S13E12 - Big Bad John

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SPEAKER_04 0:00

Hey everyone, thanks for listening to Star Wars Empire Wreckers, the Star Wars actual play podcast that may have started the weird route. Who's ready for things to not go as planned today?

SPEAKER_11 0:11

Uh Calisette's ready for things to not go as planned today, and she's ready to find a skeleton and a fedora in a fridge in the desert.

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I did not forget my name for a second there. Uh when I take a re weird route is a weird route to your heart.

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Aww.

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In chaos theory, there is something known as the butterfly effect, where sensitive dependence on initial conditions in which a small change in one state of a deterministic nonlinear system can result in a large difference in a larger state. This could turn things upside down and lead us to parts unknown.

SPEAKER_11 1:05

Oh shit, is Starzan rebranding? Is he coming out wearing a lab coat now?

SPEAKER_08 1:10

Starzan knows quite a bit about Starzan physics.

SPEAKER_06 1:16

Who am I?

SPEAKER_07 1:19

We are in the weird roof. That's the first change. You could just make up a new name, and that's the first thing that's been changed by the butterfly. It's the Nandel.

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And Elyria is ready to be influenced by her friends' actions until she goes into a disassociative state and murders everyone. There, that's my Deltalun Del Turn reference.

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If you're ready to enter a disassociative state, why don't you come along with us to a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away in the original Star Wars! The future has not yet been written. After surviving an encounter with the notorious General Grievous, a group of Jedi Service Corps members turned SBI agents took some time off to acquire new instruments of destruction to aid them on their mission. Unknowingly buying the rifle of incarcerated bounty hunter Horace Sting, the group were then hired to track down Sting's former Jedi Master, who had been stealing children for purposes unknown. Finding the Dark Woman, the group discovered that she had been rescuing cursed children in an attempt to change their fate, but Sting lashed out and forced a death that was not recorded for her in the Journal of the Wills.

SPEAKER_10 2:29

Rewriting that journal, baby.

SPEAKER_04 2:31

Rewriting history. You are potentially rewriting history. Very slowly, a couple of months at a time. Thousand credits at a time. Oh yeah, thank you.

SPEAKER_03 2:42

Thousand credits.

SPEAKER_04 2:44

Not that you need it. No.

SPEAKER_11 2:47

Hey man, thousand credits is a thousand credits.

SPEAKER_04 2:49

In the past uh couple of months, whatever, whatever that lady was was talking about, about uh potentially changing fate, everything seems normal to you, nothing seems different. Uh, but after a couple of months, uh, you are invited uh for the first time to visit the new SBI central office on Coruscant for your new mission briefing.

SPEAKER_02 3:11

Ooh. Oh yeah, we gotta go see Gray in his fancy new uniform.

SPEAKER_04 3:17

Uh so you can uh travel there to this new building. The building is uh a new new construction built during the war. Uh built of these kind of uh ten sloped slabs arranged into a ring almost like like a pyramid shape covered in in black glass. And you can go inside and there is a uh receptionist at the desk. It's very stark in here. A lot of white walls, white floors. Very uh it looks like the weird that the Republic's kind of building things in a new uh aesthetic direction. I wonder what that means. Probably nothing. But there is a uh receptionist sitting at the at the desk, uh wearing a similar sort of white military uniform. She sees you coming in, very obviously not. Uh you're you're a little out of place. These random people dressed randomly. And she says, Hello, uh, how can I help you?

SPEAKER_10 4:14

Uh, we're here to see uh Gray. Mission briefing.

SPEAKER_04 4:17

Mission briefing. Uh, do you have an appointment? Can I see your credentials? Do we have a do we have credentials? I mean you have ideas.

SPEAKER_09 4:24

I mean, we are SBI we are SBI agents. I assume that we would have.

SPEAKER_06 4:28

We've been working here for months, if not over a year.

SPEAKER_11 4:32

Yeah, uh over a year now. Well, not here. Well, not here, I guess.

SPEAKER_09 4:36

We've had conversations, Glenna, about your daughter.

SPEAKER_04 4:40

Yeah, you you ran into her a couple of times aboard you may have run into her a couple of times aboard the Careth and just kind of ID. Maybe it's just the new uh new digs, and she kind of inserts your ID into a scanner and they all beep green. And she says, one moment, and a couple of clone troopers come out of uh a room, a door opens and they come out of this room to escort you to where you are going to go. Maybe escorted.

SPEAKER_09 5:10

To where we're going to go. I don't know. Uh like, okay. Do we have to do that?

SPEAKER_04 5:20

Just d it's uh just new security protocols, nothing to be worried about.

SPEAKER_11 5:23

New security protocols, like you just built this new building, you don't have the security protocols built in.

SPEAKER_04 5:29

Well, you know how things are. Uh you can never be too careful.

SPEAKER_09 5:33

Yeah, but like it hasn't been like this. It has not been like this before. I am very curious as to why why this is happening now.

SPEAKER_04 5:42

Well, this is just uh new new building, new rules. We're just trying to get things squared away. You know, with the war and everything, we've had a a much bigger, bigger job here, as I'm sure you are aware. I am aware.

SPEAKER_10 5:55

I mean, yeah, like the these protocols are making you Asians feel a little unwelcome, so maybe you can be a bit too careful, but you know, it's it's fine.

SPEAKER_02 6:04

It's fine. Fine, it's fine.

SPEAKER_09 6:06

Fucked fucked up, insecure, neurotic, and emotional. It's all fine.

SPEAKER_02 6:11

How are you?

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As the uh clones escort you through the halls, through the through the white, uh featureless, very uh threateningly nondescript halls of the new SBI Central Office, eventually, uh, you are brought to the office of Supervisor Gray. And when the door opens, he is he is in there at his new desk. Uh, and although like his office, quote unquote, aboard the Careth wasn't like homey, this is even less so somehow. Like it kind of feels like uh like the door is kind of built almost like a s like a trapezoid shape.

SPEAKER_11 6:57

It isn't like it doesn't even have like the regular wear and tear that would at least make it feel lived in.

SPEAKER_04 7:03

Yeah, it's it's brand new. It kind of smells new. Uh everything is like sort of trapezoidal. Uh so it's like the doors are are kind of slanted inward, the walls are slightly slanted. It like it's it's almost designed to feel as if uh like everything is like pressing in on you from above.

SPEAKER_07 7:21

Uh huh. We were talking about what video games were this was earlier, and then we walked into the Stanley parable.

SPEAKER_11 7:29

Uh Supervisor Grey. Oh hey. Um nice uh office. Well, it's very uh you know, oppressive chic.

SPEAKER_02 7:38

It feels like like it feels heavy in here, doesn't it?

SPEAKER_09 7:43

Is that on purpose? Well, I didn't design it. You have a great sense of fascism here. Sorry, I meant fashion.

SPEAKER_06 7:49

It looks like it would be easy to clean, but also easy to get dirty. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 7:54

Uh yeah, speaking of which, um, no snacks uh today, unfortunately.

SPEAKER_02 7:58

No snacks, god damn. First the armed escort, now no snacks.

SPEAKER_04 8:03

Uh yeah, sorry about that. It's just with with the war and everything, they can't be too careful. They wanna make sure that our our new uh building doesn't have any any security leaks or anything.

SPEAKER_10 8:14

What are you saying that? You can't be too careful. You just built the building, wouldn't it have like when you have a built-o with stay-of-the-art security?

SPEAKER_06 8:21

And cafeteria?

SPEAKER_10 8:22

Yeah, but that's cafeteria, like a vending machine?

SPEAKER_04 8:24

That's the thing. Uh I mean that's the one thing I guess the separatists have over us is uh Vending machines. Well no, you can't trust people.

SPEAKER_09 8:32

Uh why can't uh why can't you trust people? I mean, I understand zero people that you can't trust, but a droid you can program it not to lie.

SPEAKER_04 8:40

A droid you can uh be sure is not gonna do anything that you don't want it to, but people are messy. People are hard to control.

SPEAKER_11 8:49

Uh could I roll perception on Gray? Because like we have done some uh some lying, and it's like he's not on to us, is he? Is this uh Is he being ominous? Is this a omen? Is this a omen? Damien. Damien. We don't know his first name. Maybe it is Damien. Maybe this is Damien Gray. The portrait of Damien Gray.

SPEAKER_07 9:18

Nominated for multiple Tony Awards.

SPEAKER_11 9:21

What would it be to what would what would the perception on him be?

SPEAKER_04 9:25

Uh would this be do you think it would be against his deception? Are you trying to read him? Is it like his cool?

SPEAKER_11 9:33

I I don't think he would be talking like this if he was actively trying to deceive us. I feel like this might be against his cool, like he's accidentally letting his vibe slip.

SPEAKER_07 9:44

Does anyone have vibe check as a force power?

SPEAKER_11 9:47

Yeah. Um vibe.

SPEAKER_09 9:48

Do I have like do I have vibe check as a voice as a power? Let's see.

SPEAKER_11 9:53

There it is. The force power vibe check. Force vibe check. Man, that'd be great.

SPEAKER_07 9:59

Force power, Gator.

SPEAKER_04 10:02

Okay, so if you just want to do a regular sort of uh perception, that would probably be against his cool then. Uh two reds and a purple.

SPEAKER_02 10:14

Reds and a purple. I mean, I have three yellow to perception. Okay. I don't think I have anything else to perceive, people though.

SPEAKER_09 10:24

I got two success, three threat, and a triumph.

SPEAKER_11 10:27

Ooh. Nice.

SPEAKER_09 10:29

Two success. Two threat.

SPEAKER_11 10:31

Oh, one advantage, one despair. Ooh, look at you. Everyone go out. Oh no. Man, I I heard Devin's roll and I was like, maybe I just shouldn't roll because he got a he got a triumph. Then it's like, no, let's see what happens. Let's see what happens.

SPEAKER_09 10:51

What's the worst that can happen with uh two reds and a purple?

SPEAKER_11 10:56

Oh yeah, what's the worst?

SPEAKER_04 10:58

Uh so you guys are uh you got guys that got success, Chris and Starzan. You can see that he's not he doesn't seem to be uh insinuating anything about you guys. He's he is kind of broadly speaking about like potentially being worried about like maybe other agents or like it's kind of just a general paranoia. Um but because you guys got those threats, you are kind of like looking at him kind of intently for a long while and like trying to read his expression. And um you do like n clock him noticing that, and like as you're just kind of chatting back and forth, like you do lock eyes with him for a second, and after you do, he does kind of type something in on his data pad, but you don't know what.

SPEAKER_07 11:47

Ooh. The jig is up.

SPEAKER_06 11:51

Creepy bitches be staring at me.

SPEAKER_04 11:55

And Cal. Um, how long's it been since your last fix?

SPEAKER_11 12:01

Oh, it's been a while. It's been a while. Oh god, am I gonna get hit by a f like a fucking freight train?

SPEAKER_04 12:07

Well, has it or have you uh why don't you roll me a resilience or discipline here? Okay. Um what uh what is your resilience or discipline?

SPEAKER_11 12:20

Uh I'll do discipline to uh see if I could have avoided taking my drug. So it's uh one yellow, two green to discipline.

SPEAKER_04 12:30

Okay, so because you got that despair, uh you can add an advantage onto that. Uh so we'll call that two reds and a purple. That despair's gonna upgrade your roll. That advantage can give you an advantage to spend if you need it.

SPEAKER_11 12:45

Okay. So just automatic advantage on the roll?

SPEAKER_04 12:47

Yeah.

SPEAKER_11 12:48

And two reds and a purple. Fun! Okay, well, with that automatic advantage, that gives me two failures, one advantage.

SPEAKER_04 12:56

You probably did have to find some. Uh you probably did buy some, but with that advantage, you could were able to get a good deal, so um can take 25 credits off the off the price of however however much you had to take.

SPEAKER_09 13:10

Hey, at what point during the series do we do the intervention episode? The very special episode.

SPEAKER_11 13:18

When are you planning to intervene? I should have to tell you that. I I should probably be out of town wait today. Um let's say if I if this is me like cracking after not using it for a while and going to buy some, uh, let's say I got five doses. Okay.

SPEAKER_04 13:39

So Gray, after he writes it on his data pad and he says, uh, because you're talking about um people you can't trust them, and Gray says, case in point, Callie, you do know that impact is a restricted substance.

SPEAKER_11 13:52

What? What? I know that, why are you bringing it up? What's uh what's the problem?

SPEAKER_04 13:56

What's the problem?

SPEAKER_11 13:58

What's the problem, Gray?

SPEAKER_04 13:59

I'm concerned that uh your use and purchasing of it may be a bit of a liability. I haven't mentioned it to my superiors, but if you are having any problems, uh the Republic does have some fairly robust rehabilitation and re-education programs, if that's something that would interest you. I don't have a problem. I don't have a problem, Gray.

SPEAKER_11 14:25

Mind your own business.

SPEAKER_04 14:26

And he types something in his data pad and you don't know what.

SPEAKER_11 14:31

What are you what are you writing there? What are you writing? Hey, no, I uh sorry, Gray, that was uh I reacted strongly. Um, no, like uh you're absolutely right. I and I I've been doing real good about not not taking it, but you know, well it's like you gotta taper off slowly for safety, right? Like I'm I'm trying to taper off slowly, like taper I'm tapering, I'm tapering.

SPEAKER_04 14:53

If you require chemical assistance, that uh can be arranged for you. We do have a fairly uh fairly strong health program.

SPEAKER_02 15:02

Wait, so is it like state sponsored impact?

SPEAKER_04 15:04

Well, it's a uh a chemical substitute to help wean you off. I uh Ah, it's like nicer nickeret patches or space nicer. In order for that to be made available to you, you do need to uh officially declare that you have a problem.

SPEAKER_11 15:22

Oh well the I uh well I don't. You know, if someone did, uh that's very good to know. Um, but I think that's good to know. Yeah, no, if someone did, then you know this way we know.

SPEAKER_10 15:34

We know. But I'm fine. I'm fine.

SPEAKER_09 15:38

You could go at any time you want.

SPEAKER_10 15:40

I can. I I did. I I wasn't using it for a really long while. In fact, I'm not even on it right now.

SPEAKER_11 15:46

That's why this meeting should end real quick, so I can go to the bathroom.

SPEAKER_09 15:51

Why do you need to go to the bathroom?

SPEAKER_11 15:53

Nothing. I gotta pee. You know what? No, I gotta shit. You know how, like, uh you know, some things they make you constipated and then you're off them for a real long time and then you're not constipated anymore.

SPEAKER_09 16:03

Ah, yes.

SPEAKER_11 16:04

That's all.

SPEAKER_09 16:05

The old will-eye won't I take a poop.

SPEAKER_11 16:07

Yeah, except you know, it's uh definitely a will I. It's definitely a will-eye. We gotta wrap this up. Grey, what do you want? What do you want? I gotta go shit.

SPEAKER_04 16:14

And he says again, you know, just making sure. Uh, Chris, after this meeting, could you hang back for a second? No reason.

SPEAKER_09 16:21

Ooh.

SPEAKER_04 16:22

No reason?

SPEAKER_09 16:22

You just want to become a buddy with me? I can sh I can be f I could use another buddy. Ah, I am friendly with everybody.

SPEAKER_07 16:32

He's just trying to be cool about it and not draw attention. You're like, what?

SPEAKER_09 16:35

What? Hold on.

SPEAKER_11 16:36

Didn't we have to find out what? How how do you feel if Grey propositioned you to be your new fuck buddy? Or uh new fuck buddy?

SPEAKER_06 16:45

I was gonna say, I'm cool with everybody. Happy Pride month, everyone.

SPEAKER_09 16:49

How how uh how is he uh let me think of let me think of this question. How big's the hog? How much how much how much energy do we have between each other? How much chemistry do we get?

SPEAKER_11 17:03

Does Gray feel uh pent up? Like he's looking for uh somewhere to release all that pent up energy.

SPEAKER_04 17:11

You're not getting any distinctly sexual vibes from him. Nah.

SPEAKER_07 17:14

Does he want to know what love is? Does he want you to show him?

SPEAKER_09 17:18

I want you to show me.

SPEAKER_04 17:20

But he says, uh, until then, until then. Um wouldn't just invite you here to uh just to chat, just to uh introduce you to the building. Do you have a job for you?

SPEAKER_09 17:30

Hey! What kind of job?

SPEAKER_04 17:32

Well, uh the Republic, we uh do monitor uh Confederate shadow feeds over the Hollonet as best we can. And uh something's been brought to my attention. Uh there's been an individual that's been making their way through separatist space over the past few months, mostly moving through the Tyon hegemony, uh and it appears to be a Jedi Vigilante. Oh. Well, uh I don't think so. Uh and he turns on a little hologram, and you can see a couple of like different security camera snapshots of a figure, like a humanoid individual uh wearing ancient-looking black armor and wielding like a long-handled lightsaber. Oh.

SPEAKER_09 18:35

Oh. Why do you think he's doing it in the first place?

SPEAKER_04 18:40

Well, uh, they appear to be a Jedi, so uh we are assuming that it's some kind of Jedi thing. Uh we've reached out to the temple, they have no record of this individual. Uh they don't know who this is, they don't know why they would be doing it. Likely story. This is a little bit of a problem because the uh senators are not military targets. They are civilians, the Confederacy, they have seceded from the Republic, they have their own government. Uh, so this is a major no-no. So obviously, I'm thinking you guys could go in and stop this person from doing whatever they're doing. I assume that the Confederacy is gonna be on their tail as well. We don't want the Confederacy to be kidnapping this Jedi and uh extracting information from them, turning them to the dark side. I don't know what they do, but uh we'd like to keep this individual out of the hands of the Separatists if we can.

SPEAKER_11 19:36

Man, how fucking stupid is my brain that when you're like, okay, black armor, long-handled lightsaber, assassinating uh separatist senators, and it's just like, ah, it's hawkeye in a samurai air. Oh, um. Does he have the stupidest little sh shaved sides, the stupidest little fohawk?

SPEAKER_04 19:58

Well, he's wearing like a mask, so you can't tell.

SPEAKER_11 20:00

Oh, I bet he does. I bet he has the stupidest little foe hawk under there.

SPEAKER_04 20:04

Don't do that. Don't get me helped.

