes us. And and and you see like Yigen sticking her head out the door and like shaking her head.

SPEAKER_05

No, no, we're not going to. No, of course not. What? No, no, we're just gonna be able to get it.

SPEAKER_03

And and she she kind of like scurries out and she's like, um, uh, we'll need to make a few repairs before we can take off again.

SPEAKER_05

Oh, so the issue's not crushing but the house. The issue is the uh integrity of the house.

SPEAKER_03

House is way. We're not going to crush, or at least on purpose, a Jedi does not crush.

SPEAKER_08

We we dole out old school Jedi justice. That's that's what we do. We dole out old school Jedi.

SPEAKER_03

We should investigate and we should determine the best course of action. If this witch has done something to remove the waters of Bimis, then yes, we should find a way to restore that, but a Jedi's duty is to protect life, not to destroy it.

SPEAKER_05

When he says Jedi don't crush, I'm gonna kind of glance around at all the smeared Muriality.

SPEAKER_03

Well, he said on purpose.

SPEAKER_05

Accidental crushing is uh, purposeful when Chris was on the guns. I you know what? It's uh yeah, no, we uh we we won't do that. Unless we really have to, but we won't do it, right? Yeah, we won't.

SPEAKER_08

Yeah, we we we s we save this uh beautiful s uh beautiful town, and we will save it even more once we bring the water back.

SPEAKER_04

If I may, the raiders were bringing chaos to the force, and uh we've restored balance. Yeah.

SPEAKER_08

See that? We are Jedi.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah, what Illyria said.

SPEAKER_03

Certainly more would have died if we had not intervened, but we still need to be mindful of our actions.

SPEAKER_08

I will be sure that I praise that spirits get taken by the force.

SPEAKER_05

You know what? If we have to crush this witch with the ship, I'll feel real sorry about it afterwards, I promise.

SPEAKER_08

Like a true Canadian Jedi.

SPEAKER_05

Listen, if I have to kill, I'm gonna feel real bad.

SPEAKER_08

We're sorry. We're sorry.

SPEAKER_05

Sorry, I smeared you all over the hull. Whoops!

SPEAKER_08

We're sorry.

SPEAKER_06

My bad.

SPEAKER_05

Oopsies.

SPEAKER_03

Since we are sorry, we should repay these people.

SPEAKER_05

Repay them? For what?

SPEAKER_03

What have we- By by by by killing the witch.

SPEAKER_05

By killing the witch.

SPEAKER_03

And by damaging their gate. These the gate was blown open. What we It appears these people have suffered long as Jedi. It is our duty to help. Their well seems to be running dry. Would one of you be willing to grab the environmental kit from the ship? We can at least give them one of our portable vaporators.

unknown

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

I'll go grab the thing.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah, but you thought you when you were saying pay them back, I thought you were talking like literally pay them back. And I mean in which case, like it what whatever you want to pony up for credits, Master Hallen, that's between you and the force.

SPEAKER_03

Something tells me these people uh don't use the same currency as we do.

SPEAKER_04

Plus, we're government funded and we will recoup the loss.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah, and we don't get much of that funding either. Don't tell me it's those wacky communists.

SPEAKER_04

Especially now that we are AWOL, just to bring that up again.

SPEAKER_03

We're not AWOL. We departed on a mission before we received orders contradicting that mission.

SPEAKER_08

Yeah. You seem to have some insider training tra trader secrets, though.

SPEAKER_05

We aren't AWAL. This is important for the Republic, Elyria. Don't you love the Republic and doing things that are important for the Republic? I love the Vapor. Like getting that Vaporator. I follow the Force. Followed it to get that Vaporator?

SPEAKER_08

I fucking love the Force, man.

SPEAKER_05

Fucking love the Force.

SPEAKER_04

I am loyal to the Force and indifferent to government.

SPEAKER_03

That bows well. So as you're grabbing them, you can you can take a peek into the engine room and see that, yeah, there are like a lot of flashing red lights where it's like, shit's fucked. Uh so it will take some time to repair. Uh, do you want Yigen to stay behind or do you want to repair it once you get back? Is Yigen uh mechanically inclined? Yigen's as mechanically inclined as anyone else.

SPEAKER_08

Does that mean that she's gonna be able to fix this?

SPEAKER_04

I can repair human bodies. I could repair a ship.

SPEAKER_05

Like, because I got two green for mechanics, and I would not consider myself to be mechanically inclined, so what does that mean?

SPEAKER_04

I have four green.

SPEAKER_05

We can't leave you behind.

SPEAKER_04

Once you I just think that we should let the young.

SPEAKER_03

Or or or would it be better to do it later when you can all kind of I think we should leave the young one out of harm's way. Do you want to leave her behind for any reason?

SPEAKER_05

Yeah, why do you want to leave her behind, Elyria?

SPEAKER_04

Because I believe this may be a dangerous mission and that is uh no place for a child.

SPEAKER_08

God, I want to roll perception so badly, but I won't.

SPEAKER_05

Oh, can I? Don't you dare. I want to roll perception. Elyria, what's your cool? Don't do that.

SPEAKER_04

Oh yellow one. I put a two ranks in it. I put two ranks in it to try and hide my low presence. Uh one yellow, one green.

SPEAKER_05

So one red, one purple. Two success, two threat. Tell me what you're hiding, Elyria.

SPEAKER_03

Well, you got two threats, so maybe she's she's wrong about something.

SPEAKER_05

Yes, but I got two success. I won't tell anyone, Elyria. I just want to know for my personal benefit.

SPEAKER_04

I just think that this is the exploration core, and we are doing our jobs, and uh as a Jedi, she has other responsibilities such as guarding our ship.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah, not stepping on your toes. Right. Right. Right.

SPEAKER_04

No one can step on my toes because I don't have emotional toes to step on. I have physical toes, but uh I know you're making a metaphor.

SPEAKER_05

Don't step on my emotional toes. I'll give Elyria a knowing nod. Just like, yeah, she should stay behind. I get ya. I got you.

SPEAKER_08

Is it any would did you we we should let the uh the experienced Jedi decide. Do what do you think, Chad? Do you think you should uh come with us? How do you feel?

SPEAKER_04

I thought you were talking about the master.

SPEAKER_05

That's what I thought too. The experienced Jedi. What do you say, 12-year-old?

SPEAKER_03

Listen. I've had some rudimentary courses in um Starship repair and maintenance, if only because it's important to know these things. Jet I do often go out on missions and are required to take care of themselves. I think it would it would be helpful for me. I mean, I'm not I'm not I'm not scared or anything um of of a bit of a witch, but like like I could I think I could uh you know there's manuals and stuff aboard, and I I could probably fix it by the time you get back. I'll put my mind towards it and I'll focus on this and it will be done.

SPEAKER_04

I just figured since we all learned that Starship made it at that age, that you would have the skills to stay back and uh repair the ship.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah, yeah, I can. This is the most technically viable. As we all could you This is the most tactically viable place for you to be, clearly.

SPEAKER_08

Zenit is settled.

SPEAKER_03

And if anything does go back, you can call me and I can come and pick you up.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah, and if those raiders come back, you can help out these towns people, can't ya?

SPEAKER_08

Yeah, yeah. That's actually not a bad idea as well. Make sure that the uh raiders don't come in and uh mess up anything else.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah. And then Elyria's free to pass all the knowledge checks without anyone stepping on her emotional toes.

SPEAKER_08

Jesus Christ.

SPEAKER_05

I don't say that. I'll maybe mutter that to Elyria. I'm just trying to bug.

SPEAKER_03

Just think it real loud.

SPEAKER_05

Do you snarl at me? Oh shit.

SPEAKER_10

You made it so she growls?

SPEAKER_04

No, that was uh not a kick.

SPEAKER_05

I have to remember I'm no longer Vanry. If someone decides to kick my ass, they'll probably succeed. That won't stop me from running my mouth. Who am I kidding? Okay, so it's decided yeah, I can gonna stay here, work on the ship.

SPEAKER_03

That sounds like a plan. You can uh get the evaporator set up, Howland tightens his boots so Sand doesn't get in there and fuck with his mechanical leg. And uh hate sand. You guys can uh get some directions from the local BIM towards the Crystal City and head off. So, uh if you want to make good time getting there, you are crossing a desert. Um, you do have survival packs that you can take with you from the ship. But uh you don't want to take too long, probably, if there's an evil witch, especially if she's uh expecting her raiders back. You may be able to use those memory crystals to bluff your way inside. But uh as Kala noticed, all the raiders are Miri Allen. So as uh people who are not green well want to use green, but maybe it'd be good.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah, and you got pheromones. You're not a Miri You can pretend you're like the only hot Miri Allen in the bunch.

SPEAKER_10

Sounds like a plan. Sexiest Miri Allen.

SPEAKER_03

How do we get So uh are there gods in this castle? Or uh well, so it'll be first of all, it'll be a survival to navigate your way to the city across the wastes. To be able to actually find the place, okay.

SPEAKER_05

Hang on, do I have would I guess this would not necessarily be to find or attract a target, would it?

SPEAKER_03

Um, not really. It's mostly for dealing, like in this case, the survival, because they told you where it is. So it's mostly for dealing with sandstorms, if there's any creatures out there, that kind of thing.

SPEAKER_05

Yes, fair. Okay, what would it be for survival?

SPEAKER_03

Uh, so this is an unfamiliar planet. Uh it is a desert, which is gonna make it hard. You know there's sandstorms out there. So that is gonna be a two purple and a black survival. And I'll uh give you another destiny point. We'll call it a red, a purple, and a black.

SPEAKER_05

Oh god.

SPEAKER_03

The buffet!

SPEAKER_05

A red, a purple, and a black. Everything!

SPEAKER_04

Oh my god, one success. Oh my god, it's John Wick.

SPEAKER_05

Holy shit, that's Jason Bourne! Oh no, I got a total wash! Holy shit! Jason Bourne's collapsed in the desert.

SPEAKER_03

So are y'all trusting uh Illyria to get you there then? Yeah.

SPEAKER_04

You have so little moisture in your body that it just all evaporated immediately.

SPEAKER_05

I'm so dried up.

SPEAKER_04

God, always playing dusty characters.

SPEAKER_05

Hey, it's only like two out of five. Can Starzan piggyback me? I'm so dry, I'm so thirsty.

SPEAKER_09

Do you request uppies from Starzan?

SPEAKER_05

Oh, Starzan, I need uppies. Here, let me perch on your shoulders. I'll watch through my rifle scope for any lookouts.

SPEAKER_03

So, uh you can head out into the desert, and as you're walking, like there is like the barest hint of like an old road that used to exist that was probably more visible before the sands blew in, before all the water receded, before all the plants died. There's there's this road that you can kind of follow. And and you can see there are like the remains of civilization along the road. You can see that there are like old fence posts where once maybe there were crops. You can see the desiccated husks where there once were forests, and like because you didn't get any threat, you can notice that like the trees almost seem to be like you keep your distance, but they seem to be almost like bending towards you as if like the moisture of your bodies is attracting them to you. Yeah. But they don't uh they don't trap you or anything, and eventually, uh dodging sandstorms, hiding in caves for like an hour or two here and there, munching on some rations. It's quite it's quite a trek, but you can keep your spirits up. You don't, you know, run low on supplies or anything. But eventually you do see on the horizon glittering, something like sparkling and glowing, and as you approach, you can see this large walled city with a gate. The walls are like immaculately carved stone. The seams are so tight that it appears to have almost been like molded rather than built. But there are like these glittering crystals that are arranged all around the wall. The gate as you approach it, the archway is embedded with these crystals as well, and you can like feel the force emanating incredibly strongly from this city. There are a couple of guards at the gate, though. They do seem to be raiders, and they do seem to be heavily armed.

