Empire Wreckers
A Star Wars actual play podcast using the Fantasy Flight Games system. Each 3-season campaign follows a group of intergalactic misfits as they try their best to save the galaxy... or destroy it.
Empire Wreckers
S01E12 - Whip It
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Accidents happen. After investigating the mysteries of Centerpoint Station, the crew of the Sparkling Spoonbill could not prevent the Empire from releasing an ancient evil.
Fleeing their ancient black hole prison, the massive Taung fleet departed for parts unknown. Hoping to gain the wisdom of the immortal Killik Hive, Bach Joy agreed to join their infinite mind.
With the arrival of the Rebel fleet to Corellia, the heroes must find a way to prevent the ancient Mandalorians from ransacking the galaxy again....
Hey, uh proud listeners of our show. Uh you're not proud listeners, you tolerate us. Um we're feeling very uh low self-esteem today on Empire Wreckers. Uh who's got uh low self-esteem today?
SPEAKER_09Kona has low self-esteem. She's sad inside because you haven't started worshipping the points keeper.
SPEAKER_06Uh in general, Bok Joy just has low self-esteem, like in general, there's not much uh is needed in order to trigger my low self-esteem.
SPEAKER_05Zap Razdower might now only be the clone of the best starfighter in the galaxy.
SPEAKER_10And Haitaka feels like she needs to invest in some self-help books.
SPEAKER_00And when you have low self-esteem, uh, what better cure for your ills than escapism? And what better place to escape than to Star Wars! Accidents happened. After investigating the mysteries of Center Point Station, the crew of the sparkling spoonbill could not prevent the Empire from releasing an ancient evil. Fleeing their ancient black hole prison, the massive Town fleet departed for parts unknown, hoping to gain the wisdom of the immortal Killik Hive, Bok Joy agreed to join their infinite mind. With the arrival of the rebel fleet to Corelia, the heroes must find a way to prevent the ancient Mandalorians from ransacking the galaxy again.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, we kind of fucked up last time.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, so when we last uh left everybody, uh Zap Rausedauer and Co. ventured into Center Point Station to discover what was inside his juices. He found out that he was the uh a DNA duplicate of Antonio Coralai, who had previously locked Center Point Station, uh, because its gravimetric generators were used to move the Corellian system over a black hole so it could keep a fleet of ancient Mandalorians locked inside. Uh you fucked that up, they escaped, flew off for somewhere, and uh now Bach Joy is part of an alien hive mind, and you are all being debriefed aboard the Sagaciousness, uh, a rebel ship that was is the uh sister ship of the profundity, which was destroyed during the Battle of Scaraph.
SPEAKER_09Oh cool, Boxa Hive Mind now.
SPEAKER_00What's the current ship called, sorry? The Sagaciousness.
SPEAKER_06It's like a sea gate, but it has an ishness to it.
SPEAKER_09It's like being bodacious, but it's sea gacious.
SPEAKER_00And you're all you're all sitting, uh there's this long table in the debriefing room, and you're all sitting along one side of it, and this uh this stern-looking Iktachi dude, uh, he's he's he kinda looks human-esque, but he's got these big curled ram horns on the side of his head, and he's pacing back and forth, and he's trying to make sense of of of the this tale that you guys are telling. And he says, uh oh, okay, okay. Uh so explain to me again what's going on.
SPEAKER_03Well, uh, I I uh we we we we um I uh I have a new hand.
SPEAKER_06This is the third hand I've had in like several months.
SPEAKER_02He keeps wearing them out.
SPEAKER_06It's super weird. Um but also we uh we accidentally let out uh really bad evil.
SPEAKER_09Um really ancient bad evil where uh we didn't let it out, the Empire let it out, and we just were not able to stop them in time. Also, that's a clone, maybe.
SPEAKER_00And you say that these are uh uh what Mandalorians? Okay. Uh well they're not here anymore. Do you have any idea w where they might have gone?
SPEAKER_05Can they travel through walls?
SPEAKER_00Um, would I would I have an idea? Um, uh as you are part of the uh Killick Hive Mind, um you might. So why don't you roll me a uh either a lore or warfare? Um this would probably be its ancient knowledge, uh, but as part of the hive mind, you'll get two blue on it. And actually a three blue on this one, because they're specifically giving you information about this shit. Uh so give me that against a uh four purple lore or warfare.
SPEAKER_06Lore or warfare, I think one will be better. Wait, okay. So it'll go warfare. Uh two success, three advantage.
SPEAKER_00Two success and three advantage. Okay, so you, Bach Joy, uh searching into the depths of the Killick Hive mind, you know that before the town uh colonized the planet Mandalore, and after they were kicked off of Coruscant, they hid on a planet called Rune. Um you also know that Rune is not currently on any galactic charts or maps, so it will take some doing to find. You may need to get help from uh an archaeologist who specializes in this sort of thing.
SPEAKER_06They're uh currently going to a planet called Rune?
SPEAKER_00Yeah. Okay.
SPEAKER_03Uh uh well, uh from my um knowledge from uh I can't really tell you uh from where, but I I have a feeling that they're going to a planet named Rune.
SPEAKER_00Uh now from You you have a a feeling.
SPEAKER_06Uh yeah. Uh so something like a feeling. Okay, and I'm hooked on this feeling.
SPEAKER_00Well, I've uh I've never heard of a planet called Rune.
SPEAKER_06Um It's not on the planet charts, but uh Oh, oh very that's really convenient.
SPEAKER_00That's incredibly uh convenient for you.
SPEAKER_06I mean, it isn't, but um okay. Cause I I kinda want to find these guys because uh I feel uh slightly responsible for uh their uh escape. So uh we need to find some sort of uh uh maybe uh some sort of uh uh uh historian?
SPEAKER_09Archaeologist?
SPEAKER_06Archaeologist? Uh uh some some sort of archaeologist or uh uh explo or like explorer or something like that, so that we might be uh able to find uh this long lost planet.
SPEAKER_00Archaeologist, huh? Yeah. Uh well, I uh uh I know someone who might be able to help. It's an old uh it's an old friend of mine, this uh Sarkanian. Uh I think she was uh headed to Onderon last time, uh last time I got in contact with her, but she she loves all this ancient uh ancient evil shit.
SPEAKER_09Oh doesn't.
SPEAKER_00Uh yeah, that's uh it's a real problem these days. Too much uh shit floating around out there.
SPEAKER_09Too much ancient evil shit.
SPEAKER_00Well, like I said, she's on uh she's on Onderon. Onderon, her name is uh Tanda Arilin. She's uh one of those uh what do you call them? Uh I don't know like not a not a clone, but like uh you know how Arcanians they like to do that science shit and they've got like the she's one of them. She's a I don't know. You'll see when you meet her. A scientist? She's uh more of an experiment. Ooh, a text.
SPEAKER_06She's a species called scientist. Tandon Erlen. She's some s I'm putting down my notes. Tanda Erlen, she's some kind of shit thing.
SPEAKER_09Some sort of shit monster.
SPEAKER_00Uh alright, you uh you guys can go off on your uh bizarre quest. Uh we're gonna send an envoy to the planet Mandalore, because we think uh maybe the Mandalorians might be the people to ask, but if you wanna if you wanna go off on on this retarded quest to find who knows what, then be my guest as long as you stay out of stay out of actual rebel business.
SPEAKER_09You know, I'm getting the impression that you don't like us.
SPEAKER_00There's a reason you guys aren't on Hoth.
SPEAKER_06Well we appreciate your confidence, sir. This is really gonna go a long way into our relationship once we actually find these things. Thank you.
SPEAKER_09We don't need to be on Hoth, because we're on Hoth.
SPEAKER_00What is what does that mean? I haven't It's cold.
SPEAKER_09Well, you don't get to no, you're not invited.
SPEAKER_00Get out of here. Bye. So you're escorted out of the briefing room uh by a couple of rebel troops and uh into the into the hallways of the sagaciousness. Okay, alright.
SPEAKER_05Your ship has a stupid name too.
SPEAKER_06It does. Um where uh sorry, where did they they say that we would find Tanda? Onderon. Alderon? Onderon. Onderon?
unknownOkay.
SPEAKER_09He doesn't just have like really bad grammar and he's like, you know, she's on Duron, like the law's after her. I mean, he might.
SPEAKER_00You don't know this guy too well. Seems like kind of an asshole.
SPEAKER_06He he he he he doesn't give a fuck about us, so he could just be saying shit. You know, Onderon. You know what I Ron is, right? It's like a ship, but it's a Ron.
SPEAKER_09Yeah. Let's go to Onduron and see if we can find this person.
SPEAKER_00Alright, so uh you return to the sparkling spoon bill and you find the uh rebel techs are making repairs and things, and uh one of the one of the guys shouts down who's like cleaning some shit off the off the front of your ship, and he's like, Hey, these uh this shit you got into the front of your ship, you want me to uh pop that off for you? What are our bedazzles?
SPEAKER_09Yeah. No, leave the bedazzles.
SPEAKER_06We have like crystals and like gems on the front of our ship.
SPEAKER_05Or it's sparkly.
SPEAKER_06It's yeah, it's super it it it you know, it denotes the fact that this is the sparkling spoon bill, not like any sort of regular spoon bill.
SPEAKER_00Oh, you you did this on purpose, huh?
SPEAKER_09Yeah, we're not the we're not the plain spoon bill. Alright. We're the flat spoon bill.
SPEAKER_00Right. Uh it's up to you, I guess. Uh we're we're all done here, so you can uh you can take her out. Um uh looks like you got some you got a message though on your uh there's a light blinking in your cockpit.
SPEAKER_09Oh, there's always a light blinky in that cockpit. This ship's a piece of crap.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, you want me to take a look at it?
SPEAKER_09No.
SPEAKER_00Alright, uh, and he and he kind of jumps down from it and he uh he he goes off about his work elsewhere on the ship.
SPEAKER_06I hate it when people try and uh go into my personal space and rearrange stuff for us. It's my mess for a reason.
SPEAKER_09Okay, let's go look at that that blinky light.
SPEAKER_00Uh the light is a message. It appears to be a uh a distress call. Ooh.
SPEAKER_01Oh dear.
SPEAKER_00Uh it's a distress it's a distress call from Priya Rucknuck, uh the uh Wookiee raised Imperial Commander that you met on Narshida.
SPEAKER_08Oh no!
SPEAKER_00Oh shit. Uh the the source of a distress call appears to be coming from uh the Alderan system, not Onduran, Alderan. Uh and there's only one word in the distress call, slavers. Uh oh. Oh dear.
SPEAKER_09Oh no! If it's a distress call, we should go help her first.
SPEAKER_04Alderon.
SPEAKER_09If it's Priya Rucknack with a distress call, she might be in trouble. And it's slavers. Maybe we'll actually get the chance to kill the thunder lizards instead of me cowardlying out.
SPEAKER_10I see how this is. I'd like to go for non-selfish reasons.
SPEAKER_09What? It's not selfish to want to kill a thunder lizard.
SPEAKER_10Like we have the same goal. Yeah, exactly.
SPEAKER_09You want revenge for being a slave. I want revenge for not being able to sell my slaves. We're really in the same boat.
SPEAKER_05It's all about slavery, that's for sure. Yeah. Pros, cons. All the discussions.
SPEAKER_06Alright, so we're just gonna forget about this uh galaxy-wide threat for a bit. Alright, uh I I guess we could do that.
SPEAKER_10They're be they've they're sending people to Luke Skywalker for this.
SPEAKER_06Alright, well, um, okay. I'll I'll just um while while we're on our uh journey, I'll see if I can look up anything more about Tanda Al uh Aloran from Onderon and see if she's, you know, you know, hot shit or something.
SPEAKER_00Alright, you want to give me a computers roll? Yeah. Sure. Um yeah, give me give me this will probably be a three purple uh computers roll.
SPEAKER_09To determine the heat of her poops? Yeah. Yes.
SPEAKER_01How did you know?
SPEAKER_00Um, alright, so And since you since you're still within the uh range of the hive mind, you get a blue to that because it is an intelligence role.
SPEAKER_06Right. Uh weird. A failure, advantage, and a triumph. Oh, okay.
SPEAKER_00Uh so you don't find anything of her uh like her archaeology or stuff, but you do find like her space Instagram, and she does appear to be incredibly hot shit. On Instagram, do you mean do you do you mean do you mean like uh uh she is an attractive looking woman or do you mean like she's the kind of archaeologist that is like a Michael Bay movie archaeologist where she's a Victoria's Secret model in a ponytail and glasses?
SPEAKER_09Oh, like she's she wears like I'm not a lady, I'm another high cargo pants, and she's like holding holding relics while arching her back a lot.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, yeah. And you can see that she is um she she appears to be uh because you because you have all these fucking these things in your head now, you recognize her as being what they call an Arcanian offshoot. Um she she looks mostly human, but she's got white skin, white hair, and little pointy elf ears. Um the Arcanians are a species that worships the god uh sciencina. Uh they love science, they love genetic engineering, and a long time ago they created this sort of sub-race of of basically slave people, uh genetically modified slave people, and she appears to be one of them.
SPEAKER_05It's not catgirls, is it?
SPEAKER_09She's she's not a catgirl, she's uh she's like a is she like Miranda from Mass Effect, like she was genetically designed to be the perfect woman?
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_06Well, I I I wish I could find out a little bit more about her uh skills as an anthropologist.
SPEAKER_00You don't get any of her volume, but you do find her Tinder profile, and you know what she is looking for in a man, and she loves a dude with a big brain.
SPEAKER_06Fuck I uh cloth I uh uh turn on I turn off the computer and then I just sort of wallow on it for a bit, and then I go back to the cockpit and run like, um, alright, we'll just uh uh we'll go we'll we'll go uh uh to Tandalator. I guess it was already uh chosen that we would do that, but um yeah, okay. And then I go on my space phone and I give her a follow on Instagram.
SPEAKER_05Space Tinder.
SPEAKER_06You definitely swipe on her early Yeah, swipe. Not Space Tinder, yeah.
SPEAKER_05Space Tinder.
SPEAKER_06You need to be swipe on it. We're going we're going pro we're going to be as professional as we possibly can be.
SPEAKER_09I mean, you can be professional, just like swipe her on Tinder and don't immediately send her your dick pic. You gotta hold back.
SPEAKER_00Use um professional courtesy. You need to use Zap's Tinder profile. No Zap's face Tinder profile.
SPEAKER_05You will never find a more wretched hive of scummon villainy.
SPEAKER_09Or you can make it under your uh your alter ego jockboy.
