The Star Wars Iconic Characters and the Lords of the Expanse: Hunting Grounds...

[Sia-Lan Wezz]

Sia-Lan laughed, blue eyes twinkling.

"Beat me to the punch, Kaz!" With a generous bow, she started walking around the table pulling out chairs for everyone before settling down upon one herself.

"Anything to you get slowpokes to the table so we can eat!"

 

[Thomas Hobbes]

"Hey, solider, can you eat with your mask on?" the Jedi suddenly asked peering over at Deel's companion, Vor'en. "Does it have holes in it? Do you use a straw?"

Vor'en's expression is inscruitble behind the black mask, although it's clear he's directed his gaze on to Sia-Lan. "I'll take it off," he says, and then adds "When the food comes." He sits down stiffly in a chair, his body armor proving to be more than a bit of a hindrance. He could left it behind, but he was, technically, on the job tonight.

Besides, he felt uncomfortable without it.

EDIT: Thrice cursed multiple screennames! My sincere apologies...

 

[Set Harth]

Set ushers Valara into a seat next to his before sitting down. He roll's his eyes at Sia as she holds out his chair for him.

"Well, Valara you ever had much sea food before? I've sampled just about everything in the galaxy at one time or another. Though even I come across a few surprises every now and then."

Out of the corner of his mouth Set hisses at Kaz. "Elbows off the table, and follow my lead, you use the salad fork for the salad..."

Set launches into a lecture about table etiquette, getting a few points wrong, but Arani happily corrects him.

 

[Sen Udo-Mal]

Sen sits down at the table and closes his eyes for a moment to give thanks to the Force. He will then look around the table and smile at the friends that have gathered here...

 

[Rorworr]

The waitress whispers something into Deel's ear, and the Twi'lek gestures to the large, round table that has been prepared for them, "Please, everyone, sit. Mori is preparing for us a veritable feast of delicacies."

Rorworr face lights up at the word "feast" but fulls at the word "delicacies". In his experience, delicacies tend to come in rather small portions...

Rorworr sits in the chair offered to him by Sia, and squezes his knees under the table. Once wedged into position, the Wookie glances around the restaurant.

"Classy place you've found, Deel. So, what's up? Fill us in on the Naboo situation. We've been out of the loop for a few weeks."

 

[Valara]

Valara grins at Sia and gives her a thumbs up signal as she is seated by Set. Well, he does seem interested, but why isn't he doing anything? I will have to be the one then. she thinks nodding to herself firmly.

"Yes, I have eaten sea-food before, often, we fished a lot on Yashuvi. It was dangerous to do, the Sirens were large enough to tip our canoes, and quite bad tempered." she says with a smile remembering when her and Jaylin almost drowned when a particularly large siren had flipped them.

"You know a lot Set, perhaps you are a better Jedi then I thought, certainly cuter." She says admiringly to him.

 

[Arani Korden]

Kaz yanks both of their chairs out, sits in his, and smacks the seat of hers,

"Rest that thang right here. If the food in this place really is anythang like them pictures, we're gonna be here awhile."

Kaz Lo puts on his big, goofy smile and leans onto the table with both elbows like it was a bar.

"Thanks, Kaz. Remind me - after dinner, we need to plan for our next call to your old employers."

 

[Dorn Tavers]

Dorn takes a seat at the table, glaring at Kaz for a moment and muttering something under his breath about how he was "going to get that chair for her."

Glancing over at Sen and noticing his usual perfect composure, Dorn realizes that he probably isn't projecting an image of ideal Jedi calm at that moment. He takes a deep breath and submerges his mild irritation beneath a slight smile. He looks around the restaurant and nods admiringly.

"Well, it looks like we are definitely moving up in the world. It's a nice change of pace."

"Thanks, Kaz. Remind me - after dinner, we need to plan for our next call to your old employers."

Dorn's smile suddenly seems slightly strained as he overhears Arani's casual comment to Kaz. He takes another breath, doing his best to expunge the mild spike of jealousy that just surged through him.

She's more than happy to talk to Kaz and be friendly to him, but she will barely talk to me, even though she's known me longer and I'm the one that crashed on that jungle planet with her! And I'm a Jedi, not some...MECHANIC!

A moment after struggling with that thought, Dorn finds himself feeling better as he listens to Set abrasively lecturing Kaz on the finer points of table etiquette. Grateful for Set's timing and trying not to laugh, Dorn regains his inner calm and goes through a small mental exercise his master taught him long ago to purge unhealthy thoughts from his consciousness. He reminds himself to thank Set later, and also resolves to think up a way to get Arani to talk to him more often.

In the meantime, Dorn decides to follow Sen's example and adopts an air of detached calm, studying each of his companions in turn as they wait for the food to arrive. Food that would hopefully be every bit as good as Deel promised. Dorn's long-suffering stomach rumbled slightly at the very thought of it...

 

[Sia-Lan Wezz]

Sia-Lan leans back in her chair, crossing her legs, one foot tapping the air the only hint of possible impatience. Or perhaps she was playing a tune in her head. One never knew with this Jedi.

Glancing around the table with certain amusement, the young woman laughed to herself as a thought suddenly came to mind.

I feel like I'm in one of those space operas that Arani used to watch...what was it called? Oh yeah...The Young and the Horny With growing interest and curiousity, she continued to watch the two couples do their odd mating dance with Kaz-Lo in the center of the action. You go, Kaz! You go!

 

[Deel Surool]

"Classy place you've found, Deel. So, what's up? Fill us in on the Naboo situation. We've been out of the loop for a few weeks."

"I used to come here all the time, when I attended the University here." Deel takes his seat.

"The last I'd heard, the Queen made it off planet in the royal yacht. She eventually made to Coruscant to plead our case to the Senate. It was all over the galactic holo-newsnet the other day.

"Not much came of it except for the Vote of No Confidence in Chancellor Valorum. Turns out that he's been summarily kicked out of office for twiddling his thumbs, and now the Senate is trying to decide who should take his place.

"Rumor has is that once the new chancellor has been picked, the Queen will head back to Naboo to organize any remaining resistance fighters against the Trade Federation occupation."