SPEAKER_05

How is it just like two guards at the gate?

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, there's two guards at the gate. They're wearing what once were probably very opulent uniforms, but over the centuries it seems have been worn down and they're carrying old heavy blasters that seem to be about the only part of their uh armor that has been well maintained.

SPEAKER_05

Cause like if we stop some distance away, if I'm perched on Starzan for an extra vantage point, I can see if I could just snipe them before we even get to the door. Or if we want to try to bullshit our way in with crystals.

SPEAKER_03

Well, your your gun has medium range? Yeah. Do you have because there are some talents that can stretch that too long. Do you have any of those? Uh, let me see.

SPEAKER_05

I don't think I do yet. No, if we can get into medium range, maybe I can crawl on my belly.

SPEAKER_03

Sneak into medium range. So that would basically be a stealth against their perception. Okay. Um, medium range, it is just like blank desert. Like the the farm fields and like anything that used to be on the outskirts of this city to help support the life of the city is now barren. So there's not much in the way of cover unless you want to destiny point some old like ruins or something that you could potentially hide behind.

SPEAKER_05

What color are Master Hallan's robes?

SPEAKER_03

Uh, he's wearing the standard brown and tan robes of the Jedi. Hey, Master Hallan, can I borrow one of your robes? Cover up all this blue. Uh, and he says, uh, yeah, yeah, I think that should be alright.

unknown

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

Sick.

SPEAKER_04

So his casual.

SPEAKER_03

His outer robe is uh kind of a darker brown, but his his under robes are accent. Kind of a sandy tan color, so he sheds his bulky outer robe, which was probably already rolled up uh and kind of put in his travel pack. But he takes off his uh under robe and he kind of disrobes, and it's hot there in the desert, so he kind of reveals his broad, muscular, glistening tweelek chest that is is uh, you know, so slightly scarred from the battles that he's uh encountered as a Jedi, but they're like cool scars. How old is Master Hallad? My gosh.

SPEAKER_08

I mean, everybody has the a fountain of youth here.

SPEAKER_04

Can I roll discipline from here?

SPEAKER_08

Discipline against the city. I know he's not from here, but he might have taken water from here once.

SPEAKER_05

I mean, I it does occur to me now that it, you know, just the statement, hey boss, give me your shirt so I can shoot someone, is pretty direct. Hand it over, Alan. My little beige dress now.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, so he uh he hands you his uh his tunic.

SPEAKER_05

Well, I'll put his tunic on over my blue shit and see if I can sneak into medium range.

SPEAKER_03

Okay. So uh that will give you a blue. Okay. Uh so that'll be a stealth against uh their perception. They are on guard. So they are kind of keeping a a watch out. They are expecting their raiding group at probably. And if they haven't come back, that may be suspicious. I'll give you another destiny point. So that will start as three purple. Okay. But because I'm giving you a destiny point, that is going to upgrade one of those into a red. So that'll be a red and two purple.

SPEAKER_05

What do we have for destiny?

SPEAKER_03

You have four at the moment.

SPEAKER_05

Okay, I'm gonna flip one to get another yellow. Ooh, to advantage.

SPEAKER_03

So as like you kind of see something and you're like, oh, it's just an animal. Well, you throw your his tunic on, and you can like bring up the scope, and as you kind of rest the scope on sort of the ridge of a dune, um, you notice the sun is shining on the glass of your scope, and the guards like you you can see that they see it, and they kind of mutter back and forth to one another, you can see kind of th through the scope, and then one of them leaves his post to go and investigate.

SPEAKER_05

Oh, can I try to get a shot at the maybe because I if I can get a shot at the one who stayed behind, then maybe the one who walked away will like turn around and be like Bimis, and then I can shoot the second one. It's just gonna say the name of the planet.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, so so you can so there's so you could either shoot the one who's coming towards you. Once he enters short range, it'll be an easier shot, or you could shoot the one who's at it'll be a more difficult shot, but he's more likely to call for the other.

SPEAKER_05

I'll see if I can shoot the one who's still by the door, because if the other one is coming closer as well, then it might be easier for everyone else to intervene.

SPEAKER_03

Okay, so everybody else is kind of uh hiding down lower on the dune where they're out of out of sight. So Kala, uh, if you want to shoot this guy, he would be at medium range. Uh are you trying to get like a headshot, take him out?

SPEAKER_05

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

Okay, so that's gonna be calling your shot. So that is gonna be two purple and two black.

SPEAKER_05

Two purple, two black. I'll use my maneuver to aim and add a blue. And do I have anything. Let me see here. No, that's just for tracking. It's fine. What do we have for Destiny? You have three. You know, we've not really been using them. I'm gonna flip another one.

SPEAKER_06

I realize that's two in a row. You may as well. We have some. Like, I've got f I've got five to give you back now, so.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah, this is a present for you, God. Uh one success, two advantage.

SPEAKER_03

Nice. So yeah, you can hit him in the head. What's your what's your crit on that?

SPEAKER_05

Uh crit is five's advantage, so I can't crit, but it's damage seven. Yeah, do you want to do anything with those two advantages? I mean, I don't suppose I can knock him unconscious at least, can I? If I can't kill him.

SPEAKER_03

Because he is wearing a helmet. You can like blast him. The shot rings up, you can hear it ping off of his helmet, and he does drop to the ground. He's probably not dead, but he is probably like like shocked, and he did probably get his bell rung a little bit. Okay. But because you have, like, just a rifle, the crack of your gun is gonna let the other guard know where you are. So he's gonna try shooting at you. You are kind of hiding behind this dune. Okay. He is approaching, you are getting into short range. See if I can line up a shot again. I know he's gonna get be able to shoot me first, but. Do you want to throw any any destiny points on there now that they're being used willy-nilly? Like against him? Yeah, because he he's only got uh one purple against you, a purple and a and a black for your little bit of cover.

SPEAKER_05

No, I feel I've I've already used two in a row. I feel like uh if if everyone else is gonna have to jump in there, I should probably leave those last two.

SPEAKER_03

Okay, so he he got a failure with two advantages. So he he shoulders his own rifle and he fires. Uh, he misses you, but those two advantages, that's gonna give you some strain.

unknown

Oh.

SPEAKER_03

Because as he fires, the sound of the gun is a very familiar sound. It's just not one you've ever heard from a gun before. Because when he presses the trigger, you hear a snap hiss, and then the next thing you feel is next to you in the sand, like it just there's there's an explosion as it just superheats and turns to glass. And there's for the barest second, like, it's it's like somebody stabbed a lightsaber into the ground beside you, and if you look through your scope, you can see him ejecting a cr like a burnt-out crystal from his gun and loading another one into it.

SPEAKER_05

Fuck!

unknown

Fuck!

SPEAKER_05

What the fuck is that thing?

SPEAKER_03

So it appears when like the Crystal City has access to some very interesting weapons.

SPEAKER_05

Uh, does anyone else have a gun?

SPEAKER_08

Um I should have picked one up uh earlier in life, but unfortunately I do not.

SPEAKER_09

Starzan has slingshot.

SPEAKER_04

A Jedi does not have use for a gun.

SPEAKER_05

You're not a Jedi in the service corps!

SPEAKER_08

An explorer has uh uh control their mind and body and uh Do you have a do you have a reset button that like on the back of your neck I can press so that I can so that you can like chill the fuck out power down?

SPEAKER_04

I can whack them with my stick.

SPEAKER_08

I can whack them with my stick as well.

SPEAKER_05

Would okay, would everyone else have to go first, or would I be able to maybe just get a quick pop on this guy before he uh puts a lightsaber bolt through my head?

SPEAKER_03

Um, all of you would have seen like the beam strike through the top of the dune right next to Kala. So if you guys want to scramble up and try and do something, you would probably be able to. He does have to manually reload a new crystal into his gun every time he fires, it seems.

SPEAKER_10

Oh.

SPEAKER_03

He has a musket.

SPEAKER_04

Musket is how far away?

SPEAKER_03

Musket S bitch.

SPEAKER_05

Musket Sch.

SPEAKER_03

Uh he would be at short range from you guys. You guys are kind of hiding uh behind the dune at, but and he's shooting at where he's seen Kala's uh gun. Well, if you have a gun, go for it. You you would since he does have to reload, you would be able to close distance and take him out before he can fire again. I could do that.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah, I have athletics too. You gotta run in and beat him to death with snakes.

SPEAKER_05

I don't know what this guy is, but I know me and my hands would have beat him to death with hammers.

SPEAKER_03

Because you are having to kind of clamber up a sandy dune, unless you have anything that lets you kind of avoid these kinds of penalties, uh, you will have to use both your maneuvers to to scramble towards him. Just because of the terrain isn't uh super helpful to you right now.

SPEAKER_04

Let's rush him.

SPEAKER_03

Are you all charging?

SPEAKER_04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

Okay.

SPEAKER_08

At least two of us. Um in c in case in case something goes wrong, I'll come in as the secondary team.

SPEAKER_03

Good plan, good plan. Okay. So Lyrian Tarzan, you'll have to use both your maneuvers so you'll take uh a couple of strain, but you can scramble up the dune and close the gap on this Mirial and guard as he is fumbling around uh on his ammo belt for a new crystal to slot into his lightsaber musket. Okay, run up. And what do you do once you reach him? Uh tackle him? Gonna tackle him to the ground? That'll be a brawl. Yes, it will. Okay. What's the difficulty on this one? Um, this, if you're just trying to tackle him to the ground, this could be something that he could potentially uh fight back against. So it will be opposed against his brawl because he's not expecting it. Uh, you can add a blue onto that. That is gonna be a brawl against a red and two purple. And I also have that blue from earlier. Yes. That is five success, one advantage. Jesus Christ. Yeah, that's definitely enough to take him down.

SPEAKER_05

Hell yeah.

SPEAKER_03

He drops his gun as you tackle him to the ground into the sand. His helmet is uh largely face covering. I will rip his face off.

SPEAKER_10

Oh no! I mean his helmet.

SPEAKER_03

So with that with that advantage, yeah. You can you can tackle him to the ground, he drops his gun, you can rip his helmet off, and uh he looks at you and he's like, ah!

SPEAKER_00

Ah, what's that dang? What's that dang?

SPEAKER_03

Do you have an answer for him?

SPEAKER_00

It's pink and it's pink!

SPEAKER_05

Oh no, starzing your loin claws slipped.

SPEAKER_03

I mean, if these guys are used to hunting Bim, he's never seen something pink that's as large as you are. Oh.

SPEAKER_09

Oh, yeah, Starzan, Starzerian!

SPEAKER_08

It's uh it's very in character that you're like, there's a pink thing after you too? Jesus.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, look around for it. Uh Illyria, do you do you do anything to help Starzan?

SPEAKER_04

Can I oh can I just like uh what is it called? Sword bash? The the pommel bash? Hit him in the head.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, try try and knock him up. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

So that'll be uh that'll be a melee.

SPEAKER_04

Hell yeah.

SPEAKER_03

Two purple Starzan is holding him down, uh, so you can add a blue one to that.

SPEAKER_04

Oh, my training stick has accurate one? Okay.

SPEAKER_03

Your training stick, it does deal like stun damage, so like theoretically, you can just whack, you don't even need the pommel.

SPEAKER_04

Oh shit.

SPEAKER_03

You can just beat him with it like a baseball bet.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah, I'll just like stun him with it. Two success, one triumph, one advantage. Yeah, I can beat this man who's being restrained.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05

Oh, you are a cop.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, you can just bash him on the head with your training stick, hold it there until the uh the electricity courses through his body and he's knocked out.

SPEAKER_05

Okay, if this one closest to me is incapacitated, can I try to get another shot at the distant one?

