STAR WARS: RETROSPECTION- Learner

The best you can come up with is pillows from the lounge furniture, which obviously isn't going to do very much. Jarko frowns at you, then firmly shoves you into the detention unit. You are suspended in midair, receiving light shocks from the electromagnetic system.

"Your pilot will be the first of my droid hybrid minions to kill my enemies," Xirdal says. "The virus has not fully taken hold of him yet... but as soon as it does, I will know, and you will die. Farewell, Jedi."

Xirdal begins marching out of the room, the battle droids following him.

Jarko does not follow right away. He stares hard at Quinn, who is pale and breathing as if it were a tremendous effort. After a moment, Jarko stomps off after Xirdal.

Completely ignoring her better judgment, Rianna will struggle, hoping to try and break the electromagnetic field holding her in place.

It is no use. Though your hands are not bound, all you achieve is spinning around in midair until the electrical shocks become too painful. And so you sit, floating, with Quinn panting and groaning as the virus wreaks havoc on his body. Patches of his skin and hair start to shed as metal growths begin to form.

"Rianna," Ciira says. The shocks have roused her.

"This is a disaster...unless we can find a way to escape there's nothing to but sit here and watch. I hate feeling helpless," Rianna says bitterly. "Are you okay?"

Can she see any sort of switches or anything that could shut these things off?

No.

"Could be better," Ciira says. "Listen... I think I may have a way to get out of these. That metal guy took my lightsaber, but..."

Ciira reaches into her robes and produces what could only be a lightsaber.

"I have my Master's. I don't know how that guy missed it, I was sure he could see everything I had on me because he took everything else..."

"I'm not even going to ponder how he managed to miss that, and just be glad that he did," Rianna replies. "I know my lightsaber is somewhere near here, but not where. If you could get us out with your Master's lightsaber, then we can escape."

She pauses for a moment, thinking about things. "But I don't know what we're going to do about Quinn. Or Myraline. He said he tested these things on her..."

You no longer feel that your lightsaber is close. Jarko must have taken it.

"I don't know..." Ciira says. She twists about so that she turns herself upside-down in midair. Lightsaber in hand, she ignites it and the green blade jabs into the detention unit. It shuts off and Ciira falls heavily to the ground.

Quinn is trying to speak, but his words are coming too softly to be understood.

"There has to be a way of reversing it. And I plan on finding out how to do so..." Rianna says as Ciira frees himself. "Quinn might know something...but get me out of here first. Just in case."

Ciira recovers herself and scythes the lightsaber through your detention unit. You fall hard, but you're free!

"Thank you..." she says as she gets up off the floor, wincing from all of the other injuries she has already.

"Now stay close. I don't know what we're going to do, but I doubt it will be very fun. And we also need to decide what we're going to do with Palpatine...I think that, if we get Quinn out of here, it may be safest to leave the Senator here."

Rianna will cautiously approach Quinn, sensing if there's any danger in doing so.

Quinn is quivering as you approach... you are not sure.

"Ri-Rianna... what's happening to me?" he asks, hoarsely.

"Roch created a virus that he's infected you with...I think he was going to use you to kill us," Rianna replies, still angry at Roch. She stops a few steps from Quinn, still being cautious. "I...don't know if we can get rid of it, but I intend to find out, somehow..."

"I... I don't think..." Quinn starts to say, but he doubles over in pain, his hands shooting up to his temples. "Leave me here. Get yourselves and the Senator out of here. Go! Now!"

Rianna backs away a bit, nodding.

"We should listen to him, I think...you should free the Senator. Or better, give me the lightsaber and I'll destroy the thing, and you can catch him with the Force so he doesn't fall," she says to Ciira. "How much...did you hear any of what Roch said he was doing?"

"No, but... I don't like it," she says, looking at Quinn.

Quinn is shaking violently and clutching at himself... when he suddenly stops. A calm comes over his body and he just goes slack, but not entirely. Slowly he pulls himself to full height, his eyes concentrated on you. The metallic growths continue to form on his skin.

"I don't like it either but we're out of time! Give me the lightsaber or we're not going to get out of here alive!" Rianna says.

What does her danger sense say? 😛

You don't need your danger sense to tell you what is going on, as Quinn suddenly lunges for you, just as Ciira finishes freeing Palpatine with the lightsaber crashing through the detention unit.

Rianna will quickly dodge out of the way and run backwards, away from Quinn.

Does she remember which door Roch and Jarko exited from?

Yes. It is past Quinn. It most likely is a small feat for Rianna to get past him with how skilled and agile she is, but it might be a different story for a Palpatine-laden Ciira. It also matters what you intend to do with the infected Quinn, as you do not think that he will relent...

Quinn rolls 11... but he is no match for your combat prowess. You prance out of the way of his lunging attack without complication.

It's unfortunate that Rianna lacks Strike to Subdue and isn't strong enough to fight him unarmed, because at this point she'd rather not kill him if possible...

"Ciira, please! I can't fight him without a weapon!" she says, easily dodging as Quinn tries to attack her.