"Looks like she's got things covered in here," Zenith says. "I'm going to loiter around outside and keep an eye on those Imperial ships. You can tell a lot about someone from the way they take care of their ships."
She smiles and gives a little salute as she heads out the doors to lounge against the wall just outside.
deception check: 18 on the die + 10 = 28; Istara is quite convincing in her attempt to look like an attractive young scoundrel, rather than a Correllian Navy pilot.
However, Rosa's the only one in the group that's actually trained in Gather Information. That could be a problem...
Istara draws a lot of eyes as she walks into the cantina, but they're mostly from spacers who hadn't seen an attractive young woman other than the occasional twi'lek dancing girl in months.
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gather information check
5 on the die + 5 (+3 cha, +2 for level 5) = 10; she only learns general information
The main topic of conversation seems to be concern over what the Imperials are up to. Apparently they landed a few hours before the Taeleros entered the system, asked some questions, and then a party of them left town. Some strange white-haired kid appeared to be in command.
Istara ordered a Corellian brandy, seating herself at the bar. As she waited she paid attention to who was saying the most about the imperials, looking to see who might be worth investing a bit of extra attention in.
perception check:
9 on the die + 9 = 18; base DC for eavesdropping in a noisy cantina is 15, so success
The only thing she overhears of note is that one of the patrons at the cantina -- who appears well on his way to getting very drunk -- seems upset that the Imperials dragooned his brother as a guide.
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perception check:
10 on the die + 10 for Zenith observing the imperials by their ship
As far as Zenith can tell, the Imperials stuck with guard duty are performing it professionally; they haven't been at it long enough for boredom to set in, it seems.
'Hi there." Istara says, dropping into the seat closest to the man complaining about his brother. "What did they do? I mean, why would they need a guide? Does your brother know all about this place or something?"
"I'm sure it must run in the family right? Play your cards right, and I'll let you give me a personal tour." she says, winking.
"So do you know where they wanted to go? What area they needed a guide of?"
Once in position, after seeing the Jedi head into the cantina, Wes will take a quick survey of the Imperial presence around the area and place the information on his datapad before sending it to the Commander using a databurst via his comlink. The scout figures that is the best way to send the information, for now, while protecting his location and maintaining secrecy. In fact, he keeps his datapad linked to his comlink for now, in case of return transmissions.
'Hi there." Istara says, dropping into the seat closest to the man complaining about his brother. "What did they do? I mean, why would they need a guide? Does your brother know all about this place or something?"
"All about the place? I doubt it. More than anyone else here, probably. The rest of us had the sense to stay away from the ruins. You don't have to be a Jedi to know they're bad news. But Rann kept poking around in them anyway." He said.
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"I'm sure it must run in the family right? Play your cards right, and I'll let you give me a personal tour." she says, winking.
"So do you know where they wanted to go? What area they needed a guide of?"
"There's only one place they would have dragged Rann off to. I could point you in the general direction, but he always went out there alone. Nobody else would go out there more than once. Why do you want to know? I may not exactly make an honest living, but I don't want to see a pretty girl like you get hurt."
"Thats very sweet of you, but I can handle myself honey. I'm looking for somebody, and I think he might be with those imperials, but I don't want them to know I'm around until I know for sure. I just want to take a quick peek, and if he isn't there I'll leave right away. I've no desire to annoy any storm troopers."
"I promise to be a good girl, and to be very very careful." Istara tells the spacer with a sly smile.
"Thats very sweet of you, but I can handle myself honey. I'm looking for somebody, and I think he might be with those imperials, but I don't want them to know I'm around until I know for sure. I just want to take a quick peek, and if he isn't there I'll leave right away. I've no desire to annoy any storm troopers."
"I promise to be a good girl, and to be very very careful." Istara tells the spacer with a sly smile.
"All right. But don't say I didn't warn you." He says.
OOC: assuming he points me in the general direction, since that was why Istara was trying to reassure him, Istara will head back outside.
After finishing her whiskey, a suitibly Corellian thing to do given that she was on duty, Istara headed back outside, moving to where she was suppoused to meet up with the other members of the ground mission.
"It looks like the young kid is leading the imperials, and is likely the force sensitive that is in charge of this whole thing. He shanghai'd a local, or at least a spacer into guiding him and his men to some ruins in the area, and I got the general location from his brother. I can lead us there, or at least I think I can. I'd suggest having one of our people paint the Imperial ship for bombardment by the Taelros while we have the chance, that way, if they get by us, we can call in a barrage on their shuttle before they return, without it shields up it likely wouldn't take much to ground it. Maybe just have a flight of E-wings and a P-wing on standby down here for fire-support in case we need them at the ruins or to take out the shuttle."
Once the Jedi leaves the cantina, Wes will keep his position, both as an overwatch and to see if anyone follows her out of the settlement. Once he confirms whether or not someone is following her, Wes will move to another position, so as to watch the settlement and the Imperials and await further orders.
If the orders come down to paint the shuttle, Wes will get several vectors, so as to get a tight target profile and avoid any unneeded damage to the area around the target.
"Good plan," Rosa says to Istara before leaving temporarily to arrange the backup plans. "We should leave as soon as possible. Stock up on anything you think we may need, but let's not go overboard."
__________________ "Sometimes things must be broken in order to be rebuilt." --Sith Proverb.
OOC: If you want to requisition any supplies from Taelros' inventory, or to purchase anything that might be available in a small smuggling port, let me know.
Rosa's commlink flashed, and she answered to hear Lt. Gellian on the line. "Sorry to interrupt you," The Twi'lek wing commander says, "But one of the E-Wings has some mechanical trouble, and that leaves us down a pilot up here. I can deal if you need her down there, but can you send Zenith back up?"
After pulling back to a secure comm-point, Wes checks in with the Commander.
"Awaiting orders, ma'am." The corellian scout states over a secure transmission. "If we're going to strike the shuttle site, it's gonna need to be quite rapid and decisive, else they get comm off and warn the others and things will stink of the wrong end of a Bantha, quick."
"Zenith," Rosa says, turning to the pilot, "orders are for you to head back up to the ship as soon as possible."
Her comlink beeps as the scouting Wes communicates with her. She answers it quickly, hearing the tactical situation before acting upon it. "Taelros, this is the squad leader. I'm requesting a fire strike on the following target, she says, giving the gunners on the ship the coordinates Wes had staked out.
"Incoming," she coms to the scout if the strike is accepted.
__________________ "Sometimes things must be broken in order to be rebuilt." --Sith Proverb.
"Uhh...We are going to be fighting a Sith, possibly a Sith Lord and you are sending away one of our three Jedi?" Istara says, raising an eyebrow. After a second she sighs, militaries were suppoused to make sense to sane individuals so she'd have to question her sanity if she understood the logic, it was good that she didn't...right?
"This will be educational...I did mention I'm a pilot not a duelist right? Oh well, if all else fails, we can just use grenades."
Rosa shrugs. "I may not like it, and I think that it's a very dangerous move for us. But orders are orders. Besides, we may need her more in the air than we do down here."
__________________ "Sometimes things must be broken in order to be rebuilt." --Sith Proverb.
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