STAR WARS: RETROSPECTION- Holocron

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Xavier stands up shivering, his mind racing he wants to go back and be with the Padawans.

Now Now none of that

Xavier attempts to take in his surroundings.

"What was that thing?" Rianna says, wrapping her cloak around her in an attempt to get warm. "It had us believe we were Jedi Masters...we had Padawans..."

Xavier and Rianna are feeling incredibly shaky right now. Galder is in a worse state, the same state that Dak was in earlier; death in the "Holocron" inflicted severe mental trauma to the point of physical pain to your actual form. Galder is suffering from the effects and is being rushed off to a tent by... some of the Nokros An, the planetary natives!

"It's alright," Rand says. "I've struck a deal with the Nokros An that will ensure we survive this part of our time on Vorkuta. I can't guarantee that you'll like the next part..."

You can be reunited with Dak at this point. Either he can explain the "Holocron" to you or Rand can, though Dak should not forget what he procured while stumbling around the Temple... unless he wants to keep that for himself.

"What next part is that, Rand?"

He will explain the concept of Nuvar's Box to the other two, how it was a reforming prison meant for Sith to see the evils of their ways, and how Rallo proved too difficult for the Box to change and he was left to go mad in it. After the story he'll show them the book of Nuvar's that he found.

"So...Nuvar and Brath and the others actually existed? Why did the box turn us into Jedi Masters and them our Padawans, though?" Rianna says, remembering how attached to them the Box made her feel and the fact she had to kill her Padawan...

Dak shakes his head. "Maybe... as Masters we'd feel more obligated to protect the four?"

"It didn't turn out to work that way at all..." Rianna says. She turns to glare at Rand. "It did show me what things could have been like had you not meddled in my life, though."

"That part definitely worked," Xavier says looking over everything. "It felt so real."

"It did..." Dak trails off, staring at the book in his hands.

Xavier looks over to Dak remembering him being burnt to death. He didn't know if it was a lingering effect of the Holocron but he felt bad for Dak.

Awww don't tell me wee little Xavier is getting emtional...You gonna give him a hug now

"You kept that one loser from killing us right Dak... You're a brave man thank you," Xavier says trying to shake off the voice in his head.

Dak snorts, expecting mockery. "Right, sure," he responds. "...it was stupid of me. Why would I do that..."

"Because none of us were quite ourselves?" Rianna replies moodily.

"Yeah..." Xavier says trailing off, he liked the way he was in the Holocron. "We remember it all. How we felt in there, how we lived, everything."

The Psycho Brigade is rather gloomy, then.

Like Dak, who has taking a penalty to his Charisma and Agility for the remainder of the story, Galder is feeling rather off as well.

You all need some rest- you have not had time to patch up after your initial confrontation with the Nokros An. You actually find it unnerving that they are offering medicine and bandages, seeing as you butchered the lot of them.

"How did you convince not to attack us Rand?" Xavier says as he is resting.

"I will get to that," Rand says. "First, I will explain exactly what happened with the prison. I spoke at length with their elder regarding the purpose and functionality of the Box. It is as Dak said; it was designed to reform its occupant.

"Rallo was not a Sith Lord of any sort. He was a Dark Sider, trained in the dark arts and fighting on the side of the Sith, but never awarded the status. He was trying to earn it by attacking the Jedi Temple here at Vorkuta..."

"Well considering he was a prisoner we assume he lost" Xavier says in reply

"So he was just...a regukar soldier then. But the things he was able to do..." Rianna says, remembering how he had frozen her in place with the Force.

"Yes, Rallo lost," Rand says. "The four Jedi Masters that maintained the Vorkuta Temple chose to stand their ground and fight off the invasion that Rallo led. Rallo brought overwhelming numbers, but the Masters were some of the best in the Order at the time. They turned the jungle on the Sith acolyte, and then fought them down to the last man. Rallo was taken captive."

"Rallo had over a thousand years to corrupt the programming of his prison," Rand explains, answering Rianna's question while continuing. "Master Nuvar believed quite firmly in the idea of redemption, that if one could fall to the Dark Side, they could climb back up to the Light.

"Rallo proved him to be horribly wrong. They locked Rallo's mind into the device of Nuvar's making- he was a very intelligent Jedi- and attempted to reform him by convincing him that he was a Jedi. It didn't work, however.

"Eventually they cremated Rallo's body and abandoned the project."

"That...sounds like the Nuvar that we met in there..." Rianna comments.

"That's rather horrible, though..."