S14E15 - Hungry Like the Wolf

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SPEAKER_02 0:00

Hey everyone, thanks for listening to Star Wars Empire Wreckers, the Star Wars Actual Play podcast. That is the worst reviewed video game movie of twenty twenty-six. Who's ready to flop today?

SPEAKER_11 0:13

Callacet's ready to to flop in her in her video game movie. I was really hoping it'd be a film adaptation of Fallen Order, but instead with my you know metal leg, I just got put into droid builders.

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Uh hello, Je m'appelle Croissant. Uh me and my video game studio have announced our brand new game last week, and we are very, very excited for you to not play it because we just got closed down.

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But future plans to have a movie franchise were stuck in to Andyria is just going to wait for the novelization.

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And if you think Hollywood should hire more YouTubers as directors, pass my number along to Dave Filone and come along with us to a long time ago in a galaxy far far away in Star Wars. The spark of rebellion has ignited. As the evil galactic empire tightens its grip on civilization, star systems are beginning to slip through their fingers. Led by steadfast senators and hidden Jedi, a small network of freedom fighters is beginning to develop, including a group of rogue imperial knights. With a former separatist commander in their clutches, the knights return to their hidden base, which may hold the secret knowledge about where blue babies come from.

SPEAKER_11 1:41

Ohlyria, Elyria's the blue baby.

SPEAKER_08 1:44

Mommy, daddy, where do blue babies come from?

SPEAKER_11 1:47

That's the real reason why Illyria wants to track down her parents. You're gonna see them, and it's like, I just need to know. How do babies get made?

SPEAKER_08 1:56

Gets out your notebook and a pen.

SPEAKER_05 1:59

Mother, father, how is Babby formed?

SPEAKER_11 2:02

What do you think the sex ed uh situation in the Jedi Temple is?

SPEAKER_02 2:07

Not good. Don't do it.

SPEAKER_05 2:08

Abstinence only.

SPEAKER_02 2:10

No, they can fuck, they just can't get uh emotionally attached.

SPEAKER_11 2:13

Okay, but do you think it's like uh like a high school guidance counselor where there's just like free condoms around for the Jedi? We'd rather you be safe.

SPEAKER_07 2:23

Master Yoda, what if we are prepared to have sex? Well, then prepared to die, you must be.

SPEAKER_02 2:32

So you can uh return back to Alishan, where you have a full underground city that has medical facilities that you can use to hopefully safely thaw out this separatist general.

SPEAKER_11 2:45

Oh, yeah, because I think I also wasn't able to heal like one of my crits last time, too.

SPEAKER_07 2:50

I hope this is better than our original plan of just using a bunch of blow dryers. Eventually we get to her.

SPEAKER_11 2:57

They keep overheating and shutting off. We had to swap them out.

SPEAKER_02 3:02

Yeah, since you're not in any uh particular hurry, uh you can probably have uh, but if you want to roll, um do you want to keep your keep your crit? Do I want to keep my crit?

SPEAKER_08 3:14

Yeah. That's the benefit of that. I was the question I'd be asking.

SPEAKER_11 3:18

For what reason would I want to keep a crit?

SPEAKER_02 3:21

Well, it would be so Illyria would have to potentially do the medicine roll to make sure that Severance Tan doesn't suffer any hibernation sickness. Um, so if you want to go into a back to tank and roll your resilience, you could. But it just means that she might be busy in terms of actually healing you.

SPEAKER_11 3:39

Uh, you know what? I'll whatever, I'll just what what crit is it? Was it an easy crit?

SPEAKER_02 3:45

Yeah.

SPEAKER_11 3:45

What if I just did medicine on myself?

SPEAKER_02 3:48

Uh if you want to try, you can uh I'll give you a destiny point here and you can add a black.

SPEAKER_11 3:53

Okay. Uh that's one purple and a black?

SPEAKER_02 3:56

It's a red and a black.

SPEAKER_11 3:57

A red and a black. You know what? No. I'll just I'll just keep the crit, whatever.

SPEAKER_02 4:05

Well, you could go in a back to tank and roll resilience instead.

SPEAKER_11 4:08

Sure, I'll go in a back to tank and roll resilience.

SPEAKER_02 4:10

Okay, give me a give me a one purple resilience.

SPEAKER_11 4:12

One success, one advantage. We're fine.

SPEAKER_02 4:14

Yeah, you're fine.

SPEAKER_11 4:15

I'm out of there in half a day.

SPEAKER_02 4:17

You're fine. You you can have had your soak. Nobody comes to uh get it.

SPEAKER_05 4:22

You can have your soak and I'll I'll jump on the I'll jump on the back to tank. No one interested in the back. Swishy around a bit.

SPEAKER_02 4:30

So it'll be a uh three purple medicine to thaw out Severance safely.

SPEAKER_05 4:36

Three success, one advantage. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 4:38

As you as you thaw her out, uh you can monitor her vitals, make sure that she comes out slowly enough so that the hibernation sickness uh doesn't take effect. Or since you got that advantage, maybe there are some symptoms you would want.

SPEAKER_05 4:54

I don't want her to be able to fight back. Slight paral slight paralysis, full faculties of mind, but not of body.

SPEAKER_10 5:02

I want her to be paralyzed.

SPEAKER_05 5:04

Just in case. You know what happens when you give someone Narcan.

SPEAKER_10 5:08

It's true.

SPEAKER_02 5:09

So high hydration sickness. Uh common symptoms are exhaustion, weakness, dehydration, dizziness, memory loss, temporary blindness.

SPEAKER_08 5:18

How temporary? Um That's uh that sounds like a hangover, am I right?

SPEAKER_02 5:22

From from about the time over for however long it takes for you to uh be able to help Lando climb up from a pit.

SPEAKER_00 5:30

Just a little higher. Just a little higher. Just a little higher.

SPEAKER_02 5:34

So uh if you want her to be uh a little tired and weak, you can, but uh not suffer any memory loss. Just modify the the thawing process. Is do you want her to be blind or is it okay if she can see you?

SPEAKER_05 5:49

I think it's we didn't piss her off too bad last time we saw her, right?

SPEAKER_02 5:52

No, you parted ways pretty amicably. Um basically it was like uh, hey, you know, if you put in a good word for me, we I don't need to tell people what exactly went on went on here with regards to Ichu.

SPEAKER_11 6:06

Yeah. And besides, if she's like, you know, a little groggy, it doesn't even if she recognizes us and is Madge, what's she gonna do about it?

SPEAKER_10 6:14

Yeah. What is she gonna do about it?

SPEAKER_05 6:17

Give her her sight.

SPEAKER_02 6:18

She begins to come too. She her eyes are probably blurry, but uh she recognizes you, and you can tell that she recognizes you. And she kind of stumbles out of the carbonite block and she has to hold herself up on a table. And she's just wearing like a sort of prison jumpsuit. She doesn't have her lightsaber, she doesn't have any of her gadgets or gear that she may have had, so she's probably not hiding any weapons. And she says, Oh, did the Republic send you to interrogate me?

SPEAKER_05 6:51

Uh, n no. No?

SPEAKER_10 6:53

No.

SPEAKER_02 6:53

No. No.

SPEAKER_10 6:54

No. I have has the Republic been interrogating ya?

SPEAKER_02 6:58

No, last thing I remember is the putting me in the deep freeze. Why? What I remember I remember you for from Krant.

SPEAKER_10 7:06

How okay, how long ago uh how how how quickly after Krant were you deep freezed?

SPEAKER_02 7:12

Uh, fairly quickly. The SBI uh took me somewhere, put me in a carbonite block. I were you working for them? Are you still working for them?

SPEAKER_11 7:21

Is this out on a lot.

SPEAKER_02 7:29

It would seem so.

SPEAKER_11 7:31

Yeah. Sorry. We rescued you. We rescued you. We rescued no more republicans.

SPEAKER_02 7:35

Oh, did Dooku win then? We're the heroes. Oh no.

SPEAKER_10 7:41

Dooku's dead. Yeah, he got his head chopped off, I think.

SPEAKER_08 7:45

Um by a gun.

SPEAKER_11 7:47

Oh yeah, no, right, that was us in this. We we messed up continuity. No, he is very much not alive. I mean, to be fair, it was Savage who did the final killing blow. I just tendered him up a lot. Um, no, it's uh it's a whole complicated thing. But uh point is Republic's fallen, we're kind of uh no longer aligned with the Empire that replaced them, uh as led to the body.

SPEAKER_02 8:15

Did Dooku's master win the war then?

SPEAKER_11 8:18

But that was Palpatine, right?

SPEAKER_02 8:19

Yeah.

SPEAKER_11 8:20

Yeah. Yeah, yeah. So wait, so did you know that it was like a double-sided thing?

SPEAKER_02 8:25

Double-sided, what do you mean? Uh Cow Dooku, I am aware that he was a Sith acolyte of a lord called Darth Sidious.

SPEAKER_07 8:32

Okay, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 8:34

But uh his master's uh other names were unknown to me. But it sounds like Dooku died and this Sidious took over the Republic and made it into an empire. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_11 8:46

Yeah, long in the short of it.

SPEAKER_02 8:48

Then what need do you have of me? Are there battle droid armies crawling around the galaxy that you need help dismantling or something?

SPEAKER_11 8:55

Well Oh, kind of like uh just gesture at Illyria.

SPEAKER_05 8:59

Oh, um, you know my parents, apparently.

SPEAKER_11 9:02

Apparently. Apparently.

SPEAKER_02 9:04

Yes. Okay. Um, of course.

SPEAKER_11 9:08

Yeah. I think actually a place that we're at right now, like you guys were trying to get into, is where we found a lot of this stuff.

SPEAKER_02 9:13

There is something that feels familiar about this place. When last we encountered each other, you didn't seem to know who I was. I assume that this information was acquired more recently.

SPEAKER_05 9:25

Yeah. You know what? They don't really teach you who your parents are at Jedi School.

SPEAKER_10 9:30

Yeah, we we had to learn a l a whole lot for ourselves after after the Republic fell.

SPEAKER_08 9:35

Unfortunately, uh yeah, uh my my I tried to stay away from my family, and therefore they to brought me over to this school room.

SPEAKER_11 9:43

Hasn't your family been asking you for like political favors, Chris? I mean, obviously not anymore, but uh Well no, because you know, we're even uh like not in a like your family doesn't ask you for things anymore, just in a uh we're no longer in positions to do political favors anymore.

SPEAKER_07 9:59

Not really, no. I got this parking ticket, Chris. Can you uh Can you clear this up for me? Right away.

SPEAKER_08 10:06

Not an fascist, right?

SPEAKER_05 10:07

Can you uh walk into the DMV with a fucking lightsaber?

SPEAKER_08 10:11

You're a f you're a fascist, right?

SPEAKER_11 10:14

Look, I bet they would serve you a lot faster if you walked in with a lightsaber.

SPEAKER_02 10:18

May I ask how you came across this information?

SPEAKER_05 10:22

Um the I found your iPad.

SPEAKER_10 10:25

Yeah, that had like all the the flight patterns tracked. Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_02 10:29

Contraband that would have been potentially collected by the Republic. You claim that the war is over and that my side was victorious.

SPEAKER_11 10:39

You're saying that Oh no, your side wasn't victorious. The the there was sorry. There they kind of in I I feel like uh there wasn't really a your side and our side, it was all the same side that was playing against everyone to always come out on top.

SPEAKER_05 10:54

I looked back in my notes and I literally wrote down iPad.

SPEAKER_02 10:58

IPad. But you say that Duku's master, Darth Sidious, has ascended to the throne of an empire. That implies that the Confederacy was victorious?

SPEAKER_11 11:07

Uh well you remember who is the leader of the Empire, or the uh the Republic?

SPEAKER_02 11:11

Uh the Chancellor, yes.

SPEAKER_11 11:13

Yeah, who is now uh the Emperor. Emperor Palpatine now.

SPEAKER_02 11:18

So he was Darth Sidious in the end.

SPEAKER_10 11:21

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 11:22

And my words about the corruption of the Republic perhaps now ring true to you?

SPEAKER_10 11:27

Yeah, there's no need to be rubbing it in, but yes. Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 11:30

If you're gonna be doing that, then I regret saving you. I kid, I kid.

SPEAKER_11 11:35

To be fair, your side only exists because of the corruption in the Republic, but you know, all all's all's all if it's all the same.

SPEAKER_02 11:43

Well, my side, as it were, was uh an alliance partially of convenience. But it seems that it doesn't matter anymore. Now the fact that you have uh freed me from my prison, we don't seem to be in a republic prison. You claim that we are in a location that I visited before with the girl's parents.

unknown 12:07

Yes.

SPEAKER_10 12:07

The girl? But she's right here, don't be rude. No wanna Alishan.

SPEAKER_02 12:12

Alishan, yes, we have and she looks around and she says, So this is beyond the door. How how did you get it open?

SPEAKER_11 12:19

I mean, I think we just had to do something where we only use the light side and no dark side, no dark sided energy, which, like, in retrospect, a little embarrassing for you and your gang that you never thought of that.

SPEAKER_02 12:29

Well, it's not that we didn't think of that, it's that myself and Alara could not use the force at the time.

SPEAKER_10 12:36

Oh, that's right. Okay, take it back. It's not embarrassing anymore.

SPEAKER_11 12:40

That makes more sense.

SPEAKER_08 12:44

Congratulations.

SPEAKER_07 12:45

I mean, who hasn't been banned from the Dark Side forever?

SPEAKER_02 12:47

We were young and our powers had recently waned, but we have rediscovered them as you are aware. I am aware.

SPEAKER_09 12:55

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 12:56

And if you are coming to me, that implies that you need assistance either against this empire or for more personal reasons.

SPEAKER_05 13:05

I have not lost the force, so thank you very much.

SPEAKER_09 13:08

Well, I mean, like, oh, I mean finding my parents.

SPEAKER_05 13:11

Okay.

unknown 13:11

Yeah.

SPEAKER_11 13:13

How dare you imply I've lost the force!

SPEAKER_02 13:16

Fucking Then placing you with the Jedi was the correct thing to do.

SPEAKER_05 13:21

I mean, they also didn't really help with that either. What with the my master dying and no one wanting to take me on as a Padawan, so you know what I kind of just did self-study. I'm kind of like homeschool Jedi.

SPEAKER_11 13:33

Yeah, i it in retrospect, maybe uh, you know, your p pans plant and all those listening devices around the temple uh probably didn't endear her to uh potential masters down the line.

SPEAKER_02 13:46

Well, if you are uh looking for some kind of family reunion, I can oblige. We did have a com channel that was encrypted for emergencies only, but I suppose that this would qualify. Do you have communications equipment here?

SPEAKER_09 14:00

Yeah, we would, right?

SPEAKER_02 14:02

At the very yeah, at the very least, aboard your ship. Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 14:04

Yeah. Yeah, we do. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 14:08

So if you'll allow her uh aboard the ship, uh she can leave with you from the medical facility down in the underground city. The others at the base are a little wary of her. She is a uh separatist dark Jedi, as far as they know.

SPEAKER_11 14:23

Uh I was actually just thinking, when she's like going for communications equipment, can I maybe just uh do a perception on her while she's working just to make sure she's not um sneakin' out any other communications that perhaps she sh she ought not be.

SPEAKER_02 14:37

Yes, that'll be against her skullduggery, probably.