SPEAKER_00She'll never know. So if you're going to Aldoran, um, or if you're just gonna hang around on the ship uh inside the rebel fleet, uh looking at uh Tinder profiles. Or looking at the one. If you want to go to Alderan, you should make a uh make a two-purple uh astrogation check, because Alderan is not very difficult to find, but you're gonna add two blacks on that because since the planet was completely obliterated, nobody's bothered to actually keep the like charts for that planet up to date.
SPEAKER_06Do I get any blues with that or no?
SPEAKER_00Uh astrogation is an an intellect skill. Yes. Yeah, so as uh part of the Kilokai mind, you do get a boost from them. Okay.
SPEAKER_05I just realized that you were looking for love in Alderan spaces.
SPEAKER_06Yes.
SPEAKER_05There you go.
SPEAKER_06Uh interesting. Five success, three threat, and a triumph.
SPEAKER_00Alright, so, um, with that success, uh, you are able to get to Alderan, but because you got some threat, uh, you don't necessarily account for the drift of the planetary debris, and as you come out of hyperspace, you find yourself uh right in the middle of uh just a huge cloud of rocks and skulls. Just pieces of buildings and people and and and bits of earth. Uh however, uh you find a uh a a gemstone, an i uh an important-looking gemstone floating in space. Which of course, uh, I'm pretty sure uh Conat will take that. However, it is floating in space, so you would have to uh I'll go for it, it's cool.
SPEAKER_06At least we have zap this time, so that when you're floating out in space, we might have a better chance of like catching you.
SPEAKER_09Well, this time I'll have the foresight to like tie a rope around my waist. It'll be fine.
SPEAKER_06Okay, at least we've done that. Yeah. Who's holding the rope? Oh shit, I knew I forgot something. It's all you, dog boy. Uh you know, more than me can just hold the rope. I'm pretty sure we can also like tie it at the end of something just in case, but uh, you know.
SPEAKER_09Yeah, tie it to Haitaka.
SPEAKER_10I feel like that's not the most stable thing in the ship.
SPEAKER_09No Haitaka, you are not the most stable thing in the ship.
SPEAKER_06I'm pretty I'm pretty I'm pretty sure we have a hitch over here. And I'm pointing at nothing, by the way. Over here we have a hitch.
SPEAKER_09Somewhere over here.
SPEAKER_01By the throttle.
SPEAKER_09I'm gonna put on my spacesuit and tie myself off. I'll throw the other end of the rope to Bach just like, eh, you figure it out.
SPEAKER_00I mean, you could probably attach it to like something inside the ship.
SPEAKER_09Nah, Bok can figure it out, it's fine.
SPEAKER_00So you leap out the airlock into space around all these floating rocks. Uh so why don't you roll me a two-purple coordination? Um, you can add a blue because there are a lot of floatant rocks and skulls that you can use to uh get kind of a handhold on, but also add a black because there are a lot of floating rocks and skulls that are gonna get in your way on your way to this uh gemstone floating in space.
SPEAKER_09And get a handhold on me. That's coordination.
SPEAKER_00Two threat. Two threat. Okay, you uh you you bash into some rocks taking two strain and you just fly even further away from the gemstone.
SPEAKER_09Okay, can Bach kinda like pull on my rope to steer me in the right direction?
SPEAKER_00Alright, Bach, give me uh give me a two purple athletics to steer conut out of blue because this is zero gravity.
SPEAKER_10I can help.
SPEAKER_00If Haitaka's uh helping, then add another blue. Add another blue?
SPEAKER_05Why why aren't you helping Attack?
SPEAKER_00Yeah. Because I'm gonna do it.
SPEAKER_06I th I don't know why. Alright, so um shit. Two failures, three advantage.
SPEAKER_00Yay! Alright, so you you don't manage to swing her around uh correctly, but you do manage to get her into a place where if she were going to make another attempt at the uh thing, she would be able to get two blues. I will make another attempt at the thing in that case. Okay, make another attempt at the thing. Give me uh give me that two purple coordination rule. Uh add a blue and a black. You're a little bit closer, and you can add uh those two blues from box swinging you around.
SPEAKER_09So it's three blues altogether?
SPEAKER_00Yeah, and a black.
SPEAKER_09One advantage!
SPEAKER_00One uh You get close! You get close, but uh you it's just out of reach.
SPEAKER_06Oh my god, I'm having the strangest feeling of deja vu.
SPEAKER_09I'm sure I don't know what you mean.
SPEAKER_06Alright, do I need to like swing her again?
SPEAKER_00Um you could. You could try and uh swing her around, give me uh two purple athletics.
SPEAKER_09Maybe give the rope to Haitaka before you do the bathroom.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, you do you do the thing. You do the thing.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, you just need to reel her in a little bit.
SPEAKER_10Okay.
SPEAKER_06And I I'll give you a I will help you as well.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, two purple with a blue from box assistance.
SPEAKER_10Uh six successes, two advantages.
SPEAKER_00Alright, yeah, so you're you're so sweet at at doing this that as you reel her in, you're able to reel Conaut all the way back into the ship uh as she swipes the gem on the way past.
SPEAKER_02Yes! Teamwork.
SPEAKER_00Yay! The the gem is incredibly small. It's about the size of a quarter.
SPEAKER_09What? We got that for a trial?
SPEAKER_06But it's impor it's important looking, though. Yeah. Let's make that distinction. It is important looking. Yeah, it is important. It is important.
SPEAKER_00It it it glows and and shimmers with uh with a soft sort of uh yellowish-orange light.
SPEAKER_09Ooh. Does it do anything if I look at it through my amulet?
SPEAKER_00Uh if you look at it through your amulet, uh there aren't any shards or cracks coming from it, uh, but it does seem uh brighter. You can see sort of uh uh an internal bright glow through your amulet. Nice. Bach draw, you may be able to identify this with uh knowledge. Uh let me check. What am I uh what kind of knowledge? Uh this would be knowledge lore. Uh it would be a four-purple because it is quite rare. But Alderan um is well known as the site of many ancient Killick hives. So if there are any uh Killicks that survived in hibernation, uh the destruction of Alderan beneath the surface, you would get uh an additional two blue to that role.
SPEAKER_06Three success.
SPEAKER_00Okay, so you uh are able to identify this as a Kimberstone. Uh a Kimberstone is a uh a rare gem found on the volcanic moon of Yuness, and it was used uh by Jedi to modify their lightsabers to emit a non-lethal blade. Uh and as we all remember, uh Bokjoi, you pocketed a lightsaber belonging to uh one Qui-Gon Jin while uh searching through Count Dooku's uh treasure room on a crashed ship. So you do have a lightsaber to put this in, but you probably don't have the skill to install it. You would need to find somebody to do. that. Yeah, we'll we'll just sort of I'll I'll uh I'll keep both of them here. If you wanted to sell this on the black market, you could probably you could easily fetch like 7,000 credits for it. Jesus Christ.
SPEAKER_06But it seems so handy in case like I don't want to like kill people.
SPEAKER_09Why would you ever want that?
SPEAKER_06Because I'm I'm not a I'm not a psychopath.
SPEAKER_09Okay, well apparently some people don't know about how to have fun. At least I don't think I am. I'll I'll give Bach the the crystal. Alright you give Bach the crystal effort to like open my hand to let it go just like yes you can have it.
SPEAKER_03Thanks. I I'll I'll I'll take it now. I'll I'll I'll just just let it go.
SPEAKER_09Just let just let me it's all yours, Bok. You can it's it's fine.
SPEAKER_00It's just You've been giving him a lot of things that you care about recently.
SPEAKER_03It's o it's okay.
SPEAKER_09Everything will be safe with You to You took my baby now this Oh do I still have the egg that it left behind though.
SPEAKER_00You still have the egg uh that it left behind and and box Insectoid Killick arm. Uh it it it kind of uh it it almost purrs in appreciation when you drop the stone into its hand.
SPEAKER_06Like a little bit of dart is still in that arm and love scratch behind if I were to scratch behind uh conut's ear uh would it like I don't know.
SPEAKER_09Well I'm a lizard so I'm not gonna try it right now so that would take some effort.
SPEAKER_06I feel I feel as though my arm is like it's while it is my own it is also a very separate entity that like it's gonna it's it's gonna be like Bok's way of pissing me off whenever I do something bad like he'll just make sure he uses that arm to scratch his ass while staring at me.
SPEAKER_00That's entirely up to Bokjoy.
SPEAKER_06It's on the table Bok You'll get some c do you want some conjugal visits with my arm?
SPEAKER_00Oh dear God No giant lizard woman So there you are uh after having a uh small gemstone floating around in utter space uh sitting in your ship in the ruins of Aldoran surrounded by a bunch of flying rocks and skulls uh can we try to page what was her first name?
SPEAKER_09Priya? Can we try to page Priya and see where she is?
SPEAKER_00Yes. Priya knock knock there is no reply. But it's the kind of no reply where it's like the number you have dialed is out of the service area or disconnected.
SPEAKER_01Boy I hope this isn't a trap.
SPEAKER_00Can we call the police station and see if they're you see the police station uh floating outside the window full of flying rocks and skulls.
SPEAKER_09Um did her distress call have a location that we could track or go to the Uh you would have to back trace it um so that would take some computing.
SPEAKER_00Uh yeah can you backtrace it so we can call the cyber police? Yeah I'll see what I can do and I do the thing. Alright so uh you're trying to backtrace a uh a distress call uh that was sent in a uh planet full of flying rocks and skulls so this is gonna be it's gonna be three purple computers to backtrace that thing and you're gonna add a black for the interference and you're gonna add a black because of the probably her it's sent from like a personal communicator so it's not kind of a very strong signal. Do I also add uh two blues or two uh you add one blue two blues is uh specifically for knowledge but uh this is an intellect skill so you can add a blue uh one failure two advantages all right so you you aren't able to uh pinpoint uh where it is but as you're just kind of scanning scanning the radio waves you do uh get a large concentration of uh kind of uh frequencies and radio communications.
SPEAKER_06Can I sort anything out uh from that?
SPEAKER_00Uh yeah there's it's a lot of it seems to be a lot of like trucker crosstalk of like people carrying cargo loads and people like getting deliveries. It seems to be like very very professional and very almost like uh either people are delivering supplies to or taking things away from the debris of Alderan and it's centered around uh of a particular cluster that maybe whatever they're using as a as a depot.
SPEAKER_06Okay.
SPEAKER_03Um all the uh interference and stuff and the radio chatter seems to be coming from uh a cluster uh cluster in the debris of Alderan so uh if we go there we might be able to find out a little bit more of what we're what we're doing here. Let's go.
SPEAKER_00Yeah so it's a uh it's a three purple piloting to nav navigate the debris field. Alright can I help you can help do you want to make a copiloting role or do you want to just add unskilled assistance I'll try co-piloting Okay give me that two purple piloting. Uh one advantage Okay so you can pass that as a blue onto onto Zap then roll please one success six advantage so what do you want to do uh with your advantages? Do you want to try and find another thing floating in space or do you want to because you are able to navigate the debris feel with great ease.
SPEAKER_05Yeah let's find some other treasure.
SPEAKER_00So you see floating in space uh a protocol droid.
SPEAKER_06Ooh sweet Oh yeah we also have TM on our thing.
SPEAKER_00Alright right on so another another droid companion for your ship. Uh and you also find that the protocol droid for whatever reason is wearing a suit of laminate armor.
SPEAKER_05Sweet.
SPEAKER_00This is a protocol droid that um for for some unknown reason has dis is has disguised itself as a stormtrooper.
SPEAKER_09Someone has a story to tell dear God Okay well I can go jumping out for this guy again.
SPEAKER_06Well Well let's well we can bring him onto our ship and then just sort of ask him ask him what the Dalio is.
SPEAKER_09Yeah I'm just wondering like hi Taco what's your coordination?
SPEAKER_10Um oh my gosh where is it? Coordination? Yeah three green and I can take off a black.
SPEAKER_09Mine's only two green. Do you want to go jumping out for this guy instead? Sure. Okay. I mean just playing to everyone's strengths I assume that box coordination is shit.
SPEAKER_00Uh you'd assume correctly yes it's mine. Alright so Haitaka getting into the EVA suit uh and jumping out the sparkling spoon bill in order to reach this thing. I'll hold your rope thank you. So to get there from the from from the hat to the sparkling spoon bill is gonna be a three purple coordination uh add a blue for the hand holds add a black for all the flying rocks and skulls in the way one success one success alright you are able to make it in one giant wookie leap to to the protocol droid and you're able to to grab him as uh as Conaut reels you back in.
SPEAKER_09Do I have to roll anything to reel her?
SPEAKER_00No, it's uh you're just reeling her back in.
SPEAKER_09I'm the greatest fisherman of of my time.
SPEAKER_00So now you have uh now you have a protocol droid.
SPEAKER_10That looks like this makes me uncomfortable.
SPEAKER_03So uh so uh what's your s uh uh do you have s or is it on first?
SPEAKER_00It it is not on.
SPEAKER_06Um let let me try and turn it on. Turn it turn turn it on I'll turn it on you gu you guys maybe um you know be vigilant.
SPEAKER_10I'll put on some mood music for you to turn on the droid. That is not sexy music We're supposed to have sexy music?
SPEAKER_06Turning the droid on the turn on the moon because he's turning on the droid. Um alright so I uh what what should what do I roll to or do I need to roll anything turn on or do I just focus?
SPEAKER_00Well flipping flipping the on-off switch doesn't do anything so you will have to to roll a three purple mechanics to try and uh reactivate this droid.
SPEAKER_05Did you try turning it on and off again?
SPEAKER_00Most most likely stripping it out of its armor in order to get at its uh sustainable for success to advantage. Alright so you you are totally able to any any lingering memory issues that may have been in this droid uh you're able to reconnect all the right wires and and and it pops up and it's and and it says oh oh oh hey hey hey oh oh oh what's going on settle down you really turned it on it's it's okay what's what's happening uh are you are you alright?
SPEAKER_07You're safe you're safe you're alive Yeah yeah you're alive that's really okay then then what what happened?
SPEAKER_09Uh that's what we wanted to know we just found you floating in space wearing some stormtrooper armor.
SPEAKER_00You have to tell us what happened Oh y yeah well I saw that there was a uh an Imperial battle station was orbiting the planet so I I hopped into uh so my master's had some spare armor laying around so I hopped in and I thought maybe if they were coming to round us up I'm kinda scared of people coming in to round us up you know we've been rounded up before so I hopped into my master's spare armor and I thought maybe if I'm dressed like one of them they won't notice me but then uh next thing I know I'm waking up with you guys so uh what happened?
SPEAKER_08Oh you're from Maldon. Um Yeah So the planet got blown up Huh?
SPEAKER_03Yeah it got uh I kind of got blown the heck up there.
SPEAKER_07Huh uh is is my master okay?
SPEAKER_08What's your master's name?