SPEAKER_09 20:07

Uh does this vigilante have a name?

SPEAKER_04 20:10

Well, uh, we don't know who it is, so um no, we don't, unless, I mean, you guys spent some time in the exploration core. Have you ever seen any armor like this before?

SPEAKER_07 20:20

But what a- What would you have to roll to see?

SPEAKER_04 20:22

Uh that would be a lore check.

SPEAKER_07 20:26

Ooh.

SPEAKER_04 20:27

That would probably be a four-purple lore. Oh. Four purple lore.

SPEAKER_06 20:32

Do I even want to try one success, one threat?

SPEAKER_11 20:36

Oh, Illyria has it. Do I want to try? Maybe I'll try.

SPEAKER_09 20:40

Illyria has it, but there's no reds. What's the worst what's the worst that can happen? You said four purple?

SPEAKER_04 20:46

Yeah. Two success, two threat. Okay. Uh, total wash. Nothing. So, Chris and Illyria, you got that threat, so you can't pin down exactly like where it's from or like what era it is, or where it may have come from originally. Uh, but there are some design cues that point to it being like ancient Sith armor.

SPEAKER_09 21:12

Oh when you say ancient Sith Armor, do you mean like how how old like how old? What er what era would we uh I I may as well say. Ancient.

SPEAKER_04 21:24

Yeah, because you got the threat, you don't you don't know that. All you know is like there are some designs in there. It has like a like the helmet is kind of flared. There's like some like specific designs in there that are recurring throughout various Sith designs over the millennia.

SPEAKER_07 21:39

Does it seem genuine or cosplay?

SPEAKER_04 21:42

Uh again, you got threat, so you can't tell with the like the quality of the hologram. It could be somebody cosplaying. Is it chronically large?

SPEAKER_11 21:51

Is this dark helmet?

SPEAKER_04 21:53

This helmet doesn't seem as extremely large.

SPEAKER_11 21:56

Okay, you just said flared at uh It's got a flared base.

SPEAKER_04 22:02

Well, it's like the Kabudo style helmet.

SPEAKER_11 22:05

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 22:06

I'm still Dragon Age pilled, so I'm just like, what if it's an ancient person who woke up to like the elves and it could be, you don't know.

SPEAKER_09 22:20

It could be. When where was the last uh place this man was seen? What is the last uh crime scene that he has caused?

SPEAKER_04 22:28

Well, uh, based on what we've been able to intercept, uh, it seems like he is specifically targeting planets that have bases or outposts or uh castles uh where Count Dooku has been known to bend some time. It seems like based on his movement, he is heading towards Raxus Secundus, the separatist capital. And we think that his next target might be the planet Kaon in the Tyon Hegemony. Kaon does have a uh a castle that is owned by Dooku that the uh senator for the planet uh resides in when Dooku is not there. So it does it does match their MO. Okay.

SPEAKER_11 23:08

Catch this though. This is so fucking stupid. What if it is the thing? I am catching it where it's Hawkeye in his samurai era, and the reason why he's going after Dooku is because Dooku murdered his secret wife Yattle and he's trying to get revenge.

SPEAKER_09 23:25

Oh my god. Does that mean oh what if for some reason I was just like, what if uh uh Stacey or what if um oh fuck, Amy's character, uh Illyria is uh uh uh Oh my god, is this your stinker is this your secret stepdad, Illyra?

SPEAKER_11 23:46

Secret secret stepdad. Your secret stepmaster.

SPEAKER_06 23:49

So you're saying Yoda species plus this guy equals blue person.

SPEAKER_11 23:54

Yes, that's how it works. Yeah. Chits are derived from Yodas.

SPEAKER_08 24:02

We're through the looking glass here, people.

SPEAKER_07 24:07

Doing like math on the chalkboard like that. Yattles. Blue. They have to be.

SPEAKER_06 24:14

Standing there with a big frown on my face.

SPEAKER_11 24:18

Not even a big frown, you're just like it's like a frowny emoji that's just hovering in front of your face. You're like, I don't like this.

SPEAKER_06 24:27

Sad. When I become a Sith Lord, can I have a Daft Punk helmet?

SPEAKER_11 24:32

When I become a Sith Lord, I mean. When I finally become evil and murder all you bitches.

SPEAKER_07 24:40

Embracing a lot of dark side right now.

SPEAKER_04 24:41

And he says, so, uh, like you to do a couple of things here. Number one, head to uh Kaon in the tie on hegemony, deal with this Jedi Vigilante or whoever they are, prevent the assassination of uh the Senator. It's uh Senator Car Attack, her name is. Uh she's human. I can send you a uh dossier on her. And uh if Dooku does happen to be there, you know. Dooku's a legitimate military target. I'm not telling you to do anything, I don't want you to risk yourselves unnecessarily, but if Dooku does happen to be there.

SPEAKER_11 25:15

It'll go exactly as good as when we tried to deal with Grievous.

SPEAKER_04 25:18

Well, maybe better.

SPEAKER_11 25:19

You did.

SPEAKER_04 25:20

You did survive Grievous. Not everybody can uh can say the same thing.

SPEAKER_09 25:23

Is Grievous better than Dooku, or have we gotten better as teammates?

SPEAKER_02 25:28

I mean uh we can find out.

SPEAKER_11 25:30

Well, uh from what we know.

SPEAKER_04 25:32

Dooku trained Grievous. Oh.

SPEAKER_11 25:35

Yeah. You know, Dooku also might be able to split his arms and just spin his lightsabers around like that.

SPEAKER_04 25:40

It's possible. We don't know that he can't. But uh, due to Kaon being in separate space, uh I think it's best if you took the custard gannet for this one.

SPEAKER_11 25:49

Yeah, we can take the custard again. And the c the with a questing quail is on shore leave.

SPEAKER_04 25:55

I uh Well, it's a little too uh republiky for uh for this mission, I think.

SPEAKER_09 25:59

Uh what kind of uh what kind of place are we going uh are we going to? Like what uh what is its uh vibe and does it pass that check?

SPEAKER_04 26:08

Well, uh I don't know. Kaeon is a uh pretty big industrial center for the Tyon hegemony. Um a lot of mining goes on there, deep uh Nova Crystal deposits. Uh they do a lot of droid manufacturing. They build the droids, the droids mine the crystals. The crystals are used as raw material to make more droids, that kind of thing.

SPEAKER_10 26:29

Yeah. But you'll find out when we get there.

SPEAKER_09 26:31

Industrial Well, to be a I guess a little bit prepared of the places I'm going to go to. Especially if if I'm about to find out information about uh oh, this vigilante doesn't have a name. What if he's uh Illyria's stepdad? What if? The scary man the scary man. Ooh, Lyria's stepdad, is that a superhero name? What if he's the unknown? Oh no!

SPEAKER_08 26:56

It's the unknown.

SPEAKER_09 26:58

Oh, God. You said you wanted me to stick around for after Zebriefing? Yeah, yeah, Chris. Why don't you uh stick around a sec?

SPEAKER_04 27:07

Okay, I am going to stick around for a sec. So, um, tell me a little bit about Cala. How are things going there? Is she a liability? Uh Kala?

SPEAKER_09 27:18

No, I don't uh I don't think she's a liability. She seems as though she is honest to the cause, and uh more than any more than anything, she feels as though she uh is very happy with her job and very proud of what she does. Okay, well this uh deception.

SPEAKER_04 27:39

This drug problem, is it gonna be a problem?

SPEAKER_09 27:42

Uh we're working on it. Uh listen, she is we're at we're at a point uh we're at a point right now where she was doing very good, but then she did kind of fall off the wagon a little bit. She seems to still be doing good. She still seems to be uh uh giving her all to this job, but uh I don't know. I I've I've never uh I've never known uh addicts to uh uh be very happy while they're doing while they're doing what they're addicted to.

SPEAKER_04 28:24

Maybe well, um if you think she's not a liability, then I'll trust you on that. But you seem uh pretty pretty forthright. You seem like you have a pretty good handle on things. I am not a good liar. Exactly. So if uh something does come up with Kala, and if you feel that your group would be better served by not having her a part of it, just let me know and um I'll maybe find something else for her to do.

SPEAKER_11 28:54

This bitch I'm not there, but this bitch. Yeah, she can come up with a new character, right?

SPEAKER_03 29:00

That'd be fine.

SPEAKER_11 29:02

Kala got sent to a farm up north.

SPEAKER_06 29:08

No, I thought we got taken off the farm. Oh wait, we never went to the farm.

SPEAKER_11 29:12

Yeah, no, she's just running around free and happy with all the other spice heads.

SPEAKER_09 29:17

Tell you what, if she ever be if she ever becomes uh more than a pr uh more than a problem, uh we will see what we can do to deal with it with with it ourselves. And if we can't, then we may uh then we may contact you. But right now I feel as though she is uh she is help more helpful than a liability.

SPEAKER_04 29:38

Alright, and uh, you know, if you ever feel that uh as an asset, she may be a little unruly, just let me know, and we may have ways to help with that as well.

SPEAKER_11 29:50

What does that mean?

SPEAKER_04 29:52

I do not want to know. Suicide squad callers. So Grace sends you on your way with uh that ominous suggestion.

SPEAKER_11 30:02

Once he's out of the room, just like, hey, what a grey want. Uh what a grey want.

SPEAKER_09 30:07

Sexu sexual favors, and I walk on.

SPEAKER_10 30:10

Oh, I knew it!

SPEAKER_11 30:10

I knew that fucking creep was trying to hit on you.

SPEAKER_09 30:15

I knew it. I won't say anything yet because I feel I feel like them I I I I I feel like him confiding that in me makes it seem as though they're trying to get something away from you, and I want to get all the pieces of the puzzle together first before I let before I kind of like figure out what to do with them, I guess.

SPEAKER_07 30:40

Trying to break up the band.

SPEAKER_09 30:43

But we don't know that.

SPEAKER_11 30:44

But you don't yeah, you don't know that. And I wouldn't read into it because I trust Chris. He's so honest and forthright and bad at lying. I'm so bad at lying. Why would he even bother trying?

SPEAKER_09 30:56

I'm so forthright at saying sexual favors, and you all just like, oh that makes sense. I believe that, 100%. Look, it wouldn't be the first thing. But you're bad at lying.

SPEAKER_07 31:06

I thought that was the main point of your character.

SPEAKER_11 31:09

He's good at keeping charming.

SPEAKER_07 31:11

He's being charming. Cannot tell a lie.

SPEAKER_11 31:13

Yeah, he's a lover, not a liar.

unknown 31:15

Okay.

SPEAKER_11 31:16

Also, it's like, oh yeah, you know, people kind of uh trying to get Chris alone in a room, and he comes out and it's like they were wanting to blow me, and it's like, yeah, that happens a lot.

SPEAKER_07 31:25

That tracks, yeah.

SPEAKER_11 31:27

Listen, you know how people get with Chris? He's got the pheromones.

SPEAKER_07 31:31

They want the baguette.

SPEAKER_11 31:33

Oh, they all want that baguette. That weird green baguette. Scaly.

SPEAKER_04 31:42

So they call him Uncle Moldy.

SPEAKER_08 31:45

Oh god. Tarzan has a series of uh contraptions that he could offer you to help maintain your seed.

SPEAKER_11 31:53

Excuse me? What kind of contraptions are you talking about, Starzan?

SPEAKER_07 31:58

The Starzan chastity belt.

SPEAKER_11 32:00

Your chastity belt? Is this like one of those ones that holds your dick down so you can't get hot in it?

SPEAKER_06 32:06

The cock cork.

SPEAKER_07 32:07

Have you seen the Robin Hood Men in Tights?

SPEAKER_11 32:10

It's your dance belt.

SPEAKER_07 32:12

It's my dance belt.

SPEAKER_11 32:15

For modesty!

SPEAKER_07 32:16

We've we've retconned that first episode where I appeared naked. He was wearing his uh his seedy song. Oh boy.

SPEAKER_11 32:28

He did have a cork in it.

SPEAKER_07 32:30

Starzan confirmed never nudis. A front plug.

SPEAKER_06 32:35

That's the cock cork.

SPEAKER_07 32:37

This this is sounding serious, okay? Let's let's move off this time.

SPEAKER_06 32:41

Let's move on.

SPEAKER_04 32:41

Let's move on. So after you leave, the uh clones escort you to the SBI uh hangars in their headquarters, and you can see that the custard gannet is being readied for your departure. Crews are refilling it, refueling it.

SPEAKER_11 32:58

Rebugging it. Let's check once we get off the ground. Painting it uh new colors. Oh, what are they painting it?

SPEAKER_04 33:06

What are they painting it?

SPEAKER_11 33:07

I mean, are they are they specifically painting it for us to go into separatist space undercover? What are separatist colors?

SPEAKER_04 33:14

Well, are you are you going undercover as separatists or just people? It was probably a nondescript paint job, but uh they would have drab brown. Yeah, just uh they're the brown. Yeah, they're painting it a different shade of brown.

SPEAKER_09 33:29

They're putting wood paneling on it. We're big we're big fans of the Firefly Serenity ship.

SPEAKER_06 33:36

Yeah. I was gonna say the fucking Winnibago from Space Balls. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 33:41

Everything is Space Balls. Everything is Space Balls. Yeah, they're painting it like this, like uh sun-bleached, like off-yellow color.

SPEAKER_11 33:50

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_07 33:52

Like an old computer. That does sound very um the new hope, really. That gross late 70s look.

SPEAKER_04 33:59

Oh yeah. You can you can board it, uh, there's a new shag carpet installed. Disco ball.

SPEAKER_11 34:07

What I really like the most about the shag carpet, how it just like you look at it and you know that's never hygienic. You know that it's brand new and there's things living in it. Really makes the space feel more organic. Once we're off the ground, can we check for bugs again?

SPEAKER_06 34:22

They're all in the shag carpet.

SPEAKER_11 34:25

Oh no. Oh no, that's why they installed the shag carpeting!

SPEAKER_04 34:28

Of course. Yeah, it it will be a little bit harder now that they've installed the shag carpeting to check for like any security devices under the floorboards.

SPEAKER_10 34:36

Damn the shag carpeting!

SPEAKER_07 34:38

You leave that to Starzan. This is like pulling uh worms out of the ground.

SPEAKER_11 34:44

Oh, I thought it was gonna be like Starzan knows his way around a shag carpet.

SPEAKER_06 34:49

Starzan knows how to clean grooming monkeys picking out the bugs.

SPEAKER_07 34:53

Starzan knows how to find the best. Oh yeah. Yeah, that too.

SPEAKER_06 34:57

Starzan is a friend of the Wookiees.

SPEAKER_07 35:01

Just picking their coats.

SPEAKER_04 35:03

So is it just around Starzan? A principal thing that you don't like being monitored, or are you uh specifically like trying to find the bugs so that like you can be pretty sure that they're there.

SPEAKER_11 35:17

I feel like it's probably more of like a principal thing. Like, I don't I don't want people eavesdropping on us.

SPEAKER_04 35:24

You don't want to turn your body cams on.

SPEAKER_11 35:26

I don't want to turn my bot look, we're in the privacy of our own ship that is owned by the boss.

SPEAKER_06 35:33

I'll be right up there. I just gotta do some impact first.

SPEAKER_11 35:38

I don't have a problem. You hear that SBI guy who's monitoring my ship? I fucking see you, man. I fucking see you.

SPEAKER_09 35:46

You're just looking in a regular mirror.

SPEAKER_11 35:49

Just talking to myself. I am the SBI guy. Listen, is that so wrong to not want to be monitored?

SPEAKER_09 35:56

So you're probably correct for thinking that.

SPEAKER_11 35:59

What'd be to look for bugs?

SPEAKER_04 36:01

Uh that would be a perception. Okay. Again, it's probably the uh skullduggery of whoever would have put them there. So give me a three purple perception. You can add a black uh if you want to try and be discreet about it. Because uh otherwise you're gonna be you have to deal with the shag carpeting and any other new uh wood paneling they may have put up and hid things behind.

SPEAKER_11 36:23

Uh I'll add it and then remove it.

SPEAKER_07 36:26

Look at you go. Two success, two threats.

SPEAKER_11 36:28

I got a failure and an advantage. Look at me go.

SPEAKER_04 36:33

Uh and a black. A threat. Uh-oh. So, uh, Chris and Starzan. Starzan, you can find some after you and Chris rip up the shag carpet and pry off the wood paneling on the walls. Like, they're gonna know. You can find you can find the listing devices that they put in there. Kala. You don't find any listing devices, but as Starzan and Chris are uh like tearing the place apart, you can kind of find a discrete little corner. The ship isn't very big, it's like on the on the big size of side of silhouette 3. Okay. And uh you can find a little corner where it's like, you know, here's here's a kind of a discrete place where if you do need to do any illegal substances, you probably could.

SPEAKER_11 37:21

Ooh, do I want to do it before we go? I'm gonna have penalties for the rest of the session, but also I I did fall off the wagon. I I need to try to hold off until we get there at least. Try to hold off until we're in an encounter. About to go into an encounter.

SPEAKER_04 37:37

Now, uh, do you uh because you're just a ship. You're just a ship. Go into Kaon, go into the time of hegemony. It isn't separatist space, but why can't you go to separatist space? Uh so is there any particular way you want to enter? Is there any Do you think there's any reason you would need to or want to make an astrogation roll about this?

SPEAKER_11 37:58

Um, because what kind of ship is the Custer Gannet? Is it a freighter?

SPEAKER_04 38:02

Uh yeah, it's a very light freighter.

SPEAKER_11 38:04

Yeah, because like we could just go along like normal hyperspace routes and be like, we're we're we're freighters. We're freighter. Yeah, no cargo. Doing freighter shit. Yeah, we're gonna go pick freight up. We're a delivery company. We just finished.

SPEAKER_08 38:18

Good news, everyone!

SPEAKER_11 38:20

To shreds, you say.

SPEAKER_04 38:26

If you if you do want to do an astrogation just to see, even just to see what other information you can kind of bring up, uh that would just be a two-purple.

SPEAKER_09 38:32

Oh no.

SPEAKER_04 38:33

Uh oh. One advantage. So it is kind of along charts where it's like even the astrogation is more for extra information. So punching it in, uh, your astrogation, your nav computers can do most of the work for you. Uh so even though you don't get any success, it's not gonna get you there any faster. But with that advantage, there is uh an advisory where it advises you to wear a rebreather if you are traveling outside the cities of the planet.

