STAR WARS: RETROSPECTION- Rescue

While Dak performs a distracting display with his sabers, Rianna goes in for the kill. However, she rolls just short, and her life-ending swipe instead cleaves the Shaman's spear in two.

It is Dak, who dramatically plunges a lightsaber cleanly through the Shaman's spine and also his heart. After a moment of shock, the Shaman collapses to the ground.

It is at this point in your skirmish that Xavier gets the defense system back online. The auto-turrets begin sporadically spraying down the warriors with lasers. You can barely hear their death cries above the explosions.

Except for the small group that has successfully made it to the top of the building. When they see the Shaman collapses, they yowl in fury and make to kill you...

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FIGHT ON MAGNUS DELTA

Roof

Rianna: 10(4)/54/49

Dak: 10/53/50

Warriors x10: 0/48

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Pool refresh, timed perhaps to represent you Dark Siders rejuvenating over someone biting it.

Dak roars in victory, drawing his saber from the Shaman's corpse and leaping towards the crowd of warriors with both sabers blurring in a furious Spin.

Rianna glares at Dak for stealing her kill as she moves into the fray herself, snapping attacks on two of the warriors.

You do not defend, but it is nearly hopeless for the warriors. They need 18 or higher to hit with how unskilled they are. Dak clears out a group of them on his own while Rianna skewers two, and Dak removes the rest from the equation.

The native warriors have been totally routed, and you can pause for a moment to admire the sheer scale of carnage. The roof is littered with corpses and amputated limbs, and the courtyard below is a scorched mess. Auto-turrets being undiscriminatory with their blasting have shattered many of the windows and parts of the chemical lab have caught fire.

It is at this point that, while Dak and Rianna are making snide comments about who killed more and while Xavier tracks Del, that you hear Desal shouting to you over the comlink.

"Get to the safe room at once!" he frantically shouts.

Dak will turn and head for the safe room, after taking a couple trophy fingers from the Shaman.

Scaley, sticky finger-trophies.

Everyone arrives at the door to the safe room at the same time, just in time to witness that the blast door has been cut into with a lightsaber.

Xavier examines the door before heading in to what happened.

More like what is happening. When you enter, you find the Shepherd holding his lightsaber in one hand towards Desal and cradling his cauterized stump against his chest.

Desal is cowering behind an overturned desk, clutching some papers. He is unharmed.

"Stand and fight me!" Del shouts.

"With WHAT?!" Desal yelps.

"How about you fight us?" Rianna replies to the Shepherd as they enter the room.

Are we close enough to him to attack?

Screw asking if we're close enough. Dak throws a saber, aiming to disable the Shepherd.

Psssh. Rianna will use Combat Push to fling a piece of furniture at him.

Furniture sucks. Searing wounds, baby!

If you actually hit 😊

I stole your kill, *****. I'm riding this luck train until it crashes into a space whale. 😄

Rianna might just be annoyed enough about that to fling said piece of furniture at Dak, just so you know 😊

Bring it on! 😛

Fine! 😛

As Rianna's still very angry at Dak from before, not to mention him stealing her kill up on the roof and trying to steal this one as well (as she's incredibly set on wiping out the Shepherds herself), she moves as though to use the Force to fling a piece of furniture at the Shepherd, but instead throws it at Dak.

Dak will try using the Force himself to deflect it, dodging out of the way as needed.

"Like we said your head is ours, " Xavier says before using Blur to cross the room and strike at him.

Correction I need to make- my notes have Del cutting through the door and holding Desal hostage via lightsaber, but in game Xavier snatched it. So the correction is that Del is holding his katana and opened the door by tripping the lock with the Force.

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Squabbling Darkies, delicious! Rianna and Dak are of equal Speed and make initiative rolls to see who goes first... Rianna's 18 beats Dak's 7! So when Dak goes to hurl his lightsaber, Rianna suddenly tosses him to the floor (rolled a 17, dice are liking Lana tonight) and his thrown saber sails wide.

Xavier, however, stays focused and goes after Del. Wounded and not appropriately armed, Del knows he is a dead man if he tries to fight. When Xavier Blurs towards him, Del Blurs away. The Shepherd gestures towards one of the blastproof windows behind Desal, using Bash to weaken it, then rushes and hurls himself out it with shattered glass just as Xavier reaches him, falling to certain death.

Or he would, if the transport that the Shepherd's had ziplined from was not waiting for him. As it hovers into view, Del decides to be snarky and uses the Force to snap up his lightsaber from Xavier's belt and catch it before the transport moves off...

This leaves Desal cowering behind his desk, Xavier glaring angrily out the window, and Dak and Rianna posing threats to one another...