Empire Wreckers
A Star Wars actual play podcast using the Fantasy Flight Games system. Each 3-season campaign follows a group of intergalactic misfits as they try their best to save the galaxy... or destroy it.
Empire Wreckers
S14E10 - Fighting Shadows
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SPEAKER_06What do we do to earn that? Yeah, what the fuck? I don't remember that conversation happening anywhere.
SPEAKER_02Don't worry, baby. I got a response for this one.
SPEAKER_07Callisette's ready to have the vibe of a used condom, as as you will always find her crumpled up on the sidewalk with something leaking out of her. Tears, because I'm depressing.
unknownOkay.
SPEAKER_06Hello, uh, je m'appelle uh Gressant, and I had never used a condom up until a certain point in my life, and I have regretted it ever since.
SPEAKER_07Whoa, does Chris have illegitimate children running about?
SPEAKER_06Well no, he's been a Jedi.
SPEAKER_07Oh yeah.
SPEAKER_04Well does he have um space clap or something?
SPEAKER_06I've got a raging itch. It is redder than hell.
SPEAKER_03Oh, the only reason Starzan was found on the street was because he fell through a window. He starzan fell six stories after a stunt went wrong filming a hollow neck drama. Starzan has been trying for so long to get stronger security and safety precautions in the workplace. Starzan is not just a communist. Starzan, look out for whole cast and crew.
SPEAKER_02And Deliria looked at the dark blue tampon applicator lying outside in her alleyway and thought, oh my god, me. Do you ever feel like an attendance applicator floating in a puddle? Wanted to start again.
SPEAKER_00And if you're ready to reflect on what you've done, why don't you come along with us to a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away in Star Wars? The Imperial Knights have splintered. After slaughtering the Jedi Council and helping Darth Vader take control of their temple, four of the founding members of the Knights have declared war against the Empire. Warped by their own lust for power, the traitorous felons aided a group of Jedi cultists in their escape from justice, destroying the loyal crew of an Imperial starship in the process. With the traitors disappearing to parts unknown, the allies and associates of the Rogue Knights are being sought for questioning by the Empire's top agents.
SPEAKER_06We didn't do anything, we swear.
SPEAKER_07Look, I'm just saying, we're in transit, and I'll let you finish your intro, but then I need to roll a discipline check because I have a whole thing I need to talk to everyone about.
SPEAKER_00Well, you can be in transit to the planet Alishan, where you're gonna set up your new base. Uh so roll your discipline, give me a three purple. I'll give you Destiny Point back, actually. We'll make it a red and two purple.
SPEAKER_07Red and two purple for my discipline. Yeah, because you do. Just to see how fucked up I am for this. Oh no! Um failure and a threat!
SPEAKER_06Oh no!
SPEAKER_07Uh, Kala does not I fail to preserve my drugs. I'm gonna be fucking uh high as a kite. Yeah, you're fine, you're high.
SPEAKER_00You're just gonna face penalties for the rest of the session.
SPEAKER_07That's that's that's cool. That's cool.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, you took you did take some drugs, so you can be normal uh for whatever it is you're about to do here.
SPEAKER_07Okay. While we're in transit, I need to call everyone together. I'm a little okay. So I was like a little, a little fucked up last time, right? Right? Okay. I still am. I'm still anxious. Last time was two it feels like it was two weeks ago, but it was just like a couple hours for us, right? So now we're not with the appeal knights anymore. Every ever we're on that same page? We're on that same page. I'm normal, don't worry about it. But that means we have a lot of things that we need to figure out how to tie up here. Okay.
SPEAKER_06We all entered the room at this point. Hey, how's it going?
SPEAKER_01What's going on?
SPEAKER_07Yeah, Cala was like facing a window and she thought everyone was in the room, but you were just walking through the hallway behind it. Talk about the dungeon. I'm a dog talk about the dungeon. You resay all of that stuff and then you walk in and Cala has her fucking Pepe Sylvia board up behind her. Chris, Zinn is still on Coruscant. You was she was your tabloid GF, and now it's known that you're we we gotta we gotta figure out something for Zen. We gotta figure out how to help Zinn. That's issue the first, right? Okay. I agree. Issue issue issue the second. So so uh Oh Jesus Christ.
SPEAKER_06Would you like to sit down? You feel as I feel as though you should sit down.
SPEAKER_07Okay, yeah, no, I've been uh how how long would we have been in transit?
SPEAKER_00It's a fairly lengthy trip. You would have had some time, although it is also a pretty cramped vessel, so you don't want to take any longer than you need with all the people that are crammed in there.
SPEAKER_07Okay, so I'm I okay, I had everything that I wanted to mention, like typed out, and then it got deleted, so I'm like, fuck, now I gotta remember everything.
SPEAKER_06Like in real life, or did your character do this?
SPEAKER_07In real life, I had it all written down so Cala wouldn't be stammering quite this much. But I'm stammering. She deleted it. Did everyone come in here? Or am I just looking at a window again? Is Gray here?
SPEAKER_04Well, we're all here. Everybody's there.
SPEAKER_07Okay. Now, way, way back, this is before we knew most of you. It was our first mission before we even joined the SBI. There was that planet we went to. Now, if we're if we're forming a rebellion, do you remember that planet? It was all full of the crystals, right? And the and the healing waters. Now we have a bunch of Jedi, and a bunch of Jedi who are starting to join us who don't have the lightsabers anymore, but those crystals were used for weapons. So if we we can't get to Ilum, right? But if we need to like rebuild lightsabers or we build rebuild weaponry, we get those crystals. And also, like those hillbellies, those embrides have been kicked out of that city for a while, so like maybe the healing waters are back if we need healing waters. Grey, does SBI know about that? Or ISB, do you remember?
SPEAKER_00Well, all of your missions that you undertook uh for the service corps are, of course, uh in your files. I do remember reading something about a mission to Bimis. Kind of actually, it sort of uh gave me an idea that maybe you guys would be uh end up being pretty good at your jobs, because as I recall, that particular mission was off the books. Um Hallan kind of uh I don't want to say kidnapped you, but uh he pretty pretty quickly absconded with you from from your ship, I believe.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, yeah, okay. But like that's not something that uh ISB was like, hey, right, healing waters, we should go check that out.
SPEAKER_00Like that's Well, the veracity of any miraculous waters is uh well, I mean, it's up in the air.
SPEAKER_07I mean, Sazan had some from a well, and like he immediately got feeling better. So it's like there was like a well where the water was still okay. It was just like the main source that was in this city was all full of piss and shit and stuff. So you couldn't like I I think I tried to drink some, don't worry about that, but I got it hurt me. But maybe it's better now because we kicked out all those inbrits.
SPEAKER_00I would say that Miraculous Healing Waters um would not be the uh under the purview of the ISB. If anyone's gonna be investigating that, it would likely be uh your previous order, the Imperial Knights.
SPEAKER_07Okay, good, and I don't think any of the Imperial Knights should know about that. I don't think we would have mentioned it. Like, that was so far back. That was so long ago. That was so long ago, right?
SPEAKER_00Okay, now Unless anybody's reading the uh the logs from the service corps.
SPEAKER_07What are the odds of that? Right, right, I'm not gonna be able to do that.
SPEAKER_00I know the uh knights are not a very studious bunch from what I've observed.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, they're f fucking shitty as hell.
SPEAKER_00How uh attentive is the uh curator of your archives?
SPEAKER_07Uh oh, because that's oh fucking Ranala. No, she would She's a mess. Oh, speaking of Renala, okay, that's another loose end. That's another loose end, okay? So there's Ranala. Now remember, we met Ranala, and it was when we were going to that planet, right, with that Jedi. Cause uh because we were getting the crown back, the crown of Verity, from that Jedi, which might be a very good art uh uh uh uh the uh what's the word I'm looking for? Artifact. A very useful artifact to get at some point. But this planet, that was the planet where it was like the Sith and the Jedi who are just like growing together and live together, and it was like a peaceful society, because something I'm worried about, and like I know that a lot of you here are like Jedi and former Jedi, but I'm like I'm fucking worried. I'm like pointing up at my my board, my Pepe Sylvia board again, because like you see, we get enough Jedi, right? But none of you know how to not be Jedi, y'all. Like, that's the only thing you know. See, you just try to become Jedi again, and then it's the whole fucking issue again because the Jedi fell. But like maybe this planet could teach us like a little bit about like how to bring together, you know, conflicting philosophies and make them work in harmony. But Ranella knows about it. I don't know if Ranella would care, but like really think of it, because Renella's like, she's fucking dumb as hell. You remember Ranella, right? But like she she knows. And we remember we paid her off to stay quiet, but I don't know, I don't know how long that would go. I don't know how long that would go now that we're gone. AWOL. Uh oh, I feel like I need some some more. No, I I only have one dose left. I gotta try to try to I'm coming down. I'm coming down a little bit. Hang on.
SPEAKER_06Um I I I I'm starting to uh other than uh trying to figure out how to get Zen out of this here, I'm also trying to figure out like, is now the time that we should um is now the time that we should intervention? Now feels like the time that we should intervention. Maybe not right now. Up the right this very second. If not, but like you know, eventually but like, you know, let's let's let's put it on the calendar.
SPEAKER_07It's it's it's you know.
SPEAKER_06Can we have an episode where it's just like it was just like the entire episode is like uh her dealing with the dru her drug habit.
SPEAKER_07That could be the first episode of season three. Just like, okay, the battle is won. Time to deal with the cala problems.
SPEAKER_04Let's have an intervention.
SPEAKER_07Yeah. Oh, okay. But no, wait, the uh the next there's another thing. I had a list, I lost my list. I'm trying to go off the board. Everyone, everyone be cool. Like, look, this is as much for me as it is for everyone else. Just so we all know the things that are bothering me, because I know that you all need to know what is bothering me at all times. Right? Right? Right. Okay, there was that fucking pregnant Jedi. You remember her with the Mandalorians? Those Mandalorians were all clones, what are they doing? Are they are they like not not bri br mind-jacked? Are they okay? What are they up to? Could they help us? Because we helped that Jedi. Maybe those those clones would want to help us too because we got her off the hook. We even though we could totally could have turned her in. Sorry, Gray, we kind of lied about that. You're gonna come across a lot of that as I'm going over these things, and I hope you don't take that personal like.
SPEAKER_00I'm no longer with the ISB, I have no professional obligation to act on the uh intelligence you're giving me, but I can speak to the uh nature of the clones. The um clone commando units, uh, as far as I'm aware, don't have any exemptions. So if this Jedi completely trusted these clones, I would hazard a guess that either she or the clones are now dead.
SPEAKER_07I mean, maybe, maybe, maybe. We can check into it though, right? Like we look at it. Because like, look, if they're not, if they're not, if they're not, eh, if they're not, if they're not. Oh, okay.
SPEAKER_00Uh Do you have uh any names? Maybe I can uh put out some feelers.
SPEAKER_07Oh, that was um a tane? Was it a tane? Was the Jedi?
SPEAKER_00The Jedi matters I don't have access to, but potentially uh the clones I could track down.
SPEAKER_07Oh, there was one uh Damen. I think was like her her her her baby daddy or whatever.
SPEAKER_00Do you have any numbers?
SPEAKER_07Bruh no, I don't have numbers. Alright, I'll know the numbers.
SPEAKER_00I'll see what I can do. Just write write them down and I'll I'll see what I can do.
SPEAKER_07Okay, we'll we'll write those down. You maybe see if you can look into it. And what else? Uh what else? Oh, yeah, great. So, okay, I don't know if this is this is like probably isn't a priority right now, but like maybe it's a priority. So do you remember that time we brought you back that droid, and like that droid we were like, yeah, you can be safe in the Republic. We can uh guarantee that you'll be safe, and and then you ripped out its brain and you plugged it into computers to get information out of it.
SPEAKER_00Well I didn't. Well, our technicians did. Oh yes, of course.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, the the organization ripped out its brain and felt real weird about it. Because like, you know, personal, personal investment, I would maybe like to get that droid back at some point. Because like we didn't make a promise to it, and you did kind of make a liar out of us. I'm not mad about that still, we're all on the same side again. Um, but also, you know, it's been plugged into Imperial Intelligence. Like, maybe, maybe, who knows? But like that's right, that's backburner stuff. That's backburner stuff.
SPEAKER_00Well, I will say, uh, the droid, as far as I'm aware, was uh installed into our mainframe uh on Coruscant. So it would be there, it would be plugged in directly into our systems. If it is still uh independent, then it would have certainly downloaded a large amount of information, or at least had that come through. I did mention that uh off the books prison. If perhaps any of your associates would have been arrested by the ISB, it's likely they would have been taken there. And although I do not know the location of the prison, it's possible that droid might.
SPEAKER_07Okay. And that's like where uh because like there's severance, there's severance for Elyria, and like, you know, maybe if if that's what happened to Zinn, like maybe we can you know, okay. I I'm gonna sit down and just kind of like I think that's everything.
SPEAKER_06I I give I give her a glass of water.
SPEAKER_07Thank you. I think I've been awake for like 36 hours or something. I'm a little that's crazy.
SPEAKER_02Uh I just want to say some advice from Master uh Dalai. Uh I was always told that if there is a solution to a problem, there's no need to worry. And if there is no solution, then there's no need to worry. So just don't worry about it.
SPEAKER_06So there's just no need to worry in gen in general? That's that's bad advice.
SPEAKER_02I I feel like uh that's Jedi advice.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, the Jedi who like, you know, you remember when I was like, hey, maybe we need to go to this planet to see if like we can find a new way to exist that's not just like repeating the mistakes of the Jedi. I feel like, hey man, don't worry about it. Got killed.
SPEAKER_06That it does feel like we've made more mistakes of the Jedi.
SPEAKER_07Look, we don't need to be going and replicating Jedi mistakes.
SPEAKER_00I I think I think Master Delai, um, wasn't he the Jedi master who uh used to ask his Padawans to suck on his tongue?
SPEAKER_02On his what? On his what? What? It was it was a Dalai Lama quote.
SPEAKER_07Oh, oh Master Delai. Man, I'm dumb as hell. I didn't get that at all. That was clever.
SPEAKER_04It just means you're not on the same horrible place on the internet that we are.
SPEAKER_07Yeah. Not on the same wavelength, man. I okay. God, I feel like I'm- I feel like I'm forgetting something. I feel like I'm looking back at my board. I'm looking back at my board, just like maybe I need to stay awake. Maybe I need to keep thinking about this. Oh yeah, no, everyone's together. Okay, okay, one last thing. I feel like we should just get everyone on Front Street about this. Like, you know, no secrets among all of us. I hope the rest of the group agrees, because I'm just gonna spit it out, okay? Uh, Grace, you remember when you showed us that picture of uh of Darth Maul and we were like never heard of him? We heard of him. Um, we're in contact with him, kind of helping us on the side. Just don't want anyone to find out about that later and be feeling betrayed. Anything, you know, we're all in Front Street. We're all we're all being straight with each other.