SPEAKER_11 14:40

Sure.

SPEAKER_02 14:41

That'll be a four purple.

SPEAKER_11 14:42

Okay, four purple. Ooh, dang, that was a really big role, but I only got one advantage.

SPEAKER_08 14:49

Well, fuck. I mean, not a threat, not a I'm I I I I I know, but like.

SPEAKER_11 14:55

Maybe I I I am like thinking about it, it's like, no, why would she uh give away her own position in this world that she's only just woken up to? That makes no sense.

SPEAKER_02 15:10

She's certainly uh using an encrypted uh signal. But who else who would who would she have left to contact? Dooku's dead, the Confederacy's in shambles.

SPEAKER_11 15:22

Yeah. What are you gonna do? Call someone.

SPEAKER_07 15:27

Little ISB? No, no, no, no, hold on, no.

SPEAKER_11 15:30

No, I oh okay. That's fine then. Let her do her thing.

SPEAKER_02 15:34

So she uh starts sending the signal, and she awaits a reply, and she begins to get a little worried as no reply comes.

SPEAKER_11 15:43

Everything good?

SPEAKER_02 15:45

Everything is not good. No, this was an emergency channel. It was a uh top priority to respond if any message ever came through that they're not means something's happened. Is there a last known location kind of thing? Well, I've been on ice, as it were, for some time, it seems, so I think any last known location would be whatever information you were able to glean, but uh Oh!

SPEAKER_11 16:11

Uh cause cause Elyria and I we did that little we did that little uh combined force power check where we're able to get like a a vision of her. Where it's like she was at Zephyruins, but I think we saw her like stepping out, but it was like among like big uh Russia Russia wood trees. It was like it looked like she was on cash, but that was a little while ago.

SPEAKER_05 16:32

I mean we could go and question the Wookiees. Tell us where she is!

SPEAKER_08 16:39

Just fucking start punching them around like Joker.

SPEAKER_05 16:43

You seen any blue bitches around? Not this one.

SPEAKER_11 16:47

Different one. Or that one either. Look, we got multiple blue bitches now. We're all blue wedded. But uh yeah, you're like, you know of any like if uh Zephyr ruins on Cash, do you have any idea like how long she might be there? Or like if there's somewhere else that might have been on her her flight path from that?

SPEAKER_02 17:07

Wait, you still have you have a connection with her you can see through her eyes?

SPEAKER_11 17:10

Kind of. Like Allyria and I were able to kind of combine some of our abilities, and I I guess we can try doing it again.

SPEAKER_05 17:17

I'd like to see this.

SPEAKER_11 17:18

What do you say, Illyria? You wanna try it again?

SPEAKER_05 17:21

Yeah. Let's hold hands. Let's hold hands.

SPEAKER_11 17:23

Do we okay, when we're doing force powers on this planet, since we're like right above the po the force virgins, do we get like any bonuses to our force? Do we get an extra light side force pip?

SPEAKER_02 17:34

Yeah, you can we can add like one. Okay. We'll say you can add one whenever you're on this planet, add a light side.

SPEAKER_11 17:40

Yay. Do we gonna go down to the basement to get extra power? Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 17:44

Gotta gotta load up.

SPEAKER_11 17:46

Come to the basement with us. No, it's probably fine. Because I'm trying to remember how we did that. Do we just like combine our force abilities? Or like our force ratings?

SPEAKER_02 17:55

Um, yeah, so this would be a seek power.

SPEAKER_11 17:58

Right, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 17:59

So we can have you both both roll.

SPEAKER_11 18:02

Both roll our our force?

SPEAKER_02 18:03

Yeah, for the seek power.

SPEAKER_11 18:04

Three dark side. Well, we get an extra four we got an extra light side, so you still get one light side.

SPEAKER_02 18:09

You got one light side.

SPEAKER_11 18:10

And with my bonus light side, I got four light side. I got this. You're I'm doing the seek, you're just providing the connection. You're the operator, I'm putting the call through. Or am I the operator and you're putting the call through? You know what it the same difference. You know how isn't my cell phone? You know how in space we still have operators putting calls through.

SPEAKER_07 18:30

Please hold.

SPEAKER_11 18:32

But yeah, so with my four, I can use two to get the the general insight.

SPEAKER_02 18:37

Is he related to general grievous?

SPEAKER_11 18:39

Yeah, my my general grievous insights. And then I can use the other two to get two additional details.

SPEAKER_02 18:46

Okay. So Illyria. So you can see through uh your mother's eyes, and you can see like the images, uh, they come into focus like sort of a uh going from indistinct, impressionistic painting approaching clarity. Uh, Kala will be able to f have to kind of focus this in using her seek power. But first you see like a planet, a very sort of windy planet with tall mountains and deep canyons covered in vegetation. And you can see that your mother is in some kind of a city or town that appears to be like occupying much older, dilapidated structures. Kala, you can get a general sense of where in the galaxy this is. Um, Lyria will probably have to navigate. With those additional details, is there anything that you want to try and look for?

SPEAKER_11 19:49

Hmm. Because you said it's like looks like she's in a town that's inside of like older structures.

SPEAKER_02 19:57

Yeah.

SPEAKER_11 19:57

But does it look like she's like in captivity?

SPEAKER_02 20:00

So if that's one of the details, you can see sort of indistinct through the force. There are some sort of dark presences that feel like they are in control of her.

SPEAKER_09 20:12

Ooh.

SPEAKER_05 20:13

And so we get one more detail.

SPEAKER_08 20:16

Can we exercise the demon somehow?

SPEAKER_05 20:18

Can we see uh any but planets or suns in the sky to pinpoint?

SPEAKER_02 20:23

Well, based on based on the general uh you can you'll be able to astergate based on that.

SPEAKER_11 20:27

Uh or if we want to see if if she's alone or with like if you want to see if your dad is there too. But also I don't know if that would really help with finding her.

SPEAKER_02 20:36

We'll give you an idea of like how big the group is or Sure, if there's if there's one.

SPEAKER_05 20:40

Yeah, is she with anyone?

SPEAKER_11 20:41

Yeah, is she with a group or is she by herself?

SPEAKER_02 20:43

So there's the the dark presences. Some of them seem more human-like, some of them seem more feral, and there is also another presence that feels similar to her that feels kind of familiar to you, Illyria.

SPEAKER_10 20:59

Oh, is this your papa?

SPEAKER_02 21:00

So it's likely that. Yeah, me neither. Where so wherever this is with those with those details, you can you you can astrogate to the planet with the information that you have. It seems like she's uh in captivity or that she's kind of being coerced in some way, but uh both your mother and father are together on this planet.

SPEAKER_11 21:22

Okay, and it seemed like it was like a do you say it was a snowy planet?

SPEAKER_02 21:25

Windy planet with mountains, vegetation, and sort of these deep canyons.

SPEAKER_11 21:30

Okay, we'll re- relay that to Severance and uh kind of the general direction of the planet. Does that uh sound like anything she might have been investigating?

SPEAKER_02 21:39

Maybe. She's been around a lot, um but during the war, I think she had uh taken up as a star warden, so she traveled around quite a bit.

SPEAKER_10 21:49

Oh no. No, we knew a guy who was a star warden, and it's like, oh, I wonder if he could help, but uh he's uh I think he's still with the Imperial Knight, so I don't know if

SPEAKER_08 22:00

I don't know. Maybe I have his number? Maybe I could still text him now.

SPEAKER_11 22:08

Hey, Argo Thrustmaster, how you been?

SPEAKER_08 22:11

Which side are you on? You don't have to a uh uh answer honestly. This'll depend on what I n say next.

SPEAKER_11 22:19

Hey, Argo, I need you to swear on your thin blue line that you won't tattle on me for getting in touch with you.

SPEAKER_02 22:26

Yeah, because do you have any uh sort of like communic encrypted communications or slicing equipment on your ship? I think I had uh encrypted communications with uh Oh yes, we do.

SPEAKER_11 22:37

Hang on, hang on.

SPEAKER_08 22:38

Uh with Zen.

SPEAKER_11 22:40

Oh yeah, because you also had your uh the mind harp. But no, because on yeah, because we we bought the advanced subspace encryption array. So only the intended recipient can detect a transmission sent with this without a hard computers check. Upgrade the difficulty of any checks to intercept or decipher transmissions once from the attachment.

SPEAKER_05 23:00

So we're spies. We're starting our spy thing.

SPEAKER_11 23:04

Because Chris has his mind harp, we have that. We have ways to to send cland send clandestine messages from the clandestine crow.

SPEAKER_02 23:12

Yeah, we use it. Because the mind harp, I don't know how practiced you would be. Like you can send sort of basic things.

SPEAKER_11 23:19

We can send dick pics.

SPEAKER_02 23:20

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 23:21

I was gonna say he just sends to uh his girlfriend, his day friend.

SPEAKER_11 23:26

Uh you're in the washroom and you look down and you're like, I better get my mind out my harp out.

SPEAKER_02 23:32

I better start plucking my strings.

SPEAKER_11 23:36

But uh, yeah, because we could use, like, do we do we wanna try to get in touch with because like he's a he's a star warden. But uh like I don't think there's that many of them. Right? I feel like that was a thing, that like the star but the star wardens were also like pretty solitary, so they might not have even crossed paths.

SPEAKER_08 23:55

Like there's like how many do you think there are?

SPEAKER_11 23:59

I don't know. I mean, although no, that'd be too stupid. That'd be too st no, I was just saying I remember that uh Argo had a you know, he's making eyes at Illyria and saying that it's like, oh, his teacher was like uh was like her too, and he was hot for teacher, and it's just like, I wonder. No, that'd be too stupid.

SPEAKER_02 24:18

You think I intentionally planted those seeds uh all all those sessions ago that Argo Thrustmaster Star Warden uh teacher was Illyria's mother?

SPEAKER_11 24:27

No, I don't think you did that, and I don't think that I'm pulling on that knowledge to make this inference. I would never do that. That would be game breaking.

SPEAKER_02 24:35

Well, no, that would be paying attention to the the uh the things that have happened in the game. That is not game breaking, that is game playing.

SPEAKER_05 24:42

Do we want to message Argo Thrustmaster and be like, please don't tell on us?

SPEAKER_11 24:47

Please don't tattle. Do you still have a crush on your teacher?

SPEAKER_10 24:51

Because we can find her, you and us together.

SPEAKER_02 24:53

Because if you think if you're if you're starting to put the clues together, Mr. Policeman, and you think that Argo's teacher was Illyria's mother, um, you could just ask him about this planet, maybe.

SPEAKER_11 25:07

That's true.

SPEAKER_08 25:08

Should we pretend that we're somebody else?

SPEAKER_02 25:11

Or you've got like the encrypted uh communications.

SPEAKER_11 25:16

So it's like we pretend we're someone else and it's just like, hey Argo, tell us this sensitive information, then it's like, I don't know who you are.

SPEAKER_12 25:24

Yeah.

SPEAKER_11 25:24

What do we think? Do we want to try it? Illyri, you take the lead. He likes you. We know he does. Well, it could just be like a message.

SPEAKER_05 25:31

Yeah, let's text him. You up.

SPEAKER_11 25:34

Just cause send us back up.

SPEAKER_02 25:36

So this is the uh what is the uh what is the upgrade called that you're using?

SPEAKER_11 25:39

The advanced subspace encryption array.

SPEAKER_02 25:42

And you have all the upgrades?

SPEAKER_11 25:43

I think so. Let's see. Oh yeah, um, add black to enemy uh detection, add black to enemy interception or deciphering check.

SPEAKER_02 25:53

Yeah, okay, so two blacks, hard computers check. So you're gonna send this message. Uh if anybody is monitoring comms.

SPEAKER_11 26:02

Do we do we have any destiny? Can we flip a destiny point to make it harder for whoever's detecting on the other end?

SPEAKER_02 26:08

Uh yeah, you have some destiny. You have one.

SPEAKER_11 26:11

Uh I don't know. What do you guys think? We w do we just want to have faith?

SPEAKER_08 26:15

Um, what's the what's the diff uh well how much do you have, I should say.

SPEAKER_11 26:20

What for faith?

SPEAKER_08 26:21

So they're gonna be rolling against three purples and two blacks. Three purples and two blacks? Yeah. And what's the role? I have faith in that. I have faith in that.

SPEAKER_02 26:30

Yeah, it's it's computers for whichever uh Imperial ISB, whatever agent is monitoring incoming transmissions.

SPEAKER_08 26:37

Have four. I mean, I'd rather there be a red, but like I do it's faith in that.

SPEAKER_02 26:43

It wouldn't be any of you rolling. It would be them rolling against the string.

SPEAKER_08 26:46

I'm saying, like, do we wanna flip because we only have one destiny point, I'm saying do we want to flip it to turn one of those purples into a red for whoever it is who's uh I'm afraid uh he'll probably give us a uh a uh a destiny point right away back anyway, so here yeah, let's do it. Okay.

SPEAKER_11 27:03

Yeah. Yeah. Throw a red on there. Maybe we'll get a despair and we'll make another one uh shoot themselves. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 27:11

So you can send uh the message.

SPEAKER_11 27:15

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 27:16

And let me just uh Okay. So you can send the message and you do get a reply back from Argo.

SPEAKER_09 27:23

What's he say? How's he doing?

SPEAKER_02 27:26

Uh so he's being very kind of hush-hush as well. He's beating terse, he's trying to send as little information as possible. Uh, and he just sends the name of the planet, Volick.

SPEAKER_11 27:36

Volik.

SPEAKER_02 27:37

Volik. Do we know what that is?

SPEAKER_11 27:40

Can we roll a perception on a text message? Probably not. Probably not.

SPEAKER_02 27:46

Uh I mean you could roll a computer's to see if there's any uh Can I roll a knowledge to see if it matches up with what I saw? I mean you could just uh roll astrogation, because that would that would plot a course there and bring up information about the planet.

SPEAKER_00 27:59

Okay. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 28:00

Uh since you have a name, it is in the unknown regions. Uh so it is gonna be. I'll give you that destiny point. Uh a red, a purple, and a black.

SPEAKER_05 28:08

And I can take away a black. Three success, one advantage.

SPEAKER_02 28:12

Okay, yeah, so Volik matches. It is a windy planet uh in the unknown regions, lots of tall mountains, um valleys and canyons covered in vegetation. There is a settlement there. Uh it seems that at one point somebody tried to set up a resort there that failed, and uh, from what you can tell, it seems to be kind of a haven for pirates and smugglers that have sort of made their camp in the ruins.

SPEAKER_11 28:41

Okay. Did did uh did Argo give us any indication of why she might have been going there?

SPEAKER_02 28:47

Uh no. He was sending as little information as possible.

SPEAKER_11 28:50

Yeah, that's fine. I mean, if it looks like everything is uh if it's legitimate, shall we? Shall we, Tavolik?

SPEAKER_02 28:56

I don't see why not.

SPEAKER_11 28:58

We shall.

SPEAKER_02 28:58

You can to Volik. Hell yeah. Are you gonna take Severance with you?

SPEAKER_11 29:02

Should we I feel like maybe we should.

SPEAKER_02 29:05

Okay. Sure. I can take her with you.

