Ikki scoffs as the thugs turn tail only to feel renewed confidence as they meet up with the other lackeys. Strength only in numbers as the bullets whizz around his allies on the ground and himself. Lining up one with one of the rifles, he smirks "Amateurs..." he mutters as he once again squeezes his triggers, striking the thug with his 3rd consecutive round. With another cock of the rifle, he loads the next one.

The amount of damage that he was doing from his vantage point would surely unnerve the thugs now as he rained bullet after bullet down on them.

Maneurver - Aim, maintaining 2 bonus.
Action - Fire

18:41, Today: Ikki Sorlock rolled 3 successes, 4 advantages using the Star Wars Edge of the Empire with a dice pool of 1P 2A 3b 2d with rolls of 6(P), 3(A), 7(A), 6(B), 6(B), 4(B), 5(D), 1(D).  Ranged (Heavy).

9 Damage pre-soak.

Spending 2 Advantages to give Jeron another bonus.

Spending 2 to give thugs a setback.

The Rebels get their act together and fire as a collective group. The thugs are cut down by the hail of bullets & blaster bolts. One survives, but he runs around the corner out of sight.

The garage door starts to open. The personnel door beside it swings open, revealing a human thug with scars across his face & arms. He aims a pump-action scattergun and fires it at Jeron.

The Force rolled 1 success using the Star Wars Edge of the Empire with a dice pool of 1A 1P 2D 1S.  Thug shooting at Jeron.
5 damage presoak

It was all getting a bit much for Caddy but she turned anyway, aimed and fired.   She wasn't really cut out for this and wasn't sure if the shot hit. Were there more?  Was it over yet?

OOC Actions:

* Aim, 1st to get a boost from racial, fire.
* 12:34, Today: Caddanra 'Caddy' Manitu rolled 2 successes, 2 advantages using the Star Wars Edge of the Empire with a dice pool of 2b 2a 1d.  Shooting at a thug.
* 6 Damage
* Regaining 2 strain.

Jeron stumbled back a bit from the blast. He still wasn't fully healed from the beating he'd gotten earlier from Rancor, and now was bleeding again. He pulled out a stimpack and slapped it on his side where he got shot, immediately feeling the bacta and painkillers begin to do their work. He fired off a shot at the shotgun-wielding thug as well.

OOC: Take 1 strain to pull out stimpack and apply it, 2 maneuvers. Then blast thug.

Wow. 7 advantages, but 2 failures, huh? Okay.
1 advantage to get my strain back.
1 advantage to give next acting player a boost.
3 advantage to gain +1 ranged defense.
2 advantage to add a setback to the shotgun thug's next action.

10:04, Today: Jeron Rist rolled 2 failures, 7 advantages using the Star Wars Edge of the Empire with a dice pool of 1p 2a 1b 2d.  Blasting shotgun thug.

While the other two distracted the shotgun thug, Ikki line up the shot and squeezed his trigger once more. Nailing the shotgun wielding human that had fired at Jeron.

15:16, Today: Ikki Sorlock rolled 4 successes, 2 advantages using the Star Wars Edge of the Empire with a dice pool of 1p 2a 3b 2D with rolls of 5(P), 7(A), 4(A), 2(B), 5(B), 2(B), 6(D), 2(D).  Ranged (Heavy) at Shotgun thug.

10 damage pre-soak to thug.
Spending Advantages on giving Jeron a bonus. Just in case.

Caddy and Jeron fire at the thug who is peeking out through the doorway to fire at them. They wound him, but it is Ikki who drills a shot directly down through his head that kills him.

The garage door opens a bit more and reveals the room within. It's a large room with a high ceiling. It must be twenty meters wide and long, making it about two-thirds of the volume of the building. It is lit with crude lamps hanging from the bare rafters overhead. The floor is paved with ferrocrete. Inside is a groundtruck and some piles of boxes and junk.

Taking cover behind the truck and the piles are a group of thugs. Five in total, they aim & fire their guns.

They have taken up defensive positions that set them a bit father away from the Rebels. They are still only a short range away from the rebels, ideal distance for their slugthrower pistols.

