the Dark times, session 6
The cast:-
Darjan: Human force adept (Tony)
Kel Orta: Kel Dor jedi knight (Kev)
Cyrus: human jedi knight (Dave)
Sai Rye: human soldier (Chris)
A long time ago, in a galaxy far far away
The team are still on Ryloth, and head out to the town find
Tark’o, the Twi’Lek that Jazzer wants them to kill painfully and publcly. On
the way they come up with a plan to replace Tark’o with Kel Orta, who will use
an alchemical potion given to the team by Barin to change his appearance to
match the Twi’Lek.
Arriving at the town, they scout out the town square where
the meeting will be held, getting a good idea of the layout and seeing it can
hold over 1000 people. After making some discreet enquiries they track down
Tark’o who is hiding in a town house, accessed via the sewer system. It takes
some doing but they manage to persuade Tark’o and his family to leave town
whilst they take his place, agreeing to pick them up when everything calms down
and get them off planet.
Having the house to themselves, Kel Orta takes the potion
and meditates, focussing on the shape of Tark’o. The process is agonising as
the dark chemicals reshape his body but he holds his concentration and controls
the change, after a few hours he has taken on the appearance of the Twi’Lek,
and he feels he has taken another step into darkness. The team rests for the
night and most of the next morning,
The team sets off to the town square before the meeting, Kel
Orta keeping a hooded cloak tight to himself so no-one recognises him. A large
crowd is packed into the square, the team spots local enforcement officers on
the 4 main entry roads to the square, as well as a figures with rifles up on
the rooftops surrounding the square.
At 2pm Kel Orta gets on to the platform to start rallying
the crowd, and Darjan reaches out with the force to start choking him, as Sai
Rye and Cyrus cover him in case anyone realises what is happening. Kel Orta is
lifted off his feet and starts gasping for air, the crowd starts to panic and
chaos spreads. Darjan maintains the choke as the crowd jostles him and the others.
Kel Orta starts to pass out.
The snipers on the roof can see ‘Tark’O’ choking
out and want to make the kill more painful and public so open up with blaster
bolts, catching him with a couple. Darjan leaps onto the platform to grab Kel’Orta
and stop him being shot, as he does blaster bolts strike him and Kel Orta but
they manage to leap back into the crowd, trying to use them as cover. All the
blaster shots cause the crowd to panic even more, people are crushed as well as
trampled, the crowd takes blaster hits as the team uses the crowd for cover. As
the team mix further into the crowd the sniper fire stops, and after a few
minutes the team exits the square via a side building and leaves town in their
speeder.
The team returns to Jazzer, he is not pleased, the job could
hardly be called a success, without a definite kill the anti slave movement on
Ryloth will continue. He tells the team to come back in a month if they want
more work, then leaves the cantina clearly fed up with them.
Returning to the Ravager, Kel Orta meditates on the holocron
which he had left there for safekeeping. He learns that the change will last
until he masters the dark alchemy to change himself (or until he can find
another vial of the chemicals). In the quiet of the ship Cyrus and Darjan
realise they did nothing to help anyone in the crowd, and feel the touch of darkness
upon themselves.
Once things quiet down, the team flies out into the desert
and picks up Tark’o and his family, them makes for orbit so they can jump to
Siskeen, which is on the way to their next mission on Hypori. As they head
skywards the flight lanes are quite clear, and then on sensors they pick up a
large Imperial vessel. The comm system crackles to life ‘This is the Imperial
vessel Hunter, shut down engines and prepare to be brought aboard’, needless to
say Kel Orta opens the throttle wide to try and outrun them, opening up a
slight lead. Another message from the Hunter, this time warning they will open
fire. Kel Orta holds course as the team powers up weapons and shields. As the
Hunter is ahead of them blocking their escape to safe jump distance Kel Orta
tries veer away but the Hunter keeps on an intercept course, opening up with
its turbolasers. The hunter gets a lucky shot with its turbolasers (natural
20!), inflicting massive damage on the Ravager, as it warning lights flicker
and alarms sound, they realise another hit like that and they are done for.
Sai Rye presses the jump button.......
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the Hunter, Vigil class corvette (details picked up from hurried sensor scans)
Length: 255m, Crew: 300, Cargo: 300 tons
Hyperdrive: yes
Sublight speed: 4
Shields: Light military grade, Strong hull plating.
Armament: 2 Double Turbolaser turrets, 4 Double Laser cannon turrets, 2 Concussion missile launchers
Hangar bay with space for 4-8 starfighters (ventral launch bay)
