Shaking his head to clear his senses, Tarrin focused his mind's eye on the Nikto once again.  Perhaps his emotions were getting the better of him, but Charlie had lost a leg because of the blaster shot fired from Toggus's Bodyguard.  This was not Revenge, but Justice.  Recompense was needed in order for him to feel like he had not failed the clone trooper who had been with them through thick and thin this mission.  Perhaps this was skirting the Dark Side that the Jedi Masters so often warned them against, but the Miraluka cared less about that than he did his responsibility as a Commander of forces.  Lives were on the line, and the actions that he took here determined whether these clones lived or died.  To him, that was much more important than the Light Side or the Dark Side.  Such quibbling was better left to the halls of academia than a battlefield.

Planting his left heel against one of the stairs, the Miraluka surged forward toward the retreating Nikto as the bodyguard ducked behind another statue.  Perhaps such a thing would have worked against anyone who was not Tarrin, but the young Padawan had been hailed by his teachers as a tactical genius.  Simply repeating the same kind of defense against him would not work in Dejaarik nor would it work in a situation like this.  Deftly, he swung his lightsaber in an upward arc as he turned on his foot like a dancer, concentrating the Force into his off hand as the wing he had sliced off the statue began to fall.  Without missing a beat, he outstretched his hand and flung the statue piece forward to daze the Nikto and obfuscate his view.  What was truly insidious, however, was the full-bodied thrust of his lightsaber that followed, piercing through the stone wing and directly into the Nikto's body.

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Using a maneuver to get up and burning two strain for another maneuver to engage the Nikto once again.

09:32, Today: Tarrin Feruwi rolled 3 successes, 2 advantages using the Star Wars Edge of the Empire with a dice pool of 3A 1P 1C 1D with rolls of 3(A), 4(A), 8(A), 9(P), 2(C), 5(D).  Lightsaber attack.

9 Damage.  Using the two advantages to perform a Critical Hit at +10.

09:33, Today: Tarrin Feruwi rolled 31 using 1d100+10 with rolls of 21.

The Nikto is Staggered until the end of his next turn.

The voices started to get louder in his head. You are worthless. Den knows where it's coming from, now. Go back to your books, padawan. He knows that he has to stop it before it drives him mad. You shouldn't even be here. You shouldn't even exist...

He wildly slashes at the general and the rod, hoping to cease the dark side onslaught inside of his mind. He feels the blade strike the general again, but isn't sure it's enough for him to drop the rod.

07:44, Today: Den Jaxon rolled 1 success, 3 threats using the Star Wars Edge of the Empire with a dice pool of 2A 1P 1S 2C with rolls of 3(A), 2(A), 6(P), 3(S), 11(C), 10(C).  Lightsaber.
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Den:

The voices started to get louder in Den's head. You are worthless. Den knew where it's coming from, now. Go back to your books, padawan. He knows that he has to stop it before it drives him mad. You shouldn't even be here. You shouldn't even exist...

  The Nikto saw the Jedi charging and fired off a few shots from cover, just to slow the Jedi down. He hit part of the statue, as the Jedi sliced off a piece and flung it toward him. He tried to get behind the leg of the winged statue as the piece of bronze plated stone hit his cover and sprayed particles of dust and smaller chunks of stone. The azure energy blade pierced his hiding place and penetrated his mid-section, causing his sunken, dark eyes to bulge. He grunted in pain and stumbled away from the blade, firing at random to keep the blind Force user from finishing him, though he couldn't focus to aim he tried to put some distance between them.

Den:

The scholarly Jedi wildly slashed at the General and the rod, hoping to cease the dark side onslaught inside of his mind. 

   The General continued to use the glowing artifact as a melee weapon and diverted the attacks as the two circled. Toggus just kept laughing like lunatic, ignoring his numerous wounds. "Stupid boy! You will die slowly..."

   Den's erratic attacks enabled him to slip past Toggus's defense enough to slash a good chunk off of his side and hip. The scholarly padawan brushed up against the glowing rod, igniting a flash of red and a jolt that knocked him backwards, sliding to the left edge of the raised platform.

   Kalyx seized his opportunity and charged in from behind as his fellow padawan was knocked over by the glowing device.  He thrust his blade up into the general's lower back, and it burst out from his upper chest.

  The glow from the man's maniacal eyes fizzled and the glowing runes turned into a burst of energy, which simultaneously ejected from the body of Toggus and the artifact. It arched and coalesced in the air and then slammed into the Togruta's chest. Her small body lurched violently and then fell back down lightly as all the energy returned. The Jedi prisoner's eyes fluttered open for the first time in a while.

