S13E15 - Bullet

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SPEAKER_05 0:00

Hey everyone, thanks for listening to Star Wars Empire Wreckers, a Star Wars actual play podcast that's warning you before you go in. There's some pretty rowdy people in the theater who's ready to chicken jockey today.

SPEAKER_04 0:13

Callisette's ready a chicken jockey. She only learned what it was ten minutes ago, but any excuse to be obnoxious and public, and she's taken it.

SPEAKER_02 0:22

Hello, uh uh Chrissant. Uh instead of being a chicken jockey, I am more of a uh tit writer.

SPEAKER_03 0:31

Hey.

SPEAKER_01 0:34

No one can accuse Starzan of being a chicken. However, he is a jockey on the most dangerous mount called life. Um other than that, yes, he has been kicked out of many public engagements for his rowdy behavior.

SPEAKER_04 0:52

Oh yeah. Every time Starzan never disappoints.

SPEAKER_02 0:57

Every time you wind up uh to do the thing, it makes me fucking giggle every time.

SPEAKER_04 1:04

Okay, guys, time to get hype. Starzan's a rabbin.

SPEAKER_00 1:08

And Elyria is ready to sit politely with her small popcorn and small spepsy and unpack the deeper means and unpack the deeper meaning and themes of the film she is about to watch.

SPEAKER_04 1:25

See, it's always funny too, having Elyria follow up star saying. It's always like just so restrained by comparison.

SPEAKER_00 1:33

Except I couldn't keep us drinking face versus Pepsi.

SPEAKER_05 1:39

And if you want to be annoying in a movie theater, why don't you pump us up at full brightness and full volume on your phone? Because we're going a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away in Star Wars. The future of the galaxy is uncertain. As Jedi generals lead the war effort across the Republic, the Senate Bureau of Investigation dispatches agents to keep a watchful eye on their souls. During an investigation into a conclave of Jedi objectors to the war, SBI agents discovered and apprehended Savage Oppress, a dangerous assassin with an unknown origin. Now, after ongoing a dangerous mission to retrieve an ancient artifact to divine truth from lies, the agents have been summoned back to the SBI central office to learn the results of the interrogation.

SPEAKER_00 2:26

And they didn't ask about us killing that guy, right?

SPEAKER_05 2:31

Well, you no, you submitted your report corroborated by Professor Renala that he uh died en route to the planet, that he hit an asteroid or something. I believe it's something was the official record.

SPEAKER_04 2:47

Uh he hit an asteroid or something.

SPEAKER_00 2:49

We didn't see it.

SPEAKER_04 2:50

Yeah. How would we know or something?

SPEAKER_00 2:53

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 2:53

Bad astronaut droids. Didn't uh plot a course correctly. Can't trust him. Time to take him out of business. And then after you delivered the Crown of Verity to the SBI. It was quiet for a while. Quiet for 1500 credits. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 3:13

That's like what, a month and a half?

SPEAKER_05 3:14

That's like three months. Oh, three months. Oh.

SPEAKER_00 3:17

But I'm aging so quickly.

SPEAKER_04 3:19

Oh god. How old are we? How much time has passed?

SPEAKER_05 3:23

I'm like, this is episode 15. You're getting uh closer and closer to uh a certain uh date. Dead grave.

SPEAKER_00 3:32

What day is it? Is it death day?

SPEAKER_05 3:39

In terms of like real world dates, right now it's uh like October of 20 BBY. October doesn't exist, but it's the equivalent of October of 20 BBY.

SPEAKER_01 3:52

In October of BBY, he asked me what day it was.

SPEAKER_03 3:55

It's October of BBY.

SPEAKER_05 4:00

But no, you are uh summoned back to the SBI headquarters after a few months. And when you arrive, uh you're not taken to Gray's office. Instead, you are led deeper and deeper into the base by your clone trooper escorts. And meeting you outside an elevator, Supervisor Gray is uh there pacing, kind of bouncing on the balls of his heels, waiting for you guys to arrive. He looks uh a little bit nervous but also a little excited. Hello, Gray. Hello, hello. Um so, we had I'm sorry for not uh keeping you guys in the loop, but we had to make sure that everything was verified, that all of our information was correct, but your hard work's paid off.

SPEAKER_02 4:51

Oh, it's about time. We have worked hard for way too long. Please tell us what uh what uh what of our hard work has uh paid off so that we can know what we're celebrating tonight.

SPEAKER_05 5:04

Well, celebrations may have to wait. Uh, and he ushers you into a turbo lift to take you down into the the basement levels.

SPEAKER_04 5:12

Now we can't even celebrate each.

SPEAKER_05 5:14

Motherfucker.

SPEAKER_00 5:15

We just had a month and a half off.

SPEAKER_03 5:18

Oh, maybe we could have two.

SPEAKER_04 5:20

And they're making me work again.

SPEAKER_05 5:23

Come on, Elyria, you gotta bitch with us. Here's what we've learned. This Savage A press, he doesn't have any connection to Mace Windu that we can ascertain. He told us, thanks to the crown, that he was sent under orders of Count Dooku. That he was Dooku's personal enforcer. So Windu's clean, as far as we know.

SPEAKER_00 5:46

The window's clean. Squeegee now.

SPEAKER_05 5:50

We did it!

SPEAKER_04 5:51

We squeegied windu.

SPEAKER_05 5:53

And the turbolift door opens. It's not a very long trip. And the turbolift door opens, and you can see that it opens into like a dark observation room overlooking an interrogation chamber.

SPEAKER_03 6:06

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_05 6:08

Is this this uh like white room? There's a chair in the middle of it that you can see Savage in a nondescript sort of like prison jumpsuit is wearing. Yeah. He's just sitting there, he's cuffed, he's manacled to the ground. They're taking every precaution. And you can see Jed standing guard at the door.

SPEAKER_03 6:30

Oh, hi Jed.

SPEAKER_05 6:31

He he nods to you. Even though it's uh dark, you can see that he's uh taken good care. He still wears the shoulder armor souvenir he got from Anakin Skywalker and has taken good care of it.

SPEAKER_03 6:44

Oh, hell yeah.

SPEAKER_05 6:45

Professor Renala is also there, kind of pouring over uh something on a data pad, and looking over her shoulder is Zin Kudri.

SPEAKER_04 6:55

Oh which one was Zin Kudri again, sorry? That's her that's her booty call. That's your baby girlfriend, it's complicated status on Facebook.

SPEAKER_05 7:04

Zin, right. Yeah, and if you've spoken to her over the past few months, she's mentioned nothing about this. You you've had no reason to suspect that she was doing anything with the SBI.

SPEAKER_04 7:15

Oh yeah, she's like a Senate aide. She's working undercover? As we can find out.

SPEAKER_02 7:20

Uh hello, Zin. How are you? Uh uh see you again.

SPEAKER_05 7:26

Oh, it's good to see you as well. Uh sorry I didn't tell you about all this, but it's quite confidential. But uh Grey told me that you would be looped in when the time was right, and I guess the time is right.

SPEAKER_02 7:37

Honestly, I could I kind of f uh figured that you would uh that there would be some secrets, but honestly, I have some secrets to And Gray he says, don't worry, not to worry.

SPEAKER_05 7:48

She's not a double agent or anything, she's not spying on you guys. Uh we actually found out about her through you. See, Savage here comes from Dathomir, where Zin is from. Uh he's from a tribe that's connected to a coven of witches. And Professor Renales stayed on to help us research these witches, and we brought Zin in as a cultural consultant. There aren't many Dathomiri on Coruscant, so it was uh convenient that she was working at the Senate. So gonna thank you, Chris, for making this friend.

SPEAKER_02 8:21

Uh, and she uh she's a very valuable friend.

SPEAKER_04 8:24

When when Grace says that, does uh does Zinn look okay with that, or does she look uncomfortable like maybe she was coerced into helping out? She looks okay. Yeah? Okay. That's good.

SPEAKER_02 8:37

Or she has a deception so high that you can't fucking tell what she's thinking.

SPEAKER_04 8:42

She might, I don't know. There'll be no way of me to know. But anyways, uh yeah, you had some progress then?

SPEAKER_05 8:48

We did.

SPEAKER_04 8:48

Go on.

SPEAKER_05 8:49

Uh go on. Well, the reason we had to uh bring Zin in, not as only as a cultural consultant, was because during our interviews with Savage, we found that even with the crown, he was very resistant to questioning. And Renala was able to uh track down some lore about the Knight Sisters and the Knight Brothers, which we believe Savage is a member of. And it seems that he might be under some sort of I don't want to say magic spell, but there is uh some sort of psychological block that our serums can't penetrate. But when Zin asks him a question, he answers straight away. So, as f from what we can divine, the Night Sisters may have some sort of control over him. That somebody with their blood is able to make him do things. Thanks to Zinn, we were able to learn that this spell that he's under is actually uh Well Savage, it seems I guess was a double agent. I don't know the details. Uh it seems that he doesn't even know the details, but for some reason, you're all aware of Asage Ventress. I'm sure that you've heard of her, one of Count Dooku's assassins. She kind of went off the radar many months ago. We thought maybe she had been killed somewhere, but it seems there was a rift that for whatever reason Dooku cast her out, and Savage was intended to be her replacement. But according to Savage, he was uh directed to get close enough to Dooku to create an opening for an assassination attempt when the time was right.

SPEAKER_04 10:32

Oh.

SPEAKER_05 10:33

So that Dooku wouldn't have any other bodyguards to protect him other than Savage. And that gives us an opportunity.

SPEAKER_03 10:41

Okay.

SPEAKER_05 10:42

What kind of opportunity? So, uh, with the help of the droid brain that you recovered, we've been monitoring separatist transmissions, and we've been able to discover that Dooku is going to be traveling alone very shortly.

SPEAKER_04 10:57

Hearing him refer to the droid brain just puts me on edge because I'm like, it wasn't a brain, it was a droid. But anyways.

SPEAKER_05 11:04

Uh where uh where is he going? Well, that I can't tell you just yet. Uh we're going to be sending Zin and Savage to make sure that he doesn't return from where he's going. Savage is going to carry out the assassination that he was originally hired for. He appears to be amenable to this. Zin can make sure he stays on task, but due to the very important nature of this mission, we would really appreciate if they had some extra backup. I understand that this is Dooku's a powerful Jedi Master. If you don't feel you're up to the tasks, there's some other work we can give you. But this is uh a pretty big deal. Could end the war.

SPEAKER_01 11:48

We will take that.

SPEAKER_05 11:49

Are you sure?

SPEAKER_00 11:50

We are capable. We are so capable.

SPEAKER_01 11:54

I took down this Savage one time, didn't I?

SPEAKER_03 11:56

Well, we'd be taking down Dooku with Savage. I'll keep an eye on him.

SPEAKER_05 12:01

Alright, but uh just to make make sure, if you do this. Star Zine will keep an eye on him. Shit. You accept everything that will happen from now on.

SPEAKER_02 12:10

Oh fuck. Stop uh uh excuse me, sir. That is uh lot of responsibility you are piling up on us. Uh what other kind of jobs do you have?

SPEAKER_04 12:22

Oh my god, Chris.

unknown 12:24

Okay.

SPEAKER_05 12:24

It's okay if you don't. I can send Jed as backup, so it would be Z- It would be Jed, Zin, and Savage. That would be uh assassinating Dooku.

SPEAKER_04 12:34

You can't send I not not to s besmirch Zin and Jed, but it's like we can't we're not sending Zin and Jed on our own.

SPEAKER_06 12:41

No.

SPEAKER_04 12:41

I mean, to be fair, Grey, you did make that sound real ominous. I feel more ominous than you necessarily needed to. Um, we're doing it.

SPEAKER_05 12:51

I don't want to call this a suicide mission.

SPEAKER_04 12:53

Jesus Grey, like you don't have to keep going.

SPEAKER_02 12:56

Uh he's put he's put really pushing Zed's point, isn't he? If you don't want to call it a suicide mission, what would you like to call it?

SPEAKER_05 13:04

A very important mission that not everybody may return from.

SPEAKER_03 13:08

Grey. Vin Grey are killing me here. I hope not.

SPEAKER_05 13:14

I hope not.

SPEAKER_04 13:15

Well fuck. Well, we really can't send Zinn and Jed on their own if it's gonna be a suicide mission.

SPEAKER_05 13:21

Savage is going to be the weapon. Zin is just going to be there to make sure he follows through. Jed will be back up in case anything unforeseen happens.

SPEAKER_00 13:29

Yeah, but he is an actual baby.

SPEAKER_03 13:31

He's not an actual baby.

SPEAKER_04 13:34

He's because he was matured fast doesn't mean he's a baby. Also, I'm pretty sure he's within hearing distance, Elyria. Don't be rude.

SPEAKER_00 13:44

A very mature baby.

SPEAKER_02 13:45

Just a baby. This is just a rude.

SPEAKER_04 13:47

He's not a baby.

SPEAKER_02 13:48

He's just a fucking baby.

SPEAKER_04 13:50

Look, he's like a uh he's an adult man. Don't don't be Okay, alright. I'm not making it weird.

SPEAKER_00 13:57

You're the one being creepy.

SPEAKER_04 13:59

You're making it weird.

SPEAKER_00 14:00

You're making it weird. I'm not weird, you're weird. You're the one trying to convince you with anything. 10-year-old is drummed off.

SPEAKER_02 14:12

You know what? If this is gonna kill us, that's probably fine. We're in.

SPEAKER_04 14:16

Yeah, let's just get let's just fucking die. This is anything to escape this conversation, this integation. Yeah, we're ready to die. It's okay.

SPEAKER_02 14:27

Yeah. Yeah. We got nothing else going on. Alright.

SPEAKER_00 14:31

We're ready to sacrifice ourselves for the greater good of the galaxy.

SPEAKER_04 14:37

We got no family. Yeah. We don't have any we don't got no one who loves us.

SPEAKER_02 14:43

We ain't got nobody.

unknown 14:47

Nobody.

SPEAKER_00 14:48

Nobody.

SPEAKER_02 14:48

Nobody.

SPEAKER_05 14:50

Nobody. Alright then.

SPEAKER_00 14:52

Yeah.

unknown 14:53

Sad.

SPEAKER_05 14:54

So I guess it's uh I can tell you exactly what the mission will entail.

SPEAKER_04 14:58

Yeah, lay it on us.

SPEAKER_05 15:00

So we've learned that Dooku uh is going to be traveling to the planet Atomar in wild space. It's beyond both the Republic and the Separatist borders, so we don't know much about it, but our long-range scans have noticed an increase in traffic to the area over the past week or so. We think there may be something significant happening there that's bringing uh a lot of extra people to the planet and Dooku as well. A Republic shuttle wouldn't be known to them, but if Dooku sees it, he would know what it is. He might be tipped off. So if you feel that you would rather take the custard gannet, uh we have that ready to go. But of course the questing quail is at your disposal.

SPEAKER_02 15:45

I fe I feel like low profile is a good way to go, especially if we don't want to make this suicide mission an actual suicide mission.

SPEAKER_04 15:52

Well, hold up, because you said a bunch of people were coming to the planet. Is it like a bunch of other like fancy fancy people like Dooku? Because like if it is, then maybe it might be more inconspicuous to go in a nice ship. Or if it's just like all sorts come and then, you know, maybe the customet.

SPEAKER_05 16:09

Well, we don't know. We don't uh get out to wild space that much. But you were in the exploration core. Have you ever heard of Adamar?

SPEAKER_00 16:16

No, it would be. Oh boy, have we.

SPEAKER_05 16:19

That'd be outer rim? Yeah, that'd probably be a three purple knowledge outer rim.

SPEAKER_00 16:24

One success, one advantage. Oh, Lyria's got it.

SPEAKER_05 16:27

Oh yeah, Lyria's got it. So, Illyria, you have heard of Atomar, and you know with that advantage, you know probably what's happening is that Atomar every 28 years has a leap year where an extra week is added to the calendar to readjust the planet's rotation around its star. And they have a planet-wide festival where the primary attraction for people from all over wild space is the Ground and Sky Championship, which is kind of a uh a test of skill and almost like an Olympic style thing, where people from Atomar and people, even like guests from around wild space, all congregate and compete in various challenges and sports.

