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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Quickleaf" data-source="post: 7049163" data-attributes="member: 20323">Some interesting elements to work with here. Like I did for the others, I have a couple questions...normally I'd comment on the character sheet as well, but in lieu of that I'll stick to your background...1. I'm curious about Rico's motives. "Follow through on my master's commands for unknown reasons" seems a bit tenuous to me. It's OK if you want to start there, but....We'll need to expand on WHY is it important for Rico to do as Master Uvell said? Is it because Rico has some underlying motive for wanting to seek out the "Children of the Force", such as saving others from the Knights of Ren when he wasn't able to save his fellow padawans slain on Devaron? Is it because of a connection to Master Uvell, and you want to explore that relationship even with Uvell's absence (initially)? Or do you want me to introduce a surprise as GM that more tightly involves Rico into the action – and if so what sort of things motivate your jedi PC?2. I like how you've deepened his connection to Arsinoë's family and Kyrton's trap; that's a tighter connection than "feels the Force" and something I can integrate into the story. With the visit to the Ahia-Ko shaman...I think we should develop that just a little more based on what Force power(s) you select...and integrate it more tightly to Kospirian... Maybe some kind of Force vision of one another? A pair of Akivan water compasses that lead to each other? The shaman giving Rico a specific secret message about Kospirian (  [MENTION=6801242]GreenKarl[/MENTION] ) not for Uvell's ears?3. Looking at Rico's journey so far... Gatalenta, Corellia, Akiva, Triton and Clak'dor, and now Kabal... and he has really gotten around! Definitely that could be justification for some Knowledge (Core Worlds), Knowledge (Lore), Knowledge (Outer Rim), or Knowledge (Xenology). It sounds like he's been searching with Uvell for a long time, maybe years? How has that affected him? Is Rico more comfortable on a ship/in space than he is on terra firma? Does he resent the years of travel as "fruitless"?4. What was/is Rico's relationship like with his mentor Master Uvell? Did you have any ideas in mind for Uvell or is he pretty much a blank template? From what I've gathered on <a href="http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Uvell" target="_blank">Wookieepedia about Uvell</a> it sounds like he'd be the type to take great precautions in advance to protect as many Force-users as possible from the Knights of Ren... Oh! Are you envisioning Rico starting with a lightsaber? Uvell seems like he may have been able to help with that, given his hiding old Jedi artifacts.5. What is Rico's attitude toward the Resistance? Has he had any contact with it at all? From the embittered childhood you describe, it sounds like Rico might view the New Republic and First Order with equal skepticism and mistrust?6. Speaking of which, with Rico "growing up the hard way", I'd like to tie that into Gatalenta a bit more. Galactic orphans/waifs are a dime-a-dozen in Star Wars, but each has a different flavor; for example, Luke being the naive space-dreaming son of water farmers on the desert planet Tatooine, or Rey being the waiting-for-her-family scavenger on the wastes of Jakku. What is the one-liner for Rico? Maybe...the tea production Gatalenta is famous for isn't all so enlightened as it's cracked up to be? Maybe "tea harvesters" are the impoverished class on Gatalenta? Maybe there are physical hazards such as toxic leaves or perilous heights that need to be climbed to harvest the leaves? Just throwing out ideas, but make it your own. <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/glasses.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt="B-)" title="Glasses    B-)" data-shortname="B-)" />7. How would you describe Rico's connection to the Force? For example, Arsinoë and Garrett don't even realize they're Force-sensitive just running on intuition, while Kospirian had a very unpleasant awakening with hallucinations that the Ahia-Ko shaman helped him to still. What about Rico? He's coming from the Jedi tradition, so I imagine his experience was much more structured? But was it always that way? What about before Luke Skywalker found him?8. Do you already have a trajectory for Rico's character development/arc in mind? Do you want him to reencounter Master Uvell at some point? Or is that something you entirely want to discover during play?9. The starting point for the adventure is in the rainforests of Kabal, specifically near an overgrown temple ruin. We could certainly say that it (and the approaching PCs) drew Rico there. But what might his involvement with the informant Skylark be? For example, Kospirian (  [MENTION=6801242]GreenKarl[/MENTION] ) knows about Skylark through the Resistance...and Rex (  [MENTION=6788545]xynthoros[/MENTION] ) probably would too, since they have the same Resistance handler. Arsinoë (  [MENTION=6801311]KahlessNestor[/MENTION] ) is being blackmailed by Skylark. Garrett doesn't have a direct reason to get involved with Skylark yet...but the First Order is also after him for the data cylinder ("the enemy of my enemy is my friend"). What about Rico?Here's a few crazy ideas...(a) Rico has traveled a lot, so what if he and Master Uvell have visited the planet that Skylark is bringing intelligence about, a potential site for the Resistance, due to the strong Force presence permeating the planet? Would that make him disinclined toward any development there? Would he be hesitant about the Resistance building there, potentially drawing the First Order, when it could make a potential site to rebuild the Jedi Order? Or would he embrace it?(b) Is Rico a celibate Jedi, like most of them are depicted, or have things changed since Master Uvell's disappearance? What if he had a tryst with Skylark, not realizing who she was at the time and then when he sees her again is in for a rude awakening? She'd be an older woman without any belief in the Force, so definitely a foil to Rico...(c) Gatalenta isn't on any maps yet, so it doesn't have an official location... We could place Gatalenta in the Anoat Sector (e.g. near Bespin and Hoth), which is where Skylark is from, and in fact played a critical role breaking the <a href="http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Iron_Blockade" target="_blank">Iron Blockade</a> after Palpatine's death some 25 years ago. Depending on Rico's age, what if he knew stories about "the girl with the cybernetic leg brace" from his childhood? So she might be a childhood hero...which could make any morally questionable decisions she makes now all the more challenging for Rico to accept...</blockquote>

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