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, he's slowly groggily getting up. Uh, that would be a two purple.

SPEAKER_05

Two purple. I'll use my maneuver to aim again.

SPEAKER_03

Do you want to use two maneuvers or just one?

SPEAKER_05

I'll take a strain and do a second maneuver. Okay. Three success, four advantage. Hell yeah. Not enough to crit. This has such this gun has such a high crit on it.

SPEAKER_03

Like, the first shot knocked his helmet off. The second shot knock his scalp off. Sure, you can uh he goes back into the left as he falls bleeding into the sand, leaving a uh a smear of blood on the wall of the crystal city.

SPEAKER_05

Whew. So uh all taken care of then. What is that gun? What the fuck is that fucking musket?

SPEAKER_03

Hallan he looks down and he kind of picks it up and he inspects it. And he says, these types of weapons have been known to be used uh in ancient wars. They are incredibly rare though. But it does appear to be some type of kyber weaponry. Perhaps it has something to do with this crystal city. If such crystals are common here, which they appear to be, then we should expect to find more inside and other devices which may be even stranger to us.

SPEAKER_05

What was the encumbrance of this gun? If I wanted to say want to take another one.

SPEAKER_03

Um, well, uh like a rifle is depending on the kind, is usually encumbrance three or four.

SPEAKER_05

I'm already at encumbrance five of seven.

SPEAKER_04

I think we I think we should uh confiscate this weapon so that it is in uh our hands instead of the enemies.

SPEAKER_05

In your hands, Cal. Huh? Huh? How many five? No, I think you said three or four.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, most most rifles are three or four. Uh this one, it doesn't seem much heavier, so this one would be four. Some some of them can be five, but this one's only four.

SPEAKER_04

Okay. I can carry that. I travel light. I can shoulder this burden for now.

SPEAKER_05

We like rifle around on his person to get any of all the crystals that he has. Well, he's just wearing like a bandolier. Oh, get his bandolier, give that to Kala. Is he got anything else on him? Interesting. Can I can I rifle him?

SPEAKER_03

If you want to disguise yourself, he does have his guards armor. Oh, how tall is he? Uh, he is adult man height. So he's shorter than uh he's shorter than Hallan. He's probably about the same size as Chris. He's shorter than Starzan as well. He's taller than Kala and Illyria.

SPEAKER_05

Oh, well, Chris, you're green too, right? You got uh the pheromones.

SPEAKER_08

Yeah. Uh yes, yes, I do. Wee wee.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah, yeah, you do. Me um like we got these guys, you put on the the uniform that you just charm our way in. Maybe you should carry the rifle and the bandolia.

SPEAKER_08

Oh. I am pretty I am pretty good with a gun. Uh yeah, I can uh put on this guy's uniform and uh pass our way through.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah, sorry Cal, I hand over the gun to Chris.

SPEAKER_08

So, uh, is am I the only person in uniform and I'm bringing you all in?

SPEAKER_05

Yeah, I I don't think because there's that other the other one's uniform that's closer to the gate, but I think it's uh it's real gory now, and I don't think it would really fit any of us anyways.

SPEAKER_08

Yes, yes, quite.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah, you're bringing us in. Uh yeah, no.

SPEAKER_08

I saw these guys trying to help the bims of Bimis.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah, you you you gotta take us to talk to the witch, huh?

SPEAKER_08

The wonderful witch of ours. Or Bimis. Alright.

SPEAKER_05

The Yeah, the beautiful bitch of Bimis.

SPEAKER_08

Be the beautiful beautiful bitch. Rough to see the bitch! The wonderful bitch of us.

SPEAKER_03

So, uh what are you so cause everybody is armed to a degree. Starzan has his sword, Kala has his rifle. If they are prisoners, are you taking their weapons away from them? Shove it down the back of my clothes like Wonder Woman.

SPEAKER_08

Just hold it with your butt cheeks.

SPEAKER_05

Man, how long is my rifle? But I it is pretty long.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah. Like it would probably you would have to like stick it down so it's like the the end of the barrel is like in the bottom of your boot.

SPEAKER_05

I can I can have a bum leg.

SPEAKER_03

Okay.

SPEAKER_05

I mean, I guess if you're if you're like confiscating our weapons, air quotes, then you know you can just give them back to us as soon as shit gets hairy.

SPEAKER_03

You could also, I suppose, just bury them in the sand out here and come back for them if you don't expect things to get hairy. Uh I don't know if I'm Yeah, I don't know.

SPEAKER_08

I don't know if I trust myself that much yet. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah, we don't know what shit's gonna be popping off in there.

SPEAKER_03

Or or Chris could just like carry all of them and hand them back. Um you can do a three purple skullduggery if you want to try and try and hide them.

SPEAKER_05

I got three cunning. I guess it's got Sunblade. You would not deprive a blue girl of her walking stick, would you?

SPEAKER_03

So here's a question. Do we want to say that training lightsabers are collapsible like lightsaber toys are?

SPEAKER_05

They just telescope out. Yeah, that's hilarious. Yes.

SPEAKER_08

There's a little bit sticking out there.

SPEAKER_05

Oh, so every time I use it, I go, make a little crack sound.

SPEAKER_10

Starzan is trying to hide his ancestral sword, but he's only wearing a loincloth. Um no success, no failures, but I did get one threat.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah, I got two failures, but two advantage to concealing my huge ass rifle. I don't think it's gonna happen.

SPEAKER_10

Does this successfully hide my thunder?

SPEAKER_05

Oh yeah, I should probably give Master Hal and his sharp back. Sorry, thank you, Master. Sorry, it's real sandy now.

SPEAKER_03

Uh it's no problem. Uh, three purple to confiscate your weapons.

SPEAKER_05

Or to conceal our weapons? Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

To conceal.

SPEAKER_04

Is that Skull Dog?

SPEAKER_03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04

Uh one threat.

SPEAKER_03

Whop wop. So it your your sword, like, bec maybe it was just because of the energy how you used it, it won't telescope back in. It's kind of stuck right now.

SPEAKER_05

No, it's like you try to you try to hide it on your belt and it keeps telescoping back out again really loudly.

SPEAKER_04

Can't I just tuck it up into my into my belt? Put it down my pants and tuck it into my belt. It's good to go. For boys, for so I've heard.

SPEAKER_03

So so you've heard. Tuck it up into the waistband. Please don't make me stand up. That's Star Starzan, that's his threat. He tried it, but the tip keeps sticking out. So no luck confr uh concealing your weapons.

SPEAKER_08

You gu you guys are just gonna have to uh trust that I'm gonna be able to do this here, I guess.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah, okay, take it, Chris. Hall and freely gives you his lightsaber. Yeah, how much can you carry, by the way? My rifle, it's uh it's five encumbrance.

SPEAKER_03

Well, if if you've got like scabbards and like and anything that you the way you normally carry it, he's just carrying it that way.

SPEAKER_05

I guess.

SPEAKER_03

Like he's basically just like uh a late 90s, early 2000s first person shooter character. Where he's just loaded up.

SPEAKER_05

Strap down.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah. And uh I guess this has been the first time. Where how are how are you taking Halland's lightsaber? Are you wearing it on your own belt, Chris, or are you just sticking it somewhere?

SPEAKER_08

Um, can I put it in my waistband so they don't quite see it and it looks more like my package?

SPEAKER_05

They go, wow.

SPEAKER_03

Well he's he's handing it over as if like you confiscated the weapon.

SPEAKER_08

Okay. Yeah, no, I'll I'll I'll just put it on my belt then.

SPEAKER_03

Okay, so this is this is the first time in probably at least a few years that you've worn a lightsaber on your belt. I don't know how that makes you feel.

SPEAKER_08

Uh make you feel like a big man? No, no, it makes you feel like a wrong boy. It kind of makes me feel like I have uh responsibilities that I don't want to partake in, but unfortunately I'm stuck here.

SPEAKER_03

It's it's the opposite of Dan Aykroyd carrying around a fake police badge so he can feel syndrome. He carries around a fake police badge so he can have imposter syndrome. But disguised as a guard, you can lead your prisoners in. Uh, you may have to explain what happened to the guy at the gate. But as you enter, you can see the crystal city. Crystals inlaid, like into the structure of the buildings. The buildings themselves almost seem to be carved out of the stuff. And you guys can feel the force vibrating incredibly strongly here. And what's note most noticeable about the crystal city as opposed to the rest of Bimis is that water runs freely. It's it's not like uh Venice or something, but there are like lots of moats and canals and waterways, and there's various bridges. Like the water of this of this city seems to almost be like built in a spiritual way where it, if you were to look at the city from above, it would almost look like ley lines, or there is some kind of sacred geometry uh happening here. But the water doesn't really look like water. It's kind of like brown and yellow and sludgy, and you can see milling about there are a lot of Miri Allen. Again, all of them look like no older than 25, but they seem to be like using the waters freely for whatever purpose. You see one of them pulling his pants down and squatting over the waterway and just like shitting into it, and then downstream somebody else with a bucket just scooping it up and like taking a big gulp before carrying it off. Doesn't seem right.

SPEAKER_05

I get hell, man.

SPEAKER_03

And one of these uh city guards notices you notices you coming in with your prisoners, and he runs up to you, he's wearing similar armor to you, and he says, Gilda!

SPEAKER_00

Gilda, what are these what are these strange creatures you found out there? What happened out there? I thought I heard something crack off, but I thought maybe you were just crackins off, huh?

SPEAKER_05

Oh shit, they're definitely inbred, huh?

SPEAKER_08

Do I Um do uh do I remember what this guy's voice sounded like uh before we killed him. He never really talked, did he?

SPEAKER_03

Well he kind of had a similar act. He was screaming about pink things. I don't know how much you could get, but Okay.

SPEAKER_08

Uh okay.

SPEAKER_03

They're all related, so they probably all have similar uh manners of speech.

SPEAKER_08

Wow! Well uh they came in from the sky and they uh mur and they murdered some of our best people.

SPEAKER_03

So this is Chrissant doing a French accent, doing a hillbilly accent.

SPEAKER_08

That was the hardest thing I've had to do in weeks.

SPEAKER_04

I'm just dope a dude playing another dude playing another dude.

SPEAKER_08

I'm just a dude playing another dude disguised. That's another dude. You don't know what kind of dude you is.

SPEAKER_03

Okay, so we'll call this a uh charm.

SPEAKER_06

Christ.

SPEAKER_05

You got this.

SPEAKER_06

I got this, I got this. What kind of charm am I doing?

SPEAKER_03

So this was a uh similar type of guard. So this would be a uh two purple charm. We'll add a black because he seems to know this guard on a first name basis. So if you're really far off, uh he might pick up on that.

SPEAKER_08

Fuck you, I can remove that black. Uh all guilt. Alright, let's see. Roll. Four advantages.

SPEAKER_03

You you have not charmed him, but because you got four advantages, he hasn't caught on. Your your performance has been good enough that he hasn't caught on, but you're you're not like charming him, you're not making him like you. And he kinda stares at you a little bit, he kind of lifts up the visor on his helmet and he squints at you. And he says, Gil Dug, I still got my I still got my good eye on you. I remember what you did and who you killed and who you didn't kill. And I think that you got these prisoners here that if you want to get back into my good graces, you better give them to me so I can I can take them to mama.

SPEAKER_02

What?

SPEAKER_08

Well, first of all, I s I've apologized or I have apologized already. I forgot I'm in character. Uh I have apologized already for that many tim uh many times. Whether or not you were listening or not, uh it does not matter to it does not matter to me.

SPEAKER_00

Well, guilt, you know I'm half deaf.

SPEAKER_08

Oh thank god. What are you doing? You apologizing. Well, it's a good thing your stupidity makes up for it.

