Star Wars Episode 2.1q: The Fall of Eraydia (RIP)
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Pbartender
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Denny continues circling the clearing 20 meters above as a lookout, until the way is clear to start blasting the bladegrass.
dpdx
Explorer
Round Thirteen
As Pog preps the STAP for welding, Kerracor ambles over to the ship and locates the transparisteel cooking sheet. After putting most of his weight on it, the Wookiee determines that indeed, this would work for a riding platform.
Hiru's question re: where to find hoses crackles over the comlink. Shom turns around, and answers: "Try engineering - it's a right at the bottom of the ladder as you come up it." Hiru, carrying a bedsheet, heads that way.
Denny, on the working STAP, circles above the crash site with an eye on the approaching forces. At 20m altitude, this gives him a clear shot at the GATs and droids, and vice versa, but at least at this time, they're too busy cutting their way through the bladegrass to notice that the pilot, 80m away, is not a battledroid.
Two of the gormaloks now have riders: the Falleen's is heading toward the next clearing with two other refugees, and Alice, riding alone atop another, is headed toward the gaggle of refugees, who by now have been herded (with Ka Jor's able assistance) towards the side with the STAP repair.
Shom turns to Tilon, and says without benefit of comlink, "We don't want to open fire on the grass just yet; it'll spook the gormaloks, and they'll be wanting to walk right through this path, anyway." He pauses to indicate the shortest path through the bladegrass, about 10m long. "And I'm no math whiz, but at the rate of two gormaloks carrying three refugees apiece, plus crew, that works out to about 10 minutes to get everybody. Somebody has to go out there and get extra gormaloks, so we can ferry more people. Otherwise, we might as well start blasting now! Deactivating a Sep droid is, minimum, five years in a penal colony, they told me back on Alderaan. Thank God they haven't taken Kessel!"
[Everyone's health status is the same as last time. This is only one round, so relatively little time has elapsed. Neither rider is at their destination yet.]
As Pog preps the STAP for welding, Kerracor ambles over to the ship and locates the transparisteel cooking sheet. After putting most of his weight on it, the Wookiee determines that indeed, this would work for a riding platform.
Hiru's question re: where to find hoses crackles over the comlink. Shom turns around, and answers: "Try engineering - it's a right at the bottom of the ladder as you come up it." Hiru, carrying a bedsheet, heads that way.
Denny, on the working STAP, circles above the crash site with an eye on the approaching forces. At 20m altitude, this gives him a clear shot at the GATs and droids, and vice versa, but at least at this time, they're too busy cutting their way through the bladegrass to notice that the pilot, 80m away, is not a battledroid.
Two of the gormaloks now have riders: the Falleen's is heading toward the next clearing with two other refugees, and Alice, riding alone atop another, is headed toward the gaggle of refugees, who by now have been herded (with Ka Jor's able assistance) towards the side with the STAP repair.
Shom turns to Tilon, and says without benefit of comlink, "We don't want to open fire on the grass just yet; it'll spook the gormaloks, and they'll be wanting to walk right through this path, anyway." He pauses to indicate the shortest path through the bladegrass, about 10m long. "And I'm no math whiz, but at the rate of two gormaloks carrying three refugees apiece, plus crew, that works out to about 10 minutes to get everybody. Somebody has to go out there and get extra gormaloks, so we can ferry more people. Otherwise, we might as well start blasting now! Deactivating a Sep droid is, minimum, five years in a penal colony, they told me back on Alderaan. Thank God they haven't taken Kessel!"
[Everyone's health status is the same as last time. This is only one round, so relatively little time has elapsed. Neither rider is at their destination yet.]
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DonAdam
Explorer
Ka Jor scratches his chin, getting an idea. He retrieves the rope from the STAP that is being repaired, and heads over to where he can meet Alice as she reaches the clearing.
When she arrives, he holds up the rope and asks, "Can you use this to tie one gormalok to another to speed this up? If not, we're going to have to start blasting."
When she arrives, he holds up the rope and asks, "Can you use this to tie one gormalok to another to speed this up? If not, we're going to have to start blasting."
Toric_Arthendain
Explorer
Kerraccor will return to Pog with the transparisteel cooking sheet. His impatience growing by the minute, he growls loudly at Pog, trying to get the kid to hurry up in getting the STAP repaired but probably only causing the skittish human to be even more nervous.
maddmic
Explorer
Pog begins doing his work and shakes his head as the wookie's growls intensify. "Calm down, calm down. Are all of you wookies so impatient? Nice platform you got here, but it's not gonna do us a lick of good without that hose. If you want to holler at somebody, I suggest you yell at the person looking for my hose."
