STAR WARS: RETROSPECTION- Trials

The pirates whoop and hollers as you bend down to pick up the shattered bowl. Another bowl of soup, scalding hot, is dumped in your hair and runs into your eyes. Whatever spices were in the soup causes your eyes to burn irritably, and a pirate lashes you upside the face with his boot.

"Enough o' that!" you hear Svidrigailov roar. "I don't care how insolent he be, he's learnt his lesson. Hands off the merchandise."

The pirates pull back from around you, grumbling.

(Slight correction Rex Xavier doesn't have hair 😛 But I assume the effect is the same)

Xavier feels the soup cause him pain. The scalding liqiud running down his smooth head. It goes down each wrinkle in his skin until it finds his eyes. He has to stop what he is doing and rub the blinding soup from them.

Xavier is trying his best not to defend himself but breaking the Pirates arm. Even worse at the mention of him being merchandise Xavier glares in the direction of Svid. Although not for long. He didn't like being called that, not at all.

Oh! Quite right, Xavier has a clean-shaven head. My bad.

You wipe the soup from your eyes, but it is difficult to keep them open with the spices irritating them as badly as they are.

Svidrigailov stands at the end of the banquet table, having risen from his throne of a chair to bark his command to the pirates harassing you. Frost, the Pirate Leader, stands just over his shoulder.

"However, gents," the Pirate Lord continues, "it seems ye be given the lad too much attention. Perhaps the ladies might be jealous?"

A roar of laughter erupts from the pirates at the implication, and female slaves suppress gasps of terror.

"What 'bout the Senator's daughter?" asks one of the pirates.

More laughter, accompanied with rude gestures.

Xavier tries his best to withdraw his mind from the soup fiasco. He wants to subside the pain just enough to focus on what is being said about teh Senator's daughter.

"What about her?" Svidrigailov asks.

"Ye shouldn't keep 'er fer yerself, Cap'n!" another of his pirates shouts. "Bring 'er out, let us have some fun with 'er!"

You hate to imagine what they would want to do with the girl you saw in your vision, but no sooner than you realize what is going on that Svidrigailov gestures for Frost to fetch her.

Xavier finishes getting the rest of the soup out of his eyes. His eyes are probably very red now. He goes back to work picking up the broken pieces of the bowl. Yet he makes sure that he keeps himself in position so that he can see the girl when she comes out.

Frost returns to the room dragging a familiar young woman, Xavier.

She is the girl from your dream. Her appearance normally would be stunning, as it had been in your vision, but time spent on The Trade has taken its toll. She is no longer wearing the garb of someone important, but red, oil-stained rags that have been hemmed short and torn in several places. Her eyes are dulled and her blonde hair is a tangled mess.

At her appearance, the pirates roar insults and resume their rude gestures.

"Miserable whelps." Trax is suddenly at your side, clenching his fists.

Xavier never takes his eyes off the girl. Not even when Trax speaks. His hands still moving making it look like he is trying to do something. This girl seemed truly caged in a way Xavier had never seen before. No animal, no slave he had witnessed thus far looked so truly beaten or captured as this girl. Logically this was bad, the girl could be so much more productive.

Something else swirled in Xavier's stomach this day as well. Almost the same feeling he had back on the Pirate ship when he lost control. A reaction his mind simply could push to the back. It lingered at the forefront much longer then Xavier would have allowed it to.

"Yes they are Trax," Xavier replies. Then from his side vision he can tell Trax is clinching his fists.

"Why do you seem upset?"

Trax looks furious. You did not think it was possible for his pruney face to become more wrinkled in his furrowed expression of anger.

"Nothing," Trax says. "It's nothing."

"So, let's show the Senator's daughter a bit of fun, shall we?" Svidrigailov cackles. Using his kinetic weapon, he shoves her forwards onto the banquet table where the pirates begin reaching for her...

Xavier watches, helpless as one can be. If he tried anything now his mission would fail. If he waited this girl would be tortured. He wished Master Cabas would be here now.

Remember that it is not if you act that the mission will fail. Only if you are discovered to be a Jedi. Any action before the right time was discouraged, but... your Master is not here to watch you.

Stop them.

It comes more as a thought than a voice. But you know it is not your own.

You look up to see the Pirate Leader, Frost, glaring at you from behind Svidrigailov.

Xavier hears the voice in his head. He doesn't know exactly how he is supposed to stop them.

Begins looking around the room any possible distraction. Perhaps something that if broken would stop Svid and in turn stop the pirates with him.

The main deck features all the controls to the ship, raised up from the floor and reachable by the walkways above. There are also control panels about the room, all matching, probably all for the same purpose. Svidrigailov used one to call up the banquet table.

Xavier begins to stroll around towards the controls, acting like he is picking up various food items. Once he reaches the control panel he stands up. Acting like he is about to walk and put the stuff away, he will pretend to step on something and slip.

Xavier lands on the control panel and begins to grab out hitting as many buttons, and as he can.

Button mashing!

Alarms blare as the banquet table begins to retract into the floor, but it halts as sensors are triggered by people still being at the table.

Slots on the walls open and turrets that resemble satellite dishes begin firing cones of energy sporadically around the room in slow powerful shots. Every ducks for cover behind crates and such that dot the room, evading the minor explosions that they cause.

Armored shutters randomly open and close over the viewports, and thick blast doors slam shut and hiss open repeatedly on the doors.

Svidrigailov is striding towards you, accompanied by his crew... but the Senator's daughter has been dragged away from them, out of the room.

Xavier looks as the Senator's daughter is removed from the table. He stands up as looks as the Pirate Lord comes his way.

"I'm sorry I guess I slipped, sir" Xavier answers before the question is ever asked. He is fully expecting a beating to come from this.

"I admire yer bravery, boy," Svidrigailov says. "Ye've proved yerself ter be valuable property! Good show. But there's always a price ter pay for heroics..."

Svidrigailov starts off by knocking you up against the wall with the kinetic emitter, then motions for his men to have their way with you. Pirates of all species flood into the area around you, yelling and snarling with their fists raised and clubs ready...

Xavier waits he knows that Svid won't kill him yet cause he will fetch a pretty credit or two. He saved stopped them for now. With the force possessing Frost near by Xavier didn't want to try to anything to bad.

So he waits and readies himself for the pirate blows about to come.

It starts with a pirate clubbing your directly in your solar plexus, doubling you over. It takes all your concentration not to fight back as fists and claws and clubs tear into you, bruising and bashing you continuously.

Eventually you can take it no longer and try to strike back, but there are just too many.

The final blow comes from the flat side of an energized sword as it smacks across your temple. You fall.

-

When you come to, everything is blurry. Something is attached to your face and you feel light.

Xavier head is pounding from the beating he just took. He awakes feeling almost like he is in a dream. Xavier tries to take deep soothing breathes, while he trie to get a look around at where he is at.

Then he feels something on hsi face and tries to feel what it is with his hands.