S13E10 - Fixing a Hole

New blades shine in the dark. After being removed from the Jedi Path, a heroic group of of former Service Corps members have been allowed to reclaim their kyber crystals after saving the Chancellor's life.

After building new lightsabers, the SBI agents were tasked with assisting an undercover operation to root out terrorists on Coruscant, and ascertain the intentions of an unprofessional Jedi Knight.

With the terrorist cell's demise being blamed on underworld conflicts, the group now prepares to return to their missions across the galaxy, after deciding the fate of a pregnant Jedi....

Transcript

SPEAKER_08 0:00

Hey everyone, thanks for listening to Star Wars Empire Wreckers, the Star Wars actual play podcast that's had to do some recasting due to scheduling conflicts. Who's ready to be played by Benjamin Bratt today?

SPEAKER_02 0:12

Callissette's ready to be played by Benjamin Bratt today. She fell off the wagon again. Don't ask her what she's been doing for the past several weeks.

SPEAKER_05 0:24

Bonjour, Je Mapelle Cressant, and I am the same person that you've always known and love. Party animals, am I right?

SPEAKER_03 0:35

Stargan is tired of the rumors that he was recast in 1992. He just hadn't been hitting the steroid as much and was significantly smaller in size. He also had not gone to the salon in several weeks, so his roots were showing. But he still brings the same brand of cruciosity today.

SPEAKER_02 0:57

He was small Zan.

SPEAKER_00 1:01

And today the role of Illyria will be played by Jennifer Lawrence, which means due to her strict contract, uh, she will not be blue nor have red eyes.

SPEAKER_08 1:16

And if you're ready to do most of your casting from mid-90s police procedurals, why don't you come along with us to a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away in Star Wars? New blades shine in the dark. After being removed from the Jedi Path, a heroic group of former Service Corps members have been allowed to reclaim their Kyra Crystals after saving the Chancellor's life. Building new lightsabers, the SBI agents were then tasked with assisting an undercover operation to root out terrorists on Coruscant and ascertain the intentions of an unprofessional Jedi Knight. With the terrorist cell's demise being blamed on underworld conflicts, the group now prepares to return to their missions across the galaxy after deciding the fate of a pregnant Jedi. So, a thousand credits later, you're being uh called back to the Careth for another mission. And at the end of your previous one, uh you had enough information that if you wanted to, you could pass along uh what to do about Itane. And also, uh, there was potentially some discussion about what to do with the 4 million credits that was transferred to Chris's account.

SPEAKER_05 2:26

Oh yeah, I was gonna split that with you guys. Are we gonna be expected to to give it back? Whoa, whoa, what?

SPEAKER_02 2:34

Well, are we are we gonna be expected for that to go to the SBI? Like, should we be skimming a little off the top? Or is the is that just for us?

SPEAKER_00 2:42

Because we can say that it was drip fed in or whatever.

SPEAKER_02 2:45

Yeah. Yeah, we didn't get all of it. And like, as far as Atane, like, what what do we want to do about that? Because it's like Which one was Attain again? She was the pregnant Jedi.

SPEAKER_05 2:55

Oh, right, yes.

SPEAKER_02 2:56

We had to decide should we should we expose her or like maybe before we leave for this mission, like, would we want to talk to her in private and be like, I don't think you'd be able to talk to her again.

SPEAKER_08 3:09

This is a couple of months later, you've got a thousand credits. Months.

SPEAKER_00 3:13

She's probably had the kid.

SPEAKER_06 3:15

Yes.

SPEAKER_02 3:17

What do we want to do about it? Do we did we want to have turned her in, or did we want to have been like, nope, everything's fine?

SPEAKER_05 3:24

I probably would have been like everything was fine just because just because of my personality, but like I'm easily outvoted if need be.

SPEAKER_00 3:33

Also, she does have a squad of a bunch of they yeah, they are like 11-year-old boys. Oh shit, she could go away from jail for that.

SPEAKER_05 3:44

Yeah, no, I'm not sure. That's a crap. I'm gonna say shit. I ain't saying shit.

unknown 3:50

I am.

SPEAKER_05 3:51

You guys can say whatever you want, but I feel I I I feel there's nothing.

SPEAKER_04 3:55

I feel as though that is nothing wrong with a little with a little bit of fun every once in a while.

SPEAKER_02 4:00

There's nothing more fun than becoming the parent to a newborn.

SPEAKER_05 4:05

Well, I meant the I meant the making the newborn putt, but you know what? That's that's good. That can be fun too. There's nothing more fun than making a newborn with a child.

SPEAKER_08 4:16

Cut that, cut that, cut that.

SPEAKER_02 4:20

Like, I I'm kind of inclined to just like live and let live in this situation because it's like everyone appears to have been consenting.

SPEAKER_08 4:30

She's as much as a vat grown tube human who was raised uh to not have an identity can consent. I don't know if clone troopers are like legally people.

SPEAKER_02 4:40

I mean, listen, Kala was also like uh thirsting over Jed last time, so what kind of a hitter would I be? Yeah. We didn't we didn't find anything out, sorry. Not our monkeys. Not our zoo. Not our zoo. We did the thing we were sent there to do.

SPEAKER_08 4:56

You were literally sent there to investigate the zoo. See if there were any monkeys.

SPEAKER_02 5:03

We didn't find any monkeys.

SPEAKER_08 5:04

No monkeys. Alright, so you're on the side of the monkeys. Uh, how about the money? Are you returning all of that to the Republic?

SPEAKER_03 5:11

We we have joined the side of the monkeys.

SPEAKER_02 5:14

Um, let's maybe at least skim a bit for ourselves. Because did we get the full amount? The four full like four million.

SPEAKER_08 5:21

Yeah, the data, the data chip would have been uh left in the data pad when you guys left. Nobody was able to take it out to stop the transfer, and all the terrorists uh died in an explosion caused by uh rogue banthas.

SPEAKER_02 5:34

Beast car Hell yeah. W would we uh want to maybe keep like uh would two million be too noticeable and be like, oh, you're only able to get half the credits before the transfer got cut off.

SPEAKER_05 5:52

Do they know how many credits it was supposed to be?

SPEAKER_02 5:55

I don't know.

SPEAKER_08 5:56

Uh they probably would because you guys like Atane and the clones and uh Scarada were already running this operation.

SPEAKER_02 6:04

Well, they they know how many credits it was supposed to be. They don't necess like if it were like, oh, it's the drip transfer, I don't think they would necessarily know how many credits were successfully transferred. How many credits were successful?

SPEAKER_08 6:19

Yeah, like everybody else involved in the operation is still alive. And especially if you're not turning in a tane, uh nobody's like nobody's reputation would be besmirched in a way where it's like you can't believe them.

SPEAKER_02 6:37

Because like if we aren't if we aren't turning it a tane, like even if Skarat is like, hey no, they got the full four million, maybe he would be inclined to just like not draw attention to it. Just like not mention anything, cause like bitch, we could because he he did, I don't know how much he remembered, but he was the one who confessed to Starzan that there was a baby on the way. There was a baby.

SPEAKER_08 7:02

Yeah, and also uh Chris Chris did get a little bit of a premonition about it. Like, you guys are pretty sure. Pretty sure.

SPEAKER_02 7:09

Yeah. Because may maybe if we keep like one million and then split that four ways amongst ourselves.

SPEAKER_05 7:15

Only one million, but yeah, I I I do agree with you. I do agree with you.

SPEAKER_02 7:20

Because like I feel like that's enough that it's like we're both we're all getting a healthy chunk of change, but also not so much that it's like really you're only able to get half the credits.

SPEAKER_05 7:28

I I do agree. 25,000 feels like a lot of money that we can play with.

SPEAKER_02 7:35

Well that'd be 250,000 each, right?

SPEAKER_05 7:37

250, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 7:38

Yeah. I think that that is a a solid thing, and then we say that we only got the the three million dripped before it got cut off. And then you still get the three million.

SPEAKER_05 7:49

We'll give you the three million when you fix my goddamn door. Oh, wait, this is the damn door. Never mind.

SPEAKER_02 7:56

That that means I could afford a gun. I could afford the good gun I was looking at.

SPEAKER_08 8:01

So to have submitted uh a completely falsified report that there was um nothing awry uh with uh Itane and her situation, and also Wait, we have to roll for this? How dare you? Are we the dirty cops? Um, this absolutely will require two roles. A certain amount of money did go into your accounts. The Republic would have the ability to find that out. So, number one, it would require a computers role to falsify that. Uh, and for the lying about Itane, that would just be a deception.

SPEAKER_00 8:41

I can do the computers.

SPEAKER_02 8:43

Yeah, because who is the best deception? I have three green. I know, Chris, you're not necessarily deceptive.

SPEAKER_05 8:49

I am not deceiving, I am a charmer.

SPEAKER_02 8:52

But what is your kind of the best liar?

SPEAKER_05 8:54

Hey, ignore that. Hey, you look pretty. That's as best as I can do. Oh my god, thank ya. You're kind of the best liar. The rest of us are just kind of proud of who we are.

SPEAKER_02 9:05

Yeah, I could I could try to do the deception. We got two light side. I could find the destiny point for that. Can we help somehow? Everyone else standing behind me going, yes.

SPEAKER_08 9:16

Well, this would be like your written report that you would have submitted.

SPEAKER_03 9:19

We will we will just like put like footnotes saying this is correct.

SPEAKER_08 9:23

Yeah, it's like, you know, your uh the account of what you witnessed and like making up like stuff or just saying that you can ascertain.

SPEAKER_05 9:32

Yeah, if we all sign it, I feel like that makes I don't know, more it feel it feels like um a good thing if we all sign it. Yeah, maybe I'm gonna do that.

SPEAKER_00 9:41

I feel like one of you guys has to convince me to do this.

SPEAKER_02 9:44

Pardon?

SPEAKER_00 9:45

I feel like one of you has to convince me to do the computer.

SPEAKER_02 9:50

Illyria. Wait, you mean you're not independently.

SPEAKER_04 9:55

Listen, you can uh you can do what you uh you can do what you want. It's we're not going to blame you for wanting to turn us in, but uh Yeah, we won't blame you for wanting to ruin it for everyone.

SPEAKER_05 10:06

Yeah, you don't want to uh what do you say, how do you say, be a snitched who gets stitched, you might?

SPEAKER_00 10:14

Are you threatening me?

SPEAKER_05 10:15

No, I'm not threatening you.

SPEAKER_02 10:17

Sound a little like you're threatening her.

SPEAKER_00 10:21

This is criminal money, right?

SPEAKER_02 10:24

Yeah. They were using it to buy explosives that they were gonna do for use for a terrorism.

SPEAKER_00 10:29

But this money could go to the government and they could buy ships that they could buy explosives. Are you sure you want to buy the government-sanctioned war crimes?

SPEAKER_02 10:40

Most of it is gonna go to the government.

SPEAKER_00 10:44

We're just keeping a little Well, I I feel like since this will be going towards more weapons, I I I I don't condone that.

SPEAKER_04 10:53

Do we do we want to uh give the government what uh money for the weapons?

SPEAKER_05 10:58

Because I feel those uh the government already has enough weapons. That's just me.

SPEAKER_02 11:03

Because Elyria, what would what do you think it would be to uh persuade you to go along with this plan? Do we need to roll a charm on you? A negotiation.

SPEAKER_00 11:11

Yeah, negotiation. Yeah, that'll be a good idea.

SPEAKER_08 11:15

Discipline, because this is gonna be against your your sort of Jedi training.

SPEAKER_00 11:19

Hmm. My discipline?

SPEAKER_08 11:20

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 11:21

Oh dude.

SPEAKER_08 11:22

Uh-oh.

SPEAKER_00 11:23

I have two yellows and one green.

SPEAKER_05 11:25

Ooh. Can can we uh can we get a uh blue because we're friends?

SPEAKER_08 11:30

Deep down, does uh does Elyria want to keep the money?

SPEAKER_00 11:35

Does Elyria need for money?

SPEAKER_02 11:38

Bitch, I need a fucking gun.

SPEAKER_08 11:40

You're not Jedi though.

SPEAKER_02 11:42

Yes, but Alyria does think of herself as a Jedi.

SPEAKER_08 11:45

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 11:45

So But Illyria, don't you remember me crying because I got beat up and had all my cash stolen by Gamorreans? Does that mean nothing to you?

SPEAKER_08 11:53

If deep down Elyria wants uh the money, you can add a blue, but if she doesn't, then you uh don't add a blue. And it's up to Elyria to determine whether or not you add a blue.

SPEAKER_00 12:02

What do I need money for? I already have my lightsaber back.

SPEAKER_04 12:08

You know what, you know what? Okay, how about how about this?

SPEAKER_05 12:11

We uh don't uh we don't yet keep uh we don't yet keep the money, but we don't yet keep it uh uh give it give it to uh the government.

SPEAKER_08 12:20

You would have I mean once the mission was done, they would have either just like taken it out of your account or shit. Because they are putting money into your account to pay you. So presumably they have the ability to remove it as well.

SPEAKER_05 12:32

Oh, is it already gone?

SPEAKER_08 12:33

Well, you would have had to have like withdrawn it and put it like this would be where the computer's role comes in, is you would have had to have put it somewhere else where they can't get it first.

SPEAKER_00 12:42

Let's see what's two yellows and a green.

SPEAKER_05 12:45

Two yellows and a green. You could beat that. You could beat that with your two reds and a purple.

SPEAKER_02 12:49

I think that'd be you, Chris, if it's a uh negotiation.

SPEAKER_05 12:53

How many dusty places do we have? Uh you have two.

SPEAKER_00 12:56

Sorry, guys.

SPEAKER_05 12:58

I won't I I I won't flip one. Two success, but one thread. Okay.

SPEAKER_08 13:04

So Illyria, you may do it, but you may not want to do it. So that'll add a black onto your computer's role. You may secretly want to get caught.

SPEAKER_00 13:13

Okay, what's the role for computers?

SPEAKER_08 13:16

Oh no. Agent Gray is going is the one who's kind of dealing with uh all of your reports. Uh he is the one who's kind of looking into anything that's happening. This is uh Agent Gray also, along with you guys, has been becoming more experienced. He hasn't just been sitting behind a desk waiting for you guys to come in. Uh so he has also gotten more skilled as the war has gone on. Uh so this is gonna be uh against his computers, which is going to be against four purples.

SPEAKER_00 13:48

Jesus evenly matched, except for the two success, two threat.

SPEAKER_08 13:54

Okay. Oh nice. It is like, even though you're a couple of months out now, I think with those two threat in the past few months, you probably haven't been willing to spend any of it just to give it some time to cool down.

SPEAKER_02 14:08

Uh so I would not have been able to go and buy a fancy gun. That makes sense.

SPEAKER_08 14:12

And to falsify the report uh about Atane, uh so this is gonna be a deception. This is just gonna be against his discipline. So this is just gonna be against three reds.

SPEAKER_02 14:26

I got it.

SPEAKER_05 14:27

Which one uh who who's wrong?

SPEAKER_02 14:28

I think that was me, because I've I have three green, which is technically the best, I guess.

SPEAKER_08 14:34

If uh the rest of you are like coming, like if you're getting your your story straight about this, and it's also like this is just there's no major stakes for it. Like you could just say that you like you couldn't figure out one way or the other. So it's not a huge stakes thing, and it's not something where it's like if you say you couldn't figure it out, there's gonna be massive consequences. Uh you just don't want to like have a lie that's too complex where it's like suspicious. So you guys can add a blue from that. And you do have uh a destiny.

SPEAKER_02 15:09

I'm gonna flip one, and I was saving my XP, but I'm gonna do an early game level up to get a rank in deception. Since Chris is not deceptive, one of us probably should be. So I'll get two. I'll get I'll uh oh, should I mm or should I downgrade one of those reds? Do I want two yellows or or one less red? Maybe I'll downgrade one of the reds instead. Downgrade to a purple. Uh holy fuck, I got two success to advantage. That should not have been able to happen.

SPEAKER_08 15:46

Yeah, so uh if you want to provide, like, because you got this to advantage, if you want to even provide cover for Itane, you can. Where it's like, not not just like uh nothing's happening, you know, she's not acting on towards uh with the clones. Like she is pregnant, so you could even like make something up about how like maybe forced it. Well, not even that, but like you can foresee that eventually she will have to uh you know deal with this pregnancy. You can come up with some kind of plausible cover that's gonna allow her a bit of wiggle room to get out of the situation, whatever, whatever that may be.