SPEAKER_04 17:16

Challenges and sports, starzen, maybe we can enter you.

SPEAKER_05 17:20

And because you got that advantage! You would you would know that one of the more prestigious sports is a fencing competition. Ooh. And you know that Dooku himself is a one of the most renowned swordsmen of the Jedi Order. If he's not there to compete himself, then if he s Savage has been missing for several months, if he is in the market for a new assassin, he may be going to try and recruit one. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_04 18:00

Well, oh my god, okay, because it's like they're doing the fencing, and like maybe it's like, oh you gotta have safety on, and then Starzan is like, oh yeah, I'll go in with my I'll go in with my star sword and just like, I don't know, like put a rubber safety condom over the blade so we can't kill someone. But then your sword is also a lightsaber, so you're going to do a big swing and it's like, oh, this is where you'd pause, and then you just start up your lightsaber and you cut his head off.

SPEAKER_01 18:26

I didn't know it was gonna do that.

SPEAKER_00 18:27

That's if he's competing.

SPEAKER_01 18:29

If he's competing. If he's competing. If not, maybe I will do well enough to be hired as the assassin.

SPEAKER_04 18:35

Yeah, and then we get close. Well, no, because if we're well, well, I don't know, because if Savage is supposed to be a weapon.

SPEAKER_01 18:41

That's a good point.

SPEAKER_04 18:42

I don't know. Maybe we'll maybe we have to go and then figure it out once we're there and we have a better understanding of the situation.

SPEAKER_01 18:47

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 18:48

Got a lot of ideas, gray ideas just bouncing around. I think I think this isn't gonna be a suicide mission. I think we got it.

SPEAKER_05 18:54

Well, I wish you good luck.

SPEAKER_02 18:55

Yeah, how dare you have l uh lack of faith in us, oh ye of little faith.

SPEAKER_04 19:00

Yeah, fuck you, Grey.

SPEAKER_02 19:01

Fuck you, Grey. You can kiss my grits.

SPEAKER_04 19:04

Not actually. Just joking, supervisor.

SPEAKER_01 19:08

Not for real real, just for playplay.

SPEAKER_04 19:10

Not for real real. We gotta we had a good rapport, right?

SPEAKER_02 19:13

We don't want to literally fuck you.

SPEAKER_04 19:15

And didn't he proposition you one time, Chris? Yeah, didn't you guys fuck? Yeah, I thought you guys fucked.

SPEAKER_05 19:21

Uh, no. Zinn's just giving you like a what kind of look.

SPEAKER_04 19:26

No, remember there's that time and he asked you to stay behind after the meeting, and then we were like, what do you guys talk about? And you're like, oh, he was wanting sexual favors. I'll say this quietly so Grey isn't hearing.

SPEAKER_02 19:37

So like Grey isn't hearing. It's not a big room.

SPEAKER_03 19:39

It's like a thing, Chris.

SPEAKER_02 19:44

Uh we'll talk we'll talk to you, uh we'll talk to you later about that. You can speak now. Now is not the good time.

SPEAKER_03 19:53

Okay. But anyways, yeah, we got this.

SPEAKER_04 19:56

But but what do we say though? Because if it's like a bunch of people all over wild space, it's probably not like just wit rich people, so maybe Costa Gan is a better call. I'm glad everyone agrees. Yeah, let's take the Costaganit.

SPEAKER_02 20:07

Yeah, no, that's what I'm thinking. Because if the uh uh if our other if our other ship looks too uh if the other ship looks to Republic, we you know we don't want to we don't we we don't want to bump that up here. We're already gonna be pretty suspect.

SPEAKER_05 20:24

Grace says alright, we'll uh get the custard gannet where we need it to be. And before you guys go, just if anything happens out there, uh we can't uh we won't come for help. There's nobody you can call. The only people who know about this mission, because it is so important, the only people who know about this mission are the people in this room, my direct supervisors and Chancellor Palpatine.

SPEAKER_00 20:49

Fuck me.

SPEAKER_02 20:52

Well, he seems trustworthy.

SPEAKER_00 20:53

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 20:54

Our boy Chancellor Palpatine.

SPEAKER_00 20:56

I'm sure no one will have a heads up that we're going to this planet.

SPEAKER_04 20:59

Then I guess it's a good thing that it's not a suicide mission because we got our shit together so much. We got this gray.

SPEAKER_02 21:08

As long as there are no rats, then we can uh we can succeed in this mission.

SPEAKER_01 21:14

Yeah. If we get in trouble, Palpatine will call in reinforcements to help us. No, again, that won't be.

SPEAKER_04 21:19

Well, he's just saying he wasn't. Yeah. As long as there's no rats, as long as this room is like Alberta and it's a rat-free zone.

SPEAKER_00 21:29

Al, you're French, lift up your hat. Is there a little rat under there?

SPEAKER_02 21:35

Maybe puppeteered. Controlling my every move. How did you know?

SPEAKER_04 21:40

I don't know, you got real good at cooking suddenly, it was suspect. Anyways, yeah, let's get the custard cana. Let's go.

SPEAKER_05 21:51

So you can return to the uh hangar bay, head up a few levels, and as you're getting everything ready. Zin and Savaj are brought to you as well by a platoon of clone troopers surrounding Savaj. We meet again. Savage, he looks at you and he says, Starzan? I hear there's a competition of physical strength and guile on Adumar. That's right. Are you gonna try to compete?

SPEAKER_01 22:25

Starzan doesn't try.

SPEAKER_05 22:30

Well he only does. One of us will do, the other will see.

SPEAKER_02 22:38

I'm sorry, did you say like will like we see, like we will seize that person, or will see what happens to him? Like uh is it we will or we we we we see?

SPEAKER_05 22:50

I only hope that we can meet on the battlefield once again. I'm looking forward to testing myself against you once more, Starza. His are his hands free. The uh clone troopers are uh unlocking his shackles and then quickly moving away. I hold a hand out.

SPEAKER_03 23:09

Hell yeah.

SPEAKER_05 23:10

He grabs your hand and you can do the command.

SPEAKER_01 23:14

I lifted up before that and and put it through my hair long enough for his hair.

SPEAKER_04 23:19

You're so rude! Starzak, we gotta do a mission with this guy! And you're going nuclear!

SPEAKER_01 23:27

Everyone's staring at me. I just put my hand back down, like, alright.

SPEAKER_04 23:31

Just kidding. Everyone's just like, Starzair, what the fuck are you doing?

SPEAKER_02 23:36

And like you you turn you turn away from us, but you give him the finger.

SPEAKER_01 23:43

The telltale uh thing comes up in this corner of the screen. Savage will remember that.

SPEAKER_04 23:50

We're all gonna remember that.

SPEAKER_05 23:52

And he's and he says, You remind me of my little brother.

SPEAKER_02 23:57

Awww.

SPEAKER_05 23:58

Do you like your little brother? I was forced to kill him to become Ventress's weapon.

unknown 24:06

Oh.

SPEAKER_02 24:06

So you do like your little brother. You just had to kill him. Oh, that's sad. I'm sorry.

SPEAKER_04 24:12

When you say forced, like, did you want to become Ventress's weapon, or was it like, uh, you know what? I guess uh real love in that trauma probably isn't actually necessary for the biggest.

SPEAKER_05 24:21

I mean, he has to listen to My loyalty is to my people. Count Dooku betrayed Ventress, so he betrayed the Knight Sisters and the Knight Brothers.

SPEAKER_02 24:31

That's what I said to my family say to my family uh before we go to bed that very night. Good night, Ventures. Good night sisters.

SPEAKER_04 24:39

I don't know your family. None of us do.

SPEAKER_00 24:42

Are Knight Sisters kind of like the Drow Elves of the Star Wars universe?

SPEAKER_04 24:46

I don't know what that means.

SPEAKER_00 24:48

Like matriarchal. The women have the power.

SPEAKER_05 24:52

They literally have like villages of these dudes to breed with. He's uh No Kaliset doesn't know what that means.

SPEAKER_04 25:00

I know what that means.

SPEAKER_01 25:02

Overtaken by his words to what that means. About killing his brother, Starzan goes, hmm, important story to share. And then Starzan looks around at the group and says, It's about family. That's why it's so powerful.

SPEAKER_00 25:15

Okay. Yeah. Do you have something you need to say?

SPEAKER_01 25:19

Me?

SPEAKER_00 25:21

So did you also have a brother or are you just like sharing?

SPEAKER_01 25:26

Starzan has a sister who uh rules in his stead.

SPEAKER_00 25:29

It's a whole also a matriarchical planet.

SPEAKER_01 25:33

Not n not until now. Uh Starzana is the first of her line to be uh female. It's uh uh complicated situation we've discovered ourselves on because Starzan has left Agar Icewin, the first of the Starzans to leave the planet to do other things.

SPEAKER_04 25:51

And uh so is your sister just called Starzan too?

SPEAKER_01 25:55

Starzana.

SPEAKER_04 25:56

Starzana, okay, that makes more sense for differentiating, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 25:59

Yeah. So you are not just true Starzan. Starzan is the true Starzan. There is no other Starzan. Starzana is different.

SPEAKER_00 26:09

I believe it's a title.

SPEAKER_01 26:11

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 26:11

Do you have like a different name or something? I mean we're about to go on a suicide mission. I feel like I should know. Your real name.

SPEAKER_04 26:18

We've only lived together for many years.

SPEAKER_01 26:21

Starzan is like Dread Pirate Robert. Starzan continues to have the same name over and over. So you think it's the same person.

SPEAKER_05 26:30

And Savai kind of steps in and he says, when Starzan became Starzan, who he was before died.

SPEAKER_00 26:37

Like Gerald, Bruce.

SPEAKER_05 26:42

Steven. Trying to dead name Starzan through the process of his nomination.

SPEAKER_00 26:47

No!

SPEAKER_01 26:50

He's just Starzan until Starzan dies, and then he becomes full Starzan.

SPEAKER_04 26:54

Could I roll perception on Savage a Press? That feels like such a He he just feels real defensive of Starzan already. And is like, is it just because of mutual respect or is there is there something on are they gonna make out?

SPEAKER_00 27:07

He's trying to figure me out.

SPEAKER_05 27:08

Yeah, so this will be a perception against his cool, probably. So that'll probably that'll be a two-purple.

SPEAKER_04 27:17

Okay, that's not bad.

SPEAKER_05 27:18

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 27:19

Three success, one threat.

SPEAKER_05 27:21

So you get the sense that like you don't know the nature of it, but you do get the sense that he he does have uh some sort of like not necessarily affection, but respect. Like there you don't know if it's like maybe he's he's into Starzan. Um no. You want Starzan's seed? Yeah, you don't you don't know what like what the nature of it is. It might be probably isn't. It doesn't seem like this is a guy who fucks. Uh this this could be its own book.

SPEAKER_04 27:56

Although, to be fair, if he is trying to get you seed, like isn't that kind of the safest place to um share it? There can't be an illegitimate star sand produced from that. I'm just saying.

SPEAKER_01 28:08

He'd spit it into a clothing machine. Look, I'm just I'm just gonna say that like.

SPEAKER_05 28:15

Because you because you got threatened, I can I can neither confirm nor deny, but I will say that the Knight brothers do live in villages of all men. Uh-huh. But no, he there is like there is like sort of the warrior's respect. He said he reminds you of like he had a younger brother that he had to kill. Um it it seems like he's he's starting to see you as a peer, as some like when he fought you, your strength made him respect you. Savage, although he's huge, and although he's got giant horns, and although uh he's got big Clancy Brown energy, he might be a little bit of a sub. Oh no.

SPEAKER_04 29:00

And the rest of us, we're all just fucking failures every day.

SPEAKER_01 29:04

When he was like, you remind me of my little brother, I was like, small and killable. But no, he meant that as a compliment.

SPEAKER_04 29:12

So Yeah, it wasn't like, you remind me of my little brother. I killed him, you know.

SPEAKER_05 29:16

Yeah, like there is a little bit of uh performative, like he was he was kind of like maybe masking his he he's it doesn't strike you as a great liar, so he was maybe like speaking the truth in a way that would make him seem more impressive. Speak the true truth.

SPEAKER_04 29:32

And the true true is Savage love little brother. Savage love little brother, and Savage maybe wanna fuck Starzan. Or get fucked by Starzan. I'm just saying Savage. I'm just saying Starzan.

SPEAKER_02 29:45

It could it could help if we uh uh Savage love.

SPEAKER_04 29:50

I know that you are all about that seam and retention, but like maybe you gotta unpent up every now and then.

SPEAKER_00 29:56

You gotta save it to make the next Starzan.

unknown 29:59

Whoops.

SPEAKER_04 29:59

I'm sure you can make it.

SPEAKER_01 30:03

If there is a star another Starzan, that Starzan will have to challenge Starzana for the throne, and then there'll be like a civil war.

SPEAKER_04 30:12

And that's why if you need to relax and you want somewhere safe to offload some of that pent up seed, some of that retained semen. Look, Starzan, this feels like a- Why are you being my hitch? Oh look, Kallaset's not getting late. I gotta at least encourage someone else to. Have you seen that big strapping Clancy Brown but uh portrayed guy? Come on!

SPEAKER_01 30:42

Not for lack of trying on my part. He wants some quickening. Oh boy.

SPEAKER_04 30:49

I'm glad I perceived that. Anyways, shall we continue to the planet? Do we want to check for listening devices as we often do, just out of principle? Just because we don't like being fucking spied on. Do you say two purple? Three. Three, okay. He didn't tear him in half. That was his older brother, who is also a sub.

SPEAKER_05 31:17

Oh right. No, his older brother's the Dom.

SPEAKER_00 31:22

I don't know why I tried one threat.

SPEAKER_04 31:24

I got five failure, one advantage. Man, I got three yellow to perception too.

SPEAKER_00 31:29

God, your perception's so good to look for drugs.

SPEAKER_02 31:33

Can I can I can uh uh Sarah roll a uh blue just uh office?

SPEAKER_05 31:40

Um if you want to use that advantage to give Chris a blue, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 31:43

Yeah, I'll use the advantage to give Chris a blue. I don't think one blue is gonna offset five failures.

SPEAKER_05 31:50

That's fair. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 31:52

Two success, one threat.

SPEAKER_05 31:53

Two success, two threat. So, um Chris and Starzan, like as you're looking around, trying to like tearing up the carpet, trying to find things, uh, you don't find any, and like as you're as you're very obviously trying to search the ship for listening devices, Gray like comes aboard and sees you guys, like mid sort of check, and he's like, oh I sorry, I hope I'm not interrupting anything. I just wanted to uh well I just wanted to say uh I don't want to say goodbye, but I want to say good luck.

SPEAKER_02 32:31

Stop doing that! Get out of here!

SPEAKER_04 32:33

Are you guys just like frozen, motionless with like fists full of carpet in your hands? The shag carpeting.

SPEAKER_02 32:41

If you're gonna keep saying that kind of stuff, then fucking leave.

SPEAKER_05 32:45

Alright, alright. I'll I'll see you guys when you get back. How about that?

SPEAKER_03 32:49

Yeah. See, I feel like if you just keep being negative and a jinx.

SPEAKER_02 32:52

That is such an asshole thing to do. Just leave!

SPEAKER_04 32:56

Great, we're gonna we'll talk about this when we're back about your your uh you know information delivery.

SPEAKER_05 33:01

Very well, very well.

SPEAKER_04 33:03

Hey bye.

SPEAKER_05 33:04

And uh, Chris, as you're searching for recording devices in, said, Chris, since when have you been worried about being caught in 4K?

SPEAKER_02 33:11

Oh, yeah, you know oh, you know me. I have to be sure that I can become the leader of the free un uh of the free universe at some point in time, so I gotta be sure that my reputation is crystal clean. Then I'll make sure to wipe my hard drives. No, no, no, don't don't don't don't wipe your hard drives. You may need those later. That's not what I meant. I need to be clean.

SPEAKER_05 33:35

You can do whatever you want. And Zin, she's got like a travel bag, and she says, Savage, can you put this away for me? And Savage says, Yes, sister, of course. And he like takes takes her little bag in both hands and he packs it away neatly in one of the lockers.

SPEAKER_00 33:50

You seem to be enjoying this.