SPEAKER_00Oh uh my my my master is uh is Regent Organa? No uh is his kid okay? She was always nice to me.
SPEAKER_07Uh uh yes Leia's Leia's okay oh good that's uh okay so uh Hey they blew up the planet huh?
SPEAKER_05Yep are you are you the princess's favorite droid?
SPEAKER_06No I wasn't her her favorite droid that was uh this this gold asshole uh you guys I can reunite the princess with her favorite droid yeah then you'll get a medal Hero of the Rebellion uh he just said that sh uh he wasn't her favorite droid doesn't have to know that this this guy has a lot of self-esteem what if what if uh and I'm actually I I speak I speak this away from the droid what what if like she was like super annoyed by the droid?
SPEAKER_00You know how like he he woke up and he didn't have the most pleasant sounding tone he seems like a nice charming robot okay alright whatever um alright so um we can talents robot god damn it uh yeah I'm a uh my name is LRD13 uh I'm an LRD series envoy droid uh I'm programmed abilities of rhetorical mimic uh which means I can uh I can mimic the uh the mannerisms and and and rhetoric of people who are programmed uh to make me better at uh I don't know like negotiations and shit?
SPEAKER_08Oh that's how many how many people do you have programmed? Uh none right now. Oh that's not very useful.
SPEAKER_06Oh right on anyways there's that cluster that we have to go to what's the cluster Oh no um uh it's a cluster of um people uh picking up the scraps of your uh former planet.
SPEAKER_00Oh shit uh is it okay if I uh uh sh shut myself off while you guys are doing this? I feel like I uh I may get a bout of severe depression if I'm involved That's that's fair we have another robot if you uh uh we have another droid if you would like to uh be friendly with him. Uh okay I'll go and find him and he and he kinda he kind of picks himself up and he uh he toddles somewhere into the ship he's trying to find his way.
SPEAKER_05You don't understand Buck LRD13 is a funnier character than we've had before if we can get him working we got this then we'll definitely get in good with that that organic we'll get in good with the with the higher ups in the rebellion the loops and the layers and maybe you'll beat your hero one day.
SPEAKER_00It's the loops on the silver spoon little boy anyways let's let's continue so uh out outside the cockpit other than a bunch of flying rocks and skulls and uh and a protocol droid uh you see that there is a large chunk of planet Aldron that is surrounded by starships and girders and various things the chunk seems to have uh a large elaborate looking building on it.
SPEAKER_04What kind of starships?
SPEAKER_00Uh like transport starships, blocky looking uh okay rough roughed up kind of you know not imperial just sort of these generic uh uh cargo ships and things um but what's most intriguing is that underneath uh like kind of wrapped around and buried within the the large chunk of planet that this palace is sitting on is um is a giant space slug that is uh chewing on the remains of Aldoran.
SPEAKER_06That's fucked up that's fucked up uh do can I uh Xenology this bitch and find out what it is with your weird slug arm.
SPEAKER_10Can I?
SPEAKER_00Um Dart is not a weird slug arm. Yeah he was he's an insect larva so probably it's I was I was being rude. How dare Yeah but uh that was uh that was a good idea though you know but if if you want to uh figure this thing out you can roll me a Xenology it's three purple you get a two blue for the dormant Alderan Kilokive that is somehow still surviving within the ruins of the planet.
SPEAKER_06Three purple I might have to shoot it. Uh three success and two advantage.
SPEAKER_00Okay so you are able to identify this as an exogorth. Exogorths are ancient giant space slugs uh that are silicon based instead of carbon based. Uh they are often found in giant asteroids just kind of eating them. Uh mynox can often be found flying around in them as they are also silicon based and the uh the exogorth they get nutrients from the rocks. Uh this one probably found uh a very delicious uh feast when it floated on over to Alderan. This one seems to be a lot larger than exogorths are normally known to get though this is like this is the kind of Exogorth that Pinocchio could end up in and just like hang out there for a couple of months. Okay.
SPEAKER_05Let's look for Pinocchio. I wonder if it's eaten anything valuable.
SPEAKER_06Well you know what if it's if it has it then it already has it so let's let's let's not worry about what it's eating here.
SPEAKER_09I mean cut it open and take all its stuff out of its tongue.
SPEAKER_00And as you're as you're identifying this exog as you're watching it you see that it it kind of it it moves its mouth away from the rocks and it opens its mouth to either yawn or breathe or just kind of or burp maybe and as it does that a bunch of waiting cargo ships uh they all fly directly into the into the thing's mouth well that's something you don't see every day.
SPEAKER_09Do they fly back out again?
SPEAKER_00There's like these stalls and things and it seems to be almost regulated where it's like these cargo ships come in, wait for the thing to open its mouth and then fly in. And as it opens its mouth uh you see that a few cargo ships also fly out.
SPEAKER_09Ah I see something tells me we're gonna have to go into the exocorse Yeah alright well uh let's do it maybe let's go to that uh that building first and see if we can maybe find evidence of a Rucknuck Ruckanukka Rukanukka I'm I'm just thinking um which building uh which building was this?
SPEAKER_00You said there was a It's a large like palace like building that is on top of the uh large chunk of the planet that the Exogorth is is chewing through at the moment. Alright yeah let's go let's go there just so that we're not like flying into the thing and realizing oh if you're gonna be in here you have to work or die Alright so uh as you approach you've cleared most of the debris field so you won't need to do any specific piloting but as you approach um are you trying to be stealthy or are you just like flying in like you like you uh like you belong there?
SPEAKER_03I mean is there a reason for us to be stealthy?
SPEAKER_01Like we don't actually know who's even here.
SPEAKER_09Like is there any kind of consistent model or allegiance to the ships that do belong there?
SPEAKER_00Um no there it seems to be a motley crew but there are a number of uh Corellian YT freighters.
SPEAKER_09Yeah we're fine then just pretend like we like we own the place.
SPEAKER_07Yeah.
SPEAKER_05LRD, can you recognize any of these ships?
SPEAKER_06Uh I don't know those ships, but that's my house maybe uh hide yourself uh so you don't like take in the depression. Or wait a minute if you wait if this is your house you might be useful.
SPEAKER_05Yeah robots don't feel feelings.
SPEAKER_00Uh feeling a lot of feelings right now. I'm having trouble sorting through 'em uh it's kind of giving me the willies.
SPEAKER_06Go ahead droid okay don't be so mean to 13. Yeah but you know he's he he's going through some stuff I I know uh I know what that's like but uh yeah it'd be a really good idea if we actually took him on because you know he actually like if this is his house then he probably knows the way around and just in case.
SPEAKER_05So watch out he might take your spot in the team.
SPEAKER_06Okay I'd if if if uh if you guys can live without the the shit that I've done for you guys then yeah alright then kick me out. Go fuck yourselves.
SPEAKER_05How are you at distractions, LRD?
SPEAKER_09Okay let's maybe not do that yelling thing while we're in there.
SPEAKER_00Okay I'll uh I'll keep it on the down low giving him so many different commands at all at once Okay let's let's OZ on in Okay so as you approach the uh as as LRD says his house uh uh which probably means this is the remains of the Alderan Royal Palace uh you are you are uh hailed from within by a uh by a radio signal and they say uh uh unidentified freighter uh you don't seem to be carrying any cargo with you uh what can we help you with today?
SPEAKER_09We are looking for our friends what uh you're gonna have to be uh more specific there we're we're we're just uh we see that there's sort of uh uh uh we heard that there's this big uh mining opportunity in the uh uh remains of Alderon we just wanted to check it out oh okay no it's okay you don't gotta play it down low here we're all Zygarans uh so uh what kind of slaves you got I have I give you a stink I have uh a Wookiee and a human and a Syrian you know we're not no I'm not selling right now though I'm more looking to buy oh okay uh well you know uh we got a bunch of wooks working down in the mines so we could uh maybe do a trade.
SPEAKER_00Uh you know actually we could uh we could use some uh some maintenance people so uh we could probably take the other two off your hands too you know I I just wanted to check out the operation here there's another one that we're gonna be heading to after this.
SPEAKER_09Another one like this. Not exactly like this, but another mining operation, you know? I I I like to shop around my wares a little I mean if if you y you know what we're mining, right? I don't know what to tell you, man. My clan sent me here they didn't give me a lot of info.
SPEAKER_00Hey yeah yeah I know the boss man he's uh he likes to keep it uh he's a little bit uh he likes to keep it close to the chest until they actually see what's down there so uh I I I can understand that.
SPEAKER_09Uh did you deal with him directly or no I I think um uh w uh a member of of my clan dealt with him. I've uh I'm getting this information second hand.
SPEAKER_00Oh okay you're uh you're you're a go-between. What uh what clan are you with? The Thunder Lizards Thunder Lizards okay yeah we've been getting some shipments from them too um so uh why don't you uh uh land on uh land on pad three outside the palace here uh we do you have EVA suits? Because we got atmosphere inside the palace but uh we have suits for all of us right you just spent like ten minutes grabbing shit from our I don't know if we have one or if we have them for everyone. You have enough for everyone you destiny pointed out a couple of sessions ago.
SPEAKER_09Like maybe I've just strip out of it and then Haitaka has to put it on after it's all full of my of my crotch sweat and she's just like uh you've got it you've got a full compliment. Okay.
SPEAKER_00Yeah we got suits Alright so uh take it in on pad three um and uh the boss man will be out to meet you. He likes to he likes to greet the uh the new patrons personally. Wonderful we'll see him then so uh you take the the sparkling spoon bill in and you are directed towards pad three it seems fairly uh it's it's it's an Aldoran Royal Palace landing pad so it's very large and ornate and there's uh some nice patterning on the w on the on the floor and stuff and uh other than being uh Floating in space on uh on top of a giant piece of rock uh that is being chewed through by uh space slug, it you know, it seems pretty impressive.
SPEAKER_03Uh I just have one question, uh Ko uh Kona. Did all of us have to be slaves?
SPEAKER_09Well, what's I mean, he said slaves plural, and I feel rude if I'm just making Haitaka the slave all the time.
SPEAKER_10It is it is a running theme.
SPEAKER_09Exactly! If one of us has to be a slave, then all of you have to be slaves. I mean, I don't Just to be clear, I'm not going to sell any of you. Maybe Zap, but not not No, no, no, no one, no one.
SPEAKER_06Okay, that seems acceptable.
SPEAKER_05They couldn't afford me.
SPEAKER_09Yes, they could, Zap.
SPEAKER_06Listen, once you're a slave, anybody can afford you.
SPEAKER_00You're taking uh your EVA suits uh outside as after you land. Uh you're taking LRD 13 with you? Sure. Yes. Sure. He knows the place.
SPEAKER_06This th this can't end well, but okay, let's do this. May uh LR th uh LRD13, make sure you stay, you know, quiet-ish.
SPEAKER_00Uh okay, we're gonna be in space, so uh that's not gonna be too difficult.
SPEAKER_06Once we go into the building.
SPEAKER_00Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. I'll shut off my mouth. Yes, do that.
SPEAKER_09Do it now, in fact.
SPEAKER_05Is he gonna beat the record from that flashy jacket for being the possession that we keep the shortest amount of time?
SPEAKER_00So we shut the deactivates, and uh and a as you exit the ship in your in your EVA suits, um, you see the uh the boss man coming out flanked by uh two other people. They're all wearing spacesuits. And you can't really see because the the his his suit is um like face covering, and their suits are face covering, but uh as they come out, he kinda you hear over your uh short-range radio frequency, and he's like, Hey, uh, welcome to uh what used to be Alderan. Uh I'm the boss man, you can call me Fleek. How can I help you? Oh, this motherfucker. Fleek?
SPEAKER_06Which one was Fleek again?
SPEAKER_00Fleek is the uh the guy that helped you out of a jam on the slave planet and uh now says you owe him a favor.
SPEAKER_06Oh, this motherfucker.
SPEAKER_08Fleek, I believe we've been acquainted.
SPEAKER_09Uh have we? You know, uh at the Thrallmart and then the Slave Yo Shack. And you helped us with rotten gong dish.
SPEAKER_00Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Uh so uh what can I do for you? You here to uh I mean I don't really need a favor right now, but uh Oh no, we just wanted to uh get a look at the facilities.
SPEAKER_09I'm looking to these ones they've had their training, I'm looking to sell, and I'm just shopping them around a little bit.
SPEAKER_00Oh, you mean the uh the clumsy uh Wookiee and others? Yeah, yeah. Hmm, okay. Um, well, I don't know how much Well, okay, bring him inside. Hey, let's let's go, slaves. And his two his two guards come and they uh they grab Zap and Haitaka by their by their arms and start guiding them in. They don't seem to think Bach is much of a threat.
SPEAKER_08Uh there's no need for that, no need for that. They're very well trained.
SPEAKER_00Uh pff you know you no uh no accidents, eh? Just let you know. Like to run uh like to run a tight ship. Fine.
SPEAKER_03Well she she runs a very tight ship as well, and we're we're we're very we're very tight with this ship. Let your slave talk to you like that?
SPEAKER_09Do I let my slave compliment me? Yes. I train him to do it.
SPEAKER_00Your funeral.
SPEAKER_09Yeah, we'll be. And he'll be given a great eulogy, because I trained him to do it!
SPEAKER_00Okay, okay.
SPEAKER_06I've been preparing the best eulogy, sir.
SPEAKER_00So he leads you inside inside the Alderon Royal Palace, and as the doors close, uh you can see that the the ray shields drop around the palace, and and he takes off his helmet, and you recognize him as Fleek, and the the guards take off their helmets, and you recognize them as Zygarians, uh cat people known for being slavers. Ah, my kin. And he and he says, uh, okay, so uh uh if you want to join me in my office, and he pushes these huge doors open leading into the royal chamber where there's like a throne at the end of a long hallway, and he goes it's it's like a long, awkward walk as he like walks all the way down the great hall and sits on the throne at the end of it, and he's uh says, uh, okay, welcome to my office. Seabuck, I told you there were catgirls.
SPEAKER_09It's uh a little ostentatious, isn't it?
SPEAKER_00Well, the plan is a little destroyed. I had to, you know, do what I could.
SPEAKER_09I I I guess you have to take the uh take the grandeur where you can get it.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. The rest of this place is a total shithole.
SPEAKER_08Oh, okay now fleek, uh so so what's your facility dealing in here?
SPEAKER_00Uh you uh you want to see what we're mining?
SPEAKER_09Hell yeah, I want to see what you're mining.
SPEAKER_00Okay. Uh f I'm not gonna tell you, I'm just gonna I'm gonna show you. Come with me, come with me. And he takes you to uh over to the side to to like a statue of uh of of an Alderanian noble, and he flips the head up and underneath his chin is a red button, and he presses the button and a section of wall opens up and a uh hidden elevator uh appears and he steps into it and he says, Come on, come on.