SPEAKER_02 16:30

If would it be possible for us to like submit this document, like give her a little extra wait wiggle room? Like, would it be possible to send her like an encoded message or something that's just like you owe us one, you pregnant bitch?

SPEAKER_08 16:45

Well, yeah, I mean maybe not maybe you you want to massage the tone a bit, but you can let her know what you've told them.

SPEAKER_02 16:52

Yeah, like like not that agro, obviously, but you know, like we've taken care of this. You know, I've tried to erase what you've written.

SPEAKER_05 17:01

I I've tried to erase what you've written there, but the eraser's not good enough, so I get a new piece of paper and write it down a new letter.

SPEAKER_02 17:09

Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 17:10

After uh a couple of months of having that squared away, you're called back to the Karth, and you can return to Agent Gray's office with him none the wiser about your schemes and your scams that you're pulling behind the scenes.

SPEAKER_05 17:27

Oh, they're none the other thing. That makes it sound so seedy. Yeah, it makes us sound like we're bad guys. We're not bad guys, we're opportunists.

SPEAKER_08 17:34

You're just lying to spies.

SPEAKER_02 17:37

Yeah. Listen, I got two advantage on that role. Because we have nothing to worry about.

SPEAKER_05 17:43

These hoes ain't loyal. Well, except for that one, that one hoe.

SPEAKER_08 17:48

Most of us, though. If you're able to trick spies, that just means you're really good spies. Exactly. Thank you, God. That's their job. Don't hate the player. So you can enter Grey's office, and he's got uh the snacks ready for you, and he says, Hey, welcome back. How are you enjoying your uh laser swords?

SPEAKER_05 18:06

Uh, you know. They they help they helped me read that tonight.

SPEAKER_03 18:10

The Star Sword hasn't been imbued with Starzan's true power.

SPEAKER_05 18:13

They helped me t toast bread real fast. Trabian.

SPEAKER_08 18:18

They're also a uh pretty pretty potent symbol of authority, so hopefully uh they'll come in handy. Uh yes, potent. So, uh, got a new uh mission for you here. Ooh, what kind of mission. Uh this time you're gonna be going to Namchorius in the outer rim. It's in the Meridian sector.

SPEAKER_02 18:37

Namchorius?

SPEAKER_08 18:39

Yeah, Namchorios. It's not a uh planet I'd expect any of you to have heard about. It's been off the map for quite a while. Uh about 700 years ago, it was a penal colony uh that the ruling dynasty of the sector was using to send political and other prisoners to, and about 400 years ago, uh their dynasty collapsed. So I wouldn't expect anyone to really know about this planet.

SPEAKER_00 19:05

Can I roll? Can I roll? Can I roll? Can I roll?

SPEAKER_02 19:07

I was gonna say, but what if one of us wants to?

SPEAKER_08 19:10

Sure. It'll be a five purple knowledge outer rim.

SPEAKER_00 19:13

Oh, you knew it, Elyria.

SPEAKER_05 19:15

Five purple outer rim.

SPEAKER_00 19:17

Hell yeah, I've heard about it. One success, two threats. Okay, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 19:20

I'm just gonna assume you guys know about it.

SPEAKER_05 19:23

Wait, what'd you say? Five purple? Yeah. Okay, so that will be against two green failure and two threats. No, I will be trusting in Elyria.

SPEAKER_08 19:32

Yeah, Chris, uh, you can take you could take some strain from that because it's like, I want to have heard about it.

SPEAKER_05 19:38

I'm smart too. I want to be I want to be like the J Cool Kids.

SPEAKER_02 19:43

Yeah, a week ago, Elyria made like a backhanded comment about your intellect and you've just been seething ever since.

SPEAKER_04 19:52

Listen, just because I'm a party man does not mean I'm not a clever man.

SPEAKER_02 19:57

Just because you're a party man doesn't mean you're not a smartyman. Aha. MM's. Or maybe it does mean that.

SPEAKER_06 20:10

MMs!

SPEAKER_08 20:13

Illyria, you have heard of Namchorios in the Meridian sector, uh, and you know that it was ruled by the Grismith Dynasty.

SPEAKER_05 20:21

Ooh, Mary Gristmuth.

SPEAKER_08 20:23

I celebrate Grismith at least once a year. You got threatened.

SPEAKER_00 20:27

Just something I read up in the library, I guess.

SPEAKER_08 20:30

Yeah, so that's what you know. It was the Grismith Dynasty. Some completely useless information.

SPEAKER_02 20:37

Hey guys, did you know? And we're just like, no, no, we did not.

SPEAKER_00 20:43

This has nothing to do with what we're doing.

SPEAKER_02 20:46

As soon as Gray's like, I wouldn't expect you to know about this, and then you'll be like, Did you know? Used to be ruled by the Christmuth dynasty.

SPEAKER_00 20:55

Um fun fact. Fun fact.

SPEAKER_05 20:58

She makes that chicken post.

SPEAKER_00 21:00

Did you know? I push up the glasses that I don't have.

SPEAKER_08 21:04

Uh you you do know that the Grismith dynasty was destroyed when uh their homeworld Meridian was uh bombed by enemies unknown. Mm-mm. Nope. Nobody knows. Uh other than that, you're not, you don't know too much. You might know a little bit about sort of uh like Namchorius is kind of uh it's pretty far from its star. Uh in what you've read up about it. Don't get excited. It does it doesn't have anything to do with vampires, but due to the distance from its star, it is colloquially known as the Planet of Twilight.

SPEAKER_03 21:40

Oh, hell yeah. Hell yeah. There's vampires.

SPEAKER_02 21:45

Okay, guys, there's nothing to do with vampires. Oh, you said there's something to do with vampires. Maybe there will be. Maybe we're just being thrown off the scent and there's gonna be some glittering studs there. Glittering studs. Uh, these aren't vampire.

SPEAKER_03 22:02

This is the Starzan.

SPEAKER_02 22:05

Starzan's gonna put on his body clutter before we go.

SPEAKER_03 22:09

Yes, fit in. Win in Rome.

SPEAKER_08 22:11

Uh, you also know what Gray is telling you. This is the only thing that's kind of relevant that you know. And Gray says, well, about 400 years ago, uh, when that dynasty collapsed, the Republic apparently sent a pair of Jedi to assess the status of the penal colony to see if that needed evacuation. But um, turns out that the planet is apparently subject to frequent electrical storms in its atmosphere, meaning anything larger than a silhouette three-sized vessel would get blasted out of the sky. The Jedi were recorded as uh missing in action, and due to the difficulty of getting anybody off that planet, uh any surviving prisoners were unfortunately, uh, it seems left to, I guess, survive.

SPEAKER_02 22:57

And how long ago was this?

SPEAKER_08 22:59

That was about 400 years ago.

SPEAKER_02 23:01

I swear to God, if there's like a whole civilization that's risen up because these two Jedi fucked each other, and now it's like they're fucking incest babies ruling the planet, and we have to deal with more of that shit. Well, I don't think it's a good one.

SPEAKER_08 23:14

More Jedi fucking more incest. Uh, because the Jedi, uh, as far as I know, the Jedi that they sent are not uh biologically compatible.

SPEAKER_02 23:23

Oh good. Anything's possible through the magic of space fantasy.

SPEAKER_00 23:28

Yeah, just take special supplements. Maybe when you go there you can determine.

SPEAKER_02 23:32

Maybe Dixon said so. You know what happens is nature finds a way.

SPEAKER_08 23:37

The reason it's on our radar is uh because we've recently intercepted some separatist communications regarding plants to harvest a rare mineral that's apparently uh unique to the planet that they're gonna try to use to upgrade battled droid brain modules and a uh warlord on the planet. Some semblance of their penal colony society, it seems to survive. A warlord by the name of Beldorian is offering to help them figure out a way to bypass the electrical storms. The reason this uh affects you guys is Beldorian was the name of one of the Jedi who went there 400 years ago.

SPEAKER_00 24:17

What was the race of this Jedi?

SPEAKER_08 24:21

Beldorian is a hut, so it's not unsurprising that he's still alive. There are hut. Yeah. What?

SPEAKER_02 24:30

What?

SPEAKER_08 24:31

The other Jedi uh records say that her name is Tacelda. Uh she was a human, so it's not likely that she is still alive. Okay, so we gotta go deal with this this Jedi hut. Not likely, but you never know. She could be a vampire. Yeah, the Separatists did refer to him as a warlord, so I'm not anticipating that he still uh follows the Jedi code too closely. But we would ask that uh you find a way to prevent him from passing whatever knowledge on to the Separatists he has about bypassing these electrical storms with large vessels. We don't want them accessing those minerals.

SPEAKER_02 25:10

Got it. I mean, this guy's been isolated there for like fucking 400 years. Does he even know about the war? Maybe he's just like, sure, I'll help you get these minerals off planet. A separate a separatist movement. What?

SPEAKER_08 25:25

They could be lying to him. I wouldn't be surprised if uh they're sending their own delegation to try and convince him to help them out, but you guys can deal with that as you see fit. Namchorius is quite isolated. I don't expect that uh anybody's gonna be getting off that planet anytime soon if we can help it.

SPEAKER_02 25:45

Ooh. Let's head on over there and check shit out.

SPEAKER_08 25:48

Uh yes, speaking of your usual vessel uh is a touch too large to make it to the surface safely. Our vessel is not large, it's just big boned. Well, be that as it may, we have provided alternate transport. We recovered the custard gannet from the Valley of the Jedi and have been working on uh modifying its shields, giving it a little bit of extra protection. It's small enough that you should be able to land on the planet safely without being struck by lightning and killed.

SPEAKER_02 26:23

Wait, was that the one we cut a hole in? Yes. To get into the safe?

SPEAKER_08 26:28

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 26:28

So the hole's been all patched up then.

SPEAKER_08 26:31

Yes, and the bomb on the other side of the hole has also been disabled.

SPEAKER_02 26:35

Whoa.

SPEAKER_08 26:36

Okay. We've we've neutralized it and removed it. It's all of the smugglers uh traps are no longer a concern.

SPEAKER_05 26:50

Can we retrap them in case uh we may need to? Well, if you feel that would help you, then feel free.

SPEAKER_02 26:57

Yeah, I mean we got all the sex asses out. There's nothing left of God in there.

SPEAKER_05 27:01

Yes, instead of Z sex asses, we will uh uh ambush them with our kick asses.

SPEAKER_02 27:09

Hell yeah. Hell yeah. Okay. To the the custed Gannet then.

SPEAKER_08 27:15

You can return to the custard Gannet in the Hangar Bay, the HWK 290. Silhouette 3, just on the uh the the big end of silhouette 3, so definitely not as roomy and spacious and comfortable as your special Republic dignitaries shuttle.

SPEAKER_02 27:32

I have a question. What would it be to check this ship over for any listening devices that might have been planted? Because like, you did mention we've been lying to spies, they retrieve this ship specially, and we're like, we retrofitted it just for you, and we didn't remove the explosives, we just disabled them. And it's like, I wonder I wonder if they're starting to get wise to us and if they might have put any microphones on here. That'd be skullduggery.

SPEAKER_08 28:00

Uh, that would be perception.

SPEAKER_02 28:02

Perception? What would it be for perception?

SPEAKER_08 28:05

Um, it would be perception against the skullduggery of any uh Republic Intelligence agents that may have been putting stuff in the ship.

SPEAKER_02 28:14

Okay.

SPEAKER_08 28:15

So that would be a three purple perception. Give you a destiny point. Uh call it a red and two purple.

SPEAKER_02 28:22

Eh. Well, I got a yellow two green. Yeah. They will want to help me to give me a blue or two. We can yeah, okay, can add a blue. Let's add a blue. Okay. Chris, you're adding a blue. Starzan, you're adding a blue. Illyria, are you adding a blue? Yeah. Okay. Let's all blue ourselves. Ooh, three success for one threat.

SPEAKER_08 28:44

You can find that uh there are some hidden listing devices. There are some things having that have wires running through them that don't normally have wires running through them.

SPEAKER_02 28:58

I love this, and I love this bedside table with all the wires coming out of it.

SPEAKER_04 29:05

I I Z where we put that alarm clock.

SPEAKER_02 29:09

I don't know. I I like how there's nothing else that seems to plug into it, but oh, look at those wires.

SPEAKER_05 29:15

Maybe maybe that was a trap that they put that the original owners put there. It can't possibly be a wire! And I'm looking around, just kind of like seeing if something happens. Yes, it couldn't possibly be a wire.

SPEAKER_02 29:28

Is is there anything would I be able to kind of like rig them, like not necessarily disable them because that might send some sort of alert, but to kind of rig them just to like if we all just stayed silent for like ten minutes.

SPEAKER_05 29:44

Can we fucking loop it like white noise?

SPEAKER_02 29:47

Yeah. Um everyone just shut the fuck up for 10 minutes.

SPEAKER_05 29:52

Room tone, everybody, room tone, room tone. The but the bus that couldn't slow down. Okay, room tone over. Thank you.

SPEAKER_08 30:00

I don't know what kind of like equipment you have to be able to do that, so if you want to try and do that, it would uh you would be doing that at a penalty, but um you could try.

SPEAKER_02 30:08

Okay. What would it be to try? Would that be skullduggery?

SPEAKER_08 30:11

In order to for this to be convincing, this would probably uh be against the perception of any agents that are listening in. So that would uh give you another destiny point be against a red and two purple with a black, because I don't think you have any specific tools for this.

SPEAKER_02 30:32

Two red and a purple with a black?

SPEAKER_08 30:34

A red and two purple and a black.

SPEAKER_02 30:36

Oh, red and two purple with a black. Would that be skullduggery or would that be like computers?

SPEAKER_08 30:41

If you're trying to re like might be computers, might be skullduggery. I think in this case it would probably be more like computers.

SPEAKER_02 30:49

Ooh, Elyria, what's your computers?

SPEAKER_00 30:52

Purple or green.

SPEAKER_02 30:53

Oh, Elyria, can you take the wheel on this?

SPEAKER_00 30:56

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 30:57

Let's go, Satan.

SPEAKER_00 30:58

Thank you. Wait, what was it?

SPEAKER_08 31:00

Uh a red, two purple, and a black.

SPEAKER_00 31:03

Two success for threat. Ooh.

SPEAKER_08 31:07

Okay. So uh yeah, you can uh record some room tone and plug it in and just kinda loop it. And hopefully that'll that'll cover everything.

SPEAKER_02 31:18

Yeah, it's probably fine. Those four threats, I'm sure, will not come back. It's probably fine. It's probably fine.

SPEAKER_08 31:26

Yeah, it may not occur to you, uh, with you guys leaving Coruscant for the first time in a while, what else the Republic would have the opportunity to bug with you guys away.

SPEAKER_02 31:39

Oh. Oh we're gonna have to scrub our apartment when we get back.

SPEAKER_08 31:45

But that's uh something you'll have to deal with when when you get back. Certainly when, not if.

unknown 31:50

Not if.

SPEAKER_08 31:50

Hey, why did you say it that way? Yeah, but fuck God. He said certainly. Yeah, certainly. Oh, certainly. Yeah. So latently. Because now you're heading to Nam Chorios in the Meridian sector.

SPEAKER_03 32:00

Nam Chorios.

SPEAKER_08 32:02

Now it is in the outer rim. Um, off off the radar, on the separatist radar, but uh not uh a common world. So give me a three purple astrogation.

SPEAKER_00 32:13

What one advantage?

SPEAKER_08 32:17

Nam Chorios, you can't chart a course there for some reason.

SPEAKER_02 32:23

I was about to be like, why not? And then it's like you just said for some reason.

SPEAKER_08 32:28

Plant disappeared. It hasn't disappeared. So the meridian sector, like a hyper lane does kind of go through like through it. Nam Chorios is not on a main hyper lane, but the perlimian trade route does cross through it, and that's where you would need to go, presumably, to get there.

SPEAKER_02 32:50

The Prelemian trade route.

SPEAKER_05 32:52

Yes. Is that like uh a kessel run, or is it more uh civil road?

SPEAKER_08 32:58

Um, it's one of the big ones. Ooh. So not being able to chart a course there, it's on the Prelemian trade route, you're getting like as you're kind of plugging in the coordinates, Illyria, you are getting some alerts, and it's like, huh, there's like some of the navigation buoys that are out there, you're not getting stuff back from. There's like weird discrepancies. It s seems that if the separatists are looking into this planet, like you can see that like the hyper routes that are kind of around it are still accessible, but it seems that they are seemingly like blocking off access to this planet a little bit.

