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

[Pbartender]

"We're gonna smoke these two guys in the airspeeders, and then we start cutting bladegrass!"

"Aye, Captain," Denny acknowledges. He deftly slides down the side of the ship to shorten the range between him and the nearest battle droid. Landing beside Tilon and Kerraccor, he immediately resumes his immaculate posture with his blasters aimed precisely toward the hovering threat.

"I have the one on the left, Kerry," he says to the wookiee with a non-chalant calmness.

OOC: A move action to slide down the side of the ship, and then resume the previous readied action... He fires on the nearest droid if they fire, or if the Captain gives the order to fire. +0 for a full (4) attacks or +6 for a single attack. If he is lucky enough to take down the first droid before he runs out of attacks, the remainder will target the second droid.

 

[DonAdam]

"Very well. Sometimes, I suppose, we cannot avoid a fight. I'll start cutting us a path to the left [Ka Jor is facing north]. Once the repulsorlifts are down, we'll start a path to the south.

We can't let them see which direction we're heading; they'll radio it back to the tanks, who will cut us off. Better to let them radio back false directions."

With that said, Ka Jor slides down the ship, ignites his bright blue lightsaber, and goes to work on the blade grass on the west side of the clearing.

 

[Toric_Arthendain]

"I have the one on the left, Kerry," he says to the wookiee with a non-chalant calmness.

Kerraccor growls softly in reply, finally bringing his bowcaster up to aim at the one on the right. He turns to Shom, waiting for the Captain to give the order to fire, his finger itching to pull the trigger.

 

[dpdx]

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Key:
*: Bladegrass
^: Dirt Berm
O: Hatch

#s: STAPs
&: Gormalok

t: Tilon
k: Kerraccor
d: Denny
p: Pog
s: Shom
j: Ka Jor
h: Hiru (at hatch)

Shom notices that none of his crew have lowered weapons, yet no one has commenced firing. Sensing that time is running out, Shom figures it's now or never if they're going to get the drop on the STAPs. Dropping to his seat, Shom slides down to the east, screaming into his comlink, "Oh, for Yoda's sake, what in the sithlands are you people waiting for!!??"

Landing on his Duro butt with a thud, Shom has just enough time to start the war, by loosing a blaster bolt at the STAP to the right (#2). It flies just east of the airspeeder, causing its pilot to swerve the platform roughly a meter to the west.

[Okay, here's how we handle this: you each get a partial action, then it's initiative time. If you shoot, post who you're going to shoot at, #1 (on the left), #2 (on the right), STAP or pilot.

Those of you who are unarmed for range (Pog, Tilon, Ka Jor) may take your partial as a move action. Since the STAPs have not approached the berm, Tilon cannot attack with his lightsaber. The other unarmed combatants have one last chance to not stand directly adjacent to the bladegrass, then I get merciless.]

 

[maddmic]

Pog begins running back to the ship, hands flailing wildly yelling, "Don't shoot! Don't Shoot! They won't hurt us!"

 

[Toric_Arthendain]

Watching Pog rush past in a panic, Kerraccor roars and opens fire on the STAP pilot on the right (#2). He is shooting at the actual pilot not the STAP itself.

 

[Pbartender]

Originally posted by dpdx Dropping to his seat, Shom slides down to the east, screaming into his comlink, "Oh, for Yoda's sake, what in the sithlands are you people waiting for!!??"

Denny takes careful aim at the STAP pilot on the left and gently pulls the trigger of the hunting pistol.

"We are waiting, Captain," Dobradenn replies calmly, "for the order to begin firing from the senior officer, or for the enemy to begin firing so that we may retaliate in self defense... Proper protocol and all that, Captain. The Republic wouldn't want us resorting to the same barbarism displayed by the Separtists, now would it?"

Denny was waiting for the order to fire, his readied action doesn't kick in? Otherwise, +6 attack on the STAP pilot on the left (#1).

 

[Jaik]

Hiru pivots around the carner, sights carefully on the leftmost STAP's pilot and lets off a shot.

 

[DonAdam]

Ka Jor continues to very carefully cut the blade grass with his lightsaber, "clearing a path for the refugees."

"I desperately hope this works," he thinks to himself. "The last thing we need is a bloodbath here. But where are we supposed to go, even if we escape these tanks?"

[OOC: If cutting this grass gets dangerous or the rest of the group looks to be in trouble, Ka Jor will join the others.]

 

[dpdx]

Originally posted by Pbartender
Denny was waiting for the order to fire, his readied action doesn't kick in? Otherwise, +6 attack on the STAP pilot on the left (#1).

Oh, I'd say Shom's incredulous outburst qualifies your readied action.