The hard-top executes a five-point turn. Caddendra takes advantage of the walls to wait until the groundtruck is facing away. The double-doors on the back of the truck have no windows; likely the vehicle relies on externally-mounted cameras for rear viewing.

Caddy may choose to approach the hard-top stealthfully, quickly, or acrobatically. All Difficulty 3, but setbacks & advantages will be different depending on whether she chooses Athletics, Acrobatics, or Stealth.

The stormtroopers split into two groups. One group spreads out across the street, firing at the escaping Rebel speeders. The other, including the seargent, rushes back through the alleyway towards their vehicle.

Onyx & Dienton have a few moments to drive through the streets of Mos Espa before pursuit is truly joined. Although the village isn't terribly populated, there's enough traffic and junk in the streets to make a high-speed chase seriously dangerous. They must choose how fast to drive. Too fast, and their speeders may crash. Too slow, and the Imperials may catch up.

Driving a speeder at high speed on Tatooine means dust. The Rebels struggle to keep their eyes clear.

Choose your own Difficulty, max 4. For every 1 Difficulty over 1, take 1 additional Boost dice. Do you feel lucky?
All checks are made with 1 Setback token due to poor vision and distraction.

Dienton hits the accelerator.  He pushes the speeder to its limits while weaving through the streets of Mos Espa.  Pedestrians scramble out of the way as the speeder careens down the streets.

Dienton thinks, where to go?  The spaceport was closed, they had to evade pursuit.  He hollered over the din of the repulsors, both into his comm and to those in the vehicle "Where can we go?!  Thinking to head back to the farm!  Get outside of the city.  Thoughts?!"  He takes a hard left down a narrow corridor, just keeping control of the speeder.

OOC
Driving - 1 success 1 advantage
4A 3D 2B 1S

Sounds good Onyx yells as he waits for the stormtroopers to get in range. That'll be a good place for us to hide out, or need be make our stand.

Distances on the stormtroopers?

Onyx squints through the dust. The white armoured figures are hard to make out, but he figures the pilots must have put at least half a kilometer between themselves and the 'troopers.

Seeing the car backing up to her, Caddy used the cover of being lower than the vehicle and covered in a storm of dust to crawl 'stealthily' towards the hard top - even as she's surrounded by an even thicker and sudden dust cloud made by the boost from Forim's speeder.

[OOC:

14:20, Today: Caddanra 'Caddy' Manitu rolled no successes using the Star Wars Edge of the Empire with a dice pool of 2A 2B 3D.  Approaching the vehicle.

Took 1 strain to gain my boost dice.

15:36, Today: Caddanra 'Caddy' Manitu rolled 1 success using the Star Wars Edge of the Empire with a dice pool of 1b.  Advantage from Forim.

For total of 1 Success - no advantages.]
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Forim says "Hold on tight!" then guns it.  Seeing Caddy trying to make a getaway, he guns the repulsors just as he passes throwing up a dust storm

ooc: using advantage to give Caddy a boost dice to get away

09:32, Today: Forim Luk rolled 3 successes, 3 advantages using the Star Wars Edge of the Empire with a dice pool of 1P 3A 1D.  Rolling Planetary.

Caddy manages to get up inside the groundtruck. Like many troop transports, the loading door can be opened to several degrees. This allows it to be fully sealed for protection, or to be opened & closed quickly to allow for rapid loading & unloading. At the moment, it's opening to allow the stormtroopers to file back inside and give chase.

Then Caddy climbs into the truck. She sees two imperial army soldiers at the controls. One is driving, his attention fixed on his steering pad and guidance cameras. The other is standing up at the controls of the vehicle's blaster turret. He is scanning the environment through his periscopic screen, watching for danger outside the truck.

Caddy hears the tromping of the stormtroopers rushing back towards their groundtruck transport. She has only moments to act before they pile in and surround her.

Meanwhile, the other Rebels make excellent time. They roar through the streets of Mos Espa, leaving a cloud of sand behind them. The stormtroopers having been left in the dust for the moment, they have a brief window to debate their destination. The Sunset Shimmer is still waiting at the landing area, ready to take off with only a few minutes of preparation. They are also aware of the merchant vessel parked at the moisture farm several hours' drive out of the city. After the sabotage mission, it's probably not in as good a state of repair.