SPEAKER_05 33:40

Can we can we maybe talk to them to like maybe get by them?

SPEAKER_02 33:44

Or like fly stealthily to circumvent them?

SPEAKER_05 33:47

I'd rather fly stealthily if we could.

SPEAKER_08 33:49

Yeah, you you can now that you know about it, you can kind of chart a course somewhere somewhere close. Do you want to give me a knowledge underworld or outer rim? Let's say uh two purple since you know the area. I'll also accept lore if you want to throw a black on there. Well, actually, no, maybe not a black. I I would accept lore. Two purple.

SPEAKER_00 34:17

One success, one advantage.

SPEAKER_08 34:19

One success, one threat, and a triumph. What did uh what did Illyria have?

SPEAKER_00 34:24

One success, one advantage.

SPEAKER_08 34:25

Okay, and what did you what did each of you roll? Lore.

SPEAKER_00 34:28

Outer rim? It's all the same for me.

SPEAKER_08 34:31

Okay. Illyria. You are kind of familiar with whatever banal trivia you know about this sector and about these people and about the grispeth dynasty. So you know that like the Meridian sector is on the other side of it is the anti-meridian sector. And although the persons unknown who bombed the Grispeth dynasty into extinction were unknown, it was probably somebody from the anti-meridian sector. Like, it it seems it seems likely that those guys were the enemies. Uh, so you are familiar enough that you can plot a course if you want into the anti-meridian sector and just kind of swoop in that way.

SPEAKER_02 35:12

Look, we don't know what they've been up to in the Uncle Meridian sector.

SPEAKER_00 35:19

You see, in Canada we pronounce it auntie instead of auntie for Americans.

SPEAKER_08 35:25

And Chris, you ruled uh lore, you got success with threat. So uh there is a sector that is not really monitored because it is uh quarantined. Nobody's really allowed to go there. Um, you guys are republic agents, so you might be able to use sort of your republic clout to get past if you can explain the situation. But you could also potentially enter via the S Tran sector, which is where the old Sith worlds were.

SPEAKER_02 35:55

What do you guys think? Uh try to go through S Stran or go through the anti-Meridian sector. Anti-Meridian? I feel like maybe going through the anti-meridian sector, because it's like if we do get caught trying to go into S trans, then that's like that's a whole thing. Yeah. It's a whole thing.

SPEAKER_08 36:12

Whole thing. Okay. I agree. So you can uh take a little bit of a long route through the anti-meridian sector. And when you arrive, you kind of do these little hops, skips, and jumps through hyperspace. That does give you enough time because you did get advantage on that to going through the anti-meridian sector. You can like kind of intercept a lot of communications. There's a lot of like broadcasts out there on separatist frequencies that are garbled, but it's enough that you can tell that there is kind of a sizable presence sort of waiting in the area. When you get to Namchorios itself, there's only there is a a big Providence class uh cruiser in orbit, one of their capital ships, but no other support vessels. There is a lot of chatter that you can see that's just kind of crisscrossing everywhere. So it seems that like from what you can tell, maybe they are waiting with like a full sort of like mining team somewhere out there. So it's possible that they've got somebody on the ground right now, or like about to have somebody on the ground to try and negotiate this deal with Beldorian. So if they can, if they can find a way to get through the electrical storms, uh, it seems like the Separatists are gonna be like right on the planet.

SPEAKER_02 37:37

Would would I have to uh roll a piloting to see if we could get past them and down to the planet without them noticing?

SPEAKER_08 37:44

Well, it's a big planet, but you'll probably have to roll a piloting at least to like the Get through the storm. Yeah, because you're not gonna be blasted immediately, but you'll still have to do some uh fancy flying.

SPEAKER_02 37:56

Okay. What kind of fancy flying?

SPEAKER_08 37:59

Uh well, so you are in uh an HWK 290. So that uh gives you a plus one to handling. It is a it is a light, speedy craft. So you can add a blue. I'll give you another destiny point, because it is quite volatile, onto a red and two purple.

SPEAKER_02 38:19

Red and two purple piloting space. Yeah. One success, one advantage.

SPEAKER_08 38:25

Ooh, look at you go. So you can bypass the electrical storms. As you're kind of diving down through the atmosphere, you can see on the distance these sort of like scattered bursts of lightning in the clouds that seem to be like you got an advantage. So you can even notice where it's like the storm seems to be like traveling, like zipping around the planet. You can kind of see it traveling from like cloud patch to cloud patch, these sort of bursts and flashes of lightning um that are just jumping in in a path quickly. So it's not even like there are these individual storms that are popping up due to weather. It seems like there's like a bunch and they're all just kind of moving and crisscrossing the planet's atmosphere.

SPEAKER_02 39:13

Interesting. Okay.

SPEAKER_08 39:14

You can bring the ship down. The planet uh, as you might expect, is in a state of twilight due to the dim star of the planet. So it is a little bit hard to see. Uh it is a little bit like not bright, it is shadowy and sort of desolate looking. Like it is a penal colony.

SPEAKER_02 39:35

Ugh, the light's too diffuse, Starzan. No one's gonna be able to appreciate your body, glitter. I know you were patting that on the whole way over.

SPEAKER_04 39:45

One second, I may have a flashlight. One second.

SPEAKER_03 39:48

Starzan puts all this work into having a theme.

SPEAKER_02 39:51

You shine a flashlight on Starzan, he lights up like a disco ball.

SPEAKER_03 39:56

Oops, oops, oops, oops. Start swinging around a lightsaber like a glow stick.

SPEAKER_02 40:01

Likes your muscles. Send the sparkles around. I was imagining just like, hey, I could probably use some help at the copile at sea, just like Starzan is busy and the system is down.

SPEAKER_03 40:14

The system is down.

SPEAKER_02 40:20

Okay. Is there any sign of uh any other people outside where we've landed, or is it just uh abandoned?

SPEAKER_08 40:27

It does seem that there is a like on your sandsarous you can't see that there is a sort of condensed center where there is a lot of life. Um, not a ton of like readings for advanced technology, but uh there does seem to be a somewhat primitive city.

SPEAKER_02 40:46

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 40:47

Primitive, you say.

SPEAKER_02 40:48

Do we maybe want to throw some fucking sticks and leaves and shit on top of our ship in case there's any uh prisoners who might be looking for a ways off this planet?

SPEAKER_05 40:58

Yeah. Uh yes, we have to put our ship in hidden mode.

SPEAKER_02 41:02

Does the ship have hidden mode?

SPEAKER_05 41:04

Uh your ship doesn't have uh hidden mode. No, a hidden mode is just putting us putting sticks and leaves on top of it.

SPEAKER_02 41:13

That's just where we put the big net that has all the sticks and leaves glued on it already.

SPEAKER_08 41:17

And the planet is like quite desolate. The landscape is fairly barren. There's like patches of uh like desert plants like cacti and things. But other than that, it's just like and you can see like these minerals that like poking out of the ground. Uh some of them are pretty large, like they go up to your knee almost. Um, nothing big enough to hide a ship behind though. But if you're if you're kind of hanging out, if you're just kind of landing beyond the outskirts of the city, that may be enough.

SPEAKER_02 41:50

Yeah, we'll put the lock on. Put the lock on. It'll be fine. Put away the net, guys. It's not the time for hidden mode. You know what?

SPEAKER_05 42:01

I I I get real sad and then I just I just pick up a little bit of dirt and I throw it on the ship and I walk away. And I walk away.

SPEAKER_02 42:08

You can't take this from me. I'll throw some dirt if I want to. So, like, how how do we think we should go into the city? Because it's like we could go and like see if we could sneak in and find this uh this hut and either like talk to him or see if we can fucking eliminate him. Or we could go in like just open and honest and forthright, and like, we're just here to talk.

SPEAKER_05 42:31

I'd rather be just here to talk.

SPEAKER_08 42:34

What what are we trying to find out from him again? Your orders were very nonspecifically to prevent him from uh giving the separatists access to the planet.

SPEAKER_02 42:44

Yeah, because it's like that could be uh eliminating him, it could be just talking to him being like, this is why you should not tell this to the separatists.

SPEAKER_05 42:53

Well, if he does if he doesn't uh uh listen to what we have to say about the situation, then I I mean I guess we can either arrest him or uh uh see what we can do from there. We don't have to kill everybody that uh that disagrees with us. We don't have to, but we don't have to kill everybody that disagrees with us. Just saying. We don't want to hurt nobody. We don't want to hurt nobody.

SPEAKER_02 43:22

Well, I'm just saying, like, look, you're not wrong, Chris. We don't have to kill everybody. I'm thinking, like, maybe we go in stealthy, like, see if we can, you know, maybe eavesdrop on whatever conversations this guy's having, get a get a feel for how how open he might be to conversation and how uh aware he is of who he's actually dealing with. Because if it's like we're listening in and it's just like this guy don't know shit about who the separatists are, and he he he wouldn't be into this, and then we go and talk to him and he's like, Oh, I'm not into that, and then we're like, Where damn right you're not?

SPEAKER_04 43:59

Didn't we? Tell you? Didn't we let you know?

SPEAKER_02 44:02

But if it's like we're listening and it's like, oh no, this guy, he's uh he's uh he wants to give Dooku a little happy day, he's Wait, how does one give Dooku a happy day?

SPEAKER_04 44:13

Why don't you tell me how do you to give Dooku a happy day?

SPEAKER_02 44:17

Well listen, I'm just saying his lightsaber is long and curved, and there's gotta be a reason for that. But you know, but if that's like uh where he's at, like you know. Peroni's disease? What?

SPEAKER_05 44:30

Google it.

SPEAKER_01 44:33

I don't want to!

SPEAKER_05 44:34

I don't wanna Google it, Mike. Did you say Peroni's disease? Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 44:40

I don't wanna Google it.

SPEAKER_05 44:46

It's a very common commercial on uh cable news shows.

SPEAKER_01 44:50

Peroni's disease?

SPEAKER_02 44:53

Oh his tongue!

SPEAKER_08 44:56

Pepperoni disease. Hell yeah. A slight curvature. Does it also have a hook at the end? Makes it more functional for catching fish. Dooku's got a Prince Albert.

SPEAKER_02 45:11

Listen, if if Megan the Stallion has taught me anything, it is that that is a preferable aspect. Anyways.

SPEAKER_05 45:19

Maybe, maybe she would like Dooku.

SPEAKER_02 45:22

Maybe. Maybe we all like that. Fuck, what was I even saying? If it seems like he knows exactly who the separatists are and he's totally fine with whatever the fuck they're doing, then maybe we get a jump on him for to do a little you know, like we just pop him off. But if we're we if we go in like quiet, then we can make that choice. So Yeah, you know, we pop off Dooku if he's wanting to g give a happy time.

SPEAKER_04 45:50

What are you saying? He's like a dandelion, uh what?

SPEAKER_02 45:54

Yeah, you know, he's a dandelion. But Chris, you're saying go in honest and forthright. I'm saying go in stealthy like. Starz and Illyria, where do your votes?

SPEAKER_03 46:05

Prefer a fair fight. Starzan prefers a fair fight to all the sneaking around.

SPEAKER_05 46:09

I You ask me to arm wrestle at least w at least once a week and say it's fair.

SPEAKER_04 46:15

Look at you, you're a brick shit house.

SPEAKER_03 46:17

Nothing is fair with you. The only way you will learn is through multiple challenges.

SPEAKER_02 46:22

I have gotten slightly more stealthy in the p in the past weeks, but uh unless we do the thing that always works out real good and we split up the party.

SPEAKER_08 46:31

Because what's the uh what's I mean, what's the Jedi method of negotiation? It's walking in, putting your lightsaber on the table as an implicit threat.

SPEAKER_02 46:38

Listen, I'm just saying Starzan and Chris could go in honest and forthright. A we're here to have a conversation, and Leary and I, we sneak in, keep an eye on things, and we're ready to, you know, pop things off if things need to get popped off, namely things being ahead.

SPEAKER_05 46:54

Okay, uh, I see what you're saying. I think it's what I'm saying. I feel like this is a necessary uh uh plan. I feel as though it is. I got that big brain. So you've got that big strategic noggin.

SPEAKER_02 47:08

Got that big brain, baby. What do you say, Elyria? Wanna be s stealthy with me?

SPEAKER_05 47:13

Wanna be stealthy with me?

SPEAKER_00 47:17

I can try.

SPEAKER_02 47:19

I need to have like a little more confidence than that. Yay. Yeah, what did what did Master Yoda say about trying? That you should do it as a trying.

SPEAKER_00 47:26

I was trained by Yattel, thank you.

SPEAKER_02 47:28

What did Yattel say about trying? Yeah, but you would still had his class when you were free.

SPEAKER_00 47:32

Do your best.

SPEAKER_05 47:33

At first she said, at first, uh uh succeed. At first you don't. Again, try, try. I'm pretty sure she didn't talk like that.

SPEAKER_02 47:42

Yeah, I was gonna say, is that a is that a racist cake of Yattle?

SPEAKER_03 47:46

Not not all of that species talks like that. Yoda's only been doing that since he had his stroke.

SPEAKER_02 47:50

Oh no. Yoda just got dropped on the head when he was a baby by some muscular nautilin bitch.

SPEAKER_08 47:58

Oh no. Why his head's dented like that? Oh god. It's like foam rubber. If you stick a finger in it, it'll make a little uh divot.

SPEAKER_02 48:06

Just stays there forever. Oh no. Okay, Chris and Starzan going in honest and forthright, me and Elyria, we sneak in the alley, we try to keep an eye on things.

SPEAKER_05 48:15

What's this guy's name again? Baldorian. Baldorian, okay.

SPEAKER_02 48:19

We're like Baldorian. Let's go!

SPEAKER_08 48:24

So you can go uh approaching the city, kind of trudging through the desert. Uh, I don't know what kind of personal grooming you've been doing, but the static electricity in the air is certainly uh giving you guys uh a little bit of a lift in the hair department.

SPEAKER_02 48:38

Oh no, Kaliset's gonna have an Irish afro.

SPEAKER_08 48:41

And uh as you approach where you saw the city uh from the sky, it becomes apparent that it's not above ground. That what you saw from above is actually like as a series of like roads and buildings and things, is actually a series of deep trenches that have been dug into the earth. These sort of like series of interconnected pits and caves and these sort of like troglodite underground structures, similar to what they have in like moisture farms on Tadoen to keep people out of the sun on a desert world, and probably on this planet more to keep people below ground so they don't get struck by lightning. Oh you can see a significant uh the only significant sign of uh anything above ground is a ship. You can identify it as a uh Punworka class interstellar sloop. Why doesn't somebody roll me a mechanics? Uh give me a two purple and a blue mechanics to see if you recognize uh this kind of ship and who it may or may not belong to.

SPEAKER_02 49:55

A two purple mechanics?

SPEAKER_08 49:56

Yeah. I think I got two purple or two purple or knowledge core worlds, maybe, just to see what like what kind of use it sees. Just two purple two purple and a blue. Two purple and a blue.

SPEAKER_00 50:14

Oh shit. Wow, I it really rings the bell.

SPEAKER_05 50:18

Uh a failure and advantage.

SPEAKER_00 50:20

Did you know that uh this movie star used to fly a ship like that? One success. Okay.

SPEAKER_08 50:28

Goddamn Starzan! So Starzan. You know that the uh Punworka Interstellar sloop, specifically with a uh unique deployable solar sail, is a vessel that is commonly used and uh is kind of notoriously used as the personal vessel of one Count Dooku. However, those of you who got advantage, would Dooku be sent to deal with this situation? Uhly and Chris, you got advantage, you figure probably not Dooku by himself dealing with this, but there is somebody who's fairly important within the Separatists that is here if they're using one of these one of these ships. So it's probably somebody who's gonna be a uh formidable opponent, not necessarily physically. It may be they sent a negotiator, it may be it's unlikely that they sent a super tactical droid to deal with this. It's probably a living being, but beyond that you don't really know. Darthmall.

SPEAKER_02 51:32

Oh, what if it's a Saj Ventress? Grievous, grievous, grievous.

SPEAKER_08 51:36

Would you trust Grievous to do negotiation? Illyria, you got sixth advantage on this. Oh yeah. So you saw a ship up above. Why don't you roll me a knowledge warfare? Give me a two-purple knowledge warfare to identify the ship that you saw in orbit.