SPEAKER_00So the fact that you said you've been in contact with him, um, that the implication there is that he is alive?
SPEAKER_07Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Okay.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, super heckin' alive.
SPEAKER_04Um uh possibly a force ghost. We uh we may need to take a look at it. Have we touched him?
SPEAKER_02Do we know if he's wait. Have we touched him? Is he physical? Do we know he's a force ghost?
SPEAKER_07I mean, I'm pretty sure that I got like throttled by him. I got choked by the ghost.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, you guys fought him. He was he had big spider legs. He probably got those fixed. Yeah.
SPEAKER_02What if they were ghost legs?
SPEAKER_00Oh my god.
SPEAKER_07Elyria, I got physically choked out by him.
SPEAKER_04You've ever been choked by a ghost before?
SPEAKER_07I don't think that makes sense. Maybe I have.
SPEAKER_04Maybe you have.
SPEAKER_07No, look, he's uh he's alive, and he has no love for the Empire either. He was actually the one who kind of like got us, you know, on the right track with understanding um what how how uh how bad things things were in some ways. I know that sounds really bad, but also, you know, I I don't know how else to put that. I've been awake for 36 hours. How's everyone else feeling about this? Because I feel I feel real good. I feel much better now.
SPEAKER_02I I mean I'm glad you got that out.
SPEAKER_06It is a good idea to uh set a uh range of priorities.
SPEAKER_03Uh Starzan listen and Starzan not judge.
SPEAKER_07Well, Starzan, you're supposed to listen and understand. It's time to understand my anxieties. It's not about judging and not judging. You're supposed to just go, ah! Well, no, you don't have to actually do that. That's uh probably not helpful.
SPEAKER_06Also, uh uh Starzan with anxiety is a very funny concept.
SPEAKER_07The least anxious character we've ever had.
SPEAKER_04And Zap.
SPEAKER_07And Zap rows down.
SPEAKER_02So you're telling me that we've up until this point, and maybe continuing from this point, have done bad jobs and have left a lot of loose ends.
SPEAKER_07No, it's not about look, we we didn't do bad jobs, but it's like we there's there are some loose ends, and now we gotta try to, you know, fix them up before like, you know, because we gotta if if if if the Imperial Knights stop pulling on those loose ends, like that could be bad for us. But if we tie them up, nice and nice and neat, nice and neat, nice and neat. And of course, like there's all the stuff with Severance and Elyri's mom, and like that's a whole thing. Oh, oh, oh, Starzan, and your uncle's still on Corusant. You're sh you're certainly traitorous uncle that we don't know anything else about. Um, but like, I don't know if he's safe, if you care, but you know, that that's you.
SPEAKER_00Well, I don't uh I mean, obviously I've been keeping an eye on you guys. Um Senator Keldor has not uh done anything that would suggest that he is in any way uh an enemy of the Empire. Take that as you will.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, no, I mean that like not traitorous, it's just like, you know, he's an uncle in a royal line, and I feel like that's just like a traitorous archetype of person.
SPEAKER_04Traitorous occupation.
SPEAKER_02Ah, like scab from the space lion king. Yes, sorry though.
SPEAKER_04Or um space.
SPEAKER_07You know, they have scars in space still. From the the Nexus king. This is different.
SPEAKER_02This is a different thing.
SPEAKER_04What would be the Star Wars version of a lion?
SPEAKER_07A Nexu. He's the Nexu King. Nexu king. Scab is just like a really grusty Nexu.
SPEAKER_02He even he doesn't have a scar from fighting.
SPEAKER_00He's like, I mean, they they they have lions.
SPEAKER_02What? Do they they're just lions drinking hot chocolate.
SPEAKER_07Okay. I think that was all the things that were that were pressing on my mind. And and and then like everyone's all on the same page for like things that we might need to be worrying about. Cause like, you know, if you if you guys aren't freaking out, I feel like you're not worrying enough.
SPEAKER_06So I am Well, we we did just betray the in and the an entire government, so uh I'm I I have been freaking out, in fact. I have been made I have been uh riped with anxiety, and uh usually when I take a little bit of drugs that calms me down.
SPEAKER_02But um I thought we were trying to totally didn't need to stop taking drugs. We were literally just talking about Wait, what are you talking about?
SPEAKER_06No, no, no. It's good for other people though. For for for for for the for the life of me, I feel as though you are taking the wrong drugs.
SPEAKER_07No, look, I I'm gonna I gotta be careful because I only got one left and one dose left. I don't know when I'm gonna be able to get more. So it's like, you know, we're gonna do meditation. We're gonna be fine. Fine, fine.
SPEAKER_02I think we need to stay on this vessel for at least a month.
SPEAKER_07We're gonna be uh fine and and funky fresh and everything's gonna be good. Yeah, well, I feel better. Okay. I'm I'm gonna go to sleep for a little bit, I think. Okay, goodbye.
SPEAKER_06Can can she go walk out of the room. Can she roll to go to sleep sleep to see how success successful she is?
SPEAKER_00So uh you're in a uh Silhouette 3 light freighter.
SPEAKER_07This is my bedroom. I just curl up in a corner.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, especially with all the uh extra passengers you've got. There is nowhere for you to go.
SPEAKER_07I will just uh I'll go to the corner here and I'll just try to um make the best of it.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, everybody has been watching this, including the kids.
SPEAKER_02I'm glad I couldn't bring up the time that we killed all those possessed kids. I almost did.
SPEAKER_07Look, they were evil. Well, they were they were they were then look, that's not the same. Oh yeah, and obviously there's I was just like from the ground, like before I go to sleep, just like and you know what? Obviously, there's like the master coro stuff. But like that's that's like you know, we don't need to worry about that. We all know about that. Anyways, okay. Uh goodnight.
SPEAKER_06Hey, good night and have yourself a pleasant tomorrow.
SPEAKER_04It's what time is it? Well it's morning now.
SPEAKER_06Yeah. It's okay. We're we're gonna let her we're gonna let her do her thing. She is just going to go bedti time.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, you can you can stew uh as you uh take the rest of your trip to Alishan, and eventually you can arrive at this planet that is off the maps but on the chist star charts, and the direct coordinates from Severance Tan's data pad lead you toward uh this mountain range, this almost like a Mongolian steppe, uh where there is first you see kind of sprawled out the these ancient almost runways or landing pads that have been eroded with with age over the centuries. And at the end of those runways seems to be a spaceport terminal, uh not a massive sprawling complex, but like the kind that you'd see for like a like a mid-side city, like a Saskatoon airport terminal. Uh and it's kind of like nestled into the base of this mountain, and that seems to be where the uh coordinates are leading you to.
SPEAKER_07Okay, shall we go land at this spaceport? This tiny spaceport.
SPEAKER_06Can I roll to see if she's able to wake up?
SPEAKER_07I'm trying to like Yeah, it took us like another 36 hours to get there, and Cala's still asleep.
SPEAKER_00Oh what's your brawl? My brawl? Yeah.
SPEAKER_06My brawl is too green.
SPEAKER_00Okay, roll it against Kala's resilience to see if you can shake her awake. What's your resilience?
SPEAKER_07Oh, let's see. Oh, actually, I think my resilience is decent, but like uh Aeon.
SPEAKER_06I don't know why I keep putting on these problems to myself here. I don't know why I'm doing this. I feel like it's just funny storytelling.
SPEAKER_07Why do I even care about my co my co-worker? No, my resilience is only too green, so uh too purple.
SPEAKER_06Too purple. Uh, not a D100. There we go. Uh to success, but too threat. Okay. That's precisely the type of uh role I was looking for.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, so you can shake her awake, but Kala like bolts straight up. Like like she's out of a nightmare.
SPEAKER_06Absolutely, absurdity, I absurd.
SPEAKER_07I thought it was gonna be that you shook me too hard and you gave me shaken cowl syndrome. Oh no! No! No, that's not it at all! No, Cala just wakes up freaking out. I'm having nightmares about my dark passenger or something. Why are you shaking me? Why are you shaking me, Chris?
SPEAKER_06We uh we are uh uh uh we uh to our destination.
SPEAKER_07Oh okay. Yeah, you're not all dead.
SPEAKER_06Uh not so far. It's at least as far as uh I can see, of course. Okay, and I uh are you are you okay? Do you need uh another hour or so? Or how are you feeling?
SPEAKER_07No, no, I'm uh I'm I'm I'm I gotta fly the ship. I gotta fly the ship. I'm okay. I'm- I I I'm good for I'm good, I'm good. Since I did get some sleep, would I still have my uh my impact penalty for the rest of the game?
SPEAKER_00Um how long did you sleep? I feel like since you got jolted awake.
SPEAKER_07I feel like I was sleeping for a while already.
SPEAKER_00I mean, ru rules is written, it's until the re it's the remainder of the session.
SPEAKER_07Meh, okay. Fine. Now I'll go in I'll go I'll go pilot us down to the spaceport.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, there there's nothing uh treacherous about this landing, so I'm not gonna make you roll. Uh as you approach the spaceport, you can see from a distance it looks like a spaceport, but as you get closer, as you stop looking at like the runways and the landing pads, the architecture very much reminds you of the archaeological pictures and footage and holograms that you've seen of the old Jedi Temple on Tython. So it's like round buildings uh with these sort of like sloped roofs, almost like a like a yurt shape almost. And the datapad that you got from Severance Tan, it did say that they found like a temple or something, that's something that seemed to be a Jedi temple. So this may have been like a Jedi spaceport or something. It's hard to tell just from the exterior, but uh upon bringing the ship in, it definitely doesn't seem to be, at least not overtly threatening with its design. It doesn't uh line up with any markers of any ancient uh Sith architecture that you've found over your travels.
SPEAKER_07Not something. Is there any any signs of life here, or is this just like an abandoned temple?
SPEAKER_00No signs of life. The runways are eroded, there are no ships there. When you set down, you can see that uh there is a door to the terminal that is open and it's kind of been exposed to the elements.
SPEAKER_07Are there any signs of unlife? Are we gonna be menaced by ghosts?
SPEAKER_00You don't feel any, like, no shivers up your spine.
SPEAKER_07Okay, there's that. We wanna go and investigate this place.
SPEAKER_06We ought to. I feel I feel like if we just turned around now, that would be a little bit more than a little bit. Now let's go home.
SPEAKER_07Let's go back to the Imperial Knights.
SPEAKER_06I have decided I have decided that we are not going to take it.
SPEAKER_07We've changed our minds.
SPEAKER_04All security is more important than freedom. Than doing the right thing.
SPEAKER_07Eh, doing the right things never helped us. In any of our programs.
SPEAKER_00You can disembark. Uh the planet is a little bit chilly. Uh, there's no snow on the ground, but it is cold and wintry. The planet itself doesn't seem particularly lush. There's kind of sparse grass. Uh the mountains, they are very rocky. Doesn't seem like a place that, if you decided to stay here, would be particularly easy to uh set up like farms or agriculture. You don't really notice any animals, but that may just be because they're not visible right now. They may even have hidden from you as you approached. You don't get a sense of death here, though. It doesn't seem like it's uh a desolate place. Just uh just untamed and out of the way.
SPEAKER_07Okay, and that's fine.
SPEAKER_00And as you enter, you can feel that that chill is inside the airport terminal as well. It's not windy in there, uh, but there is no power. So it is it is quite dark.
SPEAKER_07Does it look like there's uh is kind of looking around as much as we can, does it look like there's any evidence of electrical things there? Like, is it like no electricity or just like generators dead?
SPEAKER_00It seems like there's no electricity, like there's no emergency lights. Um, Illyria, you can see just fine in the darkness, but anybody else who activates a uh a glow lamp or a glow rod can potentially look around as well. And you notice that it does just seem to be a like it's still got that that Jedi architectural style, as if the Jedi built an airport. It has all the amenities that you might find in a regular airport. There's rows of seats, there are like old abandoned kiosks and like a couple of stores that seem to have been long pilfered or decayed or gotten to by animals. And on the walls, as like the primary form of decoration, are these massive like stone-carved murals of uh these three beings.
SPEAKER_07Ooh, what are the beings?
SPEAKER_00So you can see kind of a a repeated motif. Uh, one of the beings is like an old man with a long beard, uh, and there is also a younger man and a younger woman. And of the three of them, the younger woman definitely seems to be the one that is the most heavily represented in the murals and the statues and the art surrounding the spaceport.
SPEAKER_07Okay. Is there anything we could roll to like kind of know what these refer to?
SPEAKER_00Uh that'd be a knowledge lore. Knowledge lore.
SPEAKER_02Ba-ba-ba-ba. Knowledge lore.
SPEAKER_00How many's? Three purple and a black. Jesus Christ.
SPEAKER_07Three purple and a black. Ooh.
SPEAKER_06That's a lot of lore.
SPEAKER_02Four success, two threat.
SPEAKER_06Holy shit, Illyria got it. Three failures. I'm good.
SPEAKER_02I feel like every time I do a knowledge check and succeed, you just gotta say nerd.
SPEAKER_07And let's see. I wasn't gonna roll, but if Chris did. Oh my god, two success, four threat.
SPEAKER_02Ooh.
SPEAKER_07On my two green. That I I can't believe that worked. Kind of.
SPEAKER_04I also wasn't going to do it, but now I feel like you've been pre- you've been peer pressured.
SPEAKER_07Well, if everyone's doing it.
SPEAKER_04Uh two failures and one threat. Okay. Worth trying. Not really, but.
SPEAKER_00So uh Illyria and Kala. You don't know that much information. You got that threat, so the information that you have is more like rumor or stories or uh nothing that's like 100% historical and nothing that is uh potentially like a clue as to what this particular uh spaceport was doing here. But you do remember having noticed or encountered or read about during your time with the service corps that there is in a lot of ancient cultures this sort of recurring motif of uh a trio of deities, a son, a daughter, and uh a father. But where's the mom? But beyond that, uh Illyria, do you do you say that out loud?
SPEAKER_07Show me the mommy!
SPEAKER_02Show me the mommy. Yes, I do love showing off my knowledge.
SPEAKER_00Okay, yeah, so Elyria, as you whisper, where's the mom? Callie got four threat. You feel in the pit of your stomach like a brief nodding when she asks that. You don't know why. But you d but you do just something something clenches inside you when Illyria asks. It shouldn't. You have no reason for that to clench, but uh nevertheless it happens.
SPEAKER_07Umlyria will go, where's the mom? And I'll just go what the fuck? Make that noise.
SPEAKER_02I am sorry. I'm sorry for triggering you.
SPEAKER_07No, it's not like that. It's just I don't know, it just felt all funny. I'm fine.
SPEAKER_06It's fine.
SPEAKER_07I'm fine.
SPEAKER_06I was very I was very curious as to those noises, but that's okay.