SPEAKER_09This is the coolest thing. Okay, everyone. In in in the uh in the space elevator.
SPEAKER_00And every and ev everybody kind of crams into the space elevator. It's it's not really designed to fit that many people, but you're able to jam yourselves in.
SPEAKER_09It's designed to fit two people shoulder to shoulder, so let's jam in a Wookiee and a lizard monster.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. Have you been helped out of your spacesuits by the Zygarians?
SPEAKER_09I mean, I assume so if we can breathe. I like to breathe so. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00So you're not you're not in your spacesuits, and uh as you all jam in and you descend, you can feel yourself descending downwards, and Fleek explains, uh, this uh this goes down to uh a secret bunker uh down down in the basement. Uh right now there's a space lug in there, so we just drilled it a little deeper and uh now we got a mine down there.
SPEAKER_06So you're you're m you are mining within the space lug.
SPEAKER_00Oh yeah.
SPEAKER_06Okay.
SPEAKER_00It's a a really clever use of the natural environment. You're telling me. Softly glowing, uh sparkling green gems growing out of the uh the inside of the space slug slug's in internal flesh, and he says, uh, well, these things, you know, they're uh silica-based, so uh whatever, you know, you know the phrase you are what you eat?
SPEAKER_09And it's uh very sparkly. It looks like it's eating a lot of sparkles.
SPEAKER_00Uh you might say that. Uh this thing abs uh absorbed a ton of the radiation from the chunks of Alderan that it ate. And you know uh you know how like everyone and their dad after the uh after the Death Star was deployed, destroyed, like everybody just like the plans are everywhere now.
SPEAKER_08Oh yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. Uh so a friend of mine, uh, he forwarded me some of them, uh, and it turns out that the the weapon that blew up Alderan was powered by uh kyber crystals, and uh the space slug started devouring plan the planet Alderan and all its radiation, and now, hey, it's growing 'em inside.
SPEAKER_08Holy shit.
SPEAKER_00No, we can get uh quite a pretty penny for 'em.
SPEAKER_03Oh shit.
SPEAKER_09And how uh how uh how dangerous is it, mighty inside the slug?
SPEAKER_00Not dangerous, they uh mostly keep to themselves. Uh you just gotta worry about uh, you know, not getting digested, but uh we keep out of the digestive area.
SPEAKER_09Oh, it's really ludicrove.
SPEAKER_00What?
SPEAKER_09No, I'm just distracted by all these crystals.
SPEAKER_08So uh you know how many how many slaves a day are you taking in on this thing?
SPEAKER_00I mean, we're trying not to have a pretty uh a high turnover rate, but uh I think right now we probably got two two fifty. A day? No. Or in total? Working.
SPEAKER_09Working. Oh, okay. Have you d you haven't taken any uh humans lately, have you?
SPEAKER_00Uh yeah, the humans we usually send to uh send to maintenance. The uh the tougher species like uh the wooks and the guygrins and uh anybody big enough to uh to mine gets sent down to the mines. Humans uh we usually send to uh maintenance and uh and computer shit.
SPEAKER_09Oh. H have you have you taken any in in the like the last last few days or so?
SPEAKER_00Yeah, uh uh matter of fact, a uh a bunch of Trandos dropped off uh some not too long ago.
SPEAKER_09Oh, and because I I I mean, I I know you need them for maintenance, but I have a buyer who's looking for a few more humans. If you have uh, you know, humans to spare, I might be looking to take one off your hands.
SPEAKER_00Uh, we got humans to spare.
SPEAKER_09Oh, what would I be able to take a look at the new humans? I don't want anyone who's too broken in, you know. It's people who can still put up a fight.
SPEAKER_00Oh, yeah, yeah. Uh be my guest. I will. So uh I hate to be uh uh how do you say, uh uh uh uh proof that you're not poor, uh, but how are you planning to pay for all this? I noticed your uh ship is quite bedazzled.
SPEAKER_09I I uh we we've uh we've come into better times since we met last. We we can pay. We can pay.
SPEAKER_00Uh I hope you don't mind, but as a bit of a down payment, I uh I ordered some of my men to pry some of the gems off the front of your ship.
SPEAKER_09You can see, but my eyes are just getting mad.
SPEAKER_06Can I can I percept to see if she's starting to tear up a little bit?
SPEAKER_00Um, yeah. Uh how hard would you say to tell it is if you're tearing up a little bit?
SPEAKER_09Um, well, you can look at the face I'm making in real life and then uh Okay.
SPEAKER_00Uh gimme a one purple perception. One purple perception. I'm very cross.
SPEAKER_06It's very obvious. Um see here, what's my perception at again? Uh boy, I hope I get a triumph. Nope, two successes.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, so you can see that she's starting to conut is is welling up at the thought of the sparkling spoon bill being robbed of its sparkle.
SPEAKER_03It's uh it's okay. We could we can glitter it up again these days.
SPEAKER_00Hey, it's just it's it's basically just a deposit.
SPEAKER_09Uh I just got a detailed You know what? It's fine. It's fine? It's fine. Just show me the humans, the new humans.
SPEAKER_00Okay. Uh and he's and he steps out of the elevator and he kind of snaps his fingers in the air, and a uh a Zygarion drives over uh a little cargo skiff, uh, and he invites you all to step on it, and you head down the esophagus of the spaces lug towards the maintenance area.
SPEAKER_09I'm just gonna spend this trip breathing deep and trying to think happy thoughts, very happy thoughts.
SPEAKER_03To to uh tell you what, like w we could we could probably pick up a couple of these ky uh kyber crystals and we'll be able to uh sell those for a pretty penny.
SPEAKER_00I'm sorry, what was that?
SPEAKER_08Nothing, nothing. Nothing, nothing.
SPEAKER_00Nothing, nothing, super nothing, nothing.
SPEAKER_08We're we're just trying to think about, you know, it's nothing, it's nothing.
SPEAKER_00Because if you uh if you don't wanna I mean, it's uh there are buyers out here for these crystals, but uh we could use some uh daring crews to uh actually uh get the cargo out there if you're interested in uh making some shipments. Who uh who generally is on these crews? Uh you know, uh people we trust, people who uh and by that I mean people who owe us something. Favors, maybe.
SPEAKER_08Ah, per perhaps. Let's think about it.
SPEAKER_00Alright, so as you as you head down the esophagus of the space slug, you can see uh shaved wookies in coveralls uh and other large species mining uh these kyber crystals that are growing out of the walls. Uh every once in a while, uh you see a a minox whoop down and start biting at one of their uh shaved exposed scalps and they have to try and try and bat it away. But eventually you get down to the to the maintenance area where a bunch of uh humans and other humanoids are uh working on pieces of dirty machinery and they're all wearing the same coveralls uh with with shock collars on. Do we find our human?
SPEAKER_09Yeah, is there any sign of rucknuck?
SPEAKER_00Uh why don't you roll me a two-purple perception to uh surveil the people there?
SPEAKER_06Uh I got a success, an advantage, and a triumph.
SPEAKER_09Oh, sure, we're probably fine with that.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. Okay, so you don't see her there, uh, but you do see something else. Anything in anything that you want to see in specific?
SPEAKER_06Um Is there is there like a thing? Let's see here. Uh is is there like is there like a thing where you can that that's sort of like a log for uh the uh slaves that are here or a guest?
SPEAKER_00Yeah, yeah, you do as you're doing this, you do see uh there is somebody walking around with a data pad who's kind of keeping track of the slaves, and every once in a while he takes a little USB uh attached to a cord attached to the data pad, plugs it into the s the shot caller, presses a few buttons, downloads some information, unplugs it, moves on to the next one.
SPEAKER_06That's messed up. Um, okay.
SPEAKER_01So uh if you can get if you can get me that data pad, I'm pretty sure that we might be able to uh find the person that we're looking for.
SPEAKER_05I I got one success and one threat in my role, by the way.
SPEAKER_00Uh you can't you you you see that Priya is not there, and one of the the Zygarin guard that's next to you uh notices you looking around and he slaps you for one strain. No.
SPEAKER_10I also rolled. I rolled one success, two advantage, one triumph.
SPEAKER_00Holy shit. Alright, so uh Haitaka, you see the same thing that Bok does. Um, but you also, as you're seeing, like, oh, she's not here, she's not here, she's not here, so you see your eyes start wandering, and you actually see down, uh further down the esophagus, a couple of uh Zygarian guards dragging a uh badly beaten Priya across the hallway into another room. Jesus, Chris.
SPEAKER_10Uh she's down there. Let us uh we're fleek fleeka, but it's okay.
SPEAKER_09I'm gonna take a look around. Can I just meet you back here in a few Wait, I thought you were looking at our at our humans and Yeah, I just wanna I just wanna get a feel for the crowd. Who's here?
SPEAKER_00Alright, alright. Take a take a gander, uh wander around and inspect the goods.
SPEAKER_09Oh, okay, and I'll just like I'll let Haitaka lead us to uh where she saw pre-g.
SPEAKER_00Oh, he's not letting you leave the room. No? No, you're you're you're in the maintenance area.
SPEAKER_06Okay. Um How many how many uh guards are in this room?
SPEAKER_00Uh there there's a couple that are doing rounds with the data pads, and there's two stationed at each entrance. So there's an entrance at the front and an entrance at the back.
SPEAKER_06Uh plus um fleek?
SPEAKER_00Yeah, four guards uh guarding the maintenance area, two guards with fleek, and uh two or three guys with the data pads.
SPEAKER_09That's a bunch. Can I so it was down the hallway. How many guards are kind of at the entrance to that hallway?
SPEAKER_00There's two guards standing outside the room that she was dragged into.
SPEAKER_09And like how far away are they from the maintenance area?
SPEAKER_00They're about a hundred meters.
SPEAKER_06Um remember when we asked the uh robot LRD13, I think his name was? Yes. Uh if he was a good distraction?
SPEAKER_04Yeah.
SPEAKER_06Um This might be a good time for him. Yeah.
SPEAKER_04Let's power him on. LRD.
SPEAKER_06Yes.
SPEAKER_04We have a mission for you.
SPEAKER_06Yes. We we should we should probably figure something out before we, you know. Oh. Uh what what kind of pro what kind of protocol would you uh be into if you were just uh cause some chaos?
SPEAKER_00Uh cause some chaos. I don't know if I wanna I I I I mostly use for for negotiating and making uh making things unchaotic, and Fleek overhears this loudly yelling droid, and he comes over and it's like, uh hey, what what's going on here?
SPEAKER_09Oh I'm no, I'm sorry. It's a protocol droid.
SPEAKER_00It's Yeah, what's the yelling about chaos? He's malfunctioning. He used I You want me to smelt him down? We could uh turn him into a blaster or something.
SPEAKER_09No, no, no. I I I've been looking to get a a protocol droid on the cheap. It's still eas it's still gonna be a little bit less expensive for me to fix this one up and get a new one, you know what I mean? But I I think his last owner was uh a little off, if you know what I mean.
SPEAKER_00Okay. Uh well w uh it sounded like he w like yell just keep him quiet. We don't want we don't want the uh the merchandise to get any ideas.
SPEAKER_08Yeah, you know, well it's okay. Well it's okay. We'll keep em LRD, my word.
SPEAKER_05He misses he misses his robot partner, KOS. That's what he was looking for.
SPEAKER_09Oh, okay.
SPEAKER_05So where's KOS?
SPEAKER_09Okay, um well I'll kinda like steer them away and pretend to be like, ah, looking at the people, looking at the people. Just like, okay, uh, 13. Yeah. Shh. Quiet voice, quiet voice until I give the signal.
SPEAKER_00Wha okay, what am I supposed to do?
SPEAKER_09Um, so I I just got you from from your old master. That's what we're saying.
SPEAKER_04That's true.
SPEAKER_09Um, so on my queue, uh-huh, I want you to just start freaking out and saying that I'm not your real dad, you know, things like that. You want to be back with your old master.
SPEAKER_02Okay.
SPEAKER_09Um, I'll I'll call for for the guards to help restrain you. Uh-huh. I'll make sure that we get you back. Um, and um Who's uh probably probably Bach. Bach, you can well, no, because we'll need muscle. The uh you three, you you sneak out to get to get Priya out, and me and Thirteen will handle this.
SPEAKER_06Oh to tell you what, I'll I'll stay I'll stick with thir uh thirteen so that I might be able to like safely power him down and then those two can like see if they can get Priya because you know they're they're muscly.
SPEAKER_09That's a good idea, Bach. Good idea. Okay. So the cue when I when I say when I say jelly donut, then we're go, okay?
SPEAKER_00Okay.
SPEAKER_09Okay. I'll I'll kind of browse, look around. Jelly donut.
SPEAKER_07I don't want to be here! I don't want to be here! I don't believe here! I need to go back and stand in here! I need to go back and stand in here!
SPEAKER_00The guards come and they beat LRD 13 to death. And they go, uh and they look down and he's in like a bunch of pieces.
SPEAKER_07Well, just uh, anyway. I can see if I can fix him. Uh let me borrow the droid, droid, fix the droid!
SPEAKER_09And you! You you guards your freak!
SPEAKER_08Your guards just beat my robot into pieces!
SPEAKER_00Uh, is that true? Uh well, yeah, but he was screaming and she was asking for a deactivation. Okay, okay, that's fine. We weren't asking for a deactivation. He kills his guard and shoots him right between the eyes. Thank you! Jesus Christ.
SPEAKER_05Can I make a stealth roll while this is happening? Yeah. Lest we forget why we're doing this. Okay, what's the difficulty?
SPEAKER_00Uh it starts out as three purple. There are guards, uh, but a lot of them are being distracted by this, so you can add two blue.
SPEAKER_05Okay. Any assistance? That's it.
SPEAKER_00Uh yeah, it's just you two, man.
SPEAKER_05Alright. Three success, one threat.
SPEAKER_00Alright, so uh you are able to sneak past, uh, but you do trip a uh an alarm as you enter the room where Priya is being held.
SPEAKER_05Ah shit.
SPEAKER_00And and there's a little like a blinking light on the outside of the door. Uh it there's no sound alarm, it's just the blinking light right now. Mm-hmm. But the uh the guards that were at that door have gone to investigate the commotion of what was going on with this droid, so they're not seeing it yet.
SPEAKER_05Is there a way to disarm it?
SPEAKER_00Um there might be. Perception or uh it would probably be well how are you how are you gonna disarm it?
SPEAKER_05That's a good point. Um just maybe just unplugging the light, seeing where it goes. Tamper with the light.
SPEAKER_00So if you just want to pull the light out of its socket, uh you could give me a three-purple athletics to rip it off the wall.