SPEAKER_00 51:51

Three success, one advantage.

SPEAKER_08 51:54

Okay, so Illyria, you want this to be grievous?

SPEAKER_00 51:57

Do I want it?

SPEAKER_08 51:59

You were chanting it, I'm I'm I'm assuming. Grievous, grievous.

SPEAKER_02 52:04

Do you want it to be grievous? Okay, let's put it this way.

SPEAKER_05 52:09

If you had a choice between it being good.

SPEAKER_02 52:12

If you had to choose between it being grievous or a Saj Ventress, who would you prefer?

SPEAKER_05 52:17

And do you want me to check your breath to make sure that it smells good before you go ahead and do it?

SPEAKER_08 52:22

It could be neither of them at all. It could be neither of them. Yeah, you got you got advantage.

SPEAKER_00 52:27

Neither at all.

SPEAKER_08 52:28

Neither at all.

SPEAKER_00 52:29

Who's scarier? Uh stronger. Ventress.

SPEAKER_02 52:33

I mean, Grievous does have all those lightsabers that he's collected from slain Jedi. Yeah, but he also seduce us. Yeah, he fucking s he won't seduce us.

SPEAKER_00 52:46

If he has to do negotiations, he would be worse. It's true. Grievous, grievous, grievous.

SPEAKER_08 52:52

Yeah. Alright, so you got those advantages. Um he'd be worse at negotiating, I see what you're saying. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 52:58

Yes.

SPEAKER_08 52:59

So you can remember, it's like, oh, the ship that was in orbit, you remember reading its registry, the invisible hand. And then you remember, oh, isn't that like General Grievous's flagship? So is the invisible hand. Signs point to G. Oh.

SPEAKER_03 53:19

Is the invisible hand kind of like the stranger? You don't know that.

SPEAKER_02 53:24

I don't know, but my my brain immediately uh, anyways. Anyway. My brain is stupid and shouldn't be listened to.

SPEAKER_05 53:33

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SPEAKER_08 53:38

I mean, Grievous is a notorious Jedi killer. If they thought they might have to uh subdue a powerful Hut Jedi in order to get the information thereafter, certainly he might be able to do it himself.

SPEAKER_02 53:50

Yeah. Okay. Plan still stands. Chris and Starzan, you still want to go in honest and forthright?

SPEAKER_05 53:57

Sure. Uh I I mean, yeah, pr I I can if you gu if you guys have our backs, then yeah, I can I can see if I uh I can get something out of I'll I'll be talking to Grievous at this point. Maybe. Alright, we'll find out. Let's uh let's see if we can find out. Should I wait for you guys to have a good get a good spot?

SPEAKER_08 54:17

Well, um you're you're seeing this ship as you're approaching like the city, so you're not like in the city yet. Okay. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 54:27

What would it be to sneak into the city?

SPEAKER_08 54:29

I mean, you could just jump down. Like it's just it's holes.

SPEAKER_02 54:32

Okay, so there's no security around the holes.

SPEAKER_08 54:35

It is a penal colony. Like the city doesn't seem to be a huge city. There may be more underground, but it is a like the survivors of a penal colony that haven't had like any outside help for uh the last at least 400 years.

SPEAKER_02 54:52

Well, we'll jump down first and then we'll try to be unnoticed.

SPEAKER_05 54:56

Yeah, let's let's see let's see what happens.

SPEAKER_08 54:58

Okay. Um just for funsies, uh, give me an athletics to climb down. No, it'll it'll be a short range fall if you fail.

SPEAKER_00 55:06

No!

SPEAKER_08 55:07

You could call it a two-purple athletics.

SPEAKER_00 55:10

Oh one success, one threat.

SPEAKER_08 55:13

Three success.

SPEAKER_00 55:14

Okay. One success, one threat.

SPEAKER_08 55:17

One failure. Oh, Chris falls in the hole. Starzan, Starzan, you can cr you can climb down. Um, Illyria and Kala. So as you're climbing down, it is like packed dirt for like most of it. Uh, and you're finding these hand holds, but Illyria and Kala, you're going down first, and as you do, some of these hand holds are kind of breaking off, which means that Chris doesn't have the easiest time, and he does slip and fall.

SPEAKER_05 55:51

That hurts my bum. My bum is on the floor. My bum is on this floor.

SPEAKER_08 55:56

Look at me, my bum is on the floor. Yeah, so we'll see, we'll see uh how much your bum is on the floor. So so Chris, why don't you give me a uh two purple athletics or coordination? See if you can tuck and roll.

SPEAKER_05 56:09

Uh coordination. Yeah, that's what I'm rolling here. That isn't very fun when you forget about the bum bum song. Sorry. Um three advantage shit.

SPEAKER_08 56:21

Okay, uh, so uh you can reduce the amount of strain you take by three to seven from ten. Okay. Uh, but you still take ten points of wound as you as you fall uh short range, pretty close to the top of this.

SPEAKER_05 56:38

I have decided that I do not want to be here anymore.

SPEAKER_02 56:42

Chris, honey, you need a stimpek! I would love a stimpack please as I go.

SPEAKER_00 56:48

Can I touch him and heal him? Yeah, for it.

SPEAKER_02 56:50

Yeah, you got your you got your juju.

SPEAKER_00 56:52

Oh, on dark side.

SPEAKER_02 56:54

Ooh, you gonna do it?

SPEAKER_00 56:57

I mean, I feel I I feel embarrassed that uh we broke off those handholds and uh caused him to hurt himself.

SPEAKER_05 57:05

Ten points of damage!

SPEAKER_08 57:07

Fucking ow! So as uh Illyria places her her hands on your your bruises and your uh whatever snapped and cracked in your body, Chris. Um you can you can recover some of those wounds. Um and as this is as this is happening, you can feel like above you, like the storm like zapping overhead, and there is like a pretty loud like thunder strike like at the top of the cliff near where you came down. So a big bolt of a lightning hits the ground near sending a big puff of sand and uh and dirt into the air as it strikes. But since you guys are underground, you're uh not being affected.

SPEAKER_02 57:54

Think that's a coincidence? Or do you think it uh there's something in the the lightning storm that doesn't like the force or something? That'd be silly, right? That'd be silly.

SPEAKER_04 58:03

I mean, uh the force has uh pained us before. Why wouldn't it pain us now?

SPEAKER_02 58:09

Oh, don't say that. The force is healing you right now.

SPEAKER_04 58:13

That is true.

SPEAKER_02 58:14

Look how Illyria's using the power of evil to make y'all better.

SPEAKER_04 58:17

Yeah, I don't know how I feel about that, but uh I I do feel better than I once did.

SPEAKER_06 58:22

Well, maybe you shouldn't have fell. Yeah. Maybe I shouldn't have fell? Yeah, maybe you shouldn't have fallen. That's what you have to say?

SPEAKER_02 58:31

Look, I explained.

SPEAKER_06 58:38

No, that that's not oh.

SPEAKER_02 58:43

Stop bullying Illyria.

SPEAKER_05 58:45

Yeah, yes, I fell on my ass. Can I roll a harm?

SPEAKER_02 58:50

Don't harm me.

SPEAKER_00 58:52

I gave you those health points, I can take them away.

SPEAKER_02 58:56

Okay, now that we are down the pit, you can we get a better idea of how big the city is and if there's a way to uh get into it unnoticed.

SPEAKER_08 59:04

Well, you're in you're in the city now, you're in kind of this sort of big clearing. There are a couple of doors that seem to go into like not dwellings, but almost like maybe like storage areas for whatever crops they may be able to harvest. Uh there is a like cluster of moisture evaporators kind of in the center of this circular pit. So maybe they're like water storage tanks, but it doesn't seem like this is a place where anybody's living. So nobody really notices you guys coming down. There is a tunnel that you can follow off into the other side of this pit that kind of leads underground. You can see there are some uh lights leading the way.

SPEAKER_02 59:47

All of the lights, I guess.

SPEAKER_08 59:49

They seem to be gas lanterns rather than uh electrical. It seems like as you're kind of looking around, like the doors to these storage areas, they are like locked and sealed with physical locks. The evaporators uh seem to be primarily mechanical in nature. It doesn't seem like there's a ton of sophisticated electronics going on. The lights are gas lamps. It seems like they are trying to minimize the use of electricity as much as possible on this planet.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:21

But you can I hope we're all ready to get gaslit.

SPEAKER_08 1:00:24

Yeah, you can you can get gaslit as you follow through these tunnels. They're not huge, they are dug out by presumably the ancestors, the original prisoners who were here, they put probably started building this city, but they have stood the test of time. They are functional, and as you walk through, you can sort of start to hear like the murmuring of crowds until you reach a large pit, much larger than the one you climbed in. The one you like climbed down is kind of about the size of like that pit in the Lars homestead. But uh the one you come out into is is much, much bigger. It's like five of those across. And in the middle of it rather than like a moisture evaporator, is a I guess it would be a it looks like a temple. It it's very much like Jedi-ish architecture. It's kind of uh got a sort of bell shape to it. There's like these curved sides, it looks like the the old Jedi temples you might find on on plants like Oktu, and it looks like the old Jedi temples that you might find on on Jedi. It even kind of resembles the monasteries you might find uh uh built by the Bomar monks. So it has that sort of like like a cylindrical with like a hat on it. The door which is weird because that is Jedi architecture, but this is not a temple, it seems to be more like a palace. And the crowd is gathered uh outside this palace, and you can see these beings. Uh, there are pretty much all humans.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:14

Sorry, I just got a bad thought. I'm not gonna share it because it's gross. Continue though.

SPEAKER_08 1:02:19

Um now you have to share. So humans or like humans adjacent, um, any prisoners that were on this planet when it was a penal colony that couldn't breed, wouldn't have any descendants. Uh humans are like cockroaches, so uh pretty pretty easy to make more humans.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:37

And Cause it's like, wasn't the other Jedi like a human woman? Do I am I remembering that incorrectly?

SPEAKER_08 1:02:43

No, she was a human woman.

SPEAKER_07 1:02:51

Mmm.

SPEAKER_08 1:02:52

And you can see these sort of uh small groups. There aren't that many of them. It seems like there's maybe only like 2,000 people in this whole town. So, like, this dugout, this big hole, it's not in it it is pretty packed, but it's not like that you can't like muscle your way through. Uh, and it seems that they are kind of arranged in in rows where they're sort of letting people come up and present seems like an offering to on a dais uh a like not as large as you might be expecting hut. This hut is fairly lean and fairly lithe. In the kind of shape you would expect a Jedi to be in. Not emaciated, certainly, you know, well fed, he's not starving. But so like modern-day John Goodman. Yeah, he's he's an Ozempic hut.

SPEAKER_02 1:03:51

He's got Ozambic face.

SPEAKER_08 1:03:54

He took the substance. And these people, they are sort of bringing their offerings up to him, and he is sort of like reaching a hand out and almost like consecrating them. He's taking there is a a pot of something that he is reaching into and then and then dabbing them on the foreheads as they present their offering. And standing off to the side, in a in a position of he's not part of it, uh, is not part of the ceremony, but he is certainly like being included in a position as a guest of honor, is a tall, cloaked, mechanical being that each of you would immediately recognize as General Grievous.

SPEAKER_05 1:04:36

Our boy. Well, not our boy, but you know our boy, but like our boy. All of us being like, wow, Grievous! Grievous, you're such a role model. Wow.

SPEAKER_02 1:04:47

You're my favorite war criminal.

SPEAKER_05 1:04:50

I heard that he used to be Zap Rasdare.

SPEAKER_02 1:04:52

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_05 1:04:53

Uh, that was just a rumor. I don't believe that for a second.

SPEAKER_08 1:04:57

This hut, as he is consecrating these people, he is also addressing the crowd, and he's telling the people of the city that they have a visitor from the stars who will be able to bring riches to the planet and will be able to help them to escape from the prison that they've been in for the past 400 years, the prison that their ancestors were sentenced to crimes that the descendants are still paying for, and that uh that this visitor from the stars will be giving to them unimaginable wealth, but it will require a sacrifice. And he's telling them to prepare for this sacrifice and to uh remember that that what he is going to call them to do will be for the good of them all. He's not being specific about what the sacrifice is, though.

SPEAKER_05 1:05:56

He's being a little bit cagey on what's uh what we're

SPEAKER_08 1:06:00

To uh depart with the uh the citizens of this planet do seem to all kind of be celebrating this, though. Like these offerings that they're giving are almost like parting gestures where it's like it's the kind of thing you would give somebody where it's like, I'm never gonna see you again. So there it seems that they're not even offerings to Beldorian as much as they are offerings to the city and their home that they're like, oh, we're gonna be going, so we're gonna give you these things that we have.

SPEAKER_05 1:06:32

Well, my bags are packed, I'm ready to go. I'm standing here outside your door. Chris just cruises into the metal singing. I'm leaving on Japan. So, um can I can I ask maybe a bystander, hey, uh or uh is this a touristy place at all, or is it very um I mean it's a prison quiet.

SPEAKER_08 1:06:57

It's a penal it's a penal colony where any ship larger than uh a very small freighter gets blown out of the sky by lightning, so that I don't think they see a lot of a lot of guests.

SPEAKER_02 1:07:07

Oh yeah, and like I guess everyone here would is like humans and humanoids.

SPEAKER_08 1:07:12

Yeah, so Chris Humans and near humans. Fallines I mean I mean you're all strangers, so like the fact that you're not there, you you I assume that you're all kind of laying low and sort of hanging around the edges keeping your hoods on.

SPEAKER_05 1:07:26

Yeah, I don't I don't want to c uh pay too much attention to myself, if I can help it. Um, if anything, I would probably um let me let me think here. I I do kind of want to know what's going on. I I like is there somebody that is is there somebody if I look around that might look like scared or disappointed or not like the norm, I should say.

SPEAKER_02 1:07:49

Somebody who's kind of into everything that's happening here. Not not into this shit.

SPEAKER_05 1:07:54

Uh give me a perception. I would love to give you a perception. What kind of perception would I love to give you?

SPEAKER_08 1:07:59

You can add a blue onto this. The crowd is pretty dense, they are unfamiliar. So we'll call it a three purple and a blue. I got motherfucker, two failure, three advantage. So you can't find anybody that looks particularly upset or scared, uh, but you did get those advantages. So you do get kind of a sense that like Baldorian is up there. He's consecrating these people, he's kind of marking them with whatever this material is. He is not the only one. There are some other people like these sort of like dark red robes that are up there with him. They seem to be some sort of like shaman or priest or some sort of uh religious or spiritual figure. There are people like sort of scattered throughout, it seems like this particular shade of red that they're wearing these robes, there are people who are wearing uh scarves and like wrappings in similar colors throughout the city, and some of them are like like there if anybody's praying or doing any sort of um like religious rituals as this is going on, it's the people who are wearing this shade of red. So there may be like a cult or religion that's sprung up around uh Beldorian or around the planet. Uh so if you're looking for people who would be aware of what's going on, it would probably be these people in red.

SPEAKER_05 1:09:36

Okay. What do I like um another another quick question here? What would I how how how do I blend or how much do I blend in? Do I stick out a little bit even if I'm not the center of attention?

SPEAKER_08 1:09:50

I mean, there's like maybe 2,000 people here. Everybody knows everybody else, everybody's probably related to some degree. Um if you want to destiny point that maybe there are some falling. Can because can falling your reptilian. Falling women do have tits.

SPEAKER_02 1:10:12

I mean, it's Star Wars, all ladies have tits.

SPEAKER_08 1:10:15

Yeah. So um Shizor did want to get with Leia. I don't know if that was just like a power thing. Um Does he have like a weird tooth?

SPEAKER_02 1:10:26

Does Shizor have tits?

SPEAKER_08 1:10:28

Hold on, what are what are what are lizard dicks like? I feel like you would because you're like, if Falline can breed with humans at all, um, I think you would definitely stand out because nobody here is like what they started out as. Everybody's kind of a little bit mixed. So you would at least stand out as somebody who nobody's ever seen before, as a stranger, as somebody who is not sort of part of the the general uh mix of people in this city.

SPEAKER_02 1:10:57

Is this gonna be like the same thing as that first creepy inbred family where it's like no one's this hot?

SPEAKER_08 1:11:03

Well, it's not that nobody's like they seem to be of average attractiveness. Like, they're they're prisoners and the the descendants of prisoners, and they did have a limited gene pool.

SPEAKER_02 1:11:13

But they're not like uh everyone's kissing their own skin.