The Rebels are also aware that the Imperials do have a ship in the system. Although the Dreadnaught is neither close nor fast, at flank speed they might still be able to inconvenience the Rebels' escape if it takes too long. Most Dreadnaught-class vessels carry a squadron of TIEs as well. Time is of the essence.

I made it in!  But only a moment to act!  Caddy has to take a moment to gather herself as she hunts around for the controls to 'close and lock' back doors.   No doubt the driver can override this but as soon as she finds the fad and slaps it (it must be big enough and bold enough for a trooper to slap in full armour so it can't be that hard to find, can it?) and then immediately launches pushes towards the driver's seat.  She'd given up her weapons earlier and she regrets that now... but grabbing the closest improvised weapon she tries to shuffle forward and brain the driver.  It doesn't work... fortunately though, in the scuffle, she's able to disarm the driver, distracting both him and the guman!

[OOC:
Attack 2D, 1S for an improvised weapon.   2A, 1B from Trait - 1 Strain spent, 1B from Aim.  I didn't assume bonuses from surprise.]

23:16, Today: Caddanra 'Caddy' Manitu rolled 1 failure, 4 advantages using the Star Wars Edge of the Empire with a dice pool of 2A 2B 2D 1S.

3 Advantages - Used to Disarm
1 Advantage used to give the mooks a black on their next roll.]
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Onyx crouches down into the speeder. If any stormtroopers were waiting he wanted to make sure they didn't get an easy shot. With that he pulled out his comlink. Jeron who is this man I brought onto the speeder, and how important is he? I believe that one of our speeders has to stay on planet to try and save Caddy, while the other leaves. I am willing to do it, but if this man is to important I obviously will be unable to stay behind.

Ikki looks over to Onyx "The Verpine was a captive where the shipment was supposed to be, we just kinda cut him loose and got out of there. Maybe he is the shipment? Which means he's our mission objective." Ikki shouted over the sound of the speeder.

Taking out his rifle and checking it over once more, he prepares for more combat "The more important question is how are we gonna get to our ship and rescue Caddy? We're not excatly in the best of shape."

"I think we gotta ditch the speeders and get scarce.  Trying to take off now will just get their Ties on us.  Same with leaving the city."

Caddy slaps the manual control to seal the vehicle. The gears grind in protest, but reverse their course. The door seals itself just as the stormtrooper squad reaches the back. They shout in protest, their demands for information coming in over the groundtruck's comm.

The vehicle operators hear this and glance over in surprise. They turn just in time to see Caddy right up in the gunner's face. She shouts a battle cry and smacks him across the face with an extinguisher.

The gunner falls back, but the pilot catches him. They stand and fight, trying to both get at her at once. The close-quarters of the cabin make hand-to-hand combat a brutal affair.

The Force rolled 1 success, 1 threat using the Star Wars Edge of the Empire with a dice pool of 2A 2D.  Crew Brawl.

The gunner punches Caddy in the chest, knocking some of the wind out of her.

The stormtroopers outside are banging on the door, trying to get the attention of the vehicle crew.

Meanwhile,

The other Rebels hold a hasty deliberation on their next course of action. They are attracting a lot of civilian attention with their rapid pace, but there don't seem to be any enemies around at the moment.

Dienton manuevers the speeder through the twisting streets.  There were few places he knew of on this planet.  They hadnt thought to establish a fallback location.  Lacking other ideas he drives towards the storage unit their moisture farmer contact had given them access to.  They could get out of sight there and plan on how to get back to the ship.  He signals to Forim to follow, not wanting to broadcast his intentions over the comm.

As Dienton is turning a corner, he sees something that worries him. A man in a simple desert robe is crouching behind a market stall. The man is talking hurriedly into a commlink.

It would seem that Jabba's goons are trying to get a fix on them even now. Although it is unlikely that Dienton and his passengers have been marked, it is most likely that the speeder's description is being relayed throughout the village.

Flipping a Dark Side point.

Close quarters wasn't ever going to be easy for her and she desperately needed to make this count but... two one wasn't going to be easy.  Dropping the fire extinguisher, to give her more 'room' to move, she clawed at the driver before pulling back a little to try and stop them both attacking her at the same time.