SPEAKER_05Oh, it's that and okay. No, I wouldn't I wouldn't go that far in that because I'm not good at athletics.
SPEAKER_06Well, I take it, and uh taka is with you.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, oh, she's following me? Okay. Attack, you want to take care of that?
unknownYeah!
SPEAKER_05That's the sound of it being ripped out of the wall.
SPEAKER_00Right, so uh give me a three-purple athletics to rip the alarm light off of the wall.
SPEAKER_10One success, one advantage.
SPEAKER_00Alright, so you're you're a as as you sneak into the door uh behind behind Zap, almost as soon as it turns on, you you can't you coolly reach up and just rip the light bulb out and and you stuff it into your satchel. Nice. And and they are none the wiser. And you enter the room, it seems to be a uh a torture room. There's several racks, several punishment racks, and uh Priya is uh strapped to one of them. She seems kind of barely barely awake, pretty badly beaten up. Her face is all swollen.
SPEAKER_10Is there anybody else in the room?
SPEAKER_00Uh not at the moment. They've all they've all gone to see what was going on with this droid.
SPEAKER_10Can I undo her?
SPEAKER_00Um yeah, you can undo her. Uh give me a uh give me a three purple skullduggery.
SPEAKER_10Skullduggery, oh I'll do that one. Oh yeah.
SPEAKER_05Do you have anything in medicine though?
SPEAKER_10Um little bit.
SPEAKER_05Sorry, what did you say? What was the difficulty for that skullduggery? Three purple. Okay. Can Bach assist?
SPEAKER_00Uh, uh LRD right now.
SPEAKER_05Can Hitaka assist, sorry.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, if you wanna if you wanna help, you can uh add a blue to that.
SPEAKER_05Excellent. Let's roll. Two advantage, but no successes.
SPEAKER_00Alright, so so you aren't able to uh pick the locks, but uh what uh what are you able to do instead?
SPEAKER_05Loosen the straps?
SPEAKER_00Yeah, you can you can you can loosen the straps enough to maybe sh shimmy her out, but it'll take longer.
SPEAKER_05There you go. And requires her cooperation.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, but she's she so she's kinda uh w what is that uh I I don't know anything.
SPEAKER_10Can I use the side? Can I try and help her? I've got a little bit of medicine.
SPEAKER_05Yeah. If only we had a protocol droid.
SPEAKER_10So uh Should I get any advantage if I have uh a stim pack?
SPEAKER_00Um well you can just use the stim pack on her.
SPEAKER_10I can just use the stimpack? Okay. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Okay. So you you you use a stim pack on her and it kind of uh brings her around a little bit more and she says, uh what uh uh oh oh it's it's you. It's it's the the Wookie from from Narshada. You got my message.
SPEAKER_10Yeah, what happened? I guess I already know the planet exploded. Uh like what happened? Why are you here? I I I heard Did you know where you are?
SPEAKER_00Yeah, I thought I could take down I heard there were uh slaves mining here, and I thought that I could I could take them down, so I took a leave from from my post on Narshadot to come here and it uh it it didn't work out.
SPEAKER_10You came alone?
SPEAKER_00Uh who else could I who else could I trust? Uh after after what you showed me about the Empire, I I I couldn't I couldn't get any one of them to help me. Recruit her!
SPEAKER_10Recruit her brave of you.
SPEAKER_00Uh probably stupid. I I I I probably should have called you before I came, but Yeah, I I agree.
SPEAKER_10Correct. I still admire you for your bravery.
SPEAKER_00Aww. You you didn't you didn't have to come. You may be in in in danger now.
SPEAKER_10I mean we we usually are, so it's not much of a difference. Wherever we would have gone, people probably would die. It's okay. As long as it's not us.
SPEAKER_00There you go.
SPEAKER_10All right, like help us get you out of here now.
SPEAKER_00Wait, what about the others? What others?
SPEAKER_10I mean, like everybody here. There's a lot of shaved Wookiees and other slaves.
SPEAKER_06Oh dear. We're we're we're gonna ha we're gonna have to find our way out, aren't we?
SPEAKER_09I mean I mean we can't take all the slaves with us.
SPEAKER_10We have a planet now.
SPEAKER_09But what we well, I mean like just logistically on our ship, we cannot.
SPEAKER_10Oh no.
SPEAKER_09But what we can do what we can do is ride the slug into space.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, we're gonna do something like that.
SPEAKER_07Now watch the hidden base.
SPEAKER_06Actually, that sounds wonderful.
SPEAKER_05Just jumping from meteor to meteor.
SPEAKER_09Woohoo!
SPEAKER_05I mean any cowboy hat to slap it with.
SPEAKER_09Yeah! Actually. Because I wonder if we could get like all the slaves inside the slug.
SPEAKER_00All the slaves are inside the slug.
SPEAKER_09Well, I mean the maintenance slaves, like the human slaves as well.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, everybody all the slaves are inside the slug.
SPEAKER_09Oh, so if we just like get the slug off the slug All the guards are inside the slug, too.
SPEAKER_06I mean Rise up against your I mean, not for nothing, but rebellion seems kind of fun. Is there Oh, I'm I'm not in the room. I shouldn't suggest this.
SPEAKER_04It's a rebellion, right? I rebel.
SPEAKER_09Like if we can get rebellion people here to help us kill these the guards and then escape with this slug, and then we still get the crystals inside?
SPEAKER_06Hey, is that sorry, um I I I I just had a thought. Is that guy with the notepad beside me?
SPEAKER_00Um, they're they're they've gone back to doing their their rounds. None of them want to get shot in the face. Shit. But but one of them one of them is inspecting slaves near you.
SPEAKER_09Can I just like keep yelling go uh just just yelling and going on about how this is a just a terrible treatment of my property?
SPEAKER_00So are you doing a uh distracting behavior maneuver?
SPEAKER_09Hell yeah.
SPEAKER_00Okay. How many uh how many people are you affecting?
SPEAKER_09As many as I can. Let me see how many.
SPEAKER_05What if we find a way to get Hataka to be able to like give a rousing speech to all the Wookiees via like intercom?
SPEAKER_10I don't have the best uh I Wookie's this is your day.
SPEAKER_09I'm great at both those things, but I feel like the Wookiees might not want to listen. Hello, my brothers and sisters. Um, I have really great athletics, so I could do that thing where I do like a backflip and arousing speech and you do with repeated backflips. I can do up to three people with my distracting behavior.
SPEAKER_00Okay, so uh who are you targeting with this then?
SPEAKER_09Um well I definitely want to target Fleek.
SPEAKER_00Okay.
SPEAKER_09And probably his two guards who are by the elevator, because if um Zap and Haitaka can get Priya out to the elevator, like just behind them, then we can at least Well, no, because if we're gonna be leaving in the slug, maybe I want to drive them out. Oh shit. I'll target Fleek and whatever guards are um by the who are closest to where they have Priya.
SPEAKER_00Okay. Okay. So it's it's the two that were would have been guarding the door, but they they're sticking around to to kind of watch you berate your slave. They love it when masters berate their slaves. There's Igarions, this is kinda this is like their favorite show.
SPEAKER_09It's Bah, Bach Joy! I had such faith in you, and you have a buyer lined up, and you better do a very good job of fixing this droid, otherwise it's off to the salt mines with you.
SPEAKER_00And you hear a sh you hear a shout from the door, whip em!
SPEAKER_09Yeah, you you want to get whipped bombing?
SPEAKER_00Whip em!
SPEAKER_07I don't want to get whipped. I'm trying to listen to the whip.
SPEAKER_00And you see like a crowd start to form as these other guards come and they're whip em, whip em, whip-um, whip-em!
SPEAKER_03Please don't let me, please don't let me.
SPEAKER_09Yeah, you couldn't handle getting whipped, you little baby, stupid little baby.
SPEAKER_03Whip email, I am a little baby, I am a little baby, whipped, whip.
SPEAKER_09Yeah, you're whipped.
SPEAKER_07Whip em, whip em, whip-em.
SPEAKER_09Look at the baby. He's fixing my droid.
SPEAKER_00Whip 'em! And fleek's like, you probably whip him. Just just just do it. Just do it, Lancy.
SPEAKER_09Okay. Where's my whip? Bring me a whip.
SPEAKER_00Uh, you got one right there on your belt there.
SPEAKER_09Uh No, no, but this one it's uh it's a different kind of whip. I don't want to sully it with with slave germs.
SPEAKER_00You uh don't want to get a whip sullied with slave germs.
SPEAKER_09Yeah, I like this whip.
SPEAKER_06It's for it's for her enemies. Uh she thinks it's better than us.
SPEAKER_00Okay, uh hey, Bosco, uh, give her your whip. And one of the Zygerians comes up and he hands you he hands you a different whip.
SPEAKER_09Thank you, Bosco! Okay, Bokjoy! I'ma whip ya good!
SPEAKER_03I mean, don't let me too too okay.
SPEAKER_09I I'm gonna try to whip him in I'm I I want it I'll roll deception because I want to be convincing, but I don't want to hurt him. Or I want to hurt him as little as possible.
SPEAKER_00Okay, roll deception, but instead of cunning, you'll have to use actually no. Uh roll um a melee roll, but instead of uh athletics or instead of uh brawn, you're gonna use your cunning.
SPEAKER_09Piss. Okay. They are the same. Okay, and what's that gonna be against?
SPEAKER_00Uh it's uh gonna be average uh for a melee roll, so two purple. Hey Bach, you don't have any uh defense, do you? No. Alright, um, so then I'm gonna uh bump that up to a red and a purple. Three success, two threat. Okay, uh so you do manage to uh to whip him lightly, but uh Fleek and the guards, they know you're whipping him lightly and they boo you and Fleek is like, What what's the deal with you and this slave? Is this like oh my god, you're not oh don't tell me.
SPEAKER_09Oh come on, look how supple he is!
SPEAKER_00Alright. I mean these guys want to show uh you don't want these guys to go all a Space Stanford prison experiment on on us, so uh stand back and he unclipses again. And he's like, Alright, don't you don't you whip my slave, I'll whip you!
SPEAKER_09Hey, hey, don't make this into a whip fight fleek.
SPEAKER_00He whips Bach.
SPEAKER_09Can I whip Luck? Son of a bitch!
SPEAKER_03Or was just whipping. Um, thank uh thank you, sir. That really hurt.
SPEAKER_09Alright, so uh he hasn't whip you, yeah, you might be losing a bunch of health.
SPEAKER_00He he whips you uh with his uh with his shock whip. Oh dear. Uh the shock whip does uh it does stun damage. He got four success. Oh dear. And four threat. Okay. So uh so he does deal uh eight stun damage, Bach.
SPEAKER_06Uh does my fo does my four soak uh soak that?
SPEAKER_00Yeah, yeah, stun damage uh is part of soak. So in total it only does it only actually does four. And you probably have the most strain of anyone, so you can handle this whipping. Yeah. Yeah, so you're you're it hurts. Uh but he also he also gets four threat, and uh the the threat is that as he's as he's whipping, like they see that like Bach Joy's mental fortitude is making it seem like he's standing up to the whipping, so the Zygerians start booing fleek and they're like, pussy, pussy, pussy.
SPEAKER_09I'll join in. Look at this little baby can't even whip properly, and you guys are listening to him.
SPEAKER_00And they're like, hey, he's the one paying us. If you want to give us some money, we'll uh we'll whip him. You'll whip him if I give you money? Hell yeah! How much money do you want to whip him? Uh it'll be a thousand creds per whip, my dude. Aw shit, I can You guys took some tools off my shipment.
SPEAKER_05Oh yeah, I'm gonna just keep those and get them.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, you just keep those and get 'em whip'in! Alright, so they rush over and they start a tweet. They take their whips and they whip them. They and uh he is uh he is like passion of the Christing hard right now. Okay. Um how uh how prepared is the droid? Uh well, Bach, you've never actually made a roll for that yet.
SPEAKER_06So Yeah, can we like do uh can I can I retroactively uh made that roll?
SPEAKER_00Yeah, let's uh let's retroactively make that three purple mechanics roll. You can add a uh add a blue for being uh near the Alderan Kilokive. Okay, one second.
SPEAKER_09Can I give unskilled assistance?
SPEAKER_00How?
SPEAKER_06Yeah, no, I think I'm on my own on this one. That's that's okay. I got two success and two advantage. Woo!
SPEAKER_00Yeah, so you're you're able to put him back together uh and his restart cycle is incredibly short because of that, and he's back up on his feet. Okay, good, we gotta go.
SPEAKER_07Okay, uh, what's happening now? Oh my god! Quiet voice again, quiet voice, just let them do the whipping.
SPEAKER_09But the his f but their his flesh is all over the floor. Yeah, don't look at it, don't look at it. We gotta go this way. We gotta go meet up with Zap and Haitaka.
SPEAKER_00Alright, so he he he comes up with you and he's covering his eyes with his little robot hands.
SPEAKER_09Aww.
SPEAKER_00The slaves are continuing their work. Oh.
SPEAKER_09Okay. Um, does anyone do we know how we can make this slug disconnect from do do we are do we have a something we can roll to see if any of us know how to make this slug disconnect from the rock and go flying into space?
SPEAKER_00Um it would maybe bear education or mechanics or z like what are you are what are you trying to do specifically? How are you trying to detach them?
SPEAKER_09Are you trying to get it to leave of its own volition, or are you trying to if there's if it's clamped there by anything, are you trying to release those or Well it seemed to like being like eating, so probably trying to get it to leave of its own volition so it doesn't just come on back.
SPEAKER_00So that would be uh a Xenology roll to uh know some more about this uh space slug.
SPEAKER_09Uh-huh. Hey Bach, do you want to roll for that? Okay.
SPEAKER_00Uh three purple Xenology, and you can add those two blue from your hive mind.
SPEAKER_01Three purple Xenology.
SPEAKER_00Uh four success, two threats. Alright. Um, so as you're as you're searching uh for this, uh you take a two-strain um because uh you remember as part of the Killick Hive mind, you get a flash of memory of an Exogorth uh leaving its hole to snap at a uh at a passing ship that uh of people that were eventually subsumed into the Killick Hive, and it was a very harrowing experience, so you take a couple of uh strain for that. But you know that uh Exogorth, uh although they are they love uh mining and eating like dormant rocks and stuff, uh starships are like delicious because they have incredibly large power signatures, and the larger the starship, the more likely it is for the Exogorth to uh come out of its its hiding spot and try to snap at it.
SPEAKER_09Ooh, so we might be able to just lure it away by driving close.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, but you'd need uh either either a big ship or a lot of ships.
SPEAKER_04Bring us all the ships.
SPEAKER_06Um you know how all the ships were flying into the mouth in the first place? Uh is there anything that we might be able to uh do with all of those?
