USH'S GAME EPISODE III- 'ARTIFACT'. Dark Side area

Oh...ah well, I'll put a beacon on that...

"why?...do we need to know where they go? To the jedi temple most likely, or to the nearest police headquarters. Perhaps steal something from persis and place it in a murder acusing spot. Then we would have something to blackmail on. Ascar most likely won't abandon him. Might be a way to get what we need"

The framing I like, though it could be hard.

What you need is some evidence linking Persis to that area. That's all you will need to have blackmail leverage; you don't need a cast-iron case.

So, put yourself in Persis' shoes... you are a Force adept, you want to learn to use the lightsabre, you have apparently gotten a sabre from somewhere (something else to think about)... and you are taking lessons at the dojo.b You might not go about such things in a straightforward way.

"Maybe we don't have to steal something from Persis..." says Galder. "Maybe we could find a way to get his application from the dojo, then put it near the body or something like that. Or maybe another lightsaber..."

Putting the application near the body is rather abstract, doubly so as they will move it now the Jedi have seen it (evidently, they left the scene alone for the benefit of the Jedi).

But if you can link Persis to the Dojo in any way at all that would be good- you would be surprised if he used his own name, of course!

DARK SIDE BACKGROUND UPDATE

More information about the background of you people- which has been left rather vague until now- is now known.

For a start, I have found out that pliot guy is actually female. D'oh! Well, too late to reverse that now, so male he stays... also, I don't think 'he' was much good with that sabre.

More importantly, you guys DO have a hidden base an an obscure swampy planet out near the Rim. More details will be revealed about it later, but it is where you trained- where Takuan learnt his basic sabre skills and where Galder refined his.

More about the contents of this base will be revealed later, though feel free to ask questions about it.

Basically, though, it is harsh. Very, VERY harsh. It's not a nice place and you really need the stomach to be bad guys to appreciate that you trained there. It also shows the (normally well-hidden) VERY harsh side of Kuylen, and just how difficult it was to get to the position you guys are in now.

You will visit it again in episode IV- you probably visited it last after you fled Damagran; aside frpm anything else you needed to feed the prisoners. Oh yes, there are prisoners...

(goodie..background)
"how about that saber of persis's. That could be scanned for prints though it wouldn't reperesent much of an easy to forget at crime scene (or anywhere) thing"

You'd need the sabre. Can't see that happening.

Try not to look for hard evidence; can you trace him even vaguely to the dojo? Any link you could threaten to reveal. For example, if you could find the false name he joined under (you won't, but that is the sort of thing that would do it).

Or maybe if you managed further investigation at the dojo itself you might get somewhere- once the Jedi are done there, of course.

OOC: Cool, we have a base. 😄 Also, don't forget that I have my place on Hoth. It's where I built my blue saber to replace the green one, and did a little expansion to it during the 3-month duration from Damagran to Malastare.

IC: "Well, we'll have to wait for the Jedi to leave before we do anything," says Galder. "Hey...do you think the Mogarian suit could be his? I didn't see Persis during the training session, and the murder happened shortly after we lost track of the Mogarian."

(I have no doubt that each of you has some hidden little place somewhere)

Worth noting, Rex, that the murder happened before you guys even turned up at the dojo; like I said before, that Mogarian did well enough to outpace you, let alone find time to murder someone in strange circumstances while he did it.

Mind you, that IS a good basic point. You don't know much about these Mogarians, but now you think about it, it could be ANY humanoid inside those suits. They completely cover the body and talk with voice synthisisers.

takuan looks for a few seconds at the jedis, then turns to the others.
"we should probably ask to watch a training session at the dodjo....persis should be there....and i don't know if the member's identities are held secret. The name shouldn't be too difficult to find out...if we need it."

(Holding secret is one thing, but Persis using his own name is another...)

You guys keep planningl I'll tell you when the Jedi go, you tell me if you have any plans in particular to do.

BTW, Kuylen is off to a planet named Belseraphon. That's where Edna went.

(no i ment that if they would tell the name we could connect it with how the guy looks....thus finding his fictional name...doesen't matter...i'll think of something else)

Well, obviously, I cannot control how long the Jedi will be there.

Meanwhile, of course, feel free to be thinking about ways in which you could persuade Ascar to at least make a deal (though I recommend that Takuan do the negotiations; Ascar thinks little of Galder at this time). This doesn't have to be blackmail; convincing arguments (with maybe a hint of threat) will do.

And while I hate to give a blatant, film-reference hint... can you think of any weakness Ascar may have?

"...gambling.."says Takuan. "ofcourse...it might work. But it's difficult....i'm sure he knows what pods he's betting on. An....arrangement of some sort perhaps. But let's try talking to him first."

Well, feel free to make appointments with him. You'll need to see him about Rura anyway.

"i'm leaving right now" he says soon before he departs.

*Can I go and see Shareth?*

Nope. Even if you could, flying to Nar Shadda would take you out of the story.

*what can I do then?*