SPEAKER_00

You call me stupid? Well, ha! That's on you. Cause if you're calling me stupid, that rebounds back into you. You know why? Cause cause I'm your brother, dad, so that means that if if you if I'm stupid, I gave that to you. So you got double stupid. He says your brother dad.

SPEAKER_08

That is the most hurtful thing anybody has ever said to me. Now I'm not now I'm never giving you these prisoners. Good day.

SPEAKER_06

But Gilda, you gotta give me those prisoners, and I gotta knock your tooth out. Um who's around here right now?

SPEAKER_03

Uh a bunch of drunken Mirialans pissing and shitting into the waterway. Uh a lot of them are are having their own sorts of squabbles, it seems. This is not a well-functioning society. Seems as though.

SPEAKER_08

Um, can I can I just hit this guy with the butt of my gun? Yeah. Yeah. I'm gonna do that.

SPEAKER_06

That would be a squabbles appear to be the norm. A melee. Two purple melee. Two purple. How many destiny points do we got? You got two at the moment. I'm gonna flip one.

SPEAKER_03

Two success. Nice. Two success. You can bash this guy with the buttier rifle. He stumbles back and falls into the water. And he says, Gilda!

SPEAKER_00

Gilda, help me! I can't swim!

SPEAKER_03

This guy's a little bit too pathetic. I might help him. Hallan puts your his hand on your shoulder and he says, Maybe you should leave him to his fate.

SPEAKER_08

Holy shit, darn. Hallan, this is a whole new side of you. I did not see anything. Alright, then I uh I um uh uh uh uh I'm I'm thinking about my morality and whether or not it needs to be like what is my morality right now?

SPEAKER_05

I kinda wanna roll a perception on Master Hallen. That seems uh surprisingly ruthless for a Jedi. Yeah, right.

SPEAKER_08

Um I'm going to I'm gonna help him.

SPEAKER_05

Well you're helping him. Can I roll perception on Hallen? I want to know what's going on in his head.

SPEAKER_03

Two red perception. What the Helen's going on?

SPEAKER_05

What the Helen is happening here. Two failure but two advantage.

SPEAKER_03

Um, so you can't really read too much into it, but like he ha he is like you can see him like looking around, and he is not happy with the state of like this city and what it's done to like the waters of this planet that were supposed to be healing waters.

SPEAKER_05

You uh you okay there, Master Hallen?

SPEAKER_03

I'm fine. I think just embedded our task cleansing this city may be larger than first anticipated. Cleansing the city?

SPEAKER_05

Yeah, it just seems like you know, you're maybe uh specially wound up. Well more than usual.

SPEAKER_03

So uh Chris, you're pulling this guy. Give me a two-purple athletics.

SPEAKER_08

Uh I'm not gonna be that strong.

SPEAKER_03

Throw a uh throw a black onto there as well, because as as this guy's drowning, he says, My foot's caught on something.

SPEAKER_08

Oh, for fuck's sakes, this kid, this fucking gay. Two purple and a black, you said? Yeah. Uh three failure and one advantage.

SPEAKER_00

And he says, Ah, I can't I can't sw I can't swim, my foot's caught, my foot's caught.

SPEAKER_03

And then like as as his foot's caught, it's like, you realize the water is not deep enough for him to drown if his foot is caught.

unknown

Oh.

SPEAKER_03

And he can just tell him to like stand up.

SPEAKER_08

Just uh, just uh stay just stay there. I am g uh I will go get help, and uh just stay above water. Just stay above water, brother son. You'll be fine.

SPEAKER_05

Isn't he a brother father?

SPEAKER_04

Babies can drown even in the smallest puddle of water. I feel like his intelligence.

SPEAKER_05

Stupid babies need the most care.

SPEAKER_04

I feel like with uh this uh person's intelligence, uh he needs a little extra help.

SPEAKER_00

Oh I'll stay till till you go get help, Gil Dug, but I'll hold my breath just in case. Um pass out.

SPEAKER_08

You uh you you do uh whatever you want to do, uh, and then I just walk away.

SPEAKER_03

The some of the other Miri Allen, they are looking at the prisoners that you've brought in. Um a couple of them do start like wolf whistling at you guys. You are a very like handsome crowd. Like a tri I mean, yeah, obviously. Look at us.

SPEAKER_04

Oh, really? Does our master still have his shirt off?

SPEAKER_03

He's he's got it back on, but it's loose. Some so some of them are wolf whistling at you, but you notice that like some of the others like like give them like a glare, or like one of them gets slapped when he wolf whistles, and like you hear them muttering about strangers and keeping the blood pure.

SPEAKER_05

Listen, I'm just saying if it's a society where like Callisette is attractive enough to warrant wolf whistles, there is something very bad going on.

SPEAKER_04

So you're saying they're not like the Hutterites who will go and find tall blonde men to bring back to their colonies? Inject a little new DNA in there?

SPEAKER_03

No, they are not.

SPEAKER_05

They are not doing that. Yowza! Okay, can we can we figure out where the witch would be? Follow the signs, like not literal signs, but you know. Fuck, you guys could have just carried your weapons and you would have been fine.

SPEAKER_03

Probably probably could have. Probably could have. Anyways. Uh, yeah, if you want to use Streetwise to navigate to the uh probably their their the witch has taken up residence if there is like a palace or castle or some sort of wherever this wizard used to live that she supposedly killed. What would that be for streetwise? Uh so that would be a streetwise-well, this is an unfamiliar place. Uh, you've never been here before. Um but because of the way it's laid out, you could do streetwise or you could do knowledge lore, because it does seem to be arranged in a sort of spiritually or like energy-divining way. Like there is like there is some magical math happening. So either streetwise or knowledge lore. Call it two purple and a black.

SPEAKER_10

Streetwise, absolutely not lore. Streetwise for me as well. Lore. Two threat. Two success. A threat.

SPEAKER_04

Nil lore.

SPEAKER_03

Okay. So Chris and Starzan, you're you're not much help. Starzan, you got threat. Chris, you got threat. So, Chris, as you're like leading the group through, like, Starzan is probably the most well-nourished person they've ever seen.

SPEAKER_02

Oh no.

SPEAKER_03

Uh, he's big, glistening muscles, just a meaty man. And like, you can see some of the Miri Allen's like lipping, licking their dry, cracked lips and like sharpening their steak knives as it's like, mmm, they're gonna like they want to eat him. They don't want to have sex with him, they want to like eat. Whoa!

SPEAKER_04

Their lips are dry and cracked. I thought they were drinking the shit water.

SPEAKER_05

That's why it's dry and cracked. Drinking the shit out of that water. Yeah.

SPEAKER_07

You guys get your hands away from this this van. He is mine. Oh, he already claimed that stack of meat.

SPEAKER_08

This is this is my gift to uh what was it, a queen? Yes, to to my this is a gift to mom. Oh, you're gonna eat good tonight. Oh, fuck yeah, bud.

SPEAKER_05

Oh, fuck yeah, bud.

SPEAKER_08

Fucking rights.

SPEAKER_05

Wrong kind of redneck.

SPEAKER_08

Oh, wait.

SPEAKER_03

Well, if you're gonna be giving a gift that size to mama, then uh we're in need of some more youngins round here, so good luck on that.

SPEAKER_00

That'll be fine.

SPEAKER_03

But aside from uh them wanting to maybe eat some of your companions, Cala, you can find your way to a building at the center of the city that seems to be geometrically arranged to harness energies in the most powerful way possible. It seems that a lot of the water is flowing out from this central location. There may be a well in here, there may be some kind of like uh deep connection to the waters under the palace, but it also seems like m there's a lot of like sludge entering the waterway from this palace, like the the walls around the moats, like everything is like stained and black, and it's just the force is strong here, but like not good force. Like, as you approach the palace, you have it it's it gives you the feeling of remembering you forgot to do something really important.

SPEAKER_05

Oh, hate that.

SPEAKER_03

Like, and it's a thing that you will get in trouble for and is something you cannot fix. Like, it's that feeling in your stomach as you approach this building.

SPEAKER_05

Um, on the looking at the outside of this building, I assume there's like a main entrance, but are there any like uh like alternate entrances or high windows? I'm wondering like if there's a central chamber where this witch might be, if there'd be a way for me to like sneak in and get a vantage point while everyone else goes in.

SPEAKER_03

Uh, like the wall outside, like the masonry in here is so tight that there's not even like cracks between the bricks. So the walls are are incredibly smooth. You can see there are a lot of like balconies uh and windows that are arranged around the castle, but they're not really it's not arranged in a way where it's like intentionally like we're defending ourselves, but it just happens that like the main entrance is kind of directed in. It seems more for spiritual reasons to kind of uh control the energy that is moving into and out of the castle.

SPEAKER_05

Are any of the uh the balconies low enough that I could get up there with like with a boost from Starzan?

SPEAKER_03

Potentially. So, although the castle itself is kind of the central thing, like they have built onto this with time, there are a lot of like ramshackle additions to the city, and there is like somebody has built like a quote unquote second bedroom onto one of like the home buildings that has like a clothesline that might be able to like you might be able to rig something up that'll allow you to either swing over or jump over or cross over onto a low-lying balcony.

SPEAKER_05

What would it be in order to do so?

SPEAKER_03

Uh a home invasion.

SPEAKER_05

Well, look, when you put it like that.

SPEAKER_08

Means we uh absolutely should do this.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, like it is it is somebody else's home that this is built onto. So you will have to like go into their home, go upstairs.

SPEAKER_05

No, that sounds like it's gonna be a whole extra compli a whole extra set of complications. I just wanted Starzan to give me a boost.

unknown

Yeah, you can do that.

SPEAKER_08

But can Starzan throw you?

SPEAKER_05

Could Starzan throw me? Well, that be ranged heavy. Uh, it would be in athletics.

SPEAKER_03

Because it's more about like getting getting the distance right.

SPEAKER_05

Now let me get my gun back from Chrissant if you w if we want to try to get you to cheerleader throw me onto a balcony.

SPEAKER_10

We're doing the fastball special? Sure. That's when uh Colossus throws Wolverine.

SPEAKER_03

So, uh gonna give you a destiny point in case you you mess up here. So this would be a throwing her like up the height you would need to. Uh that is a daunting task. So it'll be a red and three purple athletics. Tandy.

SPEAKER_02

Okay.

SPEAKER_03

Uh when was the last time how many rolls have you done? Are you still under the effects of water?

SPEAKER_10

Yeah, I still get that, I still get that blue. Cause did cause did you I think you might have one left. I think you've got to be. Yeah, because I think you like just did the one tackle. One success, one despair. Alright. Alrighty.

SPEAKER_05

It's gonna be occupied up there.

SPEAKER_03

So, uh you can throw how do you how do you throw uh Kala up there?

SPEAKER_10

I have her just like perch on my feet on my hands and then just like kinda reach back and throw just toss up.

SPEAKER_08

I'm hoping it's just that he throws his back out.

SPEAKER_05

Our big strong muscly melee fighter has a bad back now.

SPEAKER_08

There is no threat. It's just a despair.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah. Well, see, I'm imagining I'm gonna like flop over the balcony, and it's like perfect throw, stars in, and then he's gonna turn around, it's gonna be full of guards.

SPEAKER_03

He's just, yes. Well, it's not it's not full of guards, it's just he knows it's an important throw. He puts everything into it. He he's got, you know, Jedi training, he's got the force with him. He throws you up high, and you reach the point you need to get to grab onto this ledge, and then you keep going up. And you reach the crest of your height, and then you drop debt back down. So why don't you give me a two purple athletics or coordination check to see how much you can reduce your short range fall damage by?

SPEAKER_05

Star No! That's too high! How much for that?