SPEAKER_07You know, it's like you just feel something like inside of you, and you'll feel a little a little throw-up junior, as it were. Yeah, I tell a little throw-up junior, maybe like everything just kind of clenched all at once. It's like, ooh.
SPEAKER_02A throw up a junior. A throw-up junior.
SPEAKER_00Sometimes a throw-up junior with cheese, please. So stars and you also got threat. You didn't succeed, so you don't know who these people are. Um but as you're exploring, because you're talking about food, you notice that unfortunately, like anything that may have been like non-perishable, long-lasting airport food has been totally cleaned out. So you you have a few families of people here. There aren't any like really readily available sources of food in the airport, but you do notice that like there is near one of these uh large murals, the largest one, it appears to be like the the daughter figure immense carved into this huge stone door at the back of the starport that seems to be kind of leading deeper into the mountain. There is the remains of a small makeshift camp there that's kind of been built out of uh various furniture. Like they just dragged some chairs and cushions over, ripped them off some of the other chairs. Uh, they may have like there may be some tapestries that they've kind of turned into blankets or a tent. And it seems like this camp has been abandoned for some time. Uh whoever was here, potentially Severance Tan, uh, ate all of the food when they were here.
SPEAKER_07All of it? That damn Severance!
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_07That bitch.
SPEAKER_06Like Cookie Stash!
SPEAKER_07Oh, I guess I was gonna that answers what my next question was gonna be, which is like, does this look like it was done by people or or animals? And the answer is animals, that damn severance. That animal!
SPEAKER_00And I'm gonna give you another destiny point here. Oh. Because as you guys approach this camp, Illyria, in your pack, you hear a beep as Severance's data pad starts to light up.
SPEAKER_02Oh, the one where it had your your data on it?
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_02I take it out and look at it.
SPEAKER_00So it seems that there is a location tag triggers on the data pad. Because as you pull it out, you can see that it's like basically reopening old in-progress log files from the last time she was here that have notes about everything that they were sort of seeing. Because the data pad is damaged, because you did get some thread on your roll, a lot of it is garbled. Um, so it doesn't give you any more information about the individuals that this uh starport seems to be revering. But in the logs, uh sort of the last logs in this location, you can see that they were trying to find a way to open this giant door at the back. They couldn't find any sort of external mechanisms for it, uh, but they felt they like there's some mentions of like being almost drawn to what's beyond the door. Not in like a suspicious way. Uh the notes they you see the words like tranquil, welcoming, peaceful, and some of the notes from Severance say that perhaps this place, because it's a starport, may have been a place of pilgrimage for ancient people, and they were protecting some some kind of powerful natural energy on the other side of that door. Uh, and the last thing that they note is that they'll have to keep this place in mind when they return, uh, because Illara is now with child and they need to get her somewhere where it's safe to have a baby.
SPEAKER_07Ilara.
SPEAKER_02Illara.
SPEAKER_07Illara?
SPEAKER_02Is that your mind? Obviously. Obviously, do you not know how chis names work?
SPEAKER_07Uh no. Should I? Do I? I don't know.
SPEAKER_06There's only so many syllables. Zetch wasn't touch uh Zach wasn't touched in the city.
SPEAKER_02Do you know how many syllables are in a proper chis name? You don't even you don't even know my full name.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, but what's your full name, Elyria? Like you we could we could use your real name. You don't have to shorten it for our benefit. If you'd prefer.
SPEAKER_02Oh, so called. From now on, you can call me Feral Elyria Amandan. Oh my god, I have to say that again. Feral Elyri Amandan.
SPEAKER_07Feral Elyria Amandan? Yeah. Okay.
SPEAKER_06I don't think we have do we need to use the entire Illyria Mandan. Yes. Now let me write this down. I am uh I am rejecting Zat, and I'm going to just call you Elyria.
SPEAKER_02Well, clearly we also use the middle part basically.
SPEAKER_07It'll take some getting used to, but you know.
SPEAKER_02You can just call me Illyria.
SPEAKER_07Are you su are you sure Illyria? You just seem really thin skinned when I didn't know how Chis naming conventions worked.
SPEAKER_06Well, I I feel like there's a difference between uh Chis naming conventions and her actual name and what she wants to be uh and what she uh is okay with being called. You know, it's uh it's a bit of history compared to like, you know, my friend Illyria. Which you are my friend Illyria, and I pat her on the shoulder.
SPEAKER_07Oh. I thought it was gonna be like, and I pat her on the head. Like a good like a good kitty cat.
SPEAKER_06Like a good friend.
SPEAKER_07You know you pat your good friends on the head.
SPEAKER_06You don't?
SPEAKER_07Ugh no, not really.
SPEAKER_06I only have a couple of good friends, so I need so I need to get my head pats whenever I I can give them organically.
SPEAKER_07Please, someone pat my head.
SPEAKER_06I just need to be patted. I go through security every day just so I can feel that pat down.
SPEAKER_07Pat down. Oh, someone just touched me, please.
SPEAKER_04Somebody just touched me, please. Don't don't miss the crutch.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, can we can we go check out the the door at the back of the temple that was kind of being mentioned? Yeah, you can go see if we get the same vibe.
SPEAKER_00Look at the door. You do get the same vibe as if they're like deep down inside the mountain, there is something incredibly pure and incredibly powerful down there. Is it a Balrog? Probably not Balrogs are evil. Is this this feels like the opposite of that? It seems to you've visited planets before that have virgences in the force. It feels like a virgence in the force, but it is one of of light.
SPEAKER_07Is this the Jedi's cache of premium sex asses?
SPEAKER_04Maybe. Which are which are full of force power, apparently? Good force vibes. I mean, if you fill them with force power.
SPEAKER_07The Jedi were leaving, there are many Chlorios in there.
SPEAKER_04Oh god.
SPEAKER_07Anyway, can we can we investigate around the door, see if there's a is there something above the door that says speak friend and enter? Um maybe there is a bellrog in here.
SPEAKER_00There there doesn't seem to be any like language or carvings above or around the door. The only sort of like markings on it are the the like sort of the giant uh bas-relief sculpture of uh the daughter deity figure. There are no uh control panels. Um you can see there are markings at sort of like from from waist to head level at various angles on various panels. It seems like they tried to see if there were any hidden things. There are even like a couple of like blast marks on the door as if they tried like shooting it with hand pistols. But it seems like for uh whatever reason um they weren't able to get this door open.
SPEAKER_07Maybe we just need to uh maybe we maybe we need to like commune with the force. Maybe we need to commune with uh the vibe of this daughter and see if she's gonna be a good one.
SPEAKER_02Do you want to hold hands about it?
SPEAKER_04The vi vibe.
SPEAKER_07I wouldn't say no to holding hands about it, Elyria. You know what?
SPEAKER_00Me and Chris will never say no to this. Cause it you're saying communing with the vibe of the daughter?
SPEAKER_07Yeah, man, let's commune.
SPEAKER_00You only have two destiny points at the moment. If you fahu dore about this, I'll let you share a destiny point to use the light side.
SPEAKER_04That light's breaking through, you guys. We're working our way back.
SPEAKER_07Because like, would this just be like a meditation though?
SPEAKER_00It would just be, I'll just let you roll your force.
SPEAKER_07Oh, okay.
SPEAKER_06But do we all want a fahu dore or uh we can f if you if you need some help to fahu dore, I can fahu does that.
SPEAKER_07Has this already done that yet? I don't know if we've done I I think Elyria and I last time we kinda held hands and did a weird little combo thing, but I don't think we've uh yet had everyone fahu doreing together.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, we've been too busy spit-roasting Muppets. Of course.
SPEAKER_07Don't put it like that. That means something different. Skewering. Do do our other uh Jedi people want to get in on this? Or is this just us?
SPEAKER_06I got two light side and one dark side.
SPEAKER_07I also Yeah, we'd all roll our force. I got two light side and two dark side. But you said you'll let us all share a force pip if we want to uh go cross morality?
SPEAKER_00A destiny point, yeah.
SPEAKER_07Or a destiny point, yeah. Yeah, I'll I'll uh take two strain and use all four of my force, my two light and two dark. Perfectly balanced. You're using all the things should be.
SPEAKER_02Four light. Oh, you're so pure. Yay.
SPEAKER_04Three dark, two light.
SPEAKER_02When do I start getting to heal people instead of hurt people?
SPEAKER_07I'm telling you, man, those healing waters, they they brought up Starzan's morality. I remember that. It was very strange.
SPEAKER_00So do you want to do you want to do you guys want to uh use take your strain and just use the lights, or do you want to do both?
SPEAKER_04Should we use the light? I feel like we should use the light, because then, you know, what if the presence gets mad at us?
SPEAKER_07Yeah, but like also, well, I mean, this is just the daughter, but it's like there's all three of them represented, which is like You don't know what that means. That's right, I only know that it's the father, the son, and the the daughter. You know, if if it's a Jedi temple, yeah, maybe let's uh god, I feel like they have anti-dark side precautions. But I I feel like there's a like but I don't know that. Kala doesn't know that. Given that this appears to be a Jedi temple, sure, let's just use the light. So we'll just use the two light.
SPEAKER_00Okay. So you can fight against your uh default instinct and try and center yourselves and calm yourselves and attune yourselves to the uh presence you sort of feel behind. The door. And the door begins to open slowly, dustily. Uh, it hasn't been opened in some time. And although the door lifts up enough like above Starzan's head, this thing is so old and so disused that it kind of screeches to a halt just like at the top of Starzan's head, so we might have to like duck down just a little to avoid getting his hair brushed.
SPEAKER_07Starzan will never brush his hair.
SPEAKER_00It doesn't seem to be in danger of closing again, but you feel like maybe you may not be able to close it again. So it might just be like here's a door now.
SPEAKER_07Oh here's a door now.
SPEAKER_00Ah, of course. And on the other side, that presence you felt is still kind of deeper and farther away, but as the door opens, you come face to face with there are very low emergency lights, like just kind of the basic things that you would need to sort of outline shapes if you shine glow lights or if you have dark vision. You can see that stretching out ahead of you is like a city-sized, it'll it looks like the again, the Jedi architecture. If the Jedi built a shopping mall.
SPEAKER_07Oh.
SPEAKER_00And wait, like shopping mall. Darth mall.
SPEAKER_07Like the spaceport because it seems to be we'll go down there as Darth Mall pushing her out of shopping cart. Hey guys, what's up?
SPEAKER_00Found a way.
SPEAKER_06Is there anything you need help finding today?
SPEAKER_00There is no there is no uh darth mall. This doesn't appear to be a dart mall. It seems to be a a Jedi mall, but there is like you see stores that have been shuttered and closed. Uh there's nobody here, there's no bodies strewn about, no corpses, it's just it's like a dead mall. And there is like very low power, it seems like this monolith that's sticking out of the ground out of the floor, uh, just inside the entrance that almost seems like a like a directory kiosk.
SPEAKER_07Okay, let's go check there and see if we can find where the closest colonels is.
SPEAKER_02I have what at first I thought you were talking about KFC and then I remembered the popcorn place.
SPEAKER_01The colonels.
SPEAKER_07The colonels! You're not like who the fuck refers to KFC like that.
SPEAKER_04Go into the colonels.
SPEAKER_00Pick up a bucket. No, kernels! You each come back with a bucket filled with very different things.
SPEAKER_04Popcorn, um, KFC, and army men.
SPEAKER_07Oh my god, popcorn chicken, we come back with all of it!
SPEAKER_00Holy shit.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, no, let's go check out this fucking directory.
SPEAKER_00Uh the directory is low power. How how do you try to activate it?
SPEAKER_02Do we uh um plug in the data pad.
SPEAKER_00I'm gonna try and give it some juice.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, if you want to try and use your your data pad or some other tool as like a uh a USB charging port. That'll probably be a probably mechanics, actually. Computers is more for software, but this is more about transferring power. So that'll be a give me a one purple mechanics.
unknownOkay.
SPEAKER_00Fairly easy, but something might go wrong.
SPEAKER_02Two success, five advantage.
SPEAKER_07Oh yeah.
SPEAKER_02I have the power of the space USB.
SPEAKER_00The ports are clean. The ports are sterile. Nothing's there's no like there's no dust that you would get if there were like an accumulation of skin flakes floating around the uh the AC systems for hundreds of years.
SPEAKER_07Vile, but yes.
SPEAKER_00So you can plug plug in your datapad, give it uh a little bit of juice, and the directory springs to light. This hologram starts emitting from the top of the monolith, and this vaguely humanoid, uh glowing shape materializes in front of you, and it says, Greetings, the gatekeeper am I!
SPEAKER_06Hello, hello, gatescaper. Um can we go through?
SPEAKER_00To where do you wish to go?
SPEAKER_07What are the options? A moment, please.
SPEAKER_06We will give you two moments, even. We're so but we're so nice. We give them more times than we can.
SPEAKER_02I've got five advantage, and we have to wait.
SPEAKER_00Unfortunately, limited, my systems are.
SPEAKER_07This is where I go to get that speech impediment from.
SPEAKER_06It's it's not a robot, it's a guy with an encyclopedia just sort of flipping through like one page at a time looking for the answer to the question.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, uh, or like what what are you?
SPEAKER_00A gatekeeper, am I?
SPEAKER_07What what do you what gates are you keeping?
SPEAKER_00When uh the holocron that controls this city.
SPEAKER_07A holocron, you say? Uh, is it like a holocron of a person?
SPEAKER_00Of persons, yes. Of the Elishan Council.
SPEAKER_06What can you tell us about the Elishan Council?
SPEAKER_07A moment, please.
SPEAKER_06Oh, for fuck's sakes.
SPEAKER_07Look, it's been in low power mode for a long time.
SPEAKER_00Let it work.
SPEAKER_06Can I can I juice it up a little bit?
SPEAKER_00Unfortunately limited, my network is.
SPEAKER_06Is there a way is if we if do you have an antenna that we can pull up like a cell phone so that we can unlimit your Wi-Fi?
SPEAKER_07How can we unlimit your network? Do you need a moment, please? A moment, please.
SPEAKER_02So uh watching a good movie lately.
SPEAKER_07Watching a good hollows while it's loading, just like uh, you know, like uh you seen that last Starcoils?
SPEAKER_00Yeah, you can like hear the hard drive inside it like ticking.
SPEAKER_07Oh god. It's gonna fucking explode if we ask it too many questions.
SPEAKER_06I feel uh uh I feel like uh is there something that we can bring with us?
SPEAKER_00Where are we? In Alishan City, are you?
SPEAKER_06Uh we are in Alishan City, yes. Uh I don't know why it's a question.
SPEAKER_07Okay, well you ask the next question then, Jackass.
SPEAKER_06Well no no no no. I'm I'm saying that like never mind.
SPEAKER_07Sorry, I didn't ask a good question.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, that's not that's not uh uh okay. So is there anything around here that is still working as other than you?