[OOC:

That's 3 damage.

09:15, Today: Caddanra 'Caddy' Manitu rolled 2 successes, 1 threat using the Star Wars Edge of the Empire with a dice pool of 2a 3b 2d.  (Sorry, re-rolled as I still had the setback added)]

Also, you didn't tell me the damage they did to me?

Caddy knocks the trooper back. He falls on a lever just as the driver is trying to roll the truck forward. The truck's gears adjust into Reverse without properly shifting. The truck shifts backwards violently about half a meter and then stalls.

Caddy is knocked from her feet. The gunner is on his hands & knees. He tries to grab her leg and pull her forward. He pulls off her left boot but she avoids being grappled.

The Force rolled 3 failures, 2 advantages using the Star Wars Edge of the Empire with a dice pool of 2A 2D.  Crew Brawl.

3 damage presoak from previous attack.

A bump is 'enough' to knock her off her feet but in the confines of the vehicle that hasn't badly hurt her.   What she can't however do is muster the strength to wiggle to her feet and so with her remaining booted foot, she tries to aim a kick at the gunner's face given he'd tried to grab her other foot.  Unfortunately it doesn't help her as while the kick was well aimed, the gunner had already retreated expecting the blow.  Things were not going well....

[23:10, Today: Caddanra 'Caddy' Manitu rolled no successes using the Star Wars Edge of the Empire with a dice pool of 2a 2b 2d.  Brawl.]

Dienton continues his course towards the storage shed.  Seeing the suspicious character though, he makes his course more erratic, hoping to throw off any pursuit.  He comms to Forim in the other speeder "Split up, get close and ditch, meet you there"  He doubles back on his course several times as he makes his way through the city.  Once within a few hundred meters of the storage shed, he maneuvers the speeder down a narrow alley between two adjacent buildings.

With the speeder tucked neatly in the shadowed alleyway, he turns to the group with a vicious grin, "Thank you for traveling on the Dienton Express.  This is our last stop for the evening.  Please watch your step as you exit the vehicle and be sure to gather any personal belongings, including freed prisoners, before you depart.  We hope you'll travel with us again soon.  Can someone please check our tail?"

Dienton hops out of the speeder and creeps towards the mouth of the alley leading towards the storage shed.  He peeks his head around the corner, looking for signs of spotters or other ne'er-do-wells.

OOC
Let me know what to roll if anything

Onyx steps out still holding the man Jerone had been helping. As he steps off the ship he shakes his head towards Dienton. Let's not do that again. He gives the shed a curious look. We sure this is safe?

Dienton smirks at Onyx "Nope, but with both the empire and the hutts looking for us, its the best we have.  Note to selves - when planning on ticking off two major galactic powers, be sure to plan for a safehouse"

That brings a hint of a grin to Onyx's face. Well at least we'll be ready for our next mission.

Forim pulls his speeder in and agrees "Yea, we need to ditch these rides - too hot now.  Does anyone know what Cassy's plan was?  She kind ran the wrong way for that escape.  I tried to give her some cover for her to make a get away, but seemed she was running into the imperial speeder.  Think she is an informant?  I don't know much about her" he asks the group

No idea Onyx says And it doesn't matter. She knows to much about what we know to leave her with the imperials for long. Any ideas on how we can get her back?

Dientons grin faltered "The mission has to come first.  We need to get the "cargo" either secured or off planet first.  Then we can plan for Caddy. There was a group here right?  The moisture farmer . . Cole?  How do we contact him?"

Ikki helps the Verpine inside the warehouse before turning back to the group "Nah, spending the last firefight with her, she's no informant. Maybe just rash." he answers back to them. Turning to the Chadra-fan he speaks up "Cole is probably around the cantina and we still have one more card to play..." He pulls out the map that Cole drew the X on "Cole buried a bomb in a plasteel containder, if we decide to go for an all out attack or sabotage or even a disctraction then we can use it..." Sorlock spoke out to the group, it was there last ace up their sleeve but it was something of use.

"Now, do we spilt into groups to take our ship and comrade back or stay together?" They weren't in the best of shape, as soon as he had a target, he would begin his scouting, not many people had seen his face after all.