SPEAKER_03

Uh two purple.

SPEAKER_05

Two what do we have for Destiny?

SPEAKER_03

Uh, you got two.

SPEAKER_05

I'm gonna flip one to get a yellow at least. Ooh, three success, two threat.

SPEAKER_03

Oh shit. Okay. So fall damage, short range is ten wound, ten strain. So you can reduce those successes, you can reduce the the wound by three to seven. So you've taken seven points of wound. But you got those threats. So you take twelve points of strain on top of the four that you've already taken.

SPEAKER_08

Does she pass out?

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, so you've taken 18 points of strain. So Starzan, you throw her up a little too high, you see her like land on the thing she's supposed to land on, and then you wait to see if she jumps across, and you wait to see if she jumps across, and you wait to see if she jumps across.

SPEAKER_05

So we're supposed to get us a tactical advantage.

SPEAKER_03

Uh, so since you've since you've been knocked out, let's see what crit you take. 23. Oh boy. Uh off balance, you'll add a add a black tier next check. I mean, it's a good thing you're on the planet of healing waters. That was top tier. Yeah. Elyria's got uh she she's got medical training.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah, can you heal me from a distance? I don't know if you can, because it's strain. Well, let's throw Illyria up here. I do a healing, healing word.

SPEAKER_09

Alright, who next?

SPEAKER_05

Starzan's just like, I see no problem with how that went. Let's do everybody.

SPEAKER_08

Sorry, I f I wasn't paying attention. Uh, did she make it?

SPEAKER_05

Well, she's up there. I'll go next then. No. I can't protest, I'm unconscious.

SPEAKER_03

So you land on top of her somehow. So, Starzan, you would have thrown her medium range. Uh, the balcony is up short range. Okay.

SPEAKER_05

How did you throw me medium range? Jesus! This is the second episode.

SPEAKER_03

Uh, Illyria, do you have range upgrades on your heal power?

SPEAKER_04

No.

SPEAKER_03

Well.

SPEAKER_04

How much is it? Let's see.

SPEAKER_10

Okay, I'll throw you too. Don't worry. We'll get there.

SPEAKER_03

Don't worry about the fact that the Kala isn't moving. Do you guys want to come up with a convoluted plan to get Kala back?

SPEAKER_04

Or do you throw another person?

SPEAKER_03

You can see Hallan standing there with his arms crossed, just kind of like he's pinching the bridge of his nose, kind of shaking his head. And he says, one second. And he uses his forceleep power to jump up. And he drops back down holding Kala's body in his arms.

SPEAKER_05

The tactical idea was sound. I can't say that, I'm still unconscious, but.

SPEAKER_03

Well, he lays you on the ground and he puts his hand on your forehead, and Kala, you can recover to your strain threshold.

SPEAKER_05

Oh, fucking Mike. I can't I've just remembered what you Well that happened. I hate that that's what you made it. I did it. Did it work? Did everyone come up here?

SPEAKER_03

Well, you're back down.

SPEAKER_05

Uh, did not? What happened?

SPEAKER_03

Starzan may have been a little overzealous in his attempt to uh throw you up there, and uh now Zeti's throwing the first person up there.

SPEAKER_08

He knows the strength in which he should throw somebody up there now. So now it's my turn.

SPEAKER_05

Me next, me next! Listen, I just wanted to get a good vantage point. Never mind. We got any of that healing water?

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, it's all around you.

SPEAKER_05

I get a little slurp in a less shit polluted patch of water.

SPEAKER_03

Impossible. Um yeah, you can try and give me uh survival. Oh man. If you want to find an unpolluted patch of water, um this will be a five purple survival.

SPEAKER_05

Five purple? God damn it! Uh four threat, no! Jesus Christ! I think I found an unpolluted patch.

SPEAKER_03

So do you drink it?

SPEAKER_05

I got four threat. I think it's I don't think it's shitty.

SPEAKER_03

Alright, so you can you can find an unpolluted patch, dip your dip your hands in and slurp it up. You take four points of strain, fall unconscious again. Alright, so 50 plus 10 is got an agonizing wound.

SPEAKER_05

Wait, how much strain did I take?

SPEAKER_03

Four points.

SPEAKER_10

You got 16 now, so now you're How does one get an agonizing wound from drinking water?

SPEAKER_03

Well, well, here's the thing it affects it increases the difficulty of all brawn and agility checks until the end of the encounter. So that's more of like a sickness thing. Alan drags you out again, puts his hand on your forehead, you're back at your strain threshold. Well, I just

SPEAKER_05

Not gonna try doing anything anymore.

SPEAKER_08

You gotta say it again. You can have to. Come on. We're putting it on our t-shirts. It's going on our buttons.

SPEAKER_05

Can I just do a quick meditation to try to get some strain back?

SPEAKER_03

Meditate. Think about what you just had to do. End of the encounter, the end of your encounter with the drowning pool. So you can roll disappoint her cool to try to recover some strain.

SPEAKER_04

Oh god. Can I roll a heel?

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, you can't heal harm. She did take seven points of wounds, so if you want to heal her, that would probably be helpful.

SPEAKER_08

God, I'm so happy we're back, baby.

SPEAKER_04

Come on, baby. Two lightside. Yay. Okay.

SPEAKER_05

I got two success to recover some strain. Thank you. Thank you very much, Kala. Thank you very much, Master Hallan. Starzan. I'm just gonna turn away from you and go into the building.

SPEAKER_08

You're gonna be thinking about it all day, aren't you?

SPEAKER_05

Yes.

SPEAKER_08

Okay.

SPEAKER_05

Let's just go kill the fucking witch.

SPEAKER_03

Very dark sided of you. I'll give you some conflict for that. Listen, I've had a tough time. Intent to murder?

SPEAKER_05

Oh come on, as if Halland was not like, let's let that guy die.

SPEAKER_08

I don't think that matters with morality. He's probably got some uh dark side in him as well.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah, I bet Mr. Betmaster Halland took some conflict today too.

SPEAKER_03

You and me, buddy. So how are you gonna are you just gonna walk in through the door? Are you gonna Because you could sneak in through that thing if you want to uh do a being stars and throw me again?

SPEAKER_05

No, I'm just pissed off now, and I'm just stalking into this building through the front door.

SPEAKER_03

So the the front the front door is closed. Do you bang on it? Do you knock? Do you what do you do?

SPEAKER_05

Oh, uh Chris. You have that crystal thing. Does that open it?

SPEAKER_03

Uh does it? Uh the memory crystal does open the door to the palace.

SPEAKER_08

Tad up. Uh open says me.

SPEAKER_03

And the door slowly slides open, revealing a long hallway uh lined with a stained carpet, stained and torn banners that have also been burned at some point. Seems like the walls have been blackened from some old fire. Nobody's bothered cleaning up. The floor is sticky and grimy. And at the end of this long haul, there is a throne raised on like a circular platform, like a series of circular platform staircase where it's like these sort of rings that go up. And you can see that like this throne room with this throne at the center, the throne wasn't doesn't look like it belongs there. It looks like it was a meditation chamber that had room for lots of people to sit on this central dais. But now there's just like a 25-year-old woman, a hard 25-year-old woman, like lounging on this throne, like smacking like a data pad and like swearing under her breath. Whatever she's looking at is she's getting frustrated with, and there's just like garbage strewn about. There's other Miri Allen that are just like sleeping on the ground, or like tussling, or there's some like slurping sounds coming from behind one of the curtains. Probably best not to investigate that. But this uh this woman who may or may not be the witch who's sitting on the throne, she sees you enter and she says, Who's who's bringing all these people here into my power?

SPEAKER_06

Hello, mother.

SPEAKER_08

I have come I have come here with good tidings and uh uh proper uh sustenance.

SPEAKER_00

Uh-huh. We haven't seen anybody anybody else coming to this coming to our whereabouts for for a long time. Did you bring these people here? Where do they come from? Do they do they come to take uh take a little more waters away again? Do they come from crystals?

SPEAKER_07

They come from the sky, mother. They come from the sky.

SPEAKER_00

They came from that big that b that big old that big old angle sky.

SPEAKER_07

I thought we big old blue, black, whatever color decides to be sky.

SPEAKER_00

Well uh well I I thought we we took care of terror ter I thought we took care of that like a like a hundred like a hundred and two hundred like a long time ago.

SPEAKER_08

Uh I thought so too. That's what you kept telling us, but uh I don't know what to say.

SPEAKER_00

Cause that cause that angle um remember that angle machine that we busted up because when that crab man that crabman that we that we that we took uh that crab man I don't know how old are you, my boy? How old were you? Were you around back then?

SPEAKER_08

Oh no, she's asking too many questions. Shoot her. Well uh do we need anything other than this uh this woman's death? Or uh no no no. I I won't shoot her because that's a that's kind of a dark side thing. I will uh I will stick her I will stick her up.

SPEAKER_04

Wait, why did we want the healing waters?

SPEAKER_08

Because there's a war on.

SPEAKER_04

Ugh. Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_08

Listen, mademoiselle, you must uh put down your uh weaponry and your and come with us quietly. I am sick of answering your questions. I'm not a very good liar.

SPEAKER_03

And Helen, he says the threat of violence won't be enough for these people. They're too stupid to understand it.

SPEAKER_05

So what you're saying is we need to have the actions of the.

SPEAKER_03

They've corrupted this planet beyond all repair. Jesus fucking Christ, Alan. Are you okay? We have to kill everybody. None of them are free of sin.

SPEAKER_05

Hell yeah, let's do it. Kell has had such a bad fucking day.

SPEAKER_03

Give me my lightsaber.

SPEAKER_05

Uh wait, hang on, hang on, hang on, hang on. Perception, perception, perception.

SPEAKER_08

Yeah, this doesn't feel right. Perceive, perceive, perceive. This does not feel right. I perceive it.

SPEAKER_05

Something about this is giving, like, it's giving the planet itself is mind-jacking him or something, or this weird witch is controlling his brain. Perceive.

SPEAKER_06

Okay, that'll be a uh two red cool. Jesus Christ.

SPEAKER_08

Two red cool? Oh, I'm pretty cool with that.

SPEAKER_03

You're you're you are kind of cottoning on that he is uh well, it's a it's against his cool. It's a two-red perception against his cool. Okay. Uh so you you guys are kind of uh cottoning on to him being like there's something going on with him, so you can add a blue onto that. Uh you do have one destiny point remaining.

SPEAKER_05

What's your what's your what's everyone else's perception? Anyone else who's wanting to roll? Uh I have uh two green and a yellow. Because I I have two yellow and a green as well.

SPEAKER_04

Two blue. Oh my god, two green.

SPEAKER_05

Don't let me do it. Either me or Starzan. Holy shit.

SPEAKER_08

Uh success advantage and a triumph.

SPEAKER_05

Oh well, never mind, Chris has it.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, so Chris, he's asking for his lightsaber. Uh why? And he's like saying, you know, none of them are free from sin. So you can tell that this like from the outset, this mission meant a lot to him. Like, he uh was w he was already kind of s like Elyria's right. He he is breaking rules, like as much as he's claiming, like, you know, oh technically this, technically that uh the Jedi were called back to Coruscant, including the service core. He broke that rule to go off on this quest, to take you off on this quest. And it's n it it's not the planet that's doing it because th he was like on this mission before you got here. This is something something is driving him. Hallan has always kind of been, you know, he he's been your Jedi captain, you've gotten to know him, you went spelunking in the caves of Malamar together.

SPEAKER_08

You went spelunking in the caves of Malamar together. But why?