Some of their bullets skim very close to Caddy. She ducks farther back behind the stone gate and hopes no chips of stone or ricochets hit her.

The Force rolled 1 success, 1 advantage using the Star Wars Edge of the Empire with a dice pool of 2A 2P 2D 1S.  Thug Ranged L.
6 damage presoak

As the chips fly and hit her, Caddy crouches. She'd taken the brunt of the initial fire.   Hopefully Ikki will be able to see into the garage from his vantage point as she doubts she'll be able to take too much more of this!  She does however squeeze off another wild round as more bullets fly, forcing her to squeeze tighter against her the wall.

OOC Actions:

* 4 Damage taken (2 soaked)
* Take 1 strain for Boost - racial, Aim, return fire, take 2 strain and take cover.
* Firing at DC 1D (short range) + 1S (Cover)
* 10:51, Today: Caddanra 'Caddy' Manitu rolled no successes, 1 threat using the Star Wars Edge of the Empire with a dice pool of 2b 2a 1d 1s.
* I guess I'll take another point of strain for the threat?

GM: Nah, no extra strain for that 1 threat.
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Jeron moved up to the garage and up against the outside wall of it. He then peeked around it and popped off a shot at the thugs. "There just seem to be more and more of these guys!"

OOC: Blast at the thugs and then take cover.
That would be 9 damage pre-soak to the thugs.
1 advantage to give next acting player a boost die.

09:00, Today: Jeron Rist rolled 3 successes, 1 advantage using the Star Wars Edge of the Empire with a dice pool of 1p 2a 1b 1d 1s.  Blasting thugs.

Ikki lays his rifle down on the ground and stands up. Annoyed that he'd leave his rifle on the wall, but the first concern was that he needed to back up his teammates. Drawing his the vibroax that Rancor had, he prepares to jump down and rush the Thugs inside. With a nod, he lets his allies to just hold on for a bit.

Incidental - Drop Rifle.
Maneuver - Stand up
Swapping Action for another Maneuver - Draw Vibroax

What would the check be for jumping down off the roof?

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Caddy & Jeron returned fire, hosing down the enemy. Unfortunately, the thugs were well-covered. Jeron does manage to tag one in the abdomen, causing him to double over and curl up.

Ikki stands up & draws a vibroaxe, and stands on the edge of the building. He looks like an undersized angel of death waiting to descend on his victims.

(The Force, on behalf of Ikki Sorlock, rolled 1 success, 2 advantages using the Star Wars Edge of the Empire with a dice pool of 1P 2A 1B 3D.  Coordination (dropping from roof).)

The thugs continue to lay down fire upon their targets. They seem to have found their range now; more bullets shred the stonework and clip Jeron.

You hear some clicks, followed by curses. It seems that Tatooine's sands have claimed more guns.

The Force rolled 3 successes, 2 threats using the Star Wars Edge of the Empire with a dice pool of 3A 1P 2D 1S.  Thug Ranged L.
8 Damage presoak

Jeron let out a small curse as he pelted once more. He was started to get pretty injured again and wasn't sure how much longer he could do this. He fired off one more blast with his pistol and took cover again. Pretty soon he would need to pull back.

7 damage presoak.
Blast.
Take cover.
Stimpack (2 strain).

11:36, Today: Jeron Rist rolled 1 success using the Star Wars Edge of the Empire with a dice pool of 1p 2a 1d 1s.  Blasting thugs.

Caddy would swear if it was in her character.  As it stood, Jeron took another volley of fire and was hit.  ++"We need to get this done and now....  Rush them, Ikki!  We'll give you cover!"++

And she does just that, breaking cover to take quick aim, fire, and retreat back behind the outcrop of wall she was using as cover.   She was really getting tired and much like Jeron, she'd soon be out of this fight if she continued at this pace.

OOC Actions:

* Aim, Fire with Racial (1 Strain for 1 Boost) and with 1 Setback due to the dust, Take Cover (2 Strain)
* 22:29, Today: Caddanra 'Caddy' Manitu rolled 2 successes, 1 threat  using the Star Wars Edge of the Empire with a dice pool of 2b 2a 1d 1s ((2(B), 2(B), 2(A), 4(A), 5(D), 3(S))).
* So that's 7 damage.  And I'll absorb the threat as strain.

