Knights of the Old Republic: The Last of the Sith(Master Essenu's Group)

[Vendetta]

Not shocked about not being able to sense his peers or Master Kanas, Aalun exits the craft, feeling safer for the moment. He punches in the code and closes up the ship. He spends a minute gettings his berrings from the ground then, with his rifle slung over his shoulder, he trots off toward the site of Kanas' ship crash, unconcerned with what might have happened in this place at this time. He'll reach out with the force once on the move to be sure nothing lay in wait for him.

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

Though you can feel a general aura of life around, it is all distant and, as you walk towards the forest towards the crash site, the 'life' stays distant. Littered across the ground, you see no signs of any bodies that have any flesh on their bones. There are also countless droid pieces that make it an interesting walk.

The forest at the edge of the huts is thick, but you are able to find a path that looks to be somewhat well used. It leads to the second clearing, which is more of a mess than a clearing. Trees and branches are down everywhere, as are small pieces of the downed ship. The ship itself is still up at a large angle, and though you can vaguely see into the cockpit, there are no lights on or signs of it being occupied.

 

[Vendetta]

Aalun takes careful looks around the crash, looking for any sign of the passage of beings from the downed ship into the woods surrounding it.

((Tracking feat, +8 to the roll))

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

Despite the thick covering of broken branches and leaves all across the ground, you are able to find a large number of tracks in the soft soil that the crashed ship uncovered. From the looks of them, there are at least four different boot sizes, and one set of very large feet that don't show the usual tread marks that boots would.

They got in various directions, back from where you came from, to what looks like a makeshift ladder of sorts to climb up to one of the ship's raised airlocks, and a series of them go off to the north. Following those, you find that they go off into the forest, leading through what looks to be a very tight, makeshift path through the forest.

 

[Vendetta]

Carefully and with the force as his ally, Aalun follows the tracks.

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

You follow the tracks through the forest for about ten minutes before the thick trees and brush gives way to...nothing. A dead nothing. The feeling of life that the planet holds, though keeping its distance from you, is as dead as the land before you.

The tree line abruptly comes to a stop, and beyond it you see a rock covered, grey landscape. There are no trees, and no signs of life at all. Instead of sand or dirt, the ground looks to be covered in more of an ash-like substance. The light tracks you had followed are, however, much more noticeable in them, and they continue on northwards.

Your eyes follow them up to the next obvious landscape. A good distance on the other end of the literal wasteland, mountains begin to rise up. Not far off, you can see a small object passing over one of the mountains. Abruptly, it moves straight down and out of sight behind the nearby peaks.

((...also, check the OOC thread. Aalun has leveled up.))

 

[Vendetta]

((Can Aalun still see tracks and which direction are they headed?))

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

((Yep, you can still see the tracks. From what you can tell, they continue on straight north towards the nearest of the mountains.))

 

[Vendetta]

Aalun will keep his eye on the horizon where he saw the object and follow the tracks north.

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

Barely a minute later as you walk through the wasteland, familiar sounds echo from the mountains down to you. Sounds that are easy to identify. Turbolasers. In another second, you see the small object rise up from behind the nearest mountain, green bolts of turbolaser fire shooting up past it and off into the sky. From the object, a few red laser blasts can be seen before the ship angles your direction and shoots off towards you.