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Post by thereisnosaurus on Aug 9, 2005 9:01:36 GMT -5
Gareth slewed the longsword, now full of illicit cargo, into the desert. The chameleoline hull flickered and danced as it took on the hue of desert sand and soon it was visible only by the settling dust around it. Gareth popped open the cockpit and fell to the ground, preferring to stretch his legs climbing down the hull rather than opening the hatch and having a great deal of sand blow in. As he brushed the sand from his black robes, he spotted the figure of obi-wan, his old master, striding across the desert towards him. The Jedi reached him with a stern look in his eye "I thought I told you to stay away from me. It's not safe"
"but master kenobi, I have news for you. Apparently you and master Yoda where not the only jedi to survive the tragedy. I met with one on coruscant, though I lost him in the crowd. I thought the news would be important"
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Post by Stouthorn on Aug 12, 2005 12:30:20 GMT -5
((OOC: Iiiiii'm just gonna post what I have so far. I've been busy, sorry...))
Bail stared up at the Alderaan sky, his new daughter in his arms. He cursed the press and the HoloNet for their gossip shows. No one should have known about Leia. Not yet. He looked down at her in his arms. Everything was new to her. She yawned and rubbed her eyes. It was disorienting to think that she would one day be a woman, that this tiny thing in his arms that had only lived in this galaxy for a few days would grow up. Suddenly, time seemed real to him.
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Iric couldn't believe his actions. A lightsaber was nothing but a tool. His ally was the Force. He broke out from behind his cover and went to work incapacitating the guards.
A strong thrust with the Force sent three guards crashing against a far wall. Iric picked up one of their dropped blaster pistols, and plugged a fourth guard in the chest.
Riz grinned. The two spun on the door, and tried to figure out how best to open it.
* * *
The Emperor called up the Rodian secretary. "Contact Captain Zork," he said, "I have a task for him to complete."
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Post by Christopher on Aug 13, 2005 20:33:33 GMT -5
Riz looked at the door, thoughtfully.
"Look for a control console, power panel, or something like that."
The two force users then began to search the immediate area for anything that could help.
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Post by Stouthorn on Aug 16, 2005 19:33:17 GMT -5
Palpatine steepled his fingers and Admiral Mephisto Zork appeared, kneeling, on the desk. Palpatine was glad that he had been informed of the protocol: no one ever kneeled to the Supreme Chancellor, but to the Emperor, such things would be necessary.
Zork's eyes were cast toward the floor or, as he appeared in the hologram, towards a trinket on Palpatine's black slab desk. "What would you have of me," he said, and then a bit unnaturally as if it left a bad taste in his mouth, "Your Majesty?"
The Emperor allowed it. It was still new. "Admiral Zork. You have served the Empire well in the Outer Rim. Few in the navy are as skilled in siege tactics as you. The Officer Corps was slow to war, but you took to it as if it was within your heart all along."
"You honor me, Highness."
"You well deserve it, Zork. I will need your impressive abilities at the disposal of my new...associate."
"What is it you would have me do?"
The Emperor swiveled slightly in his chair and began calling up a readout on his desk's built in datapad. "The Jedi rebellion has taken a firm hold on Dantooine. The garrison there was unable to wipe them all out. They have dug in, regrouped, and have even taken in refugees from the Purge. I am sending Lord Darth Vader and the 501st, the unit that brought the Jedi Temple to its knees, to Dantooine to destroy the Jedi there. You will transport the 501st and their vehicles. Your Star Destroyer will be fitted with a chamber for Vader's use. Once there, it will be your responsibility to make sure nothing escapes. We must crush the traitorous Jedi!"
Zork never lifted his eyes from the floor. "Yes, Highness."
The hologram fizzled, went out. Palpatine grinned.
* * * "I think the control panel is in the throne room!" Iric cried, and tore off back up the long hall.
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Post by aric on Aug 16, 2005 21:36:41 GMT -5
((OOC: Oh noes! I've been demoted! ;D Also, the Emperor's real title should be His Imperial Majesty. "Highness" is something you call a prince or princess. Technically, Palpatine is the monarch. Anyway, I'll get to a real post sometime soon. Gotta go over the entire RP and re-familiarize myself with the goings-on.))
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Post by Stouthorn on Aug 17, 2005 12:27:00 GMT -5
((OOC: Sorry about the rank thing. And yeah, the majesty thing...but doesn't Luke refer to him as Highness in ROTJ?))
