STAR WARS: RETROSPECTION- The Council of Taneshla

Make the roll more difficult. Going for it?

With Rianna's Agility and Leaping? Of course.

Four successes! Feel free to describe Rianna flipping over the handrails there.

That puts you underneath the section of catwalk that Borm and his blaster thugs are on.

Rianna runs over to the handrails on the walkway, flipping over and catching the bottom of the walkway and using the momentum to swing over the gate, landing clear of it.

Rianna will want to start carving through the walkway above, but first activate the lift to send it down and back up...just to bluff them a bit. Using the Force if possible.

The controls indicate that the lift is locked on the top level.

Aww, oh well.

Start cutting through then.

You climb up the shift and cut through the bottom of the lift... outside, you hear blasterfire- rapid and frantic spraying and sharp pinpoint bangs. Feel free to guess who is who.

Rianna isn't going to bother herself worrying about what else is going on, and is going to keep cutting through, climbing up once done.

You emerge into the lift... and find Borm standing above you, grinning horribly.

Rianna recoils a bit at his appearance, and lashes out immediately with a Combat Push.

Last Force point... going to use it?

Ergh...last one...yeah.

You are clinging onto the underside of the lift when you throw your hand out to knock Borm back... and he raises a hand to do the same to you. There is a tense moment as Borm holds back your Push, an invisible wall of energy building between you and the deformed, scarred man rasping in laughter.

Then he lets go.

With Total Focus and a high Force Defense, Borm is able to dissipate the main brunt of your push, but you get a success. It does not actually move him at all but it gives you a moment to come up swinging...

Vwum!

Your lightsaber cuts straight through his torso as you come spinning out of the hole and land with your feet on either side of it. Borm staggers back, his chest gaping and burned.

He is still laughing.

"Just what is there to laugh about?" Rianna says, not wasting any time in following up with another attack with her lightsaber.

You step forward to do just that, only to be flung against the far wall. One of Borm's calloused hands is raised after performing the Fling. The other is reaching into his quickly-healing wound...

As you are getting up, he produces a lightsaber from inside of his body.

Rianna growls with irritation as she pushes herself off the wall and runs back to where Borm is standing, pausing with confusion and some disgust as he pulls out his lightsaber...

The lightsaber he withdraws appears to be made of flesh and bone, and it smokes a little when the crimson blade comes flashing out one side. He holds it off to one side idly.

"Did you think I wouldn't sense you?" he rasps.

"I had expected you to be at least slightly distracted by the fighting," Rianna replies, before slashing a him with her lightsaber.

He lets it come. Your lightsaber bites into him again and he staggers back, laughing.

"Do you want for me to kill you?!" Rianna says, pausing for a moment. "Why are you laughing?"