SPEAKER_08 1:11:18

No, it doesn't it doesn't seem to be an incest city.

SPEAKER_02 1:11:20

Okay.

SPEAKER_05 1:11:21

Incest city, that's the name of the game. It was a city.

SPEAKER_02 1:11:24

It was an incestuous city, an incessant city.

SPEAKER_03 1:11:27

And to marry our cousins, because it's so damn attractive. I thought that was the whole point.

SPEAKER_08 1:11:32

I mean, unless unless that's why they were all sent to prison. Yes. I I don't think that was the case. The republi the republic really, really uh It wasn't even a Republic, it was just the this one the Grismith. The Grismouth.

SPEAKER_02 1:11:50

Mary Grismuth.

SPEAKER_05 1:11:51

Mary Grismuth go to jail. Go to jail for uh incest. Anyways, we've we've made some choices. I mean, for better or for worse.

SPEAKER_02 1:12:02

Does it look like behind the uh the hut, like he might have like uh a private office or like somewhere that he would retire to where he might have you know plans or any other secret information stashed?

SPEAKER_08 1:12:18

Well the the crowd, like everybody is in kind of like a half circle um around the front of this palace. So he when when this is done, it seems like he might go back in the palace. Like it is Jedi architecture, so he probably like had it built.

SPEAKER_02 1:12:35

Any way that I could sneak past this crowd to get into the palace.

SPEAKER_08 1:12:40

Uh potentially. This there is like a full sort of like ring around this palace, but because he's sort of doing this thing and giving this uh audience, there are it is only like a half circle where people are, so it's like once you exit the crowd, it would be very easy to see that you are just kind of like alone trying to like sneak in.

SPEAKER_02 1:13:00

It would be a little a little abstract, so I would not necessarily know exactly what it was, but would I be able to use the seek power to be like, where are his secret plans? Um I gotta go and find them if he has such a thing. Such a thing as secret plans?

SPEAKER_08 1:13:16

Yeah. So his evil diary. You can gain insight into the general location or direction of a person or object you know about.

SPEAKER_02 1:13:23

But you allow it even though I do not necessarily know about it.

SPEAKER_08 1:13:27

Are you assuming he has some sort of like private chamber or like it's likely that he does? So it's like where you're looking for like where he hangs his hat, so to speak. He's not wearing a hat, at least.

SPEAKER_02 1:13:40

Yeah, because it's hanging in that room.

SPEAKER_08 1:13:42

Yeah, he doesn't have he doesn't have a big Pope hat.

SPEAKER_02 1:13:44

He's not the hot pope.

SPEAKER_08 1:13:47

If only.

SPEAKER_02 1:13:48

Yeah. I'll see if I could find insight into uh his hat hanging room. Okay.

SPEAKER_08 1:13:53

Uh so roll me your force.

SPEAKER_02 1:13:55

Eh, I only got one dark side. I need at least two. It's fine. So it's fine.

SPEAKER_08 1:14:02

Uh as you try and call upon the force, maybe the reason you can't get enough is because like you start sort of gathering your senses and reaching out into the force to try and find something. And like, as you do, like lightning streaks across the sky. There's another bright flash, and lightning strikes like a lightning rod at the top of the tower that's poking out a little bit uh above the ground at the top of this palace, and uh the crowd kind of like everybody like ducks down. And Beldorian shouts to kind of calm everybody down, calm everybody down, and he says that this is you know, this is a momentous occasion. There is uh powerful forces at play, and they should not be alarmed. He has things uh well under control. This sounds like bullshit. As he calms everybody down, once the crowd is kind of calmed down, he does sort of like make a hand motion. Uh he just kind of waves a couple of fingers, and some of the robed sages or priests that are kind of up on it's not quite a stage, but it is sort of there is a staircase that leads down from the entrance to the palace. A couple of these priests do leave that area and head down into the crowd in a way that suggests maybe they are searching for someone.

SPEAKER_02 1:15:25

Can I please try to roll stealth to get away and get into the palace? Like, look for a side door or something, please! I don't want to get caught. Please! I know you were like, no, but I'd really like to.

SPEAKER_08 1:15:38

I mean, you could roll a stealth if you think these people are searching for you.

SPEAKER_02 1:15:42

Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 1:15:43

You're like, I don't think. I know. You are in the crowd, that'll give you a blue. Uh however, you are a stranger, uh, that'll give you a black. And that'll be against three purple to this three purple to just hide in the crowd and evade these robed dudes that are coming through. Sorry, what was the pool? Uh are you hiding as well? I guess I wouldn't be if I'm uh waiting for uh because they they are like there are people that are now like searching for something out in this crowd, so it's like it might be helpful for you guys to hide. Because if uh if Kala succeeds with threat, they might not see her but turn their attention onto something else.

SPEAKER_05 1:16:25

I'll hide too. I'll hide two.

SPEAKER_08 1:16:27

Okay, so anybody who's hiding, this will be three purple with a black and a blue. You have three destiny points.

SPEAKER_05 1:16:33

Three purple with a black and a blue.

SPEAKER_02 1:16:35

I got three success, three advantage. Can I use my advantage to get inside the palace? I'd really like to get in there.

SPEAKER_05 1:16:42

Well, we'll see what everyone else rolls. Ooh, I got a success to advantage. Stealth, you say.

SPEAKER_00 1:16:48

Three purple, a black, and a blue?

SPEAKER_05 1:16:50

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:16:51

Stealth. One triumph.

SPEAKER_03 1:16:55

I got one triumph, one advantage.

SPEAKER_08 1:16:57

Okay. There you go. So, um, Starzan and Illyria. Starzan, you quite cut an intimidating figure. Illyria, you uh are a blue person with glowing red eyes. These people, these shamans, these priests, these sages, they do notice you, but you're kind of on the outskirts. You're kind of near the back of the crowd. There's these tunnels that are winding their way through the ground. Uh tunnels where a group of four robed priests could potentially be lured and knocked out if some people who manage to evade detection could take advantage. So, Starzan and Illyria. Maybe you see these priests coming, and maybe you duck back into one of these dark, gas-lit passageways, blow out the lights where these uh sages wander in in their robes. Maybe Kala and Chris could use that to sneak up behind them, and you could abscond with their robes.

SPEAKER_07 1:18:00

Hmm.

SPEAKER_08 1:18:01

Pretty sneaky. Yeah, I'll take the robes. So first you'd need to knock them out. This would be uh Kala and Chris probably sneaking up from behind.

unknown 1:18:08

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:18:08

Dude, do our do our lightsabers have stun settings?

SPEAKER_08 1:18:12

No.

SPEAKER_02 1:18:12

Oh. Hmm.

SPEAKER_08 1:18:16

I mean you can whack them in the back of the head with a rifle or something.

SPEAKER_02 1:18:19

Oh god, would that be brawl though? Or melee?

SPEAKER_08 1:18:23

Yeah, it'd be melee.

SPEAKER_02 1:18:24

God, I'm not very strong. Would I get a bonus since we're catching them unawares?

SPEAKER_08 1:18:31

Yeah, you guys got advantages, so you would get uh blues. You probably get two blues each.

SPEAKER_02 1:18:35

Ooh.

SPEAKER_05 1:18:36

Do you have brawl?

SPEAKER_08 1:18:38

I mean, yeah, if you want to brawl them, uh you could. This would be Kala and Chris doing it though.

SPEAKER_02 1:18:43

Yeah. Yeah, it's two brawlish characters. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 1:18:53

We're coaching you. We're we swear we're not we're up to good.

SPEAKER_02 1:18:57

Ugh, God, what would it be to try to whap one in the back of the head with the butt of my rifle?

SPEAKER_08 1:19:02

Um, it would be a two-purple brawl.

SPEAKER_02 1:19:04

Two purple brawl.

SPEAKER_08 1:19:05

Or two purple melee.

SPEAKER_02 1:19:07

It's the same either way. What do we have for Destiny? We got three. Oh, you flip one? And you said we got we get two blue from our advantage? Two blue, okay. One success, one advantage.

SPEAKER_08 1:19:19

Okay. Uh Chris, do you want to do you wanna roll as well? Try and knock knock these guys out?

SPEAKER_05 1:19:25

Uh I won't be doing good, but I'll do what I can with what I got.

SPEAKER_02 1:19:30

When I got two broad, you can't possibly do worse than me.

SPEAKER_05 1:19:33

How many dusty points do we have? We have three two now, I think. Calla used one?

SPEAKER_02 1:19:37

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 1:19:38

Yeah, so you have two. I'm gonna flip one. Uh I'm gonna flip one here. Two purple, two blue. Jesus Christ. One failure, but five advantages. I don't know what that means.

SPEAKER_08 1:19:47

So Maybe I can get another one. Yeah, so between the two of you, uh, Chris, you can like sneak up behind one, clonk him in the side of the head with your blaster. It doesn't knock him out. He turns around. Uh, but that just gives Kala like the the opening to just like smash and break his nose with her rifle.

SPEAKER_06 1:20:09

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_08 1:20:09

And like one by one, you can pull that trick on these four priests that are coming through. With like Chris doing the tap on the shoulder, he turns around, Kala smashing him in the face. And uh soon enough, you have uh four sets of robes that you can disguise yourself in. Excellent.

SPEAKER_02 1:20:30

Right on. Now can we sneak into the palace? I just want to sneak into the palace.

SPEAKER_08 1:20:37

Yeah, after you've uh knocked out these uh guards, these priests, these whatever they are, the crowd is beginning to kind of disperse a little bit as the announcement and ceremony has completed, and you can catch Beldorian and Grievous and the other shamans heading back into the temple slash palace.

SPEAKER_02 1:21:02

Let's go in after them like we belong.

SPEAKER_08 1:21:04

You can you can scurry in after them. This would probably be a cool rather than a uh stealth to uh act like you belong. It's my cool.

SPEAKER_02 1:21:16

Just play it cool. Fuck, I'm not very cool, okay?

SPEAKER_05 1:21:19

Surprisingly, Starzan, not very cool. That's not different kind of cool.

SPEAKER_08 1:21:25

If you're staying well back of like if you're not getting in the faces of Beldorian or Grievous, you would just kind of have to look like you belong. These are hooded robes that do kind of shield your faces. There is they do like somewhat in form resemble uh the Imperial Royal Guards, where it's like, there are these cloth robes with these hoods, and there is like a little slit that you can see out of because there is a sort of like uh face covering that you can attach across the front of the hood. So as long as you behave correctly, you should be fine. Um this will be against the perception of these priests, these shamans. Um they would know how you're supposed to act, so you'll have to add a black onto a two purple cool.

SPEAKER_05 1:22:13

Two purple cool.

SPEAKER_02 1:22:15

Okay.

SPEAKER_08 1:22:16

You are dressed parts, you can uh also add a blue.

SPEAKER_02 1:22:19

Oh hell yeah.

SPEAKER_08 1:22:21

Thankfully, my character is very cool.

SPEAKER_00 1:22:23

Oh, thanks to that blue, I had one success.

SPEAKER_02 1:22:26

You know, two success, two threat.

SPEAKER_05 1:22:28

Two success. We are very sneaky.

SPEAKER_08 1:22:32

So very cool.

SPEAKER_02 1:22:33

Yeah, you can don't let that one threat.

SPEAKER_08 1:22:35

Blend in, uh, just follow the priests as they kind of lag a little bit behind uh Beldorian and Grievous, and you can overhear them talking, uh, and they are discussing the potential union of their two groups. Grievous seems a little bit frustrated with Beldorian. Beldorian is telling him, it seems like he's kind of leading him on a little bit, where like Grievous is insistent about trying to like getting, like telling him, like, okay, what is this thing you're gonna do? How are we gonna do this? What what do you what do you need to happen so we can start landing these machines? But Beldorian is like talking about, you know, like, oh, I want this, I want that, you know. When we get out of here, I'm gonna expect to be taken care of, I'm gonna want to expand my power base. I'm thinking maybe, you know, he could even be in charge of HUD space, you know. He's really like trying to get a sweet deal for himself. Okay. Kala, you kind of trip on your robe a little bit and stumble. And when you do, although like it is in a little bit of a lull, the other shamans don't really notice. They don't notice, but Grievous notices, and he just kind of glances back at you, and even though like your eyes are somewhat shadowed by this hood, you can make direct eye contact with the guy. His yellow s reptilian slit eyes, his scarred brown skin, what is left of him that you can see just like the nictating membrane over his eyes, like slick and wet, and he's glaring at you. Only for like a brief second, but like there is like a moment of connection where it's like he is now aware of you.

SPEAKER_02 1:24:33

Ooh, I hate that.

SPEAKER_08 1:24:36

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:24:37

That's fine, it was just for a second. We're gonna move on. Just be cool, continue to be cool.

SPEAKER_08 1:24:43

And eventually, as they're going through the the palace, Beldorian tells Grievous that they're going to continue the negotiations in his private chamber, and the other priests cannot enter.

SPEAKER_02 1:24:57

That includes us, I presume. Are there any vents that we could crawl up to Eve's drop?

SPEAKER_08 1:25:04

I mean, well, this is a like the rest of the city, it is fairly primitive. Uh the walls are carved out of like stone and rock, and like they are mined from the same material as the rest of the city. So it doesn't really have an HVAC system. So there are no vents.

SPEAKER_02 1:25:26

Is there anything else that might allow us to eavesdrop slash spy on what's happening in there?

SPEAKER_08 1:25:34

Um, opening the door and walking in, it seems.

SPEAKER_00 1:25:38

Catering.

unknown 1:25:40

Catering.

SPEAKER_08 1:25:40

Like, there probably is um some sort some form of ventilation. Like, he's not gonna lock himself in an airtight room. Uh, but it doesn't need like the sort of ducting that you might find in a modern building.

SPEAKER_02 1:25:56

So what are our options here? We can uh just wander in limbs wide, like crash test dummies there to get our ass roasted. Or I don't know, do we want to squat outside the door and put a fucking cup to it? See if we can hear anything.

SPEAKER_05 1:26:14

Um, I feel like it might be a good idea to uh uh get a little bit of recon in before we fully go in. We we put a cartoon hole on the floor and then knock on the door, and when he comes to answer it, he falls in.

SPEAKER_02 1:26:28

Oh shit. Like, are we are we? Are we able to kind of take a peek when they go in to see how big this like is there is this room that they're going into big enough that there's any chance at all that if we were to just like scurry in after them or open the door and try to sneak in, that they might not notice us.

SPEAKER_08 1:26:50

Uh so when they open the the door, it is like a big double door situation. Um they open it wide so that Grievous and Beldorian can both enter comfortably walking side by side, so you get a pretty good look before the door closes. It does seem to be a boudoir of sorts. It is a room of not just meditation but of relaxation. You can see there is a big dais, a big hot bed. In the ground, there is a uh what you might call in the 70s a conversation pit uh with some ramps going down in the middle. There is a big fire pit that has a sort of uh soft little fire going, uh, not to heat the room, but just to provide some ambience. You can see that kind of scattered around all of the walls, there are these crystal formations similar to the ones that are on the surface that are placed intentionally, evenly distributed around the edge of the room. You can see that there are uh, you know what huts are like. Uh there are. Some people in there, some other uh women we'll say, in uh various states of uh uh consciousness. Lounging.

SPEAKER_05 1:28:09

No, that's the wrong word that I thought you were gonna say.

SPEAKER_08 1:28:12

You smell uh what could be incense, uh what could be something else burning coming from uh perhaps hookahs and pipes, people who are lounging in the conversation pit and uh various other places in the room. You can see that on sort of the back of the room, there is like the hut Deus, the hut bed, the hut throne, but there is also sort of off to the on the far right hand side, a very like huge sort of crystal formation, and around that is sort of a cleared-out area that seems to be an area of of meditation. So there are like a couple of big structures, there's like that big crystal, there's the bed that you could potentially hide behind, but there are also like, it's not just Beldorian and Grievous that are in there. There are uh these ladies that are in there as well, these nice ladies.

SPEAKER_02 1:29:08

They're probably too strung out to even realize we're there.

SPEAKER_08 1:29:11

Yeah, these ladies are too nice for that. There is there is a uh big fire pit, uh, and a fire pit does need a chimney. So does anyone want to be a chimney sweep? It's not like uh the there it is a quite high-ceiling room, so it's not so much that it's like it's a full chimney going all the way, but there is like a hole in the room. It's like a flue climb up.

