STAR WARS: RETROSPECTION- Virus

*points and laughs*

😛

Rylis shall speed off in her nice, functional speeder, and head to the medical center, then.

Just means you'll run into the worse option, dear. 😛

You might be able to try finding a speeder again later, further into the city, but not in this lot. You will have to go it on foot until then.

You find it very uncomfortable that you have not seen a single person since you landed.

-

Rylis hops into her sporty speeder and starts heading into City Center!

You too do not see a single living soul. Several times you need to stop your speeder to avoid other abandoned vehicles and debris in the streets. Aside from the speeders and junk, everything else looks... ordinary. Just empty.

That's...unusual.

And no sign of why there isn't anyone around?

Rhys heads for his destination on foot, looking around for any sign of life at all. It's not like the entire planet could be uninhabited...

You haven't seen anyone or anything fleshy, Rylis.

Wait... you thought you saw something. A pale face in a window along the street. It's gone now.

-

Indeed, strange that an Imperial colony is empty. The drawbridges connecting the city to the shores around the lake are up as well, as you noticed when you came in.

Observation check... Rhys, you see something in an alleyway. Handprints smeared on a wall.

...odd.

Rylis wants to check that out.

Getting out of your speeder and toward the building? It is a small shop, like your average 7-11 or liquor store.

Yes indeedy.

And Rylis being the (usually) cautious person she is, pulls out her blaster before approaching the shop. Something wrong has clearly happened here.

Rhys comes closer to examine the handprints, listening attentively.

There is a skittering from inside the shop, but you don't see anything yet. Going in?

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Rhys, you draw near to the alleyway and examine the handprints.

If you're not mistaken, you are quite positive that those handprints were smeared in human blood.

Yup, Rylis is going to go in and take a look around.

You step through the doors, which tinkle faintly as you trip some sensor to indicate that someone has come in.

You don't see anything by the check-out counter. To your left is the counter, to the right are the display shelves.

Let's just go ahead and inspect everything, looking for whoever Rylis had seen.

Where first?

Behind the counters, and then by the shelves.

Behind the counters... nothing, but there is a door leading to the back storage area. It is ajar.

Rylis is going to cautiously check in there, then.

Shelves of boxes and equipment for repairing vending machines. Nothing of interest here...

...but the distraction of the open door worked. You are grabbed from behind by something snarly and gurgly.

"Get off!" Rylis shouts, attempting to push off whatever grabbed her, before spinning around and aiming her blaster at it.