SPEAKER_11 29:08

It'll be fine. You're you're the you're this is like your I don't want to say your aunt, because I I don't like I don't know if that's technically right, but this is like, you know, you're her child. She probably would not uh betray you now that she knows you. Yeah. Hey, let's await, let's tevolic.

SPEAKER_02 29:25

You can away, you can Tefolic. Uh do you interact with Severance on the way? Do you ask her any questions, or do you just kind of like we'll see how this plays out? Are you awkward, just kinda like, well, I don't really know you, and I don't really want to get to know you.

SPEAKER_08 29:42

Do you want to play solitaire? We could play a game of uh solitaire.

SPEAKER_05 29:47

So, uh, what were my parents like?

SPEAKER_02 29:52

Were, well, I I hopefully I can remain optimistic and say are very independent. Takes a lot of uh a lot of willpower to leave the ascendancy. Not many of us do.

SPEAKER_05 30:08

No, I'm fine.

SPEAKER_11 30:10

I got a question. Cause like you you all left the ascendancy, right? The the three of you?

SPEAKER_05 30:15

Yes.

SPEAKER_11 30:16

Cause like you you left the ascendancy to like find find out how to how to preserve the force for like chess women, correct?

SPEAKER_02 30:25

Yes. That was that was our goal, Alara and I.

SPEAKER_11 30:28

So, like, I guess I I'm I'm curious how you fell in with the Sapatus. Cause it's like, I I don't know, I guess like in in your position, what do you care about the the squabbles of the the main galaxy?

SPEAKER_02 30:38

Well, it was mostly Dooku that I was interested in. I had heard that he was a powerful Jedi master who had abandoned his order. I had heard rumors that he had followed along a different path, and I thought that it could be a way to regain my power. Elara searched the galaxy for ancient sites and ruins, places of power that could reignite somebody's connection to the force. Illyria was left with the Jedi to see if their teachings would prevent her from losing her power at all. And Elud had his own tasks, uh, and it was actually him that made it possible for me to get in contact with Dooku at all.

SPEAKER_11 31:22

Elud, and is that uh that uh Elud, yes, Illyria's father.

SPEAKER_02 31:26

You see, he was uh investigating the the Republic to see if it would be any threat to our society, and it was he who first came across the plans for the Decimator. He gave them to me and I used them to earn Dooku's favor.

SPEAKER_10 31:40

Oh I forgot about that.

SPEAKER_11 31:44

That's not good. That that's a problem for a different time, though. Um, so uh like is is that what did it get in touch with Dooku that got ya abilities back?

SPEAKER_02 31:53

He helped me see beyond the small-minded approach to the force that the ascendancy drilled into us.

SPEAKER_10 32:01

Oh, okay, neat. Sorry, I was just curious about that. Wait, how did how did so oh god, okay, what was did we ever figure out what was going on with the Dassimata plans?

SPEAKER_11 32:10

I feel like I remember we downloaded them because we were like, we'll look into that, and then I feel like it was just kind of a dead end. It was just like, oh, it was found with the Wookiees and we couldn't really find anything else about 'em.

SPEAKER_02 32:21

So yeah, you found out that, um basically that it was the Wookiees got it from like the Trade Federation had been developing them, the Wookiees got it from the Trade Federation, and then somehow the Confederacy got it back from the Wookiees. Yeah. And it seems like that was via Severance via Elude, who was investigating the Republic.

SPEAKER_11 32:42

Did we delete those plans?

SPEAKER_02 32:44

Because I know we like No, you kept them. You could you could build more decimators if you want, if you have the resources.

SPEAKER_11 32:53

Us personally?

SPEAKER_02 32:55

Yeah, I mean I don't think you didn't give them you didn't give them back to anyone.

SPEAKER_11 32:58

That's true, actually, because like we we just took the plans and we're like keeping them secret. And we keep all of our stuff on our ship. Surely we have the plans tucked away in some cubby. Yeah. Oh yeah, you mean these dusty old things? Yeah, no, I don't think I have any other any other questions for her.

SPEAKER_02 33:15

Well, if that's all, my dialogue tree is exhausted. I wouldn't mind having a rest before we get to Volick.

SPEAKER_11 33:22

Yeah, you go have a rest at the end.

SPEAKER_05 33:23

Why don't we go to sleep and wake up at the planet?

SPEAKER_11 33:26

Yeah, let's go to sleep.

SPEAKER_02 33:28

Go to sleep and wake up at the planet.

SPEAKER_11 33:30

Everyone's well rested.

SPEAKER_02 33:32

Yeah, a little a little a little nap to uh take the edge off, and you can land, uh, head into the atmosphere of Volik. It is very windy, like, especially like the mountaintop peaks you can see, it's just a blowin'.

SPEAKER_11 33:44

Uh am I gonna have to roll a piloting to bring her down?

SPEAKER_02 33:46

Yeah, give me a two purple and a black piloting to bring the ship down.

SPEAKER_11 33:50

Ooh! One success, one threat, one triumph.

SPEAKER_02 33:54

Okay, so you can bring this ship. It is uh really buckling on your vessel. You it does take a little bit of strain from that. But uh as you are bringing the ship in, you got that triumph. So you can bring it towards the smuggler's pirate little city in the ruins of the resort, land it in sort of the landing area. Because you got that triumph, uh, you can see that there is a Phi class shuttle that is uh parked on the landing pad as well. A black, uh, very imperious looking vessel.

SPEAKER_11 34:33

Oh. Is that Ago? Do we do we see anyone in the shuttle?

SPEAKER_02 34:38

You don't see anyone in the shuttle.

SPEAKER_11 34:39

Do we see anyone else around?

SPEAKER_08 34:41

Nobody that's like really obvious. For a second there, I thought you were gonna say the triumph is that you land the plane like silly.

SPEAKER_02 34:49

You crash in the water. You gotta hang out on the wing for an hour and a half. There's some geese coming after us.

SPEAKER_11 34:54

Like, is there anyone else out and around who we see, or is everyone?

SPEAKER_02 34:59

Yeah, there's like people. There's other pirates and smugglers that are that are around on the landing pad. But nobody nobody uh at least nobody obviously guarding that ship.

SPEAKER_11 35:09

Okay. Do they seem to care that we're there, or is it just like, eh, look like do people come and go from here all the time?

SPEAKER_02 35:14

Yeah, yeah, there's a lot of uh there's you know a couple of other YT freighters that are there. You blend in.

SPEAKER_11 35:21

Oh, okay. We wanna go check out this shuttle first. Maybe Argo did come to meet us here.

SPEAKER_05 35:26

Yes.

SPEAKER_11 35:27

Yeah, let's let's exit and go uh investigate this shuttle. Maybe the doors open, he's hiding up the landing ramp.

SPEAKER_02 35:34

You can uh touch down, go uh investigate the shuttle. Nobody comes out to meet you, but you can see like as you approach, you may notice that like a little couple of automated defense turrets kind of pop out of the bottom and start like following you.

SPEAKER_08 35:53

Um, I I I turn around and I say, uh, hello? Uh uh Is there anything that we may be able to do for you today?

SPEAKER_11 36:03

You're talking to the turrets?

SPEAKER_08 36:04

I'm trying uh uh the fact that they're following me makes me feel as though I want to be their friend.

SPEAKER_11 36:10

Can we knock on the door?

SPEAKER_08 36:12

If you want to get that close, you can try.

SPEAKER_11 36:15

Yeah, you know what, maybe not.

SPEAKER_08 36:17

Yeah, let's not let's um pretend okay, let's pretend that there's uh nothing happening.

SPEAKER_11 36:23

Let's just say hi, turrets.

SPEAKER_02 36:27

I am watching you, Losa and Ploser. One of the uh the spacers that's out there that's working on uh one of her ships, this female Rodian comes over and says, Oh, I would uh stay away from that ship if I were you. It seems kinda like trouble.

SPEAKER_10 36:41

Uh, do you see who came out of it?

SPEAKER_02 36:43

Yeah, pretty nasty looking bunch of bunch of individuals.

SPEAKER_10 36:48

Bunch?

SPEAKER_08 36:48

How do you uh what do you mean nasty? What do you mean bunch?

SPEAKER_09 36:51

How many?

SPEAKER_08 36:52

Like nasty sexy or nasty uh grimy?

SPEAKER_02 36:55

Well, a couple of just right mean looking dogs. Uh seems like uh somebody might have been using them as uh CNI dogs, a uh a blind fella uh along with a human woman.

SPEAKER_08 37:07

Oh, I thought you were saying I s I heard C and I, but like I saw in my head C N I. Like it was uh abbreviation. Abbreviation that I wasn't aware of.

SPEAKER_11 37:19

Is that like CSI?

SPEAKER_08 37:21

C C N I, I've never heard that c Zet uh corporation. What do they do? Central uh What did the prisoners look like?

SPEAKER_02 37:30

Well they kind of looked like you there, honey.

SPEAKER_11 37:31

Wait, do you say they took prisoners?

SPEAKER_02 37:33

No, they came out of that ship with their prisoners. Uh hired a couple of local gangsters as muscle took off in a speeder towards the mountain.

SPEAKER_11 37:41

Oh, so they've already taken the prisoners up to the mountains.

SPEAKER_02 37:44

Yeah, I don't know why. Nothing up there but uh an old beacon.

SPEAKER_11 37:47

Hmm.

SPEAKER_09 37:49

Hey, uh, who who do you say they rented the speeders from?

SPEAKER_02 37:52

Crimson Stars. Yeah, they hired uh a couple of vehicles, some of their gangsters took them up there.

SPEAKER_09 37:58

How long ago?

SPEAKER_02 38:00

Uh, I don't know, probably uh yesterday?

unknown 38:03

Yesterday, ooh.

SPEAKER_02 38:04

Long enough to take a nap in hyperspace?

SPEAKER_11 38:10

So maybe that computers roll that the person had to do on the other side, uh. Maybe we didn't do good enough.

SPEAKER_02 38:17

Maybe they succeeded with threat enough to intercept the message, but not enough to see where it was coming from?

SPEAKER_11 38:22

I mean, that's at least they couldn't see where it was coming from. What do we think? Actually, because our ship is like, it's designed for stealth. Looking up in the mountains, like, would there be room to take our ship, or would it be better to rent some speeders?

SPEAKER_02 38:35

I think with like the winds on a mountaintop would make it very difficult to land up there.

SPEAKER_05 38:40

Yeah, that's true. But uh the Rodian woman says, Look, I'm not Corellian man.

SPEAKER_02 38:48

I'm guessing by the I'm okay. Look at this little honey girl that uh you might be wanting to go after those prisoners. Take it from me. I know a lot about these lands, and uh those mountains don't traverse easy by speeders. You want to climb them? You need legs.

SPEAKER_09 39:03

Legs, like what do you got?

SPEAKER_02 39:05

And she kind of points her thumb back to a shed that has uh about half a dozen refitted AT RT scout walkers. Yeah, I do a lot of uh salvage missions out there. Use these walkers pretty good. They got tow cables, clawed feet. They're pretty good at traversing. Uh what how how far is this distance, by the way? See that tall mountain up there? And she points to a uh the tallest mountain peak that is currently visible. She says that's uh Mount Verena. That's where they were headed. Okay. That's a distance.

SPEAKER_10 39:41

And you uh you you rent those things out?

SPEAKER_02 39:44

Usually no, but uh I didn't like the looks of the people who came out of that shuttle, so uh if this is a uh a mercy mission, then I might be willing to part with some of my gear for a price. Uh what kind of price?

SPEAKER_09 39:57

Yeah, what kind of price?

SPEAKER_02 39:58

Well, I mean, sounds like maybe you're gonna be getting into a little bit of trouble. I'm gonna need a deposit.

SPEAKER_08 40:05

Only a respectable amount uh amount of trouble. That's okay. What's what kind of deposits were you uh uh thinking of?

SPEAKER_02 40:14

Well, one of these things, depending on uh where you get them. I'm gonna say, now you're gonna get your deposit back should all these walkers return in uh good condition. So I'm gonna say 30,000 for the deposit, rental fee is gonna be 5,000.

SPEAKER_08 40:31

I mean uh can uh what uh what if uh instant uh okay. You gonna try to argue our doubt? I'm gonna try and argue or well 30,000 is is a kind of pennies to us a little bit, isn't it?

SPEAKER_02 40:47

I mean, you did because you had like a million, you did spend a lot. A lot of it on your ship, but I think you still got a lot.

SPEAKER_11 40:53

Yeah, like I still have 200 grand.

SPEAKER_02 40:55

Yeah, me too here. So yeah, uh this is if you don't totally destroy the walkers, you'll get that money back.

SPEAKER_11 41:02

Well, let's see how that goes.

SPEAKER_07 41:04

Didn't I make like 40 grand last week? Something like that.

SPEAKER_05 41:06

If it's like, oh yeah, so what you're saying is your your daddy today stars in.

SPEAKER_08 41:12

I was th I was thinking a little bit and I was just kind of like, what if I, you know, I'm supposed to be, you know, uh a charming charming guy. I can negotiate with charm, and then I looked at how many credits I had and I'm like, I guess that doesn't matter.

SPEAKER_05 41:25

Like it if it's like we don't want to rent like it's like it sounded like you were gonna try and trade it for uh the rental for a a night you'll never forget.

SPEAKER_11 41:36

If it's like, you know, instead of uh testing good, if she is a rodeian, it's probably like a credit card reader. I thought the dick flattening was just for their non-rhodian partners. I didn't know they came pre-flattened.

SPEAKER_07 41:52

Oh dear. Well no, they do that's what does the flattening. It's a hydraulic press. Yeah.

SPEAKER_11 41:59

That's why they need the uh the manual flatteners when it's someone else.

SPEAKER_02 42:03

Yeah, it's like how uh male elves can't get it up because female elves have tentacles inside that do the manipulations.

SPEAKER_07 42:10

You put the you hold on, you put the rhodian dick inside and the rhodian vagina goes beep, beep, beep and starts like closing.

SPEAKER_11 42:18

Wait, so if Chris if Chris seduces Rodian, would he come out of it with a flat ding don? Would he come out with a thin green line?

SPEAKER_08 42:29

I mean anything can happen when two people share a bunk. No, I'm just gonna I'm just gonna put down the 32 the $30,000.

SPEAKER_11 42:37

I'm I'm like, yeah, 30,000 and you don't tell anyone you saw us. 30,000 and you you stay you keep it you stay quiet about us too.

SPEAKER_02 42:46

Oh, don't worry. I'm not looking to go uh attracting any attention.

SPEAKER_11 42:51

Well, you say Starzan, you got this, right? You got extra money last time. Terrible daddy behavior right here.

SPEAKER_08 42:58

I've been de I've been daddy a few times, I think. Starzan, what the hell? Starzan, Starzan, we're gonna need you to to to pony up and uh give us a even have my earnings.

SPEAKER_01 43:10

Look, I'm just saying that you have 40. Your earnings when you were.

SPEAKER_05 43:14

Abandoned us in our back to tank.

SPEAKER_02 43:16

What?

SPEAKER_05 43:16

Look. You left us to go fighting while we were in our back to tanks, and then we got to get a big thing.

SPEAKER_07 43:20

Oh yeah, you did do that last episode. I was like, what? And I'm like, oh right, last time. You're in back to tank so often it's hard to remember which time.

SPEAKER_11 43:30

Oh, excuse us, Tarzan. Excuse us for having skills other than muscles.