SPEAKER_00Indicate my sensors do, but the lower levels have full power.
SPEAKER_07So how do we get down there?
SPEAKER_00Assist you, I can, perhaps.
SPEAKER_06Perhaps you can assist us.
SPEAKER_00Segmented, my system is. Access to the other levels I do not currently have.
SPEAKER_07Okay, can you tell us how to go there though?
SPEAKER_00Pull me out, would you?
SPEAKER_07Hell yeah.
SPEAKER_06I don't I don't know my friend. Last time I was asked to do that, it would got real messy.
SPEAKER_07Uh, how how do we do that? A moment, please. Oh for fuck's sake.
SPEAKER_00And it ticks over again, and then a little sort of like hole opens in the obelisk terminal in the monolith, and this little holocron pops out, but it looks like it's only like from the inside, only half lit or half complete.
SPEAKER_07Okay. Is it still in this plinth at all? Where do we take this?
SPEAKER_00The little hologram moves to the holocron, it kind of comes out the top, and it says, Take me, if you will, to other terminal kiosks so that reconnect to myself, I may.
SPEAKER_06Okay, I feel like I've I uh you do you run on uh are you are you self-energized? Do you have a a battery or resilient holocrons are? Okay, that's fair.
SPEAKER_07We we gotta we gotta activate all these data points so we can unlock all the codecs entries. Can we can we go look around for more of these terminals?
SPEAKER_00You can uh look around. You wanna give me a perception?
SPEAKER_07Yeah, let's give let's do perception.
SPEAKER_00Okay, sorry. Um and I could ignore it. There there are these you've seen this one, this sort of central mall kiosk. So this is a pretty big mall city. It seems to, you know, be mall sized. So we'll say it's probably gonna be a two purple. It's not gonna be very hard to find. It's just gonna take a while to look around. Uh any lot of black for the darkness.
SPEAKER_06Except for black. One failure and three advantages.
SPEAKER_07Man!
SPEAKER_02Two success, one threat.
SPEAKER_07Man, I got three yellows and a blue, and I can ignore a black, and I got two failure for advantage.
SPEAKER_04I could ignore a black as well. One failure, one advantage.
SPEAKER_00Illyria, you can look around and trying to find more of these terminals. Uh you can find one, but Chris, Kala, and Starzan. You are kind of searching, as you're searching around this mall, you can see that in addition to the directory terminal, uh, there are other sort of like maps scattered around. You can sort of explore this space, and you get the sense kind of, you don't learn anything about uh where another terminal is, but you do glean a little bit more about what this place is. And uh this seems to be the top level of a multi-level underground city.
SPEAKER_07Okay.
SPEAKER_00But with this level being sort of it seems like it's like the amenities district almost, where there are shops and you know, entertainment, and below that, it seems like there would be residential and other stuff further down as you get closer to the sort of the central area of the city where you're feeling that draw from. And uh because you got those advantages, those of you that did, uh you don't get the sense that this place suffered a cataclysm, but you get the sense that like it closed but gradually as people just started like leaving. So it seems to be more of a case of maybe people lost interest in this place rather than uh It's not a dawn of the dead situation. Yeah, it doesn't seem like you're gonna be running into any zombies necessarily. Okay. And Illyria, you can kind of appear over this railing, and you can see down on the level below there are these sort of like apartment suites. It seems almost like you go from top level is a mall, then the next level down is a hotel where there are all these suites and residential uh quarters. And down below on the floor below, you can see that there is another one of these kiosks, but you would have to find a way to get down there. There's not enough power here for you to just like jump in a turbo lift. Um, you could potentially climb down to the next level, but it is like mall height ceilings. It's an underground city, so they don't want people to get claustrophobic. Is there a um is there any rope around?
SPEAKER_07Or do any of the I know that none of us do, but do any of the Jedi who are with us have the move power?
SPEAKER_00Uh yeah, they would.
SPEAKER_07Would any of them just be able to float us down? I don't trust my climbing ability.
SPEAKER_06Yeah. I get that. Especially with our Bron, yeah. Well, not Xan a bit.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, if we all hang on Starzan, maybe.
SPEAKER_06We basically, whenever something happens, we're basically like Starzan, we need you to carry us down, please. And and and Panthar could probably figure it out.
SPEAKER_07And Pant Star.
SPEAKER_06It's very sheer footed. Panthar.
SPEAKER_07Master Relin, you gotta float us.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, they can float you down. Um, roll their force, see if they see if they can, see if they can reach. Because these guys, they're doing there are enough Jedi that like each of each of them could tackle one of you. Average force rating of a Jedi is three.
SPEAKER_02I don't want them to tackle me. I want them to slowly lower me down.
SPEAKER_07You wanna get to the next level, I'll take you to the next level.
SPEAKER_00The it would be a medium range drop down to the next level. They rolled two light sides, so each of them uh they would need to spend a force to use it, and another to increase the silhouette size to one, so they could lower you short range, and but then you would have a short range drop after that.
SPEAKER_07Ooh. Okay, catch this. What if Starzan climbs down on a rope? They lower us each to short range, and then let us go when Starzan just catches each of us one after another. That actually makes sense. Look, he's so big and we're so catchable.
SPEAKER_06We'll float down like feathers, we swear. Catch you two at a time. I don't give a shit.
SPEAKER_04One on each arm. I think I have coordination with my force. Yeah. And athletics with the force. So let's do this. Maybe spend a destin uh flip the destiny.
SPEAKER_00Okay. So that would be a two purple uh athletics or coordination uh to see how much you can reduce the damage by.
SPEAKER_04Okay. Uh so I got uh four success, one advantage, three dark side, three light side. So I'll use those.
SPEAKER_00Are you using uh the darks? Because you don't have any destiny points, so you would have to. Oh, okay. Well then shit.
SPEAKER_04Four success is pretty good with one advantage. Is that enough? Or should let me know.
SPEAKER_00I mean, it's just it's it's subtracts. You take ten wound, ten strain, and your success is just subtract one point per each. Yeah. It is mitigated by soak. Okay. My soak is five. I'm fine, my soak is five.
SPEAKER_04So you would take one damage?
SPEAKER_00You would take one one wound.
SPEAKER_04Okay, now I catch everybody.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, I was gonna say, thank goodness Starzan is okay. Now let's drop some people on him.
SPEAKER_04Hopefully it catch me helping me catch them and not just drop like I'm I'm cushioning for them to fall on.
SPEAKER_07You're not just laying out flat on the ground and we all just land hard on your tummy.
SPEAKER_00So one of the Jedi uh can drop you down first, Starzan, and then uh I'll make you do the the athletics. We'll call it the same thing, two purple athletics. I'll just make you roll once to catch everybody, so I'll give you a destiny point back. Okay. So we'll start as a red and a purple athletics, but there's uh three of your friends that you're trying to catch, so we'll add three blacks onto that.
SPEAKER_04Hmm. Now, is it better for me to have four forest dice, or should I spend one of those to up my stat brawn by into six?
SPEAKER_00Uh if you uh if you use it to increase your stat, you won't have to like depend on what pips you get.
SPEAKER_04That's a good point. Okay, then I'm gonna do that. So I'm gonna increase my strength to six. Flip into destiny again. Let's see here. Three success, two dark side, two light side. Look at you oh three successes though.
SPEAKER_00Three success. Three success. Yeah, you can uh you can catch everybody. Hell yeah.
SPEAKER_07Yay! Next one not letting us die, Starzan.
SPEAKER_06Appreciate it. You're a real palfair.
SPEAKER_07There's a like there's a yowling from above as Pantstar finally drops down. I mean Pan Star can handle it.
SPEAKER_04Yeah. He's sure footed. Always lands on his feet. Yeah.
SPEAKER_07Oh yeah.
SPEAKER_00Honestly, Pantstar could probably just jump down and be fine almost.
SPEAKER_07Pantar's watching our whole ordeal and just like, what are you doing?
SPEAKER_00Settle curiosity. It's like Rizzo going back for his jelly beans. But you can make it down, uh, plug the holocron into the second kiosk, and it buzzes to light. And it says calibrating. Calibrating. Syntax firmware update. Greetings, hello. I apologize, my previous way of speaking may have been out of date. I calibrated myself to the calendars in your data pad.
SPEAKER_04Do you love the insinuation that Yoda is just old-fashioned?
SPEAKER_00Well, yeah, he was taught he was taught in the last campaign. You guys were speaking like this, but it was translated for the audience. Oh, yes, of course. Speaking old old basic.
SPEAKER_07The old basic.
SPEAKER_00You speak the true true.
SPEAKER_07Uh thank you for uh updating. So uh we just gotta keep on going down then?
SPEAKER_00By my reckoning, this city has not been updated for 1500 years? 1500? Whoa! It's a lot of years. That is the date of my last activation.
SPEAKER_06Do you know? Uh do you know anything about uh who activated you, or was it just like the group?
SPEAKER_00The last time I was activated was when the last shuttle left the planet.
SPEAKER_07Oh. You've been all by yourself that long?
SPEAKER_00Not to worry, the masters are still here.
unknownOkay.
SPEAKER_07I mean, like in the Holocron, right?
SPEAKER_00No. The Masters remained.
SPEAKER_06Is there still here? Um are the Masters robots?
SPEAKER_00No, of course not. Machines cannot feel the force, something that I would regret if I had the capability.
SPEAKER_07How are your masters how are they still alive? That's like like I am pretty sure even huts don't live that long.
SPEAKER_00The Elisheman Council purified themselves, perfected themselves in the Ashla. They do not need earthly pleasures, earthly constraints, they do not hunger, they do not sleep, or that at least was their goal.
SPEAKER_07So we don't know if they actually achieved it. And you haven't been activated for 1500 years. Do you know for certain that the masters are still alive, or is it like, well, they probably should be?
SPEAKER_00I do not have explicit confirmation. I need a hardline connection to be able to update my systems. There are two more levels below us. Level three was the scientific research center. Level four was the core, and the center of the master's experiment.
SPEAKER_07And yes, and you certain god that this is not gonna be a dawn of the dead, such a dead situation. I mean, who knows when we get down there? Uh, I don't suppose that now that you have this terminal active, that you might have enough juice to uh get the the lifts going again.
SPEAKER_00Unfortunately, no. The third level is also where I need to connect directly in order to restore power to local individual systems.
SPEAKER_07Hmm. And uh any stairs, perhaps? Are we just in spot on that top level? Yes. Oh yeah, okay.
SPEAKER_04I will stairs there the whole time.
SPEAKER_07There's like no time to look for stairs, we gotta jump.
SPEAKER_04We gotta put Starzan in peril.
SPEAKER_07Oh, Starzan is fine.
SPEAKER_00He's fine. So he leads you to this door, it is closed, and he says.
SPEAKER_06Is there some a ways that we can return restore its power or even move it manually?
SPEAKER_00Yes, once I am able to plug into the core, I will be able to restore power to the entire city, including the upper level spaceport.
SPEAKER_07So wait, we can't just cut through the door though, to go through to the stairs?
SPEAKER_00If you possess such a tool, you may. All I am saying is that I do not possess the capability to open it at this time.
SPEAKER_07And we all got our lightsabers, right? We got our universal cutting tools. Eee. Who wants to cut through a door? Me. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, that's alright. So you can turn on your lightsabers, cut through the door. And as you start cutting, as he seize your lightsabers, the Holocron gatekeeper says, You are Jedi!
SPEAKER_07Uh we can go with that, we can go with that for now. Sha. Adjacent.
SPEAKER_00Have you come to participate in the experiment?
SPEAKER_07Um that depends. Uh, can you tell us more about that experiment?
SPEAKER_00Unfortunately, I cannot. Until I connect to the level three terminal, I only have clearance to administer the residential and amenities layers of the city.
SPEAKER_06What if uh one of us wasn't a Jedi? Would you be able to tell us then?
SPEAKER_00No, I do not possess the correct clearance.
SPEAKER_07It's okay. Once we maybe once we get you plugged in down below, then you can uh let uh give us the deets.
SPEAKER_00I surmise that this may be the case.
SPEAKER_07Okay, can we uh can we go through the door and just take the fucking stairs this time?
SPEAKER_00Yeah, you can take the stairs this time.
SPEAKER_07Sorry, Starzan. Didn't really think of that the first time.
SPEAKER_04It's worth trying. And Starzan likes to feel important.
SPEAKER_07You are important, Starzan. Starzan, we never sa I would never say this without meaning it, but you're the most important member of the group.
SPEAKER_06This feels familiar. I don't know how.
SPEAKER_07Well, usually it's Chris doing this, not me.
SPEAKER_06Yes. Stealing your bit. That's uh that's okay. It's somet sometimes it's a it's a weapon anybody can use. I'm very uh non-committal to it.
SPEAKER_07This is a community weapon, comp weaponized compliments.
SPEAKER_06It's it's the uh it's the village weapon.
SPEAKER_00Everybody can have it. So you can walk down to uh level three. This is the scientific research level. And unlike the previous levels, it's not like the wide open mall or hotel residential areas. This one, like, as you open the door, there is like it is like blocked off, it is sealed. There is like a big door and a connection terminal that seems to have a uh a receptacle for the Holocron to plug into. Plug it in? Can plug it in. And he says. A moment, please. In order to gain the correct access, I will need to briefly cut power to the level so that I can initiate a restart and access the BIOS to give myself the proper credentials.
SPEAKER_01Okay.
SPEAKER_06Do you do you want us to uh uh do anything as a slightly dark? Okay, I'm just gonna close my eyes and pretend it didn't happen.
SPEAKER_07I don't know, this feels like the beginning of. The Resident Evil movie or that one part of Jurassic Park. I don't know, I'm nervous.
SPEAKER_00So the Holocron shuts down and it goes back into the hologram goes back into the cube and the cube goes into the port and the port goes into the wall. And then the lights, the sort of emergency lighting uh in the foyer of this level, they all cut out at once. Everything goes silent. There's no machinery, no nothing. It just sits still for a few seconds, and then it comes back on, and the hologram comes back. And it says, Thank you for this. I have been able to update my systems. Now I have access to the third level of this city. However, there may be a problem.
unknownOkay.
SPEAKER_06What's kind of a problem?
SPEAKER_00Because I did not have the proper security clearance, I was not aware that this level had a containment area.
SPEAKER_07No! No, no! Containment area!
SPEAKER_00When the power was cut, so were the containment fields on this level.
SPEAKER_07What's being contained?
SPEAKER_08Rancor, rancore, randcore, rancor.
SPEAKER_00Logs indicate that the containment is to contain runoff from the experiment.
SPEAKER_02Oh, like the people who ran off from the experiment?
SPEAKER_00No. I now have access to the files detailing what the experiment is.
SPEAKER_07Okay, tell us, tell us more.