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Post by Christopher on Aug 17, 2005 15:07:12 GMT -5
"HOLD UP!" Riz called after the jedi
But it was too late, Iric had already disappeared down the hall.
"great" Riz mumbed to himself
The Zabrak would easily stick out in the usual crowd that filled the Hutt's. And without a disguise would easily be spotted.
"I hope he dosen't forget to use that trick of his...." Riz spoke to no one in particular "...than again, I hope it works on the Hutts."
Reluctantly, Riz started to remove some armor from the guards, including a helmet to hide his face. After donning his disguise, Riz made his way to the throne room, just in the unlikely event trouble started, and the jedi knight would need help.
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Post by SilvanoshiS on Aug 17, 2005 21:46:37 GMT -5
((OOC: It is nighttime correct? I am assuming so, but if I am wrong, I need to repost accordingly... Ohhhh ok, destroyed))
Jacob hurried to the door of the Hutt's palace, they had been in there too long. Master Kenobi was outside waiting, should the need arise. Jacob entered to find a couple of dead bodies, one of which was unarmored. He knelt down and grabbed the helmet and slid it on to complete his disguise. He had hidden two lightsabers on his belt, just in case anyone needed one. "Off to the throne room," thought Jacob as he looked at his tracking device. Upon entering most evryone was asleep, except two who looked a little out of place, one in armor clearly oo big for him. He slid up next to the armored one and poked him, saying, "Here, take this, you'll need it if they wake up." The startled human nearly blew off Jacob's head before it registered that he was trying to help.
"It's a lightsaber, take it, if he wakes up the Hutt, they'll be hell to pay. Oh, and give your friend over there this one, he'll be wanting one."
"Thank you?" replied Riz, unsure of the person or motive of him.
"Just go, we'll meet you outside," Jacob slid into the shadows and back towards the door.
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Post by Stouthorn on Aug 18, 2005 17:45:47 GMT -5
((OOC: My lightsaber was destroyed.))
Iric had doffed his jacket, in the hopes that it would throw off anyone who could see through the intoxicated bleariness they would no doubt have upon awakening -- by the smell and look of the place, the Hutt had just thrown a party.
He saw the switch for the main gate on the far end of the room. Reaching out with the Force, he flipped it, and proceeded to exit the room. He could hear the door grinding open in the distance.
"Did you think you would escape that easy?"
Iric wheeled around. Standing there was the man in red. On his lapel was an odd symbol, like the Bendu Wheel of the Force found on so much Grand Army hardware, but missing two spokes. Around his neck hung a chain attached to...was that a finger?
"Who are you?" Iric growled through gritted teeth.
"I am the future, Jedi. You are the past. It's my job to make sure that what's done is done, so the rest of the galaxy can move on."
The man pushed aside his long coat and reached for a hip holster, in which hung a lare side-arm. Iric recognized it from the War: it fired explosive darts. Not impossible for a Jedi to deflect, but difficult.
A few of the party guests and courtiers began to awake. The Hutt's majordomo roused the slug, who snorted awake. A few guards leveled their blasters and the crimelord, realizing what was going on, let out a rumbling chuckle.
The man in red reached for his gun, and Iric heard Riz's voice yell "Take this!" He sensed an object rushing at him through the air. Iric grabbed it with the Force, felt it enter his hand.
A lightsaber.
The Man in Red let loose a dart that sailed past Iric's head and impacted the wall behind him, sticking, and bursting in a tiny compact explosion designed to seperate appendages from bodies with little collateral damage. Iric rolled, stood, rising with a shoulder to a Weequay's chin. He spun to face the Man in Red, who now stood between the Jedi and the Hutt. He pressed the activation button, heard the saber snap-hiss and come to life, a brilliant blue.
He was back.
At that moment the blade sputtered and died, at which point Iric was pretty sure he knew who had constructed this weapon. He dodged again as another dart whizzed by, planting itself in a table and blowing it apart. Iric's mind raced. He saw the man's anger, smelled the tang of the firing mechanism, felt the heat of the blade hilt in his hands.
Felt the heat. It wasn't supposed to be hot.
He activated the saber again. Again it sputtered and extinguished itself. The hilt got even hotter. An accident waiting to happen. Iric tossed up the saber, ran for the hallway, beckoning his two companions behind him. The sabe hilt exploded like a grenade, and the flame followed the three from the audience chamber, the heat of the fire behind them rivalling only the heat of the sands beyond.
