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wingless
Gender: Male
Location: Bucharest, Romania |
the urge for returning (if you canc all it that, seeing as he didn't go there in the first place) to Avalar hits Takuan on the moment. But perhaps it is not the time..
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Bane
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Location: Evil high-backed chair |
Rand narrows his eerie black eyes at the tablet and Takuan.
"Takuan, may I see the tablet?" Rand asks, reaching out a hand as if the thing was calling to him, tempting him to just snatch it from Takuan...
Resist... Rand urges himself. Resist!
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Jan 5th, 2005 12:04 AM |
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REXXXX
Networking
 Gender: Male
Location: San Diego Moderator |
Galder solemnly accepts the machine pistol from Doon after hearing the news of Kuylen's injury.
"This is not good," Galder tells the others, but secretly thinks to himself that maybe some more time away from Kuylen would mean that their current group could become more...successful.
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Jan 5th, 2005 12:14 AM |
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Ushgarak
Paladin
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Location: Chelmsford, Essex, UK Co-Admin |
From your peek, Rand, the tablet seems to be talking about some sort of entry ritual. You could spend hours or days studying this thing... the Sith speak from across the millennia!
"Yeah, I've got an armoury here if you need it," says Doon. "Anyway, you know how it is with Kuylen. Not the type to just lie down and accept death. He'll be back.. just not right now.
"I am glad you like that toy, Takuan. I understood in the early days Kuylen and the others made off with quite a portion of whatever was on Avalar."
He smiles.
"But here is something it seems Kuylen never told you you. Did you know ... that one of the tablets in the central archive on Avalar... wasn't there when Kuylen found the chamber?"
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"We've got maybe seconds before Darth Rosenberg grinds everybody into Jawa burgers and not one of you buds has the midi-chlorians to stop her!"
"You've never had any TINY bit of sex, have you?"
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Jan 5th, 2005 12:24 AM |
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Buggy
 Gender: Male
Location: Everywhere |
[kicks BB in face] = REX
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THIS IS WHAT WE'VE WAITED FOR
THIS IS IT, BOYS, THIS IS WAR!
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Jan 5th, 2005 03:09 AM |
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Networking
Gender: Male
Location: San Diego Moderator |
(Galder's area of expertise for the group: Avalar  )
"Really?" Galder says, amused and disturbed by Rand's urge to see one of the ancient tablets. "I was the only one of this group that was at Avalar."
"What tablet was it that was missing?"
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Jan 5th, 2005 03:11 AM |
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Dexx
wingless
Gender: Male
Location: Bucharest, Romania |
"no, i didn't know that" says Takuan
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Jan 5th, 2005 07:00 AM |
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Ushgarak
Paladin
Gender: Male
Location: Chelmsford, Essex, UK Co-Admin |
"From what Kuylen tells me, it was possibly the most important one. It certainly contained knowledge that he desperately needs.
So... you guys are going to go and get it."
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"We've got maybe seconds before Darth Rosenberg grinds everybody into Jawa burgers and not one of you buds has the midi-chlorians to stop her!"
"You've never had any TINY bit of sex, have you?"
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Jan 5th, 2005 10:45 AM |
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Dexx
wingless
Gender: Male
Location: Bucharest, Romania |
it's whereabouts having something to do with..the ghost citadel...
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Jan 5th, 2005 12:11 PM |
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Ushgarak
Paladin
Gender: Male
Location: Chelmsford, Essex, UK Co-Admin |
"Absolutely. In as much as it is in the Ghost Citadel."
Rand, now you have a bad feeling that you know what that place is.
"Tell me," says Doon," have you ever heard of a man named Siva Lantarnas?"
People's reactions in their minds at this point depend on their Savoir-Faire rolls.
For Takuan, Rah and Rianna it is "Nope... he a singer or something?" Takuan and Rianna just never saw much of the Galaxy; Rah just never paid attention beyond what he could nick from people.
For Galder it is "Err... some drug smugglers I ran into a while back used to talk about him..."
For Tanic, it is "Siva Lantarnas, the founder of the Golden Serpent? Aw crap..."
For Rand, it is "Oh, it IS the place you are thinking of... hell, this Kuylen guy has get you pissing around with the Golden Serpent now... not good."
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"We've got maybe seconds before Darth Rosenberg grinds everybody into Jawa burgers and not one of you buds has the midi-chlorians to stop her!"
