USH'S GAME EPISODE IV- 'CHASE'- LIGHT SIDE AREA

*in the most obscure language I know*
"Nebb this is a very important lead involving the death of the guy, which I mentioned earlier, it was the work of dark jedi, that is why it is important that these guys do not yet know that we are jedi's, can we agree on telling them that we work for the republic, that will frighten them enough?"

(Hurray! Progress without Nebb screwing everything up!)

(Go ahead and move us along, Ush)

Well, Xeth, the first thing you do is without thinking as your Jedi instincts and reflexes take over. You spin around and push away the grenade dropping towardfs you, so it explodes down the far side of the alleyway.

You hear and feel your pursuer running away. He threw the grenade. Damn! You couldn't sense him! You have never had that happen before. The Dark Side scares you- it can feel as it nothing is there, and how can you see 'nothing'? How many times has that happened and you have not noticed?

Androni, however, has plenty of cash on him. A smiling Rodian doctor at a nearby clinic takes a mere 15 minutes to repair Androni's concussion and charges you three times the price.

You even feel a pang of guilt as you hand over Androni's money. NO-ONE can make an honest living on Nar Shadda but you do not think Androni has hurt anyone to get it and that makes him a saint by comparison to most here. He doesn't deserve to be cheated to treat a wound that he would not have if it were not for you guys. But there is too much at stake here.

Androni is wary of going on at first but in the end agrees to take you to the hotel on the off-chance that he can have nothing more to do with any of this again if it goes well.

The Hotel, on the exclusive upper levels of Nar Shadda, is large and expensive and decked out in extreme luxury. As you enter the lobby, hung with long drapes and expansive banners and with golden staircases around, five men at the far side look up towards you.

"That's her!" they shout, meaning Gundark, and they draw their guns.

-

The men describe Galder, Yerssot.

"I don't know where they are now. The man was yelling out questions abot some guy they were looking for."

"I fail to see how that would help," says Nebb. "After all, how could anyone mis-trust a Jedi? So long as you stay to your mandate they have nothing to fear...". He is busy noting yerssot's conversation as the droid translates it. The busy droid has no chance to shut up, both translating the conversation AND Marcus's questions. The whole thing is almost farcial.

People are leaving the bar again, unwilling to be questioned.

"anyone with harm to the republic in mind will MIStrust a jedi, even YOU must see that, and ppl who are affected by the darkside will do more than MIStrust the jedi"

"But these are just people. Unless you have evidence that they are involved in nefarious activities I must insist we are up-front with them... and do not think that what just happened will go unreported!" says Nebb.

"You should report whatever you feel like 🙂, whether or not these are just ppl I do not know, what I do know is that their "friend" maybe associat would be a better word, was found DEAD by LIGHTSABER in the ally and that he was carrying a ton of ID's which to me seems a bit suspicious, normal citizens only have ONE ID as far as I can remember"

"Well, the situation in this area is very complicated and difficult; identification has become an exhaustive process. Sir, do you actually have any idea why your friend was killed and where the assailants have gone?" asks Nebb of the men you are talking to, yerssot.

"None at all," says the man. "And just what IS all this, anyway?"

"Simply an attempt to remove dangerous criminals from this sector. Thank you for your co-operation." He turns to you Jedi. "These men cannot help us FIND our prey, so I am afraid any more questioning of them would be irrelevant."

"Nebb I suggest you LET US do OUR job and we will let YOU DO YOURS"

"Again, I must remind you that it is my job to set the limits of yours. If these people cannot help us find who we are looking for then there is no reason for us to talk to them."

"Take it from my experience, the chance is veryt likely they CAN help us they are just RELUCTANT to do so"

"If you can offer proofd that they are lying, then I would accept that, but as it is we must accept their statement as it is made."

"Nebb have you ever interogated someone who has commited a crime?"

"No. But these people have committed no crime- they are witnesses, not suspects. We have no legal grounds to question them further."

"we aren't doing anything against the law, they don't have to answer, they don't have to stay here, they don't have to do anything, and how can you be sure these ppl have committed no crime, all evidence tells us something else"

"I must again remind you that it actually IS against the law for you to ask these people anything that does not directly aid your investigation. That is the singular exception I have managed to acquire to enable you to legally be in this zone at all. And if you have evidence these people have committed a crime relevant to your investigation, please show it to me."

"so if I were to ask any of them the time, it would be breaking the law, Anyway every question we ask them aids our investigation, maybe not in the way of the common man, but to a trained eye in police work it will be so. And Mah has the evidence, as I said before THEIR companion or friend had SEVERAL ID's which is UNUSUAL unless you need many identities because you are WANTED by the REPUBLIC for SEVERAL CRIMES you have committed, and I am quite certain that if we would CHECK those GUYS we would FIND SEVERAL ID's aswell"

"Now now, we can all be friends here," Xeth says. With that, he unexpectedly pulls the guns from two of the men to himself. He begins firing.

The men did not seem to consider the small winged thing a thread, Xeth, and you kill one of them very quickly with a direct hit. Bit now the gunfire of the four of them is turned on YOU...

-

"Yes, it would be illegal for you to ask them the time. It should be illegal for you to BE here, let alone talk to these people," says Nebb. "I have arranged an exception to that rule, but if and ONLY if you confine all your interaction with these people to questions that directly aid your specific investigation. Also you are not here to investigate any form of identity fraud. You are only concerned with your mandate as described to me by the Supreme Chancellor- to find Persis and these force-using terrorists. Unless you can prove to me that these people have some helpful link with them, there is little you can legally do with them."

"one of THEIR friends was KILLED by one of the PPL we are LOOKING for, and THEY saw 2 of the ppl we are LOOKING for!!"

"And we have good descriptions of them, and we know they were here looking for someone. But now these men have stated that they do not know why they talked to heir friend or why they killed him or where they are going, there is nothing else useful to know."

"Yeah, well," says the man, not understanding a word either of you are saying, "we'll be off now." They are leaving.