STAR WARS: RETROSPECTION- Learner

Rianna will immediately draw her lightsaber. Does she recognize who it is?

You do not. He has his back towards you, a blaster rifle slung over it. He is wearing a red-and-white uniform.

"It's one of the soldiers!" Ciira says.

"I thought you said that all of the soldiers died, either in the crash or when you were attacked..." Rianna replies to Ciira.

Does she sense anything odd about this?

Either way, Rianna is going to keep her lightsaber drawn and ignited. "Turn around and identify yourself!"

"I dunno, I thought... I'm pretty sure..." Ciira mumbles.

Something doesn't feel right about this, but you can't place it.

He does not obey your command.

"I have a bad feeling about this...something isn't right. I don't know what, though..." Rianna comments quietly to Ciira. "Stay back."

She'll approach the soldier, cautiously, holding her lightsaber in front of her.

"Set down your gun," she states.

Ciira nods, but grabs for her lightsaber, holding it awkwardly in front of her unlit. She closes her eyes.

You approach. He does not answer or move or... breath. He is not alive.

"He's...dead," Rianna comments, stopping not far from the soldier. Is the weirdness she's sensing anything like anything she's felt before?

No... it's... it's a decoy!

The soldier's body suddenly falls backwards towards you. You can clearly see the blast wound that took out his heart.

In front of you, a blaster bolt appears from nowhere and zips straight at you.

Rianna will bring up her lightsaber to try and bat the bolt away, while dodging to the side (active dodge).

Due to the circumstances, your Defense is lowered by 2.

You bring up your lightsaber and deflect the shot away before it strikes you in the chest. It thuds into the ground by your feet, scorching the muddy ground.

Silence follows, the gunshot echoing in the quiet of the empty village.

Rianna will move into the nearest cover she can find, while seeing if she can identify where the blaster bolt came from.

Before you have time to do that, you notice the dead soldier's chest being pressed down, and a square footprint in the mud beside him... and then another set of footprints, approaching you quickly...

Rianna will use a Combat Push where the footprints are, keeping her lightsaber out and in her hand.

Reacting on instinct, you thrust your hand out and knock your target off of its feet... 17 rolled! Something clunks heavily into the mud and lays still.

A second later, Ciira's eyes snap open with a look of surprise and she ignites her lightsaber. She spins on the spot and her lightsaber cleaves through... something... something you can't see, but there is an outline...

"What is this?" Rianna asks, sensing about to see if there are any other invisible attackers in the area. "Do you sense anything more?"

The two halves of the attacker that Ciira cut down sparks and flickers into view...

It is a Beseedran battle droid, clutching a blaster rifle. It has a second set of arms outstretched, with razor-sharp knives at the ends. One has blood on it, and Ciira has a cut across the back of her neck.

"I'm not sure," she says. "Too hard to tell..."

"...why are there Beseedran droids here? And are you okay?"

Rianna is going to take her lightsaber and slash at the invisible thing she knocked down, to make sure it's dead.

You had damaged some sensitive circuits when you knocked it down, but stabbing it shuts it off completely and it becomes visible.

These looks like the Beseedran battle droids that were used against the pirates on Beseedra, but they have black mechanisms strapped to their chests.

"I'm okay," Ciira says, closing her eyes again.

You are sensing danger in this area.

"I think we should...move away from these," Rianna says.

And she will do just that, as she half-expects those black mechanisms to cause the droids to explode.

They don't quite look like explosives... but getting out of the area may be a smart idea as several pairs of footprints come stomping towards you...