SPEAKER_05 1:29:34

If we if we could if we could like um if that's a ready climb, maybe uh is is it more like does it only have the one exit, do you think? Um, like most chimneys do, or do you think it might actually lead to maybe a couple of other places as well? Well, I guess there's only one way to find out.

SPEAKER_08 1:29:52

Glancing up, you can see it. It is just uh it's it's a glorified hole out out the top of the top of the roof.

SPEAKER_02 1:29:58

Yeah, so we'd have to like dart outside to get to that if we wanted to listen in there. I I'm I'm I I think I might be like, okay, let's just uh crack the door and see if we can if I can slip in there, and then maybe if someone else wants to go to the eavesdrop at the chimney hole. We can probably eavesdrop at the chimney hole. What what would it be for if Callisat wanted to just go in through the main door and like hide behind like the big crystal formation or something to eavesdrop? Because I don't know if how everyone else's stealth is, but Callisat could probably get in there, and then anyone else who wanted to sneak in could come with me, or anyone who just wanted to go up to the hole and try to eavesdrop at the hole.

SPEAKER_05 1:30:43

I don't have green stealth, so I'll I can stay put here. I I have decent stealth, so I'd probably go with you.

SPEAKER_00 1:30:50

I have a yellow and a green.

SPEAKER_05 1:30:52

I have three, three green, two green.

SPEAKER_00 1:30:56

Well, goddamn.

SPEAKER_03 1:30:58

God damn.

SPEAKER_02 1:30:59

Maybe Starzang could climb up to the hole to eavesdrop.

SPEAKER_03 1:31:03

But isn't that stealth roll? Or is it just athletics?

SPEAKER_02 1:31:05

Well, no, that would be like going around the outside of the palace to the roof. Like climbing up the outside.

SPEAKER_08 1:31:11

I mean, they may have to occasionally like clear dead birds off there. There might also be like uh roof access from inside.

SPEAKER_02 1:31:17

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:31:18

Dead birds are a tasty snack. I mean, when you're getting struck by lightning. When you're climbing, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:31:22

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:31:23

Free roast chicken.

SPEAKER_02 1:31:26

You gather up any of the dead birds that are up there, and then if we have to go into a fight, you can just pelt them down.

SPEAKER_08 1:31:33

No, no, you just just you find you find a roast chicken behind a wall and you heal. It's like Castlevania.

SPEAKER_02 1:31:40

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:31:40

He can't and just collect like roasted birds lying on the floor like a video game character to give him health.

SPEAKER_02 1:31:47

Starzan, why do you have so many whole roasted chickens in your pockets?

SPEAKER_03 1:31:51

I'm collecting them. Why?

SPEAKER_02 1:31:54

Starzan's collecting them.

SPEAKER_01 1:31:55

For later. For later.

SPEAKER_08 1:31:57

So you were darting it. Okay, Kala. So uh you can roll me a stealth then. We'll say this will be against Grievous because he was the one who is aware of you. Uh so give me a stealth against three reds and a purple. Three reds and a purple, you say. Got one.

SPEAKER_05 1:32:16

Can I help with stealth at all? Let's see. I mean, are you going in? Hmm. I could one of those even out just a little bit. Oh, fuck yeah, dog.

SPEAKER_08 1:32:26

Yeah, so success, threat, and triumph. So you can sneak in quickly, uh, darting behind them before the after the before the door closes. The rest of your group can't if they want to uh get in, they'll have to probably find the rook roof access. Uh threat with triumph. Now, as you're scanning the room, um Grievous is uh Kaliche Cyborg, Bildorian is a hut. They may not have the greatest memory for faces of humanoids. Uh luckily, and perhaps unluckily, one of the lounging ladies is similar enough to you physically that you could probably pass as her. Yeah. However, you would have to kind of dress down to your skivmies, which means not carrying your lightsaber unless you find somewhere to stash it, not carrying your rifle. So it's like you would be unarmed.

SPEAKER_02 1:33:34

My lightsaber is more of like a dagger. Could I like stash that under my titty? How big are your titties?

SPEAKER_05 1:33:41

How how how how big how big did Jonah make them titties? Can can you do a one-room and just clench it?

SPEAKER_02 1:33:48

I mean, if I if I'm very careful, I could I don't want to shove it out my butt.

SPEAKER_08 1:33:56

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:33:56

But then if I had it on my butt, it's like, okay, I gotta bend over and grab my ankles.

SPEAKER_05 1:34:03

Consider this isn't the first time you've held you've put it.

SPEAKER_08 1:34:06

You did you did get a triumph. So I think that um if you wanted to hide your lightsaber, if you wanted to kind of like stick it, I guess, in your bra strap, that could keep it there as long as you're always facing towards them.

SPEAKER_02 1:34:25

Okay.

SPEAKER_08 1:34:26

Uh if if you want to like if you think you could s like stuff it under something, you could be able to get away with that, potentially.

SPEAKER_02 1:34:35

Okay, what if though? What if I was able to smuggle it like clenched in my butt crack? And then because I'm a nice lady who's there for them, if it comes to it, I can just like sit on the hut's lap and then like clench my butt sheets. I don't know what kind of dexterity you have there. You can like you can like quite pop it out.

SPEAKER_05 1:35:03

Yeah, you know. When it comes to smuggling contraband, this isn't your first rodeo.

SPEAKER_08 1:35:07

So you've stashed drugs in places you've mulled before. Um I say if you want if you want to do the butt stuff, uh, that is gonna have a lot of red on your lightsaber roll. I uh boy. I love um Jesus.

SPEAKER_05 1:35:23

Smuggling sabers.

SPEAKER_02 1:35:25

Oh god.

SPEAKER_05 1:35:26

Lightsaber mule.

SPEAKER_02 1:35:27

It's so late. It's so late. What would it be the lightsaber mule?

SPEAKER_08 1:35:31

Well, you could just do that as part of your triumph.

SPEAKER_02 1:35:33

Okay, yeah, I'll I'll I'll stash that blade side pointed down between my butt cheeks.

SPEAKER_08 1:35:42

Okay, so you can feel it there like a big solid turd in your underwear. Oh boy.

SPEAKER_05 1:35:47

I hate that she can feel it. It is frustrating.

SPEAKER_02 1:35:51

It's fine. I'll stash my my gun and all my other shit behind this a statue or something, one of these big things. Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 1:36:00

Canonically caked up. So uh what is your- That's not cake in her underpants. So while she's doing this, oh boy. The rest of you, you are dressed as as priests and shamans. You are kind of passing muster here in terms of uh your cool roles. So I think eventually you guys would be able to sort of climb up to the roof. We can maybe include that in in as part of the triumph, but it might not be for a little while. Um, so Kala, while you're in here, before these guys can help you in any any way, what are you doing?

SPEAKER_02 1:36:36

Um, can I go and just kind of like lounge with the most strung out looking ladies who are not gonna notice that I don't belong and try to eavesdrop on whatever they're talking about?

SPEAKER_08 1:36:48

Yeah. Uh why don't you roll me a three purple discipline?

SPEAKER_02 1:36:52

My discipline's okay. Three purple?

SPEAKER_08 1:36:55

Uh yeah, I'll give you you're out of destiny points here, so I'll I'll give you one. Uh make that a red and a purple.

SPEAKER_02 1:37:00

Uh well, it's wait, a red one purple or red and two purple. Red two purple. That's evenly matched. Let's see. Five success and two threat. Okay.

SPEAKER_08 1:37:11

So Kala, you will be able to find somewhere to eavesdrop. Um, however, you're gonna have to stay like you'll probably have to do more roles here um in order to try and stay on task. Because like these ladies are strung out.

SPEAKER_02 1:37:29

Oh god, do they have impact? Do they have that good stuff?

SPEAKER_08 1:37:32

Not impact, because like this planet is like 400 years away from the the last like real visitor. They do have drugs. Like, there are drugs aplenty here. Like there are pipes to smoke. Uh there are like they do look very relaxed.

SPEAKER_02 1:37:51

Oh God, when's the last time I felt relaxed?

SPEAKER_08 1:37:54

This is a very tense situation.

SPEAKER_02 1:37:56

Oh god, I've been doing meditation and meditation, nothing but meditation. Oh, they look so relaxed.

SPEAKER_04 1:38:02

Just so you know, we don't have much time for uh for a good time right now.

SPEAKER_02 1:38:08

You can't say shit to me. You're still climbing up to that hole, you little loser.

SPEAKER_04 1:38:13

I I I'm still trying to find a hole. Can you guide me to your hole?

SPEAKER_02 1:38:18

That's what he said. Uh okay, what's it gonna be to resist temptation?

SPEAKER_08 1:38:25

Um well that you you passed the discipline.

SPEAKER_02 1:38:27

So that was okay, okay.

SPEAKER_08 1:38:29

But it'll just be it is it is gonna be a distraction that that the option is there.

SPEAKER_02 1:38:34

We're fine.

SPEAKER_08 1:38:35

Yeah, so so you're so your next role is gonna have a black on it. Uh so uh what what are you are you just listening? Because if Beldorian tells Grievous, then um you're gonna have to defeat Grievous to prevent this from getting out.

SPEAKER_02 1:38:53

That's true.

SPEAKER_05 1:38:54

I'll all then Grie Grievous is the one that they're given uh that he's given all the information to, right?

SPEAKER_08 1:39:01

Uh that he will, yes. Once once they they reach a deal that is uh that satisfies Baldorian, who seems to be.

SPEAKER_05 1:39:10

We may need to take them both out then.

SPEAKER_02 1:39:12

I'll I'll listen for now and try to get a feel for like, does Baldorian understand who he's dealing with?

SPEAKER_05 1:39:21

Like, is he Just like no no no, you can trust me. I've done nothing wrong.

SPEAKER_02 1:39:28

Like, if if he knew Grievous' true nature, would he be disinclined to deal with him?

SPEAKER_08 1:39:35

So you can tell that their their negotiation is a little bit tense because like Beldorian goes to lounge on his Dais, um, and Grievous, like, he usually walks pretty hunched over, but he like extends himself up to his full two-meter height, and he kind of puts his hands on his hips, a gesture that a cyborg doesn't really need to make. And as you're watching, it's clear that the reason he's doing this is specifically to show off the lightsabers of all the Jedi he's killed. And Beldorian is like really trying to make this all about him. He it seems that Beldorian is kind of he's gotten bored on this planet, he's comfortable, but like there's no, you know, there's nothing happening here. There's no challenge, there's no nothing to test his medal against, and uh he could live in ease, eking out sort of the meager living with the offerings of the people in this town, but you know. He's much too uh powerful for that, and he is trying to convince Grievous to pledge a portion of the Separatist military into helping him to take control of Hut Space, and in exchange, uh he will uh get the people of this planet to do what they need to to uh allow separatist ships to land uh in full force. Grievous does not want this. Grievous is kind of frustrated. He's just expecting Beldorian to like just give him what he wants. He's because he knows, like, Grievous knows that Beldorian's the only one with the secret. Baldorian knows that Grievous can get him what what he wants. Any other situation, Grievous would just be killing this guy.

SPEAKER_02 1:41:23

So it doesn't seem like there's any uh uh confusion about who Baldorian is dealing with. He's just uh he's just an asshole.

SPEAKER_05 1:41:31

Yeah. We could take care we could probably uh could we maybe well I I don't think we could take out Grievous. That'd be rad if we could take out Grievous, but uh It would certainly have implications.

SPEAKER_02 1:41:43

Yeah. I feel like the it might be easier for us to just try to like take out Baldorian and then try to just run, or like even just like uh, you know, make it so he can't talk to share the in- Well, he could still rightly share. I mean, he's still right.

SPEAKER_05 1:42:00

So either we arrest him or we take him out.

SPEAKER_08 1:42:03

Well, I don't know if we really have any authority here to arrest uh Huts have like one agility, which is like he's probably not great at coordination.

SPEAKER_02 1:42:13

Listen, Leia was able to murder a hut with naught but a chain while in a bikini. How hard could he be to kill?

SPEAKER_08 1:42:23

Jabu wasn't a a live Jedi. He wasn't serpentine. That's right.

SPEAKER_02 1:42:28

Yeah, but I got my saber up my ass crack, so I think I might have the upper hand.

SPEAKER_03 1:42:36

It's it feels it's such an empowering feeling.

SPEAKER_02 1:42:39

You know, you can shove anything up your ass crack if you really believe in yourself.

SPEAKER_08 1:42:44

So as you're listening to this conversation, um the rest of you can reach the chimney. There is uh not too much smoke billowing out. You are on the top of the roof here. You can kind of see, peer down into there. Uh, you're too far up to hear what they're talking about. Uh Kala would have heard the conversation, but you guys wouldn't be privy to really any of what Grievous and Beldorian were talking about. Kala, I don't know if you'd be able to communicate this to the rest of the team. So I think whatever is gonna happen would have to rely on very sort of visible signals. The rest of you you can s so what the rest of you see is Kala lounging in the conversation pit in her underwear next to a hookah.

SPEAKER_00 1:43:37

That's what we see. She looks like she's having fun.

SPEAKER_02 1:43:41

Can I kind of like look up at them and then look at the hut and then look back up and kind of like try to subtly rub my like run my thumb along my neck like no, we gotta kill them. We gotta do it.

SPEAKER_05 1:43:57

Uh I give I give a thumbs up, like, okay, yeah, sure, go ahead. I think we gotta kill this guy.

SPEAKER_02 1:44:02

I think we gotta kill this guy. Uh man, okay. Maybe I can like go up to him and kind of drape myself on him and then clench my lightsaber to let out a really dangerous part.

SPEAKER_05 1:44:16

Uh, dangerous part. Just made him a little bit of like spring load the the lightsaber.

SPEAKER_02 1:44:26

So fucking stupid. Okay.

SPEAKER_05 1:44:29

You want to go and uh can you fall can you fall on him with your lightsaber and just be like, oh, instead of R2, um instead of R2 uh like like shooting you the the I already s fucking spoiled the joke. Instead of uh R2 just like throwing you the saber, he just you tarts it out the the saber.

SPEAKER_08 1:44:55

Unless you think that you would be able to like because he although he is like fairly live in Serpentine for a hut, yeah. He's still big. He's still like a big guy.

SPEAKER_02 1:45:06

I mean I unless it's like instead of going over there and trying to uh use my my butt saber, I just try to like la like slump back to where I stash my shit, get my rifle, and fucking ping his head off.

SPEAKER_08 1:45:22

The huts?

SPEAKER_02 1:45:23

Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 1:45:24

I will say good luck with that. Uh try the lightsaber. Huts have a lot of soak.

SPEAKER_02 1:45:30

Yeah, and the lightsaber does have breach, doesn't it? Or yeah. Yeah, no it asunder. No, breach too, yeah. Yeah, no, I'll just I'll I'll just go up to this hut and like kind of like sway in, like I'm I'm a little strung out myself and kinda like, oops, I tripped and landed in your lap. Whoopsie doo. So, okay, this will be Deception? Charm?

SPEAKER_08 1:45:57

Probably deception.

SPEAKER_02 1:45:58

Deception. Yeah. Good thing I put a rank into that.

SPEAKER_08 1:46:02

I'll I'll let you do the lower roll here, because you are kind of having to trick them both. I'll let you do the lower one. So that is gonna be against three reds and a purple.

SPEAKER_01 1:46:12

Fuck off. Three reds and a purple.

SPEAKER_08 1:46:15

Yeah. What was the higher one? The higher the higher one would have been at I'll say at least five reds. Oh my god. Destiny, please.

SPEAKER_02 1:46:26

At least Do we do it? Yeah, you have a destiny.

SPEAKER_05 1:46:31

I can flip one to downgrade one of the reds. You can flip it. Oh well. Downgrade one red.

SPEAKER_02 1:46:36

So it'll be two red, two purple then if I downgrade one. Yeah. I mean, I've had good luck today. Let's see if it holds.

SPEAKER_04 1:46:44

Can you can you re-roll? Nope.

SPEAKER_02 1:46:45

Nope. Nope. Nope. That's one failure, one threat. It is not holding. It is not holding. We are taken on water. Hang on. Do I don't know, I don't have anything to reroll deception.

SPEAKER_01 1:46:58

I only have it for perception or vigilance. Whoops me. I'm just falling down. Oh, here we go.

SPEAKER_08 1:47:06

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 1:47:07

Uh.

SPEAKER_08 1:47:08

So, uh, you can try and saunter, do your best stoned, uh, glazed over walk towards Beldorian. But as you as you approach, he says, Not now, girl. The men are talking.

