Seku enters the house. In the adjacent rooms, the two swoop thugs looked surprised to see her return. They fumbled with their vibroblades and turned on her.

The skiff got closer, within range of the farm's security sensors. Apparently no-one had programmed it as 'welcome'; suddenly a loud klaxxon went off in the house.

Victor sighted on the skiff as it got close enough to see clearly in his scope. A pair of thuggish humanoids were on board, familiar as the gang that the Rebels encountered in town. With them was a devaronian holding what appeared to be a leash. Finally, he could make out the reptillian face of Gunlodd Beyrocio, the barabel enforcer.

Roll initiative, and post your first action.
Skiff is currently at Extreme range. Victor is at Long range from the farm house, Short range to the temporary structure. Seku and F3-3T are at Short range to the two thugs, and Zabu is at Medium range (because he is still outside). No one can see Bib Fortuna at the moment, but he was upstairs earlier.

Having accompanied the others inside Zabuunko is already in motion to interrupt the vibroblade drawing thugs before the alarm even sounds, not the least bit bothered by the sudden sound he zips across the room and strikes one of the thugs with a collapsing rod clearly designed for just this purpose.

[Private to GM: Initiative 3, +4 advantage to self boost.
Lightsaber: 4 success for 11 stun damage +3 advantages to close distance.]

Seku is prepared for the thugs. She pulls out her blaster pistol as her head pokes around the corner and she quickly fires off a shot which hits one of the thugs in the arm and causes him to drop the vibroblade on the ground as he pulls the weapon out.

Maneuver: Aim
Action: Attack with Blaster Pistol deals 7 damage and forces the thug to drop his vibroblade.

Seku Bondara rolled 2 successes, 5 advantages using the Star Wars Edge of the Empire with a dice pool of 4a. Cool for initiative.
Seku Bondara rolled 1 success, 3 advantages using the Star Wars Edge of the Empire with a dice pool of 2a 1d 1b.  Ranged (Light).

"Yes, ma'am. Although we're soon getting some reinforcements. I'll try to slow them down. A vehicle full of the same gangers that we had the unfortunate pleasure of meeting in town. Some devaronian holding Beyrocio captive it seems." Zakharo says over the comms. "Proceeding to disable their vehicle. They are gonna have to walk home."

Victor aimed the best he could at the engines or thrusters of the skiff approaching. The green plasma bolt flies the distance in an instant and hits the skiff.





20:47, Today: Victor Zakharo rolled 3 successes, 1 triumph using the Star Wars Edge of the Empire with a dice pool of 1a 1p.  cool initiative.

20:50, Today: Victor Zakharo rolled 1 success, 1 threat using the Star Wars Edge of the Empire with a dice pool of 1a 3p 2b 3d.  Rifle shot at extreme range vs vehicle.
10 damage vs vehicle with 3 piercing.

[Private to GM: Removed 1d since it's the vehicle and it's 2 silhouettes larger than me.]

F3-3T rolls headlong into fire beeping "EXPIRE IMMEDIATELY YOU Y-CHROME INTERCOURSERS!!!!", his attempt at suppressive fire with a single action bolt thrower is middle amusing to the enemy and hardly effective.

If anything rolling out into the open may draw enemy fire away from Seku.

O.O.C:
16:48, Today: F3-3T rolled no successes using the Star Wars Edge of the Empire with a dice pool of 1a2d.  suppressive fire.

GM Edit: remember to put spaces between the different dice. Else the dice roller will always return "No successes."

The Force, on behalf of F3-3T, rolled 2 failures, 1 advantage using the Star Wars Edge of the Empire with a dice pool of 1p 2d.  R L.
This message was last edited by the GM at 00:58, Mon 11 Nov 2019.

Zabu makes it look easy, slapping aside the thug's weapon and knocking him from his feet. He collapses, groaning, clearly out of the fight.

