The Star Wars Iconic Characters: Out of the Jungle.

[Jack Haggerty]

As soon as Rorworr hustles his assault force back into the bushes, a wailing siren erupts from the far side of the landing field. A few unintelligible shouts can be heard from out-of-site pirates atop the ridge.

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Meanwhile, in the Pathfinder's engine room, a pair of Zabrak legs protrude from the inner workings of the survey ship's primary hyperdrive. A distant muffled warning klaxon startles the unfortunate technician into banging his head against the drive's power amplifier. He extricates himself from the bowels of the machinery in time to find his pirate guard receiving orders over his comlink.

The guard unshoulders his blaster carbine, and flips off the safety. "Stay here," he orders, "and keep working." Exiting the engine room, the heavy blast door closes behind the pirate. A moment later, the door's control panel flashes red, indicating that it has been locked and sealed from the outside.

Kaz Lo? Are you still around? You're on!

 

[Kaz Lo]

Kaz Lo rubs his head and looks about the room.

"I just know these guys are going to kill me if I fix this thing, or sooner or later find out that I'm not really fixing it and kill me anyways. Damned if you do damned if you don't. I'm running out of solutions here. And now I"m talking to myself!"

He puts a hand to his forehead and sits down.

"Well, if I'm going to die anyways, might as well give the good cuase I wanna know what set off these alarms. Let see if the Pathfinders computer can tell me anything. Come on hun, talk to me."

((Computer Use +14))

 

[Rorworr]

Rather annoyed by Emtee's disappearing act, Rorworr scans around for any likely looking way into the pirate compound. He also scans the ship, trying to get an idea of how many guards are around it.

 

[Jack Haggerty]

Under cover, Rorworr is once again unable to see anything but some leaves, twigs and a handful of bugs. Quickly he scales a nearby tree to regain his previous view of the landing field.

His vantage point from the southeast again reveals the hill rising above to the north, and the two shuttles sitting along the eastern edge of the field. Closest to the wookiee is the Pathfinder just south of the shuttles. The squadron of Cloakshape fighters are lined up along the western edge of the landing field, the direction from which the blaring siren is echoing... And toward which all dozen of the pirates in sight are heading.

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Meanwhile, back in the Pathfinder, the ship's computer is being stubborn. |...I don't care what your excuses are anymore, until you get my hyperdrive working again, you can check the sensors yourself, you incompetent, sloppy sack of protein...| So he does.

The ship's external holocam feed shows every one in sight running past the fighters parked on the far side of the landing field. It's probably just a wild animal walking through the perimeter alarms again... But then, why would everyone get so excited over that?

 

[Rorworr]

Let the mime commence!

After clambering back down the tree, Rorworr points at himself and the rest of the group, then up at the Pathfinder, followed by him pretending to run and shoot. Hoping that they get the idea, the Wookiee quickly heads along the treeline, getting as close to the ship as possible, then dashes across towards it, taking advantage of any handy cover.

Let's hope someone has got a few ranks of Sense Motive!

 

[Kaz Lo]

"Moody Computers, I'll fix your hyperdrive when I'm good and ready and no a second before"

Kaz Lo wanders over to the door, looks at the locking mechanism, and tries to detirmine if he could break out.

 

[Jack Haggerty]

OOC: I am still here, guys... Just waiting to see if anyone else is going to post.

 

[Valara Saar]

Valara watches Rorworr playing sharades and smiles. Nodding she will follow him and ready her blaster to shoot any pirate that get between her and the pathfinder.

 

[Dorn Tavers]

Dorn watches Rorworr's pantomiming and nods as he ignites his lightsaber.

As he dashes off towards the ship with his companions, he mutters under his breath, "I never thought I'd be risking my life with a plan of attack based on a game of charades with a wookie. May the Force be with us..."

 

[Jack Haggerty]

The intepid Wookiee stalks along the trees, his comrades following close behind. When he comes along side the nearby ship, he dashes up the slope, scrabbling on the loose gravel. Valara, Zeev and the Jedi clamber up the incline after him. As the group reaches the crest of the slope, the metal balls atop the two nearest sentry poles begin flashing and honking an extraordinarily loud warning.

Two pirates, standing beneath the bulk of the Pathfinder, spin around to gape at the unexpected heroes. One stumbles as he begins to turn and flee, while the other fumbles for his blaster.

SURPRISE ROUND!

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Meanwhile, back in the Pathfinder, the computer continues to complain. |...Fix it when you're "good and ready", eh? Just you wait until the next time you want to take a hot shower, and then we'll see who's "good and ready"...| While the computer continues to spew electronic expletives toward him, Kaz opens up a small access panel next to the door's control mechanism.

The pirate doesn't seem to have truly locked the door, he simply tripped the fail-safes for the emergency blast door. It should only take a few moments for Kaz to bypass the safety module and rewire power straight into the door's servomechanism. A louder, nearby klaxon startles the unfortunate technician into shocking himself on an exposed power lead. He pulls his hands out of the wiring only to realize that this new alarm is coming from just outside the ship.