STAR WARS: RETROSPECTION- Descent

Part of you wishes that Master Raskae were here to help interpet the meaning of your dream, but part of you hopes he will never have to hear of it.

Kandolanti's Produce, the marketplace that the soldier told you about, is quite a ways from where you slept for the night. Con reaches that area of the city around midday, a particularly bad part of town where the modern concrete buildings give way to older structures. You have a growing sense of unease, Con, but Kandolanti's is right across the street from you, a rickety wooden building with mounds of fruit out front and inside.

Can I pinpoint what my unease is about? Do I sense danger?

You cannot quite pinpoint it, but yes, danger seems to be the closest sensation you can relate it to. This place makes you uncomfortable in general.

Be that as it may, Con has to move on, he has come to far to give up now. I will go into the market, and locate the "orange fruit" the thug was telling me about.

You walk up to Kadolanti's, crossing the quiet street. The produce market has few customers today, with only a few people picking through the fruit stands out front. A very old woman sits in a hovering chair on the porch, rocking back and forth. She eyes you briefly, but looks away.

Then you see them. The orange fruit, with its hard rind and oblong shape. They are piled messily into a large basket near the old woman.

I will take the fruit and as described toss it a few times in my hand and then say the code sentence to her.

The fruit is heavier than you expected. When you tell the old woman that you would like to make her an offer, she gives you a horribly toothless grin as she sways back and forth in her chair.

"Is that so?" she says, slowly.

"Yes, Zirdus sent me to buy the produce market" Con says as the soldier had told him.

The old woman stops rocking in her chair and painfully, slowly, rises with the help of an old cane.

"Well, isn't that nice," she says. "Please, wait here..."

She steps beyond the threshold of the produce market, closing the door behind her and leaving you standing with the orange fruit. In fact, Con seems to be alone, now. The other customers have gone.

Con will wait patiently, though he will check out this weird heavy fruit a bit, he wonders what it is.

At the same time I'd like to stay on alert.

The sign says 'Pagoosa Berry.' You examine it and toss it around, wondering when they changed the definition of berry to include giant orange things...

...and that's when Con's danger sense spikes! You sense the gunshots before they happen. What is his initial reaction?

I'd like to jump to cover and pull my blaster (don't want to give them knowledge of me being a Jedi if they don't have it)

Con takes cover behind a fruit stand and quick-draws his blaster just as the cannonade of lasers begins. They streak through the air and strike everything, causing wood to burn and splinter, causing fruit to boil and burst, splattering Con with scorched rinds and hot sticky pulp from the orange fruit and some other nearby items. The signs are blown off of the stands, and some of them collapse, spilling their fruit onto the ground. The Kadolanti's Produce sign is rattled with lasers and a segment of the wall sets fire...

But Con is unscathed behind his now dillapidated fruit stand!

The laesrs are all coming from shooters in an armored landspeeder, out in the street. The nozzles of their blasters protrude from gun slots on the speeder, and one has even opened his door on the other side of the speeder and is firing over the top of it.

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PRODUCE MARKET ATTACK

Fruit stands

Con: 10/0/3

Landspeeder

Thugs x5: 0/6 (cover: 6)

Ringleader: 0/6 (cover: 6)

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I would like to move to the next cover and shoot in at the guy outside of the car with Carnival of Carnage, yelling "WHAT IS THE MEANING OF THIS!?" at them.

Con, in casual gunslinger style, returns fire at the bold thug. The heavy pistol gets +1 against mooks, and, as a talented Gunslinger, Con gets +2 to his skill. Firing with a skill of 16, Con rolls 3 dice to see if he hits the well-protected ringleader. 9, 15, 14 gets Con two very solid hits as his bolts skim across the top of the landspeeder and singe the man's hair. The ringleader takes 25 damage.

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PRODUCE MARKET ATTACK

Fruit stands

Con: 10(2)/0/6

Landspeeder

Thugs x5: 0/6 (cover: 6)

Ringleader: 25/6 (cover: 6)

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Con can fire again, as he gets player initiative.

Con will shoot at the Ringleader again.

Seeing his opportunity to shoot once again, Con takes aim at the obvious leader of the thugs and fires another bolt in his direction. As he realizes that there is no point in concealing his Jedi powers to his enemies he uses the force to elevate himself quickly into the air and behind some cover the market offers as the soldiers fire blasts towards him.

The Ringleader takes a laser bolt to the face, knocking him backwards and out of the landspeeder.

Shortly after, Con throws himself with a Defensive Leap behind a wooden cart. Together with his athletic maneuver and the cover he chooses, he keeps himself clear of gunfire once again.

However, one of the thugs hucks a grenade in his direction. It clinks along the ground before coming to rest just behind Con's cover, detonating to upturn pavement and overturn Con's cart and several remaining fruit stands. Con takes 15 damage from the explosion, diving clear of it to halve the damage.

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PRODUCE MARKET ATTACK

Fruit stands

Con: 8(2)/15/12

Landspeeder

Thugs x5: 0/9 (cover: 6)

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As a result of diving into cover and then diving clear of the grenade, Con comes under fire again, his cover once again ruined by the constant stream of lasers.

With a speed only the Jedi ever achieve Con drops his blaster and in the same movement draws his sabre from within his cloak. As the buzzing sound of the shimmering blue blade sounds he readies himself to reflect the incoming blaster bolts. Draw, Reflection

Charging at the thugs in the car with his sabre at his side he extends it with a quick motion to slash through the armor of the car and at one of the attackers inside

Con snaps out his lightsaber and reflects an incoming shot back at the hovercar, but the armor of the vehicle protects its passengers well and it only impacts on the side. The rest miss as Con begins to make for the speeder.

Not wanting to become mincemeat for the Jedi, they shut the gun slots to attain full cover and the speeder starts to drive away...

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PRODUCE MARKET ATTACK

Fruit stands

Con: 6(2)/15/13

Landspeeder- moving

Thugs x5: 0/15 (cover: full)

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It will take greater-than-running speed to catch up with this thing once it gets moving, Con. Right now it is three frames away.