STAR WARS: RETROSPECTION- The White Tower of Halloy

"It tries to be. The Tower and the Stad have always been very secure, ever since it was built. King Evand is just one of many kings that have ruled."

As for the cider, he comments that they got a lot of Corellians out here, looking for business.

Denzral smiles. "Names, uh, Vassisk, Denzral Vassisk. But my friends call me Denz." He took a quick sample of the other drink to analyse it with his standard Jedi-kit thingy. (what Qui-Gon used to check Ani's blood) Can I do this covertly? If not I won't, yet. "So, when I was travelling in I heard this place has some origin with a Sith cult, Necrass or something like that." He tried to pass it off as an odd comment. "Whats all that about?"

(Names Bond, James Bond.)

Hard to do it covertly when you are having a conversation with the bartender. When he helps someone with a drink, you get your chance. Soapy can analyze it and tell you that, yes, you ordered a beer. Nothing strange about it.

"I don't know what you're talking about. Halloy was only discovered a few hundred years ago, when the King's ancestors settled it."

Did I miss something, or is that misinformation from what I previously knew?

"Really, you've never heard anything about it? Must be just a new rumour, they probably crop up all the time around settlements like this. So where are you from good sir?"

Nope, he speaks truth. The defeat of the White Tower slavers and their surrender was a few hundred years ago. The Cult of Necros had nothing to do with them or Halloy.

"Here," he says. "My grandparents came to Halloy from Tatooine."

Hmmm... like you telling me that, as a Role Player, is going to stop me from following that line of questioning and coming up with a story arc that otherwise wouldn't have existed and what not. "So have you been to the White Tower? Are people allowed in there, because I'd enjoy having a peak inside those walls."

I think I got through Customs too easily. Can I roll anything to see if Denzral can tell if he was or not, followed. To his buest guess at least.

Observation to check such things, though you do not sense that you are being watched.

"The White Tower is where the King is. He has visitors and holds audience from time to time. The unwelcome are also taken there, or so I've heard."

"Great, what do they do with people who are unwelcome?" he pushed the other beer back, he wasn't a fan, and placed a hand around the glass of Cider. "So you are telling me, the best way to get in there is either asking or getting arrested?" he chuckled. "What do you think of those vermin Jedi that preach about the Republic?" Another offhanded comment sounding question, he sipped his drink once more.

"The unwelcome aren't arrested," the bartender says. "They're just folks who won't fit in on Halloy, for one reason or another. They're deported by the government.

"I've got no problem with the Jedi. They're noble but used. The Senate keeps them from doing good work. The King wouldn't."

Denzral makes his voice 1950's noir low, and beacons the bartender down to ear level as if he was going to whisper something, a rumour perhaps. "What if I told you I am a Jedi..."

(I want that to sound as cheesy and over the top as possible}

The bartender just shrugs.

"You wouldn't be the first, if you were," he says.

Denzral is surprised by that response. "What makes you say that?"

"The King's advisor claims he was one."

"The Kings advisor?" This was intriguing.

"Yep. He helps the King run his kingdom."

"He have a name?"

"Lothar Tull. Showed up about ten years ago. He helped organize the methods for dealing with the unwelcome."

"The... methods? That doesn't sound at all appeasing, maybe I am reading into things too much. To King Evand!" Denzral rose his voice, along with his glass. (want to see what kind of reaction he'd get) Then gulped the remainder down.

Can I roll intelligence to see if I know that name and anything about him. (Been playing a lot of D&D)

You get some weird looks but nobody is really paying you any mind. As for King Evand, you know nothing; he is not at all well known inside the Republic.

"The 'methods' helped save us from overpopulation and have reduced the crime rate," the bartender says. "Halloy has never been better."

"Lothar Tull" I meant him. My fault for not clarifying enough. Couldn't give a flying wallys about king Evand at the moment, sounds like a decent enough bloke though. I'll get to him later.

The bartender probably doesn't know much more but... "That sounds kind of final, what is he doing, shooting them. That would certainly lower the population. And the crime rate... in fact it would make them the major stastic. (Romulan Ale, please. However seeing as that stuff is from another galaxy😉 Corellian Whisky and Lemonfizz, Hoth style (I could say on the rocks)."