Four successes against one, Rand does not spy Rianna as she begins sneaking. It will take you five turns to get across by sneaking along the balcony that lines the whole upper second level. You pass Imperial thugs blasting away at your enemies and going down around you as they take hits.
In the first turn, you move slowly toward the south side... and luckily are obscured by the men coming to help fight the Mecrossans as Gallador moves toward where you were. He does not exhibit any spectacular swordsmanship- he simply cuts down a pair of thugs with a wide slash. The Mecrossans lend him efficient covering fire though they take losses in return- Slate's gunmen are spearheading the effort to clear the assassins.
Rand is being more daring. Taking a leap off of the balcony, he lands on the banquet table and begins striding across it. Slate takes a shot at him, as do a handful of men using table chairs as cover. Nominating Slate as his focus, Rand taps Focused Guard- Slate misses as Rand skillfully parries his precise shooting, and Rand Reflects three lasers back to their senders. He pauses to stab a thug through the eye with his lightsaber, then withdraws it to decapitate another.
You just now reach the south end.
Rianna continues to sneak across for now, though the desire to use the element of surprise to jump into the fray and catch Rand off-guard is very strong right now.
"Tanic! Where are you!" she hisses into her comlink as she moves through the room.
(I'm assuming that the fight is loud enough that no one will hear her voice 😛)
No response again. You round the corner at the south end and start working your way across for three turns. It's a wide room.
The second turn sees Gallador tap Cleave to use his points from last turn for protection. He runs a man through but he is not doing much but distract the thugs away from the assassins some.
Slate keeps on Rand- he and his gunmen are using power rifles with scopes. Rand tears through a pair of thugs as he whirls into cover behind a stairwell but Slate's got Eagle Eye. Bolts explode through the handrail by Rand's head by none claim him. Rand taps Cleave for points, deflecting fire away from him easily.
At this point, a pair of Mecrossan probes hover out into the hall.
The fight's favor is leaning toward Rand's lot due to Rand's grand start and the skill of the Mecrossans, but the number of Imperials thugs is keeping the balance. That and Slate's gunmen; they're decent shots.
Third round, the probes start dispersing disruptor fire about the banquet hall, both going after Slate and his men. They take cover and the wood panneling around them ignites brilliantly. When they are clear to do so, they take aim at just one of the probes and pound firepower into it. Slate's shot manages to take a chunk out of it.
Rand cuts down a thug trying to move past his cover while Gallador fights on.
Fourth round!
One of Slate's gunmen destroys the first probe while some taps from Slate destroys the second before it can do more harm.
In retaliation, Rand Flings Slate out the front door of the manor as he advances on the gunmen. Gallador leaps down to assist him while the thugs slug it out with each other.
Fifth round... and you've reached the other side!
You pelt into the corridor, leaving the sounds of fighting behind you. Your comlink does not raise Tanic. You move toward where Lord Geful's study is, and encounter a foursome of Mecrossan assassins going the same direction.
You sense their fear and see more of them as corpses on the floor, glowing with lightsaber wounds...
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MANOR BATTLE, Start of Turn 6
Hallway
Rianna (LS12): 3/10 [OGu CL PS] [FwGu RI] (4F)
Assassins x2 (G7)
Assassins x2 (C7)
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Edited that in.
The assassins get initiative! One of the blaster-armed assassins puts a very accurate shot past your head for 5 damage, the other narrowly deflected for 3 damage. A third tries to swipe at you with his knife, getting you for 3 damage. The fourth misses and you cut him down!
You then flip through two assassins, leaving them in pieces and the last one alone. He drops his blaster and tries to run past you... do you kill him or spare him?