USH'S STAR WARS GAME- CAMPAIGN II EPISODE II (DARK SIDE)- In the Coils of the Serpent

"So much the the vaunted unbreakable spirit of the Dark Side," says Jena, turning off the power. "But then that was never a match for the Serpent."

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Top floor is the Lantarnan's floor, Takuan. You reckon security there will be bitchy.

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It will actually not be immediate that you go up, Rah. Alittle time will have to pass- once everyone has reached a certain point, I will move on a few days, and everyone who has gotten something together by then will reap the benefits.

how about a more distinguished bar.....something classy...though i don't want to draw attention by having an unsuitable appearance for it.

Rianna heads back over to where Rah, Gallador, and Tanic are, throwing a contemptuous glare at Yago as she passes.

"Fool was lucky we're supposed to be discreet...else I'd have not let him yield...especially after that first hit." Rianna says to them, holding her ribs. "Where has Takuan gone?"

Originally posted by Dexx
how about a more distinguished bar.....something classy...though i don't want to draw attention by having an unsuitable appearance for it.

You do have a habit of sticking out, Takuan- that's your problem without Savoir-Faire. Want to risk it?

yes

So Rah and Tanic will be probably getting up (unless there are complications... Galder 😛)

Galder merely shrugs. "I suppose..."

Ok, intrusion roll from Takuan!

-6. That's no bloody good! You almost walk straight into Mika, and soon after have to beat a hasty retreat back downstairs...

Looked a lot more organised up there though.

Anything else anyone wants to try before we move on?

Rand grins. "You can count on it..." He claps as Rianna finishes her fight. "I'm glad my hallucinating mind thought of it..."

crap...so much for that

(Nice, Dexx...)

"Well then," says Doon. melting back into the crowd. "Prove it to me..."

Hmm, Rand. You are staring at the cigarette left in the drink abadoned by the nearly goon, rubbing the bruise on your face as you do so. Not only are these hallucinations strangely perceptive... they are also apparently solid, if you can bring yourself to believe that.

You can try again later, Takuan. Or perhaps distract the guards to allow up someone who would be better at sneaking/fitting in?

A pause here for reflection, then. As it stands, Rianna, Rah and Tanic will now be upstairs (for game purposes, the citadel is divided into bottom/middle/top; they just got to top). Rah and Tanic have to stay together for at least some odf the time because they came as a unit. Galder has built a rep but unfortunately an unhelpful one, but there is a channel between him and Jena (and she will soon be speaking to Rand). Gallador, Rand and Takuan are still downstairs. That's not a problem because there is stuff to do everywhere- incidentally, those upstairs can visit downstairs if they want.

I will see that a couple of more obvious clues and leads have been thrown out that everyone has ignored.

Before we go on, then, that reflection I have been talking about. We'll break out of character here to talk about the plot. This kind of thing often happens in tabletop role-playing and it might be handy to do it for a day or two here (as about three days are passing game time).

I think you guys should discuss anything and everything, but here are a few borad subjects to talk about.

The Lantarnans: Clearly the central focus of this game. What do you know of them, and how can you use that to your advantage?

The Citadel: What do you know about this place, which might also be useful?

The Hallucinations: What's the deal there? How do they work and what are they doing? They are clearly more than distractions, Incidentally, some have been more obvious than others- only Gallador hasn't experienced any yet (that's not suspcious; as the new guy he is simpler harder for me to do).

The Serpent: A complex organisation; is any you have heard about it relevant to your situation?

The visions: You guys got a lot of Prediction rolls in this game- try and map whatever relevance they have.

The Heist: Most importantly of all, soon you will have to think about this. The useful information you have on the tablet so far is zero, so work on getting some. But you may now want to think about- how are you going to do this? A raid? A sneak? A small war? What things will you need to do to pull it off? What kind of information will you need to help you?

I will be very busy next week, so I'll have time to make pointers and hints, but little time to seriously advance plot, so this is a good time to think. Please do make the effort, you may find it repays you well!

(Dexx, try to get Tanic and Rand up there, and you could attempt to go with them; they've got higher Savoir-Faire and would blend in better...)

The Lantarnans - the siblings don't like each other, for one. We would have to work that in somehow. I tried that a bit in the interrogation, didn't work very much...

(And...heh...I'm not very good at retaining information!)

It didn't work well because these people are very devious, so you must be devious too when trying to use such a lever.

Tanic is already going to be up there...

I don't know if sneakign the tablet would work too well - I'm sure they'll have an alarm of one sort or another and as soon as we lift it there'll be guards. Since a sneaky attempt would by nesscessity not include a large group they could be overwhelmed whereas if we take out the guards on our way there we can get a large group in. Maybe.

Basically we already know that Vigo likes the song - so if Rah and Tanic try and work on that to gain enough influence over him so that he's drunk enough to either show us the tablet or give us information about it.

What was Tanic's hallucination - the figure in Gambit?

You'll have to figure that out.

Thanks 😉 Well I don't know what else he could have seen that was strange. And I think you'd have told me if it wasn't 😛

That was Yago being blitheringly drunk and mocking his father...

It was subtle with you, Trick, and you didn't pursue the lead that would have enlarged it. It'll come again.

Oh right... Well, I must pay attention (unless you'd be willing to give me an approximate reference so I could go back and read from like page 50 to 60 or summat)

I just asked this in t'other forum but anyway, since we're OOC - what's the name of the Role Play system your games are based on?