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Post by SilvanoshiS on Aug 18, 2005 19:09:14 GMT -5
They rushed out into the sand. Jacob motioned to the others to follow him saying, "Over here, I have a landspeeder. It'll be a bit cramped with the four of us though, sorry."
"Four? Who are you going to sell us to this time," spat Riz. "No one, I just thought I'd tag along for the fun," replied a familiar voice, that of Master Kenobi. Jacob allowed the others to make sure it was really Obi Wan while he muttered about the lightsaber. "*chocolate*, I thought I'd fixed that," being the most common audible phrase. "Let's move, that blast won't stun them forever," said Jacob and hopped in the speeder, muttering all the way to the relative safety.
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Post by Christopher on Aug 18, 2005 19:36:18 GMT -5
"Hold on a second, before I continue with you..."
Jacob stopped, and turned to face Riz. Before Jacob knew what hit him, and invisible force gripped him around the throat, and lifted him off the ground, by his neck. The unseen hand held the bounty hunter above the sand, and constricted his windpipe. Jacob, who was fighting to get a few gasps of air, met eyes with Riz. The force user held his hand in front of him, his hand looked as if he was holding someone by the throat, and even though there was no one within arm's length of him, he was choking someone. The force user's eyes burned with rage, as he held the bounty hunter by the throat, letting him get just enough breaths to live.
"You sold me out, bounty hunter. Give me a good reason why I should trust you again."
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Post by Stouthorn on Aug 18, 2005 19:50:30 GMT -5
"Because I trust him!" shouted Kenobi with a mighty Force push that sent Riz tumbling to the ground.
Riz spun, indignant. Obi-Wan continued, "And a Jedi does not give his trust lightly."
The bearded man extended an open hand to Riz, to help him up.
* * * The Man in Red stood, coughing, as the dust settled. The Hutt's voice sounded pained, and in the smoky haze the man could see that the Hutt had sustained burns to his face. The smell of burnt flesh pervaded the air, and pieces of sentient beings lay about the floor. A protocol droid's legs walked in small circles to the left, sparking, its torso nowhere to be seen.
Keepers of peace, indeed.
The man removed a comlink from his coat, clicked it on. "This is Inquisitor Batafi reporting," he said, "I have found the reported Jedi. He has escaped me for the moment. It is possible he is the same Jedi reported by Commander Thire's legion on Coruscant. Batafi out."
Replacing the comlink, the Inquisitor set about clearing the wreckage.
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Post by Christopher on Aug 18, 2005 20:17:03 GMT -5
With great reluctance, Riz reached out, and took the jedi's hand. The bearded man, then lifted Riz to his feet.
Riz glared at the bounty hunter that was on his knees, gasping for precious air.
"Be glad this jedi is here to protect your butt, or else you'd be much worse than that. And, you can have this back."
Jacob felt a dull thud on the ground next to him, it was the lightsaber. Riz didn't want it, too many jedi relied too much on theirs. The rougue force user turned his back on the small party, and began to walk in the direction of Mos Eisley, alone.
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Post by SilvanoshiS on Aug 18, 2005 20:29:08 GMT -5
Jacob clutched the lightsaber to his chest, he was down to his last four crystals. His hands flew as Riz began to walk off and pulled out another lightsaber pointed and fired. "No!" screamed Iric, but it was too late, a burple beam erupted from the saber. Riz twirled around in time to see the saber fragment and engulf him, knocking him over.
"And I'm not done with you either," Jacob walked over to Riz and reared back to kick him in the gut when Kenobi yelled "Stop! You won't get anywhere doing this. This won't change what happened."
"I know, but it'll make me feel better," Jacob said as he kicked Riz. Jacob was met with the same force push that Riz was moments earlier. The pair, sprawled on the ground, seemed almost insignificant with Obi Wan standing over them. "Now, let's get up and discuss this."
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Post by Christopher on Aug 18, 2005 21:00:58 GMT -5
Riz managed to somehow slip out from the beam of light, in the shape of a net, and get to his feet.
"There is nothing to discuss, jedi!" Riz spat "He sold me out to the Hutts, and almost got me killed, so I almost killed him. We're even....Oh wait..."
Riz pulled back, and landed a kick right on the bounty hunter's chest.
"Now we're even."
The force rougue turned his back on the group once again, and set out for the closest spaceport, Mos Eisely.
"If any of you need me, reconsider, and ask someone else."
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