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OOC: used 3 threats on Den's roll to knock him prone. 3 advantages for Kalyx roll to wake up the Togruta as well as return her power. She is still bound by the stun cuffs. The Nikto moved to short range as his maneuver since he can't take action this round..  Boss is lining up a shot on the Nikto, unless someone tells him to stand down so he can surrender.. ?

http://orokos.com/roll/600881 Lightsaber attack : 3eA+1eP+1eB+2eC 1 success, 3 advantage
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http://orokos.com/roll/600880 Discipline check : 2eP+1eA+3eD+1eB 2 successes, 1 advantage
http://orokos.com/roll/600880

Boss followed the Nikto with his gun sight and fired several rounds of bright energy that hit the bodyguard, one of those hit him in the jaw partially, some of it was absorbed by the open faced helmet.

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OOC: Boss hits for 12, soak of 6 on the Nikto, so he is at 15 of 16 wounds he can suffer. Also 3 adv. activates crit. Result: severity 2D, Agonizing wound. increase difficulty of all Brawn and Agility checks until the end of the encounter.

 Blaster rifle attack -
 http://orokos.com/roll/602673

Roller ordon68
Character CT-4805 "Boss"
Campaign FotR
Description crit roll
Results 1d100+10: 58 [1d100=48]
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  The Nikto was knocked back by the shots and then hit in the face. He was barely standing, clinging desperately with one arm to the platform to keep him upgright. He dropped his pistol and raised the one arm he wasn't using to stay up, in a gesture of surrender. "I give up, it was just a job.."

"Just a job...?" the Miraluka intoned softly, with a deadly stillness in his voice as he approached the Nikto with his lightsaber humming at his side.

Suddenly, the brilliant blue blade flashed out and carved a deep scoring line into the stone statue as he kept moving toward the bodyguard.  It cleaved through the stone as if it were nothing more than simple butter leaving a glowing red imprint as he passed through it.  The weapon came back to its resting position at Tarrin's side.

"A good man lost his leg today because of your 'job!'" he continued, raising the lightsaber over his head as he stood over the defenseless Nikto who was trying to surrender.  "You will pay for your transgressions!"

His breathing quickened as he held onto his anger and outrage at the bodyguard trying to shirk the responsibility for his actions that had led to Charlie's injury.  Long moments passed as he loomed over the Nikto, the lightsaber poised to strike and cleave a limb if not end the bodyguard's life in its entirety.  Grabbing ahold of himself mentally, Tarrin turned his lightsaber off and attached it to his belt once more, letting out a long breath.

"...and you will.  You are under arrest under section 4426-A7 of Galactic Law."

Jini is about to intervene as Tarrin approaches the Nikto with his weapon ready to strike, but she calms down when he puts his lightsaber away and accepts the surrender of the general's bodyguard.

"Is everyone alright?" she asks, looking over her companions. She sees that Charlie is down and that his leg looks ruined but apart from that, everyone looks alive and well.

She walks over to the Togruta, examining the skinny form for injuries as she unshackles the girl. She is dressed in what appear to be traditional garments of Jedi Padawans, but Jini struggles to recognize the teenager. There are so many, and she hasn't been around the temple much for the past years.

"Take it easy, we don't know what he was doing with that ... thing, but it felt strong in the dark side," she tells the Togruta. "I'm Jini, a Jedi Knight. With me are Tarrin, Den and Kalyx, all Jedi Padawans, as well as Boss and Charlie over there," she says, indicating the clones. "Oh, and K1T1 of course," she says, nodding her head at the droid.

The dark side artifact the general had been using lies apparently dormant on the floor, but Jini doesn't dare touch it, not yet at least. Instead, she examines it where it lies, both with her traditional senses and through the Force.

OOC: Could Jini do a Lore check to see if she can figure something out about the artifact? If so, what would the difficulty be? Also, would a Sense roll help?

I'll try to recover some strain, at any rate!

15:23, Today: Jini Relliri rolled 2 successes, 1 advantage, 1 triumph using the Star Wars Edge of the Empire with a dice pool of 2P with rolls of 12(P), 9(P).  Recovering strain, +2 for Rapid Recovery x2.

Weird, what can I use the Triumph for? Perhaps Jini notices something interesting as she centers herself in this room?

Den slowly gets up after being knocked down. The first thing he notices is that the voices have ceased. It almost feels like a weight is lifted from him when he realizes this. A small smile grows on his face as peace and quiet has returned to his mind. The young padawan's eyes scan the room to take a quick assessment of the situation.