SPEAKER_05 33:52

Well, uh, you know, I'm a senate. Usually it's me who has to go this, go there.

SPEAKER_04 33:58

What you're saying is you'll you like to have a sub every now and then.

SPEAKER_05 34:02

It's nice to have somebody who listens to you.

SPEAKER_00 34:04

Isn't that the truth? I say as I have just upgraded my leadership from one green to one yellow.

SPEAKER_04 34:11

Yeah. You know, I can listen to you. And then maybe yellow baby.

SPEAKER_05 34:18

So once you're all settled in, uh this planet is in wild space. So why don't you roll me an astrogation?

SPEAKER_01 34:28

You got this.

SPEAKER_05 34:28

So wild space, this will be a three purple astrogation.

SPEAKER_00 34:32

God, why haven't I ranked up my astrogation? Fuck.

SPEAKER_04 34:35

Uh, because it's not a career skill! You're the astrogator at this point, it's not a career skill! Sorry, you're the astrogator, though.

SPEAKER_02 34:47

In fairness, we've been relying on you on astrogation.

SPEAKER_00 34:50

Okay, you want me to get my force rating up longer? Wait, let's see. Let's do this.

SPEAKER_04 34:56

I'm just saying, Elyria, we're at the point where it's like, this is gonna be an astrogation roll, and we all know to just wait for you to roll it.

SPEAKER_00 35:04

Alright, let me do this. One, two, three. I have one yellow now.

SPEAKER_05 35:08

Alright, you got my advantage, why don't you roll with that? Your your new uh ranks. You did some last minute brushing up.

SPEAKER_00 35:15

Okay. Like a two blue or just a blue?

SPEAKER_04 35:17

You felt the judgmental looks on you, and you're like, I've been studying. You can you can add a blue onto that.

unknown 35:24

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 35:24

Five success three threads. There we go.

SPEAKER_05 35:28

Yay! So you can you can try it. You can put try to find Atomar. Everybody's watching you. This is the most important mission you've ever gone on. If you succeed on it, Dooku will die. The war may the war might end here. Uh but you flub the first one. But sweating. Yeah, sweating. Your back is just damp. Your back is three uh strain worth of damp.

SPEAKER_00 35:56

I I really I really don't want to lose my fucking powers of astrogation or I'm trying real hard. It just came naturally before, and now I gotta try.

SPEAKER_04 36:05

Ah, the gifted kid experience.

SPEAKER_00 36:08

Oh no.

SPEAKER_05 36:09

Yeah, you coasted through high school, but now you get to post-secondary. You have to study.

SPEAKER_00 36:14

We only had a month and a half off. That's not enough to recover from burnout. Three months. Okay.

SPEAKER_05 36:19

But on your second try, you can navigate to Adamar in wild space with the custard Gannett from Querscent. It is a fairly long jaunt. Long enough that it may become awkward if people start tr trying to sneak away and do things quietly.

SPEAKER_00 36:43

Like. Okay.

SPEAKER_05 36:45

You know how in Bioware games where it's like, well, we're going to a planet that's gonna be a point of no return for the rest of the game, time to have sex.

SPEAKER_04 36:54

Oh, so this is the time to have sex if we want to have sex?

SPEAKER_05 36:57

It might be.

SPEAKER_04 36:58

Where's Jed?

SPEAKER_06 37:00

Time to have sex.

SPEAKER_05 37:02

Jed got left behind. Jed Jed is a clone trooper and would stick out like a sore thumb.

SPEAKER_04 37:08

I thought that it I thought that if we didn't go, it was gonna be uh Zin.

SPEAKER_05 37:12

Yeah, if you didn't go.

SPEAKER_04 37:13

What?

SPEAKER_00 37:14

No! Damn it! Sucker. Fuck! I knew you were trying to make make excuses about how old he was. No! Why didn't you just try and fuck him?

SPEAKER_04 37:31

I would have if he were here! I was shy! I'm sorry, O'Leary!

SPEAKER_00 37:36

I don't think he would have done it because he respects the Jedi code.

SPEAKER_05 37:40

It's like a day and a half into the trip, you're like, wait, where's Jed?

SPEAKER_04 37:45

How dare you! I can only respond so fast as a player. I thought that Jed was gonna be along for the mission! I don't wanna fuck the rest of y'all! I don't wanna fuck anyone else here! Savage is gonna be is wants to sub for Starzan. Like that's out of the picture. Zen and Chris are fucking that's fine. Elyria, absolutely the third knot. No, I don't wanna be a third with Chris. No offense, Chris.

SPEAKER_02 38:14

Are you sure? I want to look if you don't want me to.

SPEAKER_00 38:16

You can come meditate with me. Come on, let's go meditate.

SPEAKER_02 38:21

I won't look at the time. We could I'll probably look later on the tapes.

SPEAKER_04 38:25

Chris, we gotta work together. Like, or just make things.

SPEAKER_05 38:28

Look, you don't have Jed. Illyria doesn't have Tom Foolery.

SPEAKER_04 38:32

That's the guy's name! Fuck!

SPEAKER_00 38:37

Nothing happened. You know this.

SPEAKER_04 38:40

Yeah, well, you know where else nothing happen. Fuck, I just I thought Jed was gonna be a good one. Hey, Carol!

SPEAKER_05 38:46

Did you bring any drugs along? Oh no.

SPEAKER_04 38:49

Do I have any? I think I do.

SPEAKER_05 38:53

Can I destiny point? Yeah, do you Do you want to use a destiny point to roll to have some drugs and do some drugs during the trip? Or do you want to roll your resilience or discipline to see how?

SPEAKER_04 39:06

I did get some impact, so I do have them. However, I am aware that I will be fuckled for the rest of the trip if I take it before this important mission. So I'll maybe I'll roll discipline. I'll try to meditate with Illyria, even though I'm kind of pissed off about it.

SPEAKER_05 39:22

Okay, give me uh you're with Illyria. Uh you're kinda pissed off. I'll give you a destiny point then, so we'll call it a red and two purple discipline.

SPEAKER_04 39:29

A red and two purple discipline. God, this is the stupidest fucking shit. I'm so mad. Two success and one threat. I'm-I resist, but I'm still mad.

SPEAKER_05 39:41

Yeah, you take some s you're some strain. You you won't be uh Jonesing, but. You won't be doing any druids.

SPEAKER_04 39:48

This is giving my high school grad where I didn't get invited to any of the cool kid parties, so I went to my theater kid Christian friends to Denny's at midnight.

SPEAKER_00 39:59

It's giving Smitty's at midnight. Yes! With my theater friends!

SPEAKER_04 40:04

With our theater friends, and all my theater friends were very religious and did not drink.

SPEAKER_00 40:09

My one friend, his dad's a deacon.

unknown 40:12

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_04 40:14

Did we have the same teenage experience? Except I don't think I got bullied as much because people thought I was scary.

SPEAKER_00 40:21

Look, I stopped getting bullied for the most part in grade 11.

SPEAKER_04 40:27

Illyrian. Elyrian Kala just bonding suddenly.

SPEAKER_05 40:31

Yeah, so as the Jedi equivalent of the uncool theater kids, uh, you can meditate or try to sneak away or uh just be muscular together uh in the same room. Whatever whatever it is you get up to, uh it takes a couple of days to get from Coruscant to Atumar. But when you do arrive, find the place is buzzing with activity. Lots of strange, unrecognizable ships in orbit from cultures and worlds you've never seen can bring your ship down towards the capital city where all of the events are being held. Parking's tough. A lot of people, uh Kartan for the Ground and Sky Championship. So uh do you want to just pay for a good parking spot, or do you want to try and find one for cheap?

SPEAKER_04 41:30

I mean, we got a lot of money.

SPEAKER_05 41:32

How let's pay let's pay how much would it be for a good parking spot? Um how good? Real good.

SPEAKER_00 41:39

Well, like, are we taking the shitty ship? Should we park in the shitty area? Or would it draw attention to us?

SPEAKER_04 41:45

Like man, let's maybe get like, you know, we don't want to have to walk all day to get there, but like the bet like the best parking that's not gonna be noticeably good.

SPEAKER_00 41:56

We buy bad parking and we miss everything by the time we get there.

unknown 42:00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 42:01

So you can find not in the overflow, but in the actual uh within the city limits at the spaceport, you can find a parking spot for a princely sum, 5,000 credits.

SPEAKER_04 42:14

Jesus, that is a lot. Who wants to be daddy? I'll be daddy.

SPEAKER_05 42:18

Alright, so uh partially because of the exchange rate, partially because of price gouging, you can find a decent parking spot at the spaceport, close enough to where everything's happening, but not so close that you draw attention, not so far that it's gonna prevent you from uh getting where you need to go. And you can exit the spaceport from your docking bay out into the streets of Atumar. Savage is wearing a cloak, disguising his identity. He doesn't want uh anybody to notice him if Dooku came alone. It's unlikely that Dooku's down here with the rabble, but you never know.

SPEAKER_04 43:00

Yeah, I don't think anyone would recognize us, so we're probably fine.

SPEAKER_05 43:03

And you can see the streets are packed. Uh Adumar is a human planet. Uh, some ancient forgotten colony that developed its own sort of uh ways, but there are also tons of visitors, so those of you who aren't human, you don't really stand out. You can see that there's uh Kalish, Lasat, Yamri, uh Starzen, you recognize a couple of Kalians. Uh Kalians are a human people. They're from the planet Shiva 4. They've got like this this sort of tanned, almost like reddish skin. And what you know about the Kalians is that they like you can spot them pretty easily because of their sort of reddish skin, but also their style of dress. The Kalians are, I guess, cousins to the denizens of Eggarice. Like, like you're part of. Sort of the same cluster. Yeah. They're all dressed very sort of scantily. They're all incredibly muscular. And Starzan, you would know that Shiva 4 is a planet with like really dense atmosphere. The red sun that tans them is like very weak light. The gravity is very intense. So Kalians, when they leave their homeworld, are known to have almost superhuman physical abilities. Oh, interesting.

SPEAKER_00 44:35

Interesting.

SPEAKER_05 44:36

Yeah, they're from they're from they're from one of the old Marvel comics.

SPEAKER_00 44:39

From the Cal Cal Aliens. Kalellians, no! Kal Aliens, no! That's a Palestinian child.

SPEAKER_05 44:49

Uh so there's those guys. Uh you can see there's uh some Shawnee. They are a sort of uh reptilian race. They don't look too different from Falline, but instead of hair, they've got these like big plumes of feathers on their heads, these rainbow feathers.

SPEAKER_03 45:03

Fancy.

SPEAKER_05 45:04

Uh you can see some like giant Kakron rock lords trundling about, some Orgon tenta clams, uh alongside a bunch of other like really just totally alien-looking weird guys.

SPEAKER_04 45:16

Okay, do we do we want to kind of get a lay of things, see if maybe we can figure out where Dooku is?

SPEAKER_00 45:22

You already failed to get a lay of things.

SPEAKER_04 45:25

Oh you know, I'm just trying to be uh productive and you have to just attach for no reason.

SPEAKER_01 45:36

Not reproductive.

SPEAKER_04 45:37

Uh I meditated with you, Elyria. Who the fuck else was gonna you know what? I'm not just rude.

SPEAKER_00 45:45

I'm sorry, it's just I I love wordplay, it just came out.

SPEAKER_04 45:48

Top five anime betrayals Okay, that was good. Fuck Okay, Elyria, what's the plan then? I thought you just got a rank in leadership. Lead us.

SPEAKER_00 46:04

We'll walk to the stadium grounds.

SPEAKER_05 46:06

You lead the way.

SPEAKER_00 46:10

Okay.

SPEAKER_05 46:11

There's many competitions. It seems that like as you're walking through the city, the two uh biggest ones, like the marquee events, are the fencing competition and the starfighter dog fighting competition.

SPEAKER_02 46:26

Is there a uh I don't approve of dog fighting? Is there a drinking competition somewhere?

SPEAKER_05 46:32

Uh uh at the local bars there may be. There may be people who are playing drinking games watching the uh the various events. There are preliminary qualifier rounds happening right now, and you can see there are gambling parlors that have like odds for the various competitors and the various uh the various competitions.

SPEAKER_04 46:52

Oh, do we want to check the competitors?

SPEAKER_02 46:54

I I I feel as though I found my calling d sports bedding? No, being a drinking contest.

SPEAKER_04 47:02

Oh, drinking contest! That makes more sense. You balance the shot glass on my nose, then flick my head up like a dolphin.

SPEAKER_02 47:17

Who's the classiest drunk? I mean, everybody knows the obvious answer is me, of course.

SPEAKER_04 47:23

Well, you do get pretty messy sometimes, Chris.

SPEAKER_01 47:26

One drinks like makes uh plants like croissants.

SPEAKER_04 47:33

Plans to persecute harmless crackpots like croissant.

SPEAKER_02 47:37

To be frank, sometimes I can be intimidating my own. Oh what a guy that croissant!

SPEAKER_00 47:45

Fuck, I wrote his name down as Al in my thing. As like Al's girlfriend. I get it. I get it. Me when the note taker sucks.

SPEAKER_01 48:00

Food pun.

SPEAKER_04 48:02

Because like, if they have sports betting happening here and it's like, what are the odds on everyone? Like, we could kind of take a look and see who's already entered, and like Dooku's probably not competing, but if he is, that would be hilarious if it just said Count Dooku in a silent seat.

SPEAKER_00 48:19

But what if he does what if he does like a space uh Robin Hood thing where he signs up under an alias?

SPEAKER_04 48:27

Oh, horrible. Well we look for obvious aliases. Let's check the odds. Let's check the sports betting.

SPEAKER_00 48:33

Obvious aliases? Everyone has stupid alien names.

SPEAKER_01 48:37

Let's see some anagrams for Count Dooku.

SPEAKER_04 48:41

You know, some of us actually know the naming conventions of other races, Illyria, and they are racist.

SPEAKER_00 48:47

I do too. I have I know Zenology.

SPEAKER_01 48:52

I know Zenology. It says right here on the sign-up sheet, Dracula.

SPEAKER_00 48:58

Oh, hilarious.

SPEAKER_05 49:00

You go to the sign-up sheet and it's like all the all the competitors are like, Dracula, Saruman, Francisco Scaramonga.

SPEAKER_04 49:09

Wow, that's a lot of people participating.

SPEAKER_05 49:13

Can we take a look? Yeah, if you go to the the uh gambling parlor, you can see that for the various events, uh for the Starfighter Challenge and the Blast Sword Dueling uh events, the like the top ten are primarily people who are from Atomar. And the people who are from Atomar, they are they are in both categories usually. Um the top can like the top sort of contender, the one that everyone's expecting to win this year, is a woman by the name of Cheris K. Hanadi. Uh she's somebody like you can s they've got a picture of her, and you can see her face kind of like around here and there. She seems to be a very popular Adumari athlete. But for the dueling in particular, there are in the top ten four contenders who aren't from Adumar. Does it say where they're from? Uh so they are Yatagan, a Kalish duelist who has entered, who is uh seemingly a favorite from some of the from the other species. There's White Atar, a Lasat, uh a large Lasat fellow, Khan Jarter of Shiva 4, one of the Kalians. And Xiphos Ren, a masked warrior who uh you can see like some of the unsavory types in some of the nearby cantinas maybe placing bets on Ren. In your travels, you may have heard the Knights of Ren are some kind of pirate gang that uses the force.

SPEAKER_00 50:49

Okay. Well, if he's got the force. If anything, if he's not Dooku, I feel like we should tail this guy.

SPEAKER_02 50:57

Am I able to use my ward's uh foresight uh for is there any kind of moves that I can do to kind of like help me out on this? Uh ward's foresight.

SPEAKER_05 51:07

Yeah, this would probably be very useful for gambling as well.

SPEAKER_02 51:10

Oh yeah. Okay. Is that just a one uh one at a time? No, it looks like I can use it whenever. I can't I can't use it right now because like I would assume that the person would need to be around me, right? At the basic level, the power.

SPEAKER_04 51:23

Yeah, within short range.

SPEAKER_02 51:25

Yeah. Um, let's see.

SPEAKER_04 51:27

I just realized I'm so fucking dumb. I it's like, where's Dooku? I have seek. I could roll seek and see if I could just Yeah, can I just roll Seek to find Dooku?

