"Dear, I thought you said Admiral Aran was competent." Devan said.
"Extremely, the last time I checked." Martina replied.
"So how do you explain her, then?"
"Hitchhiker?"
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Originally Posted by drothgery
" [...] Is it too much to think we care enough about our friends and our business to send one of the family to investigate what happened here?"
Ugh, comedians!
"Yes. Totally. Utterly. If you think I'd buy that drivel, better forget it. But it seems to be your lucky day because the Jedi is buying your story," Sianni answers while jerking a lek in Kacela's direction. "Well, I ain't. But dumb Twi'lek must be silent now because owner has spoken."
Falling silent, she walks a few a steps down the hallway before suddenly pointing a lek in Devan Ijatsi's general direction without ever looking back.
"Still, Mr. Technology Officer won't set his feet any further into this facility unless I say so. The rest of you can clear the station but he stays here. Conscious or unconscious, that's his choice."
"Now, unless I am misinformed, you are not in command of this little expedition. Your companions have agreed to let us accompany you." Ijatsi said, and walked on, letting most of the others take the lead. But somehow Martina always managed to stay between Sianni and Devan.
If Martina and Devan were here for anything other than their stated purpose, they were very good actors. The anguish they had shown when they had found the first room full of dead technicians, the obvious higher level of alert Martina had shifted to when she saw the blaster scoring on the walls inside, Ijatsi's crisp, technical reports on files broken into.
Still, no one had expected what they found in the hangar bay Ijatsi had said was used for storing experimental craft.
A dozen odd war droids were inside, that began to move as the bay door opened. And Kacela knew right then this was where her low-level sense of something dark had come from.
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! !
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! * ****!
! 6 * 5 !
! * * !
! 7 8 !
! ** * *!
! 9 X *** Y Z !
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A - Tomalor's droid
R - Tomalor
T - Theta
H - Hawk
S - Sianni
M - Martina
D - Devan
K - Kacela
1-9, X, Y, Z War Droids
* Cover (equipment)
!,- walls
"I knew this was too easy... mutters Hawke as he dives for cover, blaster instantly in hand. He pops out from behind cover only long enough to fire off a couple shots at the nearest K'ril droid, but his aim is off and the shots splatter harmlessly off the bulkhead.
Exclaiming "eep!" and pulling behind his droid, Tomalor begins fiddling with his blaster, doing something to the settings. The robot seamlessly steps forward, pulling forth its blaster. With a sinister sounding, "Exclamation: I am quite eager to participate in some unadulterated violence!", it levels its rifle at the nearest droid.
OOC: Tomalor will take a 5' step back and to the side and start some Personalized Modifications on his blaster. Aitch will draw, take a 5' step to Tomalor's old position, and blast 2 with a Rapid Shot.
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Sianni stared incredulously at the corporate magnate with her mouth open but no sound coming out - a rather rare occurence as her current companions can attest to. Having the human idiot dismiss her reputation so casually just caught her totally off-guard. For a moment the old instincts took over and Sianni's hands dropped to her blasters till it occured to her that working for Republic had now forced her into a no-win situation. Gunning those two down would almost certainly lead to the squeamish Jedi voiding her contract while letting them live might invite unpredictable risks for her reputation. And her esteemed companions stood around like a herd of niz'aras, waiting wide-eyed for the butcher ... apparently this Ijatsi had real deep pockets if he could even buy the Jedi. Well, he probably got a bargain deal on the Navy, anyway.
Reluctantly Sianni lifted her hands again after deciding to go with the lesser evil in this case. At least for the moment ...
As Kacela shouts out her warning, Martina is springing into action, moving to where she can see inside the hanger bay and losing a plasma bolt from her rifle at droid #2. Its shields flicker in shades of black, and sparks fly, but the droid only seems to have taken minor damage from her shot.
Kacela steps out in front of the group, her lightsaber springing out in a bright green line.
"These machines are K'ril," she says grimly. "They will be more powerful than normal for droids of this size."
"I knew this was too easy... mutters Hawke as he dives for cover, blaster instantly in hand. He pops out from behind cover only long enough to fire off a couple shots at the nearest K'ril droid, but his aim is off and the shots splatter harmlessly off the bulkhead.
OOC: Sianni, Hawke's now occupying the square you wanted to move to (it was the only cover he could reach in a single move). Kacela, I'm assuming you had to draw your lightsaber.
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! * * !
! 7 8 !
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A - Tomalor's droid
R - Tomalor
T - Theta
H - Hawk
S - Sianni
M - Martina
D - Devan
K - Kacela
1-9, X, Y, Z War Droids
* Cover (equipment)
!,- walls
Droid #2 has been hit once.
OOC: What about Theta's actions listed above? If that is too far for him to move, then have him move right and down some till he has a clear shot at #2. Maybe behind Kacela or something for now.
OOC: What about Theta's actions listed above? If that is too far for him to move, then have him move right and down some till he has a clear shot at #2. Maybe behind Kacela or something for now.
OOC: Yeah, the action you originally proposed wasn't actually possible; it'd take a double-move to get into that position. I wouldn't have stopped mid-round except that one PC's actions made another's impossible.
OOC: Yeah, the action you originally proposed wasn't actually possible; it'd take a double-move to get into that position. I wouldn't have stopped mid-round except that one PC's actions made another's impossible.