SPEAKER_00The Alishan Council endeavored to generate a vergence in the force. Many years ago, the Jedi that make up my matrix encountered a trio of beings. Deities, you might say. Ooh, gods. One was an entity of pure light, pure Ashla. Another is a being of pure darkness.
SPEAKER_06Oh dear. This sounds this sounds very much like Jedi and Sith, but let's keep going.
SPEAKER_00The Alishan Council that make up my matrix feared that one day the dark would overtake the light and decided to come here so that they might create an Ashla deity of their own.
SPEAKER_07They're trying to make a god?
SPEAKER_00Yes. The work, it seems, was promising. And the energies, according to the systems, have coalesced into something resembling a deity. However, light cannot exist without a shadow. And that shadow exists in the form of a physical runoff.
SPEAKER_07When you say a runoff, because that's just sounded like uh like a toxic goo? Is it just like a goo?
SPEAKER_06It feels like spring after winter, a runoff.
SPEAKER_00Manifestations of evil.
SPEAKER_06Manifestations like uh physical manifestations?
SPEAKER_07Like Balrogs, are we talking balrogs?
SPEAKER_00We may be in luck. After being starved of attention and emotion for 1500 years, the most popular sentence of Starzan of these manifestations may have dissipated. They may be weak or non-existent.
SPEAKER_07But okay, I I feel like can you bring up a hologram like image of what the manifestations are? Like what what are we looking for?
SPEAKER_00That is difficult. As a being without the ability to connect directly to the force, I cannot visualize them.
SPEAKER_07Can you describe what other people say they would look like? Searching my logs.
SPEAKER_00And as he's searching, you start to hear this little pss skittering. Oh fuck.
SPEAKER_06Uh perception, perception, perception.
SPEAKER_07I'm gonna suppress, I'm gonna suppress. I'll let Chris perceive first, but uh.
SPEAKER_00You can perceive, can look. Give me a what would the stealth of these things be? Is that good? I'll give you a destiny point. A red, a purple, and a black perception.
SPEAKER_06Red, a purple, and a black perception? Sure. Yeah, you know what I am. Uh you you said a red, a purple, and a black? Yeah. Okay, are you sure you said a red, a purple, and a black? Because I can read the phone.
SPEAKER_02I do a red and a purple because I can see in the dark. Yeah, Lyria can just do a red and a purple.
SPEAKER_06Um, well, I I I percepted um as well, and I got two failures, two advantages, and a despair.
SPEAKER_07Oh, I got three success and a triumph.
SPEAKER_02One failure, two advantage.
SPEAKER_06I'm about to get dragged off by my feet on a perception.
SPEAKER_07Leaving big claw marks in the ground as you scream. Woo!
SPEAKER_04I got uh two success, two advantage, one triumph?
SPEAKER_06Okay.
SPEAKER_07Ooh.
SPEAKER_06Why is everybody else rolling great except me?
SPEAKER_07Like it's literally, it's just Starzan.
SPEAKER_04And Starzan is the uh the keeper of the party. The he's the protector. So he's looking out for danger. Thanks, pal. Okay.
SPEAKER_00Chris, you don't see anything. Um, however, you got this two advantages, so you probably have an idea that whatever's in there is dangerous, so you can ready your weapon. Uh, maybe get a blue if you have to do something, but uh you do feel something wrap around your leg in sort of pull you.
SPEAKER_06I gave you an idea. Oh no!
SPEAKER_00Kala and Starzan. Um, you see skittering around in the darkness these little two-legged fleshy creatures that look like they're made of oil.
SPEAKER_07Ah!
SPEAKER_00They've got these almost like spindly insectoid legs. At the crotch of these legs is a mouth of some kind that has these two long tentacles that have lashed out and uh wrapped around Chris's legs. There are several of these creatures, and at the top, sitting atop the legs, is this giant fleshy bulb that is pulsating uh with it seems hopefully popable.
SPEAKER_06This does sound like a Resident Evil villain, you're right. Should I pop the Geeker monster?
SPEAKER_02It might ooh. It might have uh some sort of uh poison or venom in there or corrosive material.
SPEAKER_07Can I can I try to roll suppress before you do anything? Because if if this thing's saying like, oh, I can't even visualize it because I can't perceive the force, maybe it like only exists in the force.
SPEAKER_00Uh yeah, Catelyn Starzan, you got triumphs, so uh I'll let you take a sort of a free action if you want to do anything before they're able to fully drag uh Chris away, Illyria. You got advantage, so.
SPEAKER_07What do we have for Destiny?
SPEAKER_00You have one.
SPEAKER_07Uh well, you know what? It's probably because I got two light side, two dark side on my suppress.
SPEAKER_06Uh you probab I mean, probably could, should.
SPEAKER_07I'll use destiny, and because there's the mastery, which is discipline versus discipline, that just uncommits things, and it's like, would that be how it would work for like a minion group?
SPEAKER_00There are five of these things, so it has effectively four ranks in discipline. Well, it's only it's got one willpower.
SPEAKER_07Oh, okay.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, so uh that goes from a purple to a red, a red and a purple, two reds, two reds and a purple.
SPEAKER_06I don't know what that gas means.
SPEAKER_07Girl. Uh look, I think the important thing is that I still had two dark side, two light side, but I did get it one advantage and a despair.
SPEAKER_00Hell yeah. I think with that despair, you're probably gonna have to use the dark side here.
SPEAKER_07Yeah. Oh, I just won't use that destiny point. I'll use my two dark side and then.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, probably a good idea to save it. Because as you give into the dark side, as you feel this despair, you can overwhelm them. And you can suppress them, but as you do, as they dissolve and melt together, you can kind of like turn around because you feel this like tingle in your dingle. You turn around and another pair of them is crawling out of your own shadow.
SPEAKER_07Ugh! Ah! I'll jump back from them! Oh god! Those come out of me. I guess just my darkness, but like, okay, it's just two, it's just two. It's just two now at least.
SPEAKER_06Am I am I still being dragged?
SPEAKER_00Uh no, they they managed to uh dark side. Yeah, Kala got rid of them. She suppressed them. Um, Starzan, you've still got your your free go if you want to use it.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, should I just like sword them up?
SPEAKER_07Yeah, smash these these two that crawl out of me.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. Okay. So that will be a give you another destiny point here. You only have one at the moment. Uh we'll call it a red, a purple, and that's it. Okay.
SPEAKER_04Red purple. Two success, five advantage.
SPEAKER_00Yay! You can slice through these things because you got that advantage, can take them out. But as you're carving through them, uh you get the feeling you have to take more swings than you think you should. Because these things, like, it seems like as you're cutting through them, only about half of the damage that a lightsaber would normally cause is actually interacting with these things because they are made of the dark side of the force. Their physical presence is limited.
SPEAKER_07Interesting. But but the dead they're gone. Chris is okay.
SPEAKER_00Chris is okay.
SPEAKER_07Yippee.
SPEAKER_06I um start my panic attack. Again, uh, we are characters with anxiety.
SPEAKER_07You're okay, Chris. You're okay. Okay.
SPEAKER_06I take some impact and I'm like, okay, I get it now, I get it.
SPEAKER_07I was gonna be like, Chris, I would only offer this to the most important member of the group, and I got one dose left. Would you like that? Would that be good for you? No, let's not give Chris a crippling drug addiction, too. Please, please don't. Please don't make me do it. Okay, so the runoff's taken care of.
SPEAKER_00It appears that the runoff has been dealt with. We should have no further problems.
SPEAKER_07Okay.
SPEAKER_00I can grant access to the lower level. I imagine the masters will be very excited to see more people. Or perhaps they will not. They dedicated themselves to purity of spirit, and uh well, to be honest, they didn't seem to much care for living beings by the end.
SPEAKER_07Did okay, so when you connect to this level, did you get back in contact with the masters?
SPEAKER_00I was not able to. The core is sequestered so that the master's spiritual purity will not be disrupted.
SPEAKER_07Cool. Cool. I mean maybe they're just dead. Maybe they're gonna walk in, it's just gonna be a bunch of mummies.
SPEAKER_00So you can move through the scientific uh research area. And it does remind you of the sort of research labs that were aboard the ships that uh you spent some time on as members of the service corps. It doesn't seem like any like evil science was going on. There are some uh containment uh that seem more like um like you know, biohazard waste containment areas more than like prisons. What are they containing? Well, nothing now, you killed them.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_06Were they were they meant to be kind of like makeshift prisons or just like general, like uh what's the history of these containment systems?
SPEAKER_00Well it seems like they were sort of like makeshift, like they were designed to hold like potentially like radioactive waste or something, or just something like garbage, uh, that were then converted to hold these things. It seems like the entities that ended up being a result of the experiments were not something they anticipated, but something they were able to successfully handle.
SPEAKER_07Okay.
SPEAKER_00And you can head down to the fourth level. And there is like a sort of in the scientific research level, overlooking this fourth level, there is like an observation window up above looking down into this large sort of circular chamber. In the middle of it is it almost looks like almost like a Zordon tube, almost. It's like this pillar of like uh glowing energy. And there are like banks of computers all around the exterior walls, and you can recognize there are like holocron receptacles in some of the computers if you want the holocron to uh be able to reactivate the power to the upper levels. That would be where you would plug them in. And you can also see twelve meditating figures sitting equidistant in a circle, uh, facing this pillar of glowing energy that's being sort of uh contained in the tube.
SPEAKER_07And they're alive?
SPEAKER_00They're not moving, they may be like deep in meditation, they may be dead. You do feel like an overwhelming power of the living force being so close to this. Like, it seems that the experiment, at least to a degree, was successful because that glowing tube is radiating the most powerful, like peaceful, tranquil, uh rejuvenating energy you've ever felt in your life.
SPEAKER_06Ah. Does does that mean any kind of uh uh injuries we might have received or uh any strain might be healed?
SPEAKER_00Yeah, it means your your your wound strain and Starzan's critical injury are all healed.
SPEAKER_04Oh great, I can pick up my sword again.
SPEAKER_07Finally! Can we uh go down, not trying to disrupt them or anything, and uh plug this holocron in? Man, what if this is where it turns out that this holocron thing is uh is traitorous and it's like, finally I have access to the masters and I'll kill them all. Ha ha ha ha. I'm not thinking about that. Let's go plug it in.
SPEAKER_00So you can go down, open there's kind of a big heavy door to the chamber, uh, but you can open it, and as you step in, you can feel the the energy of this uh synthetic virgins kind of kind of casting like a warm, sunny light on you. And you can see that the masters do appear to be mummified.
SPEAKER_06Oh well, like ritualistically or like in a bog?
SPEAKER_07Like they just died and dried up?
SPEAKER_00Yeah, like they've meditated for so long that they just kind of wasted away, similar to uh the guys that you ran into on Sinkhole Station.
SPEAKER_06Illyria, don't you hate when you uh meditate so hard you end up dy dying and being mummified af over thousands of years?
SPEAKER_02I feel like you know the same feeling when you sit on the toilet for too long.
SPEAKER_06Oh fuck my leg! Oh god, I'm sad for too long.
SPEAKER_07That's where I'm gonna be found in the city.
SPEAKER_06You need to eat more fiber.
SPEAKER_07No, because uh you mentioned similar to the guys on Singh Hole Station, because those guys were like the mindwalkers who just like abandoned their body.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, it's it you don't get the sense that they were mindwalkers, but it the same sort of like they were so deep into the force that they just like they didn't have anybody coming around with like a galostomy bag or anything. They just sort of withered as their bodies decayed as they sort of just basked in the pf the light of their creation. And as you enter this chamber and sort of like bask in the light, you do sort of feel a little odd. You do feel um not necessarily like lighter, your morality doesn't increase, but you do feel like that the darkness that you were touching before as Imperial Knights um is beginning to sort of slip away.
SPEAKER_07Oh, that's nice.
SPEAKER_00And if any of you look around to look at the others, you can see that like as this light is hitting you, your shadows are sticking to the ground and to the walls behind you as if that darkness is being physically like blasted out of you by the light.
SPEAKER_07Ooh, that's fun.
SPEAKER_06Holy shit. Like, is it is it legitimately uh bringing down our uh um what's what's the word no your morality is still the same.
SPEAKER_00Okay, never mind. Uh would have been neat. But it's just blasting that darkness out of you. R Wow. We're getting a force enema? Holy shit.
SPEAKER_07Starzan, I thought you loved enemas. You seem like the kind of guy who would.
SPEAKER_00And then your shadows start bubbling.
SPEAKER_07Oh man. Oh no, is this gonna be something where we should have unequipped all of our stuff when we came in here so we'd be fighting ourselves, but we're all naked? I'm just like all over the place today.
SPEAKER_06You I mean, you you do bring up a good point.
SPEAKER_00Not exactly. Being naked. But as the Holocron mentioned, the masters dedicated their lives to purifying themselves, to purifying their Ashla, their spirit, so that they could work on the experiment. You guys did no such thing. So as you entered the chamber, the brightest light casts the darkest shadows, and your shadows are pretty dark. So they start bubbling as they're sticking on the ground, and not these little tiny green bulb things with two legs, but a large mass, it just of dark force starts pooling up as your shadows coalesce on the ground. All of that darkness that was blasted out of you is now on the outside and it is spreading around the room.
SPEAKER_07Oh no!
SPEAKER_00Why didn't everybody roll an initiative?
SPEAKER_06Did it come did the darkness come out of my butt? Because that seems like something that would happen in my character. Yeah, part of it was up your butt. Hell yeah.
SPEAKER_07I mean vigilance! Yeah.
SPEAKER_00This'll be vigilance, you're not uh expecting it.
SPEAKER_07As we all know, morality is stored in the butt.
SPEAKER_02One success, three advantage. That's what some that's what some people say.
SPEAKER_04Uh vigilance. Menachlorines in the balls and uh morality and darkness in the butt.
SPEAKER_07I got two success and seven advantage.
SPEAKER_04Hell yeah. You got a success and advantage. Uh one success and a triumph.
SPEAKER_00This thing is made of your congealed combined darkness, so it does have access to the ward's foresight power, so it's gonna roll its force as part of the initiative check.
SPEAKER_07Oh no. Oh no, does this mean it has access to all the same powers that we do?
SPEAKER_00Probably.
SPEAKER_07No, I'm the void! I'm the only one who can suck.
SPEAKER_00Hey now.
SPEAKER_04Negakala.
SPEAKER_00It got two success, two advantages, two lights, three darks. It's obviously gonna be using the dark. And as part of that initiative, uh, with those two points, it is going to use the dark side to immediately perform an action before the encounter begins. But each of you can add an automatic success to the results of the initiative check.
SPEAKER_07Okay.
SPEAKER_00Okay.
SPEAKER_07Oh, do we have do we have any destiny point right points right now?
SPEAKER_00Uh, you have two.
SPEAKER_07If this is a being that is made of our evil force energy, I can flip a destiny point to cast the press as an out-of-turn incidental. Once per session.
SPEAKER_06Is that a thing?