SPEAKER_07 43:35

Oh, I got a critical ankle injury, oh no. I don't have a force power that just completely gets rid of those.

SPEAKER_11 43:43

You know what you do. But now you do everybody. Now you do. You do need to be daddy. This is terrible behavior.

SPEAKER_07 43:50

I I now have the endure power that allows me to extend the ability to shrug off the effects of critical injuries to anybody within short range of me.

SPEAKER_11 44:00

Oh, thank you. I'm glad I didn't insult you because then I would have felt real bad.

SPEAKER_07 44:04

It's gonna be injury daddy now.

SPEAKER_11 44:06

It's a disciplined daddy.

SPEAKER_08 44:08

I thought that was gonna be your version of, you know, sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt Starzan.

SPEAKER_07 44:15

No, sticks and stones don't break my bones. I'm pretty strong. Oh, that's fair. That's fair. Starzan's pretty strong.

SPEAKER_11 44:20

Sticks and stones can't touch Starzan.

SPEAKER_02 44:23

And words are for I like how it says the ongoing effect ends if the distance between the characters increases beyond short for any reason. So it's like if you go like into the next room, your arm falls off.

SPEAKER_07 44:37

The physical distance or the emotional distance? Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 44:41

Maybe some of you are at uh medium to medium range emotionally from Starzan.

unknown 44:46

Uh oh.

SPEAKER_07 44:49

Better stay in Starzan's good book.

SPEAKER_11 44:51

Starzan just starts to walk away from you slowly when he's ticked off. Okay, so Starzan's gonna pay the 35 grand. Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 45:01

Is it 30 grand and then we just don't get five back, or is it 35 grand?

SPEAKER_02 45:05

It's 30 30 for the deposit, five for the rental. Okay.

SPEAKER_11 45:08

Is it the rental for all of them or like each?

SPEAKER_08 45:11

All of them.

SPEAKER_11 45:11

Oh, okay. Yeah, 35. Thank you, Starzan.

SPEAKER_08 45:14

You're welcome. I give him a kiss on the cheek.

SPEAKER_05 45:19

He was supposed thank you, Daddy.

SPEAKER_11 45:22

Thank you, buddy. Well, I'll give him a big hug. And Panthestar. Get in here, buddy.

SPEAKER_06 45:27

That's the Panthstar sound. He needs to start talking.

SPEAKER_11 45:35

Looks scary in there. Anyways, do we want to do we want to take these things up into the mountains?

SPEAKER_02 45:41

Oh, hell yeah.

SPEAKER_11 45:42

At pursuit.

SPEAKER_02 45:43

So you can hop up on these uh walkers ATRTs. They are uh single-seat scout walkers. They kind of look like a motorbike on legs.

SPEAKER_03 45:52

Hell yeah.

SPEAKER_02 45:53

Oh open cock, they had a couple of handlebars. They've been sort of reinforced and built up uh to operate on this planet. Their legs are more nimble than you might be used to. They've got these clawed grippy feet. Excellent for clamping into stone. They do have a toe cable bike.

SPEAKER_05 46:11

Oh, you can't say grippy feet. What? Sorry.

SPEAKER_08 46:17

Are people gonna get off on that too hard? Yes. Okay, yeah, just making sure.

SPEAKER_11 46:22

Just the mention of grippy feet and people are uh flooding their pants.

SPEAKER_02 46:26

So, yeah, so these walkers have been reinforced. Um they have uh feet that are great for clamping onto stone mountain walls. The front turrets have been replaced with uh toe cable launchers to help you climb up vertical slopes. But it will be a uh piloting planetary to chase down uh the speeder to follow them. Who's great at that?

SPEAKER_11 46:51

Well, I mean, we all have to roll it, we're all on our individual things. Oh yeah. So Yeah, I was thinking I'm like, oh man, I hope this isn't gonna be an issue for everyone else.

SPEAKER_08 47:00

Yeah, probably. I'll be fine on uh planetary, especially planetary. I got two green. I got two green and a yellow.

SPEAKER_05 47:08

I have two green. I got a yellow. I could do a mid-game level up and get a yellow on one. How many is it?

SPEAKER_02 47:14

So a land speeder has a speed of three. Uh one of these walkers would they would be slightly slower, have a speed of two, but better maneuverability. So gonna give you a destiny point here.

SPEAKER_09 47:28

You don't gotta do that!

SPEAKER_02 47:30

Yeah, you're low. Uh so this is so the speed differential, you're gonna have to make that up. Uh so it'll be a red, but you can add a blue.

SPEAKER_11 47:37

Okay, so one red, one blue.

SPEAKER_02 47:39

Yeah.

SPEAKER_11 47:40

Okay. Ah, three success, three advantage, one triumph. We're fine.

SPEAKER_08 47:44

Three three success and advantage.

SPEAKER_05 47:46

One success, four advantage.

SPEAKER_08 47:48

Yeah. Yeah, dog. One failure, three advantage. Jesus Christ.

SPEAKER_11 47:52

I I got a triumph. Could I use my triumph to kind of help? Starzan gets out and runs.

SPEAKER_02 47:58

You can carry the walker up the cliff.

SPEAKER_11 48:02

I I got the grippy socks right here.

SPEAKER_02 48:05

Oh dear. Yeah, Starzan Starzan, if if you find it easier to just climb the the mountain, the sheer cliff, uh, and leave the walker down at the bottom, you probably could. Oh yeah, Starzan's good at uh difficult terrains. So Chris, Illyria, Kala, you can all use the toe cables to ascend the mountain. Now, you all got advantage. So you can make good time, you can easily catch up with Illyria's parents and her captors who have had to go on foot. You got that advantage. So you can actually see where they parked their speeders.

SPEAKER_08 48:41

Uh.

SPEAKER_02 48:42

And there are uh there are two speeders that are kind of at the base of the mountain.

SPEAKER_08 48:47

Uh well, I guess we know where they went.

SPEAKER_02 48:49

Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 48:50

Uh can we can we follow any tracks or like footsteps or something?

SPEAKER_02 48:55

Yeah, with with those advantages, definitely. Um, you can sort of try and guess where they went. It seems like they were going up to the top. Uh the Rhodian woman said there was like a pirate beacon or something that was up there. And based on sort of the speeders that they took, she said there was like a couple of like seeing eye dogs, Leary's parents. Each of these speeders is like pretty, pretty big. It's almost like a pickup truck where there's like four seats, two in the front, two in the back, and then like a bed that it looks like normally might have either salvage gear or like a turret in placement. But they are empty in this case. Maybe the seeing eye dogs were in the back. But you can guess that if they did hire some of the gangsters' muscle, there could be like six to eight extra gangsters with them. So probably not a uh a small group that you would have to deal with. And Kala, you got triumph with that.

SPEAKER_11 49:53

I did.

SPEAKER_02 49:53

So is there anything you want to do with that triumph?

SPEAKER_11 49:56

With with the triumph, could I actually like spot them or like where or like where Illyria's par parents might be getting held?

SPEAKER_02 50:05

Yeah, so you can probably get up there first. Uh you can park the walker, hopefully far enough away that they're not gonna hear you guys coming up.

SPEAKER_10 50:15

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 50:15

And you can kind of belly crawl, you can stealth, you've got pretty good stealth in the underbrush, and you can peer and you can see that there is a beacon, a sort of tall structure like an antenna that's been built at the top of this mountain. There is a flashing red light that is blinking. It looks very old and weathered. And there is a group of people that is surrounding the beacon. You can see there are uh the muscle that don't notice you. Uh, they're just kind of like looking around. They're a little bored, uh, but they are doing what they were hired to do. You can see two uh middle-aged chis of the same age as Severance, uh, presumably Illyrious parents, and you see two familiar faces.

SPEAKER_09 51:02

Oh.

SPEAKER_02 51:03

They mentioned seeing eye dogs. One of them does have two like wolf-like creatures on a leash. You recognize him as Jerek, the Jedi who you thwarted at the Valley of the Jedi and stole his ability to use the force and therefore his sight, because he is a Mira Luka.

SPEAKER_11 51:27

Oh, this guy.

SPEAKER_02 51:28

And with him is Renala.

SPEAKER_11 51:31

Oh, Ranala!

SPEAKER_02 51:34

And the Vornskers rolled a success and a threat on their uh detections. So they are like growling in your general direction, but because they got that threat, like they know you're there, but uh Jarek and Ranala, they don't interpret their growls correctly, and they just try and like tell them to shut up.

SPEAKER_11 51:57

Like, how how trainable are Vornskurs? Because like Ranala has the force. Can you train them to just ignore certain force users?

SPEAKER_02 52:06

I'll I'll tell you this on the adversary card for a Wornsker, it says that uh Imperial Inquisitors have been known to use Warnskers to help ferret out force-sensitive fugitives.

SPEAKER_09 52:15

Well, look at that.

SPEAKER_02 52:19

So the dogs, the dogs know you're there, nobody else does.

unknown 52:22

Ooh.

SPEAKER_08 52:23

Dangerous.

SPEAKER_02 52:25

And you can see that they are they're fiddling with the beacon. Uh specifically, uh, Illyria's parents are doing something to the beacon that uh Jarek and Renala are supervising.

SPEAKER_11 52:36

Ooh. Because I'm like, I'm probably uh using the scope of my rifle to watch them too.

SPEAKER_05 52:43

Take off the dogs.

SPEAKER_11 52:44

Oh god, I don't want to shoot the dogs. That feels bad, but they are born scars. They're cops. Ooh, they are cops. They're cops. But I'm not, I don't want to shoot a dog.

SPEAKER_05 52:55

A cab includes police dogs.

SPEAKER_11 52:57

No!

SPEAKER_07 52:59

Wait a minute.

SPEAKER_11 53:01

You've gone too far.

SPEAKER_07 53:03

Perhaps I can charm them.

SPEAKER_11 53:06

Charm them?

SPEAKER_07 53:07

Lure them with your animal ways. Oh. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 53:10

Oh fuck, beast calls call!

SPEAKER_11 53:15

Can you do the mating call of a of a Lady Vornsker and heat? I could call it.

SPEAKER_07 53:26

Hey there, big guy. Sun's getting real low. Although, would the force work on them?

SPEAKER_11 53:32

I think you feel the force. They're not they're not.

SPEAKER_02 53:34

They are force sensitive, they hunt using the force.

SPEAKER_11 53:36

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 53:37

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 53:37

That's why Salamiri had to uh evolve their force bubbles. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 53:41

It's the salamanders that stop the forest.

SPEAKER_02 53:43

Yeah. But you know.

SPEAKER_05 53:45

Sorry, did I say salamander? I mean the salamander.

SPEAKER_02 53:49

Cala's a salamander.

SPEAKER_11 53:51

Oh.

SPEAKER_05 53:52

I am the swamp guys.

SPEAKER_02 53:54

That's your that's your Star Wars furry persona.

SPEAKER_05 53:58

Can I beast call them over?

SPEAKER_02 53:59

Uh yeah. So what kind of uh call? Uh if you want to have recorded something appropriate, uh that'll probably be a destiny point.

SPEAKER_05 54:08

Sure.

SPEAKER_02 54:09

What kind of creature would you have uh in your repertoire there?

SPEAKER_05 54:13

Oh my god, can I tell if these are boys? Are they swangin'?

SPEAKER_11 54:18

Uh can I look through my rifle scope and relay if they are in fact swangin'? Do they got they got balls? Can I see the balls? Show me the balls!

SPEAKER_02 54:30

Are there balls? Do we see balls? Well, I'm trying to see, would this be knowledge zenology or would this be uh survival?

SPEAKER_11 54:38

Would this be like me uh just looking through my scope and telling Illyria or Illyria telling? Because if it's just me looking through my scope, I feel like I don't need advanced knowledge for that. Well, you look for balls.

SPEAKER_02 54:50

Maybe maybe they don't have visital visible genitals. This is Star Wars. Uh they tend to not build uh balls into the animals unless they're trying to be realistic.

SPEAKER_11 55:01

Yeah, but this is Star Wars After Dark. We can have balls for days.

SPEAKER_02 55:05

We we we balls for days. I'm just trying to see if there's any sexual because vornskirers have been in things. I'm just wondering if there have been any like sexual dimorphism that we've got to do.

SPEAKER_11 55:14

Well, for a second I thought you were looking up to the screw or what if I just played another Vornsker and they could be a few more than a few years.

SPEAKER_07 55:21

People at home just Google uh Vornsker Rule 34 and tell us what you find.

SPEAKER_11 55:26

But also, don't do that. Do I need to consult with fanfiction perverts to get a definitive answer for this?

SPEAKER_05 55:32

Well, how do they make them?

SPEAKER_08 55:34

How do they make fanfiction perverts?

unknown 55:36

No. Mate.

SPEAKER_08 55:38

Well, uh the internet is a many splintered thing that opens up new.

SPEAKER_02 55:42

Well, they're like they're like dogs, because dogs like sheath, right?

SPEAKER_11 55:46

Yeah, but they still have visible balls.

SPEAKER_02 55:47

Okay, well, if you want to try and see if they got visible balls, they're pretty furry and hairy.

SPEAKER_11 55:51

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 55:52

Uh this would be a perception. You got your scope. Um it'll start as easy, but you don't want to get caught. The glint of your scope might give you away. Uh the the fur and the angle might get so I'll say it's a red, sorry, a purple and three blacks.

SPEAKER_11 56:11

I can remove one of those. One purple, three blacks.

SPEAKER_02 56:15

Yeah.

SPEAKER_11 56:16

Two success, two advantage. Show me the balls. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 56:20

So one of like the Warnskers after they're disciplined, uh, like one of them like sits down and it's like starts scratching at itself. Lift up its legs, and you can see a little uh something swang in there.

SPEAKER_11 56:33

Overlay to Elyria. Balls spotted. Girl Warnskers. Girl dogs.

SPEAKER_02 56:41

Okay, you can have a dog.

SPEAKER_11 56:42

Can I see if they're both boys? I assume so, if it's like they're not fixed.

SPEAKER_02 56:47

Yeah, if they're maybe used for hunting or something.

SPEAKER_11 56:49

Yeah. Can't have them getting distracted and joining each other.

SPEAKER_05 56:52

So these beasts, they must do their discipline check.

SPEAKER_02 56:56

Use the beast call play uh as sultry you who from a we'll see if they do the cartoon will howl. So this is gonna be uh a discipline check from them. Ah, interesting. Uh two advantages.

SPEAKER_11 57:12

Ooh.

SPEAKER_02 57:13

They wanna go, but they're still on the leash.

SPEAKER_11 57:16

Uh okay.

SPEAKER_02 57:18

So they like tug against Jarek's leash, kind of whimpering hornily. Whimpering hornily.

SPEAKER_11 57:24

Ooh. Unless instead of shooting the dog, because I do have a s I do have a suppressor on my rifle. So they wouldn't necessarily be able to hear if I was able to do a really good shot to sever the leash. Or how much can Chris can Chris alter the nature of his pheromones? Could he start pumping out Vorn's current to really lure them faster so they try to break their leash?

SPEAKER_08 57:48

I mean, I would think uh the way that my s uh that my musk works here, that I would be able to uh uh attract any uh anybody of adopts and species.

SPEAKER_11 58:01

But you say god could crisp out pheromones to make it even more enticing?