SPEAKER_05 51:37

Uh yeah, roll me your seek power.

SPEAKER_04 51:38

So fucking stupid sometimes, man. Ziffin stupid. So fucking stupid. I got one light side, two dark side. Uh, do I want to use the dark side? I was meditating with Elyrian, kind of pissed off about it, but I was meditating on the way to the room.

SPEAKER_00 51:54

Would Dark be able to find Dark find dark? Yes, I think.

SPEAKER_04 51:58

Why would Dark be able to find Dark? Yeah. She's the force, baby. I guess Kala was kind of getting radicalized last time as well about uh light and dark side, and is there any difference between them? I'll use the dark side.

SPEAKER_05 52:10

Okay, so you can use those uh dark sides you can sort of reach into to try and find maybe Nobody's sure what the deal is with Dooku. Is he, you know, fall into the dark side? Some Jedi say he has. Some Jedi believe he's just uh a political idealist and that he's still aligned with the light. Some of the Jedi you've encountered even think he's he's just a cool dude, and maybe we should all listen to him. But you can sort of reach into your own negative emotions and sort of use those, your hunter's instincts, uh, to try and locate your prey. And you can get a general sense of where Dooku is. And if you sort of walk out of the batting parlor and just sort of wander through the streets until you can see it, you get the sense that like you you see this large building in the distance. It's kind of up on a hill, seems to be surrounded. It might be whatever this planet's leader is, in a state, a government, residence. You get the sense that Dooku is there. Okay.

SPEAKER_04 53:15

So we know where he is. Which the way I see it, it feels like we kind of have two options. We could either um enter one of us named Starzan into the sword fighting competition. And obviously, Starz uh. Oh yeah, and you, and you. Um, whichever one of you wins. I guess we could just enter your Savage.

SPEAKER_05 53:36

No, I think we would have a uh better chance of success if Starzan also gripped the blade.

SPEAKER_04 53:43

Okay. Okay. Enter both of you then. Frasen, but um. I mean, if it came down to both of you though, well I guess it's not like to the death for the fights though, correct?

SPEAKER_05 53:56

Uh you can see that it is to the death. On like there is information in the betting parlor that like they have some footage. The footage that's playing, so they're the weapons they're using are called blast swords. They are like fencing swords, but the tip, instead of like a just a blunted end, they are a blaster. So when you make contact, it that is the trigger, and the guy who gets touched gets shot in the chest.

SPEAKER_06 54:23

Oh no, good boys.

SPEAKER_02 54:26

That seems excessive.

SPEAKER_04 54:27

Okay, I don't know if we should be doing the one where if you both like one of you would eventually have to kill the other if you weren't killed by your opponents first. Um, I I guess unless it came down to the two of you and then just like one of you is like, I'm out, he can win.

SPEAKER_05 54:42

I think I can survive getting shot in the chest.

SPEAKER_02 54:45

I like that confidence. How much money are you willing to put on No, no, not there, not though.

SPEAKER_04 54:51

I you know what? If you are that confident that Starzan could, you know, beat your ass, confident or willin, then like, sure, enter both of you.

SPEAKER_05 55:00

Don't worry, Starzan can blast me all over my chest and I'll be just fine.

SPEAKER_01 55:04

Oh, it's just have we completely stopped freezing?

SPEAKER_02 55:09

That's what I was thinking.

SPEAKER_04 55:11

Starzan, I just really hope that you took advantage of that time on the ship, because if you don't didn't, and if I was there meditating with Illyria because I didn't have a choice.

SPEAKER_00 55:21

We were you could have went and done whatever you wanted.

SPEAKER_02 55:25

I was about to say, you could have probably uh uh ripped one out into a bedroom.

SPEAKER_04 55:30

I didn't want to be alone.

SPEAKER_05 55:32

Aww. The Custer Gannett is a silhouette 3 ship. It is there are bunks, no individual rooms, maybe a bathroom.

SPEAKER_00 55:43

Yeah, Chris was in the one there. What do you mean, maybe a bathroom? It took days to get here.

SPEAKER_02 55:48

Yeah. You just hang your ass out the airlock. Does the ship have an escape pod?

SPEAKER_04 55:52

Um Maybe we could go fuck in the prison?

SPEAKER_00 55:56

You mean a holding cell?

SPEAKER_05 55:57

The cockpit in in in a pinch, the cockpit section can like eject, so you can seal off the cockpit.

SPEAKER_04 56:04

I'm not gonna go rub one off in the escape pod, Chris. I'm not a monster.

SPEAKER_00 56:08

Starzan seals off his cockpit. Oh god, we are.

SPEAKER_01 56:12

What happened on that ship is completely up to AO3 to decide.

SPEAKER_04 56:16

What were we talking about? Yeah, we're gonna enter both of you.

SPEAKER_01 56:21

Praising.

SPEAKER_04 56:23

Fan fiction. And then, like, you know, whichever one of you uh comes out on top.

SPEAKER_01 56:30

Praising.

SPEAKER_04 56:31

Nah, I know what I said. And is contacted by Dooku, then you know, you get in, and then like maybe that then the rest of us, maybe we sneak in to give you backup while you until you're legitimate sit like uh legit legitimately, and then it's like you'll be talking to uh Dooku in the front and then we sneak up and get him from the behind.

SPEAKER_02 56:51

Could I use Ward's foresight to be like the coach in the corner kind of thing? To be like, will this work?

SPEAKER_01 56:58

The coach in the corner? Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 57:05

Let's go! So what what upgrades do you have to the uh your your foresight power?

SPEAKER_02 57:12

Um I'm I'm just trying to figure out an excuse to use it. Uh I have range, control uh I have one range, control success, I have one strength, I have one duration, I have another range, so I can go two ranges. I have let's see. So here's the right.

SPEAKER_05 57:28

Yeah, so you can uh hints about what another individual within if you get the right role, you can uh increase that up to long range.

SPEAKER_02 57:36

Okay. That that way I can help out our uh bare knuckle brawlers and be sure that they make the right choices here, basically. That's right.

SPEAKER_04 57:45

Unless you want to uh get a read on Savage and be like, will he survive being shot in the chest? Will he get shot in the chest?

SPEAKER_02 57:53

Can I since I seem to be able to use this, it feels it looks like something I can just use. Can I test it out by seeing if he can actually get by using my power to find out if he can get shot in the chest?

SPEAKER_05 58:06

It's a little bit um uh well you can you can roll, but it's uh maybe a little bit Bill and Ted. Like uh trash can, remember the trash can? Yeah, because it's uh you can spend points to gain hints about what another individual within short range is likely to do in the near future. So you can roll it. Okay. Uh yeah, okay. Hey, one light side. Okay. So who are you? Are you testing it on Starzan or Savage? Uh, for now I'll test it on Sh Savage. You can sort of reach into Savage and you're trying to read his future. Find out something, what he's likely to do in the near future. And would that be getting shot in the chest? So you can sort of you're searching for that. Would he survive getting shot in the chest? You're trying to find a path to where that happens. And you do see a glimpse of a situation where there is a blast, you feel like heat in your chest from Savage's perspective, but it doesn't feel lethal. Oh, wow. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 59:22

Are we sure that's the kind of blast it was?

SPEAKER_05 59:24

With Starzan there. Yeah, it is, it's just a a a a a hot blast on your chest.

SPEAKER_04 59:32

Is there mood lighting in this vision?

SPEAKER_05 59:34

I mean, there's not much other than that sensation. It's it's by it's the by it's uh the feeling of bisexual lighting. It's it's a it's a it's a one force point basic foresight power, so there's not a ton of detail in there.

SPEAKER_02 59:47

It's a lot of baby oil. Okay. So yeah, I wanna I wanna see if how much I can use this to kind of like help out our fighters just to be sure that they don't die.

SPEAKER_04 59:57

Thank you. Yeah. Because I guess like once if we're if we're entering both of them, if we're like getting to like, you know, maybe there's like the fighter's pit or something, if you are able to use like ward's foresight to be like what like maybe get insight in like the fighting style of the other combatants, or like is there like a particular move they like to do to like juke o juke on their opponents?

SPEAKER_02 1:00:20

Yeah, like um, or even like from what I understand from the last thing that we got, just kind of like find out ways that he that he loses that I can get him to avoid so that he can then win the fight, basically.

SPEAKER_04 1:00:36

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So let's sign him up.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:40

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 1:00:41

Yeah, let's f let's let's fuck him up. So you can sign up Savage and Starzan. Savage is gonna be using an alias for this. Gonna have to find him some sort of uh disguise that he can wear. Because he obviously he doesn't want to enter as himself. How about as Savage? Savage.

SPEAKER_04 1:01:03

Not Savage, I'm Savage.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:06

More like Savage Or just Savage. More like Savage.

SPEAKER_05 1:01:12

He's entering as Randy. Randy. We tried. Randy the Savage.

SPEAKER_04 1:01:19

Fuck! God damn it.

SPEAKER_05 1:01:21

Son of a bitch.

SPEAKER_04 1:01:21

Aw man, hang on.

SPEAKER_05 1:01:22

Where he's Randy Savage.

unknown 1:01:26

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:27

Fucking that's incredible, actually.

SPEAKER_05 1:01:29

Yeah, he's just his his disguise is just a bandana and giant sunglasses. Perfect.

SPEAKER_04 1:01:35

Okay. Randy Savage and stars are.

SPEAKER_05 1:01:39

Yeah, Randy, Randy Savage from the Slim Gym system.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:44

It's just a very slim system. There's only a couple planets. They're all uh lengthwise.

SPEAKER_04 1:01:51

All made of pepperoni sticks.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:52

Fake meat, fake meat. Very bad pepperoni sticks. Slim gym is meat. It's shocking how long Slim Gyms have been around for how disgusting every single one is. I love beef jerky.

SPEAKER_05 1:02:03

To see how far you guys get in the preliminaries. I'm gonna have you and Savage each just do a series of rolls here. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:12

I'm just checking to see if I should start doing my uh force power now here. How long it lasts for? Um because if it's if you have it committed then. Enhance?

SPEAKER_04 1:02:22

Ah yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:23

I might as well start it now.

SPEAKER_04 1:02:24

Might as well commit that shit.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:26

Might as well go for soda. Do I want to do one for my strength and my agility or just strength? Because then I would have one more force point left over that I can use for other things. Well, these are gonna be melee rolls that you're gonna be making. Yeah, might as well just use strength. Can I substitute it for lightsaber? But no. Oh no, these are these are these are sword swords. They're just sword swords.

SPEAKER_05 1:02:47

Yeah, you have to kinda have to use the ones they give you.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:50

Okay, so I'll use, yeah, control uh brawn. Ongoing effect, I'm gonna commit a force die and increase my uh brawn characteristic to six. Harhar.

SPEAKER_05 1:03:01

You can make your way after you've signed up, you can make your way to the preliminary matches at the arena. Not a huge audience, you know. This is a very popular event, but the people that you're facing off against are either amateurs from the local dueling scene who have like decided to try it, try their hand at this, um, people who it seems like just want to, you know, die suicide by blast sword. Oh some people who may have a death wish. There's like different visitors from off-world, uh, other non-humans, people who are just like, yeah, I could probably do this. So the preliminary sort of qualifying rounds for both you and Savage is going to be an opposed melee role. So, uh, first, it's just gonna be three purple. Now, uh, do you want Chris to help you cheat?

SPEAKER_04 1:04:00

Not yet. Ooh. You save it. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 1:04:03

Sooner he starts doing it, the faster he's gonna get caught.

SPEAKER_04 1:04:06

That's true, actually.

SPEAKER_02 1:04:08

I'm going I'm gonna I'm gonna do it anyway, just so I can get a read on just so I can like practice my ability if I if I could.

SPEAKER_05 1:04:16

Because do you have the uh strength upgrade that allows you to add a blue onto uh Yes. Yeah. I in fact have two. What is this cheating? It would be uh during your preliminary matches, during your matches, if Chris rules his foresight power, he would be able to give you tips about how your opponent might fight. And that would give you a blue on your role. I have two strengths. I don't think it's there's any rules against doing this. Uh it would be no different than if you had studied your opponent beforehand.

SPEAKER_02 1:04:49

Again, I was thinking a coach-like role.

SPEAKER_05 1:04:52

Like uh fucking it's it's against the spirit of the competition, but not the letter. Yeah. And at the high level, you're fighting like one of them's a knight of wren. It seems like the uh Lasat that that's uh favored is a devout practitioner of the Ashla religion. He may be forcy as well. Uh and you get the sense that like watching high-level play, a lot of the guys who are doing this that have survived long enough to be high-level duelists do have suspiciously fast reflexes.

SPEAKER_01 1:05:26

Well, in that case, does anyone else have uh some good force powers they can give me?

SPEAKER_04 1:05:30

I don't know if I have anything that would really help you.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:33

How many magnitudes of hurt do I have? Well, I don't want to people. I could heal you well, you're not really getting hurt if you're not getting shot in the chest.

SPEAKER_04 1:05:41

I do have suppress. If other people are using their force powers to get a beat on their opponents, I could suppress them. Uh yeah, let's do that. I can commit that.

SPEAKER_02 1:05:52

Uh like like, yeah, let's be a fucking team.

SPEAKER_04 1:05:55

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:56

I only have one range of heal harm.

SPEAKER_04 1:05:58

Yeah, let me roll my. To dark side, you know. You know, you know. I already said I was gonna.

SPEAKER_00 1:06:10

What?

SPEAKER_04 1:06:12

Let me just see here. But for the command.

SPEAKER_05 1:06:29

Can you extend this to long range?

SPEAKER_04 1:06:31

Uh oh no, I don't have. You know what? This is kind of cheating a little. Cause last time I bought a specialization, but I didn't have enough experience to actually buy anything in it. I'm gonna remove that specialization because I have not actually used it yet.

SPEAKER_05 1:06:49

Okay, I'm gonna say this that uh removing a specialization that you bought is gonna cost a destiny point.

SPEAKER_04 1:06:55

What what if I just hadn't told you? I could have just lied. What do we have for destiny? Actually, I never bought a specialization. What do we have for destiny?

SPEAKER_05 1:07:06

We run into that situation all the time. Well, if you're removing your specialization, you'll have one left.

SPEAKER_02 1:07:10

Can I buy insurance- can I buy insurance for this uh phone after it's already been destroyed? No. You know what?

SPEAKER_04 1:07:19

I'm flipping it, I'm flipping it, I'm getting two range upgrades so we can go to long range.

SPEAKER_02 1:07:23

Hell yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:07:24

No one in this arena is using the force. You're all my enemies.

SPEAKER_05 1:07:28

Look, if you are, you know, suppressing force abilities at long range, that w I'm gonna say that would also be very helpful if there are any VIPs that are watching from an exposed vantage point during the final rounds.

SPEAKER_00 1:07:48

Yeah, don't make me look for anyone.

SPEAKER_04 1:07:51

I'll flip a destiny point to get that experience back. I'll buy the two range upgrades, and I won't do anything with it right now because I didn't get enough force anyways.

SPEAKER_05 1:07:59

Okay. So, uh for the preliminary rounds, Chris, are you gonna be giving Starzan any advice about his opponents?

SPEAKER_02 1:08:10

If you allow it. Doesn't matter. I'm gonna I'm gonna do it anyway. Okay.

SPEAKER_05 1:08:15

Okay, so in the locker room beforehand.

SPEAKER_02 1:08:18

Uh why don't you roll me a your force to see if you can uh Does the two strength add the uh like to add let's see here, spend to add equal to the power.

SPEAKER_05 1:08:31

Yeah, so you need to spend one to use the power, and then you need to spend an additional two points to give Starzan those blues.

SPEAKER_02 1:08:39

Oh, I still need to upgrade my fucking force. Okay. Alright, so I'm gonna roll it. Dice app. Two lightside. Fucking holy shit. Fucking bullshit. Fuck well, not bullshit. Holy shit. Good news. What do I see in this next guy? What or what do I see in him? Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 1:08:57

So you can just give Starzan some general advice. I'm gonna say that you can't add a full blue because you don't have the power. But since you've got like a hint, just general, and we want Starzan to move forward. I'm gonna say that you he can add an advantage onto his role. Not a blue, but just an advantage.

