You leap up, Wraith. But then somethung grabs you, like the arm of some vast monster, and you find yourself thrown with STAGGERING force across the combat zone. You recover your senses enough to adjust for a landing, but there seems to be nothing solid under you, and you fall...
You smash painfully to the ground some way below, the sounds of battle above you. There is a figure some twenty feet away from you on the walkway of this gloomey low level, and you sense his blaster being levelled towards you...
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Nah, the service tunnel is for engineers, runs parralel with the monorail tunnel.
"Like, not from the monorail system, I don't think," says Jolanta. "I mean, there might be another way to get to the places the smugglers use but we don't know where they are. It would be, like, TOTALLY a waste of time to go back and look for them!"
As the supports give way on the walkway you are on, Allor, one side of it starts to slip downwards, until you are at a precarious 45 degree angle. You count at least 8 men firing at you (from the top) and from what you can tell there are men to your sides, AND below... you have lost sight of Kuylen and Wraith, though I assume Dak is still near you.
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Ok, Galder, what is your plan of entry into the starport area? If you act suspicously then one of those many guards will almost certainly notice- but then you are not entirely sure what acting 'normally' entails, either...
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And now welcome to your new addition to the team, Toolok Rah (whom I THINK I shall call 'Rah'😉, played by Baylin!
It is a time of opportunity for a man like you, Rah. Since being cut loose on the Galaxy with your powers you have had a good time on the outskirts of civilised space; a combination of of the Force, fast-talking and extreme violence often gave you a lead over other criminal elements in the area and the pickings on the weak have been many; meanwhile, there are always battles to fight or bounties to be had in the innumerable backwaters of the Galaxy.
But... somehow, you always knew it was rather petty. At night, you dreamed, dreamed of something greater. Through the Force you can feel your destiny, and for those on the Dark Side, you can feel the calling that is your route to power... TRUE power, not just bullying small-time Crime Lords on irrelevant worlds.
You saw, in your dreams, a planet of ice, with but one building upon it. People fought there, with sabres... obscure. There was also a man, a tall man with braided hair, wearing classical uniform from a past age, a powerful man, with vision...
This man you HAD to meet. You knew he was your path onwards. You eventually traced rumours of a powerful man named Kuylen who had done mercenary work for a Hutt named Shareth a little while back, who there was more to than met the eye. You had to kill three men to get the rumour that he was an ex-Jedi, believed dead by the Order.
You were just picking up on his trail when HE found YOU. He seemed to know who you were and what you wanted. He made the situation plain. There were others who wanted part of what he was doing but he was not going to bring just anyone with him. Everyone who wanted 'in' had to first train with him, and then complete a mission for him.
He took you to his base on Dordellus- a miserable, swamp-infested world, almost uninhabitable, but a good place for a base hidden from the great insight of the Jedi. There he trained you as well as any Jedi Knight, completing many of the holes of your training before. Kuylen is the finest swordfighter you have ever seen- a no-nonsense efficient killer. Bring on the Jedi, you say!
Since then you have waited, for your opportunity to complete a mission for him, but none came. As more time passed, you considered that it might all have been a sick joke. But then, shortly after Kuylen became big news in the Galaxy- after some fierce battle on Malastare- you received a message.
"Now is your time. There is a man I need dead. Come to this place; you are looking for a being named Chion or a man named Galder. They will fill you in."
He gave to the location of a moon named Tartarus in the Lamellan sector (gah- Lamellans, for all their pretence at civilisation, are some of the biggest cheats and liars you have ever seen), and a message for either Chion or Galder when you met them, and a description of both. You were to meet them in the Civilian Sector of the moon- a complex affair, due to some absurb political and legal situation in the Republic.
You didn't care. Stowing away on a civilian transport in the area you killed a crewman and took his clothing, walking past the bored security personnel without batting an eyelid, and entering the Civilian area. Then, all you had to do was wait for your contacts to turn up and tell you what the deal is.
Obviosuly, subtlety is not a watchword of these people you are due to meet, as reports of fighting and bodies soon surfaced in this miserable little colony of smugglers (obscurely, with no Lamellans in sight)- though in most ways, you approve of the violence. A man was killed by what was blatantly a sabrewound- though when a small party of Jedi turned up with some official-looking Lamellan, you made yourself scarce. You aren't exactly up to fighting a GROUP of Knights.
Chion, however, proved easy to find. You suspected he would because the holo-pic you had of him made him out to be HUGE, and so he was in life. Your senses led you to him skulking in a back alleyway somewhere, that he could barely fit into. You do not know what race Chion is but you are glad you have not met them before. Chion's vast albino bulk, with blue veins running through his skin coming to a knot at the back of his head, is enough to frighten anyone, He looms feet above you as you approach, staying silent but staring with red eyes. You see no sbare at his belt but you THINK he has a sabre slung to his back, though you have not seen one of that design before. He takes the message from Kuylen and looks it over, before grunting-
"Do as I say."
He's not one for talking, it seems. Also skulking nearby is another figure who is also pretty darn large, carrying a large laser rifle.
"What does security want with Persis?" the guy asks.
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"I am Rura..." says the Kaminoan, stepping forwards and talking in a haunting Kaminoan refrain. At this point, Chion's communicator jangles into life.
"Hi guys, this is, like, Jolanta here. Galder and I have found this totally cool hidden underground complex thing next to the sewers where all these smugglers hang out, and we totally reckon that Persis is down here. So see if you can find your way down, 'cos there are, like, HUNDREDS of guards and things and they are being really mean about stuff. Poor Galder blew himself up... twice! Hey, I know what would be cool, you can trace my comms signal and come on down after me... but hurry it up because otherwise Galder will get all grumpy, or something; he's being, like,, so totally WHATEVER about things! So yeah, see ya down there for the fun!"
One thing you certainly sense, Rah, is intense irritation from Chion at Jolanta's voice.
Rah inclines his towards Rura "Hi", then looks back at Chion "Kuylen's instructions for me were to find you or Galder and that you would fill me in on the mission."
(What is my message for Galder and Chion?)
Having noticed that Chion is not very chatty I talk to Rura "Do you know Galder? Does he make a habit of blowing himself up?" - I raise my eye brows.