SPEAKER_02 58:05

It says regardless of gender or species, so I'm gonna say that you could uh use it to attract dogs if you want.

SPEAKER_08 58:14

I I I I I don't know if I like that tone of if I want. No. Um, I mean, yeah, I I I feel as though I should, uh, just to kind of like get 'em uh good and distract good and distracted while we sneak by.

SPEAKER_11 58:28

Because like, i if if it's like you can get them riled up enough that they really struggle against their leash and break away, then I wouldn't have to risk outing myself by using my gun.

SPEAKER_02 58:38

Alright, I'm for it. Okay, so because this could end badly for you're gonna give you destiny point, this will be a charm. Yeah. Wouldn't have it any other way. Uh against it'll be a red and a purple charm. Red and a purple charm. Throw a black on there because you need them to get riled up enough to break their leash. Get fucked, I can take away that black. Hell yeah. Three success, three advantage. Okay. You got those advantages, so you can maneuver yourself uh so that the vornskers are downwind view. Specifically the vornskers, nobody else has to get uh triggered by this.

SPEAKER_11 59:15

And you can imagine if you just made the entire camp overwhelmingly horny. Very weird.

SPEAKER_02 59:22

Isn't that like a fanfic thing where it's like the pheromones like the sex spores or something?

SPEAKER_11 59:26

Oh yeah, sex pollen. It is a trope.

SPEAKER_02 59:28

Yeah, so uh you can emit your sex pollen. You can sit there emitting pheromones from your body. Wafting them over to the dogs. Wafting. I'm wafting here. And they start howling, their eyes bulge out like a Tex Avery cartoon. They go, oh, and they strain against their leash, uh, and they break free of Jarek's grasp and run into the underbrush.

SPEAKER_11 59:56

Oh hell yeah, now Jarek's totally blind too. Bitch will be able to detect us even a little.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:01

Right towards Chris. Uh, they're gonna roll uh an athletics against you, Chris. Probably that'll be uh two purple magnetics. Before they before, they get failure with two advantages, so yeah, stars star saying you can grab if you want to try and grab them before you can.

SPEAKER_07 1:00:20

Okay. Um physically grab, or should I try and do like a tame animal? Well, if you want to roll a survival. Survival?

SPEAKER_11 1:00:27

Yeah, yeah, come out with your hands up like you're Chris Pratt taming some raptors.

SPEAKER_08 1:00:34

They were CGI.

SPEAKER_11 1:00:36

What?

SPEAKER_08 1:00:37

I know fucking right. They didn't even get fucking real raptors. That movie is. But you're saying blue is fake? Or blue watch your you watch your fucking tone. You're my boy Blue. I now I just don't know. I don't want to live in this Jurassic world. I'd rather live in a park.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:57

It's fine, it's mostly about bugs these days. Okay, good. Okay. So I got uh what's difficulty? Uh so this would be to tame them. They are um very riled up. Pretty horned up. Pretty horned up. So this will be a survival. It'll start against their discipline, which would be two purple. I'm gonna give you a destiny point, a red. Uh, because you got those advantages, they're pretty riled up. That'll be at two black. So that's a red, a purple, and two black survival. Okay. Three success, three threat, four dark side. Okay. So you can intercept them before they can get to Chris, but they smell you in the force. Uh, they smell your force pheromones. Uh they see you as like you'll have to claim your dominance over them. Yes. With those threats. So they're gonna they're gonna fight you for control. Oh shit. First one's going to try and brawl you. That's in front of that versus gets uh as force hunters they gain a blue to all combat checks made against four sensitive characters. First one gets success with threat, the second one just gets success. Okay. So uh they start biting at you with their with their teeth and claws, so they each got one success. So you got six soak? I have six soak? Yeah, so they do two points of wound to you. Yeah, not not too much of a threat, but they are they are uh trying to trying to bite at you, get at you, trying to prove that they're dominant. You'll have to uh you'll have to show them who's boss.

SPEAKER_07 1:02:30

I will show them who's boss. I'll pull up my credentials.

SPEAKER_08 1:02:33

This is where I got promoted. Are you gonna pull uh pull out an off-white card with tasteful font?

SPEAKER_11 1:02:39

Ooh. Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 1:02:40

Yeah.

SPEAKER_11 1:02:41

They're gonna be sweating looking at this amazing card.

SPEAKER_07 1:02:46

Oh my god, it's even got a watermark. No, can I just impress them? Yeah, to cower before me. Uh give me a brawl.

SPEAKER_11 1:02:54

Like lift one and just like throw like pin it on the ground.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:58

Since they need to kind of be beaten into submission. What kind of brawl? Uh they've got melee defense, so that'll be it'll give you another destiny point, a red, a purple, and a black.

SPEAKER_07 1:03:06

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

SPEAKER_02 1:03:10

So you can wrestle these Warnskers into submission. Make them make them your uh well not your bitch, because that would mean they're female dogs. Make them your biggest fan. Make them they they have a new daddy, a disciplined daddy in town.

SPEAKER_11 1:03:28

Oh, that's all daddies for Starzan.

SPEAKER_08 1:03:30

Today is Starzan's daddy episode, so it has to be more ways than one. So you've got two Warnskers that'll listen to you now. Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:03:38

Because like why are they joined the crew?

SPEAKER_11 1:03:40

I hope Panthstar isn't gonna get jealous.

SPEAKER_02 1:03:43

But uh a couple of the uh Jarek orders some of the mercenaries to go into the brush and get the dogs back.

SPEAKER_11 1:03:50

Because like once when the dogs run off, because like how far away would I be from their camp?

SPEAKER_02 1:03:57

You're far enough away that they're not hearing the walkers, so at the very least the edge of medium. What once the dogs are the walkers, so the everybody else, like Starzan and everybody else would probably be at long, but you probably would have gotten right up to the edge into medium in the in the brush.

SPEAKER_11 1:04:13

Okay. Because like as soon as the Fornskurs run away, could I try like creeping closer so I can maybe overhear uh if Jarek and Renala are talking about anything and like see if I can suss out what they're doing?

SPEAKER_02 1:04:25

Uh yeah.

SPEAKER_11 1:04:26

What would that be? Stealth?

SPEAKER_02 1:04:28

That would be stealth. That'll probably be against the perception of because Jarek's blind, but does he have Daredevil appearing?

SPEAKER_11 1:04:38

Ooh. His other senses have compensated.

SPEAKER_02 1:04:42

At the very least he was he wasn't Jedi Master. Um we'll say this will be against just in case he does notice you. Uh actually you're okay for Destiny Boy, so we'll say it's a three purple.

SPEAKER_10 1:04:53

Three purple stealth. Uh I got a yellow three green. That's probably fine. Maybe I'll just flip a destiny boy because I feel like I I I just kinda want another yellow here.

SPEAKER_11 1:05:03

Ooh, six success of a three threat.

SPEAKER_02 1:05:07

Okay.

SPEAKER_11 1:05:07

So it's a lot of success though.

SPEAKER_02 1:05:10

This whole thing with Starzan has taken a little while. So, like, Jarek, he sends the couple of the mercenaries into the brush to get the dogs back. But as that's happening, it seems like Ilara and Ilude were doing whatever it is that they were there to do. Uh, the beacon flashes green, the light on top, and they download something. And it seems like they are getting a location from the beacon that's pointing somewhere. And Jarek says, Good, then soon you will lead me to the mask, and I will have my connection to the force returned.

SPEAKER_10 1:05:49

The mask.

SPEAKER_02 1:05:50

And then they begin uh to leave.

SPEAKER_05 1:05:53

I want him to find the mask so that he puts it on and says, um.

SPEAKER_11 1:05:57

It becomes Jim Carrey.

SPEAKER_02 1:06:00

Somebody stop me.

SPEAKER_11 1:06:01

Yeah, so it's like the entire group moves to leave.

SPEAKER_02 1:06:04

Uh except for the two mercenaries. So there were eight mercenaries that were with them. Two of them go back and to get the dogs, and the other six go with Jarek and Ranala, and use kind of take Elyria's parents as hostages slash human shields.

SPEAKER_11 1:06:22

Because I'm like, I I don't want to just kill them. I kind of want to talk to them. But also it's like.

SPEAKER_02 1:06:29

To Illyria's parents?

SPEAKER_11 1:06:30

No, to um like Ranola and uh Jarek. Obviously we don't want to kill Illyria's parents.

SPEAKER_08 1:06:43

Maybe we would need to ethically kidnap somebody that they like in order for them to get to talk to us. I don't know what that means, but uh there it is. Prisoner prisoner swapped hit for tat.

SPEAKER_11 1:06:56

Okay, Gray used to be Renala's student. Let's get him in there and trade him off. Sorry, Gray, we have been friends.

SPEAKER_08 1:07:04

But you know, we'll we'll we'll say like this is something you want, when we want something, I feel like we can talk and come to an agreement.

SPEAKER_03 1:07:11

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:07:12

I mean, he did say something about a mask, but they do have an object of their quest, it seems.

SPEAKER_11 1:07:18

Would oh yeah, would we be able to roll like uh when I say we, I mostly mean Illyria, but like lore for uh a mask that could restore force connection.

SPEAKER_02 1:07:28

Yeah, so that would probably be a probably a three purple lore.

SPEAKER_05 1:07:34

Two success.

SPEAKER_02 1:07:35

Okay, so Illyria, you can sort of go through your mental rolladex of artifacts, and you can think of like there are there have been a lot of powerful artifacts uh over the years. Masks um tend to be under the purview of the dark side. There have been a bunch of masks, uh specifically Sith masks, that have been catalogued by the Jedi over the years. But if you're looking for one that hasn't been acquired by the Jedi and is still missing, there you have heard of an artifact called the Mask of Nihilus, which was you don't know too much about it, you didn't get any advantage or anything, you don't know the details, but uh from what you've heard, it was a mask worn by an ancient Sith that is rumored to be able to confer the power of the dark side onto its wearer.

SPEAKER_11 1:08:33

Ooh. It it it seemed like it was a different planet, so it's like, do we want to follow them to a secondary location?

SPEAKER_02 1:08:40

Well, it doesn't seem like they're going to another planet, they're just going down the other side of the mountain.

SPEAKER_11 1:08:46

Oh, okay, so it's probably like on this planet.

SPEAKER_07 1:08:48

Yeah. Didn't Master Bitterbinder tell us not to go to a third or secondary location?

SPEAKER_11 1:08:54

Eh, that guy doesn't know what he's talking about. Sismarts. Straight smarts. Yeah, because if if Starzan is taking care of the Vornskars, then maybe we could just uh stalk them the rest of the way there. Are they going back to their speeders or are they just going on foot?

SPEAKER_07 1:09:08

They're they're going on foot.

SPEAKER_11 1:09:10

What do we say? We want to do a little stalky-doo?

SPEAKER_07 1:09:13

We all know that we're all great at stealth, right?

SPEAKER_11 1:09:16

Yeah. God, I I really wish.

SPEAKER_02 1:09:19

Because you said you wanted like something to negotiate with them with.

SPEAKER_11 1:09:23

Oh, that's true. If we uh want to go and get the mask first.

SPEAKER_02 1:09:28

Ah.

SPEAKER_11 1:09:34

And they left two goons there, like two of the thugs.

SPEAKER_02 1:09:37

Well, the two the two uh mercs that they left are the ones that they said to get the dogs back. So they're currently like heading towards where the rest of you are in the underbrush.

SPEAKER_11 1:09:46

Okay, so they're not guarding the beacon.

SPEAKER_02 1:09:48

No.

SPEAKER_11 1:09:48

Okay, so maybe I like once they're gone, I can scurry up to the beacon to see where it said that this mask was on the planet, and then we can try to beat them there.

SPEAKER_02 1:10:00

And are you guys gonna do anything about these uh mercs that are coming?

SPEAKER_11 1:10:02

I think I'm the only one that's by myself. Uh Illyria, Chris, and Starzan are all together.

SPEAKER_08 1:10:07

I can attract them too. No. I guess you could sick the dogs on them.

SPEAKER_11 1:10:12

Could stick I mean can I?

SPEAKER_08 1:10:13

Can I actually like can I can I like I don't know, take off a sock and like uh put uh dump it in my musk and like uh throw it at the mer uh Marines? I mean mercenaries.

SPEAKER_11 1:10:24

I was just thinking, like, what if what if gradually it's like they keep sending their mercenaries to s to see what the what's going on with the dogs, what's going on with the other ones, and Chris just keeps seducing them and seducing them until we have taken all of their help. He's you who and them.

SPEAKER_08 1:10:44

It's becoming the Westworld orgy all over again.

SPEAKER_02 1:10:47

You go woolo low and their armor turns from red to blue.

SPEAKER_11 1:10:51

It's like you guys could just try to knock them out, or Chris could wool low them.

SPEAKER_08 1:10:55

I mean, uh uh if we're not doing the uh idea of like throwing my musk at them so that they are uh uh get attacked by the dogs here.

SPEAKER_11 1:11:05

Just soak your soak your mu yeah musk into a sock and then put it over their faces.

SPEAKER_02 1:11:09

I mean it's if you're exuding pheromones, your sock is already on your foot in your boot. Yeah. He already gets musk.

SPEAKER_08 1:11:18

I'm sure I'm sure there's enough I'm sure there's enough on it here.

SPEAKER_05 1:11:21

Um your grippy feet.

SPEAKER_08 1:11:25

I'm gonna I'm gonna stop it. Um I'm gonna Why is there so much talk in this episode? That's too much feet. Uh how uh what would I have to stealth in order to put a sock on these guys? Uh there'd probably be like a ranged light, honestly. Okay, I could reply it.

SPEAKER_02 1:11:43

Uh you're throwing it, you're trying to aim. There'd probably be uh a purple and two blacks. Purple and two blacks? Let's do it. I got three success. Yeah, you can ball up one of your socks and huck it between where the mercenaries are. It rolls and lands softly. Uh, and Starzan can loose the Vornskers. They run towards the hungry little ball. Uh and the mercenaries are surprised. They let off a blaster shot that pisses off the vornskers. Let me just see who's gonna come out on top here. I hope it's the Vornskers. Oh yeah, the Vornskers win. The Vornskers uh pout on the mercs. Uh they fire a couple of blaster shots at them. They're more concerned about saving their own lives than the dogs, but the Wornskers get the better of them. Uh, and they uh do as they please with the corpses.

SPEAKER_08 1:12:40

Mostly eating. Okay, good.

SPEAKER_11 1:12:43

Mo eat them.

SPEAKER_08 1:12:44

Yeah. You said.

SPEAKER_11 1:12:46

Okay, good. I was concerned.

SPEAKER_08 1:12:49

I was too. Whenever somebody has never mind, anyways.

SPEAKER_11 1:12:53

Let's not dwell on that.

SPEAKER_08 1:12:55

I'm not gonna dwell on that, no. Yeah. We mustn't dwell. We mustn't dwell.

SPEAKER_11 1:12:59

Okay, anyways, so while that's happening, can I check the beacon and see uh where they were going?

SPEAKER_02 1:13:04

Uh that would be a computers.

SPEAKER_11 1:13:06

Oh no. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 1:13:08

I mean, the ever they're gone. You can Illyria.

SPEAKER_11 1:13:11

Oh, just call Illyria. Illyria! Illyria, I only got two green to computers. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 1:13:17

Uh I will try to. Give me two green computers.