SPEAKER_09How many ships is a lot of ships? Like how many freighters would we need?
SPEAKER_00Uh there's probably enough in there that if they were all to leave at this point, the Exagorth would probably try to follow them. Because it's bit 'cause these freighters have been sitting inside and it's been having this sort of constant supply of energy coming into it.
SPEAKER_06Is there a fire alarm? Can I find a fire alarm or something to make everybody evacuate this place?
SPEAKER_00Um, I mean this thing is made of like moist damp flesh.
SPEAKER_06Some kind of alarm. Maybe it's got uh a d uh maybe it's got real hardened or something.
SPEAKER_05Give it indigestion.
SPEAKER_09Cause okay, if Zap goes back out and, you know, gets on the sparkling spoon bill and flies it out, and then if between Haitaka and Priya they can do a rousy enough speech to make the slaves rise up and beat the guards to death, and then we get a slave in each one of those ships and everyone flies out. You know. And then you know anyone who doesn't have a ship or doesn't isn't able to fly, we can just hang out in the in the slug.
SPEAKER_06Alright, well, where do we begin?
SPEAKER_09Well, we have some chaos. Is there like a a speaker system that's set up at all?
SPEAKER_00Um, there might be.
SPEAKER_09Would it be perception to to spot something like that?
SPEAKER_00Uh it would be perception, maybe computers if there's a terminal that you that that has a map of the uh of the camp.
SPEAKER_09Uh well I'll try perception.
SPEAKER_00Uh so give me give me a three purple perception.
SPEAKER_09One success, two advantage.
SPEAKER_00Okay, so you you do see uh nearby there is a a kind of a uh a tower built inside the inside the exagorth, and at the top of the tower there seems to be a like a control room, and there there's you you can see somebody going to one of the things in the window, and he presses a button, and then you hear you hear an announcement for like a shift change for the guards.
SPEAKER_09Okay. And are there any computer terminals around? Because if we can find like a weapon lockup so we can distribute the means of destruction to the slaves.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, there's those there's those guys with the data pads. Alright.
SPEAKER_05Um means of destruction must belong to the people.
SPEAKER_06The uh those data pads, have they were they um like the data pads that the people in that room had? Yeah.
SPEAKER_00It's their That's probably the closest uh computer terminals.
SPEAKER_06Son of a bitch. Alright. Uh is there a way that we can get one of those? Um, handily. I mean, there's a lot of chaos going on in that room.
SPEAKER_00I mean, um, you have some destiny points.
SPEAKER_06Oh yeah, yeah, sure. Uh like for one to just appear? Yeah. Yeah, I'm gonna flip a destiny point for that.
SPEAKER_00Alright, so uh you notice that in all the uh excitement of whipping, that the a couple of the guys with the data pads, they have put them down so they could join in the whipping.
unknownOh my god.
SPEAKER_09I've always wanted to do this. Whatever, he was a slave. You know what? He's fine. He's fine. I know there's bits of him on the wall, but he's okay.
SPEAKER_00I pick one up and try and hack into it. Alright, give me a uh give me three purple computers and add it add a black, because this is it it's Zygerian slave computing, so they use a bizarre slave-based based math for all their programming.
SPEAKER_01Okay, three purple and a black. Can I take that black away? Let's see. No, I can't.
SPEAKER_00You can add a you can add a blue from the kilokive, though. Yes. Uh one failure to advantage. Alright, so you so you aren't able to find a weapons lockup uh but it does the the the the data pad does display a flashing low battery, low battery, return to terminal, and it has a map to where you're supposed to take the take the data pads to plug them into their terminals.
SPEAKER_06Um let's follow the map.
SPEAKER_09Yay!
SPEAKER_06Because there we can A, get a little uh micro USB cord, or is this using C? I don't know. Anyways. Uh and then uh we'll probably be at a place where there's more, so yeah, let's go follow the map.
SPEAKER_00Alright, so as you're doing that, um you pass by a couple of guards that are returning to the room that Zap, Haitaka, and Priya are in, and the guards around the corner and they say, What what's going on?
SPEAKER_07Hey, hey, hey, oh, oh, oh, oh, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey!
SPEAKER_00And they and they get out their whips and they run at you to start whipping you.
SPEAKER_10I assume we don't have our weapons on us, right?
SPEAKER_00Uh as As slaves, yeah, you wouldn't.
SPEAKER_04Oh yeah.
SPEAKER_10I have weapons.
SPEAKER_00Got in a fist fight!
SPEAKER_09I brought a fist to a whip fight.
SPEAKER_00Co nut would be the only one with any weapons.
SPEAKER_09Well, I I'm closest to Bok, so I can use a maneuver to uh give him the new whip that I got. Yeah. So I'll give Bok that whip and then I'll run closer to the guards so I can whip one of them.
SPEAKER_00Alright, so roll me a two-purple melee to whip one of the guards.
SPEAKER_09Two advantage. Dang it.
SPEAKER_00Even though you don't hit him, you hit the ground close enough to him, uh, that his boots are frozen to the uh the ins the floor of the Exogorth. So it's essentially uh you're you're forcing the Exogorth to lick this frozen pole on a cold day. So he's he's stuck there, so he can't move um this round.
SPEAKER_06Okay, good. I I would like to whip the one that is not frozen.
SPEAKER_00Okay. So you'll use a maneuver to run up to him and then a uh a two purple melee to whip him. Two success, one threat. Nice. So you whip him uh for two wound. Okay, so you will take a strain, the whip, it kinda it backcracks and it kinda it it nearly hits you. You're not you're not expert at these whips.
SPEAKER_10Can I just try and bash him on the head? I know he's got a whip.
SPEAKER_00Can I dodge? If you want to use a maneuver to get into get into his range and then uh roll a uh uh b this would be a brawl.
SPEAKER_10Yep. Uh how many purple?
SPEAKER_00Two purple.
SPEAKER_10Two purple? Alright. Uh three successes, one threat.
SPEAKER_00You brawl him doing doing damage. You've uh this this guy is now. He's he's a little over half half damaged uh to his to his max. And as your threat, uh because you you are kind of getting in in this guy's face, he's struggling a little bit, and he's cracking his whip wildly, and he he kinda gets at you a little bit, giving you some strain. Uh but now uh now that he's within that range, he's gonna try and back up and he's he's just gonna w he's gonna wind up and he's gonna whip the hell out of you.
SPEAKER_02Oh Jesus.
SPEAKER_00Uh two successes, three advantages, bring uh but your your massive Wookiee body uh really doesn't you you take two wound of your twenty-two available. Uh so you don't take that much damage, but uh he does manage to send you send you to the floor, knocking you down. Your massive Wookie bum can take it.
SPEAKER_05I'm gonna try and punch somebody. That's Brawl.
SPEAKER_00Uh, two purple. And you're probably gonna have to use a maneuver to get into range of this guy.
SPEAKER_05Alright. Yes, I'll get into range and just kinda throw myself into it, give the old college try. One success!
SPEAKER_00Uh he soaks up all that damage, try as you might your uh your your bizarre flailing moves. What do you have, like any expert karate moves to try on him?
SPEAKER_05I don't know karate, but I know Kareze.
SPEAKER_00Okay, so you do your Kareze. Uh but it doesn't it doesn't really affect him that much.
SPEAKER_09I'll f could I throw my uh my heavy blaster rifle to Zap?
SPEAKER_00Yeah, as a maneuver.
SPEAKER_09Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_09Catch Zap! And then for my attack, I will uh try to whip the uh the guard who's still on his feet, who's not frozen down.
SPEAKER_00Okay. Um so in or you'll have to spend another maneuver to get into range of him.
SPEAKER_09Okay, I'll take another strain.
SPEAKER_00Another two strain? Oh, you're at nine of eleven. Never forget.
SPEAKER_09It's okay, I'll get it down later.
SPEAKER_00Alright, so uh, and give me uh two purple melee.
SPEAKER_09Shit, one threat.
SPEAKER_00Okay, so you got one threat. Uh try as you might, you can't. The whip just cracks back at you. Uh! Ta and you take a strain.
SPEAKER_09Oh no.
SPEAKER_00And and the slaver, who is free now, uh, he's gonna go for you, conut. He's managed to get his feet unshackled. Um, so he's gonna move he's gonna get into a gauge range with you and uh try to whip the hell out of you.
SPEAKER_09Um, can I do a dodge incidental and take one strain?
SPEAKER_00Okay, so instead of a purple, instead of two purples, it's his is going to be against a red and a purple. One success, one advantage. No. So he does four. Uh you have four soak, so you are able to dodge out of the way of his whip, but the uh but his other friend is like, whoa, oh shit, there's somebody else here, and he's gonna get a blue on his next roll.
SPEAKER_06Alright, so I I uh try and whip the same guy that I tried to whip before. Alright. Uh gimme a two.
SPEAKER_00Purple, you're probably still in range of him. Uh so you can give me a two purple and you can use a maneuver to aim if you want. Um, yeah, okay. Okay, so add a add a blue onto that then with that two purple melee. One success, four advantages. Oh shit, you can crit him with that. Nice! So uh so roll roll me a D100. Uh 31. 31. Okay, he is uh he's stunned and staggered. Yeah, but go back! Yeah, so you whip him, you critically you cr you critically stun him and he's staggered and he's uh uh uh like he gets he gets the he gets the jimmies. Like you hit him like in his leg and you give him like a massive Charlie horse.
SPEAKER_10Alright, uh I get up from the ground. Okay.
SPEAKER_00Uh you're not you you would be within engaged range of the guy with the Charlie horse, but uh you would have to spend strain if you want to move over to the one that's attacked with donut.
SPEAKER_10I'll do I'll spend some strain and go for him.
SPEAKER_00Okay.
SPEAKER_10Thank you.
SPEAKER_00Can I just punch him in the back of the Okay, roll roll me a two purple uh brawl to donkey punch the slavery ones. Whipping donut.
SPEAKER_10I mean, I was trying to be a little more subtle with uh my phrasing. Uh one success to advantage.
SPEAKER_00Okay. So you put you donkey punch him in the back of the head, and he goes he goes sprawling onto the floor. Is he sprawled at my feet? Um, he is, but it's uh it's his turn now.
SPEAKER_09Oh, okay.
SPEAKER_00Um actually no it's not. Uh it's it's the other guy's turn who was uh who is dealing with it. So he's he sees Haitaka running past him. Um so he's he's counting okay who's in here, and he's and he he locks eyes with Zap and he's like, hey buddy! And he whips you. Ow! Somebody fucking whips him like a gun!
SPEAKER_05The cheek, I have a gun!
SPEAKER_00Three success, one threat, one triumph. Holy shit. Oh no! Zap, your ass is grass! Okay, uh, so he he whips you and he whips you right in the eye.
SPEAKER_07Oh dear.
SPEAKER_00Uh scattering your senses, uh, and you remove all blues from skill checks until the end of the encounter. Beautiful face. So you're unable to use blues until the end of this encounter. Oh dear. Uh because of his threat, the whip cracks back and ow, he kind of gets himself and he takes a strain, but because he's a rival level, he can't take strain and he takes out his wound.
SPEAKER_05I will shoot this guy in retaliation.
SPEAKER_00Alright.
SPEAKER_05Um Eye for an eye, motherfucker.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, so he was engaged range with you, so if you uh if you want to take a step back to get into uh into short range, then it can be a one purple ranged heavy. I'll do that then. Okay. So give me that, give me that ranged heavy one purple.
SPEAKER_05Two success.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, so he's he's got a giant smoking hole in him now. Woo!
SPEAKER_09Oh! Does he still if he has his whip, you should take his whip, Zap. Disarm him.
SPEAKER_04I'll take his whip.
SPEAKER_09Yeah. This one guard is still like sprawled at my feet, right?
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_09Um, can I just crouch down and shock glove him in the head?
SPEAKER_00Okay, so give me a give me a two-purple brawl, or are you gonna use a maneuver to get a blue in any way?
SPEAKER_09Yeah. Three success, one advantage.
SPEAKER_00So, uh, this guy, he he's uh But he he's able to c get himself up with his his maneuver and spin around. Because he's going, he's not going after you, he's going after Haitaka, the person who donkey punched him. And he uh he he he whips at Haitaka. Success to advantage, knocking you down again.
unknownOh gosh.
SPEAKER_06But but you get back up again. They're never gonna keep you down.
SPEAKER_10On a get up by doing that like kick jump.
SPEAKER_06Oh, the cool.
SPEAKER_09The cool no hands uh pop up.
SPEAKER_10Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Alright, so uh so you do that in an awesome way. That's your maneuver.
SPEAKER_10Can I grab his arm?
SPEAKER_00Yeah, try to grab his arm with a with a two-purple brawl roll.
SPEAKER_10Two successes, two advantages, one triumph.
SPEAKER_00Nice.
SPEAKER_10Ah, yeah.
SPEAKER_09Rip his arm right off.
SPEAKER_10God damn.
SPEAKER_09They're slavers! I know.
SPEAKER_00Okay. Uh yeah, you do manage to uh break his arm and you give him an agonizing move. You break his whipping arm. Uh so mechanically, this increases the difficulty of all of his brawn and agility checks by one until the end of the encounter.
SPEAKER_10Nice. So he's not so he's not ambidextrous. Good job, Haitaka.
SPEAKER_09Real proud of you.
unknownYay.
SPEAKER_10Yay, I heard someone. Yay!
SPEAKER_06Uh look, uh, can I just uh knock him out?
SPEAKER_00Yeah, you can just knock him out if you want.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, I just want to knock him out.
SPEAKER_00With your with your whip? Yeah. Okay, give me that melee. Give me two purple melee.
SPEAKER_06Oh, I'm gonna get him. Plus a blue, because I'm gonna aim. Two success, but a threat.
SPEAKER_00Okay, yeah, so you you whip him and he falls he falls down overloaded by the neuronic neuronic whip. He he his neuroses have taken over and he falls unconscious. Uh but uh Bok, you also take a strain because the stress of this situation is is just getting to you.
SPEAKER_06Uh I'm so morally bankrupt.
SPEAKER_09No, you aren't, Bok. You're fine. We'll just uh leave him here on the floor. Unconscious.
SPEAKER_06Okay, uh I'm gonna follow this map here, and we're gonna find a way to start a rebellion.
SPEAKER_09Okay, and Zap, you can you'll go back to the you'll get this the spoonbill.
SPEAKER_05Get it all fired up for us.
SPEAKER_09It's just a sparkling a star in the sky. Well, it was. It will be again.
unknownIt will be again.
SPEAKER_05What is Deadman never die?