Ikki could hear his comlink and promptly drops off the top of the building, with a degree of courage and powered by adrenaline. As his feet make contacts with the ground, he rolls to the side appearing in front of the thugs with a clang of his axe on the ground. Fluidly rolling to his feet, he grips Rancor's axe in his hands and lets out a battle cry as he rushes the thugs in the garage.

He brings the axe down on the nearest thug he finds hiding behind cover. Landing a satisfying hit as the axe's sharpness cuts through his armor.

Maneuver- Drop down
Suffer two strain for a second Maneuver - Move to Engaged with Thugs
Action - Swinging the Axe

22:42, Today: Ikki Sorlock rolled 1 success using the Star Wars Edge of the Empire with a dice pool of 1p 2a 2D with rolls of 8(P), 1(A), 2(A), 6(D), 2(D).  Melee the thugs.

6 damage and the Axe's Pierce 2 quality ignores 2 soak from the target.
Spending the two advantages from Coordination check to give Jeron a Boost die.

To describe the thugs as 'surprised' at Ikki's appearance misses the nuance of 'confused,' to say nothing of 'terrified.'

Ikki tears one's flesh open, causing blood to spray across the garage. The vibroaxe itself stays near-pristine as its vibrofield is too rapid for fluids to adhere to it.

The wound probably looks worse than it is. Nevertheless, this thug seems to have decided that his pay voucher isn't big enough for this and beats street.

The other two keep up the hail of fire. Another thug is thrown to the ground, leaving only two.

These two retreat. They follow their compatriot towards a door in the northern area of the garage. While he was able to navigate the short flight of stairs, they cannot do so while still facing you and firing. They are forced to stop and fire at Ikki, hoping to gun him down before taking up further cover.

The Force rolled 1 success, 1 advantage using the Star Wars Edge of the Empire with a dice pool of 2A 2P 2D.  Thug Range L short.
6 damage presoak

Still struggling and with no view of the thugs as they dash upstairs, she speaks (softly) into her comm, ++"Ikki, Hold back a moment but make sure they are focused on you."++  She takes a breath.  She doesn't want the thugs poking their guns out of the upper floor windows and firing down on them, but they need a breather to secure things.  ++"Jeron.   Can you please make sure the gates are shut and locked from this side.  We don't want to be going inside only to have to deal with a new threat from behind."++   And with that, she'll move quickly between the various bodies making doubly sure they are dead - and checking for stimpacks (key cards, keys or anything else which might be useful).

OOC Actions:
* Attempt to provide 'good' leadership here - and maybe even a tactical advantage with sensible advice :-) (so the GM can't spring that one on us too easily! :-) )
* 11:41, Today: Caddanra 'Caddy' Manitu rolled 1 success, 2 advantages using the Star Wars Edge of the Empire with a dice pool of 2a 1p 2d.
* Caddy will regain 2 strain.

Ikki winces as he's grazed by one of the bullets, but his natural toughness and heavy clothes absorbed most the damage. With the trickle of warm blood on his left, he grips his axe tighter but Caddy calling through his comm prevented him from moving forward and cleaving into another one.

Ducking behind one of the blood splatted crates and peering out to taunt the thugs "What's the matter? So scared of me that you can't even hit me?" He calls out to them over the firefight. He put maximum effort into sounding cocky, trying to lure them back down from the stairs. He waited to begin his charge once again.

Soak of 4, taken 2 damage.

Maneuver - Take cover
Action - Taunt Thugs

Ikki Sorlock rolled 2 successes using the Star Wars Edge of the Empire with a dice pool of 1P 2A 1B 2D with rolls of 11(P), 3(A), 4(A), 2(B), 4(D), 8(D).  Deception - Distract .

Jeron hesitated slightly. He didn't want to leave his allies in the middle of a fight. However, he was pretty banged up, and Caddy made a good point. He then took off at a jog to go close the gates and try to lock them.