Seku shoots the man's hand, causing him to lose track of his weapon. He glances at his burned hand in shock, then raises both of them. "Hey, hey! Don't- no need to get carried away!"

Victor sights on a rusty-looking panel near the back of the skiff and figures it looks vulnerable. He puts a bolt of plasma into it. The cheap metal instantly melts and collapses inwards. Fire blasts out of the rear repulsors and the skiff begins to list violently. You hear the occupants swear in harmony as it falls. Then the nose slams into the sand dune, and the people on the deck are flung free. The chorus of curses become a many-voiced scream, including one animal howl.

(Skiff occupants are now at Long range and are currently out of line-of-sight.)

Seku twirls her blaster and then levels it at the weaponless thug. "No need to get carried away indeed. I'll tell y'all what, 'cause I'm startin' to feel a mite short, if y'all just beat feet so that I don't see y'alls faces again then I won't shoot ya. Just leave those vibroblades there on the ground and take your friend with ya. What do y'all think?"

Seku Bondara rolled 4 successes, 3 advantages using the Star Wars Edge of the Empire with a dice pool of 3a 1p 1d.  Negotiation. Easy for having the upper hand.

Can I spend those advantages to learn something helpful?

The swoop ganger nods eagerly and eases his way over to his friend. The wounded one helps the insensible one out into the desert and head for the garage.

Meanwhile, Seku glances around. She hears someone running around upstairs, and then a window being opened.

Not having heard Victor's shot over the sounds of their own scuffle, Seku gets on the comms as she motions for Zabu and F3 to follow the swoop gangers outside and look up. "Hey Victor, any chance you have eyes on the second floor of the house. It sounds like somebody might be trying to make an escape." She then proceeds to the stairs and starts to climb with her pistol leveled in front of her, ready for any surprises.

Victor gets into cover from the south. He had no eyes on the skiff occupants so he might as well get out of sight from them and look towards the north. "The vehicle is disabled. Hang on..." he sits down and crosses he arm to stabilize himself to look  through the scope to the north. "Hmm... No... I don't see anyone. Hey wait a second..."


03:37, Today: Victor Zakharo rolled 1 success, 2 threats using the Star Wars Edge of the Empire with a dice pool of 1p 1a 2d ((2(P), 1(A), 4(D), 5(D))).

Victor can't see anything, which means whatever is going on must be on the side or rear of the house. Then he accidentally catches a trace of the sun's setting rays in his scope, and nearly blinds himself.

1S to next Perception or Ranged check.

Having already put the collapsing pole away before the dragging of unconscious bodes started Zabuunko is free to zip out the door and begin a quick but attentive circuit of the building, keeping his senses tuned to anyone trying to do something inappropriate.

[Private to GM: Vigilance 1 success 2 advantages]

"Damn it! he called out as he moved the scope away from his eye and rubbed it. "Southern side is clear, Seku. Whatever you heard is on the northern side.".

Zakharo then picked up his binoculars and scanned the area where the skiff had gone down. Still blinded semi blinded in one eye and hurting. No time to thinking about it now but he'd be more comfortable if he could get a medical opinion on the condition of his eye. It is after all one of his more important assets.


15:22, Today: Victor Zakharo rolled 1 success, 2 threats using the Star Wars Edge of the Empire with a dice pool of 2d 1p 1a 1s ((4(D), 7(D), 7(P), 5(A), 5(S))).

Zabu doesn't take long to see the issue: Bib Fortuna has opened a second-floor window and dropped a knotted rope. He is hanging out the window and preparing to climb down.

Meanwhile, Seku just spots Fortuna vaulting over the windowsill and climbing down the rope.

Seku rushes up to the windowsill and levels her blaster at Bib as he tries to climb down. "Now Mr. Fortuna, if I didn't know better, I'd say you were tryin' to run out on our deal. We can't have that, no sir. I'll give you a choice: you can either finish climbin' down and my friend will knock you out with his staff, or you can climb back up and I'll stun you." She flipped the setting on the blaster to stun as she spoke.