SPEAKER_02 1:09:18

Okay. This next guy, he's a re uh he's a real shitgibbon. Uh a shitgibbon. Yes. He is g he said what he said. Uh he's gonna he's gonna go for your nuts a few a few times. You need to just go for his neck over and over and over again.

SPEAKER_01 1:09:35

Alright, so three purple add an advantage. That gives me five success and two advantage. Shit. Okay.

SPEAKER_05 1:09:42

So the preliminary rounds, you can easily pass. Uh the fuzzy primate guy that you're up against, smelling of feces, it may be a cultural thing. Gets a smoking hole in his chest from Starzan's uh I don't know how how elegant you are, but you know, power is uh helpful as well. And Savage as well, on his part. Five success, one threat, and a triumph. So Savage can easily pass as well. Uh he does get that threat, so it seems like maybe he's like over-exerting himself. He's wasting too much energy on like stuff that he should be able to overcome easily.

SPEAKER_04 1:10:25

Is he trying to impress Star Zab?

SPEAKER_05 1:10:28

He just gets into the thrill of combat a lot.

SPEAKER_04 1:10:31

Not free anymore. He loves killing.

SPEAKER_05 1:10:34

Like, it's over fat like his his like matches are over incredibly fast. Uh but like he comes back sweaty every time where it's like if he had taken it a little bit of time, if he had sort of waited it out, he still could have won, but he's in such a frenzy that it's like once he's fighting, it's hard to get him to stop.

SPEAKER_01 1:10:53

Like Starzan, you just got him. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:10:56

Maybe Starzan or Zid needs to uh remind him to pace himself.

SPEAKER_00 1:11:01

Should I heal these bitches?

SPEAKER_04 1:11:02

Which bitches are bitches? They're they're okay.

SPEAKER_05 1:11:05

They didn't take any damage yet.

SPEAKER_00 1:11:06

I mean they haven't been sh shot in the chest yet, but like.

SPEAKER_05 1:11:09

Uh and what what did you roll there, Starzan?

SPEAKER_01 1:11:13

It was how many success again? Five success and two advantage.

SPEAKER_05 1:11:18

Okay. So you and if you're watching the betting uh pools, you and Starzan are not in the top ten yet, but you're both like people are s starting a little bit to take note of you.

SPEAKER_01 1:11:32

Randy the Savage and Starzan the Starzarian. Ain't nothing gonna break my stride, ain't nothing gonna slow me down. Ultimate Maniacs.

SPEAKER_05 1:11:40

So as you climb uh the ranks, your next bouts are against slightly more skilled opponents. These, you can see, are Atomari duelists from high-ranking families. They seem to be like the kind of people who have competed, if at not a professional level, at least like they like the college basketball equivalent, where this may be the first time. Some of them do seem a little bit nervous because it seems that below this ultimate professional level, they do tend to use non-lethal weapons. So the stakes are beginning to get higher.

SPEAKER_02 1:12:20

Stakes have never been higher. Do your force shit, and I will uh roll accordingly. Alrighty. Uh let me roll that forest eye again. Roll that beautiful bean footage. One dark side.

unknown 1:12:34

Oh shit.

SPEAKER_02 1:12:35

Use it, Chris.

SPEAKER_05 1:12:36

I'm gonna I'm gonna uh dabble. Okay, so Starzan and Savage have been killing these guys. So you know that like if you look into the future to help Starzan, every time you glimpse into the future to see what's gonna happen, it's like you see death. And but this is like, I want death to happen. So you can try and figure out how best to deal death to Starzan's more uh refined, more cultured opponents to give him another advantage.

SPEAKER_02 1:13:07

Another advantage? I don't want death to happen, it just kinda happens sometimes.

SPEAKER_03 1:13:13

Yeah, but right now you do. You want it.

SPEAKER_05 1:13:16

So this one is gonna be uh an opposed role. These guys, they are a lot more skilled. So this is going to be against two reds, a purple, and a black.

SPEAKER_01 1:13:32

Okay. What do we how we I forgot to add my force dice, by the way. Um I'll do that next time. Uh how are we doing for destiny? You got one. I'll save it.

SPEAKER_00 1:13:40

We killed that guy because he was gonna kill an entire planet of people. This is just killing for sport. Yeah, but I guess if we win, we'll save the galaxy.

SPEAKER_05 1:13:49

They all signed consent forms, just like you and Randy Savage.

SPEAKER_01 1:13:52

Seems uh five success, two threat, one dark side, one light side. So I'll use that light side to cancel out the threat, and uh I almost did RD2.

SPEAKER_04 1:14:03

Uh Chris Devin's characters getting all lumped together today. So just make a flat five.

SPEAKER_02 1:14:12

I'm very unoriginal with my characters, so it is uh, you know, it's fine.

SPEAKER_04 1:14:17

Oh, Devin.

SPEAKER_02 1:14:19

They're all as distinct.

SPEAKER_00 1:14:20

You food boy.

SPEAKER_05 1:14:26

So Savage can feel you in the force, bringing your force. So he does the same as well. He wants to try and out roll you on this, he wants to outfight you, he wants to although he does have big sub-energy, he wants to prove himself to his dom.

SPEAKER_04 1:14:46

Tell me I'm good, starry.

SPEAKER_01 1:14:48

Daddy. Sorry.

SPEAKER_04 1:14:50

Well, it just feels like calling you daddy is like a second date thing.

SPEAKER_01 1:14:55

Well then. Uh-oh.

SPEAKER_04 1:14:57

Uh-oh. What? So did he roll a despair?

SPEAKER_05 1:15:00

I swear to god, if he rolled a despair already. Savage has five brawn and four ranks in melee. He got an advantage, a despair, a light, and a dark.

SPEAKER_01 1:15:13

Oh my god. So it's going to hurt.

SPEAKER_05 1:15:16

You what you felt about him does come to pass. He does get blasted right in the chest, but You don't always have to fucking hurt. Because he did get that dark side, he didn't get any failure. He got advantage and despair. So with that dark side, it's gonna make it a success. They both get the point on each other at exactly the same moment. Oh. Blasting each other in the chest. Savage is the only one still standing, so he is declared the winner. But he's gonna need some medical attention. Elyria, if you try and heal him, he pushes you away and he says, No, this is good. And he starts like pounding his chest wound like Kylo Wren. As you may have noticed when you fought him before, when Savage is critically injured, he gains plus two force rating.

SPEAKER_00 1:16:10

Oh yeah. He's a pain pig.

SPEAKER_02 1:16:12

Pain pig!

SPEAKER_00 1:16:14

Pain pig!

SPEAKER_02 1:16:15

Yeah, a dom. Or sorry, he's a sub!

SPEAKER_05 1:16:19

A sub. Savage walking away from a uh blast straight to the chest. Starzan, you are climbing up higher than him in the betting pools. But Savage walking away from a chest blast, like normally these are considered draws. Like normally a winner is declared the if somebody survives, but it's more a formality. They are never ex they're not expected to like compete again, and Savage competing again is kind of like like there's talk about this. Like a guy got shot in the chest and he's going again. So so although Savage isn't as favored as Starzan is, like Starzan, you're like into the top ten. Savage is still a little bit at the bottom for the finals, but Oh no. The people who are putting like putting money into Savage seem to be like putting more money onto Savage because it's like they got a feeling that like, oh, this guy, like, there's something about this guy.

SPEAKER_01 1:17:21

Well now it's an underdog story. Yeah. He's gonna he's gonna uh win over the crowd with his.

SPEAKER_02 1:17:28

If Savage wants like uh tips on how to defeat the next guy as well, I can give him tips.

SPEAKER_04 1:17:34

I kinda figured you'd be giving them both the tips, or have you been able to get the things that they're gonna do? I thought so too.

SPEAKER_02 1:17:38

I thought so too. I'm not I'm not trying to hoard them. I just, you know. Well you've only been he would have to roll for both of them.

SPEAKER_01 1:17:44

You've only been rolling for stars now. Yeah. Look, as long as the tips don't touch, it's okay. You can do both of us.

SPEAKER_02 1:17:49

Oh, yes, of course. If if Savage wants them, I can try and give some tips as well. Savage doesn't seem to want them. That's that's exactly what I thought.

SPEAKER_05 1:17:59

Yeah. So this next round is a big one. The stadium is buzzing with excitement. This is like the semifinals, the last four to go. You can see that like as you guys go to the stadium, as you are in the locker room, everybody's talking about like there's a lot of like the planetary rulers that are here. Uh the VIPs. If Dooku is watching, he'll be watching this. Can we can we see if we can sense him? Well, you can see if you can sense him. In the locker room, before you guys go out, you can see your opponents. One of them is the Lesat, the big Lasat fellow, who's uh doing some prayers before he heads out. He may have a touch of the force about them. And the other is the masked Knight of Wren, who you can see wears a lightsaber slung at his hip. So he definitely has the force.

SPEAKER_04 1:18:56

Oh, now that we're up to the big guns, could I try rolling suppress again?

SPEAKER_05 1:19:00

Would you want to do it now, or do you want to do it when you're actually out into the stadium?

SPEAKER_04 1:19:06

I mean, if I'm committing it, would it really make a difference?

SPEAKER_05 1:19:09

If you're committing it, it wouldn't make a difference.

SPEAKER_04 1:19:10

Yeah, because I I'd be committing it so it would at least cover the opponents for both uh Starzan and uh Savage. Yeah. Let's see what I can do.

SPEAKER_01 1:19:19

Okay. While we're getting ready, I'm gonna do marked for death against my opponent. Commit that force dice so I can add two combat tags against target. Okay. And precise aim. Suffer a strain to reduce target's melee and range defense by one.

SPEAKER_04 1:19:39

Well, I got two light side and two dark side. Interesting.

SPEAKER_05 1:19:44

So you'll have to use a destiny to do both. If you want to.

SPEAKER_04 1:19:47

Yeah, because it's like I can use one for the basic force power, two to extend that out to long range. No one. Oh, I only need one.

SPEAKER_05 1:19:56

I mean, because when you yeah, because when you get um it's spend one point to increase the power's range by a number of range bands equal to the range upgrades purchased.

SPEAKER_04 1:20:06

Right. So that's in that case, do you not have to spend that uh destiny?

SPEAKER_05 1:20:11

No, she would, because she'd still need to Okay.

SPEAKER_04 1:20:13

Yeah, I still needed to get that XP now because I didn't have any of them. That does mean that I could I could also get a strength upgrade. Because I don't have any strength upgrades, and then that uh adds additional failure onto any force power channels.

SPEAKER_05 1:20:29

Because here's the thing, you could what are the odds, because if you want to include you would have to extend that to extreme range. So if you want to use a second point to extend it, that would extend it by another two range bands to extreme, and that would cover Dooku.

SPEAKER_04 1:20:44

Ooh. You know what? Maybe I will do that.

SPEAKER_02 1:20:49

You will do that?

SPEAKER_04 1:20:50

Yeah, I'll do I'll do that, but then I should still have one point left over. So I could still take an upgrade in strength and then have it add an additional failure to force power checks, and then just commit all of it. Commit both my force die to this.

SPEAKER_05 1:21:06

Okay, so you're uh adding two failures and reducing the pips generated by one. Yes. Okay. So in this case, because you're doing this, that means you're gonna be rolling against your opponent as a normal combat check, and they're gonna be rolling against you. And whoever rolls higher is gonna be the one who wins. So, Starzan, you are being pitted against the Knight of Ren. Yes.

SPEAKER_02 1:21:32

May I may I roll again to give him another advantage? Uh yeah, you can you can roll.

SPEAKER_01 1:21:38

This is a knight of Ren. I recommend not getting killed by him. The sword traps the souls of those it kills.

SPEAKER_05 1:21:45

Oh, I got two light side again. Okay, so yeah, you can you can give Starzan an extra advantage on his roll. So I got three automatic advantages. So, uh Starzan. Start with you to see how you do. This Knight of Ren, as you're facing off, you can feel his power in the force. So your roll against him has got it'll be a melee roll standard, two purple. He has two ranks of adversaries, so that's gonna upgrade it to two reds. He has two points of melee defense. So that is going to add two blacks. Two reds, two blacks. Okay. That we don't have any destiny left, right? You don't have any destiny left. Okay. Unless you want me to roll his first, and I'll see if I'll I'll give you one back.

SPEAKER_04 1:22:33

Oh.

SPEAKER_06 1:22:33

Hmm.

SPEAKER_05 1:22:34

What do you guys think? Maybe not.

SPEAKER_04 1:22:36

I feel like whenever he's like, do you want one? Like that feels like a uh a trap. It's a threat. It feels like an invitation for us to fuck around, so we may find out.

unknown 1:22:46

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 1:22:46

Yeah, well we'll play it clean if we could. Four success, one threat, two dark side. Well, there's my advantage to that. There's also advantages, yeah. So actually four success, two advantage. Three dark side, two dark side.

SPEAKER_05 1:23:00

Are you gonna use those dark side, or are you just gonna be content with your four success two advantage?

SPEAKER_01 1:23:04

I'll be content.

SPEAKER_05 1:23:06

Okay. So this uh knight of Ren. So he is gonna use a destiny point to uh upgrade his role. So he got two success, two light sides, two dark sides. He's gonna use those two dark sides to get four success, but he also got one threat. Uh-huh. So your two advantages puts you just over the edge. That's right. This we're edging. This Knight of Ren, uh, although he is a skilled duelist, he is rough and untrained. He's not committed to violence the way you are. It seems like he may have just been entering this to get prize money or to boost the reputation of his order. But you can find an opening and just blast the shit out of them. Oh yeah, yeah. Stab him in the chest.

SPEAKER_02 1:23:56

They don't like it when you stab them in your chest. Thank you.

SPEAKER_05 1:23:59

Most people don't. After you after you claim victory, the other knights they scurry out and like grab his body, dragging him away, and like one of them grabs the lightsaber off his belt and I guess declares himself the new leader. If any of you are keeping an eye on the VIP box, you can see that this turn of events, Dooku is up there, and if you're maybe peering at him through if you've detached the scope of your gun and using it as a telescope.

SPEAKER_04 1:24:30

Yeah, I'll spy on him.

SPEAKER_05 1:24:32

Or did you would you have potentially smuggled your gun in?

SPEAKER_04 1:24:37

Would I be able to? Because like I prefer to.

SPEAKER_05 1:24:42

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:24:42

Let's see. I mean, even if I do, I'm not I'll I'll still detach the scope to spy on him and not just be like, let me just line up this guy and my sights.

SPEAKER_05 1:24:52

Oh well, you don't wanna- you don't wanna hang out, uh, like uh in the find somewhere where you can like just snipe him?

SPEAKER_04 1:24:59

Uh, would if I could, but I got two threats to smuggle.

SPEAKER_05 1:25:02

Okay, no, so you wouldn't be able to smuggle it in, but you can you can bring in your scope.

SPEAKER_04 1:25:06

Okay. Sit in the stands and peer.

SPEAKER_05 1:25:08

And you can see that he's disappointed almost as if that was somebody that he was potentially targeting, but he is certainly intrigued by the man who did claim victory.

SPEAKER_04 1:25:21

Ooh. The Starzan. The Starzarian.

SPEAKER_02 1:25:26

Starzarian of Starzan.

SPEAKER_05 1:25:28

You can- you can see him leaning over to uh a human man dressed in fine Atomari clothes, probably the leader of this planet, the Parator. And he like, it seems you can't, I don't know if you're great at reading lips, but it seems like he's like asking him a question, and they both look down towards Starzan, and the guy kind of shakes his head in a way that's like, I don't know who he is.

SPEAKER_01 1:25:51

Some guy.

SPEAKER_04 1:25:52

What would it be to read lips and re recount my very accurate reading?

SPEAKER_02 1:25:57

He's saying olive juice.

SPEAKER_05 1:25:59

Olive juice. Probably be a four purple perception.

SPEAKER_04 1:26:03

Hell yeah, I'm gonna roll it. I hope I get lots of threats so I can just tell you guys something wildly wrong. Are you trained in lip reading? No.

SPEAKER_05 1:26:11

Add a black.

SPEAKER_04 1:26:13

Move a black. But it didn't help. I got one threat.

