Dropping down, you manage to sweep his legs out from under him. The Shaman crashes down on the hull of the freighter, yowling.
The snipers have vanished.
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BATTLE OF THE LAST LAUGH
Dune
...
The Last Laugh
Rylis: 69/71
Snith: 75/72
Tusken Shaman: 33/72 (prone)
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Snith curses as he shocks himself on a power coupling. Today is just not his day.
Being stronger than you, his Strength negates your own.
A 19 is a solid hit as you drop your armored knee into his chest, dealing 7 damage. Winded, the Shaman misses his rising strike.
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BATTLE OF THE LAST LAUGH
Dune
Banthas x6: 0/72
The Last Laugh
Rylis: 69/75
Snith: 75/75
Tusken Shaman: 40/75
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Roughly at this point, the snipers have returned... with their banthas. The mounts grunt and gurgle as the Raiders prepare to push them into a stampede...
Finally, Snith gets the second hatch open and drops through.
The snipers are too late; the banthas will do no damage to the ship, and you vanish into the hatch just before they can reach you. The Shaman, however, is not so lucky; he utters one last shriek of frustration before his body is broken by the heavy stomping of the banthas.
"Get to the top turret," Snith says. He reaches up and flips a switch, closing both hatches and sealing you within the freighter.
The interior of The Last Laugh is relatively unimpressive. Many of the walls have had their panels removed to expose wiring that Kyle has no doubt tampered with, others have been recently knocked loose by his adventures. The lights are dimmed.
You find your way to the open door that lets you access the turrets. Light shines down through the windows from above. You climb up the ladder and into the gunner's seat.
Through the viewport, you see that the snipers have dismounted their banthas and are searching for the hatch that you vanished through.
You hop into the battered leather thing that you suppose serves as the gunner chair as there are a bunch of controls in front of it. Not bothering to strap yourself in, you take the controls...
The turret emplacement itself resembles dual-linked and twinned Gatling guns. As you bring the system online, they begin to spin as the energy levels rise. Putting the targeting lock on the Tusken Raiders, the gunnery pivots about to face them.
"Urk?" is all one of the snipers manages to grunt before he is shredded by a torrent of blaster bolts.
The rest run for cover behind their banthas. One sniper is daring enough to try shooting at the turret, his bullet pinging off the reinforced viewport that you sit behind.
Actually, quite good! So long as it is alive, which the first bantha you blast is not after being blasted the first few times. It collapses onto the hull of the freighter, rolling over on its side... and onto the two snipers that were hiding behind it.
The sniper that tried to shoot you rushes the turret, intending to get past the gun barrels...
It turns out to be exceptionally stupid, but there is little else he could have done. He is taken out very easily.
The other two snipers take potshots at the turret, but they too learn very quickly that banthas are not excellent cover as you lay waste to the remaining banthas.
With that, all is silent.
"Gotcha," Snith says, sticking his head into the tube down from your turret. "Excellent! Well then. Um. Yeah, the ship won't actually start up just yet. I'm guessing since the cockpit is under the sand, he didn't mean to land here. Lots of things must have got knocked about in the crash, so we might have to do a bit of work beforehand... might even have to stop in Mos Eisley for parts... but I can cover that, no problem. Anything I can't buy I can steal..."