USH'S STAR WARS GAME- CAMPAIGN II EPISODE III (RENEGADES)- The Hunters Hunted

How is your Lying?

I have a skill of 9! 😄

Originally posted by Vera21
I have a skill of 9! 😄

I feel so outdated.

Feel lucky instead, I'm the only Jedi with a lying skill! 😱

Then you can try that if you wish.

Huzzah for Vera-Kin!

In that case, Xeth would like Vera-Kin to try to convince the authorities that our man to be made immune was an inside source and should be averted of punishment for involvement because he was not truly involved, and was helpful to breaking up the smuggling operation.

Ok.

But before I process that...

Why the heck didn't you just try persuading them that this was the right thing to do? If you are promoting this good guy ethic, don't you think trying to convince these people to look at a bigger picture advances your general life goals better than engaging in deception?

Xeth is such a bad bug! *rips heart out in shame*

Meh, sounds better than lying to everyone. Though, for the record, none of us possess the Persuade skill...except for Vera-Kin, who has a skill of 9. You get a Force cookie for being entirely too useful, Vera.

In that case!

Xeth would like Vera-Kin to persuade that the man helped them crack the smuggling operations, and that it would be the right thing to do to let him off the hook for his helpfulness and honesty.

I'd like the word pitch from Vera then!

Vera-Kin will greet the authorities while Xeth keeps the man with us.

"Hello," she says with her cheerful demeanor returned after the man submitted to Xeth. "I am Jedi Master Vera-Kin, and I wish to discuss the happenings here.

"We uncovered a smuggling operation here that pushed through parts and equipment- nothing illegal in those, mind you- disguised as shipments that would cause them to pay lower taxes and get better prices for their parts. We are working out who their supplier is, and that should be left to us, but all you need to do is arrest everyone involved...except one."

Vera-Kin waves her gnarled cane at the man in question.

"He has been helpful with regards of cracking this smuggling operation, and we would appreciate if you would let him off with a warning rather than an arrest, for his honesty has revoked him in our eyes. The right thing to do, it would be."

"Right thing to do why, exactly?" asks the police inspector. "This person is one of the security chiefs of the facility! I can hardly think of a more heinous form of culpability in a smuggling operation. Besides, he won't say anything we can't find out anyway."

"He will not talk if he is taken into custody," Vera-Kin says. "It is the right thing to do because he is willing to help us finish this smuggling operation, and his honesty is highly appreciated by us. All you need to do is shut down the operation and round up those involved, but you can't do it if he doesn't talk."

"Talk be damned," he says, "we'll soon have all the evidence we need, no matter how silent he stays."

The problem, Vera, is that they are only expressing interest in the local issue of it. Whereas you very quickly need the cargo lists for the other ships to deal with the interstellar aspect.

"No, you will not," Vera-Kin says. "You have no idea on what scale this is. The smuggling operation was here, but the Jedi are tracking something much bigger than you know. We need him to be immune to this arrest or this will happen again in other systems, and continue to happen here, no doubt. If you set him free, then we will be able to stop all attacks by the Cult on Alzarius. It's that simple."

"The Jedi mission to deferat the Cult has already been launched, and you aren't on it! The Jedi don't appear to be tracking any such thing that you allude to."

"Know of that mission, I already do. However, we were a part of that group. Two of us have gone to Charaeus to apprehend the Cult, while we four have discovered evidence of another base, closer to Alzarius, outside of the scanners' ranges."

"No little base of theirs matters if the Jedi succeed at Charaeus, does it?"

"They might not succeed if we don't find such a base."

"How does that work? They've already gone. Nothing you do now will change their fate."

Which is true.

Vlad would follow the tracks.