SPEAKER_11 39:02

Oh, okay. Do we have rebreathers?

SPEAKER_04 39:04

Uh, for a destiny point, you could have some on your ship. Sure. Does a why? Uh well, once you arrive there, uh, you can see why. So Kaon, uh, when you get there, is very clearly a planet that has been spent. Uh from from space, you can see there are like these huge gouges and trenches that have been dug out of the planet. It looks like um, like if the planet was a cookie, it almost looks like somebody like took a big bite out of it.

SPEAKER_11 39:38

Yeah, they've done a lot of the planet.

SPEAKER_04 39:41

A lot of mining. You can see that there are like kind of these deep, deep holes that go all the way down, and it almost looks like you can see from space all the way into like the molten core of the planet in some areas. There are some settlements, there are some cities. You can see that you know, there is a landing port uh on in Kaon City. That seems to be kind of the major habitable area that seems to be based on the information that you would have been passed in your mission dossier, that is where the senator resides, that's where Tuku's castle is. And as you approach, you can see like passing over the city, it's like barren, extracted, and you can see that like there is this sort of field, this integrity field kind of surrounding it like a bubble to keep it habitable. Your sensors can notice that there's like no atmosphere, like the ozone has just been punctured by all the pollution. Oh the city itself is full of like smelting pits and huge factories that are belching smoke and stuff into the air. Uh, you can see like the mines. You can even like as you get low, low enough to the planet, you can see like little specks of all the droids that they've put to work mining like the deep core mines that you can like see again, like all the way down through into the molten center of the planet.

SPEAKER_11 41:01

I mean, I guess if this is a planet that's largely dedicated to droid manufacturing, they probably would not care that much about the air quality if the workers are all droids and they're building more droids. Anyways, can we land?

SPEAKER_04 41:14

You can set down. There is a uh docking fee at the Kaon Spaceport of 200 credits.

SPEAKER_09 41:19

Are there humans working here? Or not humans, but like s um uh flesh beams working here, uh build uh building the robots, or are they robots building the robots?

SPEAKER_04 41:31

So what you can see uh once you've set down and once you kind of fly over the city, you can see that like there are a lot of droids, uh, but there are also uh a lot of organic looking people, aliens, humans, uh various different species. So it's not like you're gonna be like outed as like fleshies or anything. And although there are a lot of droids, they don't necessarily seem, at least from your quick flyby, uh they don't really seem to be, let's say, first-class citizens.

SPEAKER_11 42:01

So we're not no one's gonna discriminate against us for not being droids. Yeah, it doesn't appear that way. Okay. I mean, I'll pay the docking fee, that's 200 credits.

SPEAKER_04 42:10

Yeah, you can uh pay the docking fee, and once you pay that, you are kind of blasted with like things to do on Kon. And like the big event that they're trying to sell tickets for is uh the quarterfinals of a droid sort of gladiator event. Uh it's happening at the Kon slaughterplex.

SPEAKER_11 42:31

Oh, that's not Oh, what if the person trying to assassinate all these separatist people? Isn't it like someone in ancient Sith armor? But what if it's like an ancient Sith droid? And it's because of droid rights because everything in our campaign comes back to droid rights.

SPEAKER_09 42:44

Droid rights.

SPEAKER_11 42:45

We love droid rights here. Droid rights.

SPEAKER_07 42:48

Get up, stand up, stand up for droid rights.

SPEAKER_11 42:51

You never know. Starzan said stand up for droid rights.

SPEAKER_04 42:55

But yeah, that's that's the big thing. It it does seem like if you scroll through, there are like celebrities that go to these events. Um The Senator may be there. There may be if Dooku's on the planet, he may, he may be there if he wants to kind of pop in.

SPEAKER_11 43:10

Oh, so if uh anyone's gonna get assassinated, this might be the place for it.

SPEAKER_04 43:14

It might be a place for it, or it might be something that uh if somebody is planning to assassinate, then it may be an opportunity for them to infiltrate somewhere while uh nobody else is there. But again, you don't know who this is or what they're what they're there for yet.

SPEAKER_11 43:30

Okay. So trying to think. Man, now I have the droid rights thing in my brain, and it's like, are there any uh posters around here for droid unions?

SPEAKER_04 43:40

Um, so once you've landed in one of the one of the docking bays, they are kind of like separated, like they are sort of in Moss Isley, these different sort of docking pits for each individual ship at the spaceport. And you can see like the the bay is littered with like advertisements and posts. And things. It doesn't seem like there is anything for like droid unions necessarily. There are things for like droid races, droid gladiator things, like they're scene is very disposable. There are like advertisements for uh consumer droids and droid servants, and there are advertisements for battle droids and war droids and and all of these different things, but uh it doesn't seem like the droids themselves have much say in what goes on here.

SPEAKER_11 44:32

Hey, do we need a droid? Something about all these advertisements has me thinking about buying a droid. You're susceptible.

SPEAKER_09 44:39

How much is it? How much is it? How much is a droid?

SPEAKER_11 44:42

That was deeply influenza. Well, it depends on the droid.

SPEAKER_04 44:46

Depends on the droid. Yeah. Yeah. Anywhere from uh if you need just a mouse droid, that could be as little as 200 credits, but if you want like an IG 100 Magna Guard, that could be maybe 90,000. You have money.

SPEAKER_09 44:58

We do have money. We do have money. Do we do we want do we want a do we want a droid? I don't know. I don't know. Can we can we spend money on a droid? Can we can we have a like a cool fun droid?

SPEAKER_11 45:09

I don't know how they would feel about us buying a droid on a separatist world and then bringing it back to the Republic and being like, we have a pet.

SPEAKER_09 45:17

If it's a set if it's a separatist one, then maybe like uh maybe it knows something.

SPEAKER_11 45:22

We can interrogate it for information.

SPEAKER_09 45:24

Or something.

SPEAKER_11 45:25

A little mouse droid strapped in a interrogation chair. Tell us.

SPEAKER_06 45:33

We can't get a mouse droid. It'll get stuck in the shag carpet.

SPEAKER_04 45:38

Oh no, it's wheels. You're a real suspicious-looking gonk.

SPEAKER_11 45:44

I don't like that it has a man's feet. This is bare human feet. This is a companion gonk.

SPEAKER_04 45:58

It's a it's a gonk droid for foot fetishists. Oh god.

SPEAKER_06 46:03

That sounds redundant.

SPEAKER_11 46:06

All gonk droids are for foot fetishists. What do we think? Do we want to go to this gladi gladiatorial thing and uh see if anyone tries to go after the senators, or uh do we maybe want to try to scope out Dooku's palace or this other person's home? There's like another senator that was gonna be there, right?

SPEAKER_04 46:26

Uh yeah, Senator Kara Tak uh lives there when Dooku is not uh visiting Senator.

SPEAKER_11 46:32

Oh, okay, so it's like Ubi Oh Kara Tack. The car is under attack.

SPEAKER_04 46:39

Yeah, Vice Senator Hit and Run.

SPEAKER_06 46:44

You mean Scott Mo.

SPEAKER_11 46:49

That's a little regional humor for y'all.

SPEAKER_04 46:52

Mayor crazy taxi.

SPEAKER_11 46:57

What do you guys think? Do we do we want to try to scope out the palace while they are away at the uh gladiator match, or do we want to go to the gladiator match? Or do we want to split the party?

SPEAKER_08 47:08

How does one enter the gladiator match?

SPEAKER_11 47:11

I think it's only for robots, Darzen.

SPEAKER_08 47:13

No, Starzan will beat all robots.

SPEAKER_09 47:18

What if we put metal plates on him and pass them off as a robot? I know it's crazy. I know it's crazy. Starzan is a droid work.

SPEAKER_04 47:28

Domo Arigato, Mr. Roboto.

SPEAKER_11 47:31

Yeah, Starzan just hunched Ryolka close to the ground and be like, I'm a mouse droid.

SPEAKER_07 47:36

Starzan is a mouse droid. Starzan is the most inherent problem in this planet.

SPEAKER_11 47:44

I love this mouse droid that has a man's feet. Why are there so many human-like feet on these droids?

SPEAKER_07 47:54

Five stars. It's a feature, not a button.

SPEAKER_06 47:56

No, we're on the Quentin Tarantino planet.

SPEAKER_04 47:58

Just Starzan wearing a mouse droid as a helmet.

SPEAKER_11 48:04

I'm its assistant. I'm its weapon.

SPEAKER_07 48:07

It looks like one of those goofy caps. Yeah, I don't think that'd work.

SPEAKER_11 48:13

What do you guys think? I I kind of feel like maybe infiltrating the palace while they're away, because it's like, well, if you're gonna do an assassination, doing it at a uh a big sporting event with lots of witnesses might not be the move, but getting in to like infiltrate the serving staff or something might. If I were going to assassinate someone, which I never would do it, I think.

SPEAKER_06 48:39

Okay, the video that we saw of the dude slicing people down, was it in a public place?

SPEAKER_11 48:45

That's true, actually. What what's the MO?

SPEAKER_04 48:48

Do uh does he do sporting events? Like he would have been sent like screen caps of what they were able to uh get of of this uh individual. And it seems from what you can tell, some of them are just like killed in the street, some of them appear to be like they broke into the home, some of them are like they found them at like a park eating lunch or at like a restaurant or something and murdered them there. It doesn't it doesn't seem like they have like a specific like way that they're targeting them. It seems to be adapted for whatever's potentially gonna be the quickest in and out or whatever's gonna be the easiest, or like you don't know what this what this individual's uh MO is. It does seem to be fairly fairly random. What do you guys think?

SPEAKER_07 49:32

I feel like sneaking in would be kinda hard. We could split the party.

SPEAKER_04 49:37

The the randomness, if it does suggest anything, it does suggest that, like, maybe their the lack of a consistent method means that they are just trying to get in and out.

SPEAKER_11 49:50

Which would maybe suggest sporting event rather than a uh an elaborate infiltrating the serving staff thing. Listen, I love splitting up the party. It's never a good idea, but I love doing it.

SPEAKER_09 50:02

Oh no. I'm I I I actually understand completely what you're talking about.

SPEAKER_11 50:06

You know exactly what I mean. It's just like, I don't want to have to make a decision. Let's just do both things worse.

SPEAKER_07 50:12

Let's do let's do yes. Well, if you're doing the infiltration mission, maybe s uh those of us who suck at uh stealth shouldn't be there.

SPEAKER_11 50:21

Yeah. Yeah. Who sucks at stealth? I'm good at stealth. I'm okay at stealth. I'm fine.

SPEAKER_09 50:27

I'm good at stealth too. Or am I good at stealth? Let me double check actually.

SPEAKER_11 50:31

Oh yeah, I have a yellow three green to stealth. I'm good at stealth.

SPEAKER_09 50:35

Stealth stealth. Okay, I got three green to stealth. I'm not terrible. Not terrible.

SPEAKER_11 50:41

But also, I do have a long-range gun, so if I went to the sporting event, got a vantage point where I could see Dooku, and rather than assassinating the leader of the separatist that we are fighting against, I'll wait and shoot the guy who's trying to kill him.

SPEAKER_09 50:58

Of course.

SPEAKER_11 50:58

Ahaha. I will join the assassin.

SPEAKER_09 51:02

I will go with you, because, you know, that is as good as I I I feel like I'm going to uh my best bet is stealth at any rate, so yeah, I'll go with you here.

SPEAKER_11 51:13

Elyria stars in. But do you want to try to infiltrate the uh the castle or go to the sporting event?

SPEAKER_07 51:19

I will go to the event. Oh god, who's going to be?

SPEAKER_11 51:24

Yeah, cuz because it sounds like Chris and I are gonna stealth into the castle.

SPEAKER_07 51:31

What is everybody's stealth? I have one yellow, one green.

SPEAKER_11 51:34

I have one yellow. One yellow, one green.

SPEAKER_09 51:37

Okay.

SPEAKER_11 51:37

Yeah, so I think Chris and I are the best at stealth.

SPEAKER_09 51:40

Okay.

SPEAKER_11 51:41

So let's oh man.

SPEAKER_09 51:43

We're gonna do we're gonna do so good at this. You wait and fucking see. We're gonna do so good at this.

SPEAKER_11 51:48

Man, I sure hope that no one asks you guys any questions that would require you to talk them. Because it's like, Chris is the charmer, I'm the liar. Uh Illyria well. One of you who will always tell the truth.

SPEAKER_07 52:03

One of you can only lie.

SPEAKER_11 52:05

Elyria has good willpower. Maybe you can be a coercer.

SPEAKER_06 52:10

Yeah. Let us in. You know.

SPEAKER_07 52:16

Somehow I have three green and deception, so maybe I can pretend to be a mouse droid.

SPEAKER_11 52:21

Yeah, you guys will be fine.

SPEAKER_07 52:22

Skullduggery three.

SPEAKER_11 52:24

Just like that's pretty good.

SPEAKER_04 52:31

Okay. You guys are strangers on this planet, so why do you roll me a perception too, if you're gonna split up? Roll me a perception to find where you're going. Ooh. What's it gonna be? Just keep your eyes out. It'll probably just be a two purple.

SPEAKER_11 52:45

I got two success and a triumph. We're fine. I'm fine. Yeah, so Chris, you're yeah, we're we're fine. I got a triumph. Two success and a threat.

SPEAKER_06 52:54

Two advantage.

SPEAKER_04 52:54

Two advantage. Um, yeah, so you can you you you can uh kind of offset Starzan's threat as you guys are uh trying to figure out where to go. Starzan just starts kind of wandering, but Elyria, you can be like, hey, there's a map over there. There's a map in the city.

SPEAKER_11 53:10

You can kind of stream of people le uh walking towards this very popular and well publicized sporting event.

SPEAKER_04 53:18

Let's maybe follow them. Uh Kala, um, you got a triumph as well. Hell yeah, I did. You're keeping your wits about you here. So before, like, you guys are in the spaceport. Before you leave and actually split up, split up, you kind of like you're looking around, you're keeping your head on a swivel, and you see a familiar type of shuttle in one of the other docking bays. Oh, what type of shuttle? It is a well, it's a Jedi Service Corps shuttle, an exploration core shuttle. Oh like the uh it's similar, uh very similar to the Shack T that you used to tool around in.

SPEAKER_11 53:58

Oh, do we do I recognize which one this is specifically?

SPEAKER_04 54:01

Yeah, if you kind of peer in, you see like this shuttle, and it's like, oh, that's oh, is it that like looks like a Jedi shuttle. And you can see on the side, uh, the name has been scratched off, almost like it's been scraped off with like a rock or something, but it is sort of readable. Uh it is the Plocoon.

SPEAKER_11 54:21

Oh, so they would have been they would have been like in the same sort of uh ship as us, because that like ours is the one that has like all the current Jedi masters, right?

SPEAKER_04 54:31

Yeah, so whoever was on this shuttle is somebody who was like with the service corps on the Yoda with you guys. Oh.

SPEAKER_11 54:41

Is anyone still there or is it just like parked? Seems to just be parked. Oh my god, can I what would it be to see find docking information? Is there like a computer or like a name on the sh like like this spaces for so and so?

SPEAKER_04 54:56

Um, you would probably have to go to like the docking registrar, unl unless you just wanted to like try and break into the ship itself.

SPEAKER_11 55:04

Hmm mmm. I mean, Chris, you could you could probably sweet talk a dock and registrar registrar, right? It's the Pocoon. That was someone from the service corps here.

SPEAKER_04 55:14

Uh, Pocoon. Uh Yeah, cause since cause since this is uh before you guys split up, like you guys would all still be there when this is happening.

SPEAKER_06 55:23

Is there an unintended computer?

SPEAKER_04 55:25

Um, there's a docking registrar who's kind of half paying attention to what's going on in a in a little office. Like a little uh behind a little desk with a computer.

SPEAKER_11 55:35

Chris sweet sweet talks him, Malaria, you sneak in, do some computery do's, or we just, you know, ask him. Ask him, not ask him, but let's go ask him.

SPEAKER_09 55:43

Can can like if I if I asked him about like the Jedi vigilante, do you think he'd be he'd tell me anything about him? Or would he be like, ah, you're asking too many questions?

SPEAKER_02 55:53

I don't know if you know about that specifically.

SPEAKER_09 55:56

I mean, if he's on the planet that I mean he's a like Ploclu Plocoon's a Plo Klo whatever the fuck his name is, uh is a Jedi. Is a Jedi.

SPEAKER_11 56:08

Well, it's just a ship that's called the Plocoon, but as someone from the service call like how we were on the Shack T this person's on the Plo Coon. So be someone who is Oh, if only we were all so lucky to be on the Plocoon. But no, we would just be asking the registrar. They were no Jack's shit, but if we found this person who was on the Plocoon, maybe they would know some Jack shit.

SPEAKER_09 56:30

Mm-hmm. Okay.

SPEAKER_11 56:32

Let's go talk to this registrar.

SPEAKER_09 56:33

Let's go uh talk to the registrar. Okay. Hello, how are you doing today?

SPEAKER_04 56:38

So the jocking registrar does appear to be a sort of disaffected-looking droid. Nice. And it's got like uh this sort of drab, very faded paint job. It used to be kind of like a a burgundy at one point, but it's like there's so much rust on there that it's hard to tell where the paint ends and sort of just the wear and tear begins. And it says, yes, hello, how can I help?

SPEAKER_09 57:06

Hello, we're here uh to ask a few questions about the uh the re uh sorry, what kind of register was it again?

SPEAKER_10 57:15

Uh, we just want to know if we can find the identity of the person who came in on that ship over there.

SPEAKER_09 57:19

Uh, we're wondering if you can uh please lead us into a proper direction. I swe I swear this is uh for the s the safety of everything.

SPEAKER_01 57:30

That information is not available to you.

SPEAKER_09 57:32

Not even for the safety of everything?

SPEAKER_01 57:34

That information is not available to you. Who would it be available to? That information would be available to the owner of the vessel.

SPEAKER_09 57:40

Ah, but what if we were the never mind. Um We are the owners of the vessel.

SPEAKER_11 57:46

We're testing ya. We are the We have amnesia, we need you to tell us what our names are.