SPEAKER_05 1:13:21

Still have no ranks in computers, but I'm I'm a natural. Three success, two threat. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 1:13:27

So athletics. You can find a where the beacon is pointing to a grotto. Uh that seems to be where an old ship crashed, and you can get the directions to it. Uh unfortunately, it seems like the quickest route to the grotto uh is the one that Jarek and Ranala and the others are taking. So if you want to follow them and trail behind, you could. That would be a matter of stealth. But if you want to take your walkers, uh, because you got those threat, it w you will have to move a little more quickly and more dangerously if you want to beat them there.

SPEAKER_11 1:14:07

I think we can move quickly and dangerously, right?

SPEAKER_08 1:14:09

Quickly and dangerously is my middle name. I like it.

SPEAKER_11 1:14:12

I'm sorry, my brain is.

SPEAKER_08 1:14:15

I like my six metal missions. It's a me it's meant to be uh meaningless. It's so quickly and dangerously.

SPEAKER_11 1:14:21

No, I think I feel like my brain is just reading too much meaning into it. It's like, was that Zin's review of you after your first time? Quick and dangerous?

SPEAKER_07 1:14:31

A uh I can work with that. A Falline never comes early. A following never comes late.

SPEAKER_11 1:14:42

Because like, how quickly and dangerously are we talking? What kind of difficulty will we be looking at?

SPEAKER_02 1:14:47

It'll start as two purple, but I'll give you a destiny point, and due to the terrain, uh, that'll probably add two blacks. So that's a red, a purple, and two blacks piloting planetary. Uh Starzan left his walker down at the bottom of the mountain.

SPEAKER_10 1:15:04

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:15:05

So whoever wants to have him piggybacking will have an additional black just for the extra off balance.

SPEAKER_05 1:15:14

We don't have any destiny.

SPEAKER_02 1:15:16

You have four.

SPEAKER_05 1:15:17

Oh! I'm flipping one. One success, one advantage.

SPEAKER_11 1:15:20

You know what? I'm also going to flip one.

SPEAKER_02 1:15:24

Who's taking Starzan down?

SPEAKER_11 1:15:26

I'll take Starzan, because I think I have the best piloting.

SPEAKER_02 1:15:29

Hell yeah.

SPEAKER_11 1:15:29

Uh-oh. Three failure, two advantage. Maybe it's like I we we get on it, it's like, nah, this isn't gonna work. We're just gonna have to track them. We'll trail.

SPEAKER_08 1:15:38

I got a failure and a threat.

SPEAKER_11 1:15:40

Uh-oh. Illyria's the only one who's able to go ahead.

SPEAKER_02 1:15:43

Yeah. So, Illyria, you can uh drive your walker down the mountain, hop, skipping, and jumping quickly through the brush towards the hidden grotto, finding an alternate path. And you can leap down on your walker into a little wet cave. Chris, as you are on your walker, suddenly it stops, like it like locks up, freezes up, and you're kind of like thrown from it and you go tumbling through the brush. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. You see this happening, uh, and then you see sort of near the grotto another group of speeders pulling up. One of them driven by the Rhodian woman from the town, and you kind of put two and two together, and you are able to hop off the walker before it locks up and freezes up, and you can just kind of land and jump into the brush.

SPEAKER_11 1:16:41

Okay, so so we can see that and then get off the speeders and kind of hide before she locks ours up, too.

SPEAKER_02 1:16:48

Yeah, and you can overhear her shouting, Alright, boys, those spacers are after the mask. Seems like they finally found it after all this time. We've locked up those walkers, so let's haul them back and we'll everyone be ready, blasters out, we'll shoot them and take the loot.

SPEAKER_08 1:17:06

Oh, I hate that.

SPEAKER_11 1:17:08

You know what? That's fine. I have a slave circuit on the ship. If we can get it, I can make the ship fly to us. It's fine. This is not a problem yet. We'll just have to follow them on foot.

SPEAKER_02 1:17:19

Yeah, so Illyria, once you uh jump down into the grotto on your walker, yours locks up as well. But you're you're safely down inside.

SPEAKER_05 1:17:27

Yep. But there's people who want to shoot me down here?

SPEAKER_02 1:17:30

Uh, not down there yet. They're kind of pulling up uh to the edge of the grotto.

SPEAKER_08 1:17:35

Is somebody picking is somebody picking me up, by the way, or no?

SPEAKER_11 1:17:39

No, I think that we are the rest of us are gonna have to go on foot, but Elyria, you were able to get to the grotto that has the mask.

SPEAKER_02 1:17:45

And you can sort of hear them talking above you. Uh they're getting ready to repel down into the grotto.

SPEAKER_05 1:17:51

Okay. Um I don't think I have any good skills for I've got navigation skills, but not skills to prevent people. No traps. No traps.

SPEAKER_11 1:18:04

Oh yeah. I mean, if you can get in and at least secure the mask before they get there. Is this okay?

SPEAKER_05 1:18:11

Hopefully it's not booby-trapped.

SPEAKER_02 1:18:13

Yeah, so what you can see down there, it's kind of this like it's a cenote. It's this kind of like underwater shallow lake where a ship is resting, an old ship that is covered with vegetation that's been grown over over hundreds, maybe thousands of years. It's been there for a long time, regardless. Uh, it doesn't seem like uh Jarek and the others have gotten there. Uh, your walker would have landed kind of either in the shallows or just on the shore of this little underwater uh small little lagoon. The Rhodian woman and her gang are at the edge, uh repelling, getting ready to repel down into it, and then the other three of you are a little bit up the hill after your walker's locked up.

SPEAKER_05 1:19:00

Okay, I've got a skill called studious plotting. When making a Streetweiser survival skill check to navigate on a world, the character may use intellect instead of cunning.

SPEAKER_09 1:19:09

Ooh.

SPEAKER_05 1:19:10

Can I do uh survival to get through?

SPEAKER_02 1:19:12

Uh yeah.

SPEAKER_05 1:19:13

Yepie.

SPEAKER_02 1:19:15

So where are you trying to get? Are you trying to get to the ship or are you just trying to hide in the shadows?

SPEAKER_05 1:19:19

Is the ship where the mask is?

SPEAKER_02 1:19:20

Uh presumably.

SPEAKER_05 1:19:23

I'll start heading that way.

SPEAKER_02 1:19:24

Okay, so you'll need to use survival to uh not fall into the lagoon to kind of keep your keep yourself about, just so you can use uh your intellect there. It'll probably be a two purple and a black to get across.

SPEAKER_05 1:19:39

Five success, three threat.

SPEAKER_02 1:19:42

So you've uh you have a lot of theoretical knowledge about navigating caves. You've read about it in magazines, watched a lot of spelunking videos.

SPEAKER_11 1:19:51

In theory. Yes.

SPEAKER_02 1:19:53

You can apply your knowledge and uh safely navigate, uh, staying out of sight to the underside of this ship. There is a large gash in the underside. It seems like it wasn't uh set down here. It seems like it crashed at some point. The back end of it is kind of like lodged into the cliff wall as if it sort of crashed through and was stuck there. So the engines are probably kind of facing out the back edge of the cliff. But you can uh climb in, and it definitely does seem like an old freighter that has been here for a while, maybe a pirate vessel or a smuggling vessel, and you can feel almost like a psychic heartbeat something in the cargo hold that is uh that feels valuable and powerful.

SPEAKER_05 1:20:44

I poke around. I don't have any seek skills, so I'll just start digging.

SPEAKER_02 1:20:49

Well, it's it it's kind of uh like drawing you almost.

SPEAKER_05 1:20:52

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_02 1:20:53

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 1:20:53

Oh shit, I want to put it on. Oh, hang on, hang on, hang on.

SPEAKER_02 1:20:57

It's in a locked, it seems to be in a locked case.

SPEAKER_11 1:21:00

I'm just worried because I know this is like it was like, oh, it's a dark side artifact. It's just like, ooh, as if if Illyria touches this, is she gonna be compelled to to wear it? But if it's in a box.

SPEAKER_07 1:21:11

In a box.

SPEAKER_11 1:21:12

It's in a box.

SPEAKER_07 1:21:13

Plus what dark side?

SPEAKER_11 1:21:14

What dark side?

SPEAKER_05 1:21:15

We are a move to the dark side. Use the dark side. Yeah. Without this mask.

SPEAKER_11 1:21:22

Cause this this four sever Jedi was after it to restore his connection to the four, so it's like What if that works? If we restored our connection to the dark side?

SPEAKER_02 1:21:32

Well, when in when an outside uh entity is influencing you, you can use the dark side again as we as we learn.

SPEAKER_05 1:21:40

Oh yeah, that's true. So if you're gonna be.

SPEAKER_02 1:21:43

Yeah, if Elyria put the mask on, she'd probably be able to use the dark side again.

SPEAKER_05 1:21:47

Anyways, I can I I can find the box, I'll get the box and get out of here.

SPEAKER_02 1:21:51

So as you are getting the box, you can hear some splashes as uh the Rhodian and her gang start repelling down into the lagoon and pointing at the ship and saying, I think it's in there, it's probably in there. And those of you up at the top uh can see that they've repelled down as well, but uh they didn't leave anybody to guard their shit.

SPEAKER_11 1:22:12

Oh. Please come help me. Cause, like, from the top where we are, can are they perhaps within sniper rifle range?

SPEAKER_02 1:22:22

So they're like, yeah, they're down basically in a killing jar.

SPEAKER_11 1:22:29

Ah, I have the high ground, you say. Yeah, you have the high ground. We do know that they were uh going to kill us. They had dollar signs in their eyes. They are planning to do us harm. I do not feel that guilty if I were to say, let's take aim and uh just start popping them.

SPEAKER_08 1:22:49

Get at them before they get us, kind of thing.

SPEAKER_11 1:22:52

Yeah. What would that be to start popping them?

SPEAKER_02 1:22:54

Uh well, who are you gonna start popping?

SPEAKER_11 1:22:57

Like the Rhodian woman, she seems to be the ringleader, right? Yeah. Man, we gave her money in in exchange for silence too, and she's like, I'm keeping my head down, then she's like, I'm gonna go kill 'em. She did say that, right? I'm not imagining that.

SPEAKER_02 1:23:10

Well, she said blasters out.

SPEAKER_11 1:23:12

Blasters out. Ooh, blasters out.

SPEAKER_08 1:23:14

You know what that means. Should one uh should I talk to them and see what they uh what they're about?

SPEAKER_11 1:23:19

I mean, because like we're we're up at the top of the grotto, so it's like we'd have to be spelunking down, unless you and Starzan want to go down and all stay up here so I maintain my vantage point.

SPEAKER_08 1:23:30

Possibly. J just to kinda like see, uh just kinda like see, yeah, again, what what what they're about. Problem is I need to like figure out a way uh to make it seem natural that I want to talk to them, uh, that I'm easy to talk to and I'm no threat to them.

SPEAKER_11 1:23:46

Ah man, just ball up your other sock and throw the throw it at them. They'll be all ready to talk by the time you get to the bottom.

SPEAKER_08 1:23:52

I'll I'll uh I'll talk to them, but I'll have my hands like on my head and my armpits just spewing gas.

SPEAKER_11 1:24:01

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_08 1:24:04

I'm telling you, Chris, you gotta just seduce everyone. Take me take take me down, uh, Starzan. I got some people to meet. To the killing floor. To the killing floor.

SPEAKER_02 1:24:15

Is uh is Starzan gonna Starzan, do you have force leap? Oh yeah. I don't think I do. Cause is that's ability? Yeah. Here, it's a double check here. No. Nope, never mind then. They are spelunking down. They have cables.

SPEAKER_11 1:24:29

Oh yeah, you could just use their cables. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:24:31

Yeah, use their cables.

SPEAKER_07 1:24:32

That's just an athletics check, right?

SPEAKER_02 1:24:34

Uh I think in this case it would be stealth, probably, because if you want to avoid them noticing you until you get down there. Well, I have a blue and stealth. So it'd be for both Chris and Starzan. S what kind of stealth? Uh that would be stealth against either the vigilance or perception of probably the leader. Yeah, if they're not expecting you, that'll probably be vigilance. So that would be against two red stealth.

SPEAKER_07 1:24:58

Are we just like Batman and Robinger?

SPEAKER_11 1:25:02

So I was imagining you like princess carrying Chris down while he's uh just pumping his pheromones out.

SPEAKER_07 1:25:09

Three success, one advantage.

SPEAKER_08 1:25:11

I got a failure and three advantage.

SPEAKER_02 1:25:13

Alright, so you can kinda you kind of slip, but Starzan can uh catch you before you before you make a big splash. You can lower you safely down into the water. Kala, are you staying at the top with your rifle?

SPEAKER_11 1:25:24

I'll stay at the top, which is kind of risky because it's like the other group is not here yet.

SPEAKER_02 1:25:30

Well, you do hear some footsteps echoing. Uh, and Kala through your if you look through your rifle scroll scope, at the other side, closer to the entrance to the ship, not in the water. So they're landing in the water, the people who are repelling down. But at the other, the far end of the grotto, near the ship, you can see uh a couple of pairs of red eyes glowing in the dark, uh, as well as Jarek and Renala, their shapes and their muscle coming through the tunnel.

SPEAKER_11 1:26:01

Ugh. I mean, I guess we could also just see if uh this Rodian and and they'd uh thin each other out first. That's not dark sided to just let people kill each other, right?

SPEAKER_02 1:26:13

Well, uh, sometimes the best action a Jedi can take is to do nothing.

SPEAKER_11 1:26:17

It's true. I'm not gonna kill you, but I don't have to do that.

SPEAKER_02 1:26:20

If there's any lesson the Jedi have learned about the Sith, is it's that uh they like to destroy each other. Evil destroys itself. Should we just leave them alone then?

SPEAKER_11 1:26:29

Yeah, because if you're going down, maybe you guys just stay out of sight at the bottom. I'll stay up top and kinda monitor things through the scope. Elyria hide, because you have the mask.

SPEAKER_05 1:26:39

I guess I'll hide behind a box. Can I go further into the ship?

SPEAKER_02 1:26:43

Um, into the cargo hold. Yeah, I can try to find somewhere to hide in the cargo hold.

SPEAKER_07 1:26:47

Can you sneak underneath the box?

SPEAKER_05 1:26:49

Like jam yourself in a cubby. And when I can I hear them walk past me, I'll I'll slowly walk away under the box.

SPEAKER_02 1:26:58

So as uh Jarek and the others enter the grotto, uh, of course, the Rhodian woman, she hears the commotion, uh, she hears them coming. And at the same time they spot each other. The Rhodian woman orders her gangsters to fire. Uh, Jarek orders his muscle to fire, and a blaster battle does break out.

SPEAKER_11 1:27:23

Well, let's just sit back and let this happen.

SPEAKER_02 1:27:25

Well, uh, you might sit back and let it happen, but the Rhodian woman says, cover me, I'm going for the ship, and Jarek uh and Ranala say the same thing.

SPEAKER_03 1:27:35

Hmm.

SPEAKER_02 1:27:36

And they're using uh Illyria's parents as human shields as they board the vessel.

SPEAKER_08 1:27:41

Did you want to sneak in after them? Yeah, well let's let's uh let's see if we can go. Can we can we try to save yeah, let's try to save the parents if we can.

