Today: Onyx rolled 2 successes using the Star Wars Edge of the Empire with a dice pool of 1b 2d 2a 1p.  Resilience.

Onyx recovering from his blindness sees the retreating thug. He points and fires.

Onyx rolled 1 success, 1 advantage using the Star Wars Edge of the Empire with a dice pool of 2a 1p 1d.  short range heavy.

I deal 9 damage.

Onyx then sprints inside the house hoping it will provide him some cover.

Let me know if this is one or two manuvers. If it is 2 I will take the strain.

Onyx fires his gun, putting some energy into the thug as he runs. The man stumbles but doesn't fall.

Onyx has to stand up before he runs, slowing him down a bit. Then he runs over and gets inside the farmhouse.

The thug is surprised to see him, but not so startled that he doesn't react. The man draws a vibroblade and attacks. He swipes at Onyx, but the Rebel avoids the attack.

Then, muffled inside the ship, you hear a loud pop. Then, in the same second, another pop. You hear alarms blaring inside the ship. On the loudspeaker, the tinny voice shouts "What?"

The ship's laser cannon stops moving and hangs still. You have a few precious moments.

Forim's vision is improving.  Now he sees a big white blur.  He blinks his eyes against the brightness.

(last round of one kind of uselessness, before next round and I try to take down a space ship, with a gun.)

Dienton shakes his head as his vision clears.  "Still Alive!" he yells.  His booby trap had done something, he didn't know what, but he was happy to hear the ship maniac's frustration.  He could only hope that a fire or something would spread to other systems.

He looked around for cover, obviously the cargo pods didn't have the armor to take even a single hit from that cannon - that did not leave a lot of options.  Then he had it!  A thought struck him, as if from the Big Green Fish itself!  He ran towards the nearest landing strut and placed the strut directly between himself and the turret.  Hopefully, the fool controlling the ship would fire on himself and knock the ship askew, unable to lift off.

He took another shot at the turret, hoping for a triumphant result!

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Meesly Gun vs Ship board cannon take two,  I'm assuming i'm at close range now.

Dienton rolled 1 success, 5 advantages using the Star Wars Edge of the Empire with a dice pool of 1P 3A 1D.  Pea Shooters are my specialty.  Attack on cannon.

6 damage.  Since I dont think the rules allow me to crit the turrent. Then maybe I managed to take out a particular servo and the turrents movement gets limited to a certain arc or I hit and destroy the camera that must be mounted to the gun.

Onyx dodges the first blow with a quick sidestep. As he does this he lets go of the gun with his right hand so that he's able to give the thug a nice right hander.

Today: Onyx rolled 2 successes, 1 advantage using the Star Wars Edge of the Empire with a dice pool of 2a 1p 1b 2d.

6 damage and Dienton hearing the scream of the thug gains a boost of confidence. Aka a boost die.

Onyx knocks the thug for a loop, sending him to the ground. He lands hard on the ground. His limbs droop limply on the floor.

Now that he's in here, Onyx can see that he is in a kitchen. It looks as though the room was once quite homey, although the thugs have tracked sand everywhere and used all the dishes without washing them.

Dienton and Forim try to suppress the ship's laser gun. It stays pretty still for the moment. If Tech-Hound is planning something, it must be a very cunning scheme.

Just seeing the last blury image of Onyx enter the domicile, Forim makes a dash toward that new position hoping for the best.

ooc: if this is one maneouver, I will take a pot shot at the ship.  Click here to roll for me: Pew Pew

"Sithspit that ship is a pain in the you know what!" he says to Onyx paning slightly.  "We might be blasted in here, not that there is much we can do with them in a ship and us down here."

Dienton kept his position, making sure to hold the landing strut between himself and the ships gun.  He leaned around his cover and fired off another shot at the offending protuberance.  He missed - he couldn't believe it!  it was right there!

OOC
Aimed Twice - 2 strain
Results - 1 fail, 6 advantage.

Ill spend two to recover my strain, ill save the other 4 as two boost dice for next round.

As the rebels are desperately firing on the ship over their heads, they hear another explosion. The sound echoes across the desert plain like a thunderbolt. It is followed by a noise nearly as loud as rocket engines ignite. You press your hands to your ears for relief as a bright missile shoot away from the ship.

An escape pod. Someone has climbed into an escape pod and fired it while the ship is still landed on the ground. The noise and brightness of the pod's solid-fuel engines is intense, but it soon rockets off over the dunes.

(Fight Over)

"I don't know about you" Forim says "But I want to follow that pod."

At the rumble of the escape pods launch, Dienton peeks his head out from behind the landing strut and glared triumphantly at the blaster turret.  He gingerly steps out of cover and jogs over to Forim and Onyx at the farmhouse.

He grinned expansively at his companions and did a little dance of joy at their survival.  I sure am glad that’s over., he looks at Forim it’s a coupla hours back to the city in our speeder, I have a feeling the occupant will be long gone by then .  He turned a slow circle, taking in the farm and the ship together I am inclined to stay and poke around a bit.  We may find useful equipment or intel we can take back to the alliance.  This is a staging ground for trade with Jabba after all.  Why don’t we take the next hour, search the buildings, the cargo pods that are still intact – even the rest of the ship, if we can get into the bridge section, the rest is pretty much slag.   his grin broadens even more We could also finish the job destroying the ship, cover our tracks.  There could be video logs onboard.  What do you think Onyx?