SPEAKER_05 1:26:16

Yeah. No, you you can't.

SPEAKER_04 1:26:19

He's saying purple monkey dishwasher. I don't know what it means. The code.

SPEAKER_02 1:26:23

Purple monkey dishwasher. Can I can I roll around to find a better idea of what we just get started off of this uh uh wild goose chase.

SPEAKER_04 1:26:36

Yeah, I think he likes ya. Maybe he's gonna buy you a dishwasher. Hell yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:26:40

Starger needs some big appliances.

SPEAKER_04 1:26:48

I heard you were talking about big appliances.

SPEAKER_05 1:26:50

Savage is in the middle of his match. That's right.

SPEAKER_04 1:26:53

Savage comes running back.

SPEAKER_05 1:26:56

And he's in the four. Okay, so Savage in his injured state. Jesus. How? What? How did he fuck up again?

SPEAKER_04 1:27:07

What happened?

SPEAKER_05 1:27:08

Uh, you got a failure, five advantages, a despair. Another fucking despair? Four lights and two darks. That is enough to boost him up to a success.

SPEAKER_01 1:27:27

It's because he wants to be, man.

SPEAKER_05 1:27:28

This is a test of being nimble. It's fence tick.

SPEAKER_01 1:27:32

Why is Tarzan doing so well?

SPEAKER_04 1:27:34

This is not the way to impress Starzan.

SPEAKER_01 1:27:37

I don't know. Taking hits is pretty cool. It's telling.

SPEAKER_04 1:27:40

Oh, it's Starzan feel like okay. This is how it win over Starzan.

SPEAKER_02 1:27:46

I've never seen somebody take so many bumps. In the We know he can take a pounding.

SPEAKER_05 1:27:53

So let's let's see how his opponent does. So uh survived, he's got two ranks of adversary. That's gonna help him. He gets the defense from uh the dueling weapon. Ooh, interesting. One success, three advantage, and two life ties. So despair. No. Is that taking into account my suppress? Um oh without the suppresses, it's one success, three advantages. Very good, very good.

SPEAKER_04 1:28:23

Ha ha! I I am helping.

SPEAKER_05 1:28:25

So, yeah, one success and three advantages. Uh, his force is being suppressed. He does get a failure added onto that. And no, it's two failures added onto that.

SPEAKER_04 1:28:37

It is two failures added onto that.

SPEAKER_05 1:28:39

So even using that one, his one remaining light side tip, he can't bring himself to get a success. It seems like his prayers are for not. As Savage, he gets into the Bloodlust and he's going at him with such ferocity that he's leaving himself open to attack. Like, if this Lastot was not like so scared of him, he would easily be able to take him out, but his reflexes aren't there. His prayers go unanswered. Savai just rams the sword into his chest, it blasts him, and then he's like swipes with like the sharpened edge of the blade and just decapitates them on top of that. Then he rips off his bandana and sunglasses and screams. Oh no.

SPEAKER_01 1:29:37

Slavage!

SPEAKER_04 1:29:38

No, you dumb fucker!

SPEAKER_01 1:29:41

This man does not represent us.

SPEAKER_00 1:29:43

And I can use my limited perception to look around. See if I can see.

SPEAKER_04 1:29:48

Perhaps Dooku, as an old old man, could not hear that without force enhancing his senses. As I am suppressing them, he did not hear.

SPEAKER_02 1:29:58

Is that is that the thing she can do?

SPEAKER_04 1:30:00

Maybe he's like, what was that?

SPEAKER_05 1:30:02

Dooku, uh, if you if you're looking for weird scope, Dooku just politely applauds. You wanna roll me a perception?

SPEAKER_04 1:30:12

Yeah, let's roll perception. Is that the polite applause of I don't want to let anyone know that I recognize this guy? Or the polite applause of, I didn't quite hear that, so I'm just gonna smile and nod.

SPEAKER_05 1:30:23

Alright, so this is gonna be against his cool. Okay. This is gonna be against four reds and a purple.

SPEAKER_04 1:30:30

Four reds and a purple?

SPEAKER_05 1:30:32

Yeah, this is Count Dooku. This is the leader of the entire separatist movement movement. He's very cool. He has extremely high presence.

SPEAKER_04 1:30:43

Destiny.

SPEAKER_05 1:30:43

Yeah, you got one. Looking Dracula.

SPEAKER_04 1:30:46

One to downgrade one of the reds. Yeah. I at least got three yellow. We'll see. Two failures for threat.

unknown 1:30:54

Woohoo!

SPEAKER_05 1:30:55

You get the feeling that he's an old, old man who didn't hear what happened. And he can't and that and then Savage is too far away to get a good glimpse at him. Never mind, there are giant jumbotron screens uh that are catching him in 4K, like he's the CEO of a tech company having an affair.

SPEAKER_04 1:31:12

Uh he just ducked down under the camera.

SPEAKER_05 1:31:16

Yeah, but this is the feeling that that you're probably safe and Dooku has no idea what happened, that his old old man, eyes and ears, cannot recognize Savage.

SPEAKER_04 1:31:26

Don't worry, guys, I think we're in the clear. I think we're fine. Now we're fine.

SPEAKER_02 1:31:32

Those are some famous lessons.

SPEAKER_04 1:31:34

But then he's so fucking old. How is he gonna know? He's so old.

SPEAKER_02 1:31:39

Listen, I've never known old people to actually be able to listen to anything in their life.

SPEAKER_03 1:31:44

Exactly.

SPEAKER_05 1:31:46

After uh Savage leaves, he comes back into the dressing room and he claps you on his shoulders, Starzan, and he says, I was magnificent! Yes!

SPEAKER_01 1:31:58

You performed very well. Yes. Well. Next up is the finals. You and me. Oh no. Oh no.

SPEAKER_04 1:32:06

Ooh, who's gonna blast whose chest first?

SPEAKER_01 1:32:09

Well now, now even I won't I won't do the the cool hand thing. We'll do the uh predator bicep handshake.

SPEAKER_05 1:32:16

You can do the predator bicep handshake. The final round tomorrow is uh the one of the big finale events. Because as you've been fighting, these starfighter dog fights have been happening at the same time. So there's a lot of like tomorrow's like the big day. Zap roused everyone. He always does! Yeah. So you do have until tomorrow before this match. You have Dooku out in the open now, though. Do you want to actually go forward with this duel to the death with Savage? You don't have to.

SPEAKER_02 1:32:50

We can just like go talk to Dooku. Yeah, can we can we like take out Dooku now, like tonight?

SPEAKER_04 1:32:57

We do know where he's staying if we want to try to infiltrate it.

SPEAKER_05 1:33:01

Or do you want to just blast him while he's in his motorcade like Franz Ferdinand?

SPEAKER_04 1:33:05

I wasn't able to smuggle in my gun. I don't have my gun.

SPEAKER_05 1:33:09

Well, you don't have your gun in the stadium. Wanna take him out?

SPEAKER_04 1:33:12

That's true.

SPEAKER_05 1:33:13

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:33:13

We could wait till he leaves and then see if we can just give him the presidential treatment.

SPEAKER_05 1:33:19

Because at this point, you would have gotten a hotel room, I assume, or a series of hotel rooms where all of your stuff is. Maybe uh maybe built on top of a book depository.

SPEAKER_04 1:33:31

That was something we specially requested when we were booking it. What do you guys think? Wait till tomorrow to do the fight and then see if we can get in, uh, infiltrate the palace, or I get my rifle and we just try to make things pop off.

SPEAKER_02 1:33:47

Last one. Last one, last one.

SPEAKER_01 1:33:49

Just go for it, okay. Because if we fail, we can still do the fight tomorrow.

SPEAKER_00 1:33:53

I mean he did yell. That's true.

SPEAKER_04 1:33:58

It's true.

SPEAKER_00 1:33:59

I feel like the element of surprise.

SPEAKER_04 1:34:02

If if he has no way of knowing that you guys are connected to the assassination attempt, if I fail, why wouldn't the fight proceed tomorrow? Right. What murder! What assassination attempt! What assassination attempt.

SPEAKER_02 1:34:20

What murder?

SPEAKER_04 1:34:22

We do that. Can we go back to the room so I could get my gun and uh see if I can get set up for when Dooku leaves the stadium.

SPEAKER_02 1:34:28

Can we snipe him? If we can snipe Dooku, that'd be incredible.

SPEAKER_05 1:34:33

Yeah, so um. I am assuming that Kala, as soon as you notice this this has happened, as soon as the matches are done, you start booking it back to the the hotel. Yeah, I'm gonna haul ass. So you can you can haul ass. Uh the rest of you, the athletes, as you exit the stadium, there are throngs of people. Now you are becoming celebrities. Now you are the big two. Not only are you like the finalists in one of the most coveted competitions of the planet, you're not even from there. So there's a lot of controversy surrounding your victory. A lot of uh people asking if Savage's uh behavior was unsportsmanlike, a lot of people asking, is that how that's supposed to be pronounced? Uh a lot of people uh asking Starzan, would you like to donate your genetic material? Uh Starzan's like, no, seed snatchers! So uh do you want to how do you want to try and use this crowd at all to try and uh because you are kind of at a sort of VIP entrance. There may be another even more VIP entrance. Like for me, for like getting this set up. Well, like if you guys want to block anything or try to use the crowd to your advantage.

SPEAKER_04 1:35:58

Oh yeah, because if I'm if I'm trying to get set up, like maybe if um hmm.

SPEAKER_02 1:36:04

This is for when he's going to leave the stadium, right? Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:36:08

Yeah, that's when I would be trying to snipe him.

SPEAKER_02 1:36:11

Can we uh where where's the best vantage point? And can and is there anything that we can do to like Oh no?

SPEAKER_04 1:36:19

Like if there's an extra if there's an extra VIP exit, then like maybe if if you and Savage are kind of like centers of attention and people are swarmy around you, maybe if you wanted to like pile a bunch of people around the second VIP entrance, so like there's a lot of chaos and confusion already when he steps out, and then when his head explodes, there's even more chaos and confusion, and no one really knows what happened or where it came from. I trust myself to not shoot an innocent bystander.

SPEAKER_02 1:36:51

I feel I feel like we should okay, so uh Savage and um uh Starzan are going to meet up with uh or are uh gonna be the ones that can distract Yeah, they're currently being swarmed by fans and paparazzi.

SPEAKER_05 1:37:09

And Kala, did you request a room that was overlooking a motorcade?

SPEAKER_04 1:37:14

Yeah, why not? I just want to have a view. I love a room with the room.

SPEAKER_01 1:37:20

A book depository.

SPEAKER_04 1:37:21

That's the that's what's in the basement. Our hotel is over the book depository.

SPEAKER_05 1:37:26

So, Kala, as you return to your hotel. Takes you a little bit, you're you're traveling on foot, I'm guessing, so it would take you a little bit to get there.

SPEAKER_03 1:37:33

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 1:37:34

But when you enter the receptionist at the desk, he says, Oh, uh, excuse me, you're with the Starzan party and the Savage party?

SPEAKER_03 1:37:47

Uh, yeah. Yeah, yes. Why?

SPEAKER_05 1:37:49

We heard about the the win, and it is customary for the finalists to be invited to a dinner for the main event.

SPEAKER_04 1:37:58

A dinner?

SPEAKER_05 1:37:59

Yes, at the Parators Estate this evening. If uh pass it on to your friends.

SPEAKER_04 1:38:04

Ah. Hmm.

SPEAKER_05 1:38:05

So you do have a if this if this fucks up, you do have a backup plan.

SPEAKER_04 1:38:08

That's good. As long as he does not know that I'm the one who tried to assassinate him. Although he already knows that Savage is there, so like No, he doesn't. No, he doesn't. He has old man ears. How is he even gonna know? No one's gonna know.

SPEAKER_02 1:38:21

He doesn't know.

SPEAKER_04 1:38:22

He doesn't know. Yeah, I'll pass it on to you guys. It's just like, but first let me see if I can make his head into a firework.

SPEAKER_05 1:38:30

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 1:38:30

Let's do it. Baby, you're a firework.

SPEAKER_05 1:38:33

Yeah, so you guys are coming out the athlete's entrance. The uh planetary governors visiting dignitaries of EIPs, they are leaving from a second entrance into a motorcade of uh vehicles. The speeders do have tight security, but Dooku is riding in one that does seem to be a convertible. Oh yeah, maybe he kind of they do lower the roof.

SPEAKER_04 1:39:02

Loves the breeze in his old man hair. Yeah, because if maybe you can steer the crowd to be like in front of the motorcade path, so they have to like slow down and try to clear people out of the way.

SPEAKER_05 1:39:13

I uh let's yeah, let me see if I can um be like, okay, so give me a leadership to uh whip these people up into a frenzy or coercion, I guess. Because coercion is often used for whipping people into frenzies as well. My leadership is better, so I'm gonna use leadership. Okay, it's a big crowd. Um so I'll give you a destiny point, a red and two purple.

SPEAKER_02 1:39:34

Red, two purple. Three success. Okay, so everybody look at we have the best pe uh we have the best people here. We have the number one zon the call sheet, ladies and gentlemen, uh Starzen and Randy.

SPEAKER_03 1:39:52

Randy! The amazing name!

SPEAKER_05 1:39:56

Then the crowd starts following the dispersing into the street, blocking the road back to the estate in front of the hotel slash book depository. And you can even hear like some people like murmuring to themselves when they see Starzan and Savage being like, Oh, I heard that they, you know, that they're part of the same group, that they came together, and you hear people say, Oh, they were roommates.

SPEAKER_04 1:40:21

Oh my god, they were roommates.

SPEAKER_05 1:40:23

Oh my goodness. Heard they work out together. The hangin' and bangin'. Motorcade with the convertible speeder that Dooku is riding in, is forced to stop and slow down. The local security starts like getting out of their speeders to try and push the crowd back. But the vehicles have stopped for now. Okay, let's line up a shot.

SPEAKER_00 1:40:49

Can I use the leadership? You have the power to end this war right now. Shoot that man.

SPEAKER_04 1:40:55

Are you leading me through the earpiece? Thanks, Illyria.

SPEAKER_00 1:40:59

Yes. I feel like I will roll bad and also make you shoot worse.

SPEAKER_04 1:41:05

I'll keep should I keep suppress active or should I drop it so I can add the force onto my ranged heavy? Because like if he were to sense me or like be using like a force-powered reaction, that would that would be would that be contr like squashed with suppress, or is it only things that are like specifically targeting us?

SPEAKER_05 1:41:26

If he's rolling a vigilance against this, then um if it's force enhanced it might, but like it is just kind of a general- I mean he's an old, old man.

SPEAKER_04 1:41:39

If he's gonna be reacting fast enough to be able to stop me, he's gonna have to use the force.

SPEAKER_05 1:41:44

Yeah. Like he does have the sense power, like.

SPEAKER_04 1:41:47

And I'll suppress it.

SPEAKER_05 1:41:49

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:41:50

As she is ought to do.

SPEAKER_05 1:41:52

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 1:41:52

So it's said shit, old man. I'm a shootcha.

SPEAKER_05 1:41:57

So although the motorcade is stopped, it is stopped kind of far away from the hotel. So this is gonna start as an extreme range shot. So that's gonna start at four purple. He has four ranks of adversary. So that's gonna be four reds. Woohoo! Okay. He has um Oh, we're not done. No. He does have a rank of ranged defense. He is wearing his cloak, which does have armor weave. He has the sense power. Um. I'm going to. You are suppressing him, so I will roll the sense power to see if he can sense you passively. And uh you add you you reduce and add failure.

SPEAKER_04 1:42:39

Yeah, add two failure and it's reduced by one pit per committed forest die, and I have both my die committed. So you'll be minus add two failure and minus two forest pips.

SPEAKER_05 1:42:51

Interesting. So Dooku got five lights, two darks.

SPEAKER_04 1:42:55

Ooh.

SPEAKER_05 1:42:56

So you can prevent him from using those darks. Okay.

SPEAKER_04 1:43:01

He can st or or can he still use the light? I guess we don't know.

SPEAKER_05 1:43:05

Yeah, you don't know. I mean, I'm tell I'm telling you that like we know he would use the dark.

