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

The data is useless with no reference, Gundy., The astrolabe is a large, brass, manually operated thing and you need to work out how to use it first.

Your com is bleeping.

Kellan fiddled with the Astrolabe, trying to educate herself on its workings. "mah, can you figure this thing out ?" she asked him, grabbing her com. "Gundark here," she answered.

There are dials and nobs... the only thing that seems to make sense is the base, which is simply set to locations. But you can't seem to MOVE anything, like it is all jammed.

"Moran here!" comes the excited voice of the prefect. "We have spotted one of your suspects, with an accomplice!"

"maybe someone should go to check out what problems they are having downstairs" : I speak softly

You'll have to wait; you can hear the sound of Ascar entering the lift in reception through the door you came in by.

And suddenly you have a bad feeling about ALL of this.

I fear the mission might be in danger
"does anyone feel so,ething out of place here????

Kellan felt a chill go up her spine and she and mah tried to manipulate the Astrolabe. The Force was suddenly sending her an urgent message of impending danger. "Where are you now, Moran ?" she answered into the comlink.

The communication from moran is distorted. He says something about one of his droid units (which he is using because they cannot be mind tricked) found them at one of his checkpoints. Then the communication fizzles and goes dead.

BTW, there is no-one in the room by the lift (which is to say you cannot sense anyone in there; there is a door between you and reception). Majora must have entered the lift with Ascar.

There is danger here. You can sense movement beyond one of the other doors out of this room.

BTW, remember that the astrolabe is half as high as a man and very heavy

Xeth feels odd. He can't take his mind off of whatever it is bugging him. He steps towards the lift, silently execpt for the nervous fluttering of his wings.

EDITED

You can't use the lift while it is still taking Ascar down, Xeth!

You can hear the sound of many footsteps coming this way.

For reference, if you look at a plan view of Ascar's office:

Reception is throgh a door at the top right. The museum is at the bottom right. Ascar's desk is at the top, his bar at the top left. The windows overlooking Malastare are at the top. The doors you can hear movement behind are at the bottom left.

Gundark and Mah are currently in the museum, looking at the astrolabe.

Xeth is in through the door in reception, where he has found out the lift is still in use.

And I will say that Sierri and Lance are by Ascar's desk.

okie and I am where?????

anyways I go and stand at the door between the office and the reception ok?

Crap, always one I miss... I think it was Lance last time... Yup, at the door, no problem.

(hehe, np too many players and an irl rpg is a bit easier cause you can see the other ppl it helps to count them 😛)

There is a loud noise as suddenly three hover-cars pull up by the windows outside- two for the main room and one for reception. Each has three men, one wielding a large repeating laser gun mounted to the vehicle.

They start to spray fire into the room. The windows shatter instantly and an enotmous barrage of laser fire starts to sweep across the room, each gun taking a different third.

I turn towards the cars. Then I make a summer sault to the back meanwhile I take and ignite my sabre once I land I start blocking the shots, I walk along the wall to get closer to the window. once i have reached the window I use a force push towards the guy using the repeating laser gun

You will die attempting to advance AND block all the shots from a weapon firing at this rate. It's the laser equivalent of a machine gun.

Xeth ducks behind the receptionist's desk, and ignites his lightsaber. With after deflecting a few shots and dodging some, he brings out his sonic blaster and fires at the hovercars.

"Who the hell are they?" he shouts to Master Gundark.

The hovercars are shielded and your blaster is useless, doubly so at this range. But hiding under the besk affords you cover. Others should be thinking of similar things...

Parts of Ascar's office explode all around you. An expensive piece of archaeology is destroyed before your eyes.

Kellan pushed mah down to the floor and threw herself alongside him, drawing her sabre. "I sure didn't invite them," she hollered back to Xeth over the noise of the laser fire. "And I don't think they're Ascar's cleaning staff." She looked at mah. "We can't drag the Astrolabe out of here," she shouted in frustration. She half crouched on her knees, adjusting the workings of the Astrolabe and trying to make sense of what she was looking at without getting her head blown off.

After the first sweep has finished, blowing most of the office apart and leaving you guys prone and sprawling, the doors at the bottom left burst open. People dressed in what seems like military uniform and bearing a variety of weapons start to rush in, the hover-cars giving them covering fire.

Lance and Xeth (as the warriors of the group you get these insights), you are up against professionals here. This was planned well.