SPEAKER_02 1:27:50

Illyria, you can hear them uh bounding up the ramp. Uh Jarek and Renala with your parents would be closer, so they get up first, but uh The Rhodian woman and a couple of her guys are not far behind.

SPEAKER_11 1:28:04

Oh, so the Rhodian is like she's breaking away. Oh yeah, yeah, because they're all going. And they're not trying to shoot at each other while they're going in. Come on, you quitters.

SPEAKER_02 1:28:13

So if you're going to uh try and sneak onto the ship during this firefight, you'll have to kind of like cross the line of sight of one or both of these groups. Uh so that is gonna be against their perception. So if you want to sneak, that is gonna be a two purple, a red, and a black perception.

SPEAKER_08 1:28:30

Fuck me. Or stealth against their perception. Or stealth, yeah. That's it's not gonna it's not gonna be good. How many destiny points do we got?

SPEAKER_02 1:28:37

You have two.

SPEAKER_08 1:28:38

Can I downgrade a red? Yeah. Failure and advantage. You don't get shot. I don't get shot, I'm thinking. And Starzan?

SPEAKER_07 1:28:46

Gonna flip a destiny. If we have any. Yeah, you got one left. Oh! Two failures, one despair.

SPEAKER_11 1:28:53

Oh no! Oh, Starzan! You get shot up!

SPEAKER_02 1:28:57

Chris and Starzan.

SPEAKER_11 1:28:59

Spotlights blast on us. Look, we're going for the mask. I'm just saying, if the spotlights start blasting, Chris, do your cube and Pete song and dance.

SPEAKER_02 1:29:08

In the words of faith, no more. What is it? Starzan, as she's boarding the ship, Ranala sees you and recognizes you, and you don't see what she says, but she says something to Jarek, uh, and they both uh run more quickly aboard the ship. So they know that you're there now.

SPEAKER_11 1:29:26

Hey, how is Jarek running? He doesn't have a seeing eye dog.

SPEAKER_02 1:29:29

She's holding his hand.

SPEAKER_11 1:29:31

Man, he's been real spry for a blind guy with no guy dog.

SPEAKER_08 1:29:35

Yeah, she's been holding his hand a little bit. Real spry for a blind guy.

SPEAKER_02 1:29:41

Look, they're both librarians. You know, they've been having late nights in the temple archives. They she probably likes holding his hand.

SPEAKER_11 1:29:49

And all the scythies say I'm pretty spry for a blind guy.

SPEAKER_07 1:29:54

Uno does trade squadrosincocinko says.

SPEAKER_02 1:29:57

But uh Starzan and Chris, because Renala and uh Jarek had that reaction to you, uh, the Rhodian woman's uh mercs, they notice this and they say, Are you after the blind guy and the lady? Yeah. Alright, go get him! So only so one side is not gonna be shooting at you. Okay. Illyria aboard the ship. Uh, you can hear Renala and Jarek urging your parents forward, shuffling them as human shields, warning them, saying that some very bad people are coming and that they have to be, they should be very careful uh if they don't want to get hurt. And Renala, who it seems has developed some of her abilities, uh she says, I said I I think I can feel the mask. I think it's over here. And she starts going towards where you're hiding. And are you are you in a are you holding the box in a box?

SPEAKER_05 1:30:53

Uh yeah. Can I also be holding my pistol at least? Or my lightsaber.

SPEAKER_02 1:30:57

Yeah. And she says, it's in this box, and she reaches forward to open it.

SPEAKER_11 1:31:02

Yeah, turn on the lightsaber and take her hand off.

SPEAKER_05 1:31:06

I'll wait until she opens it.

SPEAKER_02 1:31:08

So she opens the box, you're in there clutching the case, and she says, oh shit, and she draws a blaster and she points it at you.

SPEAKER_05 1:31:18

I turn on my lightsaber, but it's pointing her.

SPEAKER_02 1:31:22

Okay, so this'll be uh probably like a quick draw off. This will be vigilance versus vigilance.

SPEAKER_05 1:31:27

Three success, two advantage.

SPEAKER_02 1:31:28

One success, one advantage. You can turn it on.

SPEAKER_05 1:31:31

Ooey!

SPEAKER_02 1:31:32

How badly why don't you roll your lightsaber just to see what you do to her? Two purple lightsaber.

SPEAKER_05 1:31:39

Uh three success, one advantage, one triumph.

SPEAKER_02 1:31:42

Yeah, what do you what do you do to her?

SPEAKER_05 1:31:44

Ooh.

SPEAKER_02 1:31:46

How badly do you do you harm her?

SPEAKER_05 1:31:51

Is she leaning down? Does she lean down to open the box?

SPEAKER_02 1:31:55

Yeah, she leans down to open the box.

SPEAKER_12 1:31:57

What are you gonna do?

SPEAKER_05 1:31:59

Just get her right through the throat.

SPEAKER_02 1:32:02

Yeah, she draws her blaster, she says, oh shit, and as she's saying shit, your beam can like her teeth as it comes out the back of her neck.

SPEAKER_01 1:32:16

I also scream. Everyone's screaming! So self-defense. What?

SPEAKER_02 1:32:25

Granala gets a lightsaber blade through the back of her throat. You scream in self-defense as you pop out. Jarek uh grabs your mom and like holds her human human hostage style, has his lightsaber blade.

SPEAKER_05 1:32:39

She's fucking blind!

SPEAKER_02 1:32:41

Well, he's already got her. They've each got like human hostage shields, and he says, I don't know which one of them you are, but if you don't want this woman to die, you'll give me the mask.

SPEAKER_08 1:32:51

Have I shown up yet? Can I uh am I able to sneak behind him and also shove a lightsaber down his throat?

SPEAKER_02 1:32:57

Yeah, you and Starzan can have gotten onto the ship at this point. Okay. Um but I don't think Alyri would know that you're there yet.

SPEAKER_08 1:33:06

Can can can Starzan uh grab him from behind and uh uh roll him up like a basketball?

SPEAKER_02 1:33:12

Well, first you need to get to you need to get past the Rhodian woman, because she got on the ship before you did.

SPEAKER_08 1:33:16

Okay. We'll let uh who should go first then?

SPEAKER_05 1:33:20

Should we let it uh we'll I'll start passing the box to him. Kick it over. And then I'll Yeah, okay.

SPEAKER_02 1:33:28

He doesn't want you getting close.

SPEAKER_11 1:33:31

Kick it right at his gut. Ma'am, what if you kicked us so hard you broke the mask inside?

SPEAKER_05 1:33:37

I wish I had a good range. I just hit him in the head.

SPEAKER_02 1:33:41

Yeah, give me a if you want to give me a range to throw or kick it.

SPEAKER_05 1:33:44

No. Okay, to kick it?

SPEAKER_02 1:33:46

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 1:33:46

I'm bad ranged, but okay.

SPEAKER_02 1:33:50

It'll be short range, so it'll be just a a red.

SPEAKER_05 1:33:53

One success, one threat.

SPEAKER_02 1:33:55

Um, so you can, but because you got that threat, it's like he does have to drop, he can hear where it is. He does have to drop your mother uh in order to grab it, but he does scramble for it and open the case.

SPEAKER_11 1:34:09

Does mom at least get away?

SPEAKER_02 1:34:11

Yeah, she she scrambles away, he puts the mask on. She runs over and she uh she hugs you, and your dad runs over as well. She says, Elyria, you're you're alive and you're you're big. You're big. Aww.

SPEAKER_11 1:34:24

Oh.

SPEAKER_05 1:34:25

Mummy. Yes, I am I am an adult. That's what happens over time.

SPEAKER_02 1:34:30

She aged. You have your father's sense of humor.

SPEAKER_11 1:34:33

Never stop being awkward being an awkward, weirdo Elyria.

SPEAKER_02 1:34:37

And also, uh uh autism runs in his family. You might want to get that with that.

SPEAKER_08 1:34:42

I was about to say, I was about to say. I was about to say, a family, a family on the spectrum. It's a beautiful thing.

SPEAKER_11 1:34:50

Where do you land on the uh on trains, Elyria? We have fan. I like when they run on time.

SPEAKER_02 1:34:57

And uh Starzan and Chris, you can see the the Rhodian woman running, she's running through uh the ship towards the cargo hold where she hears a commotion. You hear the sound of a lightsaber turning on, you don't know whose it is, uh, but you do hear Illyria screaming when it happens.

SPEAKER_08 1:35:19

Um, we should probably run to check to see what's going on. Yeah, that could mean anything. That could be Oh my god, especially if it's Illyria that's screaming. Oh no, she's in trouble! So assuming the wish chicken. So there's so there's a Rhodian in front of us there, right? Yeah, the Rhodian uh pirate woman. Ro uh, can uh Starzan take this one out while I go see and check on Illyria?

SPEAKER_02 1:35:44

Uh you want to attack her, Starzan? So Chris can scoop past? Yeah. Okay. Uh how do you wanna how do you wanna do that? I will whip out the starsaber. Okay, so she's got uh adversary, uh, she's got melee defense, so that'll be a red, a purple, and a black to attack her with it. Five success for advantage. Holy five. Which is a crit which is a crit. So, yeah, you can attack her with the star sword, this giant man appearing from the shadows. Uh, you can roll your crit on her. Roll. 97! Holy moly. So, which of her limbs do you take off? That is not a limb. That's not a limb.

SPEAKER_08 1:36:21

It's the new Saber arm. We just watched teeth, can we cut off her teeth?

SPEAKER_02 1:36:26

It's crippled, it's not totally taken off.

SPEAKER_08 1:36:28

Yeah.

unknown 1:36:29

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:36:30

So her blaster arm. Fighting arm, yes. Yeah. So you can slash slash her, crippling her fighting arm, slicing through her muscles and tendons as it goes limp, she drops her blaster, she falls to the ground, she looks at you, says, Fuck you! And you're like, you give her the finger. Don't think you're gonna be getting out of this one. And with her good arm, she pulls a thermal detonator off her belt. Oh no! Oh no! She doesn't uh it doesn't matter anymore if she gets it, she just wants to make sure you don't. For Chris, you can get into uh cargo hold. You can see uh Illyria being uh embraced by her parents as Jarek puts on this mask that resembles it's like uh white mask, looks like no face from uh Spirited Away. Oh yeah?

SPEAKER_08 1:37:30

Uh can I can I uh see what I can do about uh getting that mask off?

SPEAKER_02 1:37:35

Well he stands up and he like faces you, and even though he has no eyes because he's a Mira Luca, you can tell that he can see you. Um I shoot him. Okay, you can shoot him. It's got uh defense adversary, you'd be at short range, so that'll be a red, a purple, and a black. Uh, one success. Uh, you can blast him, uh, and it hurts, even though he thinks he's got all this power, but he's still getting shot is uh no good.

SPEAKER_08 1:38:05

You have done badly, poorly to mess with the likes of us. The Empire Wreckers. Are we the Empire Wreckers? Have we told yourself the Empire Wreckers? I mean, you're trying to wreck the Empire. And then and then a lightning uh a lightning bolt goes off uh over me just like, hey. Say that again.

SPEAKER_12 1:38:27

And he says, interesting. But I don't think this confrontation is going to end the same way our last one did. Shoot him again. Well he's well he can go, he's gonna use the bind power on you.

SPEAKER_02 1:38:40

Can I use a maneuver to to hide before he does it or he only rolls one dark side, but that's enough to immobilize you. Okay. Uh and you also suffer a point of wound, because he's uh he's choking you out. Bitch! And he starts just like sauntering uh out of the ship. He thinks he's a tough guy now.

SPEAKER_11 1:39:02

You think you're special? You do. Is is he like looking to uh exit that grotto?

SPEAKER_02 1:39:09

He's looking to exit the ship. Uh right now he'll have to in order to leave, he'll have to go past where Starzan and the Rhodian woman have. She's got her uh thermal detonator. I'm not letting them go that easily either, so.

SPEAKER_11 1:39:21

Well, you know, I'm still up here. I can still take aim if he does manage to get out the door.

SPEAKER_02 1:39:25

Oh yeah, that's fair.

SPEAKER_07 1:39:27

Shouldn't do it.

SPEAKER_02 1:39:27

Can I go at him? Um, well, what are you gonna do about this one with the thermal detonator anything?

SPEAKER_07 1:39:31

Oh yeah, I should probably deal with that. Could I like kick it a safe distance away, like fucking.

SPEAKER_02 1:39:37

Like she's got it in her her one good hand.

SPEAKER_07 1:39:40

Yeah. I suppose I could cut the hand off, but then it could still detonate, right?

SPEAKER_02 1:39:45

Yeah, because it's like if she lets go, then it will detonate, right? Yeah, she's probably got dead man's switch going on.

SPEAKER_07 1:39:50

Yeah, so I'd like to I wish I had move. I could I guess I could try and kick it away? I don't know. That seems dangerous as well.

SPEAKER_02 1:39:58

I mean, you could I guess you could use the flat side of your sword and use it like a cricket bat to knock it down the hall towards Jarek.

SPEAKER_07 1:40:08

Yeah, okay. Would that be athletics or range? Yeah, cricket is athletic. Yeah.

SPEAKER_11 1:40:13

Because how big is the boom on a thermal detonator?

SPEAKER_02 1:40:16

Um short range.

SPEAKER_11 1:40:18

Short range. Okay, so it's like if if you do wap it towards Jarek, then it's like there's a Jarek, Jarek.

SPEAKER_02 1:40:25

Jarek. It's got breach, blast, damage 20.

SPEAKER_11 1:40:28

Like everyone who's still on the ship would probably be okay. You would probably be okay.

SPEAKER_02 1:40:34

Yes. Depending on the role.

SPEAKER_11 1:40:35

Yeah, depending on the roll.

SPEAKER_07 1:40:37

Gonna flip a D. Uh what would the difficulty be?

SPEAKER_02 1:40:41

Generally short range uh throws are one. Uh so with a destiny that would get bumped up to a red. She is holding on to it, so you'll have to get it out of her grasp. Uh you have kind of an unwieldy cricket bat. Uh, you want to make sure that it is not getting anywhere that's close to your friends, and maybe instead trying to hit Jerek, so that'll be a red and four blacks.

SPEAKER_07 1:41:05

Aichiwa. Okay. Three success, three advantage, one dark side, four light side.

SPEAKER_02 1:41:11

Ooh. So you can uh knock this, you can hit this thermal detonator out of this woman's hand. It goes bouncing uh down the hallway. It's got a three-second timer towards Jericho, and he sees it bouncing towards him, and he's gonna use the move power on it. See what he can do. Okay, so he rolls one dark side, but because he has this mask on. Now, when Illyria rolled her lore about uh the mask of Nihilus, she did not know that much about him. But uh Darth Nihilus was an ancient Sith Lord uh who devoured the force. Oh which means that the wearer of this mask, whenever somebody rolls and does not use dark side points, he gets to use those dark side points on his next force roll. Wait, what? What? His mask allows him to eat other people's force.

SPEAKER_08 1:42:13

Hell. That's rad as hell, unfortunately.

SPEAKER_11 1:42:17

It's sick, but also it's like, metaphysically, I'm just like, I I'm trying to wrap my head around that.

