USH'S GAME EPISODE III- 'ARTIFACT'. Light Side Area

The crowd is whooping loudly as the pods plunge through the Narrows. The field is becoming very tight and the fracas is getting worse as emotions run high! SOMETHING has to give soon!

It seems to be Prefect Moran and some of his officers, trying to reach you guys.

Marcus, you were interrupted but... something bad is going to happen. Soon!

Kellan kept part of her attention on the race and turned to see what the commotion was behind them.

Well... it's Prefect Moran.

Kellan stood and motioned to Moran, feeling somewhat exposed in the huge crowd. Amazing how knowing there was a price on your head could do that.

"Master Gundark! Master Gundark!" he is crying out, in an alarmed tone, as he tries to reach you.

Ooh dear, seems like your communicators have been bleeping... impossible to hear them with all this noise around!

Kellan hadn't heard her comlink, but she was sure everyone in the entire stadium could hear her name coming from the Prefect's lips. She half expected a blaster bolt to the back of her head. She made a silencing motion to the agitated Moran.

He is still trying to push towards you. The crowd is getting rather irritable at this!

Kellan motioned for the Prefect to stop where he was; she began to weave her way through the crowd toward him.

That's not at all easy... people moan and complain and simply do not shift!

Kellan used an occasional strong elbow to move the unwilling out of her way.

It's hard to know what to concentrate more on, as both Mogarian pods are involved in blatant shunting incidents in the Narrows. Mah is smashed from behind by Orthodox, but both manage to stay steady. The other Mogarian plows very nastily into Quadro, and as they head into the twists, Quadro is looking very wobbly indeed...

POSITIONS AND SCORES

1st: Dodgy (32)
2nd: Speedy (32)
3rd: Mah (26)
4th: Orthodox (26)
5th: Boring (25)
6th: Quadro (25)
7th: Galder (25)
8th: Bashy (20)
9th: Twisty (20)

NOW ENTERING: The Twists, lap 2

The crowd is getting louder and louder as the halfway point is reached...

Moran and his men finally get through to you guys.

"Master Gundark!" he says, though he is addressing all of you. "I have some TERRIBLE news for you!"

"What is it, Moran ?"

Moran seems rather breathless.

"I'm sorry," he says. "We tried to stop him before he got in here, but we couldn't find him before he got inside!" One of his officers nudges him.

"Oh yes!" he says. "He is a man named Vil Istani."

"And who is he ?" she asked.

hmm this feels not good, I maybe better go and check out master gundark her safety, this race I care not for

I start moving through the crowed the best way possible to get about 5-7 feet away from master gundark and moran. and I do not sit down
if anyone complaints too bad

Sieri shakes her head....she had been day dreaming ( need an update please)

(Pretty simple, Julie. You are watching Mah in the pod race as he races to try and get you the Astrolabe. Moran has come to talk to you guys in the middle of the second lap)

Moran trips over his words a few times, as if trying to say ten things at once. He finally decides on one.

"Vil Istani," he says, "is a rather well known bounty hunter. Specialising in bombs!"

Kellan pulled more of her attention away from mah. "Put all of your security team onto locating him. What does he look like ? Do you have a holo of him ?"

The crowd is ecstatic as the first casualties are scored. Quadro, left unsteady by the vicious shunting the other Mogarian gave him, wobbles dangerously through the twists and on the third turn one of his four engines is ripped off afater a nasty collision with the wall. Quadro's pod collapses to the ground and spins to a halt, just avoiding smalling into another wall.

Worse is at the rear. Twisty tries to nip by Bashy but tikes it all wrong. Bashy gleefully shunts him. Twisty is sent out of control and races at full speed into a wall. Some of the crowd is on its feet and yelling with glee.

Mah takes the section skilfully and is trying to make te places to the front; the other Mogarian still is a way behind but still has one more fast section to go through!

POSITIONS AND SCORES

1st: Dodgy (36)
2nd: Speedy (34)
3rd: Mah (30)
4th: Orthodox (30)
5th: Boring (30)
6th: Galder (27)
7th: Bashy (25)

"Oh, yes!" says Koran, providing a holo.

(Vil looks not unlike one of Jabba's guards)

"My men are already searchung," he says, "but I haven't enough! And... the thing is... we picked up his transmisison to those Red Lance pirates you were telling me about... he has accepted the bounty for the wanted Jedi. But he says the Jedi will be killed during the pod race, on the last lap.

"Don't you see? He must think your racer is one of the ones this 'Pelloran' wants! Were you guarding that pod last night?"

(I am afraid you weren't, guys...)

A sickening realization dawn on Kellan. Vil thinks its Lance or I in the pod...... She looked at Moran, dread in her heart. "The pod was unguarded. You said Vil specializes in bombs. Do you know what kind ?"