STAR WARS: RETROSPECTION- The Hunter

Snith sort of squints at you as if you are completely insane.

"What do you expect me to say? 'He went that way'?" he asks, jabbing a thumb towards one of the doorways leading out of the main lounge of the freighter.

It just so happens that Kyle is standing there, waving at you with a silly grin.

"Stop looking at me like that!" Rylis snaps at Snith. "He's right there..."

She will aim her blaster at Kyle and fire again.

"Whoa, trigger-happy!" Snith shouts as you let off a shot at... er, well, nothing. "Put the gun away before you do something stupid!"

"Seriously," says Kyle from behind him.

"Shut up! How are you not seeing him?!"

Snith turns around after you shout at the space behind him, glaring at what is now empty.

"The real question is, how are you seeing him?" Snith asks.

There is a tap-tap on your right shoulder.

"I don't know! I have no idea what's going on!" Rylis snaps, whirling around.

"Made you look!" shouts Kyle from another doorway, from which he takes a shot at you. Make that a Double Shot from his light pistol, the pair of bolts screeching across the lounge toward you.

Rylis is going to dodge that and fire back.

Despite the marksmanship he possesses that you can only envy right now, he manages to muff that shot. In fact, you think he purposefully did it just to mock you! The bolts flash as they hit the floor, a safe distance from your feet.

Your bolt strikes the door frame, showering him in sparks as he retreats back into the corridor...

"You are NOT simply running away!" Rylis calls out, following after him.

You dash into the dark corridor which leads you into the cargo area. Crates are piled to one side of the cargo bay, some heavily dented but all sealed.

Laughter echoes about the cargo bay, slightly disorienting you.

"What's the matter, Tavel?" Kyle asks.

Rylis doesn't answer, but simply strikes at Kyle with a punch (if she's close enough to him, otherwise she'll simply shoot at him again).

You cannot see him, but you know he is here. It is almost as if you can feel him, lurking in every shadow.

"Not feeling talkative now?" he asks. "Tsk."

Another blaster bolt snaps out of the darkness.

"Just shut up!" Rylis shouts back at him. "Something here is not right..."

She will dodge the attack and fire back in that direction.

Your shot flashes as it bursts in the shadows, lighting up that area to reveal that nobody is there.

Kyle laughs, stepping up onto a crate near a far wall.

"Took you long enough to figure that out," he cackles, tossing his gun away. "Come on, finish it, then! Scorch my skin, burn me alive! I dare ya!"

Something most certainly isn't right, Rylis. This is not like Kyle at all; beside the fact that he seems to be surrendering, his mannerisms are not the same as when you met him at the bar back on Nar Shaddaa.

"No. I'm not buying it. This isn't you." Rylis says, keeping her blaster aimed at him but not firing. "I don't know what's going on but this can't be happening like it is."

Denied his demands, a change takes place in Kyle's face. His whimsical grin drops into a sullen expression, then pure rage as his jaw unhinges and flames flicker in his eyes.

"SHOOT NOW!" he yowls.

"FINE!" Rylis shouts back, taking aim and shooting at Kyle.

The bolt passes straight through him and connects with the wall behind him, which then ricochets back and strikes you in the shoulder.

Kyle is gone, but now you are puzzled. How the hell did that shot ricochet?

Snith has joined you.

"Okay, are you done yet?"

Ouch...how much damage did that do to me? ermm

"What the HELL was all of that?" Rylis says, glaring at where Kyle had been (and where the shot had ricocheted back at her).