SPEAKER_03

We got your alarm clock. He's generally been, you know, a a a a normal Jedi. The one thing he's always kind of been quiet about is his leg. Like, he has a mechanical leg. Um, and he takes care, he always takes good care to protect it. But something you've you may have noticed over your time with him is that like whenever anybody asks about it, like he says it was like, oh, it was, you know, um a a creature attack, it was this, it was that. But whenever somebody asks about it, something you've noticed is that he i the monster is never the same one. Oh whatever uh took his leg is something that he's never wanted to be honest about. This planet is supposed to have healing waters that heals your mind, your body, and your spirit. For a for a man with one leg, that could be something he wants to heal, that could be something that's driving him. Um but you think it's it's not just that. Because like a Jedi should be able to part with the part with a limb. They should be able to accept that, like, okay, I have a robot hand now. That should be something they can come to terms with easily. And it seems that the loss of the limb in a physical sense he's come to terms with, but something about how he lost it might be driving him to uh be a little more bullheaded about this particular mission, that he's willing to slaughter an entire city, which is a Jedi's not supposed to do that. Like, he's been kind of skirting around the edges of the rules. This is this is fully into breaking the Jedi code territory. He's not just bending it anymore. Uh, if if he gets his lightsaber, he is going to slice that rule.

SPEAKER_08

Uh, are you sure you want your lightsaber?

SPEAKER_03

Aren't you sure you just want to uh Yes, this planet can cleanse mind, body, and spirit. It'll be invaluable in the war to come.

SPEAKER_08

You are you sure you're okay? Your eyes are kind of uh My eyes are fine.

SPEAKER_03

Give me my lightsaber dropout.

SPEAKER_05

Whoa! Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey! You don't talk about croissant like that!

SPEAKER_08

That's legitimate legitimately legitimately is very hurtful.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah. You said we were your team and you cared about us. You don't call croissant a dropout.

SPEAKER_08

Yeah, like, you know, inspire me, dude. Make it so I don't become a dropout.

SPEAKER_06

Jesus Christ, you're a bad teacher. Alright, Chris. If you give me my lightsaber, I will Jesus Christ, you're gonna bribe me?

SPEAKER_03

You can be my Padawan.

SPEAKER_05

I don't care what's gonna be. What's gonna happen to Guy's want to be a Padawan anymore?

SPEAKER_03

Gyon can remain with the service core. She is doing an adequate job. She'll have a bright future here.

SPEAKER_05

No, okay, what the fuck is happening, Master Hallen? Because, like, you're this doesn't this doesn't feel correct. I realize I was having a bad day and I was all like, fuck yeah, let's do it. I was having a bad day, though. I just like you, you're a Jedi Master. You should not be having bad days in the same way that I You're the one who's supposed to stop me from wanting to kill everybody, Master Hallen. What what is happening?

SPEAKER_03

I'll tell you after we deal with the situation at hand.

SPEAKER_05

Couldn't we just like kill the one witch and like, I don't know, fucking mind blast everybody else? I don't know. Something.

SPEAKER_03

That won't be a big one.

SPEAKER_05

You're a Jedi master!

SPEAKER_03

The analysis I received from Yigen says that the water has been corrupted by the blood of this horrible family. If even one of them is left alive, the water of this planet will not return.

SPEAKER_05

Okay, but if the water's already been corrupted, is like spilling more of the blood into it gonna uncorrupt it?

SPEAKER_06

I think I think it's blood is the only way to cleanse this planet. Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ.

SPEAKER_03

Alan. So you can feel his lightsaber kind of vibrating and shaking on your belt. He is calling it back to him. Are you gonna do anything, Chris?

SPEAKER_04

Can I hit him in the back of the head with my lightsaber? My my stun damage?

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, that'll be uh against his vigilance.

SPEAKER_08

We also got a witch to deal with because I or I don't know like how powerful this witch is going to be, but like you're arguing she's like they're all just like watching you now.

SPEAKER_03

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_05

I guess like we could just kill the one witch and you know maybe the rest of them would all scatter.

SPEAKER_03

So this temple is very strong in the force. You can feel like Hallen's power radiating in the temple. You can feel each other. This witch is giving you nothing.

SPEAKER_05

So this is just like some lady, probably.

SPEAKER_03

Some lady, and it seems like she got lucky. Like she probably did the same thing as you did, crashed on this planet, maybe crushed a wizard. Like her in whatever, you know, family caravan she was with. Like, it's not hard to kill a kill a Kravaki shaman, probably.

SPEAKER_05

Um, who does anyone have because I don't have a lot of presents, but like, is there anyone who can maybe just threaten this witch to like just get out of here and take your family with you, or we're gonna let them loose?

SPEAKER_03

Well, coercive is willpower, so who's got high will?

SPEAKER_04

Hmm. I'm average. Or you can use prize. Let me roll up one green presence.

SPEAKER_05

I mean maybe Starzan, if he can flex at them. He is the biggest, meediest person they've ever seen.

SPEAKER_08

We can we can re-home these people.

SPEAKER_04

Mangy cats.

SPEAKER_08

We we uh we will coerce these people uh we shall coerce these people into uh m uh moving out uh moving out of here and uh uh do uh doing something else elsewhere.

SPEAKER_06

And spread their filth across the planet? I don't think so. Jesus. Jesus Christ. I'm well I I'm not gonna I'm not gonna fight him. Are you gonna try and prevent him from taking his lightsaber back?

SPEAKER_08

Uh someone wanna take his lightsaber and run with it? Uh I'm I'm gonna uh grab it and just kinda uh and just kinda be like. I sa I think I might be a little bit more responsible with this currently. So you're gonna you're gonna run?

SPEAKER_05

I feel like whoever should is uh taking it should try to get it as far away from him as possible. I can take it and then just throw it.

SPEAKER_08

I I I can't throw in it. If if you if you throw it, I feel like he's gonna use the force to like get it back. Although that would be kind of fun.

SPEAKER_10

Not if I throw it really, really far.

SPEAKER_08

Throw it across the planet. Um you know what? Yeah, I'll throw it to Starzan.

SPEAKER_03

And Starzan, go! So this is gonna be a coordination roll to flip it to him into Starzan's grasp before uh he can react. Okay. So this is going to be your coordination against Hallen's vigilance. Oh boy, that's not gonna be good. So that'll be a coordination against two red and two purple.

unknown

Shit.

SPEAKER_08

How many destiny points do we got? Uh you have one.

SPEAKER_05

I feel like it's yeah.

SPEAKER_08

Yeah, I'm gonna flip one to like downgrade a red. Well, one success, three threat.

SPEAKER_03

Okay. So you can flip it over to Starzan. As as you're doing that, you can Starzan, you can like grab it. He did get three threat on that. So, like, I don't know if he communicated to you before he was gonna do it. So give me a three-purple coordination to catch it.

SPEAKER_10

Uh-oh. What is my coordination?

SPEAKER_03

Oh, how coordinated are you? Yeah.

SPEAKER_10

Maybe I should flip a destiny. What do we have for this?

SPEAKER_08

I think we're done on one destiny. Yeah, I daben just played.

SPEAKER_10

I just I just use the last one. Okay. Uh one success, one threat.

SPEAKER_03

Okay. So you can you can catch it uh unfortunately. Like, now that you've gone through this whole thing, Chris throwing it, Starzan catching it. Hallan knows exactly where it is now, and he's like had enough time to like track it and follow it. So he is trying to yank it out of your your grasp, so what are you gonna do?

SPEAKER_10

Um, hmm. I could throw it away. I could just try and punch him.

SPEAKER_06

Can you break can you snap it in half?

SPEAKER_10

That seems mean.

SPEAKER_08

Yeah, this guy's being kind of a dick though.

SPEAKER_03

I mean, I'm not I'm like as you grab it, you can feel him s trying to pull pull the lightsaber and you towards him.

SPEAKER_10

Yeah, I'll just try and throw it away as far as I can.

SPEAKER_05

I I feel like he's just gonna zoop it back to him. I'm pretty sure, yeah. You gotta go run in Starzan! You gotta run away!

SPEAKER_08

Can you can you coerce him to maybe uh uh like threaten to break it maybe and may uh I don't I don't I I feel like that I feel like it's possible for you to actually be able to snap it in half.

SPEAKER_10

Or should I just punch him?

SPEAKER_08

Well, how far is he away and will he let you? Oh yeah, how far away?

SPEAKER_03

Well, you would all kind of be in short range of each other right now.

SPEAKER_10

Yeah. Judges throw it, break it, punch him. Or run.

SPEAKER_05

Run!

SPEAKER_10

I'll run. Maybe run.

SPEAKER_05

Run, Starzan! Run, Starzan, run!

SPEAKER_03

Maybe run, yeah. If you run away with it, in order to get it back, that's gonna be him using basically he'll have to roll his force power as well as using uh his discipline against your athletics to get it out of your grasp. So what is your athletics?

SPEAKER_10

Three greens and a yellow.

SPEAKER_03

Okay, so he's gonna use a destiny point to downgrade uh that would turn into a red and three purples, so he's just gonna do four purples with a destiny point. And that's gonna be his discipline and his force. Jesus Christ. So he gets two success, two threat, and three dark side. Which he is gonna use.

SPEAKER_05

Of course he is.

SPEAKER_03

Of course he is.

SPEAKER_05

Master Helen!

SPEAKER_03

So uh you run away, you can start running away, Starzan, but you can feel like him tugging at you, and he spins you around and he starts pulling you back, like your your arm stretches out, he's trying to pull the lightsaber out. He is like tr- there's a lot of momentum uh that he's using to try and bring you back, a lot of uh telekinetic force sending you in his direction. He got those two threat. If you want to lean into that to give you a boost to try and punch or tackle him, you will get a blue. Sure. So it's like he wants that, he wants the lightsaber fucking close to him, you can bring it close to him. Bring it right to him.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah, like while while Starzan is trying to deal with Master Hall and can I maybe just uh aim my rifle at the like this witch's head and just like you and your whole family, just get out of the city right fucking now, or that Jedi master's gonna murder all of you.

SPEAKER_00

We don't want it into any trouble from anymore, but we thought that the last one was an old man. We're we don't want any of this. We just wanted somewhere to somewhere to be. Okay, well go be in the fucking desert, get out of the city!

SPEAKER_05

All of you running! Go, go! So they start scattering. A fire shot to the ceiling, go faster!

SPEAKER_06

J just a stampede of inbreds.

SPEAKER_03

Shards of uh crystal clink to the ground as you fire. Uh so, Starzan, as these uh people are scattering and you are bouncing off the telekinetic rope to get some more momentum to punch this guy in the head. Uh, so he has two points of adversary. So if you are gonna go for a brawl, that'll be a two red. I'll give you another destiny point, bump that to two red and a purple. Uh, and you will be able to add a blue because you do get that extra bit of speed from him pulling you towards him.

SPEAKER_10

Well, I'm gonna try doing a brawl. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_10

Yeah, okay. And I'll spend a destiny point myself.

SPEAKER_03

Use the one that you gave me there. Two failures, three advantages. Uh uh. So uh you don't hit him, but what do you want to do with those advantages instead? Um You just bounce off.

SPEAKER_05

You just fly past him and keep running in the opposite direction.

SPEAKER_03

Exactly.

SPEAKER_05

Momentum. Like You thought I was bouncing around the ring, I'm gone, baby.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, like three advantages would be enough for you to like he's pulling in a specific direction. You could just like whiz past him and like hand off the lightsaber to somebody else before he notices.

SPEAKER_10

Sure, okay.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah. So like so you're coming in for a punch, and he's like, at the last second, he braces and stops pulling, and that's when you just like uh psych and you whiz past.

SPEAKER_10

Yes, exactly.

SPEAKER_03

Okay, so who do you who do you hand the lightsaber off to? Who wants it?

SPEAKER_05

I mean, I'm yelling and shooting. I feel like Illyria might be the only one who's like free to receive it. Available for yeah.