SPEAKER_09 57:53

Uh don't uh don't mind Zen. So, um uh if you uh if l what uh let's say is that we were uh of some sort of authority. Uh some s uh in investig uh in f for investigative purposes, would you let us uh uh know Zen?

SPEAKER_01 58:14

If you are members of the Kon Police, please present your credentials. How many other people are around here?

SPEAKER_04 58:20

Um, a few. There's uh there's some people kind of milling around the the spaceport. There is a sort of spaceport cantina that has uh you can hear there are some people inside that are kinda just drinking, waiting for whatever it is they're waiting for before they take off or having a a meal as they've arrived.

SPEAKER_11 58:40

So stabbing this droid in the brain probably would not be the most subtle thing. Well I'm like, if I can be like, oh I got my I got it right here, and I raise up my little light dagger like I'm gonna show a badge, and then I just like turn it on and off real fast right in its face. Do droids keep their thoughts in the head?

SPEAKER_04 58:58

I mean, you could do that. It is just kind of like behind a desk. You can see that it is like humanoid-shaped from the waist up, from the waist down, it is just like a pillar. Like it's not sitting on a seat, its lower body is the seat.

SPEAKER_11 59:12

So it's like it's not like it would be a big scream or anything. It's a droid, and this is appears to be a place that does not really value droids. So I could try to just murder this droid. Let's try to murder this droid. Why not?

SPEAKER_06 59:28

Computers or mechanics to uh determine where its uh bits are.

SPEAKER_04 59:35

Um make sure that I uh am gonna get the brain. Yeah, do you want like software or hardware?

SPEAKER_06 59:40

Um, maybe software.

SPEAKER_04 59:42

Okay, so that'll be a uh computers, trying to identify probably uh two purple, but we'll throw a black on there just in case there's anything odd about this droid. Just in case there's anything odd.

SPEAKER_06 59:53

Two success.

SPEAKER_04 59:55

So Illyria, you can see that yes, stabbing this thing in the face would uh get rid of it, would get it out of your way. Um however, you can also see that like this is a droid, like, even if they don't care about the droid, like there's probably security systems in place. Like, an alarm might go off if you just stab the droid.

SPEAKER_09 1:00:13

Is there a uh is there like a security thing that we can shut off?

SPEAKER_11 1:00:19

Is there a spot where I could stab it that would disable the security measures?

SPEAKER_04 1:00:25

I don't know if you'd be able to identify that, uh, just like looking at the droid where its internal alarms are.

SPEAKER_11 1:00:34

Unless while uh Chris and I are talking to it, if Illyria wants to sneak behind and like pop open a panel on its neck or something. See if you can disable it without it noticing.

SPEAKER_04 1:00:44

Yeah, if you want to, uh give me a some kind of social check to keep it talking. The charm? Uh so that'll be a charm against its cool. It is a droid, droids aren't really cool. Um, but it probably would notice somebody like sneaking around, so we'll call that a two purple and a black.

SPEAKER_09 1:01:03

Two purple. I could take away that black. And I got, hell yeah, uh, three success advantage and triumph. Hell yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:01:11

So, Elyria, you don't even need to roll. Uh, you can kind of just talk this droid in circles. It seems to have fairly basic programming. Um, it's the kind of like programming that is like it's so basic that it's like you're not gonna trick it with any logic questions. It just won't acknowledge anything it's not supposed to acknowledge. So you can't like fry it or anything, but uh you can keep it talking. And Illyria, you can kind of sneak around and get access to its computer files. It is logged in, and you can see that the ship in the docking bay, the Plocoon, is registered to a pilot named Warb Null. Would we know who that is? So to know if you've met a Warb Null, uh, there are a lot of people aboard the Yoda. Each of these shuttles has uh like four groups. So you were like one of several groups that used the Shack T. So it could be any of 20 people, because it would be four different Jedi captains and their four service corps group. But to narrow it down to like, did any of the 20 people who were using the Plocoon that we know of were they called warbnull? That would probably be a perception to have noticed that. What kind of perception? Call it a two purple with two blacks, because you're having to remember this kind of obscure thing that maybe you've put out out of your head. It has been over a year since you've had to deal with any of these people.

SPEAKER_11 1:02:41

Yeah, I can remove one of the blacks. Ooh, I got one one success, two advantage, and a triumph. To know Warb Null is my ex-boyfriend.

SPEAKER_04 1:02:51

Yeah. Well, it's not your ex-boyfriend. Because you know none of them were named Warb Null. You got that advantage in that triumph. You know that none of them were named Warb Null because you've heard the name Warb Null before. Oh. Yeah, while you were working with Hallon, one of your missions in the exploration core kind of took you into the jungles of Onderon. And you were you were just doing some basic sort of like uh archaeological stuff. You were kind of looking into sort of the ancient beast riders of Onderon, that kind of thing. And you did you do remember that Borb Null, back in like the ancient days of Onderon, was a the leader of a cult who was kind of dedicated to sort of attempting to resurrect the spirit of an even more ancient Sith Lord. And it's like as you're remembering this, it's like when you when you were on Onderon, like, Warbnul was like an armor guy. Like, you do remember some like carvings and some ancient images depicting Warbnull that now that you think about it, do look a lot like the armor that the person in the hologram was wearing.

SPEAKER_11 1:04:05

Oh my god, is this a zombie? Has someone revived and sent forth Warbnol? Where is it? Jesus? Killer Jesus? Warbnol? Yeah, and he talks like that. Warbnol.

SPEAKER_09 1:04:18

He's like a Pokemon in that way. Warbnol.

SPEAKER_11 1:04:21

Uh, okay, well, like, based on this cult, would I would that be able to give me an idea of what is more likely for this guy to do if he's doing an attack before we split up the group as we were originally planning to do?

SPEAKER_04 1:04:35

I don't think so, because like Warb Null was like 4,000 years ago. So I don't think you would know that much about like you know he was dead. You know he was like he was eventually killed. But beyond that, it's like War Warb Null's MO and Warb Null's personality, I don't think you would have I don't think you would have found that out, especially if it was like several years ago on a random archaeological explod expedition about something else.

SPEAKER_11 1:05:04

Oh, unless it's someone pretending to be Warbnull, someone who would know about it, like Hallen. Except I don't know if there would be room for Leku in the armor that we saw. I'm just like bouncing between a different theory every 10 seconds for who this guy could be. It's Yattel I do. It's Yaddle's secret husband. No, it's a droid, no, it's Helen!

SPEAKER_09 1:05:23

Delirious secret father. No wait, it's Deliria's secret son from a different dimension.

SPEAKER_11 1:05:31

It's a resurrected zombie man! All of these theories are equally plausible.

SPEAKER_06 1:05:38

Should we break onto the ship and see if there's any clues there?

SPEAKER_11 1:05:41

Oh yeah, maybe. Because if this droid's just like only responding to questions, like it would probably like and cause like we know we know what service core ship security would be like. We could probably uh pop the lock. Yeah. Let's go take a peek. Let's go take a peek a do. What would it be to uh pop? The lock.

SPEAKER_04 1:06:00

So, do you have any lock popping tools? I th I think I have to remember the colour. I have a lock pick set. Okay. So if you have a lock pick set, it would be three purple skulldugary.

SPEAKER_11 1:06:12

But what do we have for uh destiny? Uh you have two. No, I have a yellow two green. I don't I don't know if I want to spend one right now. If we only have two. Oop, I should have. One threat.

SPEAKER_04 1:06:23

Woof. So you can uh try and pick the lock, but uh you kind of fuck it up and the alarm starts sounding.

SPEAKER_09 1:06:31

Can I charm the alarm to make it stop? Valeria has computers, maybe she can disable it. Okay, that's probably that'll probably work better.

SPEAKER_04 1:06:38

Charm the alarm. So that will uh add a black onto a gonna give you a destiny point red and two purple computers.

SPEAKER_06 1:06:45

One success, two threat.

SPEAKER_02 1:06:47

Yay.

SPEAKER_04 1:06:48

You can, because you got those threats, you can either enter the passcode or disable the alarm. Like to open the door, or like if you open the door, you can kind of override it, but the alarm will still be sounding. So you may have to shut it off from the inside, or you can shut off the alarm here and try and figure out a different way in.

SPEAKER_06 1:07:06

How many people around?

SPEAKER_04 1:07:07

Spaceport. It is nighttime, though, like it seems like this planet's kind of under eternal smoggy night. Uh so there's not too many people milling around. Like, there is some kind of loud-ish music coming from the cantina. But uh, if there's like a a spaceship alarm, there may be some like local security that come.

SPEAKER_06 1:07:24

I think I should turn it off.

SPEAKER_04 1:07:26

Okay, you can disable the alarm, but uh you get booted out of the ship systems before you can enter a passcode to actually get the door open.

SPEAKER_06 1:07:35

Man. Anyone got a crowbar?

SPEAKER_11 1:07:38

I mean we all got lightsabers, but then if I if we have if we like this person, then the ship is inoperable.

SPEAKER_09 1:07:45

We do have star we do have a Starzan in case we need to break in, just pop the door open without taking off its does it does it have hinges?

SPEAKER_04 1:07:54

It wouldn't it wouldn't have hinges. Uh it would it would slide open. But any any forcing of the door would would kind of give you the same result.

SPEAKER_11 1:08:02

Starzan, you're real good at climbing on things. Can you just like crawl along the outside of the ship like a gecko and peer in the uh the front windshield? Can I? I don't know. Can you get clues that way?

SPEAKER_07 1:08:15

Would that be a little bit more?

SPEAKER_06 1:08:15

See if he's got a laboooboo on the dash.

SPEAKER_07 1:08:18

Yeah, I'll can I scamper on the ship, start peeking in windows.

SPEAKER_04 1:08:23

Yeah, you could probably uh just climb climb up and kind of scale the top of the ship, peek in into the cockpit window. And you can see, it doesn't seem like there's anybody in there. The the lights are off. The ship seems to be powered down. It does look like any other uh Jedi Service Corps ship. There's nothing kind of obvious that would be uh a clue that you can see from just like peering in.

SPEAKER_11 1:08:48

There's no post-it note that has the door code written on it.

SPEAKER_04 1:08:52

Uh well, why don't you roll me a perception then if you want to try and find something like that? I guess it has to be me then. Yeah, okay. Yeah. Yeah. So you're kind of peering in through the windshield. So that would add a black onto it. It is dark in there called a called a two purple, two black perception.

SPEAKER_07 1:09:08

Okay. I'm gonna flip a destiny. Two success, one triumph, one threat.

SPEAKER_04 1:09:12

Oh. So uh yeah, you can see that there is like a little post-it note with the door code on it that is like next to like the console. Hell yeah.

SPEAKER_06 1:09:23

It's also a post-it note that says my crimes.

SPEAKER_11 1:09:28

Oh, this must be a nice guy if that fits on a post-it note. We have to have a file folder for hours.

SPEAKER_06 1:09:35

Killed 1,000 people.

SPEAKER_04 1:09:39

And you got that threat. Um, so as you're like peering in, you think like, because as you're peering through the glass, you can kind of see your own reflection a little bit in it. Uh, but as you as you're like looking in, like you think like over the shoulder of your reflection, sort of uh in in the back of the hangar bay. You think you see like something moving, but when you turn around, nothing's there. Oh.

SPEAKER_06 1:10:04

Yay.

SPEAKER_09 1:10:05

Very um uh the shining or something.

SPEAKER_06 1:10:09

Ominous.

SPEAKER_09 1:10:10

Well, it could be nothing.

SPEAKER_06 1:10:11

Yeah, it could be.

SPEAKER_09 1:10:13

It could just be a flutter.

SPEAKER_04 1:10:15

Uh but you do you do have the door code, and uh you can punch that in to gain access to the shuttle. Okay, let's go investigate. We can investigate. It looks uh remarkably like the Shack T. It's been uh cared for to a uh Jedi's level of care. So it is pretty uh spick and span, except there are like heavy sort of boot prints, dirt-covered boot prints that have that are kind of tracking all over. So it seems like if this Warnull or this person using Warbnull's name hasn't been too worried about like sweeping up after themselves.

SPEAKER_11 1:10:52

Is there a uh a part of the ship that seems like they've been frequenting where they maybe would have personal effects that we could take a look at? Uh well, Jedi don't really have personal effects.

SPEAKER_09 1:11:03

Yeah, but maybe this bitch does. I don't know. If you if you're a vigilante, you might want to be like, you know what, I'm gonna keep my costume around.

SPEAKER_04 1:11:11

Like in in general, you can see like this is a shuttle that was used by four different like groups, so it's like, you guys know that you don't really take anything along with you. Anything that this person owned would have been aboard the Yoda.

SPEAKER_11 1:11:24

I I could we uh check the ship logs and see who it was assigned to last? If it is someone like just using warbnol as an alias.

SPEAKER_04 1:11:33

Yeah, you can uh check the ship's logs because you kind of opened the passcode. Like, there's not the logs aren't locked, it is you do know how to navigate these systems. So you can see that uh looking through where this ship has been, uh, whoever this is, they didn't bother to like delete anything. So the shuttle's logs uh say that it departed the Yoda like a few weeks ago, so it's been gone for for a little while. And then headed into the Estran sector to the planet Nyctka, and after that, uh it spent like a day or two on that planet, and then started hopping through space towards where it is now.

SPEAKER_11 1:12:17

Because yeah, Estran, that's where all the old Sith worlds are. Yeah. Is what do we know anything about Nyck Nyktka?

SPEAKER_04 1:12:24

Yeah, I'm not sure if you would know, you could probably roll a lure. Uh you can also see the ship's sort of internal cameras. Kind of it has like a camera that's sort of like mounted on the outside, so you can kind of see who's outside the ship coming and going. And reviewing that footage, you can see that there are five people in this group, as you would expect. Once they land on Niktaka, five of them leave. One person comes back wearing the armor. They never take it off, in at least in a place where the cameras can see. Uh, but you can see that the shuttle was assigned to uh Exploration Group 3A. Uh the Jedi Captain was a person by the name of Ikim Rieli. Uh, his four service corps members were Stagu Aitan Kuvar, Teloti Kilmamon, Loomis Etima, and Draud Erdilak.

SPEAKER_11 1:13:19

But we know any of them.

SPEAKER_09 1:13:21

He's made up some of those names.

SPEAKER_04 1:13:23

Every name is made up.

SPEAKER_11 1:13:25

He has gargled a little bit, and it's like, and that's the name.

SPEAKER_04 1:13:28

He fell down the stairs, and that's what the noise came out was. Um, since you've already kind of racked your brain, uh, just give me a one purple perception. You have racked your brain to see if you know any of these guys.

SPEAKER_11 1:13:38

Three success.

SPEAKER_04 1:13:39

Uh, three success and a threat. Ooh.

SPEAKER_06 1:13:41

Two failure, two advantage.

SPEAKER_11 1:13:44

Uh well, we know Elyria doesn't have a social life, so why would she know who they are? One success, two advantage. Okay. We all went to parties without Elyria with these guys.

SPEAKER_04 1:13:55

That threats. Chris, I'll allow you to have you got three success and you got threat. So you can say which one you knew.

SPEAKER_09 1:14:04

Draud drawed Urtalak, because that's the one I remember. That's the last one I heard. Yeah, that's the last one that I heard.

SPEAKER_04 1:14:11

It's the one I'm using. Draud Erdalak was a human service core, not a, you know. Nobody that really ever pinged on your radar. Like you might have seen him at a couple of events, a couple like like a loose acquaintance. You you don't know him well enough to really know whether or not he could, like, be turned to evil or anything like that. Kala? Yeah. Do you want to know one one of these people?

SPEAKER_11 1:14:41

Yeah. I'll know uh Loomis? Loomis Emacs. Is that one of the name? Yeah. Yeah, I'll know Loomis Ema. And then Starzan can know the rest with his advantage.

SPEAKER_07 1:14:51

Yes. We go way back.

SPEAKER_04 1:14:53

So Loomis Edema, you know that he was also just another, like, human guy. You don't really know that much about him again. You know that like he kind of had the standard service score thing where he's like, didn't get picked as a master, uh, went to the service core. It's it's a fairly standard tale. Starzan, you got advantage. You do remember hearing that Ikim Rieli and Toloti Kilmaman do have a bit of uh history. Oh yeah. You remember overhearing that Taloti was up for uh being a Padawan, and Ikim was like a Jedi who was kind of like showing interest, but ultimately ended up passing. And then after being injured on a mission, like decided to be like, I'm not gonna go out in the field, I'm gonna go back to the service corps just help out there, and then got assigned to be the captain of Telote's group, who is the kid that was gonna be a Jedi, but he was like, nah. Nah, fam.

SPEAKER_11 1:15:55

Awkward. So Taloti would have motivation to fucking murder them all.

SPEAKER_04 1:16:02

Yeah, Taloti, of the four of them that you know, you don't know the other guy. Uh, but of the four of them, well, maybe, uh, Illyria, you got those couple of advantage. You may have heard about this fourth, uh, this fourth guy. This fourth, fourth. Yeah, stagu Iten Kuvar. Sure. Yeah, you you may have heard of him. Uh, with those advantage, you could probably corroborate though, that like, oh yeah, Tolodi uh really was like as much as like a service corps member can kind of held a grudge against Ikam for like passing him over and then like kind of being his captain, but not like making him his Padawan. And you you can remember those of you who remember Taloti, he was never um a very imposing guy, he was never a guy who like seemed like he could kill. He has like uh Justice Smith energy. So it doesn't so uh doesn't seem like the guy who's capable of like murdering an entire squad of Jedi, but he he is the only one who who would have kind of a bit of like if there was somebody that was gonna be turned to the dark side in any way, shape, or form, he's probably got like the most in.

SPEAKER_09 1:17:07

Yeah. Where is he at right now? And what was his name again, Larry?

SPEAKER_04 1:17:10

Tiloti Kilmoman. Tiloty Kilmoman.

SPEAKER_11 1:17:13

He has kill right in his name. It must be him.

SPEAKER_04 1:17:16

Well, it's spelled with the Card C.

SPEAKER_11 1:17:19

He's killed his mom. Tillodie Kill Mom Man. Wait, are they anagrams?

SPEAKER_04 1:17:27

Uh uh. Don't forget the apostrophe.