SPEAKER_04 1:43:10

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 1:43:10

So mechanic mechanically, it's not gonna have any additional penalties onto your roll.

SPEAKER_04 1:43:16

Okay.

SPEAKER_05 1:43:16

He cannot sense that you were about to shoot him.

SPEAKER_04 1:43:18

Also, fuck me, that's a lot of force.

SPEAKER_05 1:43:21

Right? Jesus Christ. Yeah, he's got a f he's got a rating of five.

SPEAKER_04 1:43:24

Shit! Okay, sorry, so that was I accidentally just erased my entire. You do have a destiny point. I'm gonna flip it to get another yellow. Because I don't know if reducing one of those reds is really gonna make much of a difference, but I can at least get myself to three yellow and a green. Um, I'll aim once, I'll take two strain and aim twice. And I have yeah, accurate two, so that adds blues as well.

SPEAKER_05 1:43:51

Yeah, that adds two blues.

SPEAKER_04 1:43:53

Okay. And is there anything else I can do to boost my ability here?

SPEAKER_05 1:43:59

I think the the gun has the force-atuned resonator that gives you prescient shot, doesn't it?

SPEAKER_04 1:44:04

Oh, let me see. It does. Okay, how does prescient shot work?

SPEAKER_05 1:44:08

Prescient shot gives you a blue.

SPEAKER_04 1:44:10

Oh, another blue, okay, cool. So that gives me five blues. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 1:44:14

Theoretically, it's only supposed to be on ranged light weapons, but this is something uh Aurusing would have modded onto her gun.

SPEAKER_04 1:44:20

Yeah. I modded, it's fine. Okay, guys. Let's say a little prayer to George Lucas. Interesting. I got one failure. One failure, one advantage, one triumph.

SPEAKER_02 1:44:35

Can you um roll uh can can you like uh I got nothing.

SPEAKER_04 1:44:41

No, I don't think I have anything that lets me re-roll ranged heavy.

SPEAKER_02 1:44:46

Let's see what happens.

SPEAKER_04 1:44:47

We'll see what happens.

SPEAKER_02 1:44:49

What happens, God? What do you want to happen?

SPEAKER_04 1:44:52

God, I'm trying to think what would be good to happen with one triumph, but I like I because I can't I can't get Dooku.

SPEAKER_05 1:44:59

Given the role you are playing as Space Harvey Oswald.

SPEAKER_02 1:45:04

Do you do you do you want somebody else shoot him?

SPEAKER_05 1:45:07

Not a second grassy knoll. This is a bullet. There are other force users around.

SPEAKER_04 1:45:17

Oh, ooh. There are other force.

SPEAKER_05 1:45:21

Do you want somebody to pick up the baton?

SPEAKER_04 1:45:26

Oh, like if I if I I I can't quite get it, but someone else who uses the force can maybe curve it.

SPEAKER_05 1:45:33

Does anyone who has the move power? Could anyone who has the move power lend a hand?

SPEAKER_01 1:45:39

Does anyone have move power?

SPEAKER_05 1:45:41

Illyria, do you have the move power?

SPEAKER_00 1:45:43

No. I have heal harm. That's it.

SPEAKER_01 1:45:47

Does Savage? Savage has the move power.

SPEAKER_04 1:45:50

Does Savage have the move power? Savage wants him dead too.

SPEAKER_01 1:45:54

Do the thing.

SPEAKER_04 1:45:55

Savage does want him dead.

SPEAKER_01 1:45:57

Bloodless.

SPEAKER_04 1:45:58

Is there a way that I could communicate to Savage to curve my shot? We we want it wanted. Curve my enthusiasm, please, Savage.

SPEAKER_05 1:46:08

He rolls his force, he gets one light, one dark. That is enough to curve the bullet just enough so that you see a puff of red mist explode out of Dooku's back. Holy shit.

SPEAKER_04 1:46:27

Is that old old man dead? Did I get him?

SPEAKER_05 1:46:30

Go fire another shot! Roll your crit. Oh boy.

SPEAKER_04 1:46:34

Ooh, hang on. Nope, not that. Yeah, this is good. I'm so mad. Six! Fuck. Slow.

SPEAKER_05 1:46:46

The target can only act during the last initiative slot. Does that mean I'd be able to get a second shot? Um, yeah, so how much how much damage does your gun do? It does nine with pierce three.

SPEAKER_01 1:47:01

You can very clearly see Dooku goes back and to the left. Back and to the left.

SPEAKER_05 1:47:08

Yeah, so it's like that puff of blood, that's the exit wound. So it did it does go into his chest, explodes out his back. There's chaos, pandemonium, everybody starts freaking out. The planetary security starts like immediately jumping into action. They were already ready to go. The motorcade, like the driver steps on the gap, but there is a car in front of them, so he just kind of like crashes. Oh shit! Oh shit. Somebody else in the car, like one of the security people, tries to like cover Dooku. Does Dooku look dead dead? No. Should you fuck! Should you get out of there before somebody finds you? You look like you did seven points of wound to him after his soak.

SPEAKER_04 1:47:59

God, I could get him down.

SPEAKER_05 1:48:00

Can I get another shot? Can I get another shot, please? Uh, because he is slowed down, I'm gonna say, yeah, you can get you can take another shot at him. Fuck yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:48:13

Okay, that was four red.

SPEAKER_05 1:48:15

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:48:15

And I think that was the last destiny point that I used to do.

SPEAKER_05 1:48:18

Four red one black for his defense.

SPEAKER_04 1:48:20

Yeah. Was that the last destiny point that I used last time? Um, you have two right now.

SPEAKER_02 1:48:26

Oh. Can she add a blue because uh he's a little bit more of a stationary target?

SPEAKER_05 1:48:34

Um, no, he was stationary before.

SPEAKER_04 1:48:36

Yeah, now he's yeah. I'm gonna flip a destiny point to upgrade my role. I'm gonna take two more strains so I can aim twice. And got right, there's a blue from the prescient shot, my two blues from aiming, and then my two blues from my accurate.

SPEAKER_05 1:48:54

Yeah, so once this happens, you everybody knows Kala made the shot. Chris, do you want to look into Dooku's future and maybe give her an advantage? Actually. Yes, actually.

SPEAKER_04 1:49:06

Yes and.

SPEAKER_02 1:49:07

Yes, and uh, let me flip that sweet, sweet destiny. Uh, I got one light side.

SPEAKER_05 1:49:14

Okay, so you can use that uh to tell Kala that the driver is gonna try backing up. So she should adjust her shot to to account for that.

SPEAKER_03 1:49:25

Oh nice. Thanks, Chris.

SPEAKER_02 1:49:28

And I look directly towards you and I give you a salute. And then look, oh my god.

SPEAKER_04 1:49:32

Or welcome. Okay. Dave Falone, answer our prayers. George Lucas kinda worked last time. Pablo Hidalgo, Dave Falone, George Lucas.

SPEAKER_02 1:49:45

Hey, if I message my good friend Pablo Hildalgo right now to be like, hey, can you bless our game?

SPEAKER_04 1:49:50

I don't need his blessing, bitch. I got three success to advantage. Get fuuuuuu. What's the crit rating on your gun? It's three. I can't quite crit him.

SPEAKER_02 1:49:59

Okay. Did you add my advantage?

SPEAKER_04 1:50:02

I didn't! I got three advantage! Yeah, I can crit him! I can crit him!

SPEAKER_05 1:50:06

Alright. Fuck you! He's already got a card to crit him and add 10?

SPEAKER_04 1:50:10

Fuck you, Doo!

SPEAKER_05 1:50:11

Sure.

SPEAKER_04 1:50:12

86! Fuck you! Fuck you, old man!

SPEAKER_05 1:50:15

96, 86.

SPEAKER_04 1:50:16

86, the old man. No, 80 I rolled 76. It's 86 with the plus ten.

SPEAKER_05 1:50:21

Okay, so he's compromised. Increase the difficulty of all skill checks by one.

SPEAKER_04 1:50:26

I should hope so if he's fucking dead. Fucking best be dead! Got three success. We got damage nine. Pierce three. Come on! Let me kill him.

unknown 1:50:39

Oh.

SPEAKER_05 1:50:40

After his soak, he's at 17 of 18 wound.

SPEAKER_04 1:50:46

Can't we Illyria has heal harm! Illyria has heal harm! Maybe she just take him down that last little smidge him up away.

SPEAKER_00 1:50:54

Range band of range.

SPEAKER_04 1:50:56

Oh my god, how far away from him could you possibly be? Get it as short range, right?

SPEAKER_05 1:51:01

Savage uh smells blood. He's looking to z to Zin for the go-ahead. Do you guys give Zin the go-ahead to give Savage the go-ahead? Yes. Yeah, but the blood on the other.

SPEAKER_00 1:51:17

We don't want to be directly implicated.

SPEAKER_04 1:51:19

I guess he was he was sent along specifically to do the assassination.

SPEAKER_05 1:51:24

Yeah, so Savage charges, he brings out his lifesaber, charges towards the motorcade where Dooku has just been shot twice by a gun with bullets. Get out of there. In a world of blasters, nobody can see a bullet.

SPEAKER_04 1:51:41

And it's just kind of funny that that's the way that Dooku dies.

SPEAKER_02 1:51:45

Well, he's not dead yet.

SPEAKER_05 1:51:47

He's gonna be. When Savage jumps on Dooku, he heals six Semper Tyrannis! You know, because he's Darth Tyrannis. Oh yeah. It's really funny. We'll see if he can if he can actually do it though. I haven't rolled his critical injuries yet. So his critical injury that he took. Yeah, Stinger. So it's gonna increase the difficulty of his check. So this is gonna be a lightsaber roll against three reds, a purple, and two blacks. Savage is going to add his force onto this. He is critically injured, so he can increase his force rating to four. Lightsaber skill is pretty good. So he got three success, four threats, two triumphs, and three darks. Ooh, those threats. He's gonna use those three darks to add uh three more success, so that's six success.

SPEAKER_02 1:52:48

Not even like to get rid of the threat. This is just sad.

SPEAKER_05 1:52:52

He has one health left. Oh, well, he's he's mad. He also adds, because he is uh using his anger strength, he also adds two more damage to his rolls. So his lightsaber does 16 points of wound to Dooku.

SPEAKER_04 1:53:09

He had one health, dude. You could have gotten rid of the threat.

SPEAKER_05 1:53:13

And so he's gonna roll his crit. Dooku's got two crits, he got two triumphs, so he's gonna be able to add 30 onto whatever he rolls.

SPEAKER_02 1:53:20

Oh fuck. He doesn't need to do this. This is excessive. That's okay. We're we we live in the excessive. We don't have to do this.

SPEAKER_05 1:53:29

We love the excess. So he got 84. Ooh. Uh, that is our good old favorite, up to 114, temporarily lame. Yeah, boy. So he's Dooku is temporarily lame because after that he's fucking dead. Savage jumps onto the convertible speeder, and he swipes his lightsaber through Dooku's arm, making him lame he can't take a maneuver up through his chest just bisecting him. And then he screams and roars in triumph and is immediately shot with blasters by every security officer there.

SPEAKER_06 1:54:16

No.

SPEAKER_02 1:54:18

I mean, I saw this coming. I saw this coming.

SPEAKER_04 1:54:21

Yeah, it was kind of why he was brought along.

SPEAKER_01 1:54:28

Oh boy. I mean, he'll be lost. He will be missed. He will be missed.

SPEAKER_04 1:54:34

I think when he's done getting shot up, he is gonna be missed.

SPEAKER_01 1:54:38

We'll all have that special night of grunting together. Where we were working out and doing nothing else.

SPEAKER_05 1:54:46

So, uh, let's see. Um they're uh a minion group, so they all kind of act together. Savage has he's got a point of defense from his lightsaber, he's got two ranks of adversary, he is at short range. Um, so this is gonna be against a red, a purple, and a black for them. So the way minion groups is they add uh one rank for every member of the group beyond the first. So these guys have about altogether two dozen ranks of ranged.

SPEAKER_04 1:55:21

Two dozen.

SPEAKER_05 1:55:22

Yeah, so that is gonna be two agility, so that's gonna be two yellow, and one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty, twenty-one, twenty-two greens. Hmm. You got the button. So they got fourteen success, fourteen advantages. Uh their blasters uh do six damage. Uh base. In total? Well, the base damage is six.

SPEAKER_02 1:55:57

Oh, okay. I was about to say that seems low.

SPEAKER_05 1:55:59

Yeah, uh, plus fourteen, so they do 20 points of wound to Savage before Soak. Blasting him. He has nine points of soak, so he takes eleven points of wound.

SPEAKER_04 1:56:11

Oh my god, is he still standing? How much wound did he have?

SPEAKER_05 1:56:15

He had he has 25 wound. But then come the crits.

SPEAKER_04 1:56:19

Oh he's already taken one.

SPEAKER_05 1:56:21

Their blasters have a crit of three.

SPEAKER_04 1:56:23

Oh right, that was a lot of advantage.

SPEAKER_05 1:56:25

Yeah. Uh so they got 14 advantage, so they can uh basically do four crits. So they can do a crit and add 40 because he's already taken his crit? One!

SPEAKER_06 1:56:40

Oh yes!

SPEAKER_05 1:56:43

He's bowled over, he's knocked prone, and he suffers a strain. Did you get a fucking one out of a hundred? Yeah, they rolled a one, so they add 40 to a- Oh my god!

SPEAKER_04 1:56:55

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_05 1:56:56

Savage is still alive. For now.

SPEAKER_04 1:57:00

Yeah, fuck.

SPEAKER_02 1:57:02

Savage is kind of hero. This guy's kind of my hero. Don't fight him to the death tomorrow.

SPEAKER_00 1:57:11

Can I heal him a little bit from afar?

SPEAKER_04 1:57:13

We gotta get him out, we gotta get him home alive.

SPEAKER_05 1:57:16

I I just need him to live. The the place is filling up with like smoke from all the tabana gas from these blaster bolts. It's getting hard to see. So if you want to try and sneak in and get him out. Oh yeah, you could smuggle him away. However, they are all shooting at him, so he was folded over.

SPEAKER_04 1:57:37

He was knocked prone. Maybe he was knocked backwards off the car.

SPEAKER_05 1:57:40

Yeah, he was knocked backwards off the car. There is smoke hanging in the air as he falls down. Should we use this opportunity for all of us to escape? You could use the opportunity for all of you to escape. There'd be very little.

SPEAKER_04 1:57:53

Because like while they're getting Savage out, could I be like gathering our shit and just like, I just gotta take a trip to our car. I'll I'll be right back.

SPEAKER_05 1:58:03

This is Star Wars. Nobody knows how like if there's no blaster bolt and a guy just jumped, I think nobody's even like considering. I don't know when the last time was anybody heard a gunshot. Like guns are are very rare because blasters are so common.

SPEAKER_04 1:58:20

I also have a silencer on mine too. So even though.

SPEAKER_05 1:58:23

Oh, if you've got a suppressor, then yeah, then like nobody's gonna be able to. Especially s especially since Savage curved the bullet to come around from the front. The forensics won't make sense. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:58:34

Because like, I'm like, if they can get Savage out and I can just get our shit to our to the custard Ganon and get it ready to run. So we can just get the fuck out of here. Dooku's dead, the job's done.

SPEAKER_02 1:58:47

Yeah, let's like we don't like it. We don't even need to finish the competition. Let's get the fuck out of here.

SPEAKER_04 1:58:53

Yeah. We we did what we came here to do. Starz and you won.

SPEAKER_01 1:58:56

Yeah. Do I come back to the tournament tomorrow? No. No.

SPEAKER_04 1:59:02

Everyone's like, he was with that guy who killed Dooku. Oh, he's back. I'm pretty sure it was a good thing.

SPEAKER_01 1:59:08

Well, no, that guy who killed Dooku does did earn a spot in the uh people were saying you're gonna go after the guy.

SPEAKER_04 1:59:15

Yeah, they know that you're roommates. They know you were grunting together.

SPEAKER_01 1:59:19

Just just be like, I don't know him. Do not know this man.

SPEAKER_04 1:59:23

Look, I know there's those illicit pictures of us floating around, but I assure you.

SPEAKER_01 1:59:29

Doing manly squat thrusts. Nothing untoward.

