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Message: <blockquote data-quote="nonamazing" data-source="post: 3249928" data-attributes="member: 12118">Atharias listens carefully to Tyren's explanations.  "I believe the droid is merely malfunctioning.  Have Nor check his ship's systems for an independant verification.  I suspect he'll find that there are no asteroids heading toward us.  Bri told me--" Atharias shakes his head.  "No.  We will deal with that later.  Clearly this situation with Master Rak demands our attention more.""Rak has long been a friend of the Academy.  He has been of great help to me in organizing and preparing for the gathering on Masu.  He shuttled the other instructors off-planet earlier today, and had planned to return for me tomorrow, after I'd put the Academy in order.  Something has obviously gone very wrong."A moment later, the lift arrives at the surface, and Atharias calmly steps forward.  A strong rain has begun to fall, and the wind makes it almost impossible to see anything.Nor and the other instructors have carried Rak's body under the shelter of the War Pig, out of the rain.  If Master Atharias feels any grief or rage at the loss of his friend, he does not allow himself to show it.  He ignores the rain as he kneels under the fuselage of Nor's ship and examines the fallen Jedi's corpse.Sensing Nor's emotions, Atharias looks up at the young pilot.  "Do not feel troubled, my friend.    Rak had clearly suffered some very serious internal injuries.  The fact that he held on for so long is a testment to his close ties to the Force.""It is strange," Atharias muses.  "His organs have been crushed--but there's not a mark on his skin.  I cannot fathom what power could have done this to him..."* * *"You are right, Master Tolark," Jilian says.  "I--I believe my emotions must have overcome me."  Jilian stands down, deactivating her lightsaber.  She shakes her head in confusion.  "I feel...odd, Master Tolark.  Allow me a moment to compose myself."  Jilian falls to one knee, her hair falling across her face.Across from her, Jett gulps nervously and deactivates his lightsaber as well.  He watches as Hale and Treela keep running down the corridor, heedless of Tolark's words.  "M-master Tolark," Jett stammers, "m-may I have permission to go after them?  I-I think they're scared of you for some reason, but I might be able to talk to Hale, get them to come back.  Is that okay?"* * *Nor's students respond to his call quickly.  Vassa is in Sylara's office and reluctantly agrees to head to the ship, pausing only to ask if she should bring Bri and 'his weapons' along with her.  Derryl seems out of breath, but indicates his intention to rush to the ship as soon as possible.  Roos is in the control center one level below and hurries to join Nor as soon as he recieves the message.  Threesa, unfortunately, is all the way down on level 12, in the Deeprunner, and it will take her a few minutes to reach the surface.After dealing with his own students, Nor turns to his three little stowaways: young Pa'hu and the mischevious twins.  The twins seem reluctant to talk, but poor Pa'hu is on the verge of tears, rambling almost incoherantly.  "i'm so sorry we came to help bri 'cause he wanted to fix timone and then timone ran off and bri ran off after him and i wanted to go too but then tai said he wanted to look around or maybe it was rai and then there was this pig and i just wanted to...wanted to..."Rai suddenly steps forward.  "It's not her fault, Master Nor!"   "Yeah," says Tai, "She just hadn't seen anything like Puumba before, and she was curious."  Both of the trouble-making twins appear surprisingly defensive of little Pa'hu.Ahead, the storm begins to increase in intensity, gold lightning now frequently crackling through the sky and illuminating the landing pad like strobe lights.* * *OOC (Nor): [SBLOCK]Your Diplomacy check was a <a href="http://invisiblecastle.com/find.py?id=801927" target="_blank">25</a>.  The children are fully attentive and cooperative, and are starting to calm down now.  They say that they heard some noises while they were inside the ship, but they thought it was just the storm.  Timone tells you that he did manage to record Nor's words, but that he'll need a computer with a very strong processor to filter and refine the recording.  Timone also persistantly keeps reminding you of the incoming asteroids--he seems uncannily fixed on the subject.[/SBLOCK]</blockquote>

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