SPEAKER_07Yeah.
SPEAKER_06Look at you go.
SPEAKER_07And I feel like this might be the once per session that it would be a good idea to do that and just get her committed.
SPEAKER_06Yes.
SPEAKER_07It does mean that if I have to go cross morality, I will not be able- Oh! Oh no! Wait, no, I shouldn't do that!
SPEAKER_00We'll try it, see what happens.
SPEAKER_07Okay, I feel like you have something cooking for dark side.
SPEAKER_00Okay. Okay.
SPEAKER_07Don't even have the option to go cross morality, never mind.
SPEAKER_00So, the dark side was physically blasted out of you by this Virgence, by the Ashla in this tube, the pure light. It is now coalesced in this creature. You feel as if you, and this goes for all of you, no longer have the ability to use the dark side.
SPEAKER_02Oh.
SPEAKER_00And until your morality reaches the threshold of 50, you have you still have to use destiny points to use light sides.
SPEAKER_07I don't suppose you would just uh give us that destiny point back.
SPEAKER_00We're calling it 30 right now.
SPEAKER_07I don't suppose you would just give us that destiny point back since I gave you such a good excuse to tell us how this is gonna work.
SPEAKER_00No, don't worry. Uh so it's gonna attack you and it's gonna give I'm gonna give you a destiny point.
SPEAKER_06I I I do appreciate the peer pressure into using the thing and then telling me it's like, well, these are the consequences of your actions.
SPEAKER_07I guess you shouldn't have tried to do it, idiot.
SPEAKER_02Like forever or for this encounter? Forever.
SPEAKER_00The dark side is banished from your bodies. You can no longer access it.
SPEAKER_07I'm a good boy.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, you've you've left the empire. Uh, good thing I still got my gun. Any power that you don't have to roll for, any power that you can commit, that you can still use.
SPEAKER_02Ugh, I'm gonna be so good at healing people 20 morality from now.
SPEAKER_07You know what though? I'll wait till my turn. Because, like, do I okay, do I have to roll suppress to do control commit? Because that's just commit one or more force pips. So I no one would be able to add failure, but I could decrease the force being generated by force powers.
SPEAKER_00For control commit, you don't need to roll the basic power to do that. You can just commit your dice, keep it committed, and when somebody targets you, you just reduce their their force.
SPEAKER_07Okay. I'll wait till my turn to do that. So that'd be the case with like any just. No roll commitment based powers.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_07Cool. Good to know.
SPEAKER_00This thing, uh, as it begins to stretch across the computer consoles and sort of like, it's almost melding itself to the wall, kind of, like embedding itself into this thing. It might be trying to potentially shut down the Virgins. You don't know. It's just, it's evil force here. But it does seem to like, as it pops out, it has a sort of vaguely uh humanoid like shape to it. It's almost like a torso with like a like an evil grinning head with these weird liveless eyes. It is black and oily, like a like a garbage bag monster that would uh kill Denise Crosby or something. But even though the main mass of it is like attaching itself into the nooks and crannies of this computer system, uh it does seem to have the ability to emerge from your shadows and kind of like sucker punch you.
SPEAKER_07Hey.
SPEAKER_00So uh for its first action, you can see in your shadows that are cast by this bright light uh radiating outward that the that your shadows continue to bubble, it could come out from any point. It knows all of you. It's from your darkness. So it knows that Starzan is the biggest, tough, toughest bastard in the group. That's right. So this pillar of shadow erupts from uh your own shadow Starzan and launches itself towards you. It's gonna roll uh its brawl against you. Uh-oh.
SPEAKER_04Well, how good can the shadow self's brawl be? I mean, come on.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, it doesn't even have real muscles. Give us a break.
SPEAKER_00Uh, gonna give you another destiny point here. So, because it has uh access to the enhanced power, it can roll its force as part of that. Only two success and four dark sides.
SPEAKER_06I mean, it probably can use those dark sides, right?
SPEAKER_00Yeah, so it's going to use one of those dark sides to get a success, so that's three success in total. Uh, this thing has four brawn, so it does seven points of wound to you, Starzan. And you feel it as this pillar of shadow launches out towards you, you feel it like not you even like attacking you externally, but attacking your soul. So we treat the weapon as if it has breach and it completely bypasses your soak.
SPEAKER_07Oh no!
SPEAKER_00And it's gonna use those uh other three dark sides to activate its crit. 84! Good thing you got that crit uh healed. That's right. So you're winded until the end of the encounter. You cannot voluntarily suffer strain to activate any abilities or gain additional maneuvers.
SPEAKER_04Well, I'll use my uh ignore power to ignore that.
SPEAKER_00Uh severity rating of no greater than easy, is that uh that is a average, it is two purple. So if you have any uh um upgrades, strength's increasing.
SPEAKER_04Increase severity of critical injury that can be affected by one strength.
SPEAKER_00Okay, yeah, so that's a two purple. Yeah, so you can. You can ignore that.
SPEAKER_04Hell yeah.
SPEAKER_00Um so you'll have to commit one of your force die for that. So it sucker punched you, uh, but now the rest of you can try and deal with this thing.
SPEAKER_07Oh, because it's uh god. Because it's like the b like radiant light that's blasting off the Zordon tube, right? Yeah. Uh I'm trying to think what do I have in my equipment. Okay, could I for my action I'll commit all three of my force ratings just to suppress its force things.
SPEAKER_00Okay.
SPEAKER_07And as a maneuver... Well, I guess technically I can do that as uh an incidental. Because I have quick draw. So it's like, if for my maneuver where okay, where is this thing relative to the force tube?
SPEAKER_00The force tube is in the middle, and it's this sort of circular room, and it's casting its light on you, so your shadows are coming outwards uh towards the the wall that's on the outside of this room that is full of all these computers that sort of control the city and control the tube and everything. And it the shadows, your shadows that ended up on the floor and on the computer bank have now coalesced into this thing that is embedding itself into the machinery. If you attack it as it's in the machinery, you may also damage the console.
SPEAKER_07So wait, is it like the machinery is like in the center of the room, like around the console?
SPEAKER_00The machinery, all the control consoles, are around the outer wall of the room.
SPEAKER_07Okay, okay. Well, okay, I'm gonna cast my supp I or not cast suppress, I'm gonna commit my force pips to suppress. Unfortunately, I think that only since it's committed, that's only if it's targeting me. Yeah. So it won't help anyone else. Before my maneuver, can I kind of run closer to the console, just put my back to it, and then as an incidental, quick draw my lightsaber to try to diminish how much shadow is in front of me for this thing to to sucker punch me from?
SPEAKER_00Yeah, yeah, you can try and uh cast cast more light around you.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, I'll see if that works. Yeah, the less than the other.
SPEAKER_00The less shadow there is, the less room there is for it to pop out of your shadow.
SPEAKER_07Yeah.
SPEAKER_02That'll be my turn. What are these consoles around the room?
SPEAKER_00Uh they seem to be the consoles that j generally just sort of keep the city and definitely this synthetic vergence running. So damaging the consoles, uh, you could probably attack this creature. If you don't care about damaging the consoles, you may not be able to restore power to the spaceport level. And there's the spaceport level already doesn't have a yeah, it's it doesn't have power, but if you want to turn it into your base of operations, having like light and heat would probably be would probably be important. And also, who knows what like it the virgins isn't a sword on to who knows what would happen if that thing broke. I'm gonna hit back the motherfucker hit me. Stupid shadow. Okay, well it kind of like, once it comes up, it's it's like in you, like into your body, so you can you want to try and like slice it away, try and beat it down. That feels like it might injure me as well if I do that with a lightsaber. I mean, it depends, because if you imagine it's like um if your shadow shot like venom webs at your entire body. So it's like there are strands that you could cut that would potentially harm it. Okay, yeah, I'll try doing that. Right, so that'll start as a two purple. This thing has two ranks of adversary, so that becomes uh two reds. And this thing, you are in engaged range with it now, so why don't you do a fear check?
SPEAKER_01Ooh.
SPEAKER_00Uh, four purple. Why do you roll for a fear check? This has been discipliner cool.
SPEAKER_04Yeah. Well, let's see what is better. Neither is great.
SPEAKER_07Uh, is Starzide a scardy cat? Is Panstar a scaredy cat? Is Panstar down here? Has Pan Star had the darkness banished from his body?
SPEAKER_04I ain't afraid of no ghosts. Three success, three threats.
SPEAKER_07Nice.
SPEAKER_00Alright, so uh you are not afraid of this thing, um, but because you got that three threat, you are staggered for your turn, which means you can't perform any actions. Yeah, you can do a maneuver, but you won't be able to, it does like it does if not instill a deep fear in you that's gonna affect you for the rest of the encounter. Uh, it does at least surprise you and immobilize you or prevent you from acting. Yeah. Yeah, you could you can still you can still run, you can still do do something else though. Should we run about this?
SPEAKER_07I I don't think we should run about this. I feel like we gotta kill our darkness, Starzan. I feel like I feel like from a thematic sense, we can't be running away from our manifested darkness at this juncture in our personal quests.
SPEAKER_00A little too it's a little too literal. If you're fighting a creature that manifests from shadows, running out of the area that has the big bright light and into the darkened corners of an immense underground city may make it a bit more difficult.
SPEAKER_02Can I try and make it light like it's already light in here?
SPEAKER_00Yeah, it's got a big sword on tube of pure force light.
SPEAKER_02Can I make it lighter?
SPEAKER_00Um get some mirrors in here. Yeah, potentially. Um, but Starzan's still got his maneuver if you want to do anything.
SPEAKER_04Can I do the maneuver? Can I help somebody?
SPEAKER_00Yeah, you could um assist somebody. Uh, I'll do this. You could take a guarded stance. You can manage your gear, you can mount or dismount.
SPEAKER_04Ooh! Do you like to mount anything? Can Panthar, yeah, we'll get Panther too.
SPEAKER_00Oh, yeah. Um, directing an ally is a maneuver. Well, there you go. Okay, what do you want Panthstar to do? Do you want Panthar to try and clear out some of this uh Panthar doesn't have a force rating, so uh this thing doesn't have anything from Panthstar's Reptor.
SPEAKER_04Oh yeah.
SPEAKER_00The X Factor.
SPEAKER_07Pant Star carries no evil in his heart. He is our greatest ally.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, so uh if you want to roll, that was uh adversary with defense, so that's two purple, or sorry, two red and a black. Uh brawl, you can roll two yellow and two green. Come on, Panthar.
SPEAKER_04Um failure, five advantages, one despair.
SPEAKER_07Oh no, Pant Star.
SPEAKER_04He was just a day away from retirement.
SPEAKER_00So five advantages is a lot. Yes.
SPEAKER_07But so was a despair.
SPEAKER_00You did get despair. If you want Panthers to intersect the oily black webbing that is keeping you from taking your action, you could regain your action, but then Panthstar would be stuck.
SPEAKER_04Um. And then I would just be using my action to get him out, so that's a net negative. Um, can he help somebody else?
SPEAKER_00Well, you would still be able to, like, attacking the webs might still damage it.
SPEAKER_04That's a good point. Okay, let's do that then. He he uh frees me and I free him.
SPEAKER_00Okay. So Panthstar can uh leap in, start clawing and biting at these webs that are that are keeping you trapped. You can uh release yourself at least enough to grab your weapon if you want to slice through that.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, same thing, it's uh two reds and a black.
SPEAKER_00Two reds and a black.
SPEAKER_04Okay. For success, one advantage.
SPEAKER_07Yay!
SPEAKER_00So, like the other entities you fought before, this thing has no soak, but damage against it is halved. You do manage to sever the uh bits and webs that were connecting to you and are now connecting to Pant Star, they fall on the ground, and the severed bits coalesce into another one of these little critters.
SPEAKER_07So it's at least like one small thing.
SPEAKER_02Can I go to the computer and try and pump up the lights?
SPEAKER_00Okay, so the lights, the ceiling lights in this thing are on, but they're not full power. So, uh, they are casting light from above. There is the tube that is casting light outwards from the inside. So the best bet to try and diminish the amount of shadows that this thing can leap out from would be to find a way to uh increase the amount of light going towards the center from the outside.
SPEAKER_07Because you said it's just like the lights, like roof lights, no uh.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, they're like the illuminated surfaces in the room are there's the big tube in the middle, the standard sort of uh ceiling lights, and the uh screens on all of the computers that are surrounding uh the outside wall.
SPEAKER_07Full brightness on the screens!
SPEAKER_00If you wanna see do full brightness, um give me a computers. Now you're gonna in order for this to be effective, it's gonna have to brighten things beyond just like normal brightness, so you are gonna have to hack this system. Uh it is a 1500-year-old computer, so you are in the heat of battle. We'll call this, I'll give you a destiny point, we'll call it a red, a black, and sorry, a red, a purple, and two blacks.
SPEAKER_07No! No, no!
SPEAKER_00So you can't uh increase the brightness. It seems like your capabilities are not able to.
SPEAKER_02I go over and start to type and then turn around and just shrug.
SPEAKER_07Chris comes sweet talk the computer.
SPEAKER_05Hello, bonjour. Je m'appelle Cressant, and uh, aren't you looking like a fine series of ones and zeros?
SPEAKER_00The holocron that is sitting on on the terminal says, thank you, Croissant.
SPEAKER_07The Holocron! Maybe that thing can do it. Oh. If we can plug it in.
SPEAKER_00So to find if you want to plug it in, uh, you would have to find the right receptacle, so that would be a perception. Again, you're in the heat of battle, you're trying to find the right socket to plug in a holocron so that it can turn up the lights uh beyond what is recommended. So that is gonna be a two purple and two blacks perception.
SPEAKER_06Two purple and two blacks? Yeah. As soon as I find my dice roll, here you are. Two purple, two black. I got one advantage.
SPEAKER_00So you can pinpoint visually where the correct terminal is, but uh it is across the room. You don't have enough to get there with just your maneuvers. Okay. So you wouldn't be able to get there this turn, but you know where to plug it in.
SPEAKER_06Okay.
SPEAKER_00Uh I'm gonna have the little critter go first. It's going to go after Chris, who's trying to who's making his way across the room.
SPEAKER_05Don't hit me, don't hit me, don't hit me, don't hit me.
SPEAKER_07Miss, miss, miss.
SPEAKER_00And you've still got your defense, you're still wearing your Imperial Knights armor, which is good. A success and tooth threats. So it's crawling up you, biting into your armor. Uh, it got those threats. It doesn't manage to actually like bypass your armor, it doesn't manage to crawl under your clothes to uh bite you this thing. Like, although it has this bulb, it feels very much like it could cockroach under a door. But it's like trying to clamber onto you and sink its like tentacle little maw, toothy maw into you, potentially to uh poison you. But it doesn't manage to this time.
SPEAKER_06Somebody please get it before it poisons me. Mr. Ku can still go.
SPEAKER_00Uh the entity can.