SPEAKER_09Okay, so Zap's gonna go to the sparkling spoonbill. The rest of us, we're gonna go and start a rebellion and get the ships. Um I'll let everyone leave the room ahead of me, you know, just so I can finish the job.
SPEAKER_06I I I don't know what you're talking about. You go ahead.
SPEAKER_10You go ahead and I just I just I just lean him away.
SPEAKER_09I'll use my claws to rip open his neck.
SPEAKER_00You do that.
SPEAKER_09Problem solved.
SPEAKER_00He is uh he is now deceased.
SPEAKER_09Wipe that off on my pants, I'll carry on. Oh, and I'll take his whip.
SPEAKER_00Okay.
SPEAKER_06As well, because we need to collect as- Also, we gotta be we we gotta be sure we take our human.
SPEAKER_10I got her.
SPEAKER_09Yeah, she's got comedy.
SPEAKER_00She's limping.
SPEAKER_10I'll I'll piggyback her.
SPEAKER_09There aren't any other like um wieldable weapons in the city.
SPEAKER_00Um, there's torture devices and like truncheons and beating sticks, but nothing that's uh I mean I'll grab as many of those as I can carry, so we can just give them out to slaves right away.
SPEAKER_09Anyone that we find on the way.
SPEAKER_00What's your encumbrance?
SPEAKER_09Zap has my blaster rifle, so not that oh shit, that was like pretty much all my encumbrance. Everything else is so light. Um So right now I'm actually only at two of thirteen. So I can carry eleven.
SPEAKER_00Okay, so you you just you load it up with a bunch of uh a bunch of uh probably whips are the light are lighter than truncheons.
SPEAKER_09Yeah, I'll take a bunch of whips.
SPEAKER_00Okay, so you hand out a you you pile a bunch of whips into your satchel. You're all splitting up to uh to go your separate ways. Uh I believe it is uh Zap, you are going back to the sparkling spoon bill to get the ship ready. Bok, you are following the map to the uh to the to where you're supposed to put the computers to see if there's anything you can do there. And Hitaka and Conut are going up to the tower to get access to the PA system to incite a rebellion.
SPEAKER_09And Priya. And Priya. Well, okay, maybe you maybe though, because I have a bunch of whips, so maybe Hitaka like maybe I should go with Bok Joy to see if we can find a weapon hanger and we can work on distributing weapons. Okay. So High Tak and Priya can do their rousing speech. Get rousing, Hitaka.
SPEAKER_06Get more rouser. If you like rouse tower.
SPEAKER_09Can I Can I give High Taka little footnotes where it's just like, these are the points you wanna hit?
SPEAKER_00You're gonna Syrano her?
SPEAKER_09I don't know what that means.
SPEAKER_00Sirenoda Bergerac. He's famous.
SPEAKER_09Yeah. Like, this is your message, but I need you to say it in this way.
SPEAKER_00Oh, uh, you're gonna do the Joss Whedon thing where if it doesn't work, it's because of how they said it, not what the words were.
SPEAKER_09Yeah, exactly.
SPEAKER_00Hey Haitaka, remember, here's what happens when a toad gets hit by lightning.
SPEAKER_09Oh gosh. But but no, I'll uh I'll give Haitaka notes for how to get people hyped up.
SPEAKER_00You're gonna be the hype man.
SPEAKER_09Does that mean I get a blue and hype?
SPEAKER_00Yeah, you get a blue uh and a black.
SPEAKER_10Nice.
SPEAKER_09Is it because they're it's just like you know how to do hype, but you know how to do it in a trend ocean's voice.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, you're you're you're the notes may or may not be helpful.
SPEAKER_09Okay, and I'll go with Bob.
SPEAKER_00So uh since uh since you're get going back to the ship, uh Zap, as you uh as you break off from the group and heads towards the elevator, uh you see there is somebody guarding the elevator, and he says, uh, hey, aren't you uh weren't you a s slave coming down with uh one of the other ones?
SPEAKER_05Can I shoot him?
SPEAKER_00Blast a hole in him.
SPEAKER_05I'll in for stun, but uh yeah, let's try this.
SPEAKER_00Alright, give me two purple ranged heavy. Are they still? Actually, one purple, because you're probably in close range when you're some sort of thing for a surprise? Uh yeah, add a blue on that.
SPEAKER_05Oh can I add blues again? I guess that's uh that just one encounter.
SPEAKER_00Oh yeah, no, you're done that encounter.
SPEAKER_05Okay.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, but the the critical is still affecting you, so if you get critted again, you're gonna have to uh it'll be increased.
SPEAKER_05Uh five success, two advantages.
SPEAKER_00Oh yeah, you blow him away.
SPEAKER_05Now who's a slave?
SPEAKER_00Nice. And you so you get into the elevator, take it up, uh all the way back up to the uh Alderan Royal Throne Room.
SPEAKER_05Is there a throne there?
SPEAKER_00There is a throne there.
SPEAKER_05I'm gonna try it out.
SPEAKER_00Rub your ball on the phone.
SPEAKER_05Briefly, we're on our we're on a I know I know there's a time crunch here, but just just for a second.
SPEAKER_00It's good thing I'm not there. Okay, give me a uh two purple coordination to sit in the chair.
SPEAKER_09Two purple coordination out.
SPEAKER_05Just been a destiny point.
SPEAKER_09No. No!
SPEAKER_05Coordination. You're not allowed to do that. Oh, I have okay. Yeah. Just sit rolling to ch rolling to sit in a chair.
SPEAKER_01It's good to be king.
SPEAKER_05Six advantages?
SPEAKER_09Wait, what? I'm glad you failed.
SPEAKER_00Alright, so you can't sit in the chair. You your your greasy ass just slides out of the seat, but you do accidentally bump into a hidden compartment in the chair.
SPEAKER_05Of course. Classic Razdower.
SPEAKER_00Okay, so uh inside the hidden compartment in the back of the chair, you find uh what may be considered uh Baylor Gana's insurance in case of a coup. It is a Coronet Arms Mark V Sand Panther hunting rifle. Holy shit. Nice! That sounds impressive. It's a ranged heavy, uh, long-range, accurate one, cumbersome two slug thrower that does seven damage.
SPEAKER_06Holy shit. That's impressive, Star Fox. You now have a pretty awesome slug thrower.
SPEAKER_00Uh also in there is a uh is a Bowcaster Accelerator enhancement. Ooh, get it for me.
SPEAKER_05I will grab both of those things and then continue on my way to the ship. I did a good thing.
SPEAKER_00So as you as you exit the uh as you exit the uh the the royal chamber, uh you see that there are a couple of guards uh outside standing by the uh by by your kind of space suits, kind of just keeping them safe so nobody is walks by and takes them.
SPEAKER_05Should I try and uh reason with them or just take it? I'm gonna say there's two guards? Yeah. Could try and distract them, or I could just try and shoot them. They don't see me yet.
SPEAKER_06They don't know you're there yet.
SPEAKER_05I have two guns. Can I take a missile?
SPEAKER_06When's a guaranteed kill?
SPEAKER_05They're on stun, of course.
SPEAKER_06Can I take an uh Oh no, Slingfur is a slug fur.
SPEAKER_05Oh no, I mean I have my Oh wait, no, you're right. I don't have my pistols with me. I only have the one gun.
SPEAKER_00Two purple ranged heavy.
SPEAKER_05Four advantage, two failures. Oh no.
SPEAKER_00Oh dear. Alright, yeah, so you don't hit them. Uh, but you do hit the control panel, opening the door and sucking them out into space.
SPEAKER_05Hooray!
SPEAKER_00Uh your spacesuit is also being sucked out into space. No!
SPEAKER_05Can I save it?
SPEAKER_00Um, yeah, yeah. You're able to, with your for advantage, you're able to grab at the last minute, grab the s run and grab at the spacesuit and plonk it on and just kind of tumble into it in a cool way. Project badass as the two guards uh go screaming soundlessly into the void. Oh, and you're now you're now cleared to go uh up to the sparkling spoon bill and get it ready for takeoff. Meanwhile, Bok Joy and Conut are stalking through the halls and you reach the uh the data pad recharge center. There is a clerk there, a Zygarian clerk, uh, and a bunch of data pads in storage, and uh there's a room and off to the off to the side, you can see into that room, and there's a it's another storage area, and you can kind of make out that there's some guns and stuff in there. Ooh, is there is it just the one clerk here? He's like the quartermaster.
SPEAKER_09I'll um I'll pop in. I I'll just be like, Oh, excuse me, uh, one of the guards asked me to drop this by for him. We're just going on a tour.
SPEAKER_00Uh uh what are you handing him?
SPEAKER_09The data pad.
SPEAKER_00Uh oh, okay, yeah. Let me just uh pop this in. Uh what was his name?
SPEAKER_09Uh he didn't tell me his name. We were just heading this way and he asked me to take it.
SPEAKER_00Oh, that was probably Krapner.
SPEAKER_09Probably Krapner. He looked like a Krapner.
SPEAKER_00Let me just pluck this in. Uh yeah, Krapner's, Krapner's, okay.
SPEAKER_09Um, when I'm holding that out, can I just wait until they reach out for the data pad and then grab their wrist with my shock glove and shock the shit out of them? Um, a data pad is probably conductive. Yeah, I'll just shock it. Wait, do we wanna No, but I we wanna keep the data pad, maybe. There's more data pads. Fuck it. No, we'll shock the data pad. One success.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, you shock him and he goes and he falls into a smoking heap on the counter.
SPEAKER_09Is he unconscious?
SPEAKER_00Bach, go look for the weapons.
SPEAKER_09Okay.
SPEAKER_00Alright, uh, do you want to percept to see what kind of weapons you notice?
SPEAKER_09Absolutely. While Bach's looking for the weapons, I'm just gonna claw this person open too.
SPEAKER_00Uh so there's a lot of weapons in there, uh, so it's gonna be a four-purple perception to uh notice anything spectacular.
SPEAKER_01Four purple perception, let's do this.
SPEAKER_00Uh one success, two threats. Uh you notice what appears to be uh an amazing gun that is on the wall, and it's like it's got this cool looking handle that you just wanna pull.
SPEAKER_06Uh uh I wanna I wanna uh I wanna pull it. Wait, Bog, there might be an alarm. Okay, uh I check for an alarm.
SPEAKER_00Uh roll me a three purple perception.
SPEAKER_06Uh three success, one advantage.
SPEAKER_00Uh yeah, it is a decoy gun.
SPEAKER_06I I I walk away sadly.
SPEAKER_09Don't take that one.
SPEAKER_00But there are there are some uh stun rifles and whips and truncheons and things uh all around. I'll I'll just take a stun rifle. Uh just one?
SPEAKER_09Well we have to take as many as we can so we can distribute them.
SPEAKER_06How how many how many can I carry?
SPEAKER_00They're on hovering racks. Oh, well then I take the whole thing. Alright, so you take a bunch of a bunch of guns out. Sun's out. Haitaka. Uh you're carrying Priya, and she's she's well enough to kind of limp along beside you without being held up a little bit. But you're but you're still, uh, because you are a Wookiee and uh pretty beaten-up looking human in slave garb, uh, you'll have to be sneaky. So roll roll a uh roll a three purple stealth to get to the uh get to the tower.
SPEAKER_10Ooh, one advantage.
SPEAKER_09We should have also given Haitaka a weapon before they God damn it, why did we send them off alone and unarmed?
SPEAKER_00Alright, so you so you you aren't stealthy, but because you got an advantage, you kind of um you you sneak along and you you see somebody spots you, uh, but it is a a Wookiee slave. And uh this guard comes up to the Wookiee slave and the guard's like, hey Wook! Uh we uh we lost a couple of a couple of buyers down here. You didn't see anything, did you? In a real threatening way, like this Wookiee's gonna get his ass beat if he doesn't respond correctly. And the Wookie kinda darts his eyes at you a little bit. But he but he d he doesn't give himself away, but he's trying to decide whether or not he should say anything.
SPEAKER_10I shake my head. Don't you have a band?
SPEAKER_00You're gonna have to roll charm or a coercion.
SPEAKER_10Uh how many?
SPEAKER_00Uh two purple.
SPEAKER_10One success, one threat.
SPEAKER_00Alright, so uh so he doesn't he doesn't uh he doesn't give you up uh and as a result the uh the guard starts whipping whipping this Wookiee. No. Does that does that give you strain?
SPEAKER_10Yeah.
SPEAKER_00And you take one strain from that. But other than that, you are able to make it to the tower.
SPEAKER_10Alright. There's like a broadcasting device.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, it's like a uh it's like a control tower where it's like they can look out across the uh the slave yards.
SPEAKER_10Oh shit, I should have we should have like made a signal to know if uh everyone was ready to to do this.
SPEAKER_09But we still have our communicators with us?
SPEAKER_00Um probably not because they are slaves.
SPEAKER_09Fair enough. That's okay. Bokjoy and I will just move as fast as we can, uh, whispering and handing out weapons. And um, you know, yeah, rebellion.
SPEAKER_05Rebellion.
unknownRebellion.
SPEAKER_05I'm fine.
SPEAKER_10Alright. Priya.
SPEAKER_00Yes.
SPEAKER_10Are you ready for this?
SPEAKER_00Uh I guess so.
SPEAKER_10Do you have any advice for me? Uh any words of encouragement?
SPEAKER_00Uh be uh yourself.
SPEAKER_10That's not great for uh public speaking. Okay, uh I got you turn on the broadcasting device.
SPEAKER_00Alright, so you go climb up to the tower. Uh and the you're you're able to get to the broadcasting device and you turn it on, and there's this the momentary squeal as the uh as the uh speakers turn on.
SPEAKER_10Hi.
SPEAKER_09How you doing?
SPEAKER_10Um this is it doesn't matter who I am. Uh all I'm gonna say is that this really sucks.
SPEAKER_08Come on! You can do it! Give him the passion.
SPEAKER_09Give him the violence riot hi to you please uh like you can maybe riot in like two seconds. That'll be great.
SPEAKER_10Have you been here? I I assume you've been here for at least a while. Um but it's time to rise up. It's time to grab the nearest whip from the hands of your masters, your powerful Wookiees, and other races, I'm sure I humans and others.
SPEAKER_09Keep going, keep going, you're an inspiration.
SPEAKER_10It's time to fight back. There are so many more of us than there are them. So grab a weapon, grab your courage, and grab their balls, and let's ride this fucking slug out of here.
SPEAKER_00Yes! Alright, so you're gonna roll me a charm code or a leadership. Um, it's three purple. You get to add a blue and a black from using conuts notes. You have two destiny points left. Oh god, I better use a blue one. But you can also add a blue because um Wookiees are for the first time hearing a Wookiee voice speak from the uh from the tower. Alright, so you do you do manage to start inside a rebellion in the and the you hear roars in unison as as you uh as you finish your speech. But you also see down there like the guards like looking and pointing up at you in the tower, and they start firing at you in Priya from the ground.