SPEAKER_04

I have three athletics. Alright. Alright.

SPEAKER_03

Okay.

SPEAKER_02

Oh yeah, oh yeah, okay.

SPEAKER_03

So you're passing the lightsaber to Elyria?

SPEAKER_02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

Okay, you can do that, Illyria. Uh, you can catch the lightsaber if you what do you want to do with it once you have it?

SPEAKER_04

Oh god. How far away is uh Halen?

SPEAKER_03

Uh you're all it roughly within short range of each other. Uh Hallan and Starzan right now are engaged. Not to be wet, but.

SPEAKER_05

Congratulations. Of course Starzan gets the hot tweet.

SPEAKER_04

But everybody else is running out of here, right?

SPEAKER_08

Can I it it when I get the opportunity to, would I be able to shoot him with mine gun?

SPEAKER_03

Uh what kind of gun do you have?

SPEAKER_08

Well, d don't I have that big blaster thing? That big thing?

SPEAKER_03

Oh the l yeah, the uh lightsaber gun? That I feel like that's like lethal force though. Yeah, it would be.

SPEAKER_05

Come on, it's Master Hal, and he's just something's weird's going on with him. We we can't wanna kill him.

SPEAKER_08

Some uh uh uh in that case then, can I shoot like the roof or something to like fall some uh to like put some rubble on him to like slow him down.

SPEAKER_03

Oh, you wanna yeah, if you want to carve out like a piece of rock that's gonna drop on him but not like wipe him out, wipe him out. Yeah, I feel like he could take that. Kala did fire into the roof. So if you're getting if if that prompted your idea, then you can add a blue onto it. The roof would be long range away. So this would be a three purple with a blue ranged heavy. I'll give you a destiny point as well, because right now Starzan is right next to him. Uh, so we'll call that a red a purple. Or or a red two purple point.

SPEAKER_08

And a blue? Okay. Uh hell yeah, one success.

SPEAKER_03

So you can fire up into the ceiling, carving out a chunk of crystal. Uh, let's see how Hallon does uh with his Jedi senses. So, how many successes you get? One. Just one? Okay, so it's not gonna be too hard. You are firing this weapon, it does make a sound, it does make a flash of light. Uh, one success, two advantage, and a triumph. Jesus. Ooh. So, with that triumph, he's able to like dodge out of the way of this falling piece of debris, and he's gonna use his move power to hurl it at you, Chris.

SPEAKER_05

This might be too very stupid, but when Helen has the bull the the small boulder the size of a large rock and he's getting ready to whip that at Chris, can I turn my gun and try to shoot the crystal just to smash it into smaller pieces?

SPEAKER_03

Um, if you want to turn a cannon into a shotgun, then uh you could.

SPEAKER_05

I mean, I kind of feel like it would be better if it was if it wasn't a cannon.

SPEAKER_08

Honestly, yeah, go go uh you might need to go nuts on that.

SPEAKER_03

Uh okay, this thing is moving pretty fast. When so it starts out at long range, do you want to try and shoot it as soon as it gets into medium?

SPEAKER_05

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

Uh so that would be two purple because you're trying to do it as it's falling, gonna give you a destiny point. Uh, so that would be a red and a purple and a black.

SPEAKER_05

A red, a purple, and a black. And this is while Hallan's trying to throw it, right?

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, so it's falling, he's dodged out of the way. You can see him reaching his hand up to start grabbing it.

SPEAKER_05

Uh-oh. One failure, two-threat.

SPEAKER_03

Jesus Christ. He's gonna throw it at me instead. You you can fire and miss and like another like chunk of debris. Starzan, why don't you uh uh roll me a Oh no, I was trying to help! Give me a coordination. Uh two-threat, give me two purple coordination just to dodge out of the way of this other piece of debris that uh Kala shot down.

SPEAKER_10

Probably not gonna be great. Let's see. Three threats.

SPEAKER_03

Uh payback Starzan! It hits ya. So this piece of debris, because Kala only has a slug thrower rifle, it's not as big. Um got three threats, so it does three points of wound before your soak. I think you've got pretty good soak. I did. So it's mostly just a pain in the ass.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

Sorry. But what about me? Yeah, but what about you? So Starzan having to dodge out of the way. Uh Illyric. I don't have dodge, but I did uh catching the lightsaber. What are you gonna do with this lightsaber Illyria? Uh trade it for my life.

SPEAKER_08

Oh god, are you uh no no, I'm I'm uh the rock the rock, I believe, is coming towards me.

SPEAKER_05

Are you just gonna keep keep uh the lightsaber running away from Hallan?

SPEAKER_04

Yeah, I'm gonna back away. I want to negotiate, but also, uh I can try, but my presence.

SPEAKER_03

So, against Chris, Hallan's hurl power. So this piece of debris is it's not silhouette one size, it's not as big as a person, it's silhouette zero, so uh its base damage is five. He got two success, so that's seven points of wound before you're soaked. Uh, he gets two dark side, so he can hurl it. He also gets an advantage and a triumph. So he's going to deal seven points of wound before you're soaked and he is going to crit you with that.

SPEAKER_05

Oh shit, maybe one of us should call Yigen to come in and uh help us out with this, even if we can just knock out Hal and then get him on the ship.

SPEAKER_03

Not bad, slowed down for a critical injury. So you you'll have to wait till everybody else acts before you can act again. Um, Illyria, you're making yourself scarce. I think with uh Halan focused on everybody else, you can probably do that. Um, though he may be able to home in on his lightsaber at some point, as but if the others are keeping him busy, he may not think to do that. So, Illyria, do you want to call Yagan?

SPEAKER_04

Yeah, sure.

SPEAKER_03

You can you can call her and she says, Hi, how's everything going?

SPEAKER_04

Uh bh the things are uh could be better. How is the ship? Jesus Christ.

SPEAKER_01

Don't want to panic her. Ship's ship's good. Uh looks like we're in the well, we're not in the green, but we're in the yellow, so I think we're kind of we're I can take off. I was just about to start doing some tests.

SPEAKER_04

Great. You could test it by uh coming to this location and uh helping us talk sense into your master.

SPEAKER_01

Uh talk sense. Oh, what happened?

SPEAKER_04

Uh he is currently trying to kill everybody.

SPEAKER_01

Oh no, I'm Oh oh uh that's not good. That's a breach of the I think the Jedi Code, I'm pretty sure.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah, I just wanted to make sure we were all on the uh same page of that. I didn't know if you also were into killing civilians, but you didn't do anything to break the Jedi Code even more.

SPEAKER_01

Did any of you guys fall to the dark side? I I I had some I think I I thought maybe Kala she was looking a little uh on edge earlier.

SPEAKER_04

I don't think you should uh make assumptions. I believe that uh the Jedi do not judge uh people by their appearances, so if you could just hurry up and get here.

SPEAKER_05

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, Cala just looks like that. So you can hear in the background her getting uh the ship's engine fired up and they sputter to life, and she says, I'll be there as soon as I can. So what are what are the rest of you guys doing to Hallen?

SPEAKER_05

Uh well are are are these are these people evacuating? How cleared out are they?

SPEAKER_03

They're uh the throne room is empty except for you guys.

SPEAKER_05

I mean, I don't have very good presence, but I'll try to yell at him just like, Master Hallan, they're going! You can reclaim the temple! What the fuck are you doing? We need to hunt them all down! Hallan, listen to yourself! If I said that to you, what would you say?

SPEAKER_03

I would agree.

SPEAKER_05

No, no! No! Bad Hallan, badmaster!

SPEAKER_03

You don't understand we need this planet. The waters need to be cleansed. I have to cleanse this planet.

SPEAKER_05

Why? Why? Why why do you have to cleanse this planet? Master, what is happening? This is so strange!

SPEAKER_04

Master, you won't be able to clean cleanse the water with evil thoughts. Why did I run?

SPEAKER_03

Well, I mean like you're you got his lightsaber.

SPEAKER_04

Can I yell?

SPEAKER_05

I know that the three of us are stupid, but leave it to us!

SPEAKER_03

Are you are you gonna hide his lightsaber first?

SPEAKER_04

No, they can deal with it.

SPEAKER_03

Okay. Or or are you going to uh use it?

SPEAKER_08

Ooh. Master Helen, have you turned to the dark side? No, he lies.

SPEAKER_05

Okay, you use the dark side so much! Master Helen, come on!

SPEAKER_03

You don't understand. If you had seen the things that I've seen, encountered the thing that I encountered, you'd understand why I have to do this.

SPEAKER_05

Okay, well make us uh help us understand. Help us understand, Helen.

SPEAKER_08

Because right now, you're being very vague. I don't like how vague you're being.

SPEAKER_05

Right now, you just woke us up at three in the fucking morn and told us there was no time to even take a shower, and now it seems like you're going cuckoo bananas trying to kill a bunch of powerless people because they're a little inbred and gross.

SPEAKER_08

Cuckoo bananas. Not why.

SPEAKER_05

Okay, explain, explain. We have a minute, you can explain. I know you call Krissana dropout, I know you understand. Your four dropouts are all saying, Whoa, Master Helen's being a little crazy right now.

SPEAKER_08

You are, you're being a little bit cocoa bananas.

SPEAKER_05

A little cuckoo bananas.

SPEAKER_03

So uh you're going to give me a chance to explain, and then when you agree with me, you'll help me destroy all of the people of this planet.

SPEAKER_05

If you explain sufficiently, Master, maybe we will understand your reasoning at least.

SPEAKER_03

Alright. But, as a show of good faith, I want you to give me back my lightsaber.

SPEAKER_08

I I I sh I I point my gun at him. Chris. I'm like, do not make me uh do some things that I would regret.

SPEAKER_05

Okay, how about as a show of good faith, Master? We we're not I'm I don't think we give you a lightsaber back. I don't think we're right quite there, but I will lay down my gun, okay? Look, my gun, I'll put it on the ground, I'll call kick it away from me. Look, we're friendly, we're listening, we have open minds, open hearts, and all that bullshit, right? Come on, Master.

SPEAKER_03

Chris, what about you? Do you have an open mind and an open heart?

SPEAKER_08

I just I just want to I just wanted to party. Why are you why are you doing this? I obviously I don't want to be on Z trips. I keep asking, why me? Why me? But uh whatever.

SPEAKER_05

Just put down the gun, Chris.

SPEAKER_08

It's it's I I put I I put down the gun.

SPEAKER_05

I put it, lay down your guns.

SPEAKER_10

I I uh lower the biceps.

SPEAKER_05

He unfluxed.

SPEAKER_03

He unflexes And once once you guys have put down any of your long-range weapons, he uh kind of he makes sure to make sure his back isn't turned to any of you. I was on a mission to the outer rim. Must have been, I don't know, maybe twelve years ago. And I encountered a th thing. Um another world? I didn't know at the time what it was, but it was dark and it meant me harm. I fought it, it it took my leg. And what I didn't tell the council at the time was that I didn't cauterize the wound with my lightsaber, that this thing used a lightsaber against me, and I lost.

SPEAKER_08

Uh, there's no uh dishonor and failure. You left with your life, you're you're all good.

SPEAKER_05

Well, you said it was a thing, like was it another Jedi? Was it like a Sith? Like, are they even around anymore?

SPEAKER_03

As I would later come to discover it was, in fact, a Sith. It was the same Sith that Master Kenobi destroyed on Naboo. Oh, this is Darth Maul shit.

SPEAKER_05

We don't know that.

SPEAKER_08

We don't know that, we don't know that.

SPEAKER_05

We don't know that. How how does that transition into killing a whole planet of people?

SPEAKER_08

Especially these people.

SPEAKER_06

I mean z idiots, but yeah.