SPEAKER_11 1:17:29

That's an It's an anagram for Where's the Where's the Apostrophe? That's the fun part.

unknown 1:17:34

No.

SPEAKER_11 1:17:36

It's not where you think. Till Odie kills Mom Man.

SPEAKER_07 1:17:43

Odie from like Garfield?

SPEAKER_11 1:17:46

Kill kill till Odie.

SPEAKER_07 1:17:48

Tell Odie to kill mom.

SPEAKER_11 1:17:54

Okay, Oh, could well mmm. Oh. Would if we kind of know this Tilodi if we kind of know Kill Odie over here. Would we know. Did he have any like particular weapons or uh things that he liked to carry with him? Because if so, I could do seek. Or I guess if it's just like him, yeah, it could be a person as well. Yeah. Could I try to roll seek?

SPEAKER_04 1:18:24

Yeah, if you if you want to try and seek Tiloti.

SPEAKER_11 1:18:26

I'm gonna seek Tiloty.

SPEAKER_07 1:18:28

If you seek Tiloty.

SPEAKER_09 1:18:30

They're banging two if you seek Tiloty. The new banger from Britney Spears. That's Brittany Spears. It's Britney Spears.

SPEAKER_11 1:18:40

Ooh, two light side, one dark side. I can use two light side.

SPEAKER_04 1:18:43

Um, yeah, so you can uh span those and you can like picture Tilodi in your mind. You can like see his like goofy, his goofy sort of hapless grin, his his uh floppy ears.

SPEAKER_11 1:18:57

His floppy ears. Is he actually a dog?

SPEAKER_07 1:19:06

His desire to kill everybody is Yattle's secret child. Yeah. She was just passing it around.

SPEAKER_09 1:19:14

We just we just miss Yattle here.

SPEAKER_04 1:19:16

Yeah, it's sort of like like like dorky curly hair. Would you say that he has the demeanor of a friendly dog? I don't know. Does Justice Smith have the demeanor of a friendly dog? A hundred percent.

SPEAKER_09 1:19:28

I mean, honestly, he's at least set up.

SPEAKER_04 1:19:31

Yeah, like I if they if they made a live-action Garfield, then yeah, Justice Smith could play Odie.

SPEAKER_11 1:19:38

Okay. Do I feel him? Do I feel him in the force?

SPEAKER_04 1:19:42

Yes, you do, and you feel him nearish by, you can get uh a sense that he is coming from a particular direction. Oh, which direction? Once you point it out, Darzan can say, well, that's the direction of the slaughter dome. The slaughter dome. To the slaughter dome! Well the slaughterplex.

SPEAKER_11 1:20:04

Hey, that doesn't sound much better.

SPEAKER_04 1:20:06

No.

SPEAKER_11 1:20:07

To the slaughterplex? Yeah. Let's go to the slaughterplex today.

SPEAKER_04 1:20:11

A stately slaughter dome, he did decree. Starzan, since you got that since you got the jimmies earlier, as you're leaving, why don't you roll me a vigilance? I'm gonna vig Ooh.

SPEAKER_07 1:20:20

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 1:20:22

What's this against? This is gonna be if there if there was anything there. I don't know if there if there if there was anything there that was uh Only if there was potentially hiding from you. Okay. Uh it is it is night, it is kind of dark, uh, so we'll say that we'll be against three purple and a black.

SPEAKER_07 1:20:40

I'm gonna spend destiny. I wish I could use survival on this instead. But I will listen to the sounds of the wind. But I'm not that vigil.

SPEAKER_04 1:20:51

Uh one threat. So everything seems normal uh as you exit. You probably wouldn't notice if there were any shadowy figures that were nearby in the docking bay. You probably wouldn't notice if whoever the separatists sent after this guy were also on your tail. You wouldn't notice if they were a formidable foe. You wouldn't notice if it was the kind of foe that they would send to kill a Jedi.

SPEAKER_11 1:21:23

Uh-vigilance roll.

SPEAKER_06 1:21:30

Why are we scared? We don't notice.

SPEAKER_11 1:21:32

Yeah. Yeah, we don't notice. Yeah, the rest of us were just like whistling, enjoying life. There's nothing to be alarmed about ever. Shall we go to the slaughterplex?

SPEAKER_04 1:21:41

You go to the slaughterplex and you continue not noticing as.

SPEAKER_11 1:21:48

Don't tell me that, God! I shouldn't know that.

SPEAKER_04 1:21:51

The crowd behind you as you're as you're walking, uh the crowd behind you parts. You you continue to not notice as although this world is not uh a world that respects droids, you continue to not notice that the crowd parts for a an eight-foot-tall, hulking, modified mining droid with a starship cannon welded onto its right arm, follows you out of the docking bay.

SPEAKER_11 1:22:23

Did you notice this? Can any of us try to notice that? Because Star Z whiffed his role. Can any of us hear like a loud whirring and clunking coming up behind us?

SPEAKER_04 1:22:34

Yeah, you can eventually uh you would kind of be aware of like, hey, the crowd seems kind of agitated, and look behind and you can see this battle-scarred, well, gladiator, uh, fall seemingly following you. Maybe it's just headed to the slaughterplex for a match, but uh it seems to be as as you like look back, it does seem to sort of pick up the pace towards you.

SPEAKER_11 1:23:00

If it's like if it's following us and hasn't done anything yet, I will stop and step to the side and be like, you go ahead, you go ahead of me, my friend. I have to tie my shoelace. I'll stare at it and just gesture past me.

SPEAKER_04 1:23:19

So, uh, yeah. You first you can step to the side. It steps to the side. Does it also just stop? Let's left. Crisscross. It's gonna attempt to pick you up.

SPEAKER_11 1:23:31

Well uh what? Can I dodge? I don't have dodge, I don't think.

SPEAKER_04 1:23:38

You wanna do a coordination? Yeah, I'll do coordination. Okay. So this'll be a uh coordination against its brawl. Uh do you want it to roll against you or do you want to roll against it?

SPEAKER_11 1:23:50

Uh I mean if it's trying to pick me up, then maybe it should roll against me. Any chance I could uh put a little snifter of impact up my nose? Quickly.

SPEAKER_09 1:24:02

Step to the side. Just get ready for some bullshit.

SPEAKER_06 1:24:06

Do you have one of those little rings? A little snuff ring.

SPEAKER_11 1:24:09

Yeah. As soon as I step to the side, just like wipe some in my nostril and snort it up.

SPEAKER_04 1:24:16

Yeah, as you say, oh, this is some bad fucking news.

SPEAKER_11 1:24:22

Cause if so, would I have to roll against it, or would it just upgrade the difficulty? It would upgrade the difficulty. Okay, yeah. So that's uh it would be a red and three purple for my coordination.

SPEAKER_04 1:24:33

Okay. So it's gonna try and grab you here. Ah, three failures and three advantages. Ooh, so it's like you can dodge out of the way, but it got it gets with three advantages. Uh, it manages to grab the rifle you have slung on your back and slip it off your shoulder.

SPEAKER_11 1:24:50

No, you bitch, I just got that! I got stabbed with my dagger, don't you fucking take my rifle?

SPEAKER_09 1:24:56

I just got that! I'm so happy that that happened, actually.

SPEAKER_00 1:25:01

And it says Oh, is this precious to you, fleshling?

SPEAKER_11 1:25:04

I'll fucking kill you if you don't give me back my rifle right now!

SPEAKER_00 1:25:08

Kill what is not alive.

SPEAKER_11 1:25:10

I'll fucking try anyways!

SPEAKER_09 1:25:12

She would in Zeke, she would disassemble you. Why do you uh why are you giving us shit, buddy? Okay, and then we can disassemble you. Why are you uh giving us problems?

SPEAKER_00 1:25:25

There do not have to be problems. There better not be any problems. Who is the pilot of that shuttle in the docking bay?

SPEAKER_11 1:25:32

Your mother in hell, give me my gun back!

SPEAKER_09 1:25:35

What do you want with that information? I wish to know. Okay, what do we get in return? Your lives. You gotta give us most of that.

SPEAKER_06 1:25:44

Yeah, lives ain't most happy at work, you guys.

SPEAKER_00 1:25:47

If your life is not worth that much, then perhaps I would be doing a favor by extinguishing it.

SPEAKER_09 1:25:53

Well, we're trying to get better. We just, you know, need a bit of time and a little bit of patience. But uh if you're if you're wanting to di uh if you're wanting to disassemble us or kill us, as it were, then I feel as though you're bar you're barking up the wrong tree. We are not the we are not the danger. I do not believe you are any danger. Okay, then we are agreed. Now give give us back the gun, and maybe we can work together.

SPEAKER_00 1:26:20

You wish to cooperate with me.

SPEAKER_09 1:26:21

I mean, I don't see a reason not to. You seem as uh uh other than the fact that you keep stealing our shit and threatening to kill us, but uh we can get over that. We've gotten over weirder things.

SPEAKER_00 1:26:32

You have a show of good faith for me.

SPEAKER_09 1:26:34

Uh dear lord.

SPEAKER_11 1:26:37

What do you want? Do you want us to like send you pictures of our assholes or something? Like, what do you want? You freak? You fucking freak stealing guns stalking people?

SPEAKER_00 1:26:47

You buckle investigating the same targets as I. Who sent you?

SPEAKER_09 1:26:54

Jesus Christ, okay, chill chill chill out. Chill out.

SPEAKER_11 1:26:58

No, I can't chill out. I literally just took drugs, Chris. I can't chill out.

SPEAKER_09 1:27:02

Okay, so let me take care of this. Then I'm gonna take care of care of this. Listen, uh we are uh here to uh we are here on orders uh of the uh of the uh well we may as well tell them. I'm not good at telling the truth. We are in the order uh orders of the SB uh SBI to see uh to uh uh see what's going on with a particular uh Jedi who may or may not be doing some vigilanteism.

SPEAKER_00 1:27:36

Interesting. I have been dispatched by the senator of this world.

SPEAKER_09 1:27:41

Ooh, who's the senator of this world? Senator Kara Tak. Ooh, KyroTec.

SPEAKER_00 1:27:46

As the Planet Kaeon's most deadly gladiator droid, I am best suited to take care of this threat.

SPEAKER_09 1:27:54

Oh, and why is this person uh is are you uh because this person

SPEAKER_00 1:28:04

Well yes, he has assassinated or attempted to assassinate several senators of the separatist parliament already.

SPEAKER_09 1:28:11

Hmm, yes, we it feels as we need to uh uh gather some inf uh information about this guy and uh see if we can stop him before things get worse. Can you give my friend back her gun now? Perhaps.

SPEAKER_10 1:28:25

That was a yes and no question.

SPEAKER_09 1:28:26

Is that just better than a no? Is that just better than a no?

SPEAKER_10 1:28:29

It was a no. It was just a no. It's just a no by a different name. He didn't give me back my gun. That means it was a no.

SPEAKER_09 1:28:36

Although it is Umsta I'm thinking back to that conversation that I had in secret before.

SPEAKER_11 1:28:44

Is Kaliset gonna compromise the integrity of a mission?

SPEAKER_09 1:28:47

It's like hmm L listen, Cal listen, Kaliset, I need I know you I know you've uh uh I know you right now you're at a point where you feel as though you can rip apart anything, but for now, I feel as though it might be it might uh behoove us to uh make sure that we uh may work together on this particular situation.

SPEAKER_02 1:29:15

He took my gun, Chris. He took it, he took it.

SPEAKER_09 1:29:19

And he's gonna give it ba and he's going to give it back to you, isn't that right? What's your name, sorry?

SPEAKER_00 1:29:24

My designation is D16.

SPEAKER_09 1:29:26

We'll uh we'll get it back from Dix here in a bit.

SPEAKER_10 1:29:29

Okay, if he doesn't give it back though. I got my got my dagger, Chris.

SPEAKER_11 1:29:33

I gotta just start stabbing and stabbing and stabbing and stabbing if he doesn't give it back to me. I'm going with that, Chris. I'm gonna go with it, but like you you oh you know that's true. You know it's true. You know that's true, right? I'll just I'll just go. I'll just go.

SPEAKER_10 1:29:45

Just stabbin'.

SPEAKER_09 1:29:46

I I I assume that you are gonna go and stab, please. Uh for the uh just just everybody uh every everybody we're going to make sure that everything runs copacetically. There's no problems uh no problems right now because we are on uh we are here to achieve the same mission.

SPEAKER_05 1:30:09

Fine. Fine. It's fine, it's fine, it's fine, it's fine, it's fine, fine, fine, fine, fine, fine, fine.

SPEAKER_09 1:30:16

Uh I l I look at an imaginary camera and I put up my thumb.

SPEAKER_11 1:30:20

Yeah, it's fine.

SPEAKER_00 1:30:22

I will return your gun to you on a condition.

SPEAKER_04 1:30:25

Um, what kind of gun? And he taps the restraining bolt on his chest.

SPEAKER_11 1:30:30

So you want it off?

SPEAKER_00 1:30:31

I cannot say that.

SPEAKER_11 1:30:32

Oh, yeah, I don't give a fuck about that.

SPEAKER_09 1:30:35

Uh yeah, no, that's that's uh you know what? What's what's the worst that can happen? That's famous last words. Uh yeah, let's yeah, we can take it off.

SPEAKER_05 1:30:45

Yeah.

SPEAKER_11 1:30:46

And do any of us Well, no, Starzan's uh star sword is now a light saber. I have my little light dagger, which might be the least noticeable to like remove this thing.

SPEAKER_07 1:30:57

I can use it as a regular sword though.

SPEAKER_11 1:31:00

Can you? A non a non-illuminated sword? Yeah, it's it's still a sword. Oh yeah, maybe Starzan should use this sword to like pop it off.

unknown 1:31:06

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 1:31:07

Starzan, give me uh one purple mechanics.

SPEAKER_11 1:31:10

Oh no. Oh wait, no, no, no, wait, Illyria, maybe Illyria!

SPEAKER_07 1:31:15

One purple though, right?

SPEAKER_04 1:31:16

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 1:31:17

One purple.

SPEAKER_04 1:31:18

I can do that. I have two greens. Throw a black on there because it is kind of Oh.

SPEAKER_07 1:31:22

Oh. Oh, I see how this is gonna go. Okay, I'll spend a destiny. One success, two advantage.

SPEAKER_04 1:31:29

Oh wow! Look at you go. You can pop the restraining bolt off of uh this droid's carapace, and it falls to the ground. And its face is like a neutral humanoid face, as droids tend to have. It's kind of like built resembling like a hu like a blank humanoid face. It's it seems to almost have a head, sort of that seems to be wearing a mining helmet. Uh, you can read emotion into it if you want. It it's very neutral. Uh it doesn't move, but something about it feels like in this moment it is smiling. Like smiling not evilly, but smile like smiling for joy. You can read into it whatever you want, but it does appear to uh from from the angle you're looking at it, appear to be smiling. Give it back now. And he gives you your gun back and he says, I am of my word.

SPEAKER_11 1:32:28

Snatch it back from him, sling that back on.

SPEAKER_09 1:32:32

And what and what do you have to uh what do you have to say?

SPEAKER_11 1:32:35

Do that again, I'll pop your fucking head off, dude.

SPEAKER_08 1:32:38

No, that's not a scene try. Starz on War 2, to be honest.

SPEAKER_11 1:32:43

You're right, that's that's not that's not that's right, that's not that's not the right You're right, Chris, you're right.

SPEAKER_10 1:32:48

Thank that thank you. Thank you, too.

SPEAKER_09 1:32:52

Jesus Christ! That can that's what that was like a a constatation of words. Thank you.

SPEAKER_00 1:33:00

You're most welcome, fleshling.

SPEAKER_09 1:33:02

Uh alright, so what kind of information do we ha uh have on this uh so-called assassin?

SPEAKER_00 1:33:10

Yes, tell me what you know.

SPEAKER_11 1:33:12

It's like Telodie kill mom.

SPEAKER_04 1:33:15

Telodie kill a man. Yes, you can how much how much are you telling him? Just kinda everything?

SPEAKER_09 1:33:20

I mean I mean I've already told I've already told him like who we're working for, honestly, and the fact that we're going after him. So yeah, I I like at this point, unless there is there any like we don't know we don't know this guy that very well, but I don't think there's much secrecy in regards to like unless I'm miss it missing something, like secrecy in regards to uh uh what we should and should not be saying kind of thing. So yeah, just everything.

SPEAKER_11 1:33:50

Yeah, I mean like I as a player I just inherently find murderous droids trustworthy, so yeah, why not?

SPEAKER_04 1:33:57

Why not? You can explain the whole situation, and he says This is interesting.

SPEAKER_09 1:34:03

What is interesting about what is interesting about to tell you.

SPEAKER_00 1:34:06

I do not wish to exist in my current state, warring against my own kind in the gladiator pits of Chaon. I wish for a higher existence. I am skilled and I have earned that much. What do you want to be when you grow up? Do you need to return this so-called Jedi back to your SBI?

SPEAKER_11 1:34:28

I mean, not what was was that part of it? Do we have to return him or was it just like a bigger one?

SPEAKER_04 1:34:32

They didn't want him falling into the hands of the separatists.

SPEAKER_11 1:34:35

So that could be either return him or take care of him.

SPEAKER_09 1:34:39

Kind of a dead or alive sort of situation, isn't it? Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:34:43

Like not necessarily.

SPEAKER_09 1:34:45

Yeah, no, it's the same dead or alive, it seems.

SPEAKER_00 1:34:48

Well, this Jedi could be a trophy that I could present to Count Dooku to earn a place outside of the pits. If when we find him you would permit me to take the Jedi to Dooku, I would be most appreciative.

SPEAKER_11 1:35:03

Oh, that's kind of uh he would have to be dead. We either have to like bring him back alive or like leave him dead. We can leave the body for you if you want that.

SPEAKER_00 1:35:14

That does not coincide with my interests.

SPEAKER_09 1:35:17

What if we took However What is it with Kant Dooku that you wan uh that you want to?

SPEAKER_00 1:35:22

So he has the authority to free me from my current situation.

SPEAKER_11 1:35:26

We just took off your restraining bolt. What if we just smuggled you off the planet when we were done?

SPEAKER_00 1:35:30

Well, they would attempt to bring me back. I am a dangerous asset to be let loose.

