STAR WARS: RETROSPECTION- Learner

Hmm. The scorch mark makes Rianna suspicious, and she's also mildly nervous about not being able to see or tell what is watching her, so she's going to keep her lightsaber in hand while she heads upstairs.

She'll check each room one by one, starting with the ones closest to the stairs and working her way back.

Each room is a simple office, darkened by the covered windows. The glowrod exposes more scorch marks from blasterfire on the desks located in the offices.

The final room you check is a lounge, with a large couch, a holovision screen (blasted out, though), some chillers for food.

And Rianna hasn't found anyone yet? Is she still sensing that there's someone around here?

She'll thoroughly search the room, though the scorch marks and stuff make her apprehensive; apparently something bad happened here.

You are still sensing that.

Instinctively, you spin around as someone charges you down from a dark corner of the room. You ignite your lightsaber just in time to block the incoming blow... of another lightsaber. The blue blade crackles against your own for a moment...

"Stop!" Rianna says, pushing with her lightsaber a bit to try and get herself some room. "I'm not going to harm you!"

Does she at all recognize the person with the blue lightsaber? Not likely, of course, but worth a try...

The attacker withdraws their lightsaber, holding it up by her face. She appears to be a young girl with messy blonde hair. She is dirty and tired, her Jedi robes are muddied and torn and burnt.

You know you have not met her before, but she seems... familiar.

"Who are you?" she hoarsely demands.

"A Jedi, like yourself..." Rianna replies, pulling back her own lightsaber and trying to ignore the strange sense of familiarity. "Well, a Padawan, anyway...the ship I was on was attacked on our way to Naboo and we crashed. I've been trying to find out where I am, find help, find our pilot, find...something."

"My name is Rianna. Who are you? And what happened here?"

"Ciira," she says, deactivating her lightsaber. "We... we were attacked..."

You notice, in the glow of the lightsabers, that there is a body behind her, sprawled on the floor. You can sense nothing from it.

"Oh..." Rianna says, slightly uncomfortable. "Who attacked you? This village seemed empty...at least, as far as I could tell..."

"I... I don't know!" Ciira says. She starts to cry.

"It's okay..." Rianna replies, thinking that this girl is far too young for this and wondering why she is even there.

"My Master is injured and the pilot of the ship I came in is missing. I'm trying to find him, or any other help. Come with me, and maybe we can get out of here."

"No, we can't leave!" Ciira pleads, hurriedly putting herself between you and the door out of the lounge area. "It's too dangerous out there! And you are injured!"

Items in the room- small tables, chairs, discarded things, debris- seem to be floating around the room. You sense great potential in Ciira; she seems to be subconsciously doing this in her distress.

And you have completely forgotten about what your new mission was. The distraction of the ambush on the Last Chance seems to have pushed it from your mind, but the Jedi Council gave you the task of finding a Jedi Master and his Padawan that had become lost in your sector of space...

"Please calm down...panicking isn't going to help anything. Yes, it's dangerous out there, and yes, I have been injured...but if you were attacked here, I don't think it's any safer. My Master is still back at the ship, as is the Senator of Naboo. I can't leave them there themselves for too long, in case something happens..." Rianna says, keeping a wary eye on the floating objects.

"But...we were supposed to look for two Jedi who had gone missing, after leaving the Senator on Naboo. I think that would be you and your Master."

"You are too late," Ciira groans, gesturing to the figure on the floor. "Master Jeph... his wounds were too great, I couldn't do anything without supplies..."

Rianna... you are now floating as well.

"But we can still get you to safety...and please put me down!" Rianna replies, not exactly happy with suddenly no longer being on the ground.

Rianna, you suddenly sense an overwhelming amount of danger.

Everything drops, including you, as Ciira suddenly brings her lightsaber to hand. With a look of determination, she activates it and releases it, letting it float in the air for a moment before using a powerful push to thrust it towards you...

...wait, not toward you. The blue-bladed weapon comes within a few inches of your head, but sputters and crackles as it strikes something just over your shoulder.

You turn to see what it is and find yourself staring into the gnashing, frothing fangs of the largest beetle you have ever seen.

"What is that?!" Rianna says, getting back to her feet and moving away from the thing a bit, while igniting her lightsaber.

She'll immediately snap an attack at it.

With Ciira's lightsaber burning into its stomach, it is overkill when you deftly cleave it in half. It falls to the ground with a clank, which you don't think is quite the right noise for a crunchy bug.

"I don't know," Ciira says, drawing her lightsaber back to her with ease. She has an impressive control of her abilities, when she is focused.

"I am liking this planet less and less...and I think that thing had been following me for a while." Rianna comments. Does she sense anything else, or was that it?

"But this place really isn't that much safer. Hiding here isn't going to find us a way off of this planet. And...we are going to have to know what happened to you and your Master."

That was it, but you sense something not quite right about it, even now that it is very dead.

Ciira sighs, moodily. "The shots came out of nowhere," Ciira says. "I sensed the danger, but... I was not quick enough to prevent it. I don't know where they came from or who fired them... but it is too late for Master Jeph. I failed him."