Grrr, how lame.
Saber throw could always detach it but Rianna doesn't want to do that as it'd bring attention to herself, most likely.
Can I use the Force to soften the landing so it's not so noisy without actually spending a point? If that's possible, do that. If not...eh, toss some of the hay scattered around down to muffle the noise, and jump down.
The hatch opens up with a creak and shows you a massive room beyond. You are situated on the top floor, where the hatch opens to, and from here you can see a series of walkways extending over something that is steaming and boiling. Armed men in gas masks are treading over the walkways, keeping watch over the rest of the room.
It smells terrible in here, exactly like the scent given off by a dose of huxley. You have found what you were looking for.
Hmmmm. Well, Rianna rather wants to take care of this herself, but is not so foolhardy as to think that nothing will go wrong. She'll comm back to the police that she's found where the huxley is coming from.
Then she is going to hop down to one of the walkways, looking for an area where she can ambush some of the guards.
Rianna rolls an overwhelming seven successes on her Intrusion roll and silently slips down from the hatch and into the huddle of crates nearby. Her view here is not much better, but you can see that the room is deep- three levels total. You can only see the guards on the top floor and the guards on this floor- fifteen total.
Rianna quickly intimidates her prey into dropping his weapon, but the sudden flash and hum of a lightsaber leads to everyone turning their blasters in your direction when you stride out onto the gangways to do this; you also can see that there are five guards below you as well. Not the optimum situation, here.
Below the gangways is a massive vat in which huxley is being brewed, the nauseating fumes wafting past you. Below are dozens of people stirring the pungent mixture, but they stop when you appear.
"Get her!" shouts a man down below, who you immediately recognize as Durak, the low-life rumored to be running this operation. He is unattractive and greasy, with a tall and lanky frame.
Noted.
Upon Durak's command, all of the goons in the hallucinogenic production area turn their blasters in Rianna's direction. They are going to fire their blasters regardless of her holding a hostage, meaning she has nineteen shooters coming her way. Durak has snapped forth his own heavy pistol as well.
Rianna is afforded a point of cover from attacks from the upper and lower walkways.
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ABANDONED FARM AMBUSH, START OF TURN 4
Upper Walkways
Thugs x10 (G 5): 0
Lower Walkways
Thugs x5 (G 5): 0
Rianna (LS 12 / FP 5): 3/3/0 [Orthodox Guard/Cleave/Perfect Strike]
Production Vat
Thugs x5 (G 5): 0
Durak (G 8): 1/1/0 [?]
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The thugs gain intiative, and so start shooting! Three successes are absorbed by the thug you grabbed; they are not discriminate with their targets and he is blasted apart. Rianna takes a few hits from the thugs herself despite the cover she gets from the arrangement of the walkways. A shot from Durak, who rolled four successes with Gunslinger (with cover removing one), explodes through the walkway by her feet.
Under heavy fire, Rianna strides forward and cuts down two of her attackers with relative ease, both falling over the edge of the walkway into the vat of boiling goo.
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ABANDONED FARM AMBUSH, START OF TURN 5
Upper Walkways
Thugs x10 (G 5): 0
Lower Walkways
Thugs x2 (G 5): 0
Rianna (LS 12 / FP 5): 3/3/26 [Orthodox Guard/Cleave/Perfect Strike]
Production Vat
Thugs x5 (G 5): 0
Durak (G 8): 1/1/0 [Gunslinger]
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