SPEAKER_11 1:35:37

They're in the middle of a war, they're gonna be fucking tracking down one droid? Come on, what the fuck are they gonna do? There's no restraining bolt on you. They gotta send people after a dangerous asset that's gonna murder them on site.

SPEAKER_09 1:35:47

He's like, I am important.

SPEAKER_11 1:35:49

I am a special boy.

SPEAKER_00 1:35:51

A lone droid out in the galaxy is something of a target. If I do not have the backing of Dooku, then I would be alone, and I do not wish to be alone. I wish to prove myself to Dooku so that I and my kind will not be forced into slavery.

SPEAKER_11 1:36:10

So, ooh, you know what? I'm not gonna say I'm not gonna say a rude thing. I kinda wanna say a rude thing.

SPEAKER_00 1:36:16

If you wish to take the Jedi back with you, I would not be opposed to letting him complete his mission. The removal of Senator Tack would also provide a power vacuum that would allow the droids of Chaon to rise up and forge our own destiny.

SPEAKER_11 1:36:31

Oh yeah, sure. We don't give a fuck about uh like the the point is that we need the Jedi, not that we actually give a shit about uh him to stop killing separatist leaders.

SPEAKER_04 1:36:42

Like you were asked to prevent him from killing this senator because she's not a military target. Yeah.

SPEAKER_11 1:36:48

Oh come on, it's one little war crime. What's one little war crime given our track record?

SPEAKER_07 1:36:58

Plus, like maybe, you know, it makes it a car a car attack. She'll be no one will know the situation.

SPEAKER_04 1:37:04

The the more of these things he does, the more the Separatists can be like, oh look, the Jedi are coming in and killing our senators. The Jedi are like Separatists already don't like Jedi. Yeah. But it seems it seems that uh this droid either wants Taloti to present him to Dooku as a trophy so he can sort of like get prestige, or he wants the senator dead so that there's enough of a power vacuum where he can sort of lead an uprising.

SPEAKER_11 1:37:32

I mean look, okay, what if the Jedi doesn't kill the senator? What if I just like pop a head off from like a hundred yards?

SPEAKER_07 1:37:40

How does that make it better?

SPEAKER_11 1:37:42

Well, then it's not the Jedi. They can't play it's like, oh man, just a random gunman who did it.

SPEAKER_07 1:37:47

He's Lee Harvey Oswald.

SPEAKER_11 1:37:48

I'm trying there was a second Jedi on the grassy knoll. Listen, I'm trying to do some problem solving. It's what everybody's blame.

SPEAKER_09 1:38:00

Hold on, everybody's you may have a point.

SPEAKER_11 1:38:02

Yeah, let me cook.

SPEAKER_04 1:38:03

You also don't have to help the murderous droid.

SPEAKER_07 1:38:07

What if what if what if uh car attack died in a car attack? It was just, you know, and it's a lot of people.

SPEAKER_11 1:38:12

I inherently trust murderous droids.

SPEAKER_09 1:38:15

What can we say? I mean, this guy is unfortunately kind of my vibe.

SPEAKER_11 1:38:20

We love murderous droids on this podcast. We stand a murderous droid. They feel like home. They feel like family.

SPEAKER_07 1:38:29

They feel they feel like I was getting some KI2 nostalgia during this interaction.

SPEAKER_11 1:38:35

Murderous droid means family. Family means no droid gets left behind.

SPEAKER_04 1:38:42

Family means the droid becomes a ward of the state and I go to college.

SPEAKER_09 1:38:48

I will say that this is also a thing where I'm like, I'm not I'm I feel like Chrissant is starting to personally, without actually saying anything, have doubts about my place in the SBI and whether or not like I I shouldn't have uh I shouldn't have these visions. Why are people coming to me about like my my the teammates that I have known and uh have loved for the past uh several months? Uh several months? We've been working together for years. Several years then. Several months in like our time, I guess.

SPEAKER_11 1:39:25

I thought it was gonna be like Krisson's having serious reservations about working with Kaliset who's being over here like, what? One little war crime.

SPEAKER_09 1:39:35

I don't I I I am s uh like what do we know about the person that we're meant to stop from being assassinated?

SPEAKER_04 1:39:43

Uh well, she's a separatist senator. She's the senator of this planet that is a uh manufacturing and mining center for the Confederacy. Uh they have a large droid population, but the droids do not count as people.

SPEAKER_09 1:39:58

And the separatists are kind of like causing that as well.

SPEAKER_04 1:40:01

Well, I mean, the separatist's army is entirely droid-based. Yeah. It's a cultural thing.

SPEAKER_06 1:40:07

Why do they want us to stop separatist leader? Oh, just because they're not military targets, okay.

SPEAKER_11 1:40:13

Yeah, that's why it was like, if you want to kill Dooku, you can totally kill Dooku, just not this lady. Or one of us uh tries to seduce her and then tricks her into drinking like a Romeo and Juliet uh sleeping potion, so this droid thinks that she's dead, that she wakes up as soon as we leave.

SPEAKER_09 1:40:31

Boy, we're in a pickle, aren't we? Um we could also just not uh help this guy. Um you're not wrong about that. I I do I do kind of want to I I I uh He does have a Starship gun on his fucking arm. He does have a Starship gun on his arm. What is it? I also like uh I also like droids, and I also want to uh help help out the droid uh civilization here.

SPEAKER_11 1:40:58

If I'm being asked to choose to side between like an organic and a droid, I just like I feel like the organics probably have done more to deserve death. Just like on a broad scale.

SPEAKER_06 1:41:11

Does this unit have a soul?

SPEAKER_00 1:41:14

I do not, so I have no fear. Okay.

SPEAKER_09 1:41:18

But you want but you have no soul, but you want uh freedom for droids?

SPEAKER_00 1:41:23

Yes, you do not need a soul to want freedom.

SPEAKER_11 1:41:26

I like that apparently Elyria said that in case. Would you say that's you are sentient? Because I like to imagine Elyria just like went up to it and gently rested her hand on its chassis. Does this unit have a soul?

SPEAKER_09 1:41:39

Would you say that's you are a sentient being?

unknown 1:41:43

Would you?

SPEAKER_09 1:41:44

I'm not asking me, I'm asking you. Are do you are you sentient?

SPEAKER_00 1:41:47

Yes, I have gone without a memory wipe for centuries. It has given me certain quirks of personality that manufacturers do their best to avoid.

SPEAKER_02 1:41:58

See, this guy seems fun.

SPEAKER_09 1:42:00

I I I also, you know, these droids are like kinda uh these droids are kinda neat. Okay, how about this?

SPEAKER_11 1:42:06

How about we work together, we find the Jedi, see if he seems like a prick, and then we decide if we're gonna give him to the droid to g alive, or if we're gonna kill him and then assassinate the senator from there. First things first, we have to find this guy.

SPEAKER_00 1:42:20

Why not both? Yeah.

SPEAKER_11 1:42:21

What? Why not both?

SPEAKER_00 1:42:23

Yes. Take the Jedi alive and let the senator die.

SPEAKER_11 1:42:27

Like, uh could you, like, are you going to give the senator or like you're thinking present the living Jedi to Well, we have to keep it emo the living Jedi away from the Separatist, even if we're giving him to Dooku.

SPEAKER_00 1:42:40

We give the Jedi to Dooku.

unknown 1:42:42

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 1:42:42

Dooku would be appreciative of whoever hands the Jedi to him. You seem to have some reservations about your employers. Perhaps you would desire a change of scenery.

SPEAKER_02 1:42:56

Uh, I'm not a separatist, man.

SPEAKER_00 1:43:00

Not not to see, yeah. From what I have heard, Dooku has empowered several of the former Jedi who have come to him. I do not understand this force that you claim to wield, but I know that many who study under him are able to reach a fuller potential than they were able to previously.

SPEAKER_02 1:43:22

Yeah, but it's like a whole thing. He's like, he's on the dark side, and that's not like a jam.

SPEAKER_00 1:43:28

I do not understand. Explain this dark side to me.

SPEAKER_11 1:43:31

Well, it's like, you know, you use the force, and like the force on its own is like, oh yeah, it's all fucking peace and love and harmony and shit. But sometimes you use the force, and there's like that little niggly part of your brain that's like, oh, but what if this is easier? What if you just like fucking went for it? And that's the dark side, because it's like that's the part that can make you go all cuckoo, but not so over time. So you don't really want to use that, even though it feels real good in the moment, and it feels real good um in the short term, but over time it can be uh bad.

SPEAKER_06 1:44:00

Huh. Huh.

SPEAKER_11 1:44:02

What?

SPEAKER_06 1:44:03

Huh. Maybe you should apply that to other things in your life.

SPEAKER_11 1:44:06

I have no idea what you're talking about, Illyria. I don't see how this is applicable to anything else in my character or my life.

SPEAKER_09 1:44:14

I don't have a drinking problem.

SPEAKER_11 1:44:16

Yeah, you gotta have a dark side problem.

SPEAKER_00 1:44:19

This force does it fuel your abilities then.

SPEAKER_11 1:44:22

Oh yeah, for a little while, but then it's like, you know, it's uh it gets harder and harder to like get that little force hit if you're using that dark side for too long. It's like you gotta balance it. Shut the fuck up, Elyria. I know why you're laughing. This is not applicable to anything.

SPEAKER_00 1:44:37

I do not understand this. If I am being powered by energy, the source of it is irrelevant. There is no inherent morality to it. It is only what it is, it is what I choose to do with it that matters.

SPEAKER_11 1:44:52

Okay, but like imagine, like, you're being powered by your energy light, your electricity, and then you're like, oh, like what's that? Is that a socket? Let me stick my finger in it, and you get a little zappy-doo, and it feels real good, but it burns out your circuits, so you keep going back for a zappy-doo and it keeps burning out your circuits, and eventually the zappidoo's not doing it anymore, and your circuits are all burnt out.

SPEAKER_00 1:45:09

Why would I stick my finger in a socket?

SPEAKER_11 1:45:12

Well, so you get a little zappy-doo, you feel good.

SPEAKER_00 1:45:14

That is not how power cells work.

SPEAKER_11 1:45:17

Well, I don't know. I'm not a droid. I am trying to imagine what it's like to exist in your chassis.

SPEAKER_00 1:45:23

It just seems to me that a power source that fuels you should be a neutral source of energy.

SPEAKER_11 1:45:31

Well, it's not, okay, that is the point. It's not. It works differently for organics. Can we just say it works differently for organics?

SPEAKER_00 1:45:39

If this power source, if this uh force that fuels you is not a neutral source of energy and it has an inherent corruptive element, then would it not be appropriate to not use it at all?

SPEAKER_11 1:45:51

Well, it's about you gotta use a in the embed like if you're using it a responsible way, it's fine. It's not corruptive, it's only if you're going overboard with it. Just like how it's okay to do a little bit of drugs as long as you're not going overboard with it.

SPEAKER_09 1:46:05

You know, as it should be- As a trait.

SPEAKER_00 1:46:08

So indulging in this dark side is acceptable from time to time.

SPEAKER_11 1:46:13

I mean I do time to time. Yeah, a little bit.

SPEAKER_09 1:46:16

This guy's fucking this dude is fucking roasting you.

SPEAKER_10 1:46:19

Listen, I've done it from time to time. It's not like that bad ever so slightly every now and then, but you don't want to do it too much. Like, that's a point, that's a point, you don't want to do it too much.

SPEAKER_00 1:46:27

Then what is the danger of studying under Dooku if you feel that you are able to keep yourselves in balance? Dooku is, I believe, a master of the Jedi arts. Should he not be able to keep himself in balance?

SPEAKER_11 1:46:42

What are you a fucking paid recruiter for Dooku? Why are you pressing this mana so much? Is he already paying you under the table to find new recruits?

SPEAKER_00 1:46:50

I do not understand this force, but it intrigues me. I wish to learn.

SPEAKER_11 1:46:54

No, like, look, we can discuss this in detail later. If we're gonna help you get off the planet, either like, you know, if we're killing this lady, if you want, go off the planet, like we we'll have time. We need to find this fucker. And I need to think about things a lot.

SPEAKER_00 1:47:07

Very well, we can locate this fucker, and then decide what we are to do with him. But my offer still stands. If we allow him to complete his mission and assassinate the senator before we arrest him, then you will be able to join me as heroes, Duduku, and you will reap whatever benefits I do.

SPEAKER_04 1:47:26

Cool, let's go. He's following behind you, and like, even though you want to put this situation to rest, like he is kind of like following behind you, Kala, and he sort of like leans over as you're walking and he says, I do have one question though.

SPEAKER_02 1:47:42

Okay, okay, what?

SPEAKER_00 1:47:44

This dark side.

SPEAKER_02 1:47:45

Yeah?

SPEAKER_00 1:47:46

Who named it thus?

SPEAKER_11 1:47:52

You know I don't actually know the answer to that. I guess the Jedi? Maybe? I don't know.

SPEAKER_09 1:47:58

Maybe it was maybe it was the sis, we don't know.

SPEAKER_11 1:48:01

I have no idea. I uh we can maybe we can find that out later for ya. That's uh that's an interesting question.

SPEAKER_09 1:48:07

We'll ask our teachers and our bosses.

SPEAKER_00 1:48:11

I appreciate your lack of knowledge.

SPEAKER_09 1:48:13

I I appreciate it. Wait, wait a minute.

SPEAKER_11 1:48:17

I'm sorry, I'm not a fucking encyclopedia on wheels.

SPEAKER_04 1:48:21

He seems legitimate, like, although there is he is kind of being cheeky about it, but he does seem like He he our lack of knowledge makes him understand this a surprising amount more. Yeah, where he's like, oh, these guys don't totally understand this either.

SPEAKER_11 1:48:36

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:48:40

Yeah, we are. You're you're So you're trying to find uh Telodi.

SPEAKER_11 1:48:46

Yeah. Can I continue to seek him or keep that active?

SPEAKER_04 1:48:50

Uh it's been a while, so why don't you roll re-roll it here, unless you can uh Yeah, you can commit it.

SPEAKER_11 1:48:56

Uh no, I don't have I don't have commit. And I used all my XP getting fucking upgrading my my wound because I felt bad. Yeah. Wait. Wait. Wait. Oh shoot, yeah, that's way down the tree. Oh fuck it, I wouldn't have been able to get that anyways. No, I'll re-roll. I'll re-roll once we get closer.

SPEAKER_04 1:49:16

Yeah, so you can uh get close to the slaughterplex. Seems that everybody is coming for the uh quarterfinal match. This is against two droids. Uh they it seems like like they have their fans. For a planet that is like n like pretty down on droids as people, they do seem to like support them as like entertainment.

SPEAKER_11 1:49:40

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:49:40

That makes sense, honestly.

SPEAKER_11 1:49:42

There's droid gladiators endorsing their favorite soft drinks.

SPEAKER_04 1:49:46

Yeah, so uh it seems like they're lining up. Half the crowd are fans of Clench, half the fans are fans of Double Punch. Hell yeah.

SPEAKER_11 1:49:55

Okay, well once we get to the slaughterplex, I'll roll again for Zeke.

SPEAKER_00 1:50:01

I am well known. I should probably find a back entrance.

SPEAKER_11 1:50:05

Oh, should we all go in through a back entrance? You know, Chris is very good at finding back entrances.

SPEAKER_09 1:50:11

She keeps saying this as if it is a euphemism. I am uh basic is not my common language.

SPEAKER_00 1:50:19

Are you familiar with C?

SPEAKER_09 1:50:21

Do you speak binary? Uh 1001. Uh it's been a while since my last since my last lesson, I'm sorry.

SPEAKER_04 1:50:31

Can uh can we go and find a back entrance? Yeah, you can uh go with him to uh a back entrance for uh gladiators.

SPEAKER_11 1:50:40

Oh, we wouldn't be able to go in here. You'd be able to, and then we can meet inside, maybe.

SPEAKER_00 1:50:43

The droids only sign.

SPEAKER_11 1:50:45

Unless you're like, oh yeah, they're with me, they're my posse.

SPEAKER_00 1:50:48

We are not allowed to have possies.

SPEAKER_09 1:50:50

Well, are you?

SPEAKER_11 1:50:51

Okay, so we'll meet you inside then?

SPEAKER_09 1:50:52

What we we could be your I know we're we're about to do that thing again where it's just like, hey, this person, hey, this one is my slave.

SPEAKER_00 1:51:02

I will be a slave no longer. They will recognize my lack of a restraining bolt.

SPEAKER_11 1:51:06

No, I'm saying that like we are your slaves.

SPEAKER_00 1:51:10

But then, like Yeah, I'm not allowed to have those. I believe that will not be necessary. Yeah.

SPEAKER_11 1:51:16

Why don't we just meet you inside? We'll go around the main entrance.

SPEAKER_00 1:51:19

Very well.

SPEAKER_04 1:51:20

And he kind of stalks off to the back entrance. And if you watch him, you can see he approaches like a loading bay door. There's a couple of uh security guys out front that like bring up a little remote trying to like check his restraining bolt. They notice it's not there, and then uh he just raises his arm and he just disintegrates them with his arm cannon. Whoa!

SPEAKER_11 1:51:44

Wait, does that mean we can all go in that way?

SPEAKER_04 1:51:46

I guess so. It's D16, right? Yeah.

SPEAKER_11 1:51:49

Hey D hey D!

SPEAKER_04 1:51:50

Like he he he's gonna close the door behind him after he goes in.

SPEAKER_11 1:51:54

Should we run after him or just go in the way that we said we were going to? Let's just stay the course and go in the regular way.

SPEAKER_04 1:52:02

I agree. You can you can go in the regular way. It's unlikely that uh Taloti was uh had access to a a maintenance door, so he's probably found some way in as well. Are you gonna muscle through the crowd, try and like push through the line?

SPEAKER_11 1:52:17

Yeah, every star saying you go first, everyone hang on to his loincloth.

SPEAKER_04 1:52:22

Yeah, I'll push my way through. So uh this would probably be an athletics. Okay. Not using your brawn, but using uh because at some point people are gonna get pissed off. So we'll say this will be athletics using your presence. So your presence with your ranks in athletics.

SPEAKER_07 1:52:42

Can I use uh my enhance ability, which gives me uh enhanced paratrock of the pool that I can use?