The thugs in the garage open the door to the rest of the building and hide behind the doorway. They take the opportunity to keep firing at Ikki, who is currently hiding behind something himself. The bullets make a lot of noise and bounce off the cover, but have little further effect.

Jeron is about to lock the gate when he sees something interesting.

Most of the people in the street have heard all the commotion and gunfire and cleared off. The street is nearly abandoned. There is one person left, however. A human, wearing rags and a desert cloak, is crouched behind a trash collection box. He is talking into a commlink and armed with a hold-out blaster.

(Jeron may close & lock the gate as a free action next round in addition to his other actions.)

[OOC: Was Caddy able to find any stimpacks and were all the thugs dead?]

Caddendra quickly searched the thugs and found two bacta patches. They function effectively similiarly to stimpaks, but are more rare. They offer real healing, not just a temporary satiation of pain. How two thugs on Tatooine got ahold of such valuable items, even such small ones, is hard to guess.

Caddendra finds one of the thugs is still alive and puts a bullet in his back.
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Having collected the bacta patches (wondering as she does about how the thugs could get such items of value) she spots the wounded thug and straightens and projects her voice so those in the garage can hear her, "I warned you.   You know my name.  Now know that my word is sacrosanct, my vengeance mighty, and ire great."   She straightens so that the thugs can see her before pulling the trigger and killing the prone and wounded thug in a spray of blood that she appear to completely ignore.  Turning then towards the garage, her face showing calm rage.  "Know also that my benediction is bountiful.  I will give you one more opportunity to drop your weapons - never to raise them against me or mine again - and leave before you will suffer the same fate."  It's a risk, but if she can get these thugs to quit, then her compatriots won't need to fight.... (At the same time, she's no fool and will move back into cover.)

OOC Actions:
* Intimidation: Caddanra 'Caddy' Manitu rolled 2 successes, 2 threats using the Star Wars Edge of the Empire with a dice pool of 3a 2d.  Intimidation.
* Not sure on the threats - I'll leave that to you.
* Move action to take cover from what she expects will be the return fire.
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To Caddy and Ikki, he spoke over the comlink, ++Got a guy out front, armed, sort of hiding and talking in to a comlink.++

He stepped to the gate, half-standing behind it. "Hey. You. Lower the blaster and come here." The blaster wasn't pointed AT the guy, but wasn't really pointed away from him either.

Coercion check difficulty on him, Force?

Ikki stands guard over Caddy, letting Jeron deal with the guy at the gate, could be a scout. Keeping his axe out his glances around the room for anything noticeable or useful. Though his eyes did linger on the Shotgun Slugthrower. If they listened to the bossy lady, he'd spare them but if they even pointed it at them, he was ready to charge again.


19:39, Today: Ikki Sorlock rolled 3 successes using the Star Wars Edge of the Empire with a dice pool of 1P 2A with rolls of 5(P), 3(A), 1(A).  Perception.

Didn't roll perception difficulty since something useful could be super hard to find.
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The Force, on behalf of Jeron Rist, rolled no successes, 1 advantage using the Star Wars Edge of the Empire with a dice pool of 3A 2D.  Coercion.

The man in the alley refuses to comply with Jeron's instruction. Instead, he aims & fires at Jeron with his small blaster. The blast goes wild.

Caddy utters a fearsome pronouncement on the thugs. They flee, retreating from the garage.

Ikki sees that there is a speeder bike in the garage. He can see large piles of plasteel crates and bins, holding an assortment of junk & tools. There is one exit from the room, which the thugs just departed through.

"Damnit!" Jeron cursed and then commed Ikki and Caddy. ++Guy out here is shooting at me now.++ He didn't sound panicked, just stating facts. If anything, he sounded annoyed.

He aimed and fired a shot back at the man, staying in the cover of the gate.

OOC: Aim, fire, stay in cover. 7 Damage presoak and 3 advantages to Crit him.

21:51, Today: Jeron Rist rolled 1 success, 3 advantages using the Star Wars Edge of the Empire with a dice pool of 1p 2a 1b 1d 1s.  Blasting guy in alley.
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