Star Wars Episode 2.1q: The Fall of Eraydia (RIP)

[Pbartender]

Denny sidles his speeder up next to the damaged STAP. Using two hands for support, he uses the other to tie the rope from one STAP to the othe as a tow rope. Once the line is secure, he gingerly tows the wounded speeder bike back to the berm, where Pog can reach it.

OOC: I understand this may take more than one round, but that's Denny's plan.

 

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Round Four

As Denny trundles off in the working STAP to retrieve the other one, Pog stands behind the berm with his tools, ready to attempt to repair the other one if/when Denny can bring it to safe ground.

Tilon and Ka Jor move to the hatch to assist in debarking passengers. Looking down into the ship, some of the passengers seem to be encumbered with rations from the galley in addition to their own things. A quick estimate reveals that the food would last the entire group for three days, provided you don't come across any more.

Shom and Hiru stand at the east end of the ship, watching Alice attempt to cajole the gormalok into coming up to her so that the Falleen can ride him. It's difficult for Alice to make a sound that can both be heard above the bladegrass and not scare away the gormalok, but the gormalok still seems interested in the larger herd of humanoids.

Kerracor is now back at the entryway, fully equipped. The smoke seems to have faded here, but it doesn't seem volatile; in fact, it reminds most passengers of fried electrical components, as if they shorted out during the manteon attack...

The passengers make a hole to allow Kerracor to debark. A few of them need the time, anyway, to adjust their loads and still make the climb.

The fourth group is out, making 16 of the refugees at the bottom of the column. The other 14 are still in the entryway, and in fact, the fifth group is almost out.

The GATs and droids are making slow progress. Estimates put the amount of bladegrass cut to be 6 squares deep, eight wide. This leaves approx. 94m of bladegrass to cut through in sufficient width to get them all through at once.

 

[DonAdam]

Ka Jor positions himself so that, if Alice can tame the gormalok, he can be ready to use the Force to catch anyone falling off of it for as long a distance as possible.

[10 meters, readied action to Move Object on anyone falling off a gormalok]

 

[maddmic]

Pog will continue to wait until Denny can return.

 

[Toric_Arthendain]

Kerraccor exits the ship and a emits low growl, beginning to get impatient at being trapped in a small clearing.

Looking over towards Pog, he says in Shryiiwook, "Are those things flyable yet?" He points towards the STAPs to make sure the skittish human knows what he is talking about. Regardless of the answer, he begins making his way over to Pog to assist with making the STAPs operational if necessary.

 

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Round Five

[Tilon's player will be away for a short while, so I'm auto-piloting Tilon until he gets back.]

Pog and Kerracor now wait for Denny to tow the other STAP to safety. As Denny reaches the second STAP, it is nothing but fuselage and framework where the platform used to be. Still, Denny manages to loop the cable around the steering column, and begins the process of towing the STAP, which is still powered, back above the berm. With the loss of the platform, the second STAP manages to maintain enough thrust to stay above the bladegrass.

[edit: Refugees continue to come out of the hatch, each laden with their belongings and rations. Two-thirds of the refugees are now outside the ship, and in another three rounds, all will be safely debarked.]

The others stand around as Alice attempts to work her magic on the gormalok. The gormalok can hear her above the bladegrass, and seems interested, but is not yet convinced that he should walk over to her.

"That's two...", Shom says into the comlink.

"You just hold your damn banthas, flyboy!" comes Alice's retort.

"Sithspit, I didn't know she had a comlink..."

"I heard that!"

 

[maddmic]

Pog stands waiting patiently hoping that the STAP can still be used. He didn't much care for smelly pack animals. Speaking of smelly, there was a certain odor that found it's way to his nose. It was a familiar smell that he remembered from his days of working on Sebulba's pod racer. He finally tore his gaze from the STAP to find that the wookie had come over to him. Not being able to hear above the noise of the grass, he speaks into his comlink. "I'm sorry. What was it you said?" (Assuming that the wookie restates, Pog continues) "One is flyable, the other I don't know yet. Denny is towing it over to me as we speak. Can you fix one of those things?"

 

[Toric_Arthendain]

"One is flyable, the other I don't know yet. Denny is towing it over to me as we speak. Can you fix one of those things?"

Kerraccor growls in response, [Shryiiwook] "Maybe. I've never worked on one before but I'd like the chance to try." [/Shryiiwook] Kerraccor pats his toolkit as if to emphasize what he said and then waits for the STAP's to arrive in the clearing. He hoped that at least the vehicle weapons could be used to clear a path through the bladegrass.

 

[Pbartender]

Denny drops the wounded STAP's tow-rope to the waiting hands of Pog and Kerry. With his package delivered, he boosts the repulsors up to full power sending his STAP to its maximum altitude. He swings a quick circle around the crashsite, scouting out the area.

Denny's up there to keep an eye on things for now... First, he's looking for the tower that was passed on the way in. Second, he's looking for the shortest way through the blade grass. Third, he's keeping an eye on the approaching droids.

 

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Round Six

[In the interest of moving this along and getting to the good part, I'm going to go ahead and post. If Hiru or Ka Jor want to change their actions, I'll edit (or add) to account for it.]

Tilon, Pog, and Kerracor wait for Denny to tow the STAP where they can reach it. The towing goes slowly, as Denny can only manage to tow the other STAP 10m/round. Denny is now 30m away from the berm, with roughly 10m of cable between him and the other STAP. The airbikes manage to stay well above the bladegrass.

Alice makes a few loud, low sounds (similar in pitch to blowing one's nose) and gestures toward the gormalok, and it closes the distance between itself and the human woman. The Falleen steps forward and climbs atop the large herbivore, and Alice plus two more of the refugees also climb aboard without any problems. The Falleen turns the animal toward the others in the herd, and begins to start toward them.

Another group of refugees slides down the fuselage of the Sanctuary, where they meet the assembled group in the clearing to the east of the ship. Only eight remain in the ship, including four gathering supplies with Hiru.

Shom, looking upon the gormalok scene with wonder, begrudgingly holsters his blaster.

Hiru and his scavenging party are in the galley/pantry, and manage to come up with five medpacs, a medikit, three glowrods, and about 5 days worth of rations for one person, all of which they manage to load aboard a transparisteel cooking sheet about 1m square.

[Denny/Tilon: the tower is barely visible to the east.]

The GATs continue to make slow but steady progress toward your position.