Swap Balanced Guard for Forward Guard.
Not content with his rate of killing, Galder becomes a whirling fury, cutting a pirate in three with both blades then shifting his grip on the weapons and stabbing through two behind him before turning about and slicing through a fourth.
Spend a point on Twirl, pretty please.
Initiative remains yours.
Galder begins a mad whirl of death, getting exactly four successes and cutting down four pirates with ease. Rura fires at Captain B with his rocket launcher, not only dealing damage to the Captain but also obliterating several pirates. Taiza finishes off the Captain near Galder, an exceptionally good roll (8 success on 11 dice) ensuring that he's as dead as can be.
Return fire - Galder takes a couple more glancing hits as the pirates get some lucky attacks. D attacks Taiza again, tapping EE; she hisses as a bolt skims across her arm. Dusan shoots at Rura again, laughing all the while.
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COURTYARD SHOOT-OUT - end of turn 5
Southern corridor
Rura (HW8): 1 (2A)/20 [CF EE KB] [10B] (2F) (1 point cover)
Taiza (G11): 1 (1P)/24 [BGB GS ES] [CQG EE] (1F) (1 point cover)
Left side of courtyard
Pirates x5 (G4)
Galder (LS16): 2/35 [BL CL FGu] [CC GS BGu] (4F)
Right side of courtyard
Pirates x9 (G4)
Captain B (G8): [CF] 8
Dais
Pirates x8 (G5)
Captain D (G7): [EE]
Dusan (G8): [BGB EE GS] (?)
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By this point, Rianna's managed to work her way out of the restraints they had on her to prevent her from killing everyone.
"Galder! Give me my lightsaber!" she shouts at you.
The dice like you tonight. Initiative remains yours!
Galder goes absolutely insane, rolling 26 dice. Sheesh. A total of 13 successes, and five ones were rolled there. Consider those pirates very dead. Rianna uses the Force to snatch her orange saber from you in mid-air and rushes the dais, immediately downing two pirates; she starts out with a fairly hefty amount of damage though. Rura rockets the right side again, killing that Captain and some more mooks. Taiza snipes at the Captain on the dais, but doesn't do so well this time.
A few pirates try shooting at Galder pretty hopelessly; his Cleave tap easily absorbs that. A bit more damage it scattered around. Dusan, however, seems to take personal offense against Rianna, tapping BGB and EE against her.
"I'll kill you all!" Dusan cries out as he shoots at her.
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COURTYARD SHOOT-OUT - end of turn 6
Southern corridor
Rura (HW8): 1 (2A)/22 [CF EE KB] [10B] (2F) (1 point cover)
Taiza (G11): 1 (1P)/27 [BGB GS ES] [CQG EE] (1F) (1 point cover)
Left side of courtyard
Pirates x3 (G4)
Galder (LS11): 2/35 [BL CL FGu] [CC GS BGu] (4F) (11CL)
Right side of courtyard
Pirates x6 (G4)
Dais
Pirates x6 (G5)
Captain D (G7): [EE] 5
Dusan (G8): [BGB EE GS] (?)
Rianna (LS12): 3/37 [OGu CL PS] [FGu RI] (6F)
Spend a point on Strike to turn those 1s into successes. Galder left those pirates in ribbons with multiple lightning quick strikes.
Swap my Guards.
Galder rushes up the dais as well, spending a point on Twirl to kill more pirates there.
"No, you won't!" Galder responds to Dusan. "You've made a grave enemy in me!"
Looks like they got initiative this time.
Galder loses a couple points of his Cleave protection. Captain D shoots at Taiza again, scoring a few points of damage. Dusan shoots at Rianna again, managing two successes thanks to Gunslinger.
Your turn! Galder makes a Twirl attack, getting four successes on six dice. Impressive! Rianna finishes off the remaining pirates with ease. Taiza taps EE, having swapped it in, on Captain D; a good roll sees him to be quite dead. And Rura rockets a few more pirates.
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COURTYARD SHOOT-OUT - end of turn 7
Southern corridor
Rura (HW8): 1 (2A)/23 [CF EE KB] [10B] (2F) (1 point cover)
Taiza (G11): 1 (1P)/30 [BGB GS EE] [CQG ES] (1F) (1 point cover)
Left side of courtyard
Pirates x3 (G4)
Right side of courtyard
Pirates x3 (G4)
Dais
Dusan (G8): [BGB EE GS] (?)
Rianna (LS12): 3/42 [OGu CL PS] [FGu RI] (6F)
Galder (LS12): 2 (2A)/35 [BL CL BGu] [CC GS BGuFGu] (3F) (14CL)
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Dusan quickly spins back away, calling his lightsaber to his hand and dropping one of his pistols, igniting one side of his lightsaber and interposing it between yours.
Meanwhile, Rianna moves around to flank him, reaching her hand out to call her purple lightsaber to her from where it is hung on Dusan's belt. He clearly is not cool with this, though, using Combat Push to knock her back a bit before immediately following up by firing at her with his remaining pistol while she's still distracted. It deals enough damage to count her out, the bolt hitting her in the upper arm. She stumbles back off the dais while holding her wound.
"You think you're better? Then prove it..." Dusan hisses, igniting the other half of his lightsaber.
Duel thread time...
And so we're back, with Dusan headless and Galder the winner. In the time that the duel went in, Taiza and Rura made their way across the room, but apparently both decided it was wise to not get involved in your fight.
As soon as Dusan falls to the ground, Rianna calls her purple saber back to her with the Force. "I wanted to kill him..." she says. Taiza just rolls her eyes.
The sense of twisted wrongness that you had been feeling has lessened, but not entirely gone away. It's something that makes you not want to stay here longer than necessary, but no worries about that. You think you'd probably have to stay here for a fairly long time to crack like Dusan did.
Your senses give you no hint as to whether or not you'll find the holocron, though, or if it's still in one piece.