It's some sort of ancient statue on here, with a number of notes and diagrams on paper stuffed all around that seems to conisst of some sort of analysis of it. But it is in some sort of language that is gibberish to you.
'Some sort' is very much the vibe there; you need a huge Savoir-Faire score to make sense of some of this stuff. You might just find something you have a clue on if you searched around here enough, but that could take days.
(I'll let the mooks slide again. Sword Whirl and Strike on Varm. Force Dodge Varm's shot. Gallagher, take a swipe at Varm, if only to make him use a frame to defend. Then go ahead and chase after Kathya.)
Andro has to refrain from laughing at Varm as he quickly pats out his robes where his Saber grazed them. It simply was not funny how hard it is to hit this guy. That, and his leg hurt too much. This had to be finished quickly. "Gallagher, a little help?" Andro calls out as he presses in again.
Roan has no more idea than you, Jelena. But there must be something around here somewhere.
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Lucky you did that, Gallagher, else toe two kills I just rolled would have been no kills at all.
Andro goes for a Whirled stab, but +6 from a fortune point in Varm's defence keeps him safe. -3 return fire... no good, but then he is ready to fire again! Also a miss, though.
Zaland blasts down a couiple more as well, leaving his way clear. "We're going to be too late!" he cries.
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CURRENT SITUATION AT: Frame 8
Middle third
Synod members x2: 0/7
Father Varm: 15/6
Andro: 3/33/7
Gallagher: 10/19/8
Far third
Synod members x3: 0/7
Zaland: 6/29/8
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"Gallagher, Zaland, after the Abbot! I'll finish up here!
(Gallagher, you and Zaland just break away and rush to the ship. I was afraid we're running out of time, and the last post proves it is so. Andro will be OK, he's gone it alone before. It's only five mooks and Varm, and I have to get another hit in eventually. I think it's a risk we need to take.
Andro will do another Sword Whirl and normal attack Varm. That leaves me Force for another Force Dodge. Ush, do combat tricks work while holding a lightsaber? I want to try to take Varm alive. I'm thinking I'll wait 'till I get another saber hit on him, then try to just knock him out. Does it work that way?)
There has got to be a centre to this damn place somewhere...
You move in. Corners turn and twist; you don;'t even attempt to try and move upwards, not only because it doesn't look at all safe, but also because you would become very lost, very fast.
These look like treaties you are walking past; turn a corridor, and now, some sort of historical record; the names are of planets that you do not think exist.
Another corner- scientific ideas in here, you think. Diagrams of strange devices; you cannot make sense of the writing.
Another corner- black scrolls, in an ancient dialect of Ithorian that you can make some hazy sense out of a few words with; something to do with great death in the past.
Another corner, and another, and another and another. All manually kept records, nothing on computer here. Wars, events, people; all long forgotten, kept secret from the Galaxy outside.
A chill passes you as you turn the next corner. And then you see...
Impossible!
In these shelves, stacked high up all around you... row, after row, after row... of grey stone tablets.
Not that you have seen any before, Roan, but they fit the description.
Tenatively, you take one down to see if it is real. It is completely blank, but with a sense of inevitability, you place your hand on the back, and slowly, in bright green anicnet lettering starts to spread across the tablet. It's real enough.
This can't be right. The only place where such a repository of information about the Sith existed was on Avalar. And even that was considered an faintly absurd myth! But if the rest of this place is any judge, these tablets have been here for thousands of years or more.
What secrets do they contain? How can they be here? Why did the Sith create them? What is it you don't know about this? In fact... what is it that the Z'Har have been keeping from the Jedi all this time?
Then, echoing from all around, you hear the sound of laughter.
"Welcome, Jedi..."
The voice of the Venerable Z'Har.
As you move forwards, Gallagher, Zaland rushes out the bay onto the landing pad, firing blasts at Kathya as he goes. The remaining mooks move to try and block your way.
Andro- no, they do not work. You'd have to put your sabre away and start using unarmed combat and that is not advisable.
You roll -8 on your Sword Whirl! Oh well, at least that made Varm's dodge and Fortune point a waste.
But he rolls +4 in return, a hit. He's got you that time, Andro- that damage requires a death check, which you pass with +3.
His shot blasts into your shoulder, finally getting one past your sabre, and he grins as you stagger back. The grin fades quickly when you don't quite drop though.
One of those mooks catches you a hit, Gallagher.
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CURRENT SITUATION AT: Frame 5
Middle third
Synod members x2: 0/4
Father Varm: 15/2
Andro: 0/33/2
Far third
Synod members x3: 0/4
Gallagher: 10/23/5
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