SPEAKER_02 1:47:23

Oh, I'm just.

SPEAKER_08 1:47:25

And as as he tur as he says this to you, before you can even reply, Grievous looks at you again and locks eyes with you again. Uh-oh. And he says, I have seen her eyes before. Uh-oh.

SPEAKER_01 1:47:43

Fuck it, I'm just going for it. Can I attack him with my assaber? Fuck it, fuck it. We're pulling, we're pulling the plug, we're going for it.

SPEAKER_08 1:47:51

So you're just gonna like do the jump and try and land on him with your ass?

SPEAKER_01 1:47:57

Yes! Oh man, my lightsaber skill is so bad!

SPEAKER_08 1:48:04

We'll say that this can be a coordination.

SPEAKER_01 1:48:06

Well, actually, it's much better. Okay, thank you.

SPEAKER_08 1:48:09

Um since you're not able to use your hands on a lad of black.

SPEAKER_01 1:48:14

Okay.

SPEAKER_08 1:48:16

As a Jedi, uh, Beldorian has two ranks of adversary.

SPEAKER_02 1:48:20

Okay.

SPEAKER_08 1:48:21

So this will be a coordination. Uh, this is gonna count as a combat roll. So this is gonna be uh I'll give you another destiny point, because I feel like you might need them. So this will be a coordination against two red and a purple with a black.

SPEAKER_07 1:48:37

Okay.

unknown 1:48:38

Okay.

SPEAKER_05 1:48:39

This is this is this is high stakes poker.

SPEAKER_02 1:48:43

You know what? We're not gonna flip the destiny, we're just gonna see what happens here.

SPEAKER_05 1:48:46

Just gonna play it, let it ride.

SPEAKER_02 1:48:48

A failure, but what advantage? Maybe I can cause just enough confusion that everyone else can try to jump down and attack.

SPEAKER_08 1:49:00

Yeah, do you want to because you could potentially like maybe think better of it and just like pull out your lightsaber? Like, do you do you like because that would certainly trigger things to start happening. If you're pulling out a lightsaber, uh your allies would probably jump down. However, that may also uh pique Grievous' interest.

SPEAKER_01 1:49:23

I mean, would he even care about my lightsaber?

SPEAKER_02 1:49:26

It's only 12 inches, you know.

SPEAKER_05 1:49:28

It's not that big. It's not that big.

SPEAKER_02 1:49:30

It's not that fine of an addition to his collection. Yeah, maybe I'll just uh rather than literally throwing myself on this guy who could potentially kill me, maybe I'll just pull out my lightsaber. And just like it sounds like bitches are talking here, actually.

SPEAKER_05 1:49:45

Sounds like bitches are talking here, actually. That's if there if there's gonna be a cue. Uh cu the cue is now. Let's we're cues.

SPEAKER_03 1:50:03

Alright. Should we just burst in?

SPEAKER_05 1:50:07

Can we fall from can we fall from a duct in the ceiling?

SPEAKER_08 1:50:10

Well, uh, you would have to drop down from uh the chimney. Are we broken ourselves down? Unless you all have lightsabers, you could conceivably cut a new hole somewhere. Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_05 1:50:22

Yeah, let's do that. That way it's a surprise.

SPEAKER_08 1:50:25

Okay. Where are you cutting hole? Where are you where are you dropping this chunk of ceiling onto?

SPEAKER_05 1:50:30

Um, maybe we could use it to uh because like Grievous and um Grievous is by himself, but uh No, they're they're talking together. Oh, they're talking together? Yeah. Um, let's see. Can I can I drop it on the guy that uh that Grievous is talking to?

SPEAKER_08 1:50:49

You wouldn't be able to see. So while Kala was like getting up and sauntering over and stuff, would you guys have been formulating this plan to drop to try and like you would have seen how big the drop is from the chimney? Yeah. So would you have been formulating this plan to cut cut a hole in the ceiling? Just to see if there's like a better place to drop, maybe. And if so, would one of you be cutting the hole in the ceiling? And would one of you be like telling the other person like where to go to drop it? Because if you have somebody, I if you have somebody, I would let let you use a uh if somebody wants to do a leadership check to guide whoever's gonna cut the hole.

SPEAKER_05 1:51:30

Oh yeah, it would be you, wouldn't it?

SPEAKER_08 1:51:32

No, I think it's you.

SPEAKER_05 1:51:33

You're a good thing. It is right.

SPEAKER_00 1:51:36

Let me do it one green.

SPEAKER_05 1:51:40

I got I got four green and I can take away a black.

SPEAKER_08 1:51:43

Okay, so you're trying to direct presumably Starzan and Illyria to cut a big enough chunk that it's gonna like do some damage if it falls on somebody. So uh this is gonna be a leadership. You're gonna have to do this quietly, because that's gonna add uh a black, you're just gonna have to mainly use hand motions. Uh you're directing two people in this. So I'll give you I'll give you a destiny point. And we'll say that this is gonna be a red, a purple, and a black leadership.

SPEAKER_05 1:52:13

Take away the black. So there's go. How many destiny points do we have?

SPEAKER_08 1:52:17

We have two.

SPEAKER_05 1:52:18

I'm gonna flip one. Uh okay, two success, two advantage.

SPEAKER_08 1:52:22

Okay, so you can guide Starzan and Illyria where to cut the hole when Kala activates her lightsaber and shouts.

SPEAKER_02 1:52:34

It sounds like it's bitches talking, actually!

SPEAKER_08 1:52:37

You can take that as a signal. Illyria and Starzan activate your sabers. Cut a wide hole wide enough to get a substantial chunk of ro uh, what did you get? How many advantages did you get? Two advantage? Two advantage. Okay, we can call this a silhouette two chunk of roof that falls. Uh we will uh give it the same properties as the hurl power because it's probably gonna be able to fall pretty quickly. It is kind of a tall building. So it is falling on Beldorian. So it's silhouette 2. That means it's gonna hit him for 20 points of wound. He's got 10 soak, but this chunk of roof does like fall right on him and like slams and smashes onto him. He does kind of have a split second of reaction and he tries to leap out of the way. Uh, but it does like get his tail and it does kind of pin him to there. Grievous does like a backwards somersault. He drops his cape, he grabs his lightsabers from his cloak. He doesn't activate them, but he does this kind of like backward scorpion somersault, and he lands on like all fours as he skitters away and he says, What is the meaning of this?

SPEAKER_05 1:53:54

Sorry, we're doing work on the roof. We didn't know you were down there. Or kid.

SPEAKER_02 1:53:59

Yeah, you're a bitch! Fuck you!

SPEAKER_08 1:54:02

You're you're saying this to Grievous?

SPEAKER_00 1:54:04

No, no, these are our construction laser swords.

SPEAKER_02 1:54:09

Yeah, let them talk. I'm I'm I'm too out of it.

SPEAKER_05 1:54:12

So uh did did we almost get you there? Should uh should we try again?

SPEAKER_08 1:54:18

And Bel Dorian shouts, I don't know who these people are.

SPEAKER_00 1:54:22

Oh god.

SPEAKER_08 1:54:23

Grievous assumes correctly Republic spies.

SPEAKER_05 1:54:28

No kind of. Maybe you shouldn't be treating uh treating uh uh sea uh secrets that aren't yours, maybe.

SPEAKER_08 1:54:37

He activates two of the lightsabers in his hands. And he starts, he skitters over to the wall and uses them digging them into the wall. He uses them to quickly start climbing up to the roof.

SPEAKER_05 1:54:50

Oh fuck me. Um hey, if he chases us, do you think you can take care of uh uh homie over here?

SPEAKER_02 1:54:59

Well, he's pinned under some rock, right?

SPEAKER_01 1:55:01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:55:01

So maybe I could just like use my little dagger and pop his throat open and just stab him in the neck.

SPEAKER_05 1:55:08

We're gonna run about this, by the way.

SPEAKER_08 1:55:10

Yeah. We're we should run about this. Okay. So uh if you're gonna run about this, you're gonna have to run about this beating Grievous' athletics.

SPEAKER_05 1:55:19

That's not gonna happen. We are fucked. We're fine, it's fine. I mean, I lost 10 points and then only gained four back of health uh before, so I'm not feeling good about my chances here.

SPEAKER_02 1:55:33

Yes, but have you considered that we are God's favorite?

SPEAKER_08 1:55:36

Kala, you're gonna attack Beldorian?

SPEAKER_02 1:55:38

Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 1:55:39

Okay. So that is uh gonna be a two red lightsaber.

SPEAKER_02 1:55:45

Ugh, god damn. What do we have for Destiny?

SPEAKER_08 1:55:48

Uh you have one.

SPEAKER_02 1:55:49

You know what? I'm not gonna use it because I feel like you guys might need it more. Can I at least add a blue because he's pinned?

SPEAKER_08 1:55:57

Yeah, he is pretty he is pretty pretty live. You can, you can, uh you'll probably, yeah, you'll probably need to use a maneuver to close distance. Uh but if you want to take some strain and aim, you can.

SPEAKER_02 1:56:08

Yeah, I'll take two strain to aim. So I can take a blue get a blue for aiming, and I can get a blue for him being pinned. Yeah. Okay, I'll take two strains so I can have that second maneuver to close the distance. Let's just see what happens. Two success, one threat!

SPEAKER_08 1:56:24

You can uh dig your lightsaber blade into Beldorian's flesh. However, it is not a standard length, it is more of a shank than a true lightsaber. So although it does penetrate his flesh and he does cry out in agony, it's not a killing blow. Okay. Uh that is fucked up. And he's just gonna stab him again. He's gonna brawl you. He's fine.

SPEAKER_02 1:56:51

Man. How much could he even brawl me? He's fucking pinned.

SPEAKER_08 1:56:56

He's he's bleeding out. So Beldorian, as you might uh expect, um has a force-enhanced physique.

SPEAKER_02 1:57:05

Oh shit, I should have rolled fucking suppress on him. Shit!

SPEAKER_08 1:57:09

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:57:10

Shit! I should have fucking committed suppress!

SPEAKER_08 1:57:13

So he gets one light, three darks. He will be using uh those uh three darks on his brawl roll. He gets six successes. He's gonna use those three dark sides to add three more success. So that is nine success.

SPEAKER_01 1:57:31

Ooh, got three soak.

SPEAKER_08 1:57:34

Look at him, you'll be fine.

SPEAKER_01 1:57:35

You'll be fine. That's half my wound!

SPEAKER_08 1:57:37

Yeah, no biggie.

SPEAKER_01 1:57:39

It's fine. It's fine.

SPEAKER_08 1:57:41

And uh he's got six brawn, so that does 12 points of wound to you after your soak. That takes me right up to my threshold. Yeah, so he like as you're stabbing your lightsaber into his chest, you've got like your your hands on on the hilt. He just takes his big meaty hut hand and just like puts them on the either side of your head, and he just starts pushing. And you can feel like the dark side coursing through him as he's doing this to turn your skull into an egg. And as he as he does this, like lightning zips overhead and strikes the lightning rod at the top of the temple.

SPEAKER_02 1:58:29

See, it's everyone else's turn!

SPEAKER_05 1:58:31

Well, we're running away, you see. You're supposed to take care of the pinned uh pinned person who is Oh, I'm sorry, I'm for fuck off!

SPEAKER_02 1:58:40

Fuck you!

SPEAKER_03 1:58:43

Jumped in there myself. Gonna unleash the Starblade, the Star Sword.

SPEAKER_02 1:58:48

Would Starzan be able to get down here to help me, or is Starzan running away with Illyria and and uh fucking.

SPEAKER_08 1:58:55

I feel like if you guys started running as soon as Grievous started climbing, uh you would probably be too far away to see what Cal is doing.

SPEAKER_02 1:59:02

Uh would I be able to roll suppress?

SPEAKER_05 1:59:05

Can you stab him with your uh lightsaber where you are now?

SPEAKER_02 1:59:09

Well only do one fucking thing at a time, dude. I'm gonna get my head points. I'm just putting I'm just putting on some shit. I won't say anything now. Ugh. Could I roll suppress? I realize it's technically for incoming forest powers, but maybe that'll help take down his enhance at least. Would it help me take down his enhance? Uh please give me something.

SPEAKER_08 1:59:31

Yeah, could potentially.

SPEAKER_02 1:59:33

I rolled one dark side, I'll fucking commit that, I'll commit that.

SPEAKER_01 1:59:36

Give him an automatic failure at least.

SPEAKER_08 1:59:38

So, uh, you can, as you guys are are running away, another lightning strikes the top of this temple, hits the lightning rod as Kala calls upon the dark side to try and suppress uh what Beldorian's doing. Uh Kala, he is just using his regular muscles to crush your skull now.

SPEAKER_02 2:00:02

Well, I guess I'm gonna fucking die now.

SPEAKER_01 2:00:05

Unless one of these strung out ladies wants to help one of their own, hey, remember me, your best friend? Look what he's doing, my ladies!

SPEAKER_08 2:00:14

What it does is it does add a failure to the check. So if he tries to use the force to uh crush your skull, he will have an automatic failure. If he's using his regular muscles, though. Well, I mean, if you're suppressing him, like, he is gonna try.

SPEAKER_05 2:00:30

I know, I know.

SPEAKER_08 2:00:31

Uh, so you guys are running from Grievous.

SPEAKER_05 2:00:33

Yes, we are.

SPEAKER_08 2:00:34

Um, I'll give you a two blue head start. Um, so this is gonna be against five purple athletics.

SPEAKER_05 2:00:41

Fuck you, asshole. You're a piece of shit, and I hate you. Uh you said five purple?

SPEAKER_08 2:00:50

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 2:00:50

Okay, and add two blue head start?

SPEAKER_08 2:00:53

Yeah. This is for any any of you who are who are running from Grievous.

SPEAKER_05 2:00:58

Six. Five You first, you first. Do we all run?

SPEAKER_00 2:01:01

Five threat.

SPEAKER_05 2:01:02

I got six failure and three advantage. And you uh yeah, if you're if you're running away with us, then yeah, you can uh yeah.

SPEAKER_08 2:01:12

Five success but four threat. Ooh. So, Starzan, you can run faster than Grievous. You can kind of slide down uh this this temple is sort of like a very steep slope, but you can slide down it. Unfortunately, you got those threat. That means that what happens next, you won't be able to climb back up to assist them. So you just have to continue running. Chris, you failed with advantage. The advantage is Grievous does not come for you.

SPEAKER_05 2:01:42

Oh no!

SPEAKER_08 2:01:43

I'm sorry. Illyrian, you got five threat. So, Grievous, when he does catch up to you, uh, you can feel his metal palette on your back as he just as he leaps and sort of just grabs, and his like two big metal toes just wrap around your shoulders, and you can feel yourself getting just slammed into the ground. And he grabs off of your belt. I'm going to uh whose lightsaber would you rather not lose? Yours or Hallens?

SPEAKER_00 2:02:20

Rather keep mine, even though it does less damage.

SPEAKER_08 2:02:23

Okay, so I'm gonna roll a force die and I'm gonna see which one he takes. A light. He takes Hallens. Mmm. Yay! Uh your lightsaber, you can feel it, is kind of like your belt got shifted and it's sort of under your body. So that the one the one that you have of Hallens is kind of on your back. Uh, you're laying on your own lightsaber. So when he grabs it, he says I don't usually take the weapons of children, but in this case I might make an exception. Where's all? What are you doing here? Grievous doesn't know you have another lightsaber. Uh button. Yeah, if you're just gonna lay still, uh, you could Chris the fact that Grievous has stopped to taunt to take Elyria's lightsaber. Uh you could use that to get a head start to try and outrun him. You're still kind of within range. You can see him activate Hallen's lightsaber, uh, and he is going to kill her with it.

SPEAKER_05 2:03:27

Uh I don't want to light still full full blast with my uh with my gun. Okay. Full blast with my gun.

SPEAKER_08 2:03:36

Uh so you're at short range. Uh he's got uh three ranks of ranged defense. He has four ranks of adversary, so that is gonna be a red, three purple, and three black. Jesus Christ.

SPEAKER_05 2:03:51

Uh how many destiny points do we got? You have one. I'm flipping that. Probably yeah. Yeah, I'm flipping. Oh, four failures and an advantage.

SPEAKER_02 2:04:00

Oh. So you draw his attention a little, maybe?

