Starfall - Episode One: Blind Man's Bluff
One by one, all of the remaining sleepers were awakened and the two droids powered back up.
"I know, I know. We are still working it out ourselves." Ali said regarding the many questions and grumbles the newly aware were offering. Listening the various queries, it seemed not everyone had remembered the tiny amount she had.
"Yes, we were on Cloud City. And we were leaving...?" Ali strained to remember...
...Leaving the Tibanna Sunrise, the companions had moved towards their various landing pads. At the last common hallway, a young human woman approached and asked if the group was could use some workers for the 'Blue Harvest'. Sign. The team gave the coutersign. And then confirmed the presence of a fellow Rebel with about five more signs and countersigns, trivia about the Hoth cafeteria and Sundancer's assurance that he had a good feeling about the girl.
"Sorry, Rebels'" she said, "Your leave has been cancelled..."
The young Twi'lek tried to recall more but there was no more memories for the moment. Her lekku actually twitched which some might have though frustration but DeeJay recognized as a torrent of profanity coarse enough to almost shut the protocol droid again.
"Fine." Ali spat, "Let's deal with the present situation." She wanted to answer Celes' question. "We are in an Imperial prison cell. No one else has such poor aesthetics. We need to get out of here and then worry about why and when afterwards." She then leaned forward to whisper, "We are together, likely so we will talk, which means we are monitored. So let us 'merchants' be careful not to reveal any 'trade secrets', eh?"
DeeJay said, "Who is our new companion?" She indicated the Barabel stranger. "I don't know, possibly an Imperial plant." Ali finished, not caring whether or not this new person heard her.
"I think we can trust our new friend. I have a good feeling about this." Thuraya said with a serene certainty that startled back the sarcastic reply Ali had been working on.
DeeJay sent a highly compressed datastorm to TwoOneBee confirming their meeting with the mysterious Issan Len. "I think our memory has been tampered with, dear friend, and our capabilities. You shouldn't be able to understand this particular code and I shouldn't be able to know that you can."
Thuraya helped Shira to her feet. "Lean on me if you have to, little girl." The tone was an affectionate one but the two women were very close to the same age...
OOC:
OK, we are underway and I am now responding to player posts.
All player characters and NPCs (save Dakert) will remember what is in Ali's lavender flashback as pretty much the immediate aftermath of your encounter at the Tibanna Sunrise on Cloud City. You can turn the thin player description of your mission as character memory. You can add to Ali's flashback above if you wish.
If you are understandably confused by this very non-standard introduction, then just play your character as suddenly finding themselves in an Imperial prison cell when they were on Cloud City just a moment ago. We will work things out.
If that still doesn't work for you, don't post for a bit, I understand. Watch how me and the other characters work things out and (hopefully) make things clearer.
Dakert will have a personal flashback after their first post that will help tie things together.
The Imperial prison cell is recognizable to the Rebels as Imperial and on a ship (the slight concessions of shipboard architecture and the thrum of engines). The cell is basically a steel safe with flat slabs for beds, light panel strips, and a recessable panel that acts as a fresher which, mercifully, none of you have had the need of yet. There is a steel shut door which is your way out. It currently doesn't seem like there is a way to easily escape.
But the next post will end in action which is something I realize this game has lacked.
Questions, just ask...