Having delivered her ultimatum, she got back on the comms to update the rest of the team. "We've got ol' Bib here under control. Keep his backup busy Victor. F3, check with that protocol Droid and make sure there aren't any more surprises."

Flapping his wings a little bit harder Zabuunko emits enough of a buzzing noise to draw Mr. Fortuna's attention, and raise up high enough to be not quite eye level with the man dangling from the rope so he can easily see the big toothed grin that may be mistaken for friendly but could never seem welcoming in any but the creepiest of ways.

Bib Fortuna pauses. "I will just stay here for the moment then, should I? And let's not pretend that you intended to honour our deal, either. So, now that you have me at your mercy, what is the plan? Capture all the slaves and sell them on? I hope they survived that skiff crash." He smiles sadistically.

With the action heated up F3-3T forgets his holo-filming and heads directly to the protocol droid and jacks in without letting it put up a fight. Beeping in binary the astromech runs a scan over the droid checking for signs of malfeasance or trickery up its circuits. F3-3T puts out "Happy Beeps" lulling the protocol droid into believing he is running a simple diagnostic test on the machine making sure it is in working order for all the dangers that surround them both. "Zeepy Zeeep Zeep Boink! Don't worry you won't feel a thing!".

Within two minutes and thirty three seconds F3-3T uncovers the basics of the droids knowledge. He squints his sight servitors as he aims to probe even deeper....


O.O.C: 20:24, Today: F3-3T rolled 3 successes using the Star Wars Edge of the Empire with a dice pool of 2a 2p 2d.

Seku shakes her head at Bib as though disappointed she aims her blaster right at him. "Don't say I didn't give ya a choice to avoid getting banged up. Don't bother catchin' him Zabu." She pulls the trigger sending the wave of blue energy at Bib.

F3-3T slices into the poor valet droid's CPU. After a brief search, F3-3T concludes that Beeper is exactly what he says he is: a household servant who enjoyed working for his previous master, and does not care for the current situation at all. He has security codes for most of the buildings and rooms in the farmhouse, although apparently at least some have been changed and not provided to him. F3-3T is reading through the hundreds of stew recipes when he decides that he has plumbed as deeply as he needs.

Seku blasts Bib Fortuna with a stun ray. His eyes widen and his grip slackens. He has just enough consciousness to moan in distress as he falls. He lands hard on the ground below, creating a puff of sand. He groans in pain and does not move much.

Victor still has an eye on the skiff's landing position. He notes Gunlodd the mercenary coming over the rise. He has his arm in a sling, but the other hand is holding a pistol. He is accompanied by a pair of thugs.

Seku tucks her blaster back into her jacket as she leans over to look at Bib on the ground. "Are you going to need any help getting him back inside Zabu? I figure we ought to tie him up and search him before he comes around." With Bib unconscious, most traces of Seku's affected accent melt away with only the barest drawl persisting.

She also gets back on the comms to the team. "Bib has been dealt with so I think we're in control of the house. We probably ought to round up the doctor and his assistant, but I think it's safe to let Boho know he can come back. F3, ask the protocol droid if there is a long range comms terminal around the house. Victor, how are you holding up out there?"

"I might need some assistance." Victor says as he aims is rifle at the thugs. He fires a warning shot in the sand a meter in front of Gunlodd.

"I can not carry him, you will need to find someone else to help with that.  In the meantime I will help Victor sort out his problem."

True to his word Zabuunko begins skimming over the sand at a quick pace, closing not with Victor's position, but the direction of the ground where the warning shot was aimed, reasonably sure that is where he will find the next potential threat.

Seku nods at Zabu and then swings herself over the balcony and begins to climb down the rope to where Bib is sprawled on the ground. She lets go and falls the last couple of feet. She then bends down, hooks her hands under Bib's arms, and begins dragging him back around to the main entrance.

Over the comms she says: "Zabu's on his way Victor."