OOC:
Should the wookie explode and grab the slight man, he will shudder and cower away from the beast. Only to return to his work at hand once he is let go.
OOC:
Should the wookie explode and grab the slight man, he will shudder and cower away from the beast. Only to return to his work at hand once he is let go.
dpdx
Explorer
Round Fourteen
Alice holds up a hand, smiling at the Jedi Consular as she speaks into her comlink. "S'ok, darlin'. Rope would prolly spook the poor thing. Maybe you could use it on the airbuggies, though."
With that, she disappears with her gormalok into the bladegrass. Halfway into the 10m path she meets the Falleen, and with a series of hand signals, manages to get him to turn around and follow her back out to the clearing!
"This just ain't gonna work, folks. Lemme just get these poor fellas out of the way..."
She never gets a chance to finish her thought before the unmistakable accent of a Duros comes streaming over the comlink at full volume: "Okay, you heard her, boys, let's get going!"
And indeed, the gormaloks seem to move a little faster as Shom's blaster bolt saws off some bladegrass immediately between him and them.
"Hey, Denny! Bring that thing down here! We're -"
"Dammit - hold on a second!"
"Shut up and move out, human! We got refu - more of YOU! - to get out of here! Okay, I need all armed hands that aren't otherwise busy with something important - that means you, Jedis - to join me on the firing line. Aim where I aim, and let's get to chopping! Blasters only, this stuff's been known to saw off a lightsaber, and you can't stand close enough to use it, anyway!"
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Meanwhile, Pog of the repair 'team' has managed to start to hyperweld the replacement platform securely to the rail of the wounded STAP [Roll was successful, three more rounds until completion]. 'Helping', Kerraccor awaits the replacement of the hose.
Inside the hold, Hiru finds engineering, and pulls back a loose panel to reveal approximately 10-20 hoses of three standard diameters: 1cm, 2 cm, and 5 cm.
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The Separatist force continues to plug away at their own pathway. They still seem oblivious to Denny's presence above them, even though a shot in their direction would probably wise the battle droids up enough to return fire.
Alice holds up a hand, smiling at the Jedi Consular as she speaks into her comlink. "S'ok, darlin'. Rope would prolly spook the poor thing. Maybe you could use it on the airbuggies, though."
With that, she disappears with her gormalok into the bladegrass. Halfway into the 10m path she meets the Falleen, and with a series of hand signals, manages to get him to turn around and follow her back out to the clearing!
"This just ain't gonna work, folks. Lemme just get these poor fellas out of the way..."
She never gets a chance to finish her thought before the unmistakable accent of a Duros comes streaming over the comlink at full volume: "Okay, you heard her, boys, let's get going!"
And indeed, the gormaloks seem to move a little faster as Shom's blaster bolt saws off some bladegrass immediately between him and them.
"Hey, Denny! Bring that thing down here! We're -"
"Dammit - hold on a second!"
"Shut up and move out, human! We got refu - more of YOU! - to get out of here! Okay, I need all armed hands that aren't otherwise busy with something important - that means you, Jedis - to join me on the firing line. Aim where I aim, and let's get to chopping! Blasters only, this stuff's been known to saw off a lightsaber, and you can't stand close enough to use it, anyway!"
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Meanwhile, Pog of the repair 'team' has managed to start to hyperweld the replacement platform securely to the rail of the wounded STAP [Roll was successful, three more rounds until completion]. 'Helping', Kerraccor awaits the replacement of the hose.
Inside the hold, Hiru finds engineering, and pulls back a loose panel to reveal approximately 10-20 hoses of three standard diameters: 1cm, 2 cm, and 5 cm.
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The Separatist force continues to plug away at their own pathway. They still seem oblivious to Denny's presence above them, even though a shot in their direction would probably wise the battle droids up enough to return fire.
"What size hose do you need, big, little or middle?" While waiting for a rteply, Hiru starts pulling the hoses out as far as possible, removing the slack, and draws his dagger from his boots, ready to cut several hoses of the proper size at one end and then the other quickly, since these hoses are probably in use already. "Oh, and how much length do you need?"