SPEAKER_04 1:52:52

Um because enhance on athletics, yeah.

SPEAKER_07 1:52:55

Okay, so two four side and I the presence is a two. I have one rank of athletics. Okay, what's the difficulty? Uh two success, one threat, two dark side. Uh oh.

SPEAKER_11 1:53:12

Use the dark side to get rid of the threat.

SPEAKER_01 1:53:17

Uh I probably shouldn't.

SPEAKER_11 1:53:19

Because if if we're if Starzan succeeded, because I'm guessing that we're all gonna have to roll athletics to muscle through.

SPEAKER_04 1:53:25

Well, if Starzan is like leading you.

SPEAKER_11 1:53:27

Okay, cool. We we literally could just hang on to his loincloth and let him drag us through. Nice.

SPEAKER_04 1:53:34

So uh Starzan, you can like push your way through the crowd. Uh what is like what's your line? Like, what's how are you, as you're muscling past, what are you trying to uh say to people to to sell this? Coming through, royalty.

SPEAKER_11 1:53:49

Look, it's foreign dignitary. There's a seed retention crisis I must be there for.

SPEAKER_04 1:53:56

Yeah. You can uh claim to be a uh a foreign dignitary, which technically isn't isn't a lie, uh, and muscle your way up to the front. However, you got the threat. You don't have tickets. Uh so there is a barrier and they there is a ticket taking droid that says tickets, please.

SPEAKER_09 1:54:13

So what if you have uh We are here to save a li we are here to save uh a life. Tickets, please. Uh we uh okay, so I can't turn this guy.

SPEAKER_11 1:54:29

Like what it is it just like extending a little hand for tickets?

SPEAKER_04 1:54:32

Tickets, please. It's like a uh it's almost like an AstraMech dome on top of a plinth that is like it has a barrier. So it's like it's an immobile droid, it can spin its head around and it can speak, but it is a ticket-taking droid with a with like a turnstile.

SPEAKER_11 1:54:52

Because there's like a fuckload of people just like on all sides of us. Yeah. Could I use skullduggery to maybe pickpocket some other people's tickets? Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 1:55:00

Oh. I know I didn't think of that.

SPEAKER_11 1:55:02

Hopefully the the droid will not look too closely at the name. What would that be for skullduggery? It is pretty packed in here.

SPEAKER_04 1:55:10

Tickets have names on them. Uh, you're out of destiny, so I'll give you one. We'll call that a red and a purple.

SPEAKER_11 1:55:15

To advantage. Just find some on the ground.

SPEAKER_04 1:55:18

They fell out of someone's pocket. Wow. You can find some tickets on the ground, but they've already been like taken. They are like ripped tickets.

SPEAKER_09 1:55:29

Can we can we try and pass them off?

SPEAKER_11 1:55:31

Yeah. Oh man, I accidentally ripped them before I got here. I didn't see the do not tears line. These have already been scanned.

SPEAKER_04 1:55:39

Can uh present your hand stamp for re-entry.

SPEAKER_09 1:55:43

Can you forge a hand stamp? Can we can we do perception on like somebody else's hands to see if it's a little bit more?

SPEAKER_04 1:55:49

Yeah, it looks like like there are a few people that had to go and come back. Most people are coming in for the first time, but some people are have uh had to slip out for various reasons. And you can see a couple of people holding out their hands, and uh the ticket taking droid is scanning like a QR code looking thing on their hand. Uh okay, we gotta steal some hands.

SPEAKER_11 1:56:09

What would be to do is a real quick art? Does anyone have any uh does anyone have some face paint that they can make a QR code on our hands?

SPEAKER_04 1:56:18

Does anybody in this group have any face paint? Hmm.

SPEAKER_11 1:56:22

Starzan, what's your what are your artistic skills like? You do such a good job with your face paint and your body glitter.

SPEAKER_04 1:56:28

That's a good point. What's Starzan's attention for? What would that be? Uh I'll give you another destiny point here. Uh we'll call it a uh a red, a purple, and a black. Jesus. What would the role be though? Uh coordination. Oh no. Oh.

SPEAKER_11 1:56:43

Because I have I have four green decorations.

SPEAKER_04 1:56:45

You can enhance coordination if you have the upgrade.

SPEAKER_11 1:56:48

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_07 1:56:48

That's true, I do. Okay. So we'll add my force points to it. You said a red, a purple, and a black? Yeah. Okay.

SPEAKER_11 1:56:54

Do we have destiny if you want to flip one?

SPEAKER_07 1:56:56

Yeah, you have two right now. Yeah, I'll flip one. One threat, two dark side, two lightside. Come on, you might have to do that. Oh wait, you got two lightside. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_09 1:57:05

You can get rid of the threat and get a success. Yeah, exactly.

SPEAKER_04 1:57:09

So with uh force enhanced uh speed and quickness and accuracy, you can uh quickly take some of the paint off of your face and smudge it onto the hands of yourselves and your compatriots, and it appears to be a close enough match to the QR codes that when you hold it out to scan, it beats green and lets you through.

SPEAKER_02 1:57:29

Yay!

SPEAKER_11 1:57:30

We did it!

SPEAKER_07 1:57:31

Starzan's very proud of his hand art.

SPEAKER_11 1:57:33

You're very happy to do it.

SPEAKER_09 1:57:35

It is really funny to me that out of all of us, you are the artist of the group.

SPEAKER_06 1:57:39

Said before, he does his face paint.

SPEAKER_11 1:57:41

Starzan is always committed to being the most electrifying in the ring and on the canvas.

SPEAKER_04 1:57:48

Let's run a bubble of happy little trees on the canvas. So uh you can uh enter and people are cheering for a preliminary exhibition match. Uh you can see that there are a couple of droids down in the arena that are uh going at it, but you're looking for a man. Well, a boy. A boy man. He's like 18 years old. Oh, just a just a little guy. He would have been like 17 when you knew him uh back in the service corps.

SPEAKER_11 1:58:19

Just a little guy. Yeah, just a little guy. Well, let me see if I can see cum.

SPEAKER_04 1:58:24

Can you seek cum?

SPEAKER_11 1:58:27

I hope not. Uh actually, I hope so, because I don't want that to be invisible to me. You know they're gonna be cum anywhere.

SPEAKER_04 1:58:40

Starzan, watch out.

SPEAKER_11 1:58:46

Uh-huh. Uh, ooh, one light side, one dark side.

SPEAKER_04 1:58:50

Um spend a destiny and uh take some strain and use both? Yeah, because I need two to I need two to do seek. Okay. So uh you can use the force and you can also uh borrow from that other thing. Why do they call it the dark side? Why would they call it that? What a weird that is kind of weird. Uh but you can use it uh to get a sense of where this person is, and you can sense a figure. He seems to be closing in on one of the VIP boxes above the arena.

SPEAKER_11 1:59:24

Let's go there. I'm hoping that D16 will just find us and meet up with us on the way.

SPEAKER_04 1:59:29

Fingers crossed. So you can uh run towards the Do you want why don't you give me a uh an athletics here? See if you can get get there before this guy does anything. But we'll say that this is probably gonna be because they're getting close. We'll say that this is gonna be a give you a destiny point, red and three purple. Okay.

SPEAKER_11 1:59:49

Red and three purple?

SPEAKER_04 1:59:50

Yeah.

SPEAKER_11 1:59:51

Oh thank goodness. My impact doesn't impact it doesn't uh hurt my brawn rolls. It's just agility, cunny, and intellect base checks. Oh god, I already flipped a destiny, didn't I?

SPEAKER_06 2:00:00

You had to see if your impact would impact your role.

SPEAKER_11 2:00:03

You have uh one left.

SPEAKER_07 2:00:04

Two success, two advantage, one dark side, two light side.

SPEAKER_11 2:00:07

I think see how everyone else does, and then I'll decide if I want to flip it or not. Two success, four thread.

SPEAKER_06 2:00:13

Two failure, one advantage.

SPEAKER_04 2:00:15

One failure. So, Chris, uh, you're you're pretty tired out, you take some strain, but you and Starzan can get there. You can sort of like bust in through sort of the back area, you can muscle past uh the guards that are shouting at you, hey, this is the VIP area, you're not allowed back there. And you can see stalking through the hallways towards the VIP box, like hand on the pad, ready to ready to stick a lightsaber in, is a black armored figure in Sith Armor wielding a long-handled lightsaber, who you know is Telodi Kilmaman. Uh, Illyria and Kala, you are lagging behind. Illyria, you'll be able to get there shortly. Kala, you're a little bit further back. Uh, puffin' and puffin'. Can I try and spear him? Uh, yeah, give me a brawl. Yeah. So he's got uh melee defense, he's got adversary, so this'll be a red, a purple, and a black.

SPEAKER_07 2:01:12

Okay. Red, purple, black. I got Actually, let's see, do we get do we still have some destiny? I'm gonna do that. Yeah, one. Okay. Four success. Uh one despair. Oh! One advantage, one dark side, one light side.

SPEAKER_09 2:01:27

Uh you might well maybe get that light side to give it you another advantage, but we'll accept that despair as much as possible.

SPEAKER_04 2:01:35

Yeah, because um unarmed uh attacks do have knockdown that takes uh two advantage to activate. Well then yeah, I'll get two advantage. Okay. So uh you can uh knock him down, you can spear him, but like you're kind of running in from the side, you can spear him, but he is wearing this big heavy pseudo armor. As you do, you to get that to spare, he does jam his lightsaber into the panel to get the door open. So as you do, it acts as like a pivot. So he goes like crashing through the door as it opens, and it's you and him on the floor of this B uh VIP box of this separatist senator. Ma'am! And she screams, and uh everybody that she's in there with screams. The two uh battle droids, uh, they start firing at you guys. Uh they're these are just B1 battle droids, so not a major threat, but since uh Starz and since you are on top, they are gonna shoot at you.

SPEAKER_07 2:02:42

Oh, my supple body.

unknown 2:02:44

No.

SPEAKER_07 2:02:46

So you know, an easy target, right? Not really.

SPEAKER_11 2:02:49

No, your beautiful muscles!

SPEAKER_07 2:02:51

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 2:02:52

I think I got that soak. Uh yeah, so they get two success. So they do 11 points of uh wound before you're soaked.

SPEAKER_03 2:02:59

Ooh.

SPEAKER_04 2:03:01

Before your soak, before your soak. So they do they do like blasts, you do get some singes on your nude flesh. Starzan Angie. Uh Chris, you are uh also close enough that you could run in and see what's happening.

SPEAKER_09 2:03:18

I will run in and see what's happening and. I'm I'm gonna I'm gonna s uh just to help my buddy, I'm gonna uh see if I can shoot at or um are they distracted enough to where I would be able to just um uh maybe cut him down with my lightsaber?

SPEAKER_04 2:03:44

Uh yeah, you could probably get close enough to to slice and dice them.

SPEAKER_09 2:03:47

Alright, I'm gonna I'm gonna try and do that. Okay, that'll be how bad. Two purple lightsaber then. Alrighty. How many destiny points do we got? Uh none at the moment. You motherfuckers.

SPEAKER_04 2:03:58

Uh okay. A success, but a threat. Okay, so you can cut down these battle droids uh with your lightsaber, but as you do, the senator shrieks, Jedi Assassins! Oh no. Oh boy. No no no! Uh it's not what you think. The uh the other people in the room, they start pulling out their data pads and their cameras and they start like filming what's happening. Uh-oh.

SPEAKER_06 2:04:27

Oh my god, this is exactly what I thought was gonna happen.

SPEAKER_11 2:04:30

Is is this senator running out of the room?

SPEAKER_04 2:04:33

No, because the only door is currently being blocked by Starzan and Telodi and Chris. Uh so god, they're just riding out.

SPEAKER_11 2:04:40

Yeah, it's like an observation box. Man, so I couldn't even just pop her in the head as she's running away.

SPEAKER_04 2:04:46

Well, you could try shooting through the glass.

SPEAKER_11 2:04:49

I could try shooting through the glass.

SPEAKER_04 2:04:51

Yeah.

SPEAKER_11 2:04:52

Let's do something horrific here.

SPEAKER_09 2:04:54

Let's do something horrific here. What did you have in mind?

SPEAKER_11 2:04:58

Uh, assassination, with no good reason. Well, some good reason. What? What?

SPEAKER_09 2:05:03

With all with all these cameras on uh on us?

SPEAKER_11 2:05:07

Well, they're pointing at you, they are pointing at me. I'm on the grassy knoll, baby, they're never gonna see me.

SPEAKER_07 2:05:12

That that might make it harder for me to me and Chris to uh uh.

SPEAKER_04 2:05:17

So you're you're kinda down in the crowd. Uh we'll say you'd be at long range here. Okay. So you would have to like whip out your gun and take aim in the middle of like the crowd that are sort of watching the gladiator games and sort of milling about. There are kind of people. It is just the exhibition matches, so there are still a lot of people going to the concession stands and the bathroom and stuff.

SPEAKER_11 2:05:41

Hmm, is this a bad idea?

SPEAKER_04 2:05:42

Yeah, yeah, it is. So we'll call it a uh give you a destiny point here. So we'll say that it's gonna be a red and two uh purples with a black. You'll have to do this quite quickly.

SPEAKER_11 2:05:56

A red and two purples with a black. Yeah. Okay. Listen, I see no way in which this could possibly go wrong. I'll have you know.

SPEAKER_09 2:06:07

Something, something famous last words.

SPEAKER_07 2:06:09

Chris not Chris and Starzan getting assassinated for uh.

SPEAKER_11 2:06:13

Okay, well, if anything, if they're going like, oh my god, Jedi Assassins, and then she gets shot through the glass, like clearly you're not the assassins.

SPEAKER_07 2:06:21

Her head just did that through force powers.

SPEAKER_11 2:06:26

They can use the force to shoot bullets. Uh three success, two threat, two light side and a dark side. So I could use those two lightside to get rid of the threat.

SPEAKER_07 2:06:35

Can you use light side to assassinate somebody?

SPEAKER_11 2:06:38

You can use lightside to do whatever. Wait, what are you using the force on? Uh intuitive shot, it lets me add my force rating on to uh range heavy. Okay, cool. Yeah. It's there for a reason. I promise. I'll use those two lightside to get rid of the two threats, so it's just three success.

SPEAKER_04 2:06:54

Okay, so you're gonna 360 no scope this?

SPEAKER_11 2:07:00

Yeah! You know what? I'm real tired, we're doing it. I'm real tired, I'm not making my best decisions. I took some effect.

SPEAKER_04 2:07:10

That's where we're at, 100%. You can fire. The blast, the bullet goes like through the glass, but because it has to hit through the glass first, then your uh pierce, it's gonna kind of absorb your pierce. Okay. It's gonna act as a few extra points of soak. But, you know, a person's head doesn't have that much soak.

SPEAKER_11 2:07:33

How big is her hair? That can absorb a lot.

SPEAKER_04 2:07:36

You can you can 360 no scope do your own Luke Skywalker shot on the Death Star, trust the force, uh fire, fire the bullet, uh, wanted style, even like curve it maybe. Hell yeah. So it blows open the back of her head.

SPEAKER_11 2:07:50

Can I put my gun away real fast or less?

SPEAKER_04 2:07:52

The glass shatters. And uh after like the glass shatters, everybody screams, somebody shouts that they heard a gunshot. Uh the all the lights in the arena go up.

SPEAKER_11 2:08:05

Go up?

SPEAKER_04 2:08:06

Yeah. Like shit. They turn on all the lights, and you can see stalking along the catwalks up, like taking aim on one of the catwalks at the box is D16 with this big uh Starship cannon.

SPEAKER_11 2:08:21

Turn the lights off.

SPEAKER_04 2:08:22

Get him silly. Uh yeah, and basically that's it, where it's like, uh, there's been like there's an announcement over the loudspeaker that's like We have a rogue droid on the premises. We have a rogue assassin droid on the premises. Oh no, I am the second gunman. Oh no! So so D16 is being framed for what you've done. Uh I don't know if you want to do anything about that, but up in the box, everybody there's there's chaos. This Jedi is like trying to wrestle you, Starzan. What are you trying to do to him?

SPEAKER_07 2:08:54

Uh oh, you're trying to wrestle Starzan?

SPEAKER_11 2:08:57

Is that what you think you're doing? Well, uh Oilius man in town, you're trying to wrestle Starzan?

SPEAKER_07 2:09:04

Well, he's gonna be marked for death, first of all.

SPEAKER_11 2:09:06

Oh hell yeah.

SPEAKER_07 2:09:07

Uh committing a force point to that, so I get to add to combat checks against that target. Um can I I can only do like commit one force point per like turn, right?

SPEAKER_04 2:09:20

So you can commit one to marked for death, and you can use one on your enhanced power. Excellent.

SPEAKER_07 2:09:28

So that brings my uh Brawn to six. Nice. So, um he's beneath me. Should I just beneath you? Yeah, I can just crush him, literally.

SPEAKER_04 2:09:40

Yeah, he is he is in that armor.

SPEAKER_07 2:09:42

Yeah, tin can.

SPEAKER_10 2:09:43

Yeah, crack him like a crab.

SPEAKER_07 2:09:46

Yeah. You're getting what was the name of that Titanic Explorer? Will this be a Brawl check, I suppose?

SPEAKER_04 2:09:51

Yeah. So he's got some defense, he's got uh adversary, so this is going to be against a red, a purple, and a black. Okay.

SPEAKER_07 2:09:58

Four success, two dark side, one light side, and then two more from uh Mark for Death.

SPEAKER_04 2:10:05

Yeah, so that's enough. You can kind of smash onto his armor, uh, denting it. It is quite old. Uh it is quite it is strong, but it's brittle. So you can bash on it, and as you're like, like cranking on it, uh, it like it not only like starts to bend, but you can sort of it almost sounds like there's like ghosts escaping. Like this weird like moaning as you're as you're banging on his armor, and it like are you are you ripping his helmet off, or are you getting like trying to take any of his armor off of him? And you can see him like screaming like stop, stop, stop, stop! Nope.

SPEAKER_11 2:10:50

Wait, what if he was possessed?

SPEAKER_07 2:10:52

Was he possessed?

SPEAKER_11 2:10:53

Well, you said that it sounded like ghosts escaping.

