STAR WARS: RETROSPECTION- Broken

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Rianna pauses for a moment, staring wide-eyed as Arneth uses Nehmen's blaster to kill Akro, before continuing to push through the crowd towards the Dark Jedi.

I'm hoping she's got that little rebreather thingy that Jedi appear to carry with them?

You do! Going to put it on now?

Yes!

It will probably become very necessary inside the next fifteen seconds.

Quite. Unfortunately it does not cover your eyes so you are out of luck there, but you can fight normally. Everyone else faces increasing penalties if they are not wearing a mask as the gas thickens.

As you put on your rebreather, Arneth has drawn his pulse pistol.

"Your move, Jedi!" Arneth says, and with a skillful flip he jumps deeper into the crowd. The gas is beginning to fill the air and obscure everyone's vision, like an unnatural fog that stings you if you breath it.

Rianna is going to keep on pushing through the crowd, trying to not let Arneth get away. She'll try and use her senses to help with this, though attempting to do so with this many people around her may be rather futile.

You have three options here, Rianna.

1) Simply tell me a direction you wish to go in the escalating riot.

2) Use Observation to determine what is going on it and choose a direction based on your results.

3) Use Sense to guide you and follow them based on your results... even if they are mistaken.

Hmmmm...Sense, I suppose.

You follow your senses... which tell you that Arneth has gone ahead. You plunge into the gas clouds, your eyes watering from discomfort. Ahead you hear the buzz of blasters and shouting, and you happen upon a group of miners led by Arneth who are trying to break the defensive line of Squad C.

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Soldiers x5 (G 6): 0 (1A)

Arneth: 0

Miners x5 (G 5): 0

Rianna (LS 10): 1/1/0 [ ] [OGu FrGu CL RI PS] (FP3)

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Rianna will use Orthodox Guard, Perfect Strike, and Riposte, and is going to concentrate on going for Arneth.

"This is not what you think it is!" Rianna shouts to the miners. "Stay back so no one gets harmed!"

You get initiative and nimbly leap over the miners toward Arneth. The soldiers are also pour their blasterfire into the Dark Jedi as he seems to be the most threatening. He spends a Force point on Defensive Leap, stylishly flipping through the air to evade gunfire... putting the miners between himself and you once more. He takes light damage when using his Leap with Coordination.

The miners shoot back, but their blasters are largely ineffectual against those shields.

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Soldiers x2 (G 6): 0 (1A)
Soldier x1 (G 6): 2 (1A)
Soldiers x2 (G 6): 1 (1A)

Arneth: 6

Miners x5 (G 5): 0

Rianna (LS 12): 3/3/0 [OGu PS RI] [FrGu CL] (FP3)

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Rianna is going to use Combat Push to knock Arneth off his feet, again leaping gracefully over the miners, before slashing at him with her lightsaber.

Rianna gets initiative again, and this time Arneth does not evade her. She whips out a hand and catches the Dark Jedi by surprise, causing him to fumble his landing and roll. She jumps after him and makes a flying slash that would have decapitated him had he not rolled clear. Nine successes is 15 damage.

Arneth recovers by spraying a flurry of lasers at Rianna, giving him time to get clear. He taps both 10,000 Bolts and Gunslinger in his attack. Seven successes on eight dice, three successes on six dice, three successes on four dice, and then he misses. All told, 19 damage to Rianna, and Arneth breaks out of the situation as the miners get shot down...

Direction, Observation, or Sense?

Ouch.

Sense again, please.

The density of the gas increases. Everyone is at -1 to their dice pool unless they have a mask.

Hmm... this time you are not so sure of your direction. You make your way through the riot, toward the center. The miners who have stayed to fight and riot have moved toward the edges and so the center is less dense with people, but it is not empty.

Dalt stands there, trying to pick off soldiers from a distance. He sees you coming out of the gas clouds and kicks one of the dispensing canisters in your direction.

Rianna swings her lightsaber to destroy the canister.

"Call off the miners, Dalt - they're going to get slaughtered if this continues!" she shouts, looking around her for any sign of Arneth. "Where did Arneth go?"

His trick worked. Those canisters are compressed and, though it has been dispensing, it explodes when it comes into contact with your lightsaber. You only take 3 damage, at least.

"There's more of us than of them!" Dalt shouts. "We want freedom and you can't stop us from getting it!"

He swings his pistols toward you, a scrappy pair of blasters.

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Dalt: 0

Rianna (LS 12): 3/3/22 [OGu PS RI] [FrGu CL] (FP2)

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"I'm not trying to stop anything other than needless deaths!" Rianna shouts back, snapping up her lightsaber to deflect any shots he fires at her. She's determined to not harm him, though.

Dalt gets three successes. You deflect the shots, but those paired pistols are a lot to handle.

"So you'd have me believe!" Dalt shouts. "The Republic has never done anything here!"

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Dalt: 0

Rianna (LS 12): 3/3/29 [OGu PS RI] [FrGu CL] (FP2)

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This is not the time to talk him down, Rianna. You are better off vanishing into the gas if you do not mean to stop him.

Yes, that may be a good idea, as Rianna's starting to get a teeny bit high on damage...

She's going to shut down her lightsaber and disappear back into the gas, away from Dalt. Observation this time, to find Arneth.

Vera-Kin listens as the sounds of fighting erupt in the distance. She senses death and knows that things have gone wrong for Rianna and Nehmen.

"Rianna, come in," Vera-Kin says, tapping on her comlink and turning away from Tineas. "Have you spotted any of our fugitives?"