Their target is eliminated. It probably would have been better to capture, but there was no way he was going to give up.

He then looks to Tarrin, who looks like he is about to strike their new prisoner down, but refrains finally. Den lets out a breath he didn't even know he was holding in during that stressful few moments.

He watches Jini help a fellow padawan from being a sacrifice to the dark side. That's a new technique he hasn't read about in the libraries on Coruscant. It is certainly something he'll have to look into when they return.

His eyes fall onto the artifact. Oh, what luck! It was not damaged during the battle. What kinds of secrets could this rod hold? Maybe it would help them in the battle against the Sith. He slowly walks towards it, kneeling next to it to get a closer look. Are there any familiar markings on it? He looks up at Jini, who is also inspecting it. "We should return this back to Coruscant so the masters can research this. What do you think, Jini?" He is very tempted to reach out and take the item, to hold it and get a much closer look at the inscription. He does not, though, as he looks to the clones. One of them is maimed, his leg completely missing below the knee. He stands and looks to the fallen soldier. "We need to help him out of here and we need to find a safe way out of here."


11:31, Today: Den Jaxon rolled 1 success, 2 advantages using the Star Wars Edge of the Empire with a dice pool of 3A with rolls of 7(A), 1(A), 5(A).  Lore.

Tarrin:

A good man lost his leg today because of your 'job!'" he continued, raising the lightsaber over his head as he stood over the defenseless Nikto who was trying to surrender.  "You will pay for your transgressions!"

The Nikto did not cower as the blind Jedi brought his lightsaber to bare on him. He swayed back slightly, but he kept looking Tarrin in the cloth covering his eye sockets, accepting whatever fate would befall him.

Tarrin:

Grabbing ahold of himself mentally, Tarrin turned his lightsaber off and attached it to his belt once more, letting out a long breath.

"...and you will.  You are under arrest under section 4426-A7 of Galactic Law."

 The bodyguard lowered his head,  his body language could have been interpreted as relief. "I am a hired soldier, but I understand losing team members in this conflict. The Republic is not the glowing beacon of hope it pretends to be. Especially those of us in the mid to outer rims of the galaxy. Our problems are tabled, but our taxes are required no matter what. You are young, but I have seen suffering, even before this war in the forgotten regions."

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OOC:   We are in free form time, so anyone can post or comment. I will be assessing XP the rest of this week and awarding it this weekend. But we can wrap up the role-play and if  you would like some political discussion.. If you are interested, otherwise we will move on to getting out of the caves with your prisoner.
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   The Protocol Droid emerged from where it had been sequestered now that the conflict between the young Jedi and their opponent. As a Protocol series model, there was no combat programming installed aboard the machine's chassis and no need for it to participate in the fight.

   "Pardon me, gentlebeings ..." the female-toned voice asked, "Is there anything that I may assist any of you with?"

"Keep an eye on him, if you could," Tarrin replied to K1, jerking his thumb at the Nikto.

With that, he wordlessly descended the stairs toward Charlie, his soft synth-leather boots whispering across the dusty stone floor.  When he arrived at the clone trooper's prone form, he knelt without concern for dirtying his pants and leaned forward, helping the soldier up bodily, draping Charlie's arm across his shoulders.

"Up we go, old man," he quipped with a good-natured wry smile.  "I'm not about to leave a good man behind.  Let's head back and get you patched up for real, shall we?"

Turning his head so that his face was toward Jini, then shifted to Den, he quirked an eyebrow.  "If we are going to analyze that thing, we shouldn't do it here," he stated, suppressing his own discomfort at the idea of bringing it back with them.  Their injured should take priority over his own feelings about being in close proximity to a dark side artifact.  "We need to get everyone treated as soon as possible.  Spending more time here took look into it isn't really an option."

   "As you wish, Master Feruwi." acknowledged the Droid as she moved over to where Nikto was and simply stood in place, her singular optic sight focused on the man.
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Her head feels like it's been split in two when she comes to. At first, she keeps her eyes closed, feeling the flow of the Force again. She can't remember much, but she can remember the feeling of helplessness as she surrendered to the enemy, the humiliation as she handed her lightsaber to General Toggus. And then the droids blasted her, fortunately with their weapons set on stun.

She hadn't even been aware of the fact that the droids could set their blasters to stun. The blasters certainly weren't on that setting when the combined fire from a company of battledroids finally overwhelmed the defenses of her master. Her memories are fuzzy, but she recalls the ageing Ithorian taking first one, and then several blaster bolts to the torso before crumbling. How his final words were spent to save her life, ordering her to surrender rather than giving in to her impulse to go down fighting like her master.

