USH'S STAR WARS GAME- CAMPAIGN II EPISODE IV (JEDI)- Purity

"Then that is the sort of thing that will become clear when it needs to," says Sienar. "I think you have enough to worry about with here here and now."

He has been in a sideroom, changing his robes. He emerges now, and heads towards the door. "Now, come with me and we shall see if I cna help open your mind to some things."

(Well, I'd like to check to see if he's still warm. -Not the head, the body-. Then I'll search him for anything to see what he was carrying.)

He's been dead long enugh to be cold; and you find absolutely nothing of interest- just his id, etc.

Gallagher peers briefly into the sideroom, catching a glimpse of Sienar's horribly deformed body (the way Veers sees Vader without his mask in Empire), then averts his eyes and steps away until the Dark Sider emerges.

He falls into step with the Abbot as they stroll to meet whomever it is that Sienar wants to speak with.

"So... I have thought about what happened," Gallagher says. "I killed my sister's killer, didn't I?"

The Abbot is, at first, going around some of his daily business. The first thing he is doing is officially submitting his name for consideration for Archimandrite, which involves a brief visit to the incumbent, a very old man indeed who seems to not say much.

The Archimandrite's official dissoultion of his office takes place today, and a new one will be chosen tomorrow. Technically speaking the Abbots decide the new Archimandrite, a process that has been going on for some while, but they normally take notice of popular opinion on the matter. Sienar, despite not having announced himself formally before yesterday has no need to have campaigned for popular support as he had so much already. Many of the Abbots were simply waiting for him to say he would do it. Now he has said so, the Archimandrite sees no reason for delay.

As you walk through elegant hallways, with classical artowrk hung up on the walls either side, chandeliers in the high ceilings and so forth, Sienar recevies congratulations from various Fathers and other minor priests. He shakes their hands in turn, though you notice Sienar coming close to stumbling a number of times.

"Could you blame yourself if you did?" says Sienar, in one of the moments between meeting various people.

(That's an eerie convo to have while glad-handing the contituency.)

"I can find nothing. It all looks like simple suicide." He stands up and looks at Roan. "Well? It's your mission. What now?"

With Varm and now Mirani dead you do now have a problem, because although you do still of course have suspects, you don't have an outstanding warrant on anyone.

With time ticking away, you are uncomfortably aware that if you do not work out Sienar's plan, you will never be able to stop it.

"Well, despite any suspicions of foul play we may have, we still arn't getting any information from Mirani, so we move on. Who is next on our suspect list?"

That's all of them. The only others you had were Kathya and the Abbot.

"Roan, we need a warrant for Kathya. Or at least her things. Or we need to go 'outside the box'."

No evidence, no warrant. The situation remains unchanged from when you left.

If you just want to talk over and think about things, you should meet back at the ship.

Yea sounds like a good idea. Back to the ship.

Ithrorn's image flickers slightly.

"I've arrested most of those involved in the aspidrol distribution network. They are fighting fanatically despite their hopeless position; I;ve had to kill far more than I would have expected, and killing evn one is more than I wanted. I think they are acting under orders that they dare not disobey.

"Meanwhile we have a mystery on Mirani;s computer. We have access to Sienar's medical files, which checks out everything about the Lichen that we already know, but there are more files on there that we cannot access. They are extremely well protected. I've called in some experts to try and break them for us, but it all takes time.

"My conclusion is that someone is simply trying to waste as much of our time as possible. Something must be happening soon.

"I'll keep on trying."

Ithron's message as played on your ship ends; he sent it about an hour ago.

"That matches with Seinar's speech earlier. We're meant to find out, only too late. I think whatever's going to happen, will happen here. Maybe tonight at the reception. What could he do here to gain anything for himself?"

"The reception is a meet-and-greet, all he has to gain there is mingling with the Senators, if he is even going to be there," Jelena says. "But it doesn't matter. With Mirani dead and Kathya protected, we don't even have any leads with which to begin our investigation on Mandragos... oh, we need more time!"

Jelena thumps a fist against the comm unit, where Ithrorn's image briefly flickered. She thinks for a moment, when an idea comes to her.

"Senator Nebb is here," Jelena says. "He is absolutely notorious for delaying procedures! I'm surprised I'm even considering this, but we desperately need Sienar's plans to be put off, and they revolve around the procedures of his meetings with the Senators. We could talk with Senator Nebb tonight!"

Also, Jelena will send a message in response to Ithrorn, informing him of Mirani's suicide and the currently stand-still situation here on Mandragos.

Nebb doesn't delay procedures due to a psychological compunction. He does it for a reason, and that reason is because in both cases so far he made lots of money and power out of it

The Jedi Order probably does not have the funds to bribe Nebb monetarily, but I don't know if we have the political power to make him offers.

Good Lord no, the Order can't be seen to be siding with one system in the Senate- not to mention doing so in an attempt to get him to sabotage a political event, that is outright corruption!

I am surprised your first reaction to Nebb being there isn't worrying about how he is going to mess things up, rather than help...

I was trying to hopeful that his presence could somehow be useful... but I am worried. What does Lamella have to gain from this?

Nothing that immediately springs to mind. Poverty, frankly, is not big business.