STAR WARS: RETROSPECTION- The Council of Taneshla

"Tomorrow," Geful says. "We've covered a lot of topics, depite interruptions."

"And then the Mecrossans will leave and you won't have to worry about anyone stealing the staff...that thing frightens me," she says.

Geful shrugs.

"Maybe that's what it does," Geful says. "Brings out the fear in Jedi. Who knows."

"I doubt that's simply it...will they be leaving tomorrow after the talks end or will they stay another evening?"

Rianna is running out of things to talk about.

Geful says it will be the day after the final talks.

Rianna is unsure that they'll move tonight, then, she thinks it's more likely that they will tomorrow night.

"Is there anything you'd like me to do tomorrow during the talks? Since I can't be there...or am I free to simply do what I want?"

"Consider yourself free for the day," Geful says.

Yay.

Well Rianna has nothing else she really wants to ask, nor is there anyone else she particularly wants to talk to.

In that case, as nothing else eventful happens during the second evening of feasting and socializing, Rianna can go catch some rest. Heal another 5 damage and treat yourself to a medpak- this puts you at 10 damage.

You would rest more, but you are awakened by the sense of death nearby a few hours past midnight.

Rianna immediately gets up, grabbing her lightsaber, and goes to see what happened.

You hear blasters starting to go off in the distance, inside the house. You sensed death in that direction, but not from the blasting- that is closer, you'd say in the banquet hall. What you sensed was on the far side of the manor.

Hmmm. Well, Rianna wants to know who died, but blasters going off also concerns her...

"Tanic! What's going on?" she says into her comm as she leaves her room (in pajamas, haha).

No response.

You step into the hallway as a few of Geful's thugs run past, blasters ready. The flash of blasters is indeed coming from the banquet hall area. You hear the all too familiar ping of lasers reflecting off of lightsabers.

Rianna will definitely check there first, then.

You step into a spectacular scene.

The banquet hall is, as you remember, a rectangular room at the center of the manor. You are on the west side of the manor, where most of Geful's help stays. The north side was the Mecrossans' quarters. The east side is Geful's area entire, including his study. You sensed death there. The south side is simply the front door.

East and west are the longer sides of the rectangular hall.

Geful's thugs have lined the walkways on your side of the hall, streaming inaccurate flows of laserfire into the north side. They are led by Slate and his gunmen, who have moved down and taken cover by the front door to the south.

At the north, Gallador and Rand are using the heavy handrails as cover and are busy deflecting incoming blasts. They are leading Mecrossan assassins with pistols out onto the upper level balcony so they can return fire with accurate bursts. Both sides are reinforcing equally, and you can sense Gallador's hatred and Rand's arrogance quite clearly.

If you engage in the fight, you will not be able to investigate what happened in the east wing. You will have to sneak through or around.

The fact that Tanic is missing and not answering her gives her a bad feeling about this. She's going to go and investigate where she felt the sense of death coming from, before returning to this fight.

Alright! So... how to get across?

Is there another way around to the east side of the manor without going through the hall? Cos if so, Rianna would prefer go to that way.

There is not. The wings are separate; there's a reason there are stairs going every which way in the hall.

Shoot.

Well since the fighting seems to be concentrated in the north and west areas, Rianna's going to try and sneak across, going across the southern part of the room.