I'm in. The garage has another speeder, so that should definitly help our cause. So far I've only found that and slugthrowers and some credits, but we should give the place a better look. At this point anything we can find should help us out. Anyways, checking the building should be easy. I mean as far as I know that's the last of the thugs. As Onyx talks he uses his vibro knuckles to rip off a piece of the guy's shirt he just finished off. He uses that to begin cleaning his weapon wiping off the blood.
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"Ok, lets meet back in an hour - i want to look into the remaining pods"  with that, the blissful Chadrafan joged back to the ships remaining cargo pods.  He approached them one by one and inspected each for traps, then gave each a quick inventory.

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Mr GM - let me know what you want me to roll here: if you want to handwave the search and us know what we find.

The other pods have... plants.

Vaccuum-locked crates that contain stacks of leaves. Plasteel jugs filled with strange yellow goo. Jars of coloured powders.

Another pod has vaccuum-locked crates too. They are filled with dirt. The dirt is mostly soft green with bits of brown, red, and purple in it.

(Xenology 2D 1C to deduce where this stuff is from.)

On the various thugs you find a half-dozen slugthrower pistols and four slugthrower rifles. You also find four vibroknives and two frag grenades. Once you finish frisking their pockets, you find four hundred credits. They are also wearing padded armour, although it's the wrong size for Dienton.

As yet you haven't entered the ship. Getting back into it is going to be a beast, as the external controls seem to have been locked down.

As you find the signal-key to activate the landspeeder, your eyes are drawn back towards the town of Mos Espa. A big cloud of sand & dust is being kicked up about three kilometers away.

Investigating the pods was less than exciting.  Dienton attempted to identify the materials, but couldn't quite place them.  He did however found a small credit chip worth 100 credits in the farthest pod . . which he pocketed.

Dienton looks towards Forim and Onyx, then says "I wish we had time to get back into the ship, it looks like a storms a commin, we better get outta here before the storm hits.  LEts take both speeders back to town.  In a place like Mos Espa, we shouldnt have a problem unloading them.  Well need something bigger to carry the cargo anyway."

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Identify soil - 1 fail, 4 advantage - Spend Advantage to find extra credits.

If you both agree, we can split the 400 credits.  133 each, Dienton will take one of the Vibroknives and a Frag Grenade to replace the one he used on the ship.  Ill also take a slug-thrower rifle.

Onyx grabs a set of padded armor that hasn't had a bolt of energy shot through it. He agrees to splitting the credits. He offers Forim the frag, but if Forim doesn't take it, then he will pocket it.

We can also stay here. Scope around see if anyone comes around. If they do then we can try and take them down without killing. See if they know anything. Either way, Onyx pulls out a commlink. One of the guys had this on him.  I saw it was encripted and didn't want to mess with it, but if one of you want to take a crack at it feel free.

Dienton considered Onyx's words, "Im not sure how much time we have before the storm hits, but i hate to leave with that ship intact.  Id agree to stay, but I think we should all agree.  Does the control for the loading ramp still work?  Did you see any rope?  we could fashion some climbing gear and get back in the way we came out."

Dienton reached for the proffered comlink, "im not bad at this stuff, let me take a crack at it"

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GM, you want to roll computers for me or let me know the difficulty ~ crack comlink code: 4A
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The Force, on behalf of Dienton, rolled 1 failure, 2 advantages using the Star Wars Edge of the Empire with a dice pool of 4A 2D 1S.  Crack yon commlink.

Dienton tries a workaround he has heard about, but the machine locks out. Now it will need seventeen minutes before the thing's lockout disengages and he can try again.

Forim takes the credits, a vibroknife, slugthrower rifle and a set of padded armor.  The rest can be sold

(ooc: if throwing Grenades is Agility, I can take one of those too, if not all yours)

"Lets com our team and get their status, they might need some backup...  Otherwise I am good for staying." Forim suggests

I only have 3a. I think you will be able to better put the grenade to use.

That makes sense Onyx said nodding his agreement.

Dienton, after speaking into his commlink, looks up with a worried expression.  "I cant raise the others. . . For the moment, lets assume their just occupied.  If we cant raise them soon, we should head back, but in the meantime . . " he turns towards to farm house and searches for a length of rope, strong cord, or ladder.  He also looked for something he could use as a hook for grappling.

Dienton finds twelve meters of rope, as well as some chain and a long spool of string. Grappling hooks are a bit harder to find, but there is a sand-anchor. It's pretty heavy to throw but it would stick in the ground pretty well.

Whatever is causing the cloud of sand is getting pretty close now.

Dienton puts down the supplies he had gathered with a frown, there was no way he could throw the anchor, but . . he wondered if Onyx could could manage it.  He glanced towards the big man (they were all big men) about to question him, when his eyes drifted to the sand cloud.  For the first time, Dienton notices that the sand cloud on the horizon seems to be coming from a point source, rather than a wind like he had originally thought.      Looking at Forim, "You have your electrobinoculars on you?  Looks like we may have more company."

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How about a knowledge warfare check to determine the best point for an ambush?  We could set up near the ship and shipping containers or in the buildings.  A successful check could give us some boost dice the first round?

Knowledge Warfare 4A

The area around here is pretty flat with only the one structure. You have excellent vision but not a lot of cover. Depending on what your tactic is, you may be able to take advantage of the terrain.

3D Warfare

+1B for forim