"You've never had any TINY bit of sex, have you?"
BtVS
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Jan 5th, 2005 12:19 PM |
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Dexx
wingless
Gender: Male
Location: Bucharest, Romania |
"what's the golden serpent?"
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Jan 5th, 2005 01:06 PM |
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Ushgarak
Paladin
Gender: Male
Location: Chelmsford, Essex, UK Co-Admin |
Not that you would ask that, unless you can read people's thoughts...
"Siva Lantarnas is a legend, the King of all Bandits, the greatest rogue and robber of them all," says Doon.
And so he is. Tanic and Rand, you both know the shadowy legend of this guy. Dead now for a good thousand years, he is the inspiration for countless hundreds and thousands of young thugs and pirates who all aspire to his golden image. No heist was too daring, no goods too secure, and no woman too cold, for Siva not to get his way.
He is rather like a Robin Hood figure; the legend that has built up around him has twisted and turned and become something it wasn't. This is deliciously ironic, because many of these thugs say that they are following the golden dream of Siva, talking about how he was his own man who bucked the system and thumbed his nose at bureaucracy, answering to no man, beholden to no woman, representing all things afree and proper and so on and so forth... and of course, most of these young thugs end up doing dreary extorition work or mass slavery and murderous piracy until they die violent deaths.
That's ironic because the truth is that Siva himself was a vicious murdering bastard. He just happened to be a very GOOD vicious murdering bastard, and he was also clever and brave and cunning, and also lucky in no small measure. Very few of these thugs know the truth about Siva, but end up becoming more like him than they suspected they ever would- except in aptitude and ability. And brains. Ok, they become more like him in evil violence than they suspected they ever would.
Siva's greatest moment was when he performed the crime of all crimes. The ultimate test of his cunning. The most daring, the most dangerous, the most fantastic crime perhaps ever performed. Siva Lantarnas performed a heist...
... on the Sith Armada.
Of course, this might be stretching the definition of 'crime' somewhat; the Jedi might have eben aggrieved that Siva pulled off something none of them would ever dare do, but they were hardly going to pursue him for it (mind you, he was wanted on several hundred other counts by that time). However, the Sith owned a not inconsiderable portion of the Galaxy at this point, and THEY sure as hell thought it was a crime. In fact, some legends have it was at the hands of the Sith that Siva met his final end, when they eventually caught up with him. True or not, he had still pulled off this ultimate feat; to steal from the epitome of evil and danger itself, and they never recovered what was stolen.
Of course, no-one ever really knew what it was he stole...
"... but in case you have not guessed," says Doon, "the centrepiece of his haul was the missing tablet. Not misisng until he took it of course; it never even reached Avalar. The Avalarian Sith might have made more of an effort to get it back- if they hadn't all been killed by their fellows not long after the Monastery was completed, of course.
"Meanwhile, that tablet became the ultimate proof of Siva's almost God-like reputation, and it became the coronation centrepiece in the organisation he set up after he retired from his active life of crime... the Golden Serpent. Precious few people know that about the coronation- a reminder to the leadership that nothing and no-one is too big or dangerous for the Golden Serpent to take on."
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"We've got maybe seconds before Darth Rosenberg grinds everybody into Jawa burgers and not one of you buds has the midi-chlorians to stop her!"
"You've never had any TINY bit of sex, have you?"
BtVS
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Jan 5th, 2005 01:31 PM |
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Dexx
wingless
Gender: Male
Location: Bucharest, Romania |
*sigh*
so the ghost citadel is the golden serpent's headquarters...
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Jan 5th, 2005 02:27 PM |
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Ushgarak
Paladin
Gender: Male
Location: Chelmsford, Essex, UK Co-Admin |
"Yes indeed. Whether Siva built it himself, or it came later, no-one is quite sure. But the entire of the Golden Serpent operation eventually owes allegiance to the Ghost Citadel."
And that is a lot of allegiance. Again, Rand and Tanic know the score here. There is no criminal activity in the Galaxy that they do not have a hand in. The organisation as a whole is somewhat vague, but incredibly powerful, and notoriously vicious, determined and resourceful.