And now she's awake again. Lying on something hard and cold.

The Togruta lying on the large stone slab slowly opens her eyes and takes in the surroundings. She has no idea where she is, or how she got there, but she seems to recall seeing the Mon Calamari standing over her, undoing her shackles, somewhere before. As she sees the lightsaber hanging from the belt of one of her saviors, she realizes that she's probably seen the Mon Calamari in the Jedi temple. She's been saved.

"What is this?" she says, her voice breaking as she realizes just how dry her mouth is. "Where am I, and who are you?" she asks her small band of rescuers.

  The clone climbed up onto the raised platform area and was headed toward Charlie, but the blind padawan was already helping him out. He heard the Togruta speak up and stopped. It was obvious he was a clone soldier since he is wearing his full white armor. "I am CT-4805, a platoon sergeant. We were diverted from our original mission as reinforcements in the war. They asked us to capture General Toggus, since our ship was closest to the location where he was spotted. We didn't know what he was up to at all, but it was apparently something to do with that glowing rod that he was using. Gave him some crazy powers or something. The Jedi might be able to elaborate further. It all is a bit fuzzy for me."

Jini listens to the teenage Togruta and helps her sit up, but is distracted as she feels a presence in the room. A person. No, three people. Different from the others. Thankfully, Boss steps in and explains the situation as the Mon Calamari stares blankly at the Togruta for a moment.

"Yes, I'm Jini Relliri, a Jedi Knight, and those are Padawan learners in my care. Truthfully, we were not sent here to rescue you, but to apprehend the general, as Boss here said. Although I suspect it was the Force that lead us here just in time to rescue you," she says gently, still a bit distracted. "But I can sense we are not alone here," she says, her lightsaber still hanging from her belt.

She walks deeper into the cavern, peering into the darkness. She holds her hands our, palms up, to indicate that she's not holding a weapon. "You can come out now," she says gently. "We will do you no harm."

Den makes sure that Boss is well enough to escape this place with the assistance of another trooper. He glances back over at that rod. The temptation to study it is so strong. However, the danger that is present overrides that. He hopes he has an opportunity to look at it on the ship, at least. Perhaps reference it with some information that might be on his datapad.

He listens to the saved jedi and her questions, but lets Jini and the clone answer. The two of them are more of the heads of the group than he and his fellow padawans are. An eyebrow raises when Jini calls out to others that are in the darkness. He tries to use the force to sense others in the room, but the rod's dark powers make it difficult for him to concentrate."Jini...who are you talking to?"

09:37, Today: Den Jaxon rolled no successes, 1 dark force point using the Star Wars Edge of the Empire with a dice pool of 1F with rolls of 1(F).  Sense.

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  Kalyx sat down cross-legged and began meditation, once he saw that the Nikto had surrendered. The Trandoshan tried to find his peaceful center to help him fight the pain in his burned chest, and also tamp down on the urge to cut down the bodyguard in retaliation. It was not the Jedi way. The man was just someone that thought he was doing the right thing. He was part of the Force the same as anyone else. Stopping the biggest threat, actually helped him. Perhaps, it satiated his predator instincts, because his did actually find calm acceptance and peace.

  He heard the Jedi Knight talk about sensing three people and he stood up and looked around and shrugged his shoulders. "I don't see anything, either. But... There were three additional people in the video pushing the hovercart with Raana. Perhaps the technicians found another passageway."

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OOC: Kalxy failed his perception with a threat giving him a setback for his recover strain discipline check. He rolled 3 success and 2 advantages and used one advantage to notice the detail about the techs in the video, and another advantage to pass a boost to the next person giving them more confidence that there is something possibly there.

Den tries to center himself, closing his eyes, and focusing on finding what they need. He pictures the three techs and reaches out to the force. This time, the light side answers his call. His mind sees the path that was taken and the path that they will need to take to escape. "I see them. I see where we need to go." He says, eyes still closed.

14:12, Today: Den Jaxon rolled no successes, 2 light force points using the Star Wars Edge of the Empire with a dice pool of 1F with rolls of 12(F).  Seek.

"There might be a doorway or a passage. They don't seem threatening," Jini says. She then raises her voice a little. "You can come out now. You have my word you will not be harmed," she says, hoping to entice the technicians to give themselves up. Enough blood has been spilled on this day.

Using the Force, Jini lifts up the strange dark-side device, examining it further. "Do you have any idea what this is, or why Toggus was using it?" she asks the Togruta.

