STAR WARS: RETROSPECTION- Respite

Spot check for entrance hatches.

If not, lightsabers I suppose?

And I would have thought the Freelancer would have gone straight for the slicing option! Indeed there are hatches along the pipeline that allow you to get inside of it.

The hatches are secured but you can break those easily.

Inside the pipeline... is rushing water.

Ha.

Does the water rush into the facility? I'm happy to take the chance of riding it if it does. Provided there's room to breathe and such.

And is it forceful enough to sweep us away, or can we wade through it?

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Xeth, always feel free to stop me.

It is rushing into the facility. There is precious little room to breath. You could swim against it with decent Strength rolls.

"I am conducting an investigation," Vera-Kin says, unsure if she should reveal that she is not the only Jedi on Respite, "into the activities of the warlord Tarne. I'm sure you know about his latest acquirement."

Would Coordination or Swiftness help? If we time our against-the-current swimming, we could go where we need to.

A power that would be handy here would be Alacrity, for its athletic bonuses. Swiftness simply allows you to quick-draw your lightsaber, and Coordination affords you defenses against ranged attacks.

No clear option then. Xeth?

"Yes, I have heard of the gifts he received," Wazo Kell says, bitterly. "Figures that the warlord without the technical know-how to maintain a droid army is the one that is granted it! It has turned the tide of our war in his favor. Before that, he was losing!"

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Looks like Xeth is staying quiet on this one, Ti. Are you going to swim it?

Heck yes. Sounds fun. We leap in. Sorry if I get us wrecked here, Xeth.

No worries! Xeth is all for reckless adventures. He will secure anything on his person that might get swept away in the waters, then jump into the rushing flow of the pipeline.

Okay! Ti and Xeth take the plunge and swimming along quickly inside the pipeline. It is dark in here!

You sense the tide slowing a short distance ahead.

We look for stopping points and reachable entrance hatchways. I stay close to Xeth when possible so we can hang onto each other if only one of us makes our roll.

You can't really see much of anything in the dark water.

Sense anything?

Ok, then I stay close to the edges, so I can grab onto bars and outcroppings to slow our path.

Yeah, anything to grab? And any room to breath?

It is smooth inside the pipe. And no, there is no room! It will be Strength rolls to keep going.

Christ. So we don't have much choice, eh? We make the rolls.

Xeth and Ti pass their first checks just fine, holding their breath. When it comes to swimming, though, Ti finds herself struggling to keep up with Xeth and keep herself under control. She is swept up by the current while Xeth stays stable.

And so Ti finds herself slammed up against the filter that is impeding the flow of water! Luckily she passes her breathing roll again, despite a penalty.

The filter is blocking the pipe.

I lightsaber the hell out of it, cutting open a pathway with three clean strokes.