SPEAKER_02 1:42:23

Uh, so he gets uh two to use. So the the mask only grants the force abilities of a Sith Apprentice, so he's only got one force rating. But the way he can accumulate additional force points is by eating the force of others. Either way, uh the move power, two two points is enough to catch it and send it flying out the front door of the ship. And you see Kala, uh, just a glint of metal as this thermal detonator hits the rock wall and collapses the tunnel entrance as it explodes. So the uh the pathway that Jarek took down into the grotto uh is collapsed now, so the only way back up is through the ropes that you are near.

SPEAKER_11 1:43:10

Oh, okay. So if he is uh coming up, he'll have to come right towards me.

SPEAKER_02 1:43:13

Yeah, unless he like flies out or something.

SPEAKER_11 1:43:16

Unless he blasts off like Astro Boy. It's okay. If he if he comes into sight, I'll all be ready. I'll be I'll be lined up.

SPEAKER_02 1:43:24

So he's trying to get out of the ship. Uh Starzan, you've you've gone. Uh Chris, you tried to uh shoot him. You've you're kind of bound a little bit. Uh Illyria, are you gonna try and do anything or are you just uh catching up? Am I behind him or you're still in the cargo hold with your parents?

SPEAKER_05 1:43:40

And he's not?

SPEAKER_02 1:43:41

Yeah, no, he's leaving the ship.

SPEAKER_08 1:43:45

If you want to just catch up with your f uh with your family, that's okay.

SPEAKER_05 1:43:48

When this guy's fucking escaping with dark side balls.

SPEAKER_11 1:43:52

They can wait!

SPEAKER_05 1:43:53

Hey, uh, I should uh maybe take help help take care of this. I'll be I'll be back in a second.

SPEAKER_03 1:43:59

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 1:44:00

And then I'll run and try and saber him.

SPEAKER_02 1:44:02

Alright, so you can run, catch up to him. Uh he hasn't. You can kind of uh quarter him a little bit with him between you and Starzan. So if you want to attack him, he's got adversary that'll be two reds and a black. If you want to attack him with your lightsaber.

SPEAKER_05 1:44:18

One success, one threat.

SPEAKER_02 1:44:21

So he'll take some strain to parry that. He takes two points of wound.

SPEAKER_10 1:44:26

Yay. Every little bit counts.

SPEAKER_02 1:44:29

A little nick, but he is a fully trained Jedi Master. He has his force abilities back to an extent. And you got threat?

SPEAKER_05 1:44:38

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:44:39

So he turns back to face you with his mask. Elyri, what's your force rating?

SPEAKER_05 1:44:43

Two.

SPEAKER_02 1:44:44

Just roll your force dice.

SPEAKER_05 1:44:47

Come on, light side. One light side, one dark side.

SPEAKER_02 1:44:50

Okay, so he gets one dark side that he can use on his next turn. That's evil. Chris, you are no longer bound. Hey, how far away is he from me? Uh, so right now he is in the hallway of the ship. Illyria has caught up to him in one direction. Starzan is at the other end, kind of blocking his way out.

SPEAKER_08 1:45:12

Okay. I'm gonna see if I can uh uh catch up to him and uh maybe see if I can take him down also with a lightsaber.

SPEAKER_02 1:45:21

Okay, so you want to run up, uh, try and attack him. Mm-hmm. So that'll be start as a two red and a black because it is kind of confined space. Illyria's there attacking him as well. You'll have to add uh another two blacks to avoid getting Illyria.

SPEAKER_08 1:45:36

How many destiny points do we got?

SPEAKER_02 1:45:38

Got one.

SPEAKER_08 1:45:38

This time I'm gonna flip it. Well, uh, three failures and an advantage. Advantage?

SPEAKER_02 1:45:45

Yeah, so you can provide a you can just be a body that's uh against him. So if Starzan wants to do something, he can add a uh a blue. A blue. Before he'll get a chance to, though, he is going to roll his force. So he gets one dark side, he gets an additional dark side uh from Illyria. So he's going to use one to activate the power, and one to activate to upgrade the strength. As a Jedi Master, he's pretty practicing strength, he has lots of upgrades. So even though the hallway is uh blocked at both ends, he can rend the walls apart with the force and just jump out into the grotto.

SPEAKER_11 1:46:28

Okay, can I shoot at him? Can I aim and shoot?

SPEAKER_02 1:46:31

Uh, yeah. You can see Jarek jumping out. Uh he would be at long range. He's got two ranks of adversary, he's got uh range defense, so that would I'm gonna give you a destiny point as well. So that is gonna be three red and a black.

SPEAKER_11 1:46:46

Ooh, ooh, okay. Interesting. One failure. Nine advantage.

SPEAKER_02 1:46:54

Well then.

SPEAKER_11 1:46:56

And six lightside. Ooh, no darks.

SPEAKER_02 1:46:59

Nine advantage. So you can't hit him.

SPEAKER_11 1:47:02

Can't I though? I didn't flip a destiny point. I could use some of those six lightside to get some success.

SPEAKER_02 1:47:09

Yeah. Um, what's the crit on your three?

SPEAKER_11 1:47:12

I could I could crit him three times.

SPEAKER_02 1:47:14

Yeah, you could crit him and add uh twenty.

SPEAKER_11 1:47:16

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:47:17

You wouldn't need to, even if he reflects, you would still be doing one point of wound, which is enough to trigger a crit. Yeah. Theoretically, you could use uh all six of those to add 40 to your crit.

SPEAKER_11 1:47:32

Because I I got six light side. I would need two to turn the failure into a success, and then so I could maybe put three into making success so I get a little extra, and then three just to get uh an extra crit.

SPEAKER_02 1:47:44

Yeah, so it would be 30 instead of uh Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_11 1:47:47

Okay, we'll do it.

SPEAKER_02 1:47:48

He uh reflects a couple of your bullets, but uh enough manage to get through to pierce his flesh and crit him. Ooh, plus thirty, hundred and three. Okay, so which of his limbs is permanently lost?

SPEAKER_11 1:48:04

Try to do a leg so he can't run away anymore.

SPEAKER_02 1:48:06

He is just kind of trying to walk, blow out his kneecap.

SPEAKER_11 1:48:10

Yeah, I'll blast his leg off so he can't get away.

SPEAKER_02 1:48:12

Okay, so you can uh fallout style vats, take out his kneecap, it explodes in the low resolution gore.

SPEAKER_11 1:48:21

Yay, I gotta do my one big thing.

SPEAKER_02 1:48:24

Yeah, dog. His leg goes out from under him and uh he falls face down into the water.

SPEAKER_11 1:48:31

Man, it's just me personally ruining this guy's life, isn't it? Because I was the one who took away his force the before. Uh sorry, Jarek.

SPEAKER_02 1:48:42

Uh he is going to uh attempt to let's let's see if he can do this.

SPEAKER_11 1:48:48

Is he gonna try to eat my force and then realize there's nothing for him? I left no crumbs.

SPEAKER_02 1:48:54

Uh so he got one dark side, he hasn't eaten any force. So he tries, he's trying to like move himself. He's trying to like launch himself, fly out, but he can only move a silhouette zero object. So he just kind of like slides a little bit and then stops.

SPEAKER_11 1:49:13

I'm here to ruin this guy's existence.

SPEAKER_02 1:49:16

Who wants to rip his mask off? Sh um I uh Who wants the mask, first of all?

SPEAKER_11 1:49:23

I don't know if any of us should be taking the mask.

SPEAKER_08 1:49:26

I I feel like a mask on my perfect face is be an affront to God.

SPEAKER_10 1:49:31

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 1:49:32

Let's not have dark passengers.

SPEAKER_07 1:49:35

You can be like Vega, you know, where he's actually really handsome under the mask.

SPEAKER_05 1:49:38

Like Orville Pack.

SPEAKER_07 1:49:40

It all comes full circle.

SPEAKER_11 1:49:42

So it's a you losers is gonna take this.

SPEAKER_05 1:49:44

Who's closest? To jump out of the ship?

SPEAKER_02 1:49:46

Yeah, I feel like you're all kind of aquidistants. Uh Illyria would be the furthest one away because she's still in the Well, no, you you left the cargo hold, so yeah, you'd all kind of be the same distance.

SPEAKER_05 1:49:57

Yeah. I had it.

SPEAKER_08 1:50:01

What are you gonna do with all that power? You could also destroy it.

SPEAKER_05 1:50:05

Okay.

SPEAKER_08 1:50:06

Cast it into the fire. Should should we uh uh get scholars to study it? No, we could probably we should probably destroy it, especially if it's dark side.

SPEAKER_07 1:50:14

But how do we destroy it?

SPEAKER_08 1:50:15

Stomp on it?

SPEAKER_07 1:50:16

Well, is there a way to destroy it that won't let all the ghoulies in it outside?

SPEAKER_02 1:50:19

Well, I mean the ghoulie there's one ghoulie.

SPEAKER_05 1:50:22

Well let me grab it. I'll grab it and stab it with my lightsaber.

SPEAKER_02 1:50:26

Because this is a dark side artifact, let's say rather than an athletics to pry it off a sabbath, it'd it would it probably be a discipline to actually over its will and go through with it. Not me. This would be a three purple discipline to grab the mask off his face.

SPEAKER_07 1:50:42

I do have a rank and discipline, but only one.

SPEAKER_05 1:50:44

Got two. I've got two yellow, two green. Three success! Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:50:49

You can jump down, tear the mask off of his face, he goes blind. Not again as he bleeds out in this pool. And you can destroy the mask with your lightsaber. Dark, the dark spirit, whatever is left of this Darth Nihilus is uh removed from the physical plane. This mask crumbles into black dust, these small obsidian shards like sand that just run through your fingers and drain away into the water. And then your parents come out and they clap and they say, We're so proud of you. And your inner child is healed.

SPEAKER_08 1:51:28

Mom? Oh no, that's your parents. Never mind.

SPEAKER_11 1:51:32

Yeah, once uh it looks like things are taken care of, can I finally come down the ropes to join everyone?

SPEAKER_02 1:51:37

You can come down the ropes to join everyone. Uh, once it's clear that the loot is destroyed, uh the other gangs kind of dissipate.

SPEAKER_05 1:51:46

Hey, so like if you could see through my eyes and stuff, how come you didn't come get me after the Jedi's kicked me out and made me go to work?

SPEAKER_11 1:51:53

It is right to the point.

SPEAKER_05 1:51:55

It's that autistic uh forwardness.

SPEAKER_11 1:51:59

Look, I'm not beating around the bush here. I didn't have anyone who raised me to learn these social graces.

SPEAKER_08 1:52:07

Listen here, between you and me, why didn't you pick me up when I was falling down?

SPEAKER_05 1:52:13

I hope you're saying that Messiah.

SPEAKER_02 1:52:17

Well, Illyria, your mom says, she says, I can see through your eyes at times, but having to leave you with the Jedi was the hardest thing that I've ever done, so I resisted it as much as possible, because then I would know what I was missing out on, and I had to stay true to my own path, just as you had to live your life.

SPEAKER_05 1:52:41

But my life was an experiment to keep the force?

SPEAKER_02 1:52:45

It wasn't as clinical as all that. It was you never lost your powers. I did, and I'm assuming because you're here, you met our other friend Severance. You're the first of our kind, as far as we know, who has never undergone this ordeal, thanks to your Jedi training. You're not just an experiment, you represent a new future for all of us.

SPEAKER_05 1:53:10

I think the secret is spite.

SPEAKER_11 1:53:14

That's what Seph said. That's the thing I take it away from the Jedi training the most. Being bitter and petty.

SPEAKER_02 1:53:23

I searched uh a long time across the galaxy for places that could restore someone's connection to the force. That's how I came across the mask, but I realized what it was, and I thought that wasn't acceptable, so I abandoned it.

SPEAKER_05 1:53:36

So, anyways, you know Argo Thrustmaster, he's really into you, and uh he told us where you were.

SPEAKER_02 1:53:42

Argo, yes, he was uh one of my proteges. I I'm a star warden as well. I have responsibilities to guard the hyperlanes, which I should probably get be getting back to now that I'm out of prison. Thank you for rescuing me, by the way.

SPEAKER_05 1:53:57

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:53:57

And she elbows your dad, and he says, Oh yeah, thank thank you for getting me out of prison as well. Uh, it's kind of my fault this whole thing happened.

SPEAKER_09 1:54:05

Oh, what'd you do?

SPEAKER_02 1:54:06

Well, uh I've been spending most of my time looking for threats to the ascendancy from the Republic and now the Empire. And I got caught snooping around out near Geonosis. And they uh arrested me, threw me in an ISB prison, and I thought I would rot there for the rest of my life until uh my darling wife decided to try busting me out, and well, she ended up kidnapped as well. And we thought we would rot together until Jarek came to requisition us for his quest for power.

SPEAKER_10 1:54:43

Do you find anything interesting by Geonosis?

SPEAKER_02 1:54:46

Yes, that's why I was arrested.

SPEAKER_11 1:54:47

What'd you find?

SPEAKER_02 1:54:48

I assume if you've been dealing with Severance, you have heard of the Decimator. Well, the Decimator was only uh an essay in the craft of making weapons of mass destruction. I after discovering about the Decimator, I researched further into the Republic, and I guess now the Empire's kyber weaponry, and what I found at Geonosis was well not much yet, but in a decade or two it could be something big uh right now it's only a skeleton, but it's uh a moon-sized battle station that the Empire's can are constructing in secret. And if, as I believe they are planning to use kyber-based weaponry, uh it could have the capacity to be a planet killer.

SPEAKER_05 1:55:35

That's crazy, we should destroy it before they build it.

SPEAKER_11 1:55:39

Oh no! You get out of here and or we're killing it first!

SPEAKER_05 1:55:44

But this time we'll do it before it gets built. This time we'll be better at killing.

SPEAKER_11 1:55:49

Yeah, this time we're not gonna worry about killing all those stormtroopers. We're only killing the engineers and construction worker.

SPEAKER_02 1:55:57

I mean, if you ki if you kill Oppenheimer, does the bomb get made? That is true.

SPEAKER_11 1:56:03

You gotta go back in time and kill Oppenheimer when he's a baby.

SPEAKER_07 1:56:07

Are we killing Bevel Lemelisk? You're gonna kill Cannon Girl.

SPEAKER_02 1:56:10

You're gonna kill Bevel Lemelisk and Galen Urso and Orson Krennic.

SPEAKER_08 1:56:14

Hell yeah. What if I charm Oppenheimer into not building the bomb? You're gonna fuck Jin Urso's dad. You're gonna fuck You're gonna fuck Madden. That is the worst thing that could happen. You're the reason he decided to leave to become a farmer. That's give Gin Urso something to do.

SPEAKER_11 1:56:34

It's a simple- God, I can't believe I have to I have to sleep with Mads Nickelson. This is terrible. This is the worst news I can do. This is the worst day. Oh man.

SPEAKER_02 1:56:43

Oh man. He's a man-eater. Well, if you want to act on this information that Elyria's father has uh procured, that is definitely gonna be a big problem in the future. Something you might want to take care of, but it's something that uh you'll have to look into more next time on Star Wars Empire Wreckers. This week's episode is brought to you by our top patrons, David B. Eric Charles Perazzo, General Porpoise, Handholder Zero One, Jeffrey Zamuto, Joshua Winter, Laser, LKB, Matthew Lynette, Safira, Suki Nintendo, Thomas Davidson, and Vaginator.