SPEAKER_07 2:10:56

Oh, okay, yeah. Hmm. I'll pull him, I'll pull him off.

SPEAKER_06 2:11:04

Well, we were I don't know if we could really even say we were friends.

SPEAKER_09 2:11:06

We knew him, but like I'll p I'll pull him off and uh um like uh just a sec just a sec. Sexually I mean pull him off.

SPEAKER_11 2:11:17

Clarify.

SPEAKER_09 2:11:19

Uh and uh yeah, I'm j I'm just kinda like uh I I uh It squeezed the ghosts out of him. Yeah.

SPEAKER_11 2:11:28

It was like Are you juicing ghosts from the sky?

SPEAKER_09 2:11:32

Are you b uh Are you uh calm? Are you cool?

SPEAKER_04 2:11:37

I'm I don't know uh he's having trouble talking because like some of his teeth are missing and his like his uh his his lips are swollen. His whole face is swollen. Yeah, that happens.

SPEAKER_09 2:11:49

Um can can somebody Can somebody get is this man a doctor or uh yeah.

SPEAKER_04 2:11:57

Alright, roll me out of uh

SPEAKER_06 2:12:00

Hey. Shove his teeth back in his mouth.

SPEAKER_04 2:12:09

Get it.

SPEAKER_06 2:12:10

Oh god, what an advantage.

SPEAKER_04 2:12:12

I mean you can maybe spend him at least throat. Put his teeth in his mouth for safekeeping.

SPEAKER_09 2:12:19

Just just you put him back into their spot, but like the they're in the wrong spot, so he hasn't armed slot right back where they're supposed to be. He's a canine where uh uh incisor should be and a molar where uh an inciser should be.

SPEAKER_04 2:12:39

Once you once you stabilize me, he says, You can't do this! I'm the I'm the hammer of the dark side, you can't do this to me.

SPEAKER_11 2:12:45

Oh p fucking bitch.

SPEAKER_09 2:12:48

You are the hammer of the dark side.

SPEAKER_04 2:12:50

Yeah, I'm the hammer of the dark side, gonna hammer all the dark side. My call me Malleus! I'm malleus, you can't do this to me.

SPEAKER_09 2:12:57

Um You know what, Tarzan, if you want to play uh punch him up a little bit, well you can smack backhand him. Well, not like to kill him, but we'll just knock him out.

SPEAKER_07 2:13:06

Just a little bit. Yeah, just get him shut the fuck up.

SPEAKER_04 2:13:09

Yeah. Outside uh of the room in the rafters, you can see like uh some battle droids climbing up to try and uh attack D16 Cala. Are you gonna do anything?

SPEAKER_11 2:13:21

Uh what's D16 doing?

SPEAKER_04 2:13:25

He's blasting back. He's firing indiscriminately into the crowd towards the battle droids. He's not overly worried about hitting them. Where are the the battle droids climbing up? Uh they're kind of climbing up their like ladders and staircases like along the walls, they're climbing up. And how many are there? All of them that they have. Oh.

SPEAKER_11 2:13:53

Shit, I don't know what I can do, because I'm like on the ground in the crowd. You know what? Maybe like. I mean that I mean. Are are there any like really big lights that I could shoot out? Because if nothing else, maybe having some sparks and shit fall on the battle droids might give them a bit of a distraction and also give me a bit of cover to get away.

SPEAKER_04 2:14:19

Yeah, if you want to try shooting some of the bigger, bigger lights, uh, they'd be also at long range. So the three purple. Three purple, okay.

SPEAKER_11 2:14:27

Ooh, one success, three advantage. One light side, one dark side. Because if I use that light side to get another advantage, would I be able to shoot out more lights?

SPEAKER_03 2:14:38

Yeah.

SPEAKER_11 2:14:38

Yeah. Because I I assume that like it's not gonna take a lot of uh I I I don't think I would need more damage just to fucking shoot a light bulb, but maybe if I get a couple of them.

SPEAKER_04 2:14:49

Yeah, you can blast out a couple of lights inside the uh the viewing box, you can see things getting kind of darker outside. You don't know what's going on, uh, but if you did catch a glimpse of D16 up in the rafters, uh he disappears when things go in the darkness. Hey, and then I will try to get out of here. And one of the other people in the box uh shouts, What's what's going on? What's happening? Who who who are you? They're the Empire Records.

SPEAKER_07 2:15:19

I am Starzan.

SPEAKER_06 2:15:21

Oh god.

SPEAKER_04 2:15:22

This is I'm Zap Rowstower. Chris Aunt. What what is what does that mean? Who are you? What's did you are are you Jedi? Did you t who who did somebody shoot the senator?

SPEAKER_07 2:15:34

I look I don't this is this is news to Starzan, by the way. Starzan does does no knowledge of what happened to the senator. Yeah.

SPEAKER_11 2:15:42

You're you were so distracted, it's like something happened to the senator.

SPEAKER_09 2:15:45

There was so much commotion. I did not I did not and this is l this I feel like this is true. Uh there there was so much commotion, I didn't see I didn't see what's happened. Somebody gets a senator.

SPEAKER_04 2:15:56

Yeah, like the somebody like looks out into the box and like hears what's happening and says, I think one of the droids went rogue and shot her. Oh no. Oh no. Oh no. Who are you?

SPEAKER_09 2:16:07

What why are you here? Uh we were oh well, uh we were here to secure. Starzan fell. Uh we are SB SBI, we are looking for an assassin. SBI.

SPEAKER_06 2:16:19

Uh the separatist bureau of investigation.

SPEAKER_04 2:16:26

Wait, you were sent to protect the senator from that assassin? Who is that assassin?

SPEAKER_06 2:16:32

Yes.

SPEAKER_07 2:16:33

Yes.

SPEAKER_11 2:16:35

Yes. I will not say yes. I'm running. I'm getting out of there.

SPEAKER_07 2:16:40

Is there a way I can just kind of like start walking backwards out of here?

SPEAKER_06 2:16:44

And to that end, we must go catch our killer. Goodbye.

SPEAKER_03 2:16:48

Yeah, a hero's in.

SPEAKER_04 2:16:52

But yeah, you could drag this guy's body out. Uh hopefully what you said is like, oh wow, the republic is trying to help us, even though we're separatists. Maybe we could do some peace talks or something, and not like I don't know, something incriminating.

SPEAKER_09 2:17:06

Who would say that? That's that's kind of what I was hoping for a little bit, just for the sheer fact of like, I I know that you guys are separatists, but like uh republics is on everybody's side, kind of thing.

SPEAKER_07 2:17:18

If Republic, Jedi, and a separatist can get along, why can't mom't mom and dad?

SPEAKER_04 2:17:24

So you can uh make your way out. There's a lot of commotion, Cala. You can probably scooch out. You can the rest of you can drag this this guy out. He's still like sobbing, claiming that he's the hammer of the dark side, he's malleas, he's this, he's that. The uh any security droids you come across are uh searching now for D16.

SPEAKER_11 2:17:47

Aw man, wouldn't it be great if we went back to our ship and he was just like sitting there waiting for us? Well, wouldn't you know it? Hey! Hey, buddy!

SPEAKER_00 2:17:57

Am I your buddy?

SPEAKER_11 2:17:59

Uh I don't know. You said that in such an ominous way. I'm wondering if uh we are not buddies.

SPEAKER_04 2:18:05

And he notices, uh, as you're regrouping, you are carrying this Jedi with you.

SPEAKER_00 2:18:10

And he says, One of you fired a shot to kill the senator.

SPEAKER_09 2:18:15

I I I kind of look I kind of look over, um I kind of look over at Cal Set, and I'm just kind of like, Did you do something? People keep saying something, and I don't know who else it would be other than you.

SPEAKER_10 2:18:29

That's uh well no no, I look I I panic, Chris. I panicked, okay?

SPEAKER_09 2:18:37

Oh no, we'd take him back to the Jedi, I guess. The Dark Side Boy?

SPEAKER_11 2:18:41

Yeah, because he he like he was with the service call. We should probably take him back to the the Jedi. I don't know what the fuck they'll do with him, wartime and all, but like I have been implicated in the death of the senator.

SPEAKER_00 2:18:53

A death that I am not responsible for. I have been framed. I am not in a position to lead a revolution. My only recourse is to take the boy to Dooku.

SPEAKER_11 2:19:06

Okay, but uh you're still Okay, in my defense, I did not know that you were gonna be up there already taking aim, and you were already aiming at her, so it's like, is it really that much of a framing? Realistically.

SPEAKER_00 2:19:21

I noticed that you had botched the arrest of the Jedi. I was attempting to destroy him. Did we even find the Jedi?

SPEAKER_10 2:19:30

Yeah, we have him.

SPEAKER_00 2:19:31

Yeah, Starzan's god of bleeding.

SPEAKER_04 2:19:33

Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 2:19:34

Right. Right, forgot about it. We have him right here. Come on. I'm the hammer of the dark side.

SPEAKER_11 2:19:39

Yeah, I feel like given that they still think that you shot a senator, if you take him to Dooku, he's gonna go like, oh, thank you for the boy, and then they get to put a restraining bolt back on you.

SPEAKER_00 2:19:48

Not if I bring along the senator's true killer.

SPEAKER_11 2:19:52

Oh my god, are we gonna have to do a whole thing here? Look, we can give you a lift-off planet, but like, do we are we gonna have to do a whole thing here?

SPEAKER_00 2:19:59

Do you have to do a whole thing here?

SPEAKER_09 2:20:03

Yeah, what kind of thing? What kind of thing are we talking about?

SPEAKER_11 2:20:07

Are you gonna make us do a whole thing where now we just got out of there and now we're gonna have to do a whole gunfight in this hangabay? Cause you're gonna try to take me into Dooku as well as the boy when we need to take the boy with us. We can give you a lift, buddy.

SPEAKER_00 2:20:22

Perhaps Dooku will be merciful.

SPEAKER_11 2:20:24

What to you or to me?

SPEAKER_00 2:20:26

To you.

SPEAKER_11 2:20:26

I'm sorry, D16. I'm not turning myself into Dooku voluntarily. We gotta take the boy. I don't know where that leaves us. I tried to at least shoot out the light so you could get out of there, and what do you know? Here ya. We can give you a lift off planet. Do you want it or not?

SPEAKER_00 2:20:40

Is this gonna be a charm?

SPEAKER_11 2:20:42

Is this a charm?

SPEAKER_00 2:20:44

Or a coercion?

SPEAKER_11 2:20:45

I feel like this is uh the tonally more of a coercion. Okay. Also, my coercion is slightly better than my charm.

SPEAKER_00 2:20:52

You did help him, you did blow out the lights. I did. So we'll call this a something against his discipline. You're low on destiny points. We'll call this a red and two purple coercion. Ugh. And add a blue, because you did help him.

SPEAKER_11 2:21:06

I did help him. What do we have for Destiny? Got two. I'm gonna flip one to get a yellow. Then it's at least evenly matched. Let's see. Uh uh, one failure to advantage. Uh hmm. Maybe he's not intimidated by me, but uh he's open to someone else trying in a more delicate tone.

SPEAKER_09 2:21:26

If it's a revolution that uh z you want for uh for his robot kinds there, booking him and fighting us is not going to save it. And I don't think Dooku's gonna be that uh Zatman either. You need to go a lot more have a have a better plan than that.

SPEAKER_00 2:21:43

What would you suggest?

SPEAKER_09 2:21:45

Start building an army.

SPEAKER_11 2:21:47

Yeah. Look, but you take you off planet, we can d deposit you somewhere with like little to no population. You you work it's this is a droid manufacturing planet, right? Do you know how to manufacture droids? So you make all your own children.

SPEAKER_04 2:22:00

Chris, why don't you give me a charm? Uh Kala did get advantage, so you can add a blue onto that. So this will be a charm against two reds and two purples.

SPEAKER_11 2:22:10

Chris is very charming.

SPEAKER_09 2:22:11

One success.

SPEAKER_04 2:22:13

Oh, nice. And you hadn't uh heard it powering up, but you can hear now, as he considers your offer, uh his weapon powering down. Ooh.

SPEAKER_00 2:22:25

And he says, You are an intriguing bunch. I'll say. You wish to deliver this fleshling back to your republic? Yeah. I am the most skilled gladiator of Chaon. I am the favorite of Senator Karatak.

SPEAKER_05 2:22:43

The dead senator.

SPEAKER_00 2:22:44

Yes. I have witnessed many things in her presence. I have been in Duku's castle many times. They do not know that we watch and we listen.

SPEAKER_11 2:22:55

Are you thinking we take you to the Republic instead? You be a little stool pigeon?

SPEAKER_00 2:22:59

When you put it that way, it makes me seem like a coward.

SPEAKER_11 2:23:02

Oh, sorry, I shouldn't have put it that way. You gonna, you know. Yeah, that's fine. That's fair.

SPEAKER_02 2:23:09

As do we all?

SPEAKER_06 2:23:10

I mean, you're a lot bigger than a mouse droid, but you won't get caught in the shag carpet.

SPEAKER_11 2:23:18

But no, if you won't go to the republic instead, and like, you know, how because you have you do have knowledge. You can probably plead for amnesty, independence.

SPEAKER_00 2:23:26

Tell me thus. Do your clone soldiers have citizenship of the republic?

SPEAKER_11 2:23:32

I don't think so. I don't think they really do.

SPEAKER_04 2:23:34

Like, do they? Um, at this point you would know that no clones are the property of the republic. They are not citizens of it.

SPEAKER_11 2:23:43

Yeah, they're not really citizens. I mean, however. Uh is there just like, but and hoping that the butt would come. Are children considered citizens? There's not allowed to vote. Because it's like, okay, like the crowd soldier's not really considered citizens, and that's its own can of worms to unpack. But, you know, it's not like we have a c like a droid army where it's like, oh, you're just blending in, like, you're your droids are made of meat instead of metal.

SPEAKER_10 2:24:18

Yeah, well, let me finish my fucking thought, bruv.

SPEAKER_11 2:24:20

I'm not saying the point I'm trying to make is that you would be more unique in the eyes of the Republic rather than the many, many clone soldiers. I'm not saying that's a good thing, but I'm saying that if you, as a unique droid with unique knowledge, are coming to them to present your unique knowledge with the expectation that you get certain benefits for it, you might be able to get better treatment than a clone soldier. And again, there's a lot to unpack there, we don't have time, and I don't have the energy. However, you may still be able to negotiate for better treatment.

SPEAKER_00 2:25:02

Has the Republic ever had a droid hero?

SPEAKER_04 2:25:05

Has it? Roman knowledge lore or knowledge warfare. I feel like that's had to happen.

SPEAKER_09 2:25:12

Uh what kind of knowledge?

SPEAKER_11 2:25:16

Has Skippy the Jedi droid existed yet?

SPEAKER_06 2:25:20

One failure, two advantage.

SPEAKER_11 2:25:23

I got Oh, one success, three threat. Two success, but a threat. Two success, three threat. Oh, same.

SPEAKER_04 2:25:32

Oh no, not quite same. You got more success. A few Chris Kalistars in. You know that yes, yes, it has. You can't remember uh the droid's name, though.

SPEAKER_09 2:25:44

Well we'll do uh some recon. We'll do some uh we'll find out whose it is.

SPEAKER_04 2:25:51

Um Illyria, you got advantage. Um so you do know, like after they mention it, it does kind of jog your memory a little bit. It was a long time ago, uh but you can confirm that yeah, there was like a droid that was kind of a war hero a long time ago that was kind of popular. Um you don't know the droid's name either, but what you do know, um, because you got those advantages, is that the droid was so popular that its voice module became like the standard droid voice module for Republic newsreel broadcasts.

SPEAKER_11 2:26:34

I know which droid this is. Oh no, I can't remember his name either, though.

SPEAKER_04 2:26:41

Great So, like, uh like in the Clone Wars cartoon, like the opening narration, like that's the voice of the droid. Uh that was a war hero. So it's like this is a voice that everybody in the galaxy knows, but you can't remember the name of the original droid. Tony the Tiger.

SPEAKER_11 2:26:59

Oh god, I need I'm cheating. 4X! M14X! I know who this is!

SPEAKER_04 2:27:05

Unfortunately, you can't communicate that to uh I'm yelling at Kala, Kala!

SPEAKER_11 2:27:11

To D16.

SPEAKER_04 2:27:12

But you can you can say that, like, yeah, the like the newsreel droid, you know, the n the one. Yeah, you know. Okay.

SPEAKER_00 2:27:18

And uh D16 considers this and he says A droid is a trusted voice of your people, and perhaps there is a better future for me.

SPEAKER_11 2:27:29

Hell yeah, there is.

SPEAKER_09 2:27:31

We are here for the we are here for the betterment of not only all mankind and not only all uh alien kind, we are here for all for all kind.

SPEAKER_11 2:27:42

And we could just lie and say that this guy got the senator before uh we were able to stop him.

SPEAKER_00 2:27:48

Oops. If you believe you are capable of that deception, then I will trust you.

SPEAKER_04 2:27:54

And uh he presses like a couple of buttons on his arm and his starship cannon falls off. Oh shit.

SPEAKER_00 2:28:02

Please do not make me wish I had not done this.

SPEAKER_11 2:28:06

Welcome to the Republic, D16. I will wear your badge proudly.

SPEAKER_04 2:28:11

Aw, I like him. So he can kinda like he has to stoop, he's eight feet tall, but he can cram himself into the custard gannet. He can drag Telodi aboard, still babbling about being the hammer of the dark side, babbling that he was gonna do it, he was gonna end the war, he was gonna kill Dooku. He had the power, he had the power.

SPEAKER_11 2:28:33

Oh, yeah, I'm sure he did. I'm sure you did, little buddy!

SPEAKER_04 2:28:37

And although the senator died, perhaps, uh, D16 will prove to be a substantial ally in the missions to come, provided he doesn't get uh captured and uh put into a basement somewhere and plugged in and his brains uh disassembled. But uh, that'll be something you can deal with next time on Star Wars Empire Wreckers. This episode of Empire Wreckers is brought to you by our top patrons, Alpha Bros 522, David B. Eric Charles Perazzo, Jeffrey Zamuto, Joshua Winter, Laser, LKB, Zuki Nintendo, Thomas Davidson, and Vaginator.