SPEAKER_04Oh, great. That buddy, that guy.
SPEAKER_07Entity guy, can you get this off me, please?
SPEAKER_04Oh fine.
SPEAKER_00You asked very politely. So it rolls uh four darks on its harm power.
SPEAKER_06Oh fuck me.
SPEAKER_02What's it happening?
SPEAKER_00Uh Illyria.
SPEAKER_02Hey, that's my move.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, it is. Crazy about that. So uh it uses the basic power. This thing has an intellect of two.
SPEAKER_07Oh, it's not very smart.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, so it so it has uh it uses its basic power to deal two damage to Illyria bypassing your soak.
SPEAKER_02Alright.
SPEAKER_00Feel like there's another shoe that's gonna drop here. So it's gonna use two of those strengths, two of those black pips to use its uh strength upgrade. So it has two that it can uh use, so it adds an additional four wounds, so it does six points of wound, and it's gonna use its last force pip to heal wounds equal to wounds inflicted.
SPEAKER_06Oh, that's rude.
SPEAKER_00Uh so it heals the six wounds that Starzan inflicted on it. Illyria takes six points of wound, and uh for good measure, Illyria, what is your resilience?
SPEAKER_02Uh three green.
unknownOkay.
SPEAKER_00Oh. Don't say that.
SPEAKER_01Oh.
SPEAKER_00So it got threat, so it can't increase the difficulty, but it does get to inflict a crit on you.
SPEAKER_01No, no!
SPEAKER_00Five. Oh. Uh so Illyria, you take you take a point of strain as well.
SPEAKER_07Ow! Okay. You get a little owch.
SPEAKER_00Ouch! So then it gets to take its nemesis end of round turn. Cool, cool. Kala, it can't attack you with the force. Oh, it can't. It's made of the force. Yes, it is. Uh, Chris, uh, it seems that this thing kind of is has limited range, which is m maybe why it sent the little critter after you, so it can't really get you. It's already attacked Illyria. Starzan's got his laser sword out and swing it. So it's going to attack Panthstar.
SPEAKER_07Oh no! No, you can't attack the kitty! That's against the law.
SPEAKER_04Come on. He just started adventuring with us.
SPEAKER_07It's against the law of gaming. You can't kill the cat.
SPEAKER_00So, it got two success and two advantages.
unknownOh.
SPEAKER_00Chris, you have the ebb and flow power? I do. Okay, so it's gonna it's gonna use the ebb and flow power.
SPEAKER_08Well.
SPEAKER_00It is going to flow into its brawl skill. So what that means is that it's gonna spend its three dark side to add three success to its next brawl check. Uh fuck me. Uh, so right now, right now it only it only has two, but its next brawl check is gonna be uh enhanced.
SPEAKER_07That's great. That's uh the end of its turn.
SPEAKER_00Uh well it does uh inflict six points of wounds onto Pant Star. Noooo. How many does he have? He's got 14. Okay.
SPEAKER_07It's okay for now.
SPEAKER_00It's okay for now. Now it's the back to the top of the round.
SPEAKER_07Okay. Because how how far away from you would Chris be?
SPEAKER_00Chris would have used his maneuver so he'd be end of short range, entering into medium.
SPEAKER_07Because it's like, if Chris, if I can yell at Chris to turn to the side or something, when this little thing's guy claw trying to claw into his armor, I'm wondering if maybe I could just snipe it off him so he can keep getting that hollow.
SPEAKER_00It does have a big bulbous throbbing uh thing on the top of it that's gonna be a little bit more.
SPEAKER_07That's what I was thinking, it's got a big target.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. This will be a give you a destiny point in case you uh hit him. Okay. So that'll be a red, and he'll have to add two blacks just because it's crawling around on him.
SPEAKER_07Okay. Red, two blacks. I can add two blues for accurate, one for superior, and pressing and shot. Is that is that like adding the force I'm trying to remember? Or is that adding another blue?
SPEAKER_00Uh pressing and shot, you add a boost die. Because that's that's from your force-thatuned resonator in your uh red hand.
SPEAKER_07Yeah. Okay, so four blue. Bam, bam, bam, bam. Don't add any of my force, because it's all emitted. Three success, three advantage. I do not hit Chris. I take it off cleanly. Yeah, it's also like pierce three.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, this thing has three wounds, so it definitely bursts as your bullet uh impacts it. The bullet like dissolves as it gets to the center of its mass, and Chris, you're just covered with this oily backsplash.
SPEAKER_07Sorry, Chris. And also, I should have I should've mentioned this uh before I started doing it, but uh when I because I had my light dagger out, could I have just like dropped my light dagger, ignited on the ground, like in my shadow, so it's still uh lightning that a little bit? Sure. When I take out my rifle, okay. Yeah, just drop it. Um I should have aimed. I mean, I I toasted that thing, it's fine.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, so uh Starzan, um, this little critter uh that popped out was it came out of the darkness that came from your shadow. Um so which of your sins does Chris taste when the oil gets in his mouth? Oh, um it can be a minor sin, like jacking off to Waluigi, hentai. I don't know if I want to taste that either. Pride. You get Starzan's pride in your mouth. Tastes a little sweaty. Tastes oh it's a little too salty. Yeah.
SPEAKER_07Pride tastes like retained semen, weirdly enough.
SPEAKER_04Don't spill any. Chris, if you can just keep your keep it all in your mouth, please.
SPEAKER_07Don't uh Slurp it up, man. I need that fill in our head.
SPEAKER_04Speaking of a little throw-up, junior.
SPEAKER_00Uh what's left? Uh the big the big one. Lily, lemme, lily add him. Now smash this one with the lightsaber. Because that's the one that is attached to the machinery.
SPEAKER_04Yes.
SPEAKER_00Uh so if you want to try and strike it without damaging the machinery, uh that is also gonna that's gonna add two blacks. I can do that. Okay.
SPEAKER_04Destiny.
SPEAKER_00Uh so that is gonna be two reds and three blacks all together. Okay. Let's see what we got here.
SPEAKER_04Uh no success. It's a wash for for success or failure, but uh two advantages and a triumph.
SPEAKER_00Okay, so as you bring your lightsaber closer to this thing, maybe you think better than to just start carving up the console that controls uh the city. But as your star sword, your lightsaber is built into the blade of your meteorite sword, highly polished, highly reflective. So your lightsaber, as you bring Bring it closer to this thing is enough to sort of like scare it off the console a little bit. So it may be useful for uh corralling this entity. Okay. That was my turn though. Yeah.
SPEAKER_06Am I still able to uh find uh uh uh plug in the console?
SPEAKER_00Yeah, if you want to run over and plug in the Holocron, you can. You can slam it into that slot. And the Holocron's been listening, it knows what you want to do, so it plugs into the city's uh mainframe, and while it's there, you know, might as well just turn on all the power. And I mean, as it should. The screens become incredibly like they hurt to look at, they're so bright. Just this bright white light starts emanating from all the screens around the room. And just as it recoiled from Starzan's blade, the dark force creature leaps off of the illuminated control surface and starts like skittering around on the floor, trying to like move from shadow to shadow.
SPEAKER_02I hit it with my lightsaber.
SPEAKER_00Right. It's it's running around a little bit, so that'll add a black, but that'll be two reds and two blacks.
SPEAKER_02Interesting.
SPEAKER_06Uh-oh. Why is that interesting? Why would you say such things?
SPEAKER_02Two failure.
unknownMm-hmm.
SPEAKER_02One advantage.
SPEAKER_01Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER_02One despair. And a triumph? Two triumph. Oh, okay.
SPEAKER_06Oh, oh.
SPEAKER_00That is crush. So this thing that's skittering around is trying to find any little crevices. You've got the bright light coming from the Zordon tube. You've got the bright lights that are coming from the control panels. You've got a bunch of Jedi with their lightsabers out. It is trying to find anywhere that does not have direct exposure to light. And Illyria, maybe you shout something, maybe you say something, maybe you're about to speak, like, I'll get it. And it takes that opportunity to leap down your throat.
SPEAKER_07Oh man, I was thinking, like, is it gonna like crawl into your hair and hide there? But this is so much worse.
SPEAKER_00So you can feel it wriggling around inside the shadows of your body. You got those two triumphs. Now it's a medical issue.
SPEAKER_02Oh good. Can I do I have anything left to do for this round?
SPEAKER_00Well, you got those you got those two triumphs. You have five destiny points. So if you want to try to heal yourself in a forcey way. With with two triumphs, yeah.
SPEAKER_07You can be allowed to use the heal power.
SPEAKER_02So I just roll my force for that, right? Or do I also add it on to a medicine?
SPEAKER_00You if you want to roll your medicine, that will also allow you to heal a critical injury.
SPEAKER_02Okay.
SPEAKER_00So you could heal your critical injury.
SPEAKER_02Okay. What am I rolling against?
SPEAKER_00Do I get a uh it is a three purple medicine check with your force. And you will have to use a uh destiny point to pick that off, but you have five.
SPEAKER_02Two success. What advantage? Two dark side, two triumph.
SPEAKER_00Ooh.
SPEAKER_04So a lot of triumph this week. No light size, though.
SPEAKER_07No light size. Can you do it without the light side? Or without force, I mean.
SPEAKER_02Can I physically grab anything that's hanging out of my mouth and start like pulling it out?
SPEAKER_00Yeah, you you got that triumph. Uh, you can take this as a, you know what, we don't need the force right now. We've got surgery hands, and you can reach in and just grab a tendril and try and pull it out.
SPEAKER_07Oh my god, this makes me this makes me want to puke. This is like the ring when she starts pulling the hair out of her throat. Ugh.
SPEAKER_00Has anyone not gone yet this round? Pant Star hasn't gone this round.
SPEAKER_07That's true.
SPEAKER_00Illyria, do you trust Panthstar to grab a hold of uh this tendril?
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_00This anything, anything this black sausage link.
SPEAKER_07Yum! Okay. Pant Star can eat it, it won't do anything inside him.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, Star Zone, if you want to uh command Panthstar uh to do a chomp attack. It'll be a it's a gonna be a brawl, two purple and two black to avoid mauling Allyria with two green and two yellow. And you have four destiny points if you think you might need one.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, may as well.
SPEAKER_00Two success, two advantage.
SPEAKER_04Yay!
SPEAKER_00So Pant Star, as Illyria's pulling out this like knotted mat of like black tendril, like it gets far enough out of her mouth, Pantstar, like, runs up and chomps on it, and he pulls the entity back out, and as he pulls it out, it does take Elyria's shape, like it was using her as a mold. And uh you watch this thing like bite your own head off.
SPEAKER_07Pant Star bite your own head off?
SPEAKER_00Yeah, Pantar bites Shadow Alyria's head off. The little head detaches, turns into a what another one of those little bulb creatures, and the uh larger mass skitters, skitters away.
SPEAKER_07I mean, okay, it's at least like contained into a shape. We can work with this.
SPEAKER_00So this uh little skitter critter is gonna try and uh attack Panthers now. It didn't like being uh bitten off as a little head. Now it's like a the bulb is still taking the the shape of a lyri's head. It looks like the thing.
SPEAKER_07Oh no. Little spider space. Little spider legs? Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Starzan don't fucking believe this.
SPEAKER_00One success and one threat. So it manages to bite Panstar. Panstar's got a pretty thick hide, so it doesn't get a chance to inject its poison. Okay. It's more of a nuisance than anything. Real pest.
SPEAKER_07The threat is that you don't fuck with the cat. Now everyone's gonna go wild.
SPEAKER_00Uh, this entity, it's been ripped out of Illyria. Uh, it tried to attack Starzad and failed. Chris is on the other side of the room. Hey, Kala, it's gonna uh it's gonna brawl you. It does get to add those three successes.
SPEAKER_07Try it, you clown. I got my light daggots on the ground in front of me. I still got my gun!
SPEAKER_00Okay, so it'll add uh that'll give it two blacks. One success, four advantages. So, uh Kala deals five points of wound directly to your being. And with those advantages, it can roll its crit 74. Ah! Lose your free maneuver, your hamstrung.
SPEAKER_06Well, are you uh this is gonna this uh battle's gonna take a lot out of us, isn't it?
SPEAKER_07Quite li it's already taken out half of our force opportunities.
SPEAKER_02And this is what we get for never fighting.
SPEAKER_00For its second turn, its end-of-round turn, it's gonna try and heal.
SPEAKER_07I I know I was thinking as we were going through the the different levels, and I'm like, this is way too easy us going with us going through the levels. There's gonna be a big fuck off fight at the end, isn't there?
SPEAKER_00So it's gonna target uh Chris, who's on the other side of the room, because this is kind of its ranged move. It got two lights, three darks. So uh this creature has taken four points of wound. So it is gonna use one point to activate the power to inflict two points of strain, one point to increase the range to get to medium, and uh one to heal two points of wound. So, Chris, you take two points of wound, it heals too.
SPEAKER_06Stop healing off of my pain! That's such a Schadenfreude thing to do.
SPEAKER_07This thing's like right in front of me.
SPEAKER_06Yeah.
SPEAKER_07That's a that's not great for a sniper rifle, but also I guess I uh I wouldn't have to aim much.
SPEAKER_00I mean, you lose your manu you don't have your maneuver anymore because you're hamstrung, so you wouldn't be able to.
SPEAKER_07That's true. I wouldn't be able to, anyways. Yeah, can I swing my gun uh gun up and try to blast it away from me?
SPEAKER_00Yeah, so this thing, uh, it's right next to you, so it would be in gauge range, so uh that is gonna be two reds and a black.
SPEAKER_07Ooh, two reds and a black. What do we have for destiny?
SPEAKER_00Yeah, four.
SPEAKER_07Four? Can I flip my red? Okay, and then motherfucker, I got five success and five advantage.
SPEAKER_06Holy shit.
SPEAKER_07I want to crit that bitch. Okay. Crit that bitch!
SPEAKER_00So it takes seven points of wound because it gets halved. I have pierced three. Does that help? It has no soak.
unknownReally?
SPEAKER_00Yeah. Damn. Well, because it's got the uh it's it's incorporeal. So it has that instead of soak.
SPEAKER_07Well, okay.
SPEAKER_00But I can crit it! You can crit it. 62! 62, uh, doesn't matter. It's gonna commit one of its force to endure the crit.
SPEAKER_07Damn it, damn it, Starzan! Damn it, Starzan! You just had to give our force baby endure.
SPEAKER_04Oh yeah, that's the worst power it has.
SPEAKER_07Now never mind the heal harm that's letting it heal itself at the end of every round.
SPEAKER_04Yeah. Oh no, it has enhance too.
SPEAKER_07Oh no, ca-cause that's crit three, I got five advantage. Could my remaining advantage be that just like it gets blasted back from me a bit?
SPEAKER_00Because you can't take your free maneuver, but two advantage does allow you to perform an immediate free maneuver that doesn't exceed the two maneuver per turn limit. You can do a maneuver if you just want to get away from it.
