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

[The Other Librarian]

ooc: Jei will move up onto the platform, and scan his surroundings from there. If he finds nothing unusual, he will move cautiously toward the black marks in the snow.

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

It seemed empty enough(and felt that way in the Force, which was of course worrying) to Jei. So, he moved down to inspect the marks. When he got closer, he knew exactly what they were. Old sites of small fires. Not even that old. Probably a matter of days if not hours.

Then, there was a voice behind him. It startled Jei simply because he did not feel the speaker approaching at all, "Still, you insist on hunting me. I wanted only solitude and you cannot even grant me that."

 

[The Other Librarian]

At the sound of the voice Jei wheeled around, his hand instinctively reaching for his saber. His mind reached out to his friends with the Force, calling their attention to him and the stranger.

"My apologies. I am Jei Garu. My friends and I have only peaceful intentions here. May I ask who you are, and why you have come to such a desolate place as this?"

(ooc: Jei willl use Telepathy (untrained) to send a quick warning flash to the rest of the party, just enough to draw their attention.)

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

((OOC: Everyone else does pick up on Jei's Telepathy.))

Jei turned around to look upon a ruined shell of a man. He was tall and looked to have once been a great warrior. It was in the fact. But his dark brown hair was matted back, scars and long lines of despair(not age) traced themselves across the man's sullen face. He wears a heavy cloak, obviously to keep the cold out, though it doesn't seem that he has any problem with the temperature of the planet. It is suddenly obvious that this man is the strange void in the Force that they had all felt.

And then it hit him. The realization of who this man was. He was Ulic Qel-Droma, the once great Jedi Knight who had attempted to inflitrate the Sith. His story was well known to all Jedi. He had been corrupted in this attempt, and returned to fight against the Jedi. He assisted in the destruction of many worlds, including Ossus. He had killed his own brother during that time, and that horrific act had opened his eyes to what he had become. In that time, the Jedi Knight Nomi Sunrider, who had been Ulic's lover once, stripped Ulic of the Force. He exiled himself to solitude.

Where he had gone, none knew. But here, on the desolate ice world of Rhen Var, stood the once great Jedi Knight. His eyes showed a deep pain that was his punishment for his actions. He spoke slowly, and in a voice of a defeated man, "This place is my punishment. I would have thought you were here to kill me...but your demeanor says otherwise," he paused, and looked to the snow at his feet, "I came here for peace...why do you disturb that?"

 

[The Goblin King]

Shombay breaks into a run after Jei's warning. Then, seeing no danger he slows to a trot then walks up beside him calmly. He says as an aside, "You all right?"

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

((OOC...just a little note. You would all recognize Ulic without any trouble. Even if you never saw him in person, EVERY Jedi knew what happened to him and what he looked like. Only exception would be Urcala, since Ulic doesn't resonate in the Force, he is effectively a hole in her vision.))

 

[Vendetta]

Aalun draws his lightsaber and sprints forward, his thumb on the button ready to ignight the blade... when he sees Jei is unharmed and looking reasonably safe, he clips the blade again to his belt and steps forward, but keeps a respectful distance.

 

[Insight]

Urcala steps forward cautiously, unsure as to what has caused such trepidation in her companions. "This hole in the Force..." she begins. "It is a person?"

She edges a bit closer, being mindful of her allies and Mistress' reactions to this 'presence'. "One who does not live in the Force..." she continues. "Such tragedy must have befallen you, whomever you are."

"Peace be with you, friend. I would extend to you our deepest sympathies," Nattu feels for a stony ruined column. "We are indeed not here to kill you. Who would send you to such a cold, isolated world as punishment? And for what?"

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

"I want no sympathy," Ulic said tiredly, watching them all with eyes that once would have judged their combat strength. Now, they simply showed weariness and defeat. He turned his back to the group and said over his shoulder, "If you are not here to kill me then why are you here? Surely the Jedi have better things to do than find me," he seemed to ignore most of the questions, and whatever his emotions, it was impossible to detect them as he was so empty, "Why have you come to this place? There is nothing here...and there hasn't been for thousands of years."

 

[The Other Librarian]

"We did not come seeking you specifically. We are here tring to find the whereabouts of some missing Jedi. We fear some may have fallen to the dark side... and we hope to do what we can to restore them to the light. Perhaps the force guided us to you for a reason, but if so it is as yet unknown to me."