SPEAKER_10Is the way up to the tower exposed? Is it just like a ladder ladder? Hawk! Uh, is there anything in the tower that I can use to protect us?
SPEAKER_00Uh well, this is a guard tower, so there is a uh sniper rifle. Um no, because probably this isn't a tower, so it would probably be a gunnery weapon instead.
SPEAKER_09Ooh, it's getting crazy.
SPEAKER_00An HOB heavy repeating blaster, a high output heavy repeating blaster. Does 15 damage, can fire up to extreme range, has auto fire, cumbersome, pierce, vicious. Uh mechanics can uh it's easy to repair by mechanics, but right now it's mounted to this thing. But there are there are a bunch of guards uh down there. So roll me uh that you'll you'll probably be at long range with them, so roll me a three. Purple gunnery.
SPEAKER_10One advantage, one failure.
SPEAKER_00One advantage and one failure. Okay, so you don't hit uh but you do hit a uh like a uh a repository uh with your with this repeating blaster rifle. You see prey and spray, and you don't hit any of the guards, but you do hit a hit a repository of the kyber crystals and shards of crystals go flying out and start uh embedding themselves as shrapnel into the guards, and they have to take cover to avoid being chewed up by these uh by the chaos!
SPEAKER_03Alright, nice.
SPEAKER_00Uh Kona and Mock.
SPEAKER_06Have we successfully distributed the guns?
SPEAKER_00They have. Uh the Wookiees are indiscriminately firing at the Zygerians, and and shit is just going wild. They don't seem to have a plan. They're just uh they're they're just fighting back.
SPEAKER_09Um, can we can we try to make our way up to the uh the tower with Haitaka and Priya to make an announcement for like everyone to try to get to a ship?
SPEAKER_00Yeah, you could. You're gonna have to run there though, so give me uh three purple athletics. At a black to avoid being pegged by laser fire. Do I need to roll that too? Yeah. Three purple athletics.
SPEAKER_06One failure. I got one failure and two advantages.
SPEAKER_00Alright, so uh Bach and Conut, you are not able to make it to the tower. The the laser fire from the Wookiees and the guards and Haitaka is just too dense-free to make it there. Uh, but Bok, you are able to make it somewhere.
SPEAKER_06Um, is there a sort of like a secure uh maybe a security room? There there probably is. Let's both of us go there. And see if we can uh scramble something.
SPEAKER_00Alright, so Bach, you're able to duck into uh a security room and there's a couple of uh guards that are hiding and cowering in there, and they look at you and they they they uh like they're not sure whether to attack you or not. They're just like, well, uh uh we're we're not hurting anyone, we're just here, we're just we're we're not we're not doing anything. Is there another intercom? Uh another uh uh uh uh uh uh no, it's just it's just at the top of the tower. We'll we'll let you live if you help us.
SPEAKER_09Uh uh what? We're getting the slug out of aldering!
SPEAKER_00Oh jeez, oh okay.
SPEAKER_09No more slaves here!
SPEAKER_00Uh well, uh I mean, w that's kind of we're Zygarians, that's kind of our thing. Uh Do you wanna die?
SPEAKER_09No, no, no, it's okay. Um I'm a strand ocean as my thing. You gotta get with the program and get with the future, bitch!
SPEAKER_00Uh uh oh, okay, just uh uh I'll uh we'll see what we can do. Yeah, you see what you can do. Alright, so they they they bolt out of the security room and they scream, Run, run, everybody, get to a ship, run and they get pegged by laser fire.
SPEAKER_03Sometimes, Conan, I appreciate having you as friend.
SPEAKER_00Before they can they can reach it, but the Wookiees are like, oh, that's a good idea. And they start and they and as they they kind of start to move as a group uh towards the ships to escape the uh space slug.
SPEAKER_09Oh, for the um would the ships have like radio that could communicate with each other?
SPEAKER_00Um, yeah, that's what uh that's how you found the place in the first place, was Bokjoy listening on their radios.
SPEAKER_09Okay, well maybe we can get to a ship and like communicate with the other ships that are gonna be leaving, then, to tell them to fly in a uniform way.
SPEAKER_00Well, you probably have radio contact with the spoon bill.
SPEAKER_09Oh. Ah! Zap!
SPEAKER_05Yes!
SPEAKER_09Uh, we so we got Wookiees, they're going to ships. Communicate with them to tell them to fly together in the direction of Haas. And we'll figure out a way to get a hyperdrive on the slug.
SPEAKER_06And even if they don't speak common, I'm pretty sure they understand it.
SPEAKER_00I mean I deal with Wookiees. The Wookiees will will understand uh what uh Zap is saying. All Wookiees can understand Corellians.
SPEAKER_05Yes. It's a secret model.
SPEAKER_00They have a long and rich history together.
SPEAKER_06Alright, so what do you say?
SPEAKER_05Alright, everybody, stick together now.
SPEAKER_06Remember, everybody, we gotta go single file when we go to Hawks.
SPEAKER_05Have a line partner.
SPEAKER_06And remember, if you lose him, you gotta be sure you find him again. We're all in this together, okay? I count fifty head of ships.
SPEAKER_05What the effeminate librarian is saying.
SPEAKER_00So roll me a three purple leadership.
SPEAKER_05Alright. Leadership. Ooh, not bad. I forgot I put extra points into leadership a while ago. One success, one thread.
SPEAKER_00Nice. So they are uh all all the ships, the you hear uh roars of affirmation from the Wookie pilots of the of the ships as they start coming out of the uh the slug's mouth. But as you're giving the orders and the slug starts to move, uh you don't realize until it's too late that the slug is moving its mouth over the sparkling spoon bill. And you are now you're you're now hovering inside the uh the hangar bay slash throat of the space slug.
SPEAKER_05I will try and maneuver out.
SPEAKER_00So give me uh give me a two purple piloting to exit the slug.
SPEAKER_05Six success. Yeah. One thread.
SPEAKER_00So you blast you blast out, uh but but the uh sparkling spoon bill does scratch on one of the teeth, uh giving it some giving it some strain. Holds together, maybe. You do blast out, and the uh as as the space slug moves out, the walls start shaking, and the the and some of the crystals uh start like falling off of the inside of its skin, and then everything's like falling over and tumbling, and the uh the zygerions that are that are still they're all scattering trying to get to the last remaining ships that are out there.
SPEAKER_06The rest of us should be getting to ships as well.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, get out of here.
SPEAKER_09Well, there's probably not gonna be enough ships for everyone, but as long as we're like guiding the slug, then like is there a way to like take the hyper drives out of one of the leftover ships and like rig it up on the inside of the slug?
SPEAKER_00Um, if you want to give me a uh a red and four purple mechanics.
SPEAKER_09Fuuuck? Okay. I have zero way of making that.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. A red and four purple mechanics.
SPEAKER_09I can give unskilled assistance so you can get a blue.
SPEAKER_00That is true. It's a red, four purple, a blue from uh your help with the Killick Hive being part of the hive mind, and a blue from Kona's unskilled assistance. Okay. Haitaka and Haitaka, have you joined back up with uh Bach and Kona? Yes. So you could you can help as well and add a blue. Priya can add a blue as well.
SPEAKER_06I'm also gonna flip a destiny point, because why not? Uh two success, one advantage.
SPEAKER_00Alright, so you do manage to you using bizarre arcane knowledge from the depths of the Killick hive. Uh insect like the being that uh is Bok Joy is temporarily subsumed by 200,000 years of uh insect knowledge. And uh you scurry over hyperdrive components, connecting wires to pustules and knobs and and generators into veins and tendons, and clamping shit into brainstems and turning the space slug into a hyperspace-worthy ship. And eventually you are able to do it. Uh, however, uh, you still have no way of navigating. What happened? I blacked out there for a second.
SPEAKER_09I blacked out. Uh, you you did it, Bach. You you made it uh a hyperspace vessel!
SPEAKER_03Okay, uh well how do we navigate it now?
SPEAKER_09Well, okay, if we get all the other ships moving in the direction that they would need to be for uh for a for a hyperspace jump to Haas, and then we just activate it when it's going in the same direction, we should end up right behind them, right?
SPEAKER_03This shit is this shit is fucked up, man. Okay.
SPEAKER_06Uh, alright, let's do it. Let's let's let's let's have a train of bait, and then we just sort of we uh we'll leave we'll lead hands uh we'll lead Hansel here to the house.
SPEAKER_00Red and four purple astrogation to correctly aim the space lug.
SPEAKER_09I'll give unskilled assistance again!
SPEAKER_00Anyone else?
SPEAKER_09Everyone give unskilled assistance!
SPEAKER_00Alright, so that's three blues uh from Priya, Konut, and Haitaka, plus a blue from your uh from the Killick Hive. Four success. So again, Bok Joy, you give yourself over to the Killick Hive, and you are able to uh and as you do this, the others may smell a sweet honey smell coming from Bok's arm as he uh invites the Exogorth to join with the Killicks. Whoa, what the shit? And suddenly Bok's mind and the Exogort's mind are one and the same. And through uh through the Exogorth's primitive thoughts, he is able to chart a course from the ruins of Alderan to the mysterious planet Haas. And uh you activate the hyperdrive and jump into hyperspace. Uh the swirling blue void uh can be seen leaking in through the clenched teeth of the Exagorth. It is extremely painful, Bach, as you as you feel this inside your mind from the Exagorth. You can feel its skin tearing off. It was not designed to exist in hyperspace, but eventually you drop out, and the uh the husk of the Exagorth, stripped of flesh almost down to the bone, drifts lifelessly towards the planet.
SPEAKER_07No We can't win a mobile.
SPEAKER_09Yeah, you're fine. This really hurts. Yeah, you're okay.
SPEAKER_00As as the Exagorth dies, uh, your pain drains away as well. It is no longer a part of your hive mind. Oh I still remember that pain. But you s you also have a lot of pleasant memories of feasting on rocks and uh and other other things floating through space for thousands of years, just being a big old happy slug.
SPEAKER_08Oh Do I get baby memories too?
SPEAKER_06Yeah, you get baby slug memories of him just play playing with his parents and like one of them sitting on a bench uh at a park while uh the mother while the mother is playing uh with them at the park, and then they're playing with their slug friends, and then spend a lot of time at the slug park. Now he's dead. Look at what we have done.
SPEAKER_00And the uh the exigort settles into orbit uh within the debris field of Haas. Welcome home, everybody! Always remember you.
SPEAKER_06So now the slavers will become the slave bees. Is that what's gonna happen now?
SPEAKER_09Or what was it's we'll just let them come and stay with us if they want, or we'll deliver them for the.
SPEAKER_06I mean, we get oh. That seems to be a running theme for with our games. We almost did a great thing. We almost saved everybody. We almost saved everybody. And then they were in the didn't.
SPEAKER_00You saved everybody except the giant space lug, though.
SPEAKER_09I mean, let's bear in mind that this is like the same type of giant space lug that almost ate Hunter. It's a living being in the Empire. It's a living being I felt its memories.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, it's only six million years old.
SPEAKER_09Okay. You know what? We didn't know that was gonna happen. We had to save these slaves. It gave its life so we could live.
SPEAKER_05Does it have a name that you can remember?
SPEAKER_06Did it have a name? Or should I just make one up? It's n its name was Robert Paulson.
SPEAKER_05His name was Robert Paulson.
SPEAKER_06His name is Robert Paulson.
SPEAKER_05That's what I was going for.
SPEAKER_09Okay, well, if there are still um humanoids working, can I uh get on the radio and uh fill them in on what's going on?
SPEAKER_00Yeah, yeah, you get on the radio and you start filling them in on the current situation as the uh as outside the uh the the space slug's mouth is yawning open as as gravity just kind of carries it, and you can see the planet Haas below uh some of the uh the rebel ships are coming up to to meet the Wookiees in their freighters, and everybody is starting to uh get acquainted. Uh and and another ship comes in flying into the into the mouth, and it's uh it's one of the rebel ships that have that have come uh to be as a part of your base since you've set it up and uh and WistHacks comes out uh along with uh uh a bunch of Gerboans, the uh the sexy kangaroo rat people that are native to the planet, and WistHacks says uh Hey, I uh I came to see your new base. Uh what the fuck is this?
SPEAKER_09Hi, WistHacks! We saved all these slaves!
SPEAKER_00Oh, that's uh okay, that's pretty good.
SPEAKER_09We accidentally killed this big slug, though. That's a little sad.
SPEAKER_00How how did you get it here?
SPEAKER_09Bok Joy turned it into a hyperspace vehicle.
SPEAKER_00Uh I'm not gonna ask any questions. Um, but I think uh we can take it f are you guys gonna hang around for a while? There's not really a lot of experienced uh rebel command here. Um or you guys gotta take off again on some amazing adventure.
SPEAKER_09I mean, we'll probably be here for a little just to get everyone settled and shipped off to their home worlds if they would like.
SPEAKER_04Oh right. We do.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, we gotta take care of that. Alright, uh well, since these are uh our are largely uh Wookiees, I was wondering, Haitaka, would you be uh willing to to stay on Haas and help them uh get uh get situated here? There I b there's a bunch of uh huge trees that they may find appealing, and uh you know we've been uh we've been keeping tabs on the uh the surface people uh and uh they've been staying out of our way, but it might be nice to have a presence on the surface just in case.
SPEAKER_10Yeah, that sounds good. I uh I feel like the chance of me dying here would be a little bit lower.
SPEAKER_09So And also the dog is still full of crystals. We can still harvest it for crystals.
SPEAKER_00Uh and he looks around and he's and he says, uh yeah, that's uh it's a lot of gemeralds, alright. Uh I noticed uh when I was uh flying in that your uh ship is not as gemmeralded as uh it may have been before. I heard you guys got a bedazzler.
SPEAKER_05We had to make some sacrifices.
SPEAKER_00Are you gonna use these crystals to re-bedazzle your ship?
SPEAKER_10Oh, we make our ship into a giant lightsaber.
SPEAKER_06I was about to say that. Sparkling bill?
SPEAKER_09That might give us some dang good armor. It would just be a cosmetic change. Oh.
SPEAKER_00But still.
SPEAKER_06But the answer, of course, is yes, right?
SPEAKER_00So, uh, hanging out inside the the defeated, the giant uh dead corpse of the space lug, you all ponder. What is what is next for the crew of the sparkling spoon bill? And will you have these crystals? And will you ever make it to Onderon? And will you ever figure out what's going on with these Mandalorians on Empire Wreckers?
SPEAKER_09Dude, I'm proud of us. We've done a good thing today. Star Wars music. Yeah. We saved a bunch of slaves.