SPEAKER_07Sure, I'll I'll do a maneuver just to uh I'll I'll go around to the other side of the tube, still trying to keep my back to that thing. Take my light dagger as I go.
SPEAKER_02Somebody brawl it directly into the light. Kick 'em, kick 'em.
SPEAKER_06Is there, uh, speaking of Resident Evil, is there like a giant uh uh ceiling light that we can open up a door for, but we need to uh get power to it first?
SPEAKER_00Um all the lights that are in here are on. I don't think you're gonna find anything that's brighter than the Zordon tube. Get in the dick.
SPEAKER_06Can we uh can we point the Zordon tube to do it? I don't think it works that way.
SPEAKER_07I mean, could Starzan just brawl it into the tube?
SPEAKER_04Try. I'll try and brawl it into the tu I'll try and brawl it into the tube. This incorporeal light.
SPEAKER_07It is incorporeal, it might be a bad idea, but uh who knows.
SPEAKER_06I mean, we've done worse things, I feel.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. Okay, uh, so give me a two red and a black then to try and grapple this thing.
SPEAKER_04This will go perfectly.
SPEAKER_07I'll bet.
SPEAKER_04Uh, four success, one despair, two dark side.
SPEAKER_06Ooh! We're really getting them crits today.
SPEAKER_00You can try and grapple this thing and drag it towards the tube. However, it now knows that going inside somebody is a good way to hide.
unknownOh no!
SPEAKER_00Oh no!
SPEAKER_07Oh no, it's Starzan's automatic!
SPEAKER_00Start so it starts like, as you're grappling with it, it starts searching for any hole, any any way to bond with your body. So your mouth, your nose, anything below the belt, it starts like snaking its way in, trying to hide from the light within.
SPEAKER_04This is sounding dangerous.
SPEAKER_00But you are able to take it very close to the light. The problem is now it's in you.
SPEAKER_06Can can we extract it?
SPEAKER_07Now Leary goes over just like, open up Starzan! Just shove your wrist down his mouth.
SPEAKER_00I don't know how how confident you are in your surgery abilities, but um, like. This is in the Disney era of Star Wars, getting stabbed in the gut by a lightsaber is no longer fatal. So if you wanted to give Starzan a C-section.
SPEAKER_07Starzan, you never knew I would allow you to roll medicine. That even avoiding spreading your seed could not keep you from becoming pregnant.
SPEAKER_06I feel like that's gonna require many blacks. What do you think, Illyria?
SPEAKER_00Or or if you think there's another way to get this thing out of them.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, is there? Can we just try a flashlight in his mouth?
SPEAKER_04Could I try to pretty concentrate? Could I try Lamaz?
SPEAKER_07You birth it.
SPEAKER_04Yeah.
SPEAKER_07Illyria says nice things to it, so maybe it comes out unawares.
SPEAKER_04Like burrito night, you know?
SPEAKER_02I just had burrito night three nights in a row.
SPEAKER_00It would have to be on your next turn, which would be in the next round, but Starzan, if you did want to try and take care of it yourself, an athletics roll might be able to uh What was the thing I had to roll to try not to shit myself?
SPEAKER_04As we learned last time, I can twerk it out.
SPEAKER_07Ooh. Ew. Twercules could return. Shake that ass until it comes out of it.
SPEAKER_06If I give him a massage, uh, will that give him a bonus?
SPEAKER_07If we throw dollar bills.
SPEAKER_06The boner is uh inconsequential. It will give him a bonus.
SPEAKER_07If we throw dollar bills at Starzan while he's trying to shake this thing out of his ass. Probably not.
SPEAKER_00I will say that like doing it, taking care of it yourself with an athletics, that would be your tur during your next turn, so it would be able to get to take both of its turns inside your body.
SPEAKER_07Oh no! I mean Starzana C section's not so bad.
SPEAKER_00Unless you have any uh any different ideas.
SPEAKER_07Human skin is translucent. What if you just flatten your whole body to the tube and hope that the light going through your skin helps?
SPEAKER_04Yeah, if you I heard if you blast it with light, it's uh it gets rid of it. Can it do some perennium sunning? Yeah.
SPEAKER_07Put your buttle on this god!
SPEAKER_04Dear god.
SPEAKER_07Dear god, forgive me.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, because this thing is is pretty bright. Uh if you did hug the tube, at the very least, it would act like the subsurface scattering would act as an almost an X-ray that would show where in your body the mass is concentrated.
SPEAKER_07And then the lyria goes in for the C-section.
SPEAKER_00Okay, yeah, I will hug the light. You can run up and hug the light. You can feel the worst stomachache you've ever had as this thing clenches itself inside your body. Anybody who's looking at Starzan can see like his flesh glowing red as the light is transmitting through it, and there's this little like black mass underneath his skin that is just moving around in there, trying to burrow deeper, but it can't because the uh the light is there.
SPEAKER_06Ken, is it at a point where we might be able to cut it out, actually? Because, like, I know we were kind of joking before, but.
SPEAKER_00Starzan's sunning the tube, as it's moving uh away from the tube, it is getting closer and closer to his like the back of his rib cage and his spine.
SPEAKER_07Oh, well that thing, you said it was like kind of retreating away from the light towards Starzan's spine, but the star sword was really reflective. If someone could use that to like shine, Starzan's gonna get into sword swallowing. No, to like reflect the light towards his back.
SPEAKER_00So there was no safe place for it to go. Yeah, that could potentially work. It would it would be a co it would be a medicine to cut the thing out. It would be a coordination to use the star sword. It would have to be whoever hasn't gone yet, so either Chris or Illyria. Yeah.
SPEAKER_06I think we should do I think we can and should do both.
SPEAKER_02Stick your hand up his butt and I'll cut him up.
SPEAKER_06I was gonna I was gonna bounce I was gonna bounce some light.
SPEAKER_02Bounce the light, goddamn, bounce the light!
SPEAKER_06I was gonna bounce some light. Do you want to do one?
SPEAKER_02Okay, you bounce some light first and then I'll cut him up.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. So do you wanna bounce the light onto the incision point? Because it would be easier potentially to do a small incision that is being filled with light than to try and bounce the light through his skin or to m cut it open wide enough for the thing to spill out.
SPEAKER_06I think the incision is kind of like where it's going to come out of anyway.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, because if you both want to do it, maybe I have a knife in my portable healing kit or if you want to bounce the light onto the incision, I'll cut the difficulty in half, because it'll be spread across both of you.
SPEAKER_06Got it. Um, I I I agree. I I think I I feel as though shining a light on an incision is something that we should be doing anyway, so yes, let's do that.
SPEAKER_00Okay, so us Chris, if you want to grab Starzan's sword, and Illyria, if you want to get ready to slice Starzan open.
SPEAKER_06I trip and I trip and I accidentally shoved the sword up his ass. Sorry.
SPEAKER_00So each of these rolls will be a red, a purple, and a black. Now, do you want to cut first and then shine, or shine first and then shine? Who's gonna roll first?
SPEAKER_02I'll cut first. Two failures three.
SPEAKER_07Was it advantage at least? Do you think better of it? Three advantage! So maybe it's like you're about to cut and then you're like, no, no, this is not the right place. I need Starzan to move. Uh, Chris, why don't you roll yours?
SPEAKER_06How many destiny points do we got? We got three. I'm gonna flip one. Success to advantage. Okay.
SPEAKER_07Oh nice!
SPEAKER_00So, uh, you can bounce the light onto where this thing is. Illyri, you got those three advantages as well. So as you bring your lightsaber close to Starzan's skin, it starts retreating. And you don't even need to make the incision, because Starzan, you can feel it crawling up your throat. It it's it has to get out. It has to get out of here.
SPEAKER_07Press your open mouth to the tube!
SPEAKER_04Yeah, push into the tube.
SPEAKER_07Kiss the god!
SPEAKER_00You can kiss the tube flooding your throat with light, and you can feel the wet, slimy tendrils of this thing drying out inside of you, becoming chalky dust. And as you pull away, you maybe you you cough a little bit, and these dried flakes of sin uh fall out of your mouth, ashy. You can come now, perverts. It is permitted.
SPEAKER_07Jacking off is no longer illegal. It's dead? We're good?
SPEAKER_00It appears to be dead.
SPEAKER_06Can I stomp on it a few times just to be sure?
SPEAKER_00I mean it's it's it's just a pile of ash that's spilling out of Starzan's mouth, so if you want to stomp on it.
SPEAKER_06I still stomp his ash.
SPEAKER_02So is this the only one, or I think that was it?
SPEAKER_00Yeah, it was made of your darkness and you defeated it. We've defeated our darkness.
SPEAKER_04This is very symbolic. This is highly metaphorical.
SPEAKER_07We can't do shit with our force at least until we get fixed much wow. Until we fix ourselves.
SPEAKER_02And we didn't fix ourselves so we can be evil again.
SPEAKER_07Okay, Mr. Holocron, can you uh return the power to all the other levels now?
SPEAKER_00I've been doing, actually.
SPEAKER_07Well, weed were busy. Sorry, that was a very strong reaction.
SPEAKER_06We appreciate it, thank you.
SPEAKER_07And uh before that uh the master's holocron was keeping things online too. Are they uh still around in the holocron?
SPEAKER_00Or are they uh the combined essence of the masters? All of their teachings now live in me. Hence my rather vague visage. None of the masters uh they purge themselves of ego long before they built me, so I do not resemble any one of them.
SPEAKER_07Kind of like a placehold avatar.
SPEAKER_06You look like you're not trying to impress anybody.
SPEAKER_00And the virgins remains unharmed, as you can see on the screen here. So you can see on the screen there is a like very low exposure camera that is observing the virgins. And in this big Zordon tube, it's way too bright to be able to see it. Just looking at it through this like heavily filtered screen, you can see a little zygote in the tube.
SPEAKER_07Oh, it's like a baby!
SPEAKER_00Is Darjan a father? Did you just vomit on our baby? No, this is the result of the Alashan Council's work. A new deity, a being of pure light gestating inside the tube. It's still probably a few years away from being a viable specimen, but their work, it seems, was uh not for nothing.
SPEAKER_06Basically, this is your new god then.
SPEAKER_00Perhaps.
SPEAKER_06We need to abort god. What is this, Silent Hill 3? An actual plot point from Silent Hill 3, thank you very much.
SPEAKER_07And now we all know.
SPEAKER_06Fucking Silent Hill rules, you guys should play those games one day. No. You got no time to play games because of baby.
SPEAKER_07Because of baby. Well, I uh I guess if we're setting up here, then it's like You know, it does does the does the the the thing that thing does it need a more help for developing or is it like more or less self-sustaining now?
SPEAKER_00As the masters have passed on, if you wish this chamber to remain obscured from whatever group you intend to set up here, I can see that your intentions are noble, you have purified the darkness within yourselves. I have no trouble allowing you to stay here, and if you require somebody to watch over this entity, I am willing to remain sealed down here with it.
SPEAKER_07So you're thinking just like seal this off altogether, no one gets in or out.
SPEAKER_00At least not down to this level. The residential and amenities levels are yours to use.
SPEAKER_07I mean, that's probably for the best. Like, you know, people, like maybe our close people can just like know that it's here, but just like in a like do not disturb kind of way. I don't know if we need like everyone coming down here and having to like get in a fist fight with their own darkness that feels like it could just get real messy. You know? Yeah, I know.
SPEAKER_06I agree.
SPEAKER_07Yeah. Okay.
SPEAKER_06Smile wave.
SPEAKER_07I mean, let our people know, but like, yeah, let's let's seal it up. Just let it let it develop and do its thing.
SPEAKER_06Are you are you sure you're uh it's not gonna be lonely down here at all, or I mean like they barely even know they exist for like the first year, you know?
SPEAKER_00I mean it's a zygote.
SPEAKER_07It's uh Yeah, exactly. It doesn't have consciousness yet.
SPEAKER_00Fair.
SPEAKER_07And even when it's born, it's not really gonna know that it exists until it's like a year old or so. Maybe more if it's like a god and it's eternal. Maybe it'll be like 50 and still toddlin around like a little baby, and it'll need people and armor to carry it about and, you know, tend to it.
SPEAKER_06Seems annoying. Card on the play, a little too meta.
SPEAKER_07Yeah. You know, we can't uh we can't have that. People just want to beat it to death with hammers. When uh sorry, holocron buddy, uh, is there something we could call you? I assume that you're still gonna be uh would you be like totally sealed down here?
SPEAKER_00Would you be like uh Yes, I would need to dedicate myself to the care and keeping of this new deity.
SPEAKER_07Oh, okay. I mean, you know, for old time's sake, uh do you have a name of sorts?
SPEAKER_00I have never had a name. I have only been the gatekeeper of this holocron. I am a consistent entity based on the Alishan Council.
SPEAKER_02Cool.
SPEAKER_06Deep or Holy Rocky. No, she call him Bullwick. There you go. There we go.
SPEAKER_07Well, anyways, uh happy garden. I know the power's back up.
SPEAKER_00The power is restored, and as she develops, I will do my best to instruct her.
SPEAKER_02Okay.
SPEAKER_00Well, yeah, it's like a deity made in the image of the daughter.
SPEAKER_02Why isn't there a mother? There's like a father, but you need two to tango.
SPEAKER_00Cala, you feel like your your your stomach drop as she says that again. I don't know why that keeps happening.
SPEAKER_07Stop don't don't say that anymore. Don't stop saying it. Stop saying it. Alright. Just just you don't need to talk about that anymore. Let's go back upstairs. Let's go tell a people that everything's good.
SPEAKER_00We have a s we have a safe spot. You can go back upstairs, you can tell the people what's good as you return to the uh residential level and the amenities level and the spaceport level. You can see that the power is all restored. The dead mall seems a little less foreboding. And in the spaceport foyer, the Jedi and the others have been able to get the systems up and running. Some of the food processors are able to make some kind of gray slop that you can eat. You may want to get some supplies, you may want to get another ship, uh, you may want to. What do you want to do now that you have a ride?
SPEAKER_06We should put a a uh colon cleanse. Probably save my girlfriend.
SPEAKER_07Is that should that be next order of business saving Zen? Getting Zinn off Coruscant? We can't.
SPEAKER_06That's kinda that's kind of what I want to do, but that's just mmm before.
SPEAKER_00Well, the news ticker at the beginning of the episode did say that they were gonna track down all your associates for questioning, so uh That might be dangerous. Might be might be worth looking into the whereabouts of Zinn and maybe your other friends next time on Star Wars Empire Wreckers. This week's episode is brought to you by our top patrons, Alphabros 522, David B, Eric Charles Perazzo, Jeffrey Zamuto, Joshua Winter, Laser, LKB, Matthew Lynette, Suki Nintendo, Thomas Davidson, and Vaginator.