SPEAKER_02 1:59:39

He was just having a good time. We all have good times every once in a while, squatting and thrusting. Throwing it back.

SPEAKER_04 1:59:46

Uh yeah, can I go get the Custer Gannett Prime? Make sure all our bags are back in there.

SPEAKER_05 1:59:52

Uh, roll me a stealth or a cool to avoid looking suspicious.

SPEAKER_04 1:59:56

Let's do stealth. Oh my god, what happened over there?

SPEAKER_05 2:00:01

Did we just end the war? So, everybody's on high alert. It's probably gonna be the uh higher ranking people that are gonna be must be against the vigilance then of uh the commanding officers. How vigil are they? They are two red and a purple vigilant and two red and a purple. Pretty vigilant.

SPEAKER_04 2:00:21

You have a death. You know what? I might downgrade one of those reds. Because I don't want to get caught. And I have a yellow three green to stealth. One success to advantage, baby. We're fine. Let's get the fuck out of here. I don't even have to leave any of our things behind.

SPEAKER_05 2:00:41

What do you do with you have those advantages. What do you do with uh Savage's stuff?

SPEAKER_04 2:00:45

With Savage's stuff?

SPEAKER_05 2:00:46

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 2:00:47

I mean, we're getting him out of there, right? I'll bring you stuff.

SPEAKER_05 2:00:50

Okay. Uh so you can head back to the castor Gannett, bring everybody's everything, get it ready to go. What are the rest of you doing as Savage is being shot into Swiss cheese?

SPEAKER_00 2:01:03

Can I give him a little boost? Am I close enough to give him a little boost?

SPEAKER_05 2:01:09

He's surrounded at short range by security officers that are blasting him. Try he falls behind the car, then you stop. So you could you might be able to get at the very edge of short range, but that would put you like right up against uh the soldiers.

SPEAKER_04 2:01:25

Oh, do any of you have any uh I don't necessarily want to say explosives, but anything that could make a big bang to uh make it, you know, further distraction.

SPEAKER_02 2:01:35

Um, do we have drugs? Are drugs explosive? Are drugs explosive? Is that something?

SPEAKER_04 2:01:42

Cow just got assassinated and you're like, hey everybody, free drugs! Hey everybody distraction!

SPEAKER_05 2:01:49

Distraction, distraction, distraction. Yeah, Kala didn't even need to use her drugs to upgrade her agility.

SPEAKER_04 2:01:54

Hell yeah, I can do it without the drugs.

SPEAKER_05 2:01:56

I can't assassinate somebody without drugs.

SPEAKER_04 2:02:00

I can assassinate without chemical assistance. God, I should have taken the drugs.

SPEAKER_00 2:02:05

I would be still Come to me, jungle friends.

SPEAKER_04 2:02:13

What what is okay, what's the environment like? Could there potentially be beasts around?

SPEAKER_00 2:02:18

Could I at least blow it to provide a temporary confusion to these people to stop shooting him?

SPEAKER_04 2:02:26

Why is there a bantaloing around here?

SPEAKER_00 2:02:29

No, a scarier monster.

SPEAKER_05 2:02:33

Do you want something uh that is going to be like scary or because I I I have in mind the beast that you will summon if you're if you don't specify.

SPEAKER_00 2:02:50

I mean, I'm sure they got animals around here for some sort of land or sky tournament.

SPEAKER_04 2:02:58

Are you thinking like a predator animal that people would run from or like uh summoning a herd animal to stamp it on their games?

SPEAKER_05 2:03:06

Like a stampede or something.

SPEAKER_00 2:03:08

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 2:03:09

Roll me a knowledge zoology.

SPEAKER_00 2:03:10

Because I was familiar with these games, so I could be familiar with any animals that would be around for them.

SPEAKER_05 2:03:16

Give me a two-purple knowledge Xenology.

SPEAKER_00 2:03:18

What the fuck? One advantage.

SPEAKER_05 2:03:20

Um What the fuck? You don't know of any offhand, but looking around, you can see there are a lot of uh the Atomari equivalent of pigeons.

SPEAKER_00 2:03:33

Okay.

SPEAKER_05 2:03:33

So you could.

SPEAKER_00 2:03:36

Bombs away!

SPEAKER_05 2:03:37

You can blow this beast call and these little annoying flying rats. The rats that you were prophesied have come to pass. They're little dragging wormy tails and their winged toothy mods. They start flapping around, heading towards the general area of the beast call. You're close enough to the soldiers, that the soldiers they hear the flapping of wings and they start like turning around, they're on high alert, they start blasting. And there is a lot of confusion as like this this huge flock of pigeons descends on the area as if it was scattered with rice.

SPEAKER_04 2:04:20

Yeah!

SPEAKER_00 2:04:22

Phew.

SPEAKER_03 2:04:23

Then maybe you guys are gonna do it.

SPEAKER_00 2:04:25

One day I will meet a scary beast and record its call for later use. But until then, it's just whatever.

SPEAKER_04 2:04:35

Listen, if it works.

SPEAKER_05 2:04:37

So the uh soldiers are distracted. Should flee. Get out of here.

SPEAKER_04 2:04:42

Are you guys gonna get Savage? Is Starzang gonna pick up Savage and his big muscular arms cradle your sub?

SPEAKER_01 2:04:50

I will carry Savage.

SPEAKER_05 2:04:53

Big man. So, you can add a blue for the smoke that's hanging around. You can add a blue for the pigeons. However, you are in broad daylight. This is the guy who just killed the leader of the Separatists, even though the Separatists aren't really well known here on Adumar. He was a VIP at the biggest sporting event on the planet that everybody is watching and recording. You can see news camera droids floating around watching everything that's going on. So I'm gonna say this is gonna be a five purple stealth.

SPEAKER_01 2:05:33

Someone wanna take the lead on this?

SPEAKER_02 2:05:34

Um, I'm even that good at stealth. Let's see.

SPEAKER_05 2:05:38

We don't have any destiny points currently. Uh Kala is very agile. She has good stealth, but she's gone back to the ship.

SPEAKER_04 2:05:45

Yeah, unfortunately, I think I'm the stealth person.

SPEAKER_01 2:05:48

I have three green to stealth, so.

SPEAKER_00 2:05:50

I have one yellow, one green.

SPEAKER_01 2:05:53

Oh, I'm gonna commit that dice to uh increase my uh agility. Increase your uh agility? Yeah, I forgot about that.

SPEAKER_05 2:06:00

Bringing it to three. Um, because you can uh because you've got force rating two. Yes. Okay, so you could even commit to two of them.

SPEAKER_01 2:06:08

Oh, okay. Wow, I didn't know that. Uh oh, I guess because I couldn't I could never commit two to my brawn, because then that would be seven. Yeah. Okay, so then I'll get four. I feel like Starzan commits to his brawn all the time. Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_04 2:06:21

Is there is there any way I could maybe bring the ship closer so he at least doesn't have to uh go as far?

SPEAKER_01 2:06:28

Um. One success, two threats, one triumph.

SPEAKER_04 2:06:32

Hell yeah. Also, is Zin on the ship? Zin's on the ship, right?

SPEAKER_05 2:06:35

Uh Zin is with the rest of them.

SPEAKER_04 2:06:37

Okay, good. At least we know where Zin is. I didn't want us to take off, and then it's like, by the way, you left Zin behind.

SPEAKER_01 2:06:43

No, so maybe maybe uh the the triumph is no one wants to fuck with a giant man uh fireman's carrying another giant man too.

SPEAKER_04 2:06:52

I mean you didn't get success, didn't you? Like success and threat. Yeah. Can you yeah?

SPEAKER_02 2:06:56

Can you be like, listen, he ain't heavy. He's my brother, baby.

SPEAKER_04 2:07:00

And they're like, okay.

SPEAKER_02 2:07:02

No, no, no, no.

SPEAKER_04 2:07:03

Whatever you say, large oily man.

SPEAKER_02 2:07:05

We can let him go. He's that's his that's his brother. He wouldn't lie about that, would he?

SPEAKER_01 2:07:12

Covered in oil and blood, which one is thicker? Uh-uh.

SPEAKER_05 2:07:14

Made you think. So, Starzan, you got success with Triumph. You can sneak, you can jump in very quickly, lively, oily, grab uh Savage, and hide him. You got those threat though. So the best way to get away from here without being seen is to go underground.

SPEAKER_04 2:07:35

Like underground?

SPEAKER_05 2:07:36

Yeah, you can pull up a storm read and climb down. Ah, sewers.

SPEAKER_04 2:07:40

Not sewers. Not sewers.

SPEAKER_05 2:07:44

The threat is that as you climb down, you see what makes Atomar tick. Morlocks! Is it Morlocks? Is Atomar runs almost literally on the backs of an underclass that is kept below the surface of the planet. Oh no! People working at hot machines to keep everything running being whipped and corralled by droids, not even like human slave masters. Like robots are are given to oversee the work that happens down here. And you can you can drag Savage through like these underclass work tunnels where dirty, grubby, malnourished human beings like stare at you. They have no idea what's going on up top. They're they are not a part of the society. But also, the fact that they're that you ha you can go down here, there's all these tunnels under here. You'd you may not know how to get back to the spaceport. Oh shit.

SPEAKER_02 2:08:53

I swear we could have I sworn we could have we should have uh parked in the itchy lot. I'm gonna try looking around. Can we can I perceive? Can I perceive or like can I do a words can I do a foresight to see if I can we can uh uh find our location sooner? Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 2:09:12

Where does Starzan have to go to get out of here?

SPEAKER_05 2:09:14

Yeah, if you if you if you want okay, uh Chris, roll me your foresight then. Okay.

SPEAKER_00 2:09:19

Can I just roll intelligence to know where the ship is.

SPEAKER_05 2:09:23

Well, if if Starzan cause Starzan would have snuck, he would have grabbed Savage, jumped underground. The rest of you can are still above ground. Uh I rolled one dark side, but I'm gonna use it. Okay. So you know that Starzan is not the brightest bulb. So you can see in Starzan's future that he is you can sense like fresh air, you can get a glimpse of like going from darkness into light. This stupid fucking idiot. Uh he is going completely the opposite direction, but as annoyed as you are, you know where he's gonna end up. You know which wrong exit he's going to take. And when he pushes open the grate and climbs out of the Moorlock caves, uh you can be there waiting smugly. I knew you'd take the wrong route.

SPEAKER_02 2:10:14

I don't I don't want to ru uh rub my uh ability in your face, but uh since nobody wanted to take it away from me, I'm gonna use it to be a complete shithead. But so much rubbing this time.

SPEAKER_01 2:10:27

A lot of rubbing lift Savage up.

SPEAKER_05 2:10:31

Yeah, so uh helping Starzan up after that weird route he took, you can take him back to the spaceport where Kala is getting the ship tuned up and turned on. Yeah, it is. And all of you, Zin, Savage, Starzan, Valeria, Kala, and Chris, can blast off from Adumar. Now, and a major assassination has taken place. Adumar is not just the planet of dueling. The best fighter pilots in the galaxy are from Adumar. And many of them are members of the planet's local security forces. Uh-oh. They see a random ship blasting off when the planet has been locked down. They are on your tail.

SPEAKER_02 2:11:19

Can we wait instead? Can we like wait it out? No, I guess we couldn't. Okay.

SPEAKER_04 2:11:24

Nope, nope, you know what? We got this. You know what? We got this. We got this. We got this. And you know why we got this? Cause I got impact, baby! I had to alight off the steering wheel! Or get the fuck out of here!

SPEAKER_01 2:11:38

It's like your spinach.

SPEAKER_04 2:11:44

Kala's pupils go as wide as dinner plates. I'm in the zone. I'm gonna do piloting space. I'm gonna get this the fuck out of here.

SPEAKER_01 2:11:53

The spice is essential to space travel.

SPEAKER_02 2:11:55

Now that I know that uh what f uh Words foresight does. I'm gonna uh abuse it.

SPEAKER_04 2:12:02

I was gonna say it's like you're figuring out how to use Ward's foresight. It's like every single roll, like okay.

SPEAKER_00 2:12:08

I plot us a course with a few jumps to lose their trail.

SPEAKER_05 2:12:12

Alright, uh give me a you're gonna do you're doing this under duress. I'm gonna give you a destiny point here, uh that maybe Kala can use to evade the cops. Uh so that'll be a red, a purple, and a black astrogation, since you're plotting just a couple of jumps. Unless. Two success. Oh, no, you got two success.

SPEAKER_04 2:12:33

Okay. Woo!

SPEAKER_05 2:12:34

I was gonna say, unless you wanted to uh attempt some light speed skipping. Potentially, I mean I might just end up doing that all on my own anyways. So, uh, two success. You can plot these courses. Uh it's not gonna help Kala in any way, though. So Kala, this is gonna be piloting versus piloting.

SPEAKER_06 2:12:52

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 2:12:53

So you're gonna have to outfly these guys. Uh this ship is pretty light. It does have a plus one to handling, so you can add a blue. But you're gonna be piloting against three red and a purple.

SPEAKER_04 2:13:07

Ooh, three red and a purple.

SPEAKER_05 2:13:09

They're sending their aces after you.

SPEAKER_04 2:13:12

Okay.

SPEAKER_05 2:13:13

Uh I got Ilyria is astrogating in the co-pilot seat, so you can't have any help there.

SPEAKER_04 2:13:19

Okay. Uh, I don't suppose either of you want to co-pilot, huh? Oh no, wait, in the co-pilot seat.

SPEAKER_02 2:13:25

Yeah, I if if I if I can like if I can help her out in any way, um, whether it be being a co-pilot or uh, there is a gunner's station. Am I am I good at gunnery? Let's see.

SPEAKER_05 2:13:38

It's not like a full turret, it's just like a uh a little console on the wall. I could I could gun.

SPEAKER_04 2:13:45

Yeah. At least, you know, try to make them scatter a little bit.

SPEAKER_05 2:13:49

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 2:13:49

Is okay, is there the piloting equivalent of aiming? I I've never really done piloting that much.

SPEAKER_05 2:13:56

So a maneuver you can take is uh an evasive maneuver to upgrade the difficulty of all attacks against you. Um, or you can stay on target. Uh, or you can punch it. The ship immediately accelerates to its maximum speed, suffering strain per speed gr gained. You can uh angle the deflector shields as a maneuver. Um you can aim, but n that's only for gun ring.

SPEAKER_04 2:14:24

Um, maybe I'll uh punch it.

SPEAKER_05 2:14:27

Okay, so accelerating to your maximum speed.

SPEAKER_04 2:14:30

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 2:14:31

So uh the ship is going to take some strain, then you're pushing it faster than it should be able to go. So you we can say that can add a blue here.

SPEAKER_04 2:14:41

Okay. And what do we have for destiny?

SPEAKER_05 2:14:43

Got one.

SPEAKER_04 2:14:44

Got one. I'm gonna flip it to downgrade. Because my impact lets me upgrade, and that way we're at least evenly matched, plus I get a blue. Let's see. Baby, three success, one threat, and a triumph. We're getting the fuck out of here.

SPEAKER_07 2:15:01

Oh baby, we're getting the fuck out of here.

SPEAKER_05 2:15:04

So, yeah, your ship does take a little bit of extra system strain. It rattles all around you, but you can punch the throttle. Blast out of the atmosphere as the aces of Adam are, the starfighters of Adam are you might say, uh, give chase, but you're just a little bit faster. You have more reason to fly better. This is a life and death situation. You are a little bit higher, both uh in terms of physical distance and out of your fucking mind. Of course, and with the lyria's coordinates punched in, you can jump into hyperspace, blasting to wherever it is, eventually heading back home with Dooku dead in the back seat of a convertible down on the planet, and the forces of the separatist army now under the control of General Grievous.

SPEAKER_02 2:16:05

Oh, well, we know who we gotta kill next.

SPEAKER_05 2:16:09

So things have changed. We don't know how, but there's probably gonna be a lot more massacres next time on Star Wars Empire Wreckers. This episode of Empire Wreckers is brought to you by our top patrons, Alphabros 522, David B. Eric Charles Perazzo, Jeffrey Zamuto, Joshua Winter, Laser, LKB, Suki Nintendo, Thomas Davidson, and Vaginator.