SPEAKER_08 2:04:04

Yeah, you can blast at him. Um not enough to like do any like damage. You can he's discarded his cloak. He's got like this thin robotic frame. Uh you're not uh a great shot anyway, probably. But that is enough for his head to like turn towards you. And he says, I'll be coming for you next.

SPEAKER_05 2:04:29

Can you can you use that opportunity to stab him with your lightsaber?

SPEAKER_00 2:04:32

I could, but since you've told me to, now I don't want to.

SPEAKER_06 2:04:36

Fucking do something!

SPEAKER_03 2:04:38

Look, I probably shouldn't have ran away.

SPEAKER_00 2:04:41

I gotta say, I was gonna use harm, but I I should try and chop something off him.

SPEAKER_08 2:04:47

Is he stepping on me or yeah, daddy's stepping on you. And you say like you're saying using harm, there's not that much of him left, honestly. If you used harm on him, like kill the organic bits altogether. I don't think it would kill them. He's got uh a lot of he's got a lot of built-in statistic-based plot armor here. Um but there's so little of him left that harming him would probably like give you a chance to escape. Like, using the harm power, that doesn't have anything to do with adversary, it doesn't have anything to do with defense, that's just force.

SPEAKER_00 2:05:27

I could gain conflict.

SPEAKER_02 2:05:30

You could, couldn't you?

SPEAKER_00 2:05:31

Can I can I hurt people with the light side?

SPEAKER_08 2:05:34

Yeah, you can use uh light harm.

SPEAKER_00 2:05:35

Yeah. Yay.

SPEAKER_08 2:05:37

Yeah. You you take conflict regardless, but uh you don't have to use the confide.

SPEAKER_00 2:05:42

Yeah, because I will hurt him with my mind.

SPEAKER_08 2:05:47

Alright, roll that force.

SPEAKER_00 2:05:48

I have four and one light side.

SPEAKER_08 2:05:50

One light side, okay. So uh how how do you use the light side to harm him?

SPEAKER_00 2:05:57

I want to s with the power to save my friends.

SPEAKER_08 2:06:03

Okay. So you are trained in medicine and you do like to heal people with the force. Uh you can see that there is a lot being done to, like, in the force, like as you reach out to him, you can feel that there is a lot being done to keep the meager living parts of him alive, just like a sac in in fluid, a brain, some eyes. There's a lot going on, a lot of chemicals being pumped in, there's a lot of medicines, a lot of antibiotics, there's a lot of like stuff that is being kept in very careful balance.

SPEAKER_00 2:06:40

I was gonna say force stroke, but that might be uh I mean if you're using a force power. Interpret it a different way.

SPEAKER_02 2:06:47

If you're using a force power to try to kill him, maybe it'll accidentally just summon down lightning and zap on them.

SPEAKER_08 2:06:52

Yeah, you wouldn't be able to kill him. As so you can sort of reach out, right? There's a lot of stuff plugged into things that have very specific connections. You could like heal over those to harm him. Yeah. Where it's like the th like things touching things that it's not supposed to, meat getting in places that's not supposed to. And like there is like a couple of bright flashes you can like see as you kind of crane your neck back up inside this green sack in his chest. These couple of bright flashes is like the electronic components come into contact with organs that they're not supposed to. Like his heart grows three sizes this day. That ain't supposed to happen. And as you do, as you do reach into the force, another lightning bolt strikes the top of this temple as Grievous is like caught in this, like, he gets a little bit of a convulsion, and his grip loosens up just enough that he lets go of you and you can scurry out from under him as he starts like hacking and coughing.

SPEAKER_02 2:08:03

Scream!

SPEAKER_08 2:08:04

Kala, what are you doing?

SPEAKER_02 2:08:06

Okay, well, I did suppress on him. Uh he has my head clasped between his hands, correct?

SPEAKER_08 2:08:18

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 2:08:19

I might just have to try to stab him in the face. Just pop his eyeball out or something.

SPEAKER_08 2:08:28

I will say this. His hand his his hands are on your head. His arms are not moving. Cause he's trying to crush.

SPEAKER_02 2:08:36

So maybe I could chop one of his hands off. Maybe that would be better.

SPEAKER_08 2:08:39

Yeah, if you want to go for the arms, they are they would be.

SPEAKER_02 2:08:42

Yeah, because I guess if his hands are extended, I might not even be able to reach his face.

SPEAKER_08 2:08:46

A decent target.

SPEAKER_02 2:08:47

Yeah, okay. What would that be to chop one of his hands off?

SPEAKER_08 2:08:50

This would just be uh too red because he's got his adversary. It is a lightsaber roll.

SPEAKER_02 2:08:56

Okay. What can we have for destiny? Do we have any? We got any back?

SPEAKER_05 2:09:00

I think I took the last one up.

SPEAKER_02 2:09:02

Fuck. Okay, it's fine.

SPEAKER_05 2:09:05

I'm sorry.

SPEAKER_02 2:09:06

It's not fine. I got two threats. I got two threats.

SPEAKER_08 2:09:10

Jesus Christ.

SPEAKER_06 2:09:12

I got two threats. I'm sorry.

SPEAKER_08 2:09:14

Yeah, so your lightsaber is like you've plunged it into his chest in order to get it as deep as you can. Like the hilt is right up against his flesh, which is like the f like the fat is like melting and bubbling and blackening, and like you you can't even pull your lightsaber out really anymore. At least not with the strength that you have available.

SPEAKER_01 2:09:37

Okay.

SPEAKER_08 2:09:38

It's still stuck inside his chest. It is still going to do the lightsaber's base damage to him.

SPEAKER_02 2:09:44

Okay. Which I think is actually seven for mine, since I have that cracked crystal.

SPEAKER_08 2:09:50

So you can see that he is getting quite like both of you are getting close to death here. He is going to then make one last attempt to crush your head.

SPEAKER_07 2:10:05

Uh-oh.

SPEAKER_05 2:10:05

You get this. Can can she um add a black to his role just to like just because like he is on the brink of death here? So you're suppressing him?

SPEAKER_02 2:10:19

I am suppressing him.

SPEAKER_08 2:10:21

He got one success, one advantage.

SPEAKER_01 2:10:24

He gets that adds a failure!

SPEAKER_08 2:10:27

He gets one advantage.

SPEAKER_01 2:10:29

Oh, that's good.

SPEAKER_02 2:10:31

So I can't I he's not gonna kill me!

SPEAKER_08 2:10:34

He's not he's not gonna kill you. You're gonna need to soak you in a back tank for a while. He doesn't do any more any more wound to you, but he does kind of have you still trapped there. So you can't like pull yourself out or anything.

SPEAKER_02 2:10:46

You know what I'll take that right now, I'll take it.

SPEAKER_08 2:10:48

Uh, the rest of you with Grievous in convulsions, you can make your way down, blast through the city. Uh, hopefully Kala will join you. I don't know if you're gonna risk trying to go back in.

SPEAKER_02 2:11:00

You guys have no idea what's going on.

SPEAKER_05 2:11:03

Not really. We should probably like okay is Grievous just knocked out right now?

SPEAKER_08 2:11:08

So he's temporarily disabled. Like, something's going on inside his body. He's you can get enough distance from him to like slide down the side of the temple. Uh and he's not like immediately on your heels. If you stop, he'll be able to catch up. If you keep running, you could probably make it back to your ship.

SPEAKER_05 2:11:30

I'm gonna keep running toward the ship, but I'm gonna keep trying to communicate with her. I'm like, hey, how's uh are you still there? Can we contact you uh or can we contact you in any way? Do you need help or extraction?

SPEAKER_08 2:11:42

You're getting no signal when Beldorian is crushing her head. He also, like, if she's got like a comm in her ear, like, he's also crushed that. So you're getting no signal from her whatsoever. You don't know what that means.

SPEAKER_05 2:11:54

Uh can we use Is there anybody at the ship that might be able to um because like I because I don't know any of this here. Is there can I contact the ship to see if we might be able to like track her somehow? Um, I mean there's nobody at the ship. There's nobody at the ship ship. Usually there's somebody here. Cause like I don't want to leave you, and the fact that you're not answering your phone makes it real uh the the fact that you're not answering makes me worried.

SPEAKER_02 2:12:25

But you are being pursued by Grievous.

SPEAKER_05 2:12:27

But I am being pursued uh by Grievous here.

SPEAKER_02 2:12:31

No matter what you do, I will not begrudge you for whatever happens.

SPEAKER_05 2:12:36

I think we gotta go to the ship just to get us to safety, and then maybe we could use um use the ship's guns on it.

SPEAKER_08 2:12:44

Does the ship have guns on it? Uh it's an HWK 290 light freighter that was in use uh by smugglers. So by default, uh it doesn't, but I think this one would.

SPEAKER_02 2:13:00

We will allow for this one to have the guns.

SPEAKER_08 2:13:02

Yeah, this one would have like at least some kind of like it is it was used by smugglers, it would have at least some way of defending itself.

SPEAKER_05 2:13:09

So yeah, let's uh let's go ahead and we're gonna go to the ship and we're gonna see if we can fly high enough to where um uh Grievous wouldn't jump us, but low enough where we might be able to see uh Calisette.

SPEAKER_08 2:13:25

Okay, so the the city, are you cause you parked outside the city. So are you going to run back to where you climbed in to the into the pits, or are you like climbing out of a pit, any pit, and then like running across the flats?

SPEAKER_05 2:13:41

I'd probably do the any oh man, this is gonna fuck me over, but I'd probably do the any pit thing.

SPEAKER_08 2:13:46

Okay. So you guys can just find an easy way to climb out. Like people must leave the city every once in a while to go out and collect like plants and stuff. So you can find just the easiest thing to climb out of. There are two options. Parked above, like within the city limits on the flats, like above these pits, is the sloop that Grievous came down in. Or you could run back to the custard gannet, which has a gun. Grievous's ship does not have any weapons. It is just a short-range diplomatic transport that he came down, uh, he came down in from the invisible hand. So there's a ship that's really close, but no weapons, or there's a further one that has a gun.

SPEAKER_02 2:14:34

I unless you like one of you wants to keep going for the custer gannet for the guns, and then like someone wants to just raid Grievous' ship to like crash into the temple or something.

SPEAKER_05 2:14:45

Yeah. Just to just to make it so that Grievous doesn't get uh his own thing, we could probably see if we could steal his ship, and then I I could go I could go for the um the ship with the gun and then somebody else can like go or is anybody else good at piloting at all?

SPEAKER_02 2:15:02

The pilot is having her head crushed.

SPEAKER_05 2:15:05

Yeah. Cause like I'm I'm I'm I think I'm the next best one where I got like three three green? Green on piloting pilot. Yeah, I got three green on piloting here, so you got it. Should I so should I go uh do do both of you have two uh two green? Cause like I'd rat I I I want to see if we can get to the other ship as well, um while one of us gets onto the near ship.

SPEAKER_00 2:15:33

Whichever. I only have two. I have got two green.

SPEAKER_08 2:15:37

Um I'm I'm gonna I'm gonna take the new ship and uh I will say that if you're trying to reprogram a ship, that would be computers, not piloting.

SPEAKER_05 2:15:46

Is somebody good at computers? Me.

SPEAKER_02 2:15:52

No, lyria's gonna reprogram Grievous' ship. Chris, you're gonna go for the the gun ship.

SPEAKER_05 2:15:59

I'm gonna go for the gun ship, you go for the compute for the close ship. Starzan? See if we could save her friend. Um Yeah, where am I now? Where are you now? Where do you wanna be? Starzan should be Starzan should be with the closer ship. Um because that'll be a little bit extra uh that might uh be a little bit of extra help when it comes to saving you, I think.

SPEAKER_02 2:16:21

Be with Illyria in case uh Grievous catches up to you. Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 2:16:27

So Chris, you can run back to the custard gannet. Illyria and Starzan, you can board the Punworka sloop. It is it has like an entrance ramp near the back. There is a big cockpit bubble up front. As you run in, you can see that there is a pilot droid. You think Grievous is flying his own ship? No, there's a there's a valet. Oh fuck yeah, bud. The pilot droid is an FA4 pilot droid. Uh, it doesn't even have legs. Its lower half is just like a block treadmill that it rolls on. Like it is a very basic droid. It is not gonna put up a fight if you want to destroy it.

SPEAKER_02 2:17:06

Because stars ain't just gonna like rip it out of the ground, just get out of here.

SPEAKER_05 2:17:11

Can you reprogram it so that it applies for us?

SPEAKER_02 2:17:14

Oh yeah, I guess.

SPEAKER_00 2:17:15

I guess. I could try.

SPEAKER_08 2:17:17

Alright, so uh this this valet droid is not expecting you guys to come aboard, so it does like exclaim in shock, uh, in binary as word. Not even speaking basic, but uh if you want to try and rip this thing's carapace off and uh plunge into its guts and uh drood around and reprogram it to do a kamikaze run into the into into Grievous, um you could. Do it. So this will you're you're under a time crunch, you don't have, I think, very much droid reprogramming equipment. So this would be as a computer's role. This droid, it would be against like its willpower. These droids don't have great willpower, I don't think. So we'll call this a red.

SPEAKER_00 2:18:04

Oh, one success, one advantage.

SPEAKER_08 2:18:06

So uh with Starzan presumably holding this thing back, uh, you can uh plug into this thing, you can sort of root around in its brain with whatever rudimentary data pad jack you have, do some quick and dirty reprogramming, and what do you want this thing to do? Do you want it to fly the ship into Grievous? Do you want it to like be under your command? What what are you trying to hear?

SPEAKER_00 2:18:34

Uh, fly into Grievous, so maybe we can rescue Kala.

SPEAKER_08 2:18:38

That means you'll have to uh uh abandon ship here pretty quick, but this thing lifts off and uh sets about its new course, which is rendezvous with its commander. Safety protocols disengaged. Quickly now! Grievous is a silhouette one. This is basically gonna be like, in order to hit him, it's it's not gonna be super easy because Grievous is like a silhouette one thing. This ship is silhouette three. Uh, so he's two silhouette sizes larger, so it'll be like a three purple, like it's basically like trying to trying to shoot somebody. Although the it is a valet droid and it does have some ranks in piloting. Again, it does not have great agility. Three success and two threats. So you can see this thing take off how high. You are being crushed, your head is being crushed by this hut. Uh, and you can hear like the thrum of starship engines, and then like a section of the roof just implodes as a starship with a guy on the front just crashes down into, well, frankly, a lot of nice ladies. Smoke and debris get kicked up everywhere. You can see that Grievous is not dead, but he's certainly losing like a lot of limbs. He's just got like the one arm left. Uh, there's a lot of chaos. There's this ship that is just like punctured the roof, crashing on fire. It's long enough that you could probably like use it as a ramp to scurry back up through the hole if you wanted.

SPEAKER_02 2:20:21

Oh my god. Yeah, could I could I wriggle a uh wriggle away and run away?

SPEAKER_08 2:20:26

Yanking your lightsaber out of Beldorian, the base damage is enough. You you just see the light fade from his eyes.

SPEAKER_02 2:20:35

Oh, thank fucking god. Yeah. Jesus.

SPEAKER_08 2:20:37

Like he lets go of you with the surprise of the crash, and you can yank your lightsaber out, just the killing blow. There's a puff of steam as his fat boils, and you can kind of scamper up this burning hot ship. It's a little hot to the touch, but that's probably fine. You can hop over Grievous as he takes like a feeble swipe at you and make your way to the roof where you can see in the distance the Custer Gannet flying in.

SPEAKER_02 2:21:11

Kind of like clutching at my entire body, just like weakly waving help! Oh god, this means I left behind my gun. That's fine, I can buy a better one next time. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 2:21:23

My lightsaber. My second lightsaber.

SPEAKER_06 2:21:27

My heavy clothing!

SPEAKER_08 2:21:29

Helen's lightsaber. Yeah, so I guess you don't have to explain what happened to it now. Uh Grievous Got it is as good an explanation as any. But, Kala, you can climb aboard the custard Gannett in your all togethers. Uh, the others have managed to aboard as well, and you can leave this penal colony to whatever it's doing. Beldorian will not be sharing any secrets. It's likely that Grievous will find a way off the planet. The Invisible Hand is still in orbit, but you have done your mission and all managed to escape alive. And hopefully that's what's also gonna happen next time on Star Wars Empire Wreckers! This episode of Empire Wreckers is brought to you by our top patrons, Alphabros 522, David B. Eric Charles Perazzo, Jeffrey Zamuto, Joshua Winter, Laser, LKB, Suki Nintendo, Thomas Davidson, and Vaginator.