STAR WARS: RETROSPECTION- Learner

10 and 18, two droids down. Rianna and Jarko are now encircled by a growing pile of scrap metal, the droids either hacked to pieces or riddled with lasers.

Jarko uses his disruptor weapon before the walkers get a chance to fire. The walker that he damaged with his rocket, Walker A, becomes the target of the high-powered weapon. The beam slams into the center leg and disintegrates part of the joint... causing the walker to fall forwards and crush four droids.

3 damage from the pirates, 3 damage from Commando C, and 7 damage from the remaining walker. At 66 damage, Jarko is still going strong!

Jarko finishes off his action with a fusillade on the droids, taking out five of them with his rapid-fire blasters.

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WAREHOUSE BATTLE

Interior- West Entrance

Jarko: 66/41

Rianna: 10(4)/0/38

Battle droids x6: 0/39

Pirates x10: 0/39

Pirate Commando A: 0/39
Pirate Commando B: 0/39
Pirate Commando C: 0/39
PIrate Commando D: 0/39

Tripod Walker B: 0/40

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Rianna will continue hacking at the droids, again snapping attacks on two of them.

Again, two kills. Only four droids remain.

A pirate scores a hit on Jarko for 1 damage, three of the Commandos hit for a total of 9 damage, and the walker scores hits on two of its guns for 10 damage. Jarko is at 86 damage, his armor beginning to melt and his clothing burned away...

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WAREHOUSE BATTLE

Interior- West Entrance

Jarko: 86/42

Rianna: 10(4)/0/41

Battle droids x4: 0/42

Pirates x10: 0/42

Pirate Commando A: 0/42
Pirate Commando B: 0/42
Pirate Commando C: 0/42
PIrate Commando D: 0/42

Tripod Walker B: 0/43

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"Go!" Jarko exclaims. "Jump to the walkways! I can hold them..."

"Are you sure?" Rianna asks, attempting to judge the current situation.

"Yes," Jarko says, mechanically. The exposed flesh of his face is turning red from the heat and soaked with perspiration. His good eye is clenched tight from the stinging of the sweat and the heat, but his cybernetic eye is fiercely darting about, assessing each target.

"Get to that cargo lift as soon as there's room to run, then!" Rianna replies, glancing over the remaining enemies, before using Master Jump to leap up onto the walkway.

Which direction from there?

"Head left!" Jarko shouts, just before you leap away.

You impressively jump up onto one of the walkways, flipping over the guard rail and landing on your feet. Now that you are away from Jarko's protection, Roch's forces decide to divide their attention between the two of you, though the three-legged walker keeps on firing at Jarko.

Before any of the droids or pirates have a chance to fire on you, however, Jarko rolls impressively with his blazing blasters and takes down a full seven shooters... all of them yours!

That just leaves two Commandos, A and B, raising their heavy pistols towards you.

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WAREHOUSE BATTLE

Interior- West Entrance

Jarko: 86/45

Battle droids x2: 0/42

Pirates x5: 0/42

Pirate Commando A: 0/42
Pirate Commando B: 0/42
Pirate Commando C: 0/42
PIrate Commando D: 0/42

Tripod Walker B: 0/43

Interior- Walkways

Rianna: 7(4)/0/44

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Two commandos gunning for you, Rianna. Defense?

Rianna will use Defend as she runs to the left.

Young Rianna is unlucky! While the walkways provide you cover from shooters below, Commando A rolls a 19, for 12 damage, and Commando B rolls a 16, for 8 damage. Their pistol shots blow holes in the walkway just behind you.

Jarko spends a Fortune point to increase his active and passive dodge by +5. He actively dodges the walker (which works for all four guns), so that he takes no damage from the remaining shooters.

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WAREHOUSE BATTLE

Interior- West Entrance

Jarko: 86/46

Battle droids x2: 0/45

Pirates x5: 0/45

Pirate Commando A: 0/45
Pirate Commando B: 0/45
Pirate Commando C: 0/45
PIrate Commando D: 0/45

Tripod Walker B: 0/46

Interior- Walkways

Rianna: 6(4)/20/48

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The lift that Jarko spoke of is just ahead! The Commandos are going to fire first, and the pirates and droids have split themselves between you two again.

Rianna will continue running, again using Defend.

All clear for Rianna, despite the increased volume of blasterfire in her direction. Jarko spends another Fortune point to defend himself as he finishes off the droids and infected with another volley of rapid laser bursts and the disruptor discharge.

The last you see of Jarko before throwing yourself into the lift, he has put away his arm blasters and is stomping angrily towards the Commandos, extending his katars and vibroblades. They rather think that the molten machine man stomping towards them is more of a threat than the Jedi girl running away from them and turn their pistols on him...

The door to the lift closes by itself once you are inside, and begins to ascend without your command to do so.

Well, not much Rianna can do now except wait for the lift to stop and let her out.

Does she sense anything?

You have a bad feeling about this. And not the same bad feeling you are getting from the impending release of the virus. A different bad feeling... neat.

One of the reasons you enjoy using the Force in combat rather than mystically, you can tell what is causing the problem.

The lift comes to a halt on the top level and the doors open. It is across a hallway from a large double door.

Is this like an enclosed hall, or is it like the walkways where Rianna can look down and see what's going on?

It is enclosed. In fact, the only doors in the hallway are the large double doors in front of you.

Ahh. Fun...

Well, despite the fact that she has a bad feeling about everything and that's making her nervous, Rianna will approach the double doors.

Does observation tell her anything? 😛

Nothing to observe, really.

You push one of the doors aside and step into the room. It appears to be a banquet hall, a long rectangular room with a long rectangular table in the center. The table is metal and appears to have mechanical arms that scoot the chairs in and out.

The room itself is metal, with a high ceiling. There is a tremendous stain-glass window depicting the genesis of the first droid, an important moment in galactic history.

Standing beneath this window, looking out onto Beseedad, is Roch, his back to you and his arms folded behind him. Beside him is Myraline.

Rather much closer are the two battle droids that step forward to deal with you from their posts on either side of the door, and the two droids further ahead with their blasters aimed at you.

I'm going to go ahead and assume that Myraline's presence here is the cause of Rianna's bad feeling...

"This is over, Roch!" she says, igniting her lightsaber and attacking the droids by the door (snapped attacks and Defend).

You turn and cleave the first droid from shoulder-to-hip, right-to-left, then spin and cut the second in two through the chest cavity. You blur towards the two as they fire, reflecting their shots away from you and driving your lightsaber through one, then whisking it into the next.

The droids fall in seconds.

"Is it?" Roch asks, turning to look at you with a confident smile. "You think you can stop me, girl?"

"I haven't come this far for nothing," Rianna states, approaching him with her lightsaber out and pointed at him. "Your experiments and insane plans are done with."

Does she sense anything different or is it still the same weird bad feeling?