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The Star Wars Iconic Characters: Out of the Jungle.

Picking an appropriately tall tree, Rorworr goes climbing again. Once high enough he scans the landing field with his binoculars.
 

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Arani Lives!

Jack Haggerty said:
The birdling stands beside the tree from behind which it emerged, and cocks its head to one side with a single loud "caw".

Arani will not approach, and will keep her hands open and in full view. She's almost radiantly happy; maybe it's feedback from Sen's Force-based happy waves, or maybe she's just thrilled at the chance to meet a new species.

"My name is Arani." She points to herself. "Arani." She points to the cerean. "Sen." Then she points to the alien, and raises her eyebrows expectantly.

[Clearly, Arani's seen one too many movies. But with her high Diplomacy, it hopefully doesn't seem so hackneyed.[/i]
 

Up in the tree, Rorworr can see over the entire landing field. It is a flat ledge cut out of the side of the hill. A dozen or so of the pirates are going about their business, scattered amongst a veriety of parked vehicles...

There is a repulsor van similar in design to the one you stole, sitting alongside an open-topped four-seater with some sort of repeating blaster mounted in the back. Lined up on one side of the landing field are a quartet of old Cloakshape fighters. Across from them is what looks like a pair of small assault shuttles.

But nearest to the Wookiee is a 75 meter long almond-shaped cruiser. It looks like it used to be some sort of a system patrol craft, or customs cruiser. Most of its weapons emplacements, however, have been replaced by communications masts, and extended sensor clusters. It's name, Pathfinder III, is still visible through the carbon-scoring across the bow. Outwardly, it doesn't seem to have taken much damage, except for some superficial scorch marks, and a small blackened crater near the engine pods.

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Back at the van, the birdling ruffles its plumage in response to Arani's display, and cocks its head in the other direction. Unexpectedly, her mind is filled with an unvoiced, cautious warning of danger. "Squawk! Caw!" the birdling suggests helpfully.

Nearby, Sen is bombarded with the same emotional warning, but combined with a vivid image... Fire breathing giants are coming down through the trees, riding atop what appears to be a hairless flying bantha. One giant falls dead with thin needles bristling from his throat, before the others ride off on the winged bantha, and the image fades.
 
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Rorworr quickly shins back down the tree to his companions below.

"I can see at least a dozen pirates up there, and there could be more. I spotted a nice looking ship though. Looks like some kind of patrol ship, called the Pathfinder." The Wookiee pauses for a moment. "I'm not sure how we're going to get to the landing field. The sensors would give us away pretty quickly, and there's too many pirates for us to fight through."
 


"Wait till night then sneak in, or maybe we could find some large animals to stampede through. They wouldn't notice us in the rush and confusion."
 

"If only we had some sort of distraction," Set grumbles.

"Hey guys?" Dorn asks, as he looks around suddenly, "Where'd Emtee go?"

The little droid is nowhere to be found nearby.
 
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"Hmm, I like the stampede ide..." Rorworr starts, then (prompted by Dorn) notices his droid is gone. He quickly unslings his bowcaster, and looks desperately around for Emtee.

"I suggest we move along the treeline a bit. If Emtee decides to cause a distraction, we want to be a little way from it."

Damn, I hope he doesn't get himself shot...
 

Valara looks around at the others expectantly, as if to say anyone catch that. "Do any of you besides EmTee speak wookie? If not, we have a problem." She says looking back and forth between the others.

Sighing, she moves into the forest in case the little droid does something foolish.
 

Growling something about the general lack of education of his companions, Rorworr hurries the rest of the group under cover.
 

Into the Woods

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