OOC: So my revised action is okay then? To move a little sideways and down before taking a shot at droid #2?
"Nice work, grandma, keeping the client between yourself and the enemy! Perhaps you should toss him right in to make absolutely sure?" Sianni hisses in Martina's direction as she bounds between the two, blasters almost literally flying into her hands. Sliding into a firing position to take out one of the droids while still being covered from the rest of them, Sianni is just about to pull the trigger when suddenly Hawke's back fills her sights instead of the war droid as he slams into the wall next to the bay door. Screaming in frustration over the missed opportunity Sianni lashes out and kicks Hawke (lightly) in the thigh/hip.
OoC: Swift Action to draw blaster via Quick-Draw feat; Move Action to move and draw the other blaster; Standard Action to move further (final position: space directly "NW" of Hawke)
"Nice work, grandma, keeping the client between yourself and the enemy! Perhaps you should toss him right in to make absolutely sure?" Sianni hisses in Martina's direction as she bounds between the two, blasters almost literally flying into her hands.
Martina doesn't seem to notice, however; she doesn't even look up from her rifle's targetting scope.
Sliding into a firing position to take out one of the droids while still being covered from the rest of them, Sianni is just about to pull the trigger when suddenly Hawke's back fills her sights instead of the war droid as he slams into the wall next to the bay door. Screaming in frustration over the missed opportunity Sianni lashes out and kicks Hawke (lightly) in the thigh/hip.
"Ta'rak! Koocha gada!"
"Ib'tuur jatne tuur ash'ad kyr'amur!" Theta calls out as he moves forward and brings his blaster rifle to bear on the room full of droids.
Mando'a translation
"Today is a good day for some other bugger to die!"
OOC
Theta will move past Hawke's position so that he is just outside the doorway and directly 'north' of war droid #2. If this is a surprise round, that's all he can do. If this is the first regular round, then he will also take a shot at droid #2 with his blaster rifle. Atk (w/point blank shot bonus +1) and damage for blaster rifle shot at droid #2 (1d20+15=32, 3d8+4=10) (Enemy damage threshold is lowered by 5)
Theta's shot is right on target, though the droid's shields flash again.
OOC: stonegod, It's no longer possible for Aitch Cay to have a line of fire on #2.
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A - Tomalor's droid
R - Tomalor
T - Theta
H - Hawk
S - Sianni
M - Martina
D - Devan
K - Kacela
1-9, X, Y, Z War Droids
* Cover (equipment)
!,- walls
Droid #2 has been hit twice; it doesn't look like it's sustained much damage, but its shields look a lot less stable.
Tomalor draws his weapon and begins fiddling with it, playing with its settings. From behind him, the droid draws its blaster and exclaims something quite sinister while moving into the fray.
OOC: Tomalor draws (no move free draws on move either), then activates his Talent. Aitch draws then moves six squares forward toward the battle.
__________________ stonegod -- LEB judge and spawn of Khyber since 2005 (Blog)
Tomalor draws his weapon and begins fiddling with it, playing with its settings. From behind him, the droid draws its blaster and exclaims something quite sinister while moving into the fray.
Devan produced a blaster pistol from within his robes somewhere, drawing as he moved back beside Tomalor.
Droid #1 walks back and to the 'east' slightly, before unleashing a torrent of autofire that ecompasses Theta and Kacela. Kacela deflects away the shots that come near her with her lightsaber (Deflect attempt succeeds), but a few of the cluster of shots glance off of Theta's armor. Droid #2's attempt to do the same was wildly inaccurate. As was droid #4s. Droid #3 was about as effecive as Droid #1; again Kacela Deflected the autofire, and again Theta took minimal damage to his armor. Droids #5 and #6 were both able to nick at Theta, and with her third attempt to deflect autofire, Kacela miss-timed slightly; her fourth fared better.
The remaining droids simply moved out and forward, and for some reason three of the droids in the back of the room looked rather more sinister than even the other nine.
Round 2
Flipping her rifle to autofire as well, Martina fired at #4 and #2, blowing through the last of #2's shields and leaving scorch marks on the droid underneat, and causing #4's shields to flicker for an instant.
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A - Tomalor's droid
R - Tomalor
T - Theta
H - Hawk
S - Sianni
M - Martina
D - Devan
K - Kacela
1-9, X, Y, Z War Droids
* Cover (equipment)
!,- walls
Droid #2 has no shields and has suffered moderate damage
Droid #4 has suffered some damage to its shields
At the first lull in the droid's firing, Kacela runs directly into the room, southward along the impromptu line that the warbots have established. She whirls in a cartwheel that blazes with the green fire of her lightsaber, and thrusts her free hand outwards towards the war droids as she lands.
An invisible pulse of power radiates out, striking the droids like the blast wave of an intense explosion...hurling them away and knocking them over!
(Move south and to the left a little so I can get 3, 7, 9, 6, 1 and 5 in the cone effect of a Force Slam. Use The Force check: 30 http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/1473319/ against droid Fort Defense. If that beats it, they take 4d6 damage and are knocked prone. I will spend a Force Point as well, to knock the damage up to 6d6.)
OOC: I can't see how to draw a cone without leaving at least two of the droids you listed out of it. One character space might be a rectangle on the ASCII art map, but it's actually a square. A right-angle one will leave out 1 and 5 or 3 and 5; a straight-on cone will leave out 5 and 9 or 7 and 9.
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