SPEAKER_03

I spoke with Master Kenobi before I returned to the fleet, and it became clear that this individual that he destroyed a decade ago on Naboo, the individual that took my leg two years earlier, if I had been able to destroy him at the time, if I had been stronger, I would have been able to prevent the war that is now threatening to burn the galaxy. But I wasn't able to. But this planet, with its ability to purify evil, could be used as a weapon against those same Sith, against the dark, that is you must have felt it. The galaxy is not what it once was. The force is out of balance. Evil is not a metaphor, evil is a real, tangible thing, and it is going to destroy everybody, unless we can cleanse this planet and use its waters to destroy evil.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah, but you're doing evil things yourself. No, you don't understand.

SPEAKER_03

If a lot of these people is tainted, they are evil. By killing them, we'll be doing good.

SPEAKER_08

Okay, after that. Two two lefts don't make a right.

SPEAKER_05

I I hear you. I I understand your frustration. I can't believe I'm in the situation where I'm gonna have to try to fucking gentle parent my own master, but here we are. Master Helen. You it feels like you got a lot of uh misplaced guilt, perhaps, about the fact that this war has broken out, and that you were not able to defeat this Sith that you think is like the sole reason why this war is broken out, whatever. The war's happened. That can't be undone. Now, you say it has to be this evil blood. You know, most of these people, I don't think they really chose to be the way that they are.

SPEAKER_08

Yeah, there's no magic here.

SPEAKER_05

There's no magic here. It's just it's gross, it's icky, I don't like it, but I don't know if it's like evil evil, and also like you've used the dark side, like you know, we we be getting some we be getting some jimmies, like that's why. Master Helen, you don't think we would be taking your lightsaber away from you lightly, do ya?

SPEAKER_03

I think that dropouts such as yourselves don't understand the extent of the sacrifices that the Jedi need to make to fight against the dark side. I see that my explanation has not been sufficient for you. Uh-huh. So if you choose to stand in my way, then I will have to explain that you were the reason the war is going to continue, or I'll cut you down and I will continue with my mission and I will save the galaxy.

SPEAKER_04

Can we film all this and blackmail him? Posting this on Space TikTok.

SPEAKER_03

Are you still on comms with Yigen?

SPEAKER_04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

So in in on your on your comms from your little women's razor, uh you can hear Yigen's voice being like, oh no.

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Oh no.

SPEAKER_05

Masta, okay.

SPEAKER_08

What about what about Yigen? Uh what what will she say? What will she think about Zis?

SPEAKER_03

Yigen is a child, she'll think what I tell her to think.

SPEAKER_05

Okay, Masta, like fun experiment. Okay. You're you're a Jedi, right? We're all in the exploration call. We love experimentation and just trying new things, right? That's why we're all fucking here. If you were to spill this blood to purify the planet, how what would be the process that you would put into that for spilling this the evil blood? We gotta spill evil blood to clean this planet, right? So how would it be like you gotta bleed into the water? Would explain the procedure. I'm asking for like an experimental method.

SPEAKER_08

What is your theory?

SPEAKER_05

You know, I know that I'm just uh a soft brain dropout, but you know, you're such a great teacher. I bet you can explain it to me.

SPEAKER_03

Well, my plan was to cut down every fetid thing in this city.

SPEAKER_06

The way you said fetid was so hot.

SPEAKER_08

Every fetid thing.

SPEAKER_05

Chris gets a weird boater in the middle of this. I don't know, I don't know how to do it.

SPEAKER_03

As my lightsaber would cauterize the wounds, I would need to slice their throats with the shards of crystal that make up this palace, and I would dump them into the rivers and waterways of this city, and their blood empowered by the crystals, would mix with the water and would counteract itself. I would of course be guiding this process from the throne, using the crystals, to hone and focus the power of the force.

SPEAKER_08

How into his speech is he right now, to where I can just grab see if I can grab my gun again and sh maybe shoot at him.

SPEAKER_03

Like he has not thought about it that time.

SPEAKER_08

Okay, I'm I'm I'm I'm going for my gun and I'm I'm I'm going to shoot him.

SPEAKER_03

Alright, uh, so this will be. He is kind of distracted.

SPEAKER_08

Um Take off his uh take off his leg again. Yeah. I'll take off his other leg. I don't give a fuck.

SPEAKER_06

What uh is your ranged heavy? My ranged heavy is because you put down your gun as well, right?

SPEAKER_05

So you'd have to like.

SPEAKER_06

I'd have to pick it up, yeah.

SPEAKER_08

It's three green.

SPEAKER_03

Three green. Um I think that's enough where he knows you well enough to have some part of his mind still kind of like tracking you and what you're doing, especially if you have to pick the gun again. So this isn't gonna be a standard combat role. This is gonna be against his vigilance. Okay. So that's gonna be against two red, two purples, you have three destiny points. Uh if you want to aim, you can. If you want to use both your maneuvers to aim, you can. Uh, you do have that critical injury. Uh theoretically, you should be going uh last, but since we're not really in an initiative situation, we'll just say uh that's gonna add a black onto your role as well. Okay.

SPEAKER_05

Would he would he get anything because I'm I'm helping to distract him?

SPEAKER_03

Um Or would his mind be able to focus enough to uh The fact that you're distracting him is what's allowing Chris to attempt it in the first place.

SPEAKER_06

I'm I'm flipping I'm flipping a destiny to downgrade.

SPEAKER_03

Okay, and are you gonna be uh aiming at all?

SPEAKER_06

Uh yeah, I'll I'll do the two maneuvers. Okay. Two success. Two success.

SPEAKER_03

You can uh very how do you do this? You slowly pick up your gun, what's your move, where do you shoot him? Where are you standing? Is it in the back front side?

SPEAKER_08

So when I put down when I put down my gun, uh I j I just sort of like threw it in front uh threw it in front of me, uh, and but made it so that there's enough space so that if I had to pick it up again, I would do act an action roll. And as I like as I'm spinning, my hands become perfectly to the places where they need to be in order to pick up the gun uh in shooting motion, and then uh as soon as I'm in like shooting position, uh I take the shot.

SPEAKER_03

And where where do you shoot him?

SPEAKER_08

In the other leg.

SPEAKER_05

Because I feel like we still like there's something going on with him, I feel like. Like if we can incapacitate him.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah. Yeah, so you can uh do your uh front roll somersault, grab the rifle, bring it up, pull the trigger. There's a a snap hiss as this green laser blasts out from your rifle, slicing are you in front of him? Are you beside him? Are you behind him?

SPEAKER_08

If I'm beside him, would it take out both of his legs and putting his face?

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, could blast just slice his legs out from under him as he's talking, and he screams in pain, and he starts like pounding on the ground, uh, screaming as he loses his other leg.

SPEAKER_08

I'm sorry, Bass to Helen I'm so I'm sorry, I couldn't uh I couldn't let you go through this. I am uh I am not a murderer. I am I am a Mamer, but I'm not a murderer.

SPEAKER_03

You can see through the crystal of like the ceiling, uh this there's this bright light that's shining the lights uh from your shuttle as Yigen brings it over the palace, and like he's so in shock, like it's not just the light that's doing it, but as he's looking up at the light, his pupils are like little pinpricks, as he's just in shock that this managed to happen at all. Uh so he's conscious, but he's not like in there, really. Uh how are you going to like bind him? Starzan?

SPEAKER_08

I'm sure I'm sure we have like cuffs or what have you.

SPEAKER_05

Or like I because we have like our tabers. Like I could I I don't really wear mine in the traditional manner, anyways. I take mine off to like tie his hands behind his back if Starzan wants to carry him to the ship.

SPEAKER_03

You can tie him in a pretzel. Do that. He's not really uh fighting back at the moment. Yigen is like setting down outside the palace, and she's running out, and she sees Hallan with like no legs, and she's and she puts her like hands on her mouth and she gasps, and she's what what happened? Uh all that stuff that he said. What what what was he talking about?

SPEAKER_05

Uh we're we're trying to figure it out, Yaigen. We think that there might be something going on with him.

SPEAKER_08

Like we I don't think he's been we think he's been uh taken over by Z Dark Side.

SPEAKER_05

Okay, don't just don't scare the kid. Jesus Chris.

SPEAKER_08

I'm sorry. I'm sorry. We we we think he may have been taken by and then I make little fluttery motions with my fingers.

SPEAKER_05

The dark side We don't think he's been taken over by the dark side, but you know, like you know, war is hell and that sort of thing. Speak.

SPEAKER_04

Speaking of, I think we should return to the fight. Uh maybe our Jedi medics uh are better at uh the mental and emotional aspects of it than I uh can.

SPEAKER_08

He's so mad at me. Oh no. He's gonna be. Is it safe to bring him on the ship? Uh as long as we keep him b binded up and maybe uh uh keep keep him uh stabilized. Stabilized. Keep him surprised.

SPEAKER_04

Sedated.

SPEAKER_03

Sedated, yes. If you wanna give him a medicine once he's aboard.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah. We'll we'll give him some medicine. We'll keep him sedated, I guess. That sounds so bad, but like I I I feel like Elyria might have the right idea. Like, I I we're not equipped to deal with this. We gotta get to the Jedi temple and be like, yo, something's happening with Helen. We don't know what.

SPEAKER_08

What what does that choice did what other choice did we have?

SPEAKER_05

Are you gonna get Yoda on this guy or something? I don't know. Helen, I know that you're kind of like dissociated and something's happening right now. I know you just got your legs shot off. Sorry. But you know. Sorry.

SPEAKER_08

Sorry. We're sorry. We're sorry.

SPEAKER_05

We worked with you a long time. We know this isn't what you normally like.

SPEAKER_03

So once you bring him on board, if you want to sedate him, he's got three bronze, so that'll be three purple medicine to put the enough uh painkillers into his system to keep him loopy until you can return to Coruscant. He's good at medicine.

SPEAKER_04

Let me see this.

SPEAKER_05

It is Illyria.

SPEAKER_04

Two failure, one advantage.

SPEAKER_05

Well. Well, maybe you can at least keep it give him enough so he's not in pain. Yes.

SPEAKER_03

He might still be alert, but. So you got failure with advantage, not enough to put him out, but if you're okay with kind of like watching over him uh during the flight back, uh you can just kind of keep him drowsy enough. You'll you'll have to kind of stay behind to keep re-upping him.

SPEAKER_04

It's fine. I'll be safe. I have a lightsaber attached to my belt now.

SPEAKER_05

We we can take shifts to keep an eye on him.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, so if uh Elyria's looking after him, um Corccent uh is just gonna be a uh one purple astrogation.

SPEAKER_05

Oh yeah, Lyria. Uh Yegan, how are you with astrogation?

SPEAKER_03

I uh I'm I'm not as proficient as Elyria, but I I can fill in if that's what's needed. What's her astrogation?

SPEAKER_08

Uh two. My oh no, my astrogation is two as well. Never mind.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah, I'm assuming uh uh Starzan's is the same or less, and mine is also two. Yeah, sure, Elyria. That I'm sure I mean it's Corusant, it's like a major plan, and how hard it can be to astrogate to.

SPEAKER_06

Well, that can happen.

SPEAKER_03

Two success, but four threats. Elyria. It's just really slow. So so it's a yeah, it's it's just gonna be a slow trip, uh, but eventually you can uh return with your master in tow, using up probably most of your supplies, keeping him sedated, and return Hallen Crintu to the Jedi Temple next time on Star Wars Empire Wreckers. This episode of Empire Wreckers is brought to you by our top patrons, Alpha Bros Five Two Two, David B. Eric Charles Perazzo, Jeffrey Zamuto, Joshua Winter, Laser, LKB, Suki Nintendo, Thomas Davidson, and Vaginator.