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

Quam just smiles at Gald. "So you left your ship on the LZ... hehehehehe.... amateur." He then turn to Kuylen: "My fighter is available if you need it, it's somewhere safe, it always leaves the landing site several minutes after I leave it behind.... so one less worry there."

Quam steps off and backs up a little in the shadows while Kuylen is fervently checking the computer. Unseen he pulls out his datarecorder with the uploaded information. Within moments he has identified the alternative exits. The nearest one is behind the tall statue at the end of the corridor, that would lead all the way to the other end of the complex, far from the main entrance. Quickly he puts it away and slowly begins to pace a bit. "Any luck yet, Master Kuylen?"

"I wouldn't bother," says Kuylen to you, Quam. You suddenly feel an icy presence from him, a certain focus you have not felt from him for some while. "I know what you are thinking. It won't work. I checked all the passages last time I was down here. The ice makes them all impassable.." He looks up. "Oh yes, this area has been exposed for some time. But I couldn't access the archive until I had brought you all here and paid off Faylar. Much as I regret not killing that worm last time we met. But we'll pay him back for that.

"I'll understand if you are upset for not telling you earlier... but if I thought I could trust any one of you to not just try and make off with the archive while I was busy on Damagran, then I would have done."

"Look around you, Quam. This room where the Sith monks died. Look what killed them." He pauses. "Sometimes I think Darth Bane was right, to only want two..." Quam, something really IS worrying Kuylen, not an emotion you are used to seeing from him. It has him distracted.

"No, I've come here to check something more troubling... which I will speak to you about later, if you are still willing to listen. As for now... you can help our esteemed friend Gald fight the Jedi if you wish, though personally I think he and his ridiculous friend will slow them down more than enough for our purposes. But somehow... I don't think he has the instinct to be a Sith, don't you? Likewise Krisha, who you may kill at your convenience, unless I get to her first. I'll give Glad this opportunity to prove himself."

"You have a choice to make, Quam. As to where your heart really lies. We've seen a lot together; you have to decide whether that can mean anything to people such as us."

"And if you decide something I won't be happy with... do it a long way from me. I'll give you that."

"No need to patronise me like that, Master. I think I've shown my loyalty. And the way of the Sith is where my destiny lies. I have foreseen that. But..... there can be only two. Aside from the little man Gald, there is another you seem to take a fancy to. I'll be a Sith, I'll make that choice but you better start levelling with me here." Quam's determination is impressive, so is his Force control as he spoke.
"You powers are great, Master, great and dark. I have seen it, I understand. But don't think all power over jedi, be it dark or light, lies in your hand. I sense the power of the place, I can feel it, practically touch it. I feel the dark side flowing through me, making me grow."

Quam stepped up a little closer to Kuylen, more determined and more committed than Kuylen had ever seen or expected him to be. "I will follow you Master. But don't underestimate me. It might be your own undoing and a setback that will put the Sith rising to power back for hundreds of years. You don't want that and neither do I."

"The rule of two was set up by an aged idiot millennia ago," says Kuylen. "Like the Council's archaic laws, they belong in another age. Only feeble leadership caused the Sith to split. Only Bane's jealously destroyed this place.

THIS time, it will be different.

It's the same as my people, Quam. At Tasker's Crown we understand the virtues of discipline and unity; of unshakable faith in their leaders. THIS is the tool with which we shall defeat the Jedi and rule the Galaxy, not these nonsensical ancient rules.

"I have no room in my organisation for those without those qualities. *I* set the rules, Quam, and if I think you can oppose me I will kill you. I demand respect and unquestioning obedience; in return we will rule the Galaxy.

"I will use the power of the Sith; I care not for what their ancient and buried presence thinks of that. Nothing else matters."

Kuylen looks back at the computer screen for a moment, and turns it off.

"Disobedience is a sin," he says. "Never make a threat, no matter how veiled, to me again."

"I never make threats, Master. I'm just pointing out that you may not be infallible. No one benefits from any form of failure. But if you want to run this show by yourself, go ahead. My sabre is at your service."

"Good," says Kuylen, tapping his finger on the computer screen for a few moments, as if it might come back to life and tell him something better.

"Frankly, I don't care about the Jedi any more," he says. "Kill them if you must, but we'll focus on getting as much of the archive out of here as possible." He sighs, and you know the problem. It could take you all day to move that lot. "There's always other places to look, and we can work a lot of it out ourselves..."

(MOD NOTE: Just to make it clear to everyone who has not been following this recent exchange, something has severely unsettled Kuylen)

"Okay, Kuylen, you may be boss, but will you let us in in your secret here. If we have a way out, I'll haul out these tablets for you. What are you looking for and what's that worm?"
Quam strongly feels like Kuylen may be snapping any moment here. He doesn't really care what happens, whether he lives or dies, but sitting around doing nothing and be delivered in the hands of someone who's not in control is somewhat unsettling.

"So? What is thy bidding, my Master?" Quam said, only just removing the sneer from his intonation.

"We'll take them out the way we came in," said Kuylen. "The Jedi will be caught up at the mirrors and they will not see us. And if they do, we kill them. It's pretty simple," he says, marching out the chmaber, pausing only to polish a buttom on his pelisse.

Rex-

You have been keeping watch on the corridor for quite some time, hearing small snatches if the Jedi talking for some time. Finally, they discover the hidden door that takes them towards the mirrors, and you hear them approach.

You blink for a moment, and your friend disappears. Damn it! The Mind Trickery in this place is too damn disorientating! You can't even see where the Jedi are. But what you DO hear is sudden diabloic laughter, which seems to echo all around you.

And then suddenly, one of the Jedi is standing in front of you.

He is a dark skinned and very tall man, with piercing brown eyes and short black hair, He has not yet seen you...

... and then he does. He blinks, and suddenly reacts as if he was looking straight through you before, and now he can see you.

You both know there can be only one way out of this one.

Rex, you now leave this thread and enter a duelling thread that I am creating specifically for you. Should you survive that thread, you return to this thread. Good luck!

Quam, Kuylen is hurrying back along the force bridge by the time you walk back to the main chamber (you have had time enough to look at the computer controls again).

Hence, you are alone in the chamber when you are surprised to see someone emerge from the corridor that leads back to the mirror tests.

It is the Knight yerssot that you fought on Jaglon Beta. And he has 'passed' the test... which makes things VERY interesting indeed...

Of course, a Jedi venting his anger is not necessarily a fully-signed up member of the Dark Side but from his point of view he is in a very bad place right now!

Indeed- he appears immensly confused, and only seems to semi-notice your presence.

"I am the spirit of your true nature", Quam speaks slowly and reverently. "Let go of your anger and join me.... you know this to be true. Only true Dark Jedi pass this test.... Give yourself to the Dark Side..."

Yerssot meets your gaze, Quam.

"So we meet again, Quam... how are you? Still Dark?"

Quam remains silent for a moment. And then ignites the blacklight lightsabre. "Join us... or be destroyed..."

Yerssot says:

"Hmmm ... what if you let me pass and I let you carry on with the Sith study?"

Then Quam strikes like lightning at Yerss' throat.

Ok, that starts a fight... you know the drill, queeq. I'll create the thread in a mo.

YIPPEEEEEEEEEEE! 😈

That's two fights at once, Queeq vs. Yerssot and Captain REX vs. LanceWindu. 😈

Well, it IS the end of the episode...