USH'S GAME EPISODE I-"AVALAR" - Dark Side (Edna Witch, queeq, Captain Rex, yerssot)

Quam, you can't help thinking that something isn't QUITE right... nothing immediate, but just in general. You can't quite place what it is.

"Hmmm, something is moving this way. This is where the fun begins." Quam removes his robe and finds hiding in a darker area of the room, Force senses at full alert.

There IS danger somewhere ahead, you can feel that plainly, and with the Jedi around you are not surprised. But there is something else as well, something more elusive.

Edna edges closer to the door to try and hear what is going on inside. She doesn't think it is a very good idea to go in there. With three jedi in there, if they realise who. or what she is, she would be way over her head. No it was certainly better to track the young jedi until she could get him alone. Then atleast she might stand a chance!

Edna, before you leave it is clear that the Master Kuylen warned you about, Gundark, has found out what you did there. She also got a description of you! And you THINK that she sensed your presence...

Quam used the shadows as his cover. Unseen he had crossed the long corridors and had ended up at one the building's balconies. He slowly stepped outside as the sun was setting behind the mountains.
Down on the landing field he saw the technicians finishing their last preparations for the night and scurry off inside. Quam knew the Jedi were close, very close. He sensed a slight case of fear... Edna!

Something a LITTLE odd down there, queeq., Far fewer technicians than normal. It seems there were very few flights today. Odd. The pirates are meant to be INCREASING their activity, not holding back.

Quam takes out his turbo-wince, jacks the peg with a blow into the balcony's hard stone and swirls with grace over the edge.

Slowly the shadows of the Dark Jedi slides down the tall building down to the landing pad. One hand holds on to the thin wire while the other unclippes his tommyblaster.
Force senses are at full alert as he his feet silently meet the floor...

For a moment, queeq, you think you see a flash up in the sky.

Hang on, you CAN see a flash up in the sky. Shooting star, probably.

No, hang on, there's another.

A space battle in close orbit? Surely not. But then you can barely see anything...

From his shoulder blades Quam removes his macrobinoculars and aims it at the sky as he backs off into the shadows of the airfield.

Energy flare... definitely a battle. Curious.

ALL PLAYERS:

A security alarm has gone off. It is an intruder alert. These are rare, because it is pretty hostile outside and most visitors come from space, where it is difficult to 'intrude' from. A smuggler, most likely. Someone coming to steal the gold.

But Quam, YOU don't think so. Security troops are massing down below. Not many, but the surprise is that they are massing at ALL- it's a slack organisation and you have never seen them react so organised.

Something is going on down there that they are worried about.

Quam slides his macrobinoculars back in place and runs back inside the hangar.

Seconds later, a speeder blasts out and heads towards the place where all the security guards are massing.

On approach of the tumultuous gathering of guards, Quam leaves his speeder in an alley and sets off on foot to seek out the disturbance he has sensed...

Guards are rushing about trying to detetc the intruder, who has eluded them.

A wounded man is brough past on a stretcher towards the medical unit. It takes you no time at all to see what is wrong with him. You know what a lightsabre wound looks like.

One of the men is Arashan, Pelloran's personal heavy/assassin. He is trying to direct the search effort. Apparenlty they lost track of the intruder with the lightsabre slightly outside of the base. They think he might have got inside, but he certaibnly didn't use any of the main entrances.

Quam decides to leave the noise. Secretive intruders can never be found among the loud.

At the end of the passageway there's an alley. Quam quietly moves down the street as he hears the noise growing softer. In the alley is a small bar. "Time for a drink to kill some time then", Quam thought as he opened the door.

Something makes you stop just as you reach the door... down on the ground, there is aa fresh bloodstain. Only a very small amount, easy to miss... but it forms a trail.

YOu did hear the guards saying that they had wounded the Jedi.

"The Force guides me", Quam muses as he takes out one of his lightsabres. Slowly he opens the door and takes a peek inside. Seems like regular clientele for a dump like this.... or is it? Quickly Quam scans the ground for bloodstains inside.

The stains lead in, then turn around and head out again, further down the alleyway.

Someone is checking each doorway in turn, looking for somewhere that looks safe. This place ia a bit rough...

Force senses a full alert, lightsabre in one hand, the other hand on his tommy blaster, Quam slid down the alley like a lizard in a narrow cave: swift and silent, following the trail. He sensed a presence... not far...

There! This one! The trail stops at this door. Easy enough to slip inside...

This is a quiet, cultured place... though that seems to have been disturbed by the two armed guards that are running up the stairs...

But then you hear the noise of a sabre cut. Outside in a window above the alleyway, someone is cutting through the galss with a sabre!

Quam looks up and sees the light of the sabre cutting through the glass. Boldy he Force jumps up, strikes the sabre with his, flips back and lands on the roof on the other side of the alley. Muscles are tense, Quam is ready for the Jedi...