With Charlie's arm around his shoulder, Tarrin was easing the clone trooper toward the rest of the group when he paused.  Extending his senses, he reached out with his Force Sight to see just what was around them.  Pushing it outward to press against the walls of the ruin and cave, he let it leak through the slits in the walls to find the organic beings beyond.

"Boss, can you hold onto Charlie for a moment?" he called out to the other clone trooper.  "There's...something here."

Once Boss came to relieve him, the Miraluka walked calmly toward the part of the wall he had sensed--a rectangular set of lines in the shape of a doorway.  Tracing his fingers long the lines, he confirmed what he had sensed.

"A Chadra-Fan and a Bith," he said to the others.  "And they may be injured."

Tracing his fingers to the right of the doorway, he felt for the divot on the panel he had sensed was there and pulled in order to reveal what was beneath.  If these were more prisoners of General Toggus, they needed to be rescued.  Perhaps they knew more of what the General was planning?

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02:47, Today: Tarrin Feruwi rolled 2 successes, 3 threats using the Star Wars Edge of the Empire with a dice pool of 1A 1P 3D with rolls of 4(A), 2(P), 5(D), 8(D), 5(D).  Perception check.

  Boss helped Charlie to the steps and he sat down and wrapped a couple of bacta patches at the end of his leg stump that was starting to ooze more blood. The clone sergeant moved toward the Nikto prisoner and kept his rifle trained on him. Boss called out to K1T1, "Droid. Take those stun cuffs over there and put them on the bodyguard. Jini has the transceiver key with her, but you won't need it to the secure them. Just let them click shut."

 He glanced over and Jini was talking to the wall, and Tarrin sauntered over and joined him conversing with the rock wall. He shook his head and wondered if this place is still affecting them both. The wall, unsurprisingly, didn't talk back.

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OOC: There is no response on the other side of the wall.  Tarrin realizes the small rectangular lines and divot could be a mechanical lever.

  Just as the sergeant finished his sentence, Tarrin pulled on something off the wall, a rectangular piece of rock came down with a metallic groan. A door shaped section of wall, began to move inward, then swung to the left revealing a medium sized room.

  Boss looked astonished and mumbled to Charlie. "I don't understand the Jedi, but I should have learned by now to trust their strange senses."

  The two Jedi immediately recognize the technicians from the B2 video that K1 sliced, the mangy furred Chadra-fan, the Bith female and the short man with curly black hair and beard. They are huddled in a corner, under the hoversled that was also in the video.

  Everything in this room seems to be disintegrated over the many years, but in the back of the room are two rusted doors that are partially open, but its hard to see inside with only the light of the lightsabers.

Her mouth dry and her head pounding after the strange ritual, Raana slowly gets up on her feet. "I'm afraid I don't remember much at all. I was kept sedated after I was forced to surrender," she says. "All I remember is having horrid visions, the device is surely connected to the dark side. I think we need to get it to the Jedi Temple. Out of these caves," she says, her voice trailing off as she realizes she doesn't even know which planet she's on.

She walks to Toggu's body and starts going through his pockets. "I wonder what he did with my lightsaber," she says as she looks for her weapon. Master Edom had always been adamant she look after the weapon, even as he advocated finding other ways to resolve problems than the force of arms.

Jini shifts the dark side artifact, still using the Force to maneuver the rod. She puts it down on the strange altar where the Togruta had been restrained. Raana clearly doesn't know why Toggus was performing this ritual, and now that he's dead he won't be talking. Unless they can get the prisoners to talk they might have to bring the artifact back to Coruscant to get some idea.

She walks towards the open doorway. "Please come out of there, you will not be harmed," she tells the technicians. "You may consider yourselves our prisoners until we get the details of your involvement in this ritual. Perhaps this would be a good time for you to tell us why you are here and what you and the late general here were hoping to accomplice," she says. She suspects the technicians might not be here of their own free will, but perhaps they can shed some light on what Toggus was up to.

  The muscular Bith female, a species with a large head, large black eyes and several wrinkled cheek flaps over a small circular mouth, came out and stood up with her hands raised. "We were conscripted to serve the Separatists, at least Daalub and I," she said as she pointed to the old Chadra-fan male. "We will..."

  She was interrupted by the bearded human man who was getting out from under the hover sled. "Stop talking! Your being paid well enough, so keep your mouth shut and don't tell them anything. Think about your families."

  The Chadra-fan moved over cowering behind the Bith, rubbing his stomach through the grease stained coveralls.