In fact, they are the most powerful criminal organisation this side of the Galaxy, and second in power in the whole Galaxy only to the Hutts. In many ways, you would even rate them more dangerous than the Hutts, because the Hutts are powerful in that they control entire planets in the area around Hutt Space. The Golden Serpent isn't really into openly controlling planets like that, but their insidiuous influence is to be felt everywhere. One way or another, you can flee the Hutts. The Golden Serpent, though, will find you anywhere in the Republic. And where the Hutts represent the vile culture of an alien civilisation, the Serpent is a distinctly human phenomenon; you can decide for yourselves whether that makes them better or worse.
The Serpent remains untouched by the Jedi- anyone who could tell them anything useful that gets caught is invariably killed before they can give evidence. Some small successes have been had but major progress has been impossible- the Jedi suspect, correctly, that the Serpent is exercising political control (in the form of bought and compromised Senators) to de-rail any chance of a successful investigation.
Still, whilst they are present everywhere, Coruscant included, they don't like to operate anything big too close to the Jedi, so it is out on the frontier where their power is supreme.
They are not people to mess with unless you are deadly serious- cunning and deceitful, many have been caught up in their plots,. Perhaps Siva was a little too much like the Sith for his own good; it may explain how he was able to pull one over on them though, as he operated the same way they did. Even a thousand years later, the organisation reflects his character.
Rand, you killed a not unimportant Serpent sector enforcer once in your Jedi career. The fall out from that- in attempted revege killings- took years to sort out. However, that's not your only relevant knowledge about them. You know the Mecrossans have always had a 'vibrant' relationship with the Serpent, which is to say they loathed each other. Easy to see why- the Mecrossans were sponsored by the Sith, whilst the Serpent grew out of having defied them. It was a brutal shadow war between the two of them for a long time, but that has all been over for centuries now., You cannot quite remember why.
Tanic... there are three people- two men and two women- on your 'list' that are not dead yet. You actively had to avoid them. That sub-section of your list was originally four strong, but only when you killed the first did you find out that all four were Serpent members. That was an arse- you released a bigger storm on yourself than you thought possible. MAN, those people won't let grudges go, and your plea that if they just let you alone to kill the people on your list, you wouldn't bother them again, didn't seem to satisfy. In fact, you were hoping, once you ha dhooked up with Rand, to beocme part of something powerful enough to go back and finish the job sometime- killing those people was too risky for you, solo. Seems like the Bureau have put paid to that plan- for now.
Serious business, the Serpent. Very serious.
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"We've got maybe seconds before Darth Rosenberg grinds everybody into Jawa burgers and not one of you buds has the midi-chlorians to stop her!"
"You've never had any TINY bit of sex, have you?"
BtVS
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Jan 5th, 2005 06:32 PM |
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Dexx
wingless
Gender: Male
Location: Bucharest, Romania |
"so we are to infiltrate their base..and get the stone tablet...."
Takuan frowns...
"that sounds very dangerous"
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Jan 5th, 2005 06:48 PM |
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mordrem
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Location: verdant brink Moderator |
"Not to mention completely insane." Rianna adds, crossing her arms.
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Jan 5th, 2005 06:50 PM |
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Ushgarak
Paladin
Gender: Male
Location: Chelmsford, Essex, UK Co-Admin |
"Yes it is. Dangerous and insane, and Kuylen didn't want to do it alone, and now he can't do it at all. It's YOUR job.
"Still, there are some compensations I can offer. I might not be going in with you, but I can help get you in. I have a few favours I can call, and a few resources for you- including a small smuggling ship that the Serpent thinks is their own. In fact, play your cards right and I think we can pass you off as Serpent members."
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"We've got maybe seconds before Darth Rosenberg grinds everybody into Jawa burgers and not one of you buds has the midi-chlorians to stop her!"
"You've never had any TINY bit of sex, have you?"
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Jan 5th, 2005 07:05 PM |
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Dexx
wingless
Gender: Male
Location: Bucharest, Romania |
takuan grins.
he also thinks it's insane.
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Jan 5th, 2005 08:06 PM |
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Baylin
Back in story!
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Location: Deep shit as always...! |
"well compared with those Pigs we were just playing with this actually sounds like it might be fun!" Rah says eagerly...
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Jan 5th, 2005 09:10 PM |
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Dexx
wingless
Gender: Male
Location: Bucharest, Romania |